The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-01-24
WEEKLY SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
PETERS DENIAL
By HIGHT {. MOORE $40.

Sunday School Lesson for Jan
uary 81, 1935-Mark ID: 27-SI'
81, 66-72.
Golden Text-Wherefore let
him that thinketh he standeth take
heed lest he fall Il Corinthians
1919.
Follow Peter from midnight to
about three o'clock in the morn
ing of CrucifixiOn day.
We hear him Boosting that ne
would die before he would deny
his Lord. We see him arming HIM
self with a sword in order to be
ready, as he thought, for any
emergency: sleeping soundly IN
Gethsemane while Jesus prayed
in agony; fighting furiously when
Judas appeared with an armed
0pard to arrest Jesus; and follow
mo afar off as Jesus was taken
hack to the city for the trial. we
hear his first denial as Jesus was
arraigned before Annas and his
second and third denials within
The hour or so before the second
cock-crowing.
Rnt the look of the Lord
brought him to his senses ana
sent penitential tears gushing
down his cheeks. ~
THE VEHEMENT BOAST
MARX IL: 27-3l)
The presumption of Peter ac-
t,alIv eontradicted the prediction
Sh;rh Jesus made on the way
from the Upper Room to Getn-
semane He sadly said that every
onn If the Twelve would stumble
that night as sheep are scattered
wben the shepherd Is sm'tCeh'
With amazing self-confidence re
+a+ declared that whatever otneTs
~ do he would not fall or iai-
+a[, that he could nod would lol o
low the Master then and theIe re
t ~ any ordeal; and that ne
'rcnId Gladly lay down ms HE lor
W. 49, Ior1 But Jesus knew HIM pet
taI: than ne knew himself. Ana ne
solemnly declared to tne . inip MAT
ons though devoted apostle I 81
T Sa the coek-crowing' ana. 81
, uSt three hours, ne Woula
tbr;ce disown his Lord: ,ry
> THE WATERING LoIALi
'M TSs cautious devotion of Peter ct
- Sbown after the arrest u
Jesus. Dazed by the even'Sp peter
tooE place in Gethsemane, 90. l ed
ur oU~ followed his tettet ac
new. hack to Jerusalem ana az =
.S' uttered the place OF snv ,
hon priest where the pren III ..foi.
mel t Was held. However, ne :. at
Tia W" him afar off," that Is, "a 81
lowee n distance, cautiously anu
v TnF FIRST DENIAL
(Mark "A. 6S-6s9 -, vas made
Inc +Sa time Peter entered tne
about t The high priest. The port
ress asked him II ne MaS was
T 80 disciples. The question was We,
1e sS1 and caught Peter up-
une aes To shield and save NM
ssIf he simply declared that he
did not know Jesus men ~ A no
stall further embarrassment, M
;o;ned the miscellaneous crown
Warming by the FIRE.
A THE SECOND DENIAL
MARK Ia: 6e-Zo( =, -.
The compromising denial was
made while Peter was standing oy
fbe fire The door maid was sun
snspicious that Peter was one OF
Christ's disciples, aad sad so 10
another. maid and to at least one
Of the men who then spoke TO
Peter about it. He felt that ne had
oone too far not to go tartner,
60 with an oath, he again denied
that he even knew Jesus.
s THE THIRD DENIAL go.
mark 14:7D
The confirmed denial was made
annarently after Peter had step
ned out on the palace porch. II
Was about an hour after he had
entered the hall and he probably
nod ioined, in conversation to al
Law suspicion. But some Of the by
ISLANDERS, including a klnsman o.
MaIcbus whom Peter had wound
cd in Gethscmane, kept eyem>
peter. Finally, one said that M
speech betrayed him; and anothe'
claimed to have seen him In Geth
semane. Fearing detection, refer
with clustering oaths, again de
MED knowing Jesus. To VIVA
depths and in so short a time ha'
the presumptuous Apostle fallen
s. THE BITTER WEEPING
MARK 14:72)
The penitence of peter wa
awakened when at that momen
ne heard the cock crow as Jesu
had predicted. AS those shril
notes rang out. on the chilly nigh
air, they fell. upon the ears o
Peter and went like darts into hi
very soul. At the same momen
"the Lord turned. and looked NJ
on Peter" and that wordless 200