THE STUFF THAT HAS TO GO

"There are certain graces which are never produced in Christians, to a high degree, except by severe temptation.” There is a peculiar tenderness, without which one is not qualified to shepherd Christ’s sheep, and to feed his lambs,— a tenderness, without which one cannot strengthen his brethren,  a tenderness which does not usually come to such a man as Peter, except by his being put into the sieve, and tossed up and down by Satanic temptation."

Peter was to be sifted, so our Lord warned him; and Satan was to operate with the sieve. Satan had an intense desire to destroy Peter— indeed, he would like to destroy all the chosen of God— and therefore he desired to sift him as wheat, in the hope that he would be blown away with the husks and the chaff.   C.H Spurgeon

TEXT: LUKE 22:31-34
SONGS:
LORD I NEED YOU, WORSHIP 24
THERE'S NOT A FRIEND LIKE THE LOWLY JESUS, BROWARD CHURCH
PETER'S DENIAL, THE SKIT GUYS
SEND ME, BETHEL COVER