But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith will not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.but I made supplication for thee, that thy faith fail not; and do thou, when once thou hast turned again, establish thy brethren.
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… that he may sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you that your faith should not fail and when you have returned to me, strengthen your brethren. Peter hears this, and Peter says to him, Lord, I'm ready to go with you both to prison and to death. I'm in it with you. Wherever you go, I'm going. If you batted, that's what I'm on. If you knocking, I am indeed bucking. That was a test to see how saved y'all was. some of y'all. Uh-huh. Then Jesus says to him, who you think you are, you're not really who you think you are like that. He said, Peter, the rooster shall not crow this day before you will deny me three times. You're going to deny three times that you know me. Spirit of the living God, please breathe through this word make your presence tangible give me language give me wisdom God and I ask that as I pour that you would feel and God I thank you that you would remove any barriers any distractions any excuses that would keep someone from receiving this word whether they're in this room or watching online God I pray that this would be an intimate encounter with you, that you would whisper in their ear things only you and them know about. And I thank you, God, for the privilege of holding this word. Unworthy as I am, you are trusting me with this moment. And so I ask that you would decrease me and increase you, your spirit, your presence, …
… But Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers. Simon, Simon, I prayed for you. But I want you to know, Simon, Satan asked a question about all of y'all. He asked if he could sift all of you like wheat. And if I'm Simon, I'd be like, okay, Lord, did you tell him no? Can you go ahead and just have him sift somebody else like wheat because I'm just trying to follow you, do the best I can. But Jesus doesn't say I told him no. Jesus prays for something very in particular. Jesus prays for his faith. Fascinating. Fascinating. This tells me that your faith is a gift because this is you leaning into your relationship with God and keeping your weight on him in his character, in his goodness, in his faithfulness. And what the enemy is trying to do to me and to you is for you and I to shift our weight from God to self. …
… And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, indeed Satan, has asked for you that he may sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for you. that your faith should not fail. And when you have returned to me, strengthen your brethren. Amen. I want to talk to you, if I could give a tag to this message, I want to call it the Sifted But Secure Saints. Look at your neighbor say, Sifted But Secure. Tell the person on the other side, this time tell them for real, have an attitude about it. Sifted but secured. This is, in fact, an interesting passage to me. It is something I preach for on many occasions, and God told me to talk to you about this again today. Jesus is talking to the disciples. They are bickering among themselves about who's the greatest. It's really who's going to take over the ministry after Jesus. has left. They said, who's the greatest among them? And Jesus said, let me tell y'all something. Stop bickering among yourselves about who the greatest because everybody has their own assignment. …
… dumb things at the wrong time. That's just call me Peter. That's, that's me. But if we rewind just a couple months, in fact, 53 days, just flip over a couple chapters in Luke 22 verses 31 to 34, it says, Simon, Simon, this is the moment at the last supper that Jesus is going to have with his disciples before he goes to do what he was created to do. And he's got this moment with Peter. Pastor Stephen actually preached on this a couple of weeks ago in a sermon called The Prayer That Repairs. Go back and watch that. That is so good. Jesus says, Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift you as wheat. But I prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you turn back, strengthen your brothers. But he replied, Lord, I'm ready to go with you to prison and to death. Peter's loud. He's like, I'll take a stand for you. I will take a stand in front of everybody. …
… Look at verse 32, please. when you have turned back strengthen your brothers When, not if, when, not if you turn back. Jesus knew in that moment that there would come a point in your life, a pivotal point, when the pressure would be too great, when the future would be too uncertain, when you would not be able to do it like you used to do it. He said, in that moment, when you turn back, not if you turn back, when you turn back, he knew that there would be a moment where you would pray and say, God, fix it. I made a mess of this. I have made a complete mess of this. Fix it. And that's the moment he's been waiting for. When my kids were very small, I made up a little lie, and you could judge me for it, but anytime they would get hurt and they would come to me about it, I would tell them, oh, if it was a minor injury, if it was a major injury, see your mom, if it's a minor injury, I'll say, don't worry about it. I can fix it. Whatever was hurt on their body, I would pretend like I knew how to fix it. I'm talking when they were very small. …