Oakwood Church
Stewarding Our Failure - Mark 14:29-31,66-72
Locations & Times
Oakwood Community Church
11209 Casey Rd, Tampa, FL 33618, USA
Sunday 7:00 AM
Three Reasons We Tend to Fail
1. Failure of Understanding
• Sometimes we fail because of our lack of understanding of a situation.
1. Failure of Understanding
• Sometimes we fail because of our lack of understanding of a situation.
John 18:10-11
Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant and cut off his right ear. (The servant's name was Malchus.) So Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into its sheath; shall I not drink the cup that the Father has given me?”
Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant and cut off his right ear. (The servant's name was Malchus.) So Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into its sheath; shall I not drink the cup that the Father has given me?”
Sometimes, we fail due to our lack of understanding of a situation.
God is not angry with you — He wants you to learn, and He wants to give you comfort.
God is not angry with you — He wants you to learn, and He wants to give you comfort.
Three Reasons We Tend to Fail
2. Failure of Discipline
• Sometimes we fail because of a lack of discipline or practice — we choke.
2. Failure of Discipline
• Sometimes we fail because of a lack of discipline or practice — we choke.
Acts 15:36-38
And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us return and visit the brothers in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are.” Now Barnabas wanted to take with them John called Mark. But Paul thought best not to take with them one who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work.
And after some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Let us return and visit the brothers in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they are.” Now Barnabas wanted to take with them John called Mark. But Paul thought best not to take with them one who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia and had not gone with them to the work.
Philemon 1:24 “Mark… my fellow worker”
Colossians 4:10 “Mark the cousin of Barnabas… if he comes to you, welcome him
2 Timothy 4:11 “Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is very useful to me for ministry.
Colossians 4:10 “Mark the cousin of Barnabas… if he comes to you, welcome him
2 Timothy 4:11 “Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is very useful to me for ministry.
Sometimes we fail because of a lack of discipline or practice — we choke.
But with practice, we can overcome our overthinking.
But with practice, we can overcome our overthinking.
Three Reasons We Tend to Fail
3. Failure of Temptation
• Sometimes we can lose sight of our objective and fail God because of temptation.
3. Failure of Temptation
• Sometimes we can lose sight of our objective and fail God because of temptation.
“Temptation is the intentional enticement of a person, by some bait—usually pride, always self-gratifying—to disobey God’s revealed Word. The [source] may be demonic or fleshly, but the object is always the distortion of God’s world and the defiance of God’s mission in the world.”
~ Dr. Michael Milton
~ Dr. Michael Milton
1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
James 4:7
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
James 4:7
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Hebrews 12:2
Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Mark 14:70-72
But again he denied it. And after a little while the bystanders again said to Peter, “Certainly you are one of them, for you are a Galilean.” But he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know this man of whom you speak.” And immediately the rooster crowed a second time. And Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” And he broke down and wept.
But again he denied it. And after a little while the bystanders again said to Peter, “Certainly you are one of them, for you are a Galilean.” But he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know this man of whom you speak.” And immediately the rooster crowed a second time. And Peter remembered how Jesus had said to him, “Before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.” And he broke down and wept.
Sometimes we can lose sight of our objective and fail God because of temptation.
But if we repent in our mind and our heart, we are restored to a right relationship with Jesus.
But if we repent in our mind and our heart, we are restored to a right relationship with Jesus.
“Do you love me?”
