A Guide to Fervent Prayer by Arthur Pink

Author:Arthur Pink [Pink, Arthur]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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ISBN: 9786586145786
Publisher: Darolt Books
Published: 2020-04-28T00:00:00+00:00

The Remarkable Correspondence Between Peter's Experience and His Exhortation and Prayer

But, as Thomas Goodwin has shown, there is a yet more definite relation between this prayer and its context, and between both of them and the experience of Peter.

The parallels between them are so close and numerous that they cannot be undesigned. In Gethsemane Christ bade His servant, "Watch and pray, that you enter not into temptation" (Matthew 26:41), and in his Epistle Peter exhorts the saints, "be sober, be vigilant." Previously, the Savior had warned him, "Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat" (Luke 22:31) and as the Puritan expressed it, "and shake forth all grace out of him." So in verse 8 Peter gives point to his call for sobriety and vigilance by saying, "because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour."

But in connection with the loving admonition Christ comforted him: "But I have prayed for you, that your faith fail not" (Luke 22:32). As Goodwin points out, "Faith's not failing is Satan's foiling." Likewise, the Apostle Peter, in his exhortation, adds, "Whom resist steadfast in the faith"-the gift of faith, as Calvin expounds it. Though Peter's self-confidence and courage failed him, so that he fell, yet his faith delivered him from giving way to abject despair, as Luke 22:61, 62, shows.

Our Lord concluded His address to Simon by saying, "and when you are converted [brought back, restored], strengthen your brethren" (Luke 22:32, brackets mine). Likewise, our apostle wrote, "knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world" (v. 9); and then he prayed that, after they had suffered awhile, the God of all grace would "perfect [or restore], establish, strengthen, settle you [them]." He prayed for the same kind of deliverance for them as that which he himself had experienced.

Finally, Goodwin observes that Christ, when strengthening Peter's faith against Satan, set His "But I have prayed for you" over against the worst the enemy could do. Therefore Peter also, after portraying the adversary of the saints in his fiercest character-as "a roaring lion"brings in by way of contrast these words: "But the God of all grace, who has called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that you have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you." He thereby assures them that God will be their Guardian, Establisher, and Strengthener. If, notwithstanding his sad lapse, he was recovered and preserved to eternal glory, that is a sure pledge that all the truly regenerate will be also. How admirably Scripture (Luke 22) interprets Scripture (1 Peter 5)!

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