{"id":4529,"date":"2026-07-06T12:38:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T19:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/?p=4529"},"modified":"2026-07-06T12:38:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T19:38:39","slug":"how-the-mighty-have-fallen-luke-2254-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2026\/07\/06\/how-the-mighty-have-fallen-luke-2254-62\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Mighty Have Fallen &#8211; Luke 22:54-62"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Greetings, friends. History is full of remarkable people who became proud in their position, overly confident in themselves and presumptuous of their abilities, all of which resulted in a major failure and collapse. David writes a refrain in his 2 Samuel 1, <em>\u201cHow the mighty have fallen!\u201d<\/em> In some cases though, even in the midst of the darkness, there is a silver lining of hope pointing toward healing and transformation. I recently preached a message from Luke 22 at our home church, Littlerock Community Fellowship. We are nearing the end of a long series through the book of Luke, and Pastor Ryan asked me to preach on verses 45-62, focusing on Peter&#8217;s denials. The main point of the message was: Proud self-reliance will break us, but humbly trusting in God\u2019s grace will heal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the outline as we had to catch the prologue and epilogue in order to understand the full story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>1. Prologue <\/strong><strong>(pre-story)<\/strong><strong>: Warning.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2. The Story: Breaking.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>3. The Epilogue <\/strong><strong>(post-story)<\/strong><strong>: Healing.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, I ended with some takeaways that brought the truths of the passage close to home. I offered a diagram showing two divergent paths following a failure like Peter demonstrated, and the destinations those two paths lead to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/slide-3-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/slide-3-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/slide-3-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/slide-3-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/slide-3-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/slide-3.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I invite you to watch and listen to the sermon, and hope you find encouragement as you do so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How The Mighty Have Fallen! | Luke 22:54-62 | 06\/21\/26\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e4AOeZTykuE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, friends. History is full of remarkable people who became proud in their position, overly confident in themselves and presumptuous of their abilities, all of which resulted in a major failure and collapse. David writes a refrain in his 2 Samuel 1, \u201cHow the mighty have fallen!\u201d In some cases though, even in the midst &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2026\/07\/06\/how-the-mighty-have-fallen-luke-2254-62\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How the Mighty Have Fallen &#8211; Luke 22:54-62<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-messages-and-presentations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4531,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4529\/revisions\/4531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}