Sermon Preached by the Rev. A. C. S. Trivett in Holy Trinity Cathedral on Sunday Moxping February 21, 1926.
"Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas™
We! must remember "that Jesus thas' spent 80 years of His life in the neighbourhood of this lake. Nazaroth is only-15 miles as the crow' flies from the Sea of Galilee, And Peter is well known about the lake,
that, good or bad, stands out in He is the type of forceful character any' group of men, The "Thou shalt be" suggests that the past fs) not altogether creditable, Jesus says—I know the characte: identified with your name on this luke, Simon son John, that' you are known to hot-headed, impulsive, rash and unstable, but I am confident. that) you have the making of a great'
make you a man of rock. man in nan in you, follow me and I will}
shall be called not Simon son of Fete men standing about might hn, but Cephas.
smile, 'They know Peter, a man generous to a fault, frank and good natured, but one whose impulsive-ess, Whose uncertainty and hastiness' had again and again brought him and those associated with him into trouble, He could not be "depended upon, He was a man of sand not of rock, But as we know the prophecy of Jesus was fulfilled. Let us look at this man, his strength and his weakness, his struggles and his victory, Let see how Jesus wrought this miracle in the life of Peter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.