trial and his failure to follow through with his boast that he would not forsake the Lord.8 Lovingly the Lord Jesus restores Peter to full fellowship and then commissions him to shepherd His people.9 But every time we recall Peter’s denial, we must also remember that he repented and returned to the Lord. A study of Peter is warranted also because his life and epistles are part of the sacred Scriptures, which, inspired of God, are “profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction