JESUS CAME SO YOU’D KNOW THE TRUTH (3 OF 4)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: John 18:33-38
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Jesus Came So You’d Know the Truth (3 of 4)
Series: Understanding Christmas: Why Did Jesus Come?
Scott Maze
John 18:33-38
It is Christmas and you are probably came expecting me to talk about shepherds, wise men, and Mary & Joseph every time Christmas comes around. Instead, scattered throughout your New Testament little statements of why Jesus Christmas came into existence. These statements tell you why Jesus came to earth that first Christmas.
Now on President’s Day we celebrate Presidents Abraham Lincoln and George Washington’s birthdays. But we don’t think of either of these men today as babies on President’s Day. Instead, we remember their accomplishments as adults. We don’t pass around pictures of Lincoln as a boy in his log cabin days. So why do so many stop to celebrate only the baby Jesus of Bethlehem in celebration of His birth rather than His actions as an adult?
This is a series devoted to showing God’s why behind Christmas. I invite you to turn with me to John 18. This is a really famous encounter and it is reported at some level in all four gospels. The sequence of events that brought Jesus before Pilate shows how organized crime also has an ancient legacy. Here you’ll discover cowardice, treachery, falsehood, scheming, and eventually murder. All these vices spring to life in the harsh reality of the most historic display of injustice in history, when Truth itself was on trial.
Only hours from His death, Jesus makes a statement about His birth.
So Pilate entered his headquarters again and called Jesus and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” 34 Jesus answered, “Do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?” 35 Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over to me. What have you done?” 36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews ...
Series: Understanding Christmas: Why Did Jesus Come?
Scott Maze
John 18:33-38
It is Christmas and you are probably came expecting me to talk about shepherds, wise men, and Mary & Joseph every time Christmas comes around. Instead, scattered throughout your New Testament little statements of why Jesus Christmas came into existence. These statements tell you why Jesus came to earth that first Christmas.
Now on President’s Day we celebrate Presidents Abraham Lincoln and George Washington’s birthdays. But we don’t think of either of these men today as babies on President’s Day. Instead, we remember their accomplishments as adults. We don’t pass around pictures of Lincoln as a boy in his log cabin days. So why do so many stop to celebrate only the baby Jesus of Bethlehem in celebration of His birth rather than His actions as an adult?
This is a series devoted to showing God’s why behind Christmas. I invite you to turn with me to John 18. This is a really famous encounter and it is reported at some level in all four gospels. The sequence of events that brought Jesus before Pilate shows how organized crime also has an ancient legacy. Here you’ll discover cowardice, treachery, falsehood, scheming, and eventually murder. All these vices spring to life in the harsh reality of the most historic display of injustice in history, when Truth itself was on trial.
Only hours from His death, Jesus makes a statement about His birth.
So Pilate entered his headquarters again and called Jesus and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” 34 Jesus answered, “Do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?” 35 Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over to me. What have you done?” 36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews ...
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