The Significant Man (3 of 8)
Series: The Final Week - Part 2
Jeff Strite
John 18:28-40
Eight years ago (2013) Time magazine featured a study that proposed to name the 100 most significant people in history. This study's authors filtered through over 9000 names and came up with this list, and these are the TOP 10 of that list:
1 Jesus (it's intriguing that Time magazine would recognize that Jesus was the most significant person in history)
2 Napoleon
3 Muhammad
4 Shakespeare
5 Abraham Lincoln
6 George Washington
7 Adolf Hitler (obviously, this wasn't based on popularity)
8 Aristotle
9 Alexander the Great
10 Thomas Jefferson
(https://ideas.time.com/2013/12/10/whos-biggest-the-100-most-significant-figures-in-history/)
The authors of that study examined over 9000 names. But I'm pretty sure there was one significant person in history that didn't make the cut. Someone who - even most Christians - would never think of as being ''significant''. And yet he was! In fact this one individual was more vital to world history than Shakespeare, Lincoln or Washington put together.
His name? ... Pontius Pilate.
Pontius Pilate? Why on earth would I believe that HE was one of the most significant men who ever lived? Well, you'll have to wait to the end of the sermon to find that out...
But in the meantime, let me tell you a little about Pilate. According to one source, Pilate was a cold, cruel, calculating politician who played all the angles. Jesus was crucified about 33 A.D, and Pilate was the governor of Judea from 26-36 AD. In that time, Pilate had managed to accumulate a large number of enemies. Which wasn't hard, because Jerusalem was NOT an easy place to rule. The Jews hated the Romans and would riot and revolt at drop of hat.
That's why Pilate made sure - whenever there was a Feast day in Jerusalem, where 1000s of Jews were gathered in that one city - he always made sure he had several 100 soldiers on hand because, with that many Jews in one pla ...
Series: The Final Week - Part 2
Jeff Strite
John 18:28-40
Eight years ago (2013) Time magazine featured a study that proposed to name the 100 most significant people in history. This study's authors filtered through over 9000 names and came up with this list, and these are the TOP 10 of that list:
1 Jesus (it's intriguing that Time magazine would recognize that Jesus was the most significant person in history)
2 Napoleon
3 Muhammad
4 Shakespeare
5 Abraham Lincoln
6 George Washington
7 Adolf Hitler (obviously, this wasn't based on popularity)
8 Aristotle
9 Alexander the Great
10 Thomas Jefferson
(https://ideas.time.com/2013/12/10/whos-biggest-the-100-most-significant-figures-in-history/)
The authors of that study examined over 9000 names. But I'm pretty sure there was one significant person in history that didn't make the cut. Someone who - even most Christians - would never think of as being ''significant''. And yet he was! In fact this one individual was more vital to world history than Shakespeare, Lincoln or Washington put together.
His name? ... Pontius Pilate.
Pontius Pilate? Why on earth would I believe that HE was one of the most significant men who ever lived? Well, you'll have to wait to the end of the sermon to find that out...
But in the meantime, let me tell you a little about Pilate. According to one source, Pilate was a cold, cruel, calculating politician who played all the angles. Jesus was crucified about 33 A.D, and Pilate was the governor of Judea from 26-36 AD. In that time, Pilate had managed to accumulate a large number of enemies. Which wasn't hard, because Jerusalem was NOT an easy place to rule. The Jews hated the Romans and would riot and revolt at drop of hat.
That's why Pilate made sure - whenever there was a Feast day in Jerusalem, where 1000s of Jews were gathered in that one city - he always made sure he had several 100 soldiers on hand because, with that many Jews in one pla ...
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