Jesus Gives No ANSWER
John 18:33-37
Pastor Carl Toti
August 27-28, 2022
WORLDVIEW SEGMENT
“INFORMED TO PRAY EMPOWERED TO ACT.”
“Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.” —Valery Legasov
Citizens for Sanity—
RETURNING COMMON SENSE TO AMERICA
https://forsanity.org/
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John 18:33–38 (NIV)
33 Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?” 34 “Is that your own idea,” Jesus asked, “or did others talk to you about me?” 35 “Am I a Jew?” Pilate replied. “Your own people and chief priests handed you over to me. What is it you have done?” 36 Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.” 37 “You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.” 38 “What is truth?” retorted Pilate. With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, “I find no basis for a charge against him.
MAIN IDEA: In Pilate’s conversation with Jesus, one question the ruler posed went unanswered. “What is truth?”Some truths are self-explanatory. The question is do we want to accept them?
How many times do we settle for what is expedient over what is needed?
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
— Philip Dick, science fiction novelist.
The Interrogation
"Are you the King of the Jews?" (v. 33). Jesus responded “Is that your own idea or did someone else tell you that.”Pilate repeated his question, "So you are a king?" (v. 37). Jesus replied, "You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice" (v. 37).
Belonging to the Truth
What is difficult, but not impossible, to deal with is Jesus' statement that "everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice" (v. 37).
It is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder. —Kallistos Ware.
Proverbs 21:2 "A person may think their own ways are right, but the LORD weighs the heart" (NIV).
John 10:4 "...The sheep follow him because they know his voice,"
John 10:16
"I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice..."
Following the Truth
John 10:27
"My sheep hear my voice. I know them and they follow me,"