Jesus Came into the World to Bear Witness to the Truth

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🗓️ 25 December 1988

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Realize how much is at stake in the Jesus' claim to bring the truth. It is a matter of eternal life an death. Your life is on the line.

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0:00.0	Our text this morning is found in the Gospel of John, Chapter 18, and I invite you to turn there
0:08.9	with me as I read.
0:13.0	John 18 verse 33 and following.
0:18.0	Pilate entered the Praet
0:20.0	the Praetorium again and called Jesus and said to him,
0:25.0	Are you the King of the Jews?
0:28.0	Jesus answered,
0:30.0	Do you say this of your own accord or did others say it to you about me?
0:35.0	Pilot answered, am I a Jew?
0:39.0	Your own nation and the chief priests have handed you over to me.
0:44.7	What have you done?
0:47.7	Jesus answered,
0:48.7	My kingship is not of this world.
0:52.1	If my kingship were of this world, my servants would fight that I might not be
0:56.9	handed over to the Jews. But my kingship is not from this world.
1:04.5	Pilots said to him, so you are a king?
1:09.5	Jesus answered, you say that I am a king. For this I was born and for this I have come into the world
1:18.3	to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.
1:25.0	Pilots said to him, what is truth?
1:30.0	After he had said this, he went out to the Jews again and told them,
1:35.0	I find no crime in him. Every year Christmas poses the world with a question, you with a question, namely, why did Jesus Christ come? Or what difference should this man make for your life, for your marriage, or your job, or your leisure, or your thinking or your
2:14.0	emotions?
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