Thank you. Some 2,000 years ago, Jesus of Nazareth was falsely accused and condemned by the religious leaders of his day.

They then delivered him to the Roman governor named Pilot, hoping that he would

be convicted of a crime punishable by death.

But who was really on trial?

We'll find out today on Truth for Life.

Alistair Begg is teaching from the opening verses in Mark Chapter 15.

Well, I take it that a number of you will have read the article in the review section of

yesterday's Wall Street Journal.

It was announcing the revolution in technology, which is allowing previously inanimate objects, such as cars or trash cans or teapots, to talk to us,

and not only to talk to us, but to guide our behavior.

The article quoted the CFO of Google, giving an interview to an Australian magazine or newspaper in 2010.

And in that interview, he announced to the journalist that Google is, quote, really an engineering company

with all these computer scientists that see the world as a completely broken place, suggesting that many of those

problems can be solved, of course, by technology. The article also quoted Jane McGonigall,

who is a futurist and a video game creator, designer, as being identified with those who like to talk about how,

quote, reality is broken, but can be fixed by making the real world more like a video game

with points for doing good. It's quite remarkable. I mean, if our grandparents could come back and listen to

this kind of thing, it really, and it's all deadly serious. I was reading this yesterday as I was

traveling, and I said, this is a fantastic article. I like this article very much. Why not use it

tomorrow morning? Because you're doing the gospel of Mark. And the story of the Gospel writers is exactly that.

The story of what God has done in the Lord Jesus Christ to come into our time and into our space,

into a world that is broken. Because this is accurate. These computer scientists get it.

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