Sometimes our desire to do the right thing is indirect.

But conflict with popular opinion, that was Pilate's dilemma when Jesus was brought

before him.

On Trick for Life Weekend, Alistair Begg explains why remaining neutral is not an

option when it comes to Jesus.

Not for Pilate?

Not for us.

Let's take our Bibles and turn again to John 19 shall we?

And before we turn to the Word of the Lord we turn to the Lord of the Word.

Otherwise we study material that is familiar to many, new to some, vital for all.

We crave the enabling of the Holy Spirit.

We pray, O Spirit of God, that you will descend upon our hearts.

That you will win them from earth and through all their impulses move.

That you will speak to our weakness mighty as you are.

He just to love you as we art to love for Jesus sake we ask it.

While we are moving towards the scene of crucifixion, this scene that introduces us once again

to surely one of the most tortured individuals that ever confronted Christ.

Only if we were to pick somebody out of all of the biblical record who had proximity to

Jesus, who had access to Him to be able to pose His questions and to seek His answers.

And yet who, on account of his own moral perversity and emotional weakness found that despite

the very closeness that he enjoyed, still he was to be separated from him in times

of pain and presumably in eternity.

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