We have all found ourselves at a crossroads, some moment in our life when we have needed to make a crucial decision that would have far-reaching consequences.

Jesus' teaching will inevitably bring us to a crossroad, and the direction we

choose can impact our eternal destination. Alistair Begg explores the options in front of us today

on Truth for Life. This large crowd that has been following Jesus now for some time

has a decision to make.

They have come in the course of the dialogue to essentially a crossroad.

And as a result of the determination that they make in relation to what Jesus has said and the claims that he has made, will determine certainly

their future progress and perhaps even their eternal destiny.

They have understood the fact that everything Jesus said was true, but not everything Jesus said

was easy. And some of us have discovered that as well as we've been reading the Bible. We haven't

had difficulty in understanding it, but we're just wondering whether it is too hard to accept

and to become committed to. The crowd either have to take him at his word, look, believe, come to him, find eternal life

in him, or continue in life without him.

And Jesus actually confronts not only the crowd on that day, but he confronts everyone every day with the very same decision.

As Sartre, who ended his life somewhat dissolutely, the philosopher, 25,000 people attended his funeral.

He said that God does not exist, I cannot deny. That God continues

to search my soul. I cannot forget. So that whatever the defiant responses of philosophy,

whatever the immediate reaction of the hearts of

men and women, the gospel is very clear. John has been making this clear all the way along.

We have begun to study these truly truels in light of his express statement concerning his

purpose, that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ,

and that by believing how you will find life in the sun. In chapter 5, he puts it with great clarity.

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