Where Our Comfort Comes From

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

Joy, Unknown, Devotional, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Daily Devotional, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Solid Joys, Jesus, John Piper

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🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Pilate’s authority over Jesus was subordinate to God’s authority over Pilate. So, Jesus did not fear.

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0:00.0	March 1, where our comfort comes from.
0:08.4	He, Pilate, entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus,
0:14.5	Where are you from?
0:17.2	But Jesus gave him no answer.
0:20.5	So Pilate said to him,
0:23.2	You will not speak to me.
0:25.9	Do you not know that I have authority to release you
0:30.0	and authority to crucify you?
0:34.4	Jesus answered him,
0:37.6	You would have no authority over me at all
0:41.4	unless it had been given you from above.
0:45.6	John 19, 9 to 11.
0:51.2	Pilate's authority to crucify Jesus
0:54.1	did not intimidate Jesus.
0:57.6	Why not?
0:59.6	Not because Pilate was lying,
1:02.3	not because he didn't have authority to crucify Jesus.
1:05.4	He did.
1:07.6	Rather, this authority did not intimidate Jesus
1:11.6	because it was derivative.
1:15.6	Jesus said,
1:17.4	It was given to you from above,
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