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. The Bible teaches that Jesus died on the cross as a sacrifice for sin so that men and women can be reconciled to God.

So why isn't everyone saved?

What keeps some people from ever knowing or trusting or believing God?

We'll explore the answer today along with Alistair Begg on Truth for Life.

We turn our attention to the 25th verse of John chapter 17, which reads as follows,

O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me."

Now, I want to call this study this morning, who knows? Who knows? First of all, Jesus says,

the world doesn't know you. Secondly, he says, I know you. And thirdly, he says, and these guys, they know that you have sent me.

So that's the sort of framework of our thinking as we try and come to terms with it. Righteous

father, number one, the world does not know you. Now, when we studied in Romans chapter one,

we saw that the unbelief on the part of men

and women is not on account of a lack of evidence. We won't turn to it now, but you can make

a note of it if you choose to. In Romans chapter 1, you remember that Paul makes it clear that

both by creation and by conscience, humanity has no excuse for choosing to live

without reference to God. And yet, as we saw again in Romans 1, claiming to be wise, we became fools who who would exchange the glory of the immortal God for

things that creep and crawl and fly. In other words, we would start to worship the gifts or

the provisions that God has made rather than worship God himself. And it's interesting,

and I think we should make note of it, that it does actually say that

it is behind a facade of wisdom. If you listen carefully to the news on a daily basis, if you read

any kind of magazines or literature, you realize how much great store is laid in our world, in our culture. Well, Miss So-and-so said

this, and she is very clever. Mr. X, the professor from such and such, is very, very clever,

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