JOHN 18:37\u201338<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cFor this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth\u201d \u2026 Pilate said to Him, \u201cWhat is truth?\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
(John 18:37, 38)<\/i>.<\/p>\n
After listening to Jesus describe His kingdom as spiritual in nature, Pilate asked, \u201cYou are a king then?\u201d Here is a simple minded man. All he wanted was a straight answer. He did not understand the spiritual nature of Jesus\u2019 kingdom, and thus he could not understand how this Man before him could be a king. But he couldn\u2019t just drop the matter, for he needed to make a judgment.<\/p>\n
Jesus answered forthrightly: \u201cI am a king, as you say.\u201d But again, He emphasizes that His kingship is not earthly. It is a spiritual, eternal kingship that is based on \u201cthe truth.\u201d This is the heart of the matter. Jesus came as a witness to the truth, to the truth regarding man and his relationship with God, to the truth concerning God\u2019s promise and covenant, to the truth regarding Himself as the Lamb of God, who came to take away the sins of the world. His teaching revealed this truth, and the miracles He performed confirmed that truth. And yet, His own people refused to believe Him, and pagans such as Pilate refused to believe that man could even know the truth.<\/p>\n
Pilate was a skeptic. Like so many of the Romans at that time, he had abandoned any substantial belief in a god. He was superstitious but irreligious. He did not believe man could really know the truth. How ironic that he remained so skeptical with the \u201cTruth\u201d standing right before his eyes. But this shows how blind men are; even when the truth is clearly presented to them, they refuse to believe. It also proves that men can only know the truth of redemption in Christ when God has enabled them to see. Only God can rescue sinners from the \u201cfather of lies.\u201d Only those who are renewed by His power will receive the truth and submit to the power and influence of it in their lives.<\/p>\n
Sadly, Pilate\u2019s response is one that we hear so often. We speak of Christ, we bear witness to the truth, we proclaim His Word, and still people scoff, \u201cWhat is truth?\u201d We live in a day of rampant skepticism, and the result is chaos. People reject truth under the guise of intellectual inability, and then they try to construct truth according to their own desires. In doing this, they worship an idol and refuse to honor the King of kings, the Lord of truth.<\/p>\n
CORAM DEO<\/b><\/p>\n
Isaiah 50\u201352<\/p>\n
1 Thessalonians 1<\/p>\n
What are some excuses people give for not accepting the Christian faith? How has our society, for the most part, rejected the Christian worldview? Using Jesus\u2019 teaching throughout John\u2019s Gospel, formulate a strong, biblical response to Pilate\u2019s question, \u201cWhat is truth?\u201d<\/p>\n
For further study: John 14:6; 16:13 \u2022 Rom. 1:18\u201319 \u2022 2 Tim. 2:24\u201326; 3:6\u20138<\/i><\/p>\n
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JOHN 18:37\u201338 \u201cFor this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness to the truth\u201d \u2026 Pilate said to Him, \u201cWhat is truth?\u201d (John 18:37, 38). After listening to Jesus describe His kingdom as spiritual in nature, Pilate asked, \u201cYou are a king then?\u201d … Continue reading “A SKEPTIC\u2019S INQUIRY”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}