Tonight’s text brings us to the fourth phase of Jesus’ six phase trial. He was arrested unjustly in the garden, thanks to Judas’ betrayal He was bound by a crowd of as many as a thousand Roman soldiers and officers from the Jewish high priests. He was taken to the home of Annas, a man...
What do you know about the so-called “Jewish festivals”? How should we as Christians look at them? Are they still relevant to the wider Christian community? In this week’s sermon David Cohen and Pastor Abie Kulynych teach us about “God’s Heart in the Festival,” His festivals.
This is good! Being together. Worshipping in person. It’s good and it’s a reason for joy. It’s not exactly what it was and it’s not exactly what we want it to be yet. None of us wanted to be sitting here wearing masks or having to figure out 6 feet of space between us and...
Last week we talked about the test of Peter’s faith. Tonight we’re going to talk about the trial of Jesus. The way that John writes this, he shows us clearly that both the testing of Peter and the trial of Jesus were happening at the same time. They were even largely happening in the same...
While Jesus was being tried, Peter was being tested. And John wanted us to be sure that we saw both things as they were happening at the same time. When we look at John 18, we discover that this portion of the chapter was written carefully, taking us back and forth between Jesus and Peter,...
There are a few things that John 17 did not tell us that we need to know if we need to rightly understand everything that happens in John 18. In John 17 we got to hear Jesus’ prayers for himself, for his apostles and for his Church. And the way John records that night, it seems...
The main question that we’re going to talk about tonight is, what does Jesus want? Many of us our very familiar with the old, possibly tired acronym, WWJD (What Would Jesus Do?) But how can we ever know what would Jesus do in any given situation if we don’t know what Jesus wants? It is...
In John 17, we have so far heard Jesus pray for himself and we have heard him pray for the apostles. Today, we get to hear him pray for us. Romans 8:34 tells us that Jesus is at the right hand of God interceding or praying for us. Before we even get to this text,...
The last thing that Jesus prayed for his disciples while he was still with them was, “sanctify them by your truth.” We’ve already read through and studied where Jesus had prayed that the Father would keep the disciples in His name and that he would keep them from evil; that he would guard God’s character...
In Jesus’ final prayer for his apostles, he made three very specific requests. He asked the Father to keep them in His character, to keep them from evil or from the evil one, and to sanctify them by His truth. Last week we talked about being kept in God’s character. It was not a prayer...
