Pontius Pilate
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
As he looked into the eyes of truth incarnate, Pontius Pilate asked Jesus, "What is truth?" Listen today as R.C. Sproul considers how Pilate unknowingly bore witness to Christ's purpose and priorities.
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| 0:00.0 | We live in a time where the agenda of the church is focused on everything but the truth. |
| 0:07.0 | Why? Because truth inevitably divides. |
| 0:10.5 | Truth causes controversy. |
| 0:13.0 | Anytime the truth of God is proclaimed clearly, |
| 0:16.0 | no matter how gently, |
| 0:18.0 | no matter how wincely, no matter how charitably, |
| 0:21.0 | when the word of God is clearly proclaimed hell itself rises up in |
| 0:27.6 | fury. Answering Pontius Pilate, Jesus said, for this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world to bear witness to the truth. |
| 0:45.0 | And as you heard R.C. Sproll say, |
| 0:47.0 | truth is being avoided, even by some in the church. |
| 0:51.0 | But we all must bear witness to the truth and tell the truth faithfully proclaiming the truths of God's word. This is the Friday edition of renewing your mind, bringing the final message in a week-long survey of people who |
| 1:05.1 | encountered Jesus face-to-face. |
| 1:08.4 | As this is the final message, it's also the final day to request the series yourself. |
| 1:14.0 | You can do that with a donation of any amount at renewing your mind.org |
| 1:19.0 | or by calling us at 800, 43535, 4343. |
| 1:24.0 | As we approach Good Friday, Pontius Pilots encounter with Jesus becomes a point of reflection |
| 1:30.3 | from any Christians, as Pilate ends up handing Jesus over to be crucified |
| 1:35.0 | but pilot by the decree of God says something about Jesus that contains great |
| 1:41.2 | truth and a weighty significance. |
| 1:44.0 | Here's Dr. Sprawl. |
| 1:47.0 | In the history of the Christian Church, |
| 1:50.0 | perhaps the oldest confessional statement that survives through the ages, and the earliest |
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