Truth on Trial

Our passage this morning comes from the Gospel of John, chapter 18, verses 28 to 40. And so, remember where we're at in the Gospel of John, where he's been handed over, and so this is a new area in the Gospel of John, where he's left the upper room, and now he's being tried, he's being handed over, and you're seeing how the world treats him. And that's one of the things that's really gonna come out of this passage, how Jesus Christ is treated. One of the other things that we're seeing all throughout the Gospel of John, I can't make every sermon say the exact same thing, but one thing that's really throughout all of John, and you're gonna see this, the same thing, what do you do with Jesus? What do you do with Jesus, right? You confront Jesus, you see Jesus, He's here and he's right in front of your face. What do you do with Jesus? That's what the Apostle John is one of the things he keeps bringing up. So I'll open in prayer. We'll read our scripture and we're gonna see the trial element of this. So let's pray. Let's pray to the Lord and ask him to bless the ministry of the word and we'll read our text together. Our gracious Holy Father, what will we do with Jesus when he confronts us? What will we do when his word goes out forth? Father, we pray as we look at this passage that Jesus Christ would preach to us, he would walk off the pages of the scriptures, and we would see him, and we'd be confronted with him and healed by him. Gracious and holy God, we ask that you would send the Holy Spirit, that he would fall upon the preacher and he would fall upon the congregation. We ask that you would be present with us in a special way. For we know that when two or three are ga