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Audio Link Why Pilate Couldn’t See John 19:1-16a, Remsen Bible Fellowship, 06/28/2020 Introduction What prevents a person from coming to Jesus? Why would a man or a woman, a boy or a girl, who hears the gospel of Jesus Christ refuse to come and bow the knee before him? We might answer that question in a number of ways. Perhaps they have intellectual objections; can you square science and scripture? Or what about the problem of pain? Maybe they have common sense objections; look at all the wars of religion! Could Jesus really rise from the dead? Or maybe the objection is more personal. Someone in the church hurt me. Maybe someone with a leadership position leveraged their power in a way that resulted in my pain. Perhaps I’ve been judged unfairly-or fairly but unmercifully. Of course, on the flip side, if we have our Bibles open to the Psalms or to Romans we will read things like, there is none who does good, not even one , and, everyone has turned aside, together they have become usele

Failing John 18:15-27, Remsen Bible Fellowship, 06-07-2020 Introduction Do you ever feel like an utter failure? Maybe you find yourself asking, how could God use a loser like me? I ask myself some form of that question more often than I would like to admit. When I examine my life, my sins, my shortcomings of ability, I often walk away from that exam feeling something near meaningless and useless.  If you ever share that sense of self-loathing, this text should encourage you. It doesn’t read as encouragement at first, and in point of fact it’s meant to warn us as well. But there is comfort to be gained here for failures like you and me. Read the text   What we experience in the text before us is obviously not a single plotline, but a cutting from one plot to another, and back again. Going back to the last couple verses from last week, we read of Jesus being carried off to Annas; then we read about Peter; then back to Jesus; then back to Peter.  Have you ever read a book or watched a mov