Today's sermon is part two to
last week's. Last Sunday we looked at Jesus' warning to the Jewish leadership.
They were to judge Him rightly. I told you that they were partially right in
their understanding of who Jesus was. They could see that Jesus was dangerous.
But they didn't get it completely right. What they needed to do, but didn't do,
was to submit to Him as Messiah. They needed to become His disciples. That was
last week's sermon. This week I want to follow that up with a question. It's
the simple question, 'Why?' Why didn't they get it completely right? Why didn't
they become His disciples? And to answer that question we're going to turn back
a couple of chapters to John 5. Now, fair warning: we're going to start in John
5, but we're not going to stay there. We're going to be looking at several
different portions of Scripture as we work our way through some questions to
come to a helpful answer. Please listen as I read John 5.39-44.