JUDGMENTS: "I FIND NO GUILT IN HIM"
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Judgments
a) People are always making judgments. You do it, I do it, we all do it. Good judgment is one of the qualities of successful people. Jesus warned against making false or hypocritical judgments. He encouraged people to "judge righteous judgment" (John 7:24).
b) Jesus himself was being judged by people, and needless to say their judgments were varied. In the Gospel of John you can find several judgments of Jesus. It was even said, “He has a demon”!
2. "I Find No Guilt In Him"
John 18:38
38 Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews and said to them, “I find no guilt in Him.
a) Possibly the most famous judgment of Jesus is the one made by Pilate when Jesus was brought before him. Christ's enemies brought Jesus before Pilate because killing him directly presented political and legal problems (Matthew 26:3-5, John 18:31). Pilate examined Jesus as a judge under the Roman judicial system. There was no acceptable evidence presented to Pilate. Pilate's own examination of Jesus produced no grounds for condemnation. Pilate's judgement was, "I find no guilt in him" (John 18:38)
b) Pilate did not follow through with his judgment. If Jesus was innocent, Pilate should have set Jesus free. Instead, Pilate had him whipped and passed him over to the mob to be crucified. The fact remains that Pilate's judgment testifies that Jesus had done no wrong.
c) Those of us whose judgment of Jesus comes to the point of faith, believe that Jesus was a totally faultless person who had never done anything sinful at all. This is Pilate's judgment raised to the nth degree. It is God's judgment of Jesus. "He committed no sin..." (1 Peter 2:22 ). This made Christ's death a perfect sacrifice accepted by God as "the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but the whole world's also" (1 John 2:2).
The End ...
1. Judgments a) People are always making judgments. You do it, I do it, we all do it. Good judgment is one of the qualities of successful people. Jesus warned against making false or hypocritical judgments. He encouraged people to "judge righteous judgment" (John 7:24).
b) Jesus himself was being judged by people, and needless to say their judgments were varied. In the Gospel of John you can find several judgments of Jesus. It was even said, “He has a demon”!
2. "I Find No Guilt In Him"
John 18:38
38 Pilate said to Him, “What is truth?” And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews and said to them, “I find no guilt in Him.
a) Possibly the most famous judgment of Jesus is the one made by Pilate when Jesus was brought before him. Christ's enemies brought Jesus before Pilate because killing him directly presented political and legal problems (Matthew 26:3-5, John 18:31). Pilate examined Jesus as a judge under the Roman judicial system. There was no acceptable evidence presented to Pilate. Pilate's own examination of Jesus produced no grounds for condemnation. Pilate's judgement was, "I find no guilt in him" (John 18:38)
b) Pilate did not follow through with his judgment. If Jesus was innocent, Pilate should have set Jesus free. Instead, Pilate had him whipped and passed him over to the mob to be crucified. The fact remains that Pilate's judgment testifies that Jesus had done no wrong.
c) Those of us whose judgment of Jesus comes to the point of faith, believe that Jesus was a totally faultless person who had never done anything sinful at all. This is Pilate's judgment raised to the nth degree. It is God's judgment of Jesus. "He committed no sin..." (1 Peter 2:22 ). This made Christ's death a perfect sacrifice accepted by God as "the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but the whole world's also" (1 John 2:2).
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