Pilate’s Choice John 18:28-37

A little boy named Avery Jackson, at the ripe young age of 9 years old, appeared on the cover of the world-renowned magazine National Geographic as a prime of example of “gender transitioning” at its finest. Except when you deny Truth, you end up getting hurt. A group named Restore Childhood caught up with the teenage-Avery eight years later. Just eight years…

By then, he was growing out of a so-called “girl” phase but his mother had already chemically altered his body and sterilized him. Once you have been chemically “castrated,” there is no going back. When he was 7 years old, the boy was clearly a boy. It is interesting that the 7-year old Avery said that he would pretend sometimes that he was an animal, or a ninja, or even a princess, but he did not think that his parents should treat him that way. He was just pretending. But his mom started dressing him in girls clothes. Keep in mind that his mom had help from the medical community – their pediatrician – to do what they did to their little boy.

It was not long before the boy Avery changed his mind. But his mom would not let him. She forced him to stay to the path to transitioning. There is a documentary on Avery Jackson called “Transhood” (on HBO) that is depressing and shameful for the American people and the human race. His mom, Debi, says she is shocked that Avery changed his mind. The activists insist that parents need to listen to their children. But this mom clearly did not.

Avery started taking hormones in order to get out of the “girl” phase. But by then, it was too late. At 17 now, the boy – who still a boy biologically right down to his very cells – has been sterilized and now he claims to be “non-binary.” There is no such thing.

When you deny Truth, there are serious consequences that are going to result. And every word from the mouth of God is truth. That was a choice that Pilate also refused to make… (notthebee.com)

THERE ARE THOSE WHO TRY TO KILL TRUTH – John 18:28-30:
The Jews told Pilate that if Jesus had not bee an “evil doer,” they would not have “delivered” Him to them. It is ironic that the verb translated “to deliver” also is the verb used of Judas to “betray” Jesus. So the Jews are saying, “we would not have betrayed Him to you.”

So, like so many people today, the Jews thought they could kill Truth. They thought that they could act as if Truth did not exist and they could live their lives in any way they desired. But you cannot kill Truth. Because it flows from the nature of God. You could just as easily kill God as to kill Truth.

THERE ARE THOSE WHO IGNORE TRUTH – 18:31-37:
Pilate. Pilate retorts before he leaves Jesus: “What is truth?” (ver. 37) That’s when Pilate admits to the Jews that he finds no guilt in Jesus worthy of death. What is Pilate doing? He is looking at Truth in the face and then he turns his head and shrugs his shoulders. In verse 36, Jesus had told Pilate that if His kingdom was an earthly kingdom, then His servants would fight so that – notice – Jesus would not be “delivered” – the word is “betrayed” – into the hands of the Jews. Jesus is telling Pilate that Pilate is about to betray Truth.

But you and I do the same thing when we read a Bible verse from the mouth of God and we think to ourselves, “I don’t like that verse. It doesn’t make me feel good about myself. It tells me I have to stop doing what I’m doing.” If we do that, we show that we are not “of the truth,” but we have chosen to be servants of Satan who is the father of lies (John 8:44).

JESUS IS TRUTH – 18:37:
Notice that Jesus said He was born and came into the world to “testify to the truth.” How are humans supposed to behave? Look at Jesus. He is the epitome of a human being. Jesus did exactly what human beings were supposed to be doing since Adam and Eve quit doing what they were built to do and they listened to Satan. Jesus came to show us Truth. He came to live Truth and teach Truth and love Truth.

Living a lie is no way to go through life. Keep your focus on the Truth of Jesus and stay dedicated.

Paul Holland

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