Therefore the chief priests and the Pharisees convened a council, and were saying, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs. If we let Him go on like this, all men will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.” John 11: 47-48 On the next day the large crowd who had come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet Him, an Therefore the ch

The people of Israel had been saying that God was unfair and unjust in His dealings with them. They expected that God should save all of them because they were His chosen people. Though they were God’s chosen people, they had sinned greatly against Him. But they really expected that in their time of trouble, He would overlook their sin and save them. In their unwillingness to accept the responsibility for their own sins, the accused God of unfair treatment. The thinking of th

Most of us, I think, when we are beginning to start a new venture or task, or even learning a new job – we have to think about what the purpose is in doing that task. Learning what the purpose of that task is will help us to learn how to complete it properly and to its best advantage to us. So, with that thinking in our minds this morning, I want to ask a related question: Did you ever think about, or question: what the goal of the Gospel is? Did you ever think about what is