In This Sermon:
⚖️ Jesus is arrested, bound, and dragged through the first of six trials, while His closest disciple stands warming himself by a fire and denies he ever knew Him. In this message from John 18, Pastor Jacob Van Sickle walks through the corruption behind the trial, five ways it was unjust, and why Peter’s failure points to the grace of a Savior who would die “for the people.”
🔑 In this sermon you’ll learn:
🏛️ Why the temple leaders were so angry after Jesus cleared the temple
👴 Who Annas and Caiaphas were, and why Jesus was taken to Annas first
⚖️ Five ways Jesus’s trial was unjust, and why it matters
🔥 How Peter’s small compromise at the door led to a bigger denial at the fire
🐓 Why all four Gospels record Peter’s failure, and where it leads us
✝️ How Caiaphas’s accidental prophecy, “one man should die for the people,” points straight to the cross
📍 Sacred City Church is a church plant in Providence, RI, reaching college students, young adults, and young families with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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⛪ Services: 9am & 11am at 10 Greene Street, Providence, RI
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For Further Study:
- Herod’s Temple
- “Purging the Perverted Temple” by John MacArthur
- “Plead the Fifth” and the Bill of Rights
- “Born to Reproduce” by Dawson Trotman
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