Who is Jesus? People have all kinds of different ideas about him, often whatever best supports their own agendas—everything from an enlightenment thinker to a civil rights protester to a present-day hipster. Everyone wants to remake Jesus in their own image. But all of these distorted versions of Jesus leave people confused about who he really is. In John 12, we find a diverse crowd of people interacting with Jesus, and the one thing they all have in common is that they don’t yet see Jesus for who he is. Listen as Pastor Luke Herche preaches on John 12:9–26, 31–33, probing possible answers to the question, “Who is Jesus?” (A wonderworking spectacle? A nationalistic hero? A bitter rival? An enigmatic puzzle?) and finally concluding that only when we see Jesus as the Lord who is lifted up will we come to see him for who he really is.

Part of a series on The Gospel of John

From Sunday Worship, October 29, 2023.

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