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Welcome to Day 2155 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.\nThis is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom\nThe Gospel of John \u2013 22 \u2013 The Breaking Point\xa0\u2013 Daily Wisdom\nThe Gospel of John \u2013 Part 3 Authentication of the Word \u2013 The Breaking Point\nToday we continue our series, the Good News according to John the Apostle. Last week, we saw Jesus raise Lazarus from the grave after he had been dead for four days. Jesus proclaimed in verses 25-26, \u201cI am\xa0the resurrection and the life.\xa0The one who believes\xa0in me will live, even though they die;\xa0\xa0and whoever lives by believing\xa0in me will never die.\u201d\n\nToday our message will be in two related parts. First, we will read John 11:45-57. I am overlapping the last two verses from our last message to tie in the context, then later in the message, we will cover John 12:1-11, so keep your Bibles open and follow along as I read.\n\n\xa0Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary,\xa0and had seen what Jesus did,\xa0believed in him.\xa0But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.\xa0Then the chief priests and the Pharisees\xa0called a meeting\xa0of the Sanhedrin.\n\n\u201cWhat are we accomplishing?\u201d they asked. \u201cHere is this man performing many signs.\xa0If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and then the Romans will come and take away both our temple and our nation.\u201d\n\nThen one of them, named Caiaphas,\xa0who was high priest that year,\xa0spoke up, \u201cYou know nothing at all!\xa0You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.\u201d\n\nHe did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation,\xa0and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one.\xa0So from that day on they plotted to take his life.\n\nTherefore Jesus no longer moved about publicly among the people of Judea.\xa0Instead he withdrew to a region near the wilderness, to a village called Ephraim, where he stayed with his disciples.\n\n\xa0When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover,\xa0many went up from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing\xa0before the Passover.\xa0They kept looking for Jesus,\xa0and as they stood in the temple courts they asked one another, \u201cWhat do you think? Isn\u2019t he coming to the festival at all?\u201d\xa0\xa0But the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who found out where Jesus was should report it so that they might arrest him.\n\nHave you experienced or been confronted with a\xa0\u201cmoment of truth\u201d\u2014that sweet and terrible instant when the truth about some particular unsavory or unethical matter in your life can no longer be denied, minimized, rationalized, or disguised? There it is, in all its stark, unforgiving glory, demanding a choice. You can continue to bury the truth and then live in manic, strained denial for the rest of your days, or you can submit to that truth and then rest in its freedom, even though you may have to accept the consequences. If you have faced such a moment, you know\u2014try as you might to find it\u2014there\u2019s no compromising middle way that will allow you to avoid the distressing consequences of either...