Jesus, the authority on people, knows and understands you. We have our text to assure us. Think of it! Through faith in Christ we can understand ourselves and others.

These words about Jesus have a unique relationship to the theme for this series. The Greeks, who asked Paul about the meaning of "this new teaching" were hearing this message for the first time. But the teaching about Jesus and the Resurrection is not new to you. Most of you have been taught it from your youth. But if you are like the people I serve, you want to experience something new and vital from what is now an old teaching.

Each generation asks new questions about the old teachings. For some time we have been asking the questions in the thought form in which Jesus is here claiming to have the answers. Of the one who k…