John 8:25–30 • They asked with contempt. He answered without flinching. Jesus Christ never scrambled for an answer, never softened his claims, never revised his message — and the men who tried to silence him only proved him right.

⛪ Preached at Pilgrim Baptist Church • Cookeville, TN • April 26, 2026.

📚 Part of our verse-by-verse expository series through the Gospel of John

Every age asks the question. Philosophers ask it. Lost men and women ask it. The Pharisees asked it in the temple courts with contempt dripping from their tongues: Who art thou? The same words can come from a hungry heart or a hostile one — and the outcome is always settled by what's happening beneath the question.

In this message, Pastor Fortunato works through John 8:25–30, showing how Jesus answered from an unshakeable identity rooted in eternity — and what that means for everyone who will one day have their own "then ye shall know" moment.

This expository sermon walks through John 8:25–30 and connects:

• The difference between a hungry question and a hostile one — and why Jesus answers both

• Daniel 7:13–14 — the Son of Man throne claim Jesus was making when the Pharisees asked "Who art thou?"

• Deuteronomy 18:18 — Moses' promised prophet who would speak only what God commanded, fulfilled in John 8:26

• Why unbelief is never a problem of insufficient evidence — the arithmetic of rejection

• Numbers 21 — the brass serpent lifted up on a pole as a type of the cross of Christ

• How the cross made salvation possible and ignorance impossible

• Isaiah 42:1–4 — the eternal Father-Son fellowship that predates the temple confrontation by 700 years

• Psalm 22:1 and 22:24 — the one exception to "the Father hath not left me alone," and why it had to happen

• John 8:30 — many believed as he spoke, without an altar call, and what that means for how the Word works

• The barrier to salvation in John 8 is always human refusal, never divine withholding

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