TEASER: At age 14 he ran
away from home and fought in the
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French and Indian War.
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At the outbreak of the
Revolutionary War, he joined the
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American army as a colonel and
in 1775 shared a command with
Ethan Allen in the capture
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of Ticonderoga.
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Later he led 1000 men into
Canada where he fought in the
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battle of Quebec. His courage
in battle won him a promotion to
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brigadier general.
But something went wrong.
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Thoughts of compromise ate
away at his patriotic zeal.
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Soon the unthinkable happened.
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He offered his services to the
British, and in 1780 devised a
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plan to surrender West
Point to British control.
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Today, instead of being
remembered as a national hero,
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Benedict Arnold is
synonymous with "traitor."
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ANNOUNCER: It has
stood the test of time.
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God's book: the Bible,
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still relevant in
today's complex world.
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It Is Written,
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sharing the messages
of hope around the world.
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Let me invite you to turn with
me in your Bible to the tenth
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chapter of Matthew this morning
for our study of the Word of
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God. In our progressing through
this marvelous, marvelous gospel
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that opens the New Testament we
have been seeing how Jesus
trained His twelve to be sent
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out as the
representatives of the Kingdom.
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And as we come to chapter 10 He
is ready to send them on their
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first mission, to give
them some on-the-job experience.
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We have been noting the names of
the twelve and we've stopped to
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take the time to get to know
them as much as is possible in
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the Word of God. We're looking
today at the last name in the
list in verse 4, the name Judas
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Iscariot.
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Let me read from
Matthew 10:1 - 5a
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Now we have met already
the first eleven disciples.
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We had set about to learn
everything that we could learn
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about them. Some of them have a
lot of information, some of them
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little or none. But we've tried
to look at their personalities
and their character and how
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they fit into the scheme of
things and the plan of our Lord
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and why they were selected
for such an incredibly marvelous
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task. The one thing, I think,
that we have concluded in
general is that they were
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basically unqualified.
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They were basically
common men just like we are.
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Men whom God had to transform in
order to make them into what He
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wanted them to be.
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And we saw how our Lord overcame
their commonness and enabled
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them to preach and to teach and
to heal and to cast out demons
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as the official
representatives of the Kingdom.
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And I might add that they were
successful, oh, they were highly
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successful. Under the energy of
the Spirit of God they pulled
off that which Christ had
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asked them to do,
they built His church.
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They were a remarkable group.
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But one of them stands out
against the background of the
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others. He is isolated.
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He is lonely.
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He is alone.
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His name is Judas Iscariot.
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He is a
horrifying, colossal, misfit.
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He is the epitome of disaster.
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He is the vilest, wickedest man
the Bible knows anything about
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and he is our
subject this morning.
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He is listed last,
you'll notice, in verse 4.
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And he is always listed with
a comment about his betrayal,
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because that was his
brand and will be for all time.
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Let's examine what
the Bible says about him.
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First of all, his
name, Judas, a common name.
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Lebbaeus Thaddaeus in
verse 3 is also called Judas.
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It is simply a form of
Judah, the land of God's people.
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Some say the root of it means
'Jehovah leads' and others think
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the root of it might refer
to 'one who is the object of
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praise'. But what
a paradox either way.
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If it means Jehovah leads
there never was one who was more
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obviously led by
Satan than was Judas.
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If it means one worth of praise
there is never lived one more
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unworthy of praise than Judas.
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It says his name is not
only Judas but Iscariot.
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What does that mean?
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Basically it comes from two
terms ish meaning man and
Kerioth meaning town.
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He was a man of
the town of Kerioth.
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That is simply a
geographical identification.
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Why is it that Judas is
identified geographically and
the other eleven are
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not?
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It's important because
he is the only non-Galilean.
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He is the only Jew
from the southern section.
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He is the only Judean Jew.
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All of the rest
came from Galilee.
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And this may indicate to us that
from the very beginning Judas
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was never
really one of the boys.
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Also, the southern Jews felt
themselves greatly superior to
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the rural Jews of the north and
would have looked down on them
and consequently there may
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have been a certain amount of
pride involved which deepened as
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time went on. Author E.G. White
in her book on the life of
Jesus, "Desire of Ages" writes
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the following (page 717)
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Twenty-three miles south of
Jerusalem, seven miles from
Hebron was a little
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group of tiny villages.
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They were built near farms where
the people cultivated the soil.
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As the little villages
congregated together and grew
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they became one little town and
that little town became known as
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Kerioth. And in
Joshua 15:25 it is mentioned.
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And it was that little village
that gave birth to this man.
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Seven miles from Hebron a little
child was born that was one day
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to betray the Savior.
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From his name we
look at his call secondly.
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And I hasten to add that the
call of Judas is not recorded in
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the Bible. We meet him the first
time right here in this list and
we don't know how he
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got in the group.
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We know he wanted to be involved
but we don't know how it was
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that he attached
himself to Jesus.
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Apparently he was attracted
to Jesus, that's obvious.
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He followed Him.
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He stayed with Him.
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And he stayed with Him longer
than a lot of the other false
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disciples who bailed
out much earlier than this.
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In fact, in John 6, it says
there were many disciples who
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followed Jesus but when He
demanded total commitment out of
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them it says, But the
twelve, it says, remained.
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So, even when Jesus called for
all-out commitment, even when He
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made total demand on them and
many of them left, Judas stuck
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it out. He stayed.
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Now one thing is certain, Jesus
knew Judas would betray Him.
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The Old Testament predicted that
one of His own would betray Him.
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Psalm 41:9
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If you look into the prophecy
of Zechariah chapter 11 it even
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gets more specific.
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Zechariah 11:12
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Betrayed by His own friend
for thirty pieces of silver.
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Now outwardly Judas
didn't appear to have defective
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character. I'm sure of that.
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Three years he was with the
disciples and Jesus said in the
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upper room in John 13, He said:
"One of you will betray Me."
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And all the Apostles responded.
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Do you remember
how they responded?
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Did they say - Is it Judas?
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No, everyone of
them said - Is it I?
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Why?
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They had no more reason to
suspect Judas then they had
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reason to suspect themselves.
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They knew better about
themselves and they assumed
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better about Judas, he
was a fantastic hypocrite.
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He was so good at it they
elected him treasurer of the
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group. They gave him the money.
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That's how much
they trusted him.
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You say - Well, didn't they
know he must have had a rotten,
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sinful background if he was such
a rotten wretched vile man that
he would do this to
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Christ, he must have had a track
record that was horrifying?
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Yeah, but it wasn't at the worst
any worse than any other ones.
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It's hard to be much worse than
Matthew who was an extortioner
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and a thief and took bribes.
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It would be hard to be much
worse than Simon the Zealot who
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was an assassin.
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So you know, they were all kind
of a crummy bunch if you look at
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it that way. It's interesting to
me that he never has a word to
say until he complains
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about the waste
of money in Bethany.
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He had the same
potential as any of the others.
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He could have been a
John or a Peter or whatever.
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I mean, Christ could have
transformed him if his heart had
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been willing. He was the same
raw material, he was no more
unqualified than anybody
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else.
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But the same sun that melts the
wax, hardens the clay and while
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the other men were being
melted and molded he was being
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hardened. Now I would hasten to
add to you that he is no
different than the other
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twelve.
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They all believed
that the Messiah had come.
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They all believed the Messiah
would bring an earthly Kingdom.
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They all believed the Messiah
would overthrow Rome, He would
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establish the Kingdom and they
would enter into the glory of
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the Kingdom. They all believed
that they had met the lion of
the tribe of Judah.
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But the Lord began to tell them
that before He was the lion of
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the tribe of Judah, He had to be
the lamb slain from the
foundation of the world.
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And He talked about dying.
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And He talked
about giving His life.
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And He talked
about being lifted up.
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And whenever He talked about
that you could just hear Judas
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saying - What is this?
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You see, the other disciples
started where he started.
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But the Lord lifted them to a
spiritual plain, Judas never got
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there. The Lord elevated them
to a spiritual Kingdom to see
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things in a divine dimension,
but Judas never got off the
crass materialistic earthly
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level, he was the
epitome of a crass materialist.
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The other disciples had
worldliness - yes, and greed and
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selfishness, but it was
overcome by the love of Christ.
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And they began to love Him and
in their love for Him He lifted
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them to another level.
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Well, it never
happened in Judas' life.
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Greed and selfishness and
materialisú and worldliness
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conquered love.
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And the others were
lifted and he stayed.
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The others became uncorrupted
and he became more corrupted,
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more greedy.
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He had at the root of his
character a terrible, terrible
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passion and he never was
willing to relinquish it.
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In John chapter 12, we're coming
to the final events, moving to
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the cross, Judas is utterly
and totally disillusioned.
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The anticipation of anything
good coming had totally removed
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itself from him.
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There was nothing good left and
he no longer could contain his
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hypocrisy, he could no longer
mask the vile, filthy, wretched
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soul that was within him and so
in Bethany there was an incident
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that unmasked him.
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I don't think the disciples
really picked up on it.
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John 12:3
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She was just pouring out love,
just pouring out affection.
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She gave this very costly thing
to Jesus and it's something that
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was once used and
then forever gone.
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John 12: 4 - 5
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This is the first
time the man every speaks.
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He hated Jesus so deeply now
that he couldn't stand any
homage paid to Him.
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The hate had taken over.
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What started as attraction and
love and fascination had turned
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to hate. Because Jesus
didn't do what he expected.
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By the way, it may not have been
worth quite three hundred, that
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may have been his exaggeration
because of the greed of his
heart and in order to
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overstate his case for affect.
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If it was it was three hundred
denarii it would be nearly a
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year's wages worth of ointment.
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John 12:6
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Can you imagine
that kind of a guy?
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Here's a poor band of people
going around doing good and he
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was stealing out
of their resources.
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He had
absolutely no love for them.
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He was a materialist and he was
in life for one thing - what he
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could get out of it and
he got it any way he could.
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And if he wasn't going to get
the whole Kingdom, he was going
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to get a few bucks getting out.
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That's the
basic motive of Judas.
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And some people have tried
to ascribe to him a good motive,
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you cannot ascribe to Judas
a good motive anytime in anyway
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for two reasons. One, Jesus said
- One of you is a devil; Two,
before he betrayed Him
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Jesus said, "And
Satan entered into him."
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There was
nothing good about him.
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John 18, the next
time we see Judas.
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A few nights later Jesus
is in the garden, verse 2:
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Judas not only profaned the
Passover with blood money, he
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profaned the private place
of devotion for our dear Lord.
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He profaned friendship.
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He knew the place.
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Verses 3 & 4
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You see, Jesus knew that Judas
was going to come in and he was
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going to come up to Jesus
and he was going to kiss Him.
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Judas would kiss Him to put
Him at ease so He wouldn't think
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anything was up.
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Jesus knew all that.
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So you know what He did?
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He removed the
necessity for the kiss.
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He walked out and
said - "Whom seek ye?
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" And they said,
Jesus of Nazareth.
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And He said, "I am He.
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" Thus eliminating
the need for a kiss.
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But just to show you the pit of
blackness in the heart of Judas,
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he kissed Him anyway.
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The diabolical heart forced him
into that unnecessary kiss even
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though it was no longer a kiss
to point Him out, it was a kiss
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to fake his innocence a
supreme act of hypocrisy.
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Some lessons learned
from the life of Judas?
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Number one, Judas is the
world's greatest example of lost
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opportunity. No man ever, ever,
ever is a greater tragedy than
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that man. Twelve men in human
history have the privilege of
walking three years in
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the presence of the living
God incarnate and he missed it.
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The other eleven got it.
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Incredible.
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And there are people who will
sit in the presence of
Christians and thus in
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the presence of Christ, there
are fathers in families and
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mothers in families and people
in.... in churches who come and
go and live their life -
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around them are all these people
in whom dwells the living Christ
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and they lose that opportunity
and go into eternity without
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Him. But Judas is the worst.
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And those who continue to miss
the opportunity are in the line
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of Judas. He was content
to associate - nothing more.
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Secondly, he is the world's
greatest example of wasted
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privilege. He wanted money, he
wanted riches, he wanted
possessions, he could have
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possessed the universe forever
but he sold it for ten or twenty
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dollars. God offers you
and every soul the riches of
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eternity. What kind of a
stupid bargain are you making?
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By saying no to that to say yes
to some pittance that will burn
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in the end of this earth.
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Thirdly, Judas is the world's
greatest illustration of the
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love of money as
the root of evil.
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He loved money so much that
he actually sold the living God.
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That's how far
greed can take a man.
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He is a monument to the
destructiveness and the
damnation of greed.
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Fourthly, and this is turning
the corner, I believe Judas is
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the greatest lesson in the
history of the world of the
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forbearing patient love of God.
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Only God could have known what
He knew and tolerated that man's
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presence that long.
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That is the
patient forbearance of God.
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And then to have reached out in
affection to him and offer him
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the sop and even after
the kiss said to him -Friend.
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Incredible insight
into the patience of God.
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The Bible tells us that Christ
was perfected through suffering,
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that He became a
sympathetic high priest.
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Many men are betrayed, many
men are wounded in the house of
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their friends.
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People cut people up and all of
us have known the hurt and the
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pain of that kind of thing.
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And when we go to the Lord Jesus
and we say -You know, I've had
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this happen in my
life, do You understand?
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You can know for
certain He understands.
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One day i saw, a
potter and some clay,
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he molded it,fashioned
it, and caused it to obey,
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and soon he had, a
vessel he could use,
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it held his food it brought him
life, no water he would loose,
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but then i heard the
vessel slipped and fell,
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it's broken know, no one
know's how to put it back again,
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oh my life, was like,
that vessel made of clay,
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it fell apart and my
broken heart knew i'd always go
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astray... But Jesus
made my vessel over,
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Lord He made this vessel over,
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Jesus made my vessel over
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He made this
vessel over again....
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And now i know,
his spirit lives in me
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we're closer now
i don't know how,
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He saw what i could be,
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if you've seen my life
in pieces on the floor,
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I wept inside no place to hide,
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'till Jesus said ther's more...
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And He made my vessel over,
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Lord you made this vessel over,
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Lord you made my vessel over
00:23:30.50\00:23:37.73
You made this
vessel over again....
00:23:38.86\00:23:45.83
Jesus made my vessel over,
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Lord He made this vessel over,
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Jesus made my vessel over
00:24:02.56\00:24:09.90
Lord you made
this vessel over again.
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>>Bill: Let us pray.
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Father we thank for
this time together today.
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We have studied a sobering
message today and I pray that if
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anyone today has not accepted
Jesus fully that they will open
up their heart and receive
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Christ, ask His forgiveness
right now and invite Him to be
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their Lord and Savior.
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Bless each and every viewer
I pray in Jesus' name, Amen.
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>>Allen: What kind
of people can God use?
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Any kind!
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All we have to do is
make ourselves available.
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That means there is
hope for you and me.
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Pastor Bill has written a book
"All the King's men", it
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messages in this series, we
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