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Internet Church Service – December 26, 2021; We are living in one of the greatest periods in all human history.
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from - Romans 8:38-39
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Preparing yourself for the study of God’s Word
Before we begin, only if you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ (that is; you have believed [trusted] in Him for His promised gift of eternal life) John 3:16, John 6:47 as a few examples; it is very important to prepare yourself to learn God's Word so the Holy Spirit can teach you as to what your reading or hearing is true or false. To be taught by the Holy Spirit you must be filled with the Holy Spirit which means abiding in Christ. To place yourself in fellowship with God the Holy Spirit [also called abiding in the Christ], take a moment to simply name, cite or acknowledge [confess] your known unconfessed sins privately to God (i.e.; with your thoughts directed only to God the Father). Why? Because you cannot grow spiritually if you’re not abiding in Christ [in fellowship with Him] when you take in bible truth.
1 John 1:9, says: “If we confess [meaning to simply name, cite or acknowledge to God the Father] our sins [known unconfessed sins], He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins [known sins] and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness [all unknown and forgotten sins];” NKJV (New King James Version); we call this REBOUND; read the full doctrine as to “why” we need to use 1 John 1:9 to grow spiritually. Left click the following link to learn more and fully understand the doctrine of Rebound; which answers the question, why do I need to keep confessing my sins all the time? REBOUND
If you have never personally believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior (that is, believed in Him for eternal life), the issue for you is not to name your sins to God; the issue for you is to believe by faith alone in Jesus, The Christ alone for eternal life [salvation] and you will be saved [receive Eternal Life] the very micro second you believe in Him:
John 6:47 says: “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life.” NKJV
Notice again what John 6:47 says, “he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life.” It doesn’t say, “will have”; it says, “has.” Therefore, the very moment you believe Jesus Christ’s promise of everlasting life, you have it (it’s really just that simple), and it can never be lost or taken away from you (John 10:28-29). Furthermore, the gift of everlasting life (also called eternal life in scripture) is available to every human being; there are absolutely no exceptions.
John 3:14-18 says: “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness [Num 21:4-9], even so must the Son of Man be lifted up [the cross], that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” NKJV
Let us now bow our hearts and take a moment to prepare for learning God’s Word, if there is any known sin in your life, this is the time to just cite it privately to God the Father with your thoughts directed towards Him. With your head bowed and your eyes closed, you have total privacy in your mind and soul:
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Internet Church Service – December 26, 2021; We are living in one of the greatest periods in all human history.
So, to begin, we are living in one of the greatest periods in all human history, which I personally believe is the last generation before the Rapture and the Second Advent or Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Our Lord’s final words to His disciples the night before His death is given to us as He was getting ready to initiate them into the secret of mystery doctrine.
Let me show you why I called this particular passage a doctrinal gem; Jn 13:12 And so when He had washed their feet [rebound] and taken His garments [His resurrection], and reclined again [His session], He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you?
The Great “I am” is our teacher and our Lord.
The word for eat is the pres-act-part of verb trogon which means that the traitor keeps on crunching his food, to munch on food, to gnaw, or to bite and devour, both naturally and spiritually.
“has lifted up his heel against me” is an idiom meaning to try and over-throw or discredit one’s authority, to seek one’s destruction, or to reject their authority.
Judas Iscariot was known as the traitor by his last name because there are at least seven other men in the Bible who went by the first name Judas, but they were not known as the betrayer or traitor.
(a) Judas Iscariot, the betrayer of Jesus and one of the twelve apostles (Mat 10:4);
(b) Judas the son of James, and one of the twelve; (Luk 6:16).
(c) Judas, a brother of Jesus (Mat 13:55);
(d) Judas, Paul’s host in Damascus (Acts 9:11).
(e) Judas, called Barsabbas, a leading Christian in Jerusalem and a companion of Paul (Acts 15:22).
Judas Iscariot pretended to love the Lord but his desire for approbation and recognition power and authority is about to be brought to the surface.
Now, Luk 6:16 says Judas “became a traitor,” denoting a double-crosser, or betrayer.
As terrible as the word “traitor” is, that title pales into insignificance compared to this one. To be the “son of perdition” denotes that Judas is a man identified with eternal destruction, or whose destiny is the Lake of Fire.
Furthermore, in Acts 1:25, it says that Judas went “to his own place,” the thought being the place of his own choosing; to occupy this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.
Accordingly, it is not that Judas was foreordained from eternity past to go to hell, without opportunity to be saved.
(1) He experienced the privilege of selection into the unique circle of the “12,” becoming an apostle.
(2) Judas also observed great crowds flocking to our Lord Jesus Christ as He was becoming more and more popular every day.
(3) Judas saw Christ’s own family thinking Him crazy. And therefore, they called this same type of principle something like we would call today an intervention, that’s what our Lord’s family thought about the Lord.
(4) He observed that Jesus had extraordinary charisma and attracted large crowds, which meant potential political power, influence, and wealth and Judas wanted in on the action.
We might have supposed that Matthew would handle the money needed to sustain the Lord’s ministry because he had been a tax collector and well acquainted with money matters.
Judas, however, was the treasurer of the Lord’s group of apostles indicating that he was no imbecile; (Jn 12:5-6; Jn 13:29.
Judas knew the ins-and-outs of collecting, managing, and spending money better than the others did, including Matthew, who was a Tax Collector for the Romans to the Jews for the Jews and for the Romans before he was a follower or disciple of our Lord.
Now, Mary anointed our Lord’s feet with expensive “oil of spikenard,” “wiping His feet with her hair” (Jn 12:3).
Character trait #1: Judas did not care about the poor. He was a hard-hearted man, too concerned with feathering his own nest while others, less fortunate, suffered around him.
Character trait #2: He was a thief, pilfering funds from the Lord’s money box, which exposes that Judas was full of avarice, or greed.
(1) Judas Iscariot, the betrayer of Jesus and one of the twelve apostles (Mat 10:4),
(2) Judas the son of James, and one of the twelve apostles (Luk 6:16).
(3) Judas, a brother of Jesus (Mat 13:55).
(4) Judas, Paul’s host in Damascus (Acts 9:11).
(5) Judas, called Barsabbas, a leading Christian in Jerusalem and a companion of Paul (Acts 15:22).
Now, our Lord is telling them that there is a traitor in their midst and that he is about to betray Him.
First Principle: Judas was not a traitor according to the Word of God, Judas became a traitor because the verb that is mentioned is known as the Aorist-middle-indicative of the Greek verb ginomai which means to become something that one was not before.
As Luk 6:16 says Judas {the son} of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.
We also know that because when our Lord was around adult believers, or Pharisees, Sadducees and scribes, and all of them were astonished by His knowledge and spiritual strength; Luk 2:40-52.
And by the way, this is not to say our Lord was not strong physically, because it took a lot of human strength to endure the beatings, the punches whip, the forced crown upon His head.
Now, all these principles apply to betrayers and traitors who make a living by manipulation, lies, broken vows; broken promises; etc.
However, in spite of all the dishonesty that goes on and on today in all realms of Life, it doesn’t really matter if you love our Lord, because if you love the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, there is divine blessing waiting just for you.
Perhaps Judas just wanted to shake things up a little and force our Lord to change His views by coming against Him with the vigilante mob.
Perhaps Judas thought that TLJC [The Lord Jesus Christ] would just be stopped and jailed for a time, or publicly humiliated somehow – until He (Lord) could get His act together.
Perhaps Judas simply didn’t think it through.
A lot of people never think of things through, until it’s too late!
What we “DO” know is that something snapped inside of Judas.
“We don’t care, that’s your problem!” comes their reply to Judas, the Traitor.
In Acts 1:15-20, The physical body of Judas would end up dangling from a hangman’s noose off a tree and then it falls in a potter’s field.
Acts 1, describes some of the details of the messy end to the tragic life of Judas Iscariot.
What went so wrong, Judas?
Why did it have to end like this, Judas?
Remember what TLJC had said months before Judas?
”Judas, you were there when the Lord said Mat 11:28 “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
Such as to the woman caught in adultery in Jn 8:11 “Neither do I condemn you; go your way.
Don’t you remember, when TLJC said in Mr 2:5…” My son, your sins are forgiven.”
I hope that you are learning something this evening such as the principle that “You can sit in Bible class for years and end up like a Judas, not necessarily an unbeliever in the eternal lake of fire, but a loser believer in time and in the eternal state; 1Co 3:11-15.
Instead of singing with songs of peace and joy. Judas experienced regret and sorrow.
We sang, clapping our hands while Judas was wringing his; and tied a knot, when he hung himself in his suicide.
Here it is: 2Pe 3:18; Joh 8:32; Gal 4:16; Psa 31:5; Rom 4:7-8.
Think about it for a moment, during the next 24 hours in the passage we are noting, that there will be Two Trees outside of Jerusalem, a Tree of life and a Tree of death.
On the tree of life is the Lord Jesus Christ hanging on the wooden cross or the wooden beam as He hung upon to pay the price of eternal salvation for the sins of the world.
Punishment is passed off.
Forgiveness is found.
Real, new hope, is given.
On the other tree, however, dangles the body of a man who carried his heavy load himself, and found no rest = Judas Iscariot.
And so, he found himself in a spiritual desert or spiritual wilderness with no forgiveness.
After Judas sold Christ out, he tried to repent by throwing the silver 30 pieces on the floor of the Temple, only to hear the words of the religious leaders who said; “We don’t care.
We don’t want your money, it’s filthy and that is your problem says the religious self-righteous prigs known as Pharisees, scribes, and Sadducees.
Judas could see no way out of the swamp and pit he dug for himself created by his own shallow, foolish pride.
In his sin, he realized his wrong.
He also admitted it openly.
He tried to put it behind him.
But the ONE item he missed was deadly.
He tried to sort it all out himself.
He figured that if he screwed up, like his religious leaders had told him, he’d have to make it right.
And, if he couldn’t make it right…… there was no right to be had.
So, Judas accepted the condemnation which the religious leaders offered him and rejected the grace which the Lord offered him.
The chains of guilt dragged him to his grave.
That is a tragedy far worse than betraying your master.
For that betrayal was sin.
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The following link is to a good-news message describing how one can receive eternal life:
Ticket to Heaven, it was written for anyone not absolutely certain about of their eternal future.
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