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I speak not of you all. I know who might have chosen.
But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me, has lifted up his heel against me. Now I tell you before come, that when this come to pass, you may believe that I am He, Verily, verily, I say unto you, He the receivers, whomsoever I send receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit.
And testified and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you.
He I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me. Then the disciples looked one or another, doubting of whom he spake. Now there is leaning on Jesus bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved. Simon Peter, therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake. He then lying on Jesus breast, saith unto him.
Lord, who is it? Jesus answered He. It is to whom I shall give us all, when I have dipped it. When he dipped us off, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
Now after the saw Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest do quickly. Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this unto him.
For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag that Jesus had said unto him by those things that we have need of against the peace, or that he should give something to the poor.
He then having received the soft when immediately out and it was.
Night therefore when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him, if God be glorified in him.
God's also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.
Little children get a little while. I am with you. You shall seek me.
And as I said, under the Jews, whither I go, ye cannot come. So now I say to you.
And you commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples if you have love one to another.
Simon Peter says unto him, Lord.
Whither goeth style? Jesus answered him. Whither I go, Thou canst not follow me now.
But thou shalt follow me afterwards, Peter said unto him, Lord, why counter life all of thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake, Jesus answered him.
Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake?
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The **** shall not crow, kill. Thou hast denied me thrice one more verse.
Let not your heart be troubled you. believe in God, Believe also in me.
The Lord didn't make any mistakes. He knew who he had chosen you from the start.
But with all accomplishing the eternal counsels of God.
And we see this worked out before us here. God's eternal purposes cannot be turned aside. All worked out.
Purposes we find in Scripture concerning the exaltation of Christ overall.
And purposes of two of maximus love and grace, and blessing toward us.
Interesting. First an interesting verse in chapter 6 of John.
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Might read it.
John Chapter 6.
Verse 70.
Jesus answered them.
Have not I chosen you? 12 and one of you is a devil?
That's quite interesting, isn't it? Have not I chosen you 12 and one of you is a devil?
He spoke of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, for it was he that should betray him, being one of the 12.
That has often impressed my soul that the Lord Jesus chose.
Judas.
And he chose him, knowing his character when I was a kid.
I like to play baseball very much.
And sometimes I get into a group and.
They would line us up to choose sides.
I being always overweight and little.
Was usually the last one chosen because they didn't really want me on their team.
And.
Finally, when we got down to the end of everybody, why they would accept me, but I wasn't often chosen on a team.
But I admire the Lord Jesus Christ for so many things he has.
Admirable in all his ways and all his words, and brother and I have often admired.
The Lord Jesus in this very concept that he.
He willingly or he knowingly and willingly chose Judas.
To be one of his disciples, knowing full well that Judas was a counterfeit. But what impresses my soul is this.
That the Lord Jesus did so to fulfill the word of God, and that impresses me greatly, that although Judas was a constant problem to him, he stole the money and he was a constant problem to the Lord, I'm sure in many other ways yet the Lord Jesus in his submission to the will of his Father.
Would even have on his team and among his disciples of this counterfeit disciple. But he did so in loving obedience to His Father's will, so that the scriptures should be fulfilled, because it says so in the word of God that such should be the case. Well, that has often really impressed my soul that the Lord Jesus often did things to please his Father and fulfill the Scriptures that.
Became a problem to him and made his work more difficult. Isn't that another admirable trait of our Blessed Lord?
Look at here next chapter of Luke.
Answer what you said there, I believe rather on Luke 6.
And verse 12 and 13.
And it came to pass in those days that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. And when it was day he called unto him his disciples, and of whom he chose 12 whom also we named apostles.
Well, without reading all the names now the end of the 16th verse and Judas Iscariot was also was the traitor. I've always.
Admired that wonderful scripture of the Lord Jesus. It took me all night.
And we read in our chapter here that in verse 20.
Verse 21 When Jesus had thus said he was troubled in spirit, I'm sure he thought back of that night and remember that he received these orders from his Father to choose the 12 of which was Judas carrier.
It was not a light matter for the Lord at all, was it?
But I suggest to the troubling in spirit.
Might have been that there was a lost soul going down to a lost eternity.
He was not the death of a Sinner. He could see Judas going down to that lost eternity, and he did everything to warn him and turn him aside, even to giving him a sock, that mark of affection.
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No, he went on.
Like to think too in connection with all the disciples were there.
One disciple was laying on the Lord's bosom, now anyone of them.
But perfectly free to ask the Lord who was it?
But no Peter Beckinson, John's asked that question.
He seemed to sense that John was in the current of the Lord's thoughts.
He was leaning on his bosom, He was close to him. And John very simply says Lord who is it? No question in his own heart that he was the one. But they wanted to know Lord who is oh that we might know something of what it is to lean on. Jesus wasn't it wasn't that the Lord loved John any more than any of the other disciples, but John was conscious of that love.
No. May we be conscious?
Of the love that he has toward us, that the world may know as the Father has loved me, I'm sorry, Turn to John, 17.
Verse 23 The middle of the verse that the world may know that thou has sent me.
And hath loved them as thou hast loved me.
Again in John 15 as the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you.
Oh, of something of that love could be grasped, a love that the Father has toward us.
John was leaning on his bosom, conscious of the love the Savior had toward him.
You think, Brother judge, that that's why Peter didn't run as fast as John at the end of the book, when the message came that the sepulchre was opened and Jesus had been risen, the two of them run.
That says.
That the other disciple that outrun Peter I was had a little bit of a feeling that no scripture to confirm it, but when we're close to the Lord, we have spiritual energy.
I wonder if Peter might have run a little quicker.
Had another scene taken place first, the two on the way to Emmaus when they returned to Jerusalem following them, saying the Lord is risen indeed.
And have appeared unto Simon.
Ohio Everything there was out between the Lord and Peter.
Well, it's good to have everything out between ourselves and the Lord. Nothing hidden, nothing. Tomorrow, the communion.
But maybe that made Peter's feet lag a little. But when Peter got to the suffer curve.
I don't know whether he felt he was defiled already, but regardless, he went into the sepulchre and then John called him.
To the Jew that was depiling, although that was a sepulchre that was not depiled.
I was asked a question a while back. How do we know that this is John.
That is being referred to constantly the disciples whom Jesus loved.
Modestly. John doesn't mention his name, but I think the key.
They want to take time, but look at the end of the gospel.
And I think it's there.
John 21.
Peter and John, apparently. John.
Is being referred to.
Verse 20 Then Peter turning about seeing the disciple whom Jesus loved following five times, it mentions that which also leaned on his breast at supper and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee? Peter, seeing him, saith to Jesus, Lord. And what shall this man do? So it still doesn't identify this disciple. And then verse 24.
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This is the disciple which testifies of these.
Things. That makes it plain that John was the writer of the book and wrote these things, and we know that his testimony is true. So I believe that that indicates that it was junk.
I think it's very beautiful in verse chapter 13.
John who's not, who doesn't name himself, just as the disciple whom Jesus loved, He says Lord, who is it? The others? If you read it in the other gospels, they say it is a. Is it I? John never said, is it I?
He was close enough to the Lord to know it, wasn't he? He just says, Lord, who is it?
We want to be that close, don't we?
But don't you think throughout, for instance, in Luke 18, the Lord spelled out in great detail what was going to happen, but we go to Jerusalem and that he was going to be spitefully and treated and spitted upon and he would die and the third day rose again. And then it says neither understood the disciples. The words that He spoke. They didn't have that discernment, but we have a little bit of a tendency to.
Think. Oh my, isn't that very?
Bad for those disciples, but what about us? With the indwelling Holy Spirit that we've been hearing about today and the scriptures and the teachings that we have, are we walking up to the truth that we know we're going to have discernment if we do. We're going to lose our discernment if we don't. Luke 818 says take heed how ye hear.
To him that hath shall more be given than he that hath not. From him shall be taken even at which he seemeth to have. They might seem to have the truth, and we're going from these meetings with hearts filled with Thanksgiving, But we need beloved ones to walk in the truth that we have heard, And then we're going to learn more. But if we don't, if we drift back into the world again, we're going to be as undiscerning as these disciples were.
Like to make a comment on verse 19.
As I tell you before it comes, but when it has come to pass, you may believe that I am noticed that the he is in italics. So what he's really saying he knew that they would be discouraged seeing him being betrayed that danger would be there. And so he says I'm going to tell you ahead of time what's going to happen so that you'll know that I'm the I am, it's the great I am in Old Testament and the very betrayal of the Lord was a proof of who he was.
You know almost every subject that the Lord Jesus is speaking in the Gospel of John. He's the AMI and the bread of life.
I am the light of this world. I am the Good Shepherd. I am the Way. I the truth. I am the way, the truth and the life. I am the resurrection and the life. Seven time at least mentions that verse, and this one here too, marvelous. And in the gospel of Ajana and the ministry of the apostle John, we have a continuing birth before us, the love of the Father and the love of the Lord. Jesus. Marvelous. Wonderful.
You could say, if you believe not that I am, he shall die in your sins.
John's Gospel.
All hinges. That's why I often talking to unsaved people. I don't ask them. They believe the Bible you get, oh percentage or so on and you ask partly and so on. But it's kind of a nebulous point. It doesn't prove anything. But if you say, do you believe that Jesus Christ is the divine Son of God? Yes, no, Yes or no? There's no degree we either believe.
Or we don't believe.
Interesting to see too that this sock was given to Judas. This shop was kind of like a little special gift that was given to the honored guests at the table at the Passover. And the Lord very clearly wanted to mark out who this was in front of the other disciples and also to the disciple himself. And so he takes this piece of bread and dips it in the vinegar and he hands it to Judas.
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Iscariot and notice it, says Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
Many other places it just says Judas Iscariot and it's just like this is an emboldened type. He uses his full complete name. In other words it's like a conviction almost. This is the man Judas Iscariot son of Simon and this special gift was given to him. And then notice in verse 27 it says after the sot Satan entered into him. I believe that the Lord spoke to Judas Iscariot in a very marked and loving way.
And I believe that the devil was very closely associated with this, watching over engineering, this betrayal. But it's just like the devil knew that that the Lord was speaking to him, knew that there was a heart within Judas that could respond to that. And so the devil moves in and says, I'm going to take over this job personally. We don't find that in scripture very often, do we, brethren? Maybe the the man of sin in the end that is going to rule the world.
That man is possessed by the devil. But normally when we read about possession in the Bible, the King James uses the word devil, but it's really demon possession. That is, it's Satan. It's those fallen angels under Satan. But this time Satan takes over the job. He doesn't want to trust it to anyone else, and it is hatred for the person of the Lord Jesus Christ comes out in a marked way here, as if to say I am going to make sure that he goes through with this. You see the last thing.
That Jesus gave to Judas Iscariot was a special, honored present, and the last thing that Judas was going to give to Jesus was a kiss of betrayal that would mark his death on a cross.
These are the very all morning here for any that do not know the Lord.
Judas.
He then, having received the soft when immediately out, and it was night, he went out from the presence of the Lord.
Was night. Now I wonder if there is one here.
That still does not accepted Christ as Saviors. You're going to go out into the night. I want to read 2 verses from Isaiah, Isaiah 21.
And verse 11, the burden of humor he called to me out of Seer.
Watchmen, one of the night Watchmen, War of the night, the watchman said. The morning cometh, and also the night.
And the Lord you and I that know Christ as Savior are going to pass out of this night into the morning, but for those that do not know Christ the Savior.
You're going out into the night to pass into eternal night.
Another verse in Isaiah, better in the Mr. Darby's translation, Isaiah 8 and verse 20.
To the law and to the testimony. If they speak not according to this word, it is for them. There is no Daybreak.
They speak out according to this word. For them, there is no Daybreak all. We're in this world's night.
And if you do not know Christ as your Savior, there's no Daybreak for you. You pass into eternal night.
They think we could say brother judge, all the believers are facing.
The East and all the unbelievers are facing the West.
Because this is man's day, and they're looking toward the sunset, and the sun will never rise again for them. But on the other hand, this is our night and this is the day. At least this is the time when we are in daily expectation of that morning star. He has already risen in our hearts, But we're looking for the morning star. And then seven years later, the Son of Righteousness shall rise.
In the day of his affair.
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Just one little thing I want to say, especially to the young people, is the fact that you're going to meet people that they say to you that there is no such a thing as eternal security. They say that is not true and they take Judas Iscariot as an example. He said that he was a believer and he was lost, but it's not so because the Bible was very plain as they brought us. Already read that he said I have chosen.
12 of you And one of you is a devil. That means that you will never save, never save. Thank God that when we do really believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to be our eternally secure, blessed be His name, not because of what we do, but they are merit, but because the infinite value of the precious blood of the Lord Jesus as Savior says sometimes, many times you have said in this confidence, and we are saved forever, We belong to Him forever.
Just one bus will be enough to convince everybody here this afternoon. John, Chapter 6 and verse 47. Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me.
Oh, I lay hold of that tense. And that verse here had everlasting life. Praise the Lord, that is forever.
It is especially solemn note because we look back at Judas's history. He no doubt was one who went out and preached the gospel. They went out two by two.
He perhaps cast out demons in the name of the Lord Jesus.
He was the treasure. He kept the bag. And even when the Lord says it's the one I give a stop to, when that soft is handed to Judas, the disciples refused to believe.
The Judas could possibly be the one who was going to enjoy. His reputation was such that they thought that he went out to to give money to the poor. And we see those pious words when the woman came in with the alabaster box of ointment and anointed the Lord Jesus. He could say, well this could have been given to the poor. It sounded very spiritual and religious. And so it is a solemn warning when we think about it, that there could be someone here even this afternoon in our midst who could be involved in in all of these things and.
Be at all the meetings. Maybe preach the gospel. And yet.
Really be like Judas and apostate. I'll just say that to exercise our hearts, that brother. And are we real? Do we really know the person of the Lord Jesus Christ? It's an interesting thing about the alabaster box and the first is quoted here that is fulfilled in the 41St Psalm. It starts out blessed is he that considereth the poor. And of course this was a place where the man was stealing from the rocks did have hypocrisy.
And there are steps in a failure of a person leading to apostasy is hardening of the heart, getting into moral difficulties such as cheating of one kind or another, and then finally departure from the living God and I I'm just struck by how much there is about Judas in the scriptures.
Well, you get in Zechariah 11 in connection with They Priced me First already has been mentioned about how Satan entered into it. You get that in 109th Psalm.
Said a wicked man over him. I'm not just exactly sure what that means, but Satan, I suppose it was to be Satan. Then Satan was to be at his right hand, and it goes on and on to express what a heinous thing it was for for a person to be this close to the Lord.
And to reject the, the one who was going to usher in blessing, he wanted to bring in in blessing and had brought in blessing and he wanted to continue to, to bless his people. So you get that and of course you get some remarkable things in the 69th Psalm about Judas, the 56 Psalm. There's quite a bit about Judas in that as well as I previously mentioned the 41St and then there's a little bit also in the 35th Psalm.
And there may be many others, There may be many others. And of course he's quite prominent in all the gods. This man that acted as a betrayal and as has already been suggested, is is a type of the coming man of sin.
I thought we might look at that portion in John's Gospel that was the first to charge his gala past him as John's Gospel, chapter 12, because of the hands of the Lord Jesus to do the Spirit.
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And I just want to face again that God and first step.
Then, said Jesus, let her alone.
Against the day of my career.
That is reviewed.
How to learn scriptures about preciousness of fever?
And in that very chapter ASA I was thinking of verses 4:00 and 5:00. Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him. Why was not this ointment sold for 300 pence and given to the poor? This he said not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, had the bag and Berwick was put there in. But here this woman had poured out this precious ointment because she valued the Lord Jesus here was one of his disciples didn't value him at all, did he? I mean, that's indicative that that precedes his betrayal in the 13th chapter.
Here was one that that didn't put the value on the Blessed Lord that he is worthy of, and he promptly betrays him for 110th of that.
Just one more word I want to say about Judas Iscariot and the people. Sometimes they answer me, they say, well then you can go out and do as you please. You can sin because you save forever. Well, the answer that I give to them is I make the difference. A real Christian is a God forbid that I should do that.
Is he so, brother?
Wonder if there's a special significance here. After the thought Satan entered into it.
Going back?
To when Cain Through Abel.
I believe that Satan energized pain to slay Abel to destroy the Promised Seed.
There ordered all the baby boys to be cast into the river to destroy the promised seed.
And we find Alpha Lion destroying all the seed royal. But God preserved the promised speed. We find Haman seeking to destroy all the Jews who destroyed our promised seed. We find Herod.
Destroying all the babies in Bethlehem from 2 years old and under to destroy that promised seed. And now here is the promised seed. There must be no mistake. Satan himself entered into Judas to see that everything is carried out and that promised seed is nailed to that cross of Calvary and there in the counsels of God.
Satan Matthew's greatest defeat.
God brought in resurrection, brought in salvation through the death of Christ, and brought in resurrect.
In verse thirty of our chapter verse 30, it says about Judas he having received the SOP.
Went immediately out. I think we ought to notice carefully it says He went immediately out and it was night.
My understanding is that this is the close of the Passover supper and happened just prior to the Lord Jesus instituting the.
Remembrance of the Lord that we know. So it appears to me to be quite clear that.
Judas was not present but when the Lord Jesus established what we call the Lord's Supper and which we participate in on the Lord's Day. But now, because our time is almost over, I would like to encourage our brethren to help us understand verses 31 and 32. It appears to me that there are some very precious thoughts that we should get out of verses 31 and 32.
I'll read them therefore when he was gone out. That's Judas Jesus said Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself.
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And shall straightway glorify him. It seems to me that those verses are rich with.
Precious truth for us and I would like to encourage our brethren to help us understand these two verses.
I would just like to make one point.
And that is this that these two verses seem to indicate a contrast with 17 and four where the Lord Jesus is talking to his Father, Father, and he's speaking there about his life. Here it is God and it is his death.
And I think it's Mr. Darby that points out that in the life of the Lord Jesus he glorified his Father 17 and four to live for the glory of the Father, his perfect life, the end of it. He laid himself on the altar, but in his death he glorifies God, that is giving himself spirit, soul, and body to God.
In a footnote, Mr. Darby gives he has this in the past tense.
When therefore, he was gone out, Jesus says now has the Son of Man been glorified?
God has been glorified in him. If God has been glorified in him, God also shall glorify him in himself, and shall glorify him immediately.
John's Gospel is timeless, isn't it? It's all there's not. It's not sequential, It's not in sequence, but it is there as an accomplished fact. For instance, we've been reading in the 13th chapter.
But the 4th, at least the 12Th chapter speaks of.
That which is going to be accomplished in the 13th chapter, and it has been written yet or taken place, so that it's all now I finished the work which thou gave us me to do the work, and he's speaking and it says.
Is that. It's just as if John has no beginning, no ending. It's all forsaken and he's glorified. So I take it that I was 13.
13 and 14 are referring to that.
Which the Father, or at least God, has received from the death of his Son.
The Son of man glorified.
That brings before us the perfection of His obedience.
You might say his obedience was crowned at the cross, because there he accomplished the will of God.
In the face of divine wrath against sin.
Something that was never true of him during his life. He was always under the unclouded joy of God his Father, but at the cross.
The Son of Man completed that obedience by continuing as the obedient, 1 even in the face of divine wrath. So he accomplished the will of God when everything was against him.
Even God himself as to nature judging sin.
We can't fathom what that meant to him when we think of God. It's his nature, God and his nature, God in his essential being.
Has been glorified as to the question of sin. The Son of man is glorified in God, God, and all that he is, and his essential being in his nature.
Not just the Father now, but God in His very nature has been glorified as to the question of sin.
But man's glory is obedience. Man's glory is obedience. The Son of Man was glorified in perfect obedience, and obedient unto death, even the death of the problems. Obedience, when when it was nothing but wrath and darkness and judgment.
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He accomplished the will of God in the face of divine wrath.
That wasn't true of his life. This was something new, something unique, something that culminated and perfected his obedience. Now as the Son of man glorified. And during that time, those three hours of darkness, God was glorified in him. The whole question of good and evil was gone into and settled for the glory of God, and that immediately he says, And if God be glorified in him?
God shall also glorify him and himself. That's the answer.
God glorified him, gave him the highest place in heaven, because he was so infinitely glorified by the perfection of the obedience of the Son man on the cross.
Go back to Leviticus 16, we find the Day of Atonement.
And in that chapter, error and error alone carries out everything. There should be no man in the Tabernacle when he goes in to make atonement. And so here we find the Lord Jesus Christ must now go through this alone.
Alone he bare the cross. Alone his grief sustained his was the shame and loss, and he the victory game. The mighty work was all his own, though we shall share his glorious throat. This was something that no one could have.
Anything to do with accepting Christ himself, He and Hilo.
Could accomplish the work of redemption.
We.
We share in the spoils David Single Handed Slugger Life, The Children of Israel, Reap the spoil.
I was just thinking of the four coverings of the Tabernacle.
One of them only is never seen.
The other three, the outside one, could be seen from the outside badger skins.
The next one was the.
Goat's hair. The next one, or at least the inside one, was the linen with the blue, purple, and scarlet, which could be seen from the inside when the priest looked up. But there were and it gives dimensions for the first two, and it was in strips. And it takes 7 verses to describe the first one, that which brings before us the glories of Christ.
It wasn't long enough to be soiled. It was 1 cubit short on either side as it came down the side so it wasn't soiled. The glories of Christ were never soiled by contact with the earth, but the third one only takes a half a verse to describe and that is the ram skins dyed red. No measurement, no strips.
Never seen.
By the people or the priests only seen by the eye of God, his eternal glory, indivisible, and never in all eternity will we be able to see in all its, in all its fullness, what the Father sees in the glory that the sun has rendered to His Father. This is divine. It's beyond us, but we.
Revel in it to a degree today.
Should we sing hymn #80?