SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/28/2021 9:46 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
“Intro to Judas”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
Matthew 10:4b
Message of the
verse: “and Judas Iscariot, the one who
betrayed Him.”
It was on my walk yesterday that I listened to the hour
sermon that John MacArthur spoke about Judas. I have to say that I learned a lot of things
about Judas and it is my hope that as we go through the life of Judas that we
will all learn some of these very interesting things about him, things that
will include what his name means, about his call, about his character, about
his progressive rejection, his betrayal, his death, and then lessons learned
from the life of Judas will conclude our study of Judas which will conclude our
study of “The Master’s Men,” found in the early verses of Matthew chapter ten.
I have to say that this introduction to Judas will be a
very short SD, which fits into what I usually do on the weekends of having
shorter SD’s. I think that what I will
do, because of the shortness of this introduction to Judas that I will quote
from MacArthur’s commentary what he has written in his introduction to this man
whose name has not been named by many children by their parents since what
Judas now represents.
“Among the twelve apostles, one stands out against the
backdrop of the others as a lonely, tragic misfit, the epitome [essence] of
human disaster. He is the vilest, most
wicked man in Scripture. In the lists of
the apostles he is always named last and, with the exception of Acts 1:13, is
always identified as Jesus’ betrayer.
For two thousand years the name Judas Iscariot has been a byword for
treachery.
“Forty verses in the New Testament mention the betrayal
of Jesus, and each of them is a reminder of Judas’s incredible sin. After the description of his death and his
replacement among the twelve in Acts 1, his name is never again mentioned in
Scripture. In Dante’s Inferno Judas occupies the lowest level
of hell, which he shares with Lucifer, Satan himself.”
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: There are two
beings, one angelic, and one human who have had the most light given to any
about who God is and what Jesus would do in order to take care of sin, and the
one of course is Lucifer, and the other Judas Iscariot. The punishment of persons in hell is not all
the same as I believe it has to do with how much light was given to a person,
and with the rejection of that light the harsher the punishment and that is why
I totally agree with what Dante has written in his work “Inferno.” I am thankful for the
light that God has given to me, and it is my desire to share that light with
those who read the blogs that I write and those who are in my Sunday school
class that I teach. I desire to complete
the things that God has charged me to do from eternity past as Paul writes
about in Ephesians 2:10 “For we are His workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that
we would walk in them.”
My Steps of Faith for Today: It is my
desire to teach things from the book of Hebrews that I believe is clear, and
not forget the overall theme of Hebrews which is Jesus Christ is better than
anyone, to which by studying this book those who are in my class will
understand that Jesus Christ is who we are studying about and that because of
that that He will receive the glory.
8/28/2021 10:13
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