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Jesus spent his time teaching in the temple courts, 00:01:34.480 |
and I describe it as he's shooting arrows at the leaders, 00:01:42.080 |
their complacency, their leading Israel astray. 00:01:44.640 |
And subsequently, they begin ramping up this hatred 00:01:53.520 |
So we come to today, our passages in Mark chapter 14, 00:02:11.020 |
went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them. 00:02:16.200 |
they were glad and promised to give him money. 00:02:23.440 |
The parallel passage is in Matthew chapter 26, 00:02:28.200 |
Then one of the 12, whose name was Judas Iscariot, 00:02:35.880 |
"What will you give me if I deliver him over to you?" 00:02:50.920 |
when it says, "And when they heard it, they were glad." 00:03:04.220 |
And this kind of softball comes right in front of them, 00:03:08.880 |
and they are ecstatic that this disciple of Jesus 00:03:13.360 |
would come to them and give them an opportunity 00:03:17.080 |
to capture Jesus and to ultimately arrest him. 00:03:37.220 |
But in terms of specifics of how they strategized, 00:03:41.440 |
how they thought out this plan to betray Jesus, 00:03:46.440 |
all we get later on is that Judas gives them a sign 00:03:54.160 |
And like I said, there's an air of excitement 00:03:58.480 |
that I can imagine that these leaders are pumped up. 00:04:06.720 |
And we don't often think too deeply about Judas 00:04:16.160 |
when we get to really reflect on what the betrayal meant 00:04:22.180 |
I had a couple questions while reviewing this. 00:04:33.720 |
was kind of the things that I was thinking about. 00:04:41.440 |
He was with Jesus for over three and a half years, 00:04:50.200 |
He was involved in the thick of things in ministry. 00:05:00.760 |
And I was thinking of that kind of relationship 00:05:17.720 |
Some of you have been out to short-term missions. 00:05:31.680 |
And it's a short-term picture of my experiences 00:05:47.000 |
as Jesus and his disciples are going through the ministry. 00:05:53.580 |
This is, they lived, ate and breathed this stuff. 00:05:57.140 |
And we can assume that the life of the 12 was like that. 00:06:07.880 |
we can figure that Judas began to harden his heart. 00:06:23.680 |
hey, that money could have been spent somewhere else. 00:06:27.700 |
So we get a little taste of his selfishness, his concerns. 00:06:44.180 |
And it says, if you do well, will you not be accepted? 00:06:49.180 |
And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. 00:06:52.820 |
Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it. 00:06:56.820 |
So I wondered, how did Judas get to the point 00:07:04.300 |
that he would sin in this way and be so treacherous? 00:07:11.720 |
I don't think most of us kind of can necessarily relate 00:07:20.180 |
But what I've been kind of reflecting on about this week, 00:07:57.820 |
You know, I don't necessarily betray Jesus like Judas did. 00:08:07.460 |
It's easy to disassociate ourselves from that event, 00:08:21.900 |
You know, if we don't understand the betrayal aspect 00:08:46.500 |
washed his feet, poured himself out to his disciples, 00:08:55.300 |
He was by his teaching, by enacting miracles. 00:09:09.380 |
betrayed him to the people who wanted to kill him. 00:09:15.260 |
And I wanna try to encourage you to reflect on this today. 00:09:23.180 |
You know, ask that question, how am I like Judas? 00:09:27.580 |
Like I said, this is what I've been reflecting on this week. 00:09:32.860 |
And I've been very scatterbrained in my mind, 00:09:42.820 |
And it's really caused me to realize I'm pretty vile. 00:10:09.060 |
I work in computers and criminal investigations. 00:10:14.060 |
And what that includes is I look at people's computers. 00:10:21.820 |
what they downloaded, what is stored on their computer. 00:10:36.800 |
So I'm gonna share a hypothetical situation with you. 00:10:41.940 |
So imagine, this may be something I experienced. 00:10:48.580 |
Imagine you come across a video on someone's computer. 00:10:53.580 |
You see a little girl, she's maybe first or second grade. 00:11:51.640 |
I was pretty, well, hypothetically I was pretty angry. 00:12:33.180 |
And we don't experience this on a day-to-day basis 00:12:37.080 |
in terms of thinking about how bad our sin is. 00:13:05.660 |
If we lack an understanding of these dark sins 00:13:10.780 |
that are terrible, are an indication of our corruptness, 00:13:15.780 |
we lack an understanding of where we stand before our God. 00:13:20.860 |
So, you know, and foolish man tries to justify everything. 00:13:30.120 |
and if we lack an understanding of how holy God is 00:13:32.820 |
and how bad we are, we ultimately cheapen what it costs. 00:13:49.280 |
But God sees our sin and seethes with wrath and anger. 00:14:08.100 |
that we justify, that we don't really ponder. 00:14:11.760 |
And we don't necessarily ponder how high God is. 00:14:19.100 |
and the pastor said something that kind of stuck with me. 00:14:23.700 |
God would be gracious even if he sent us to hell 00:14:38.920 |
And if we just stayed there a thousand years, 00:14:43.420 |
that he would punish sin for eternity because it's so bad. 00:15:18.220 |
because the Father chose to send all that anger 00:15:23.860 |
It's really, when you really start pondering the gospel, 00:16:01.220 |
God's anger meant punishment that he needs to accept. 00:16:05.720 |
So I just wanna encourage you to think about our sin. 00:16:14.220 |
And get to a place where you understand how lowly and vile 00:16:19.220 |
and corrupt our sin is compared to how holy God is. 00:16:27.300 |
and we will understand just what kind of cost it was 00:16:32.860 |
And I really thought this song, just glorious days, 00:16:46.800 |
And it really reminded me like how black is sin. 00:17:01.640 |
However, when we reflect on how do we take this personally, 00:17:05.360 |
I wanna encourage you, just think your sinfulness 00:17:11.080 |
and our sinfulness and how that will lead us to Friday