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By Gloria Pierre Dean
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Did they know that he was a thief when they made him the banker for the group? They gave him the money bag to look after.
He often found the Master looking at him with that look and wondered if he knew what was really in his heart. However, whenever Judas could, he stole.
He justified his acts; he felt that he was compelled to do it and never repented. He was fascinated by the Master; he was so good - he healed sick people and cast out demons and fed the hungry. He even befriended prostitutes. He did not leave the outcasts out. He showed love. Love In action!
Judas was preoccupied with money and the cost of things. That perfume that Mary washed the master’s feet with, was worth a lot of money, so what a waste!
John 12:3-6
“Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected, “Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.”
“He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to what was put into it.”
Unlike the other eleven, he was false and pretended to care about the poor. His thievery opened the door to Satan who did enter him;
reinforced his negative demise and early death.
Jesus said these words [John 17:12b NIV],
“None has been lost except the one doomed to destruction so that Scripture would be fulfilled”. “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!” (He meant Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, who, though one of the Twelve, was later to betray him [John 5:70b NIV]
Could Judas have been saved?
At a pre-crucifixion meal with the twelve, John says that Jesus was troubled in spirit and testified, “Very truly I tell you, one of you is going to betray me.”{John 14:21}. At that table, Satan entered into Judas and guided him into his act of treasonous betrayal.
He went so far as to offer to sell Jesus to the High Priests if they would pay him. At this point, he had reached the depths. He was a false disciple and Jesus knew it.
How many of us pursue wrong actions knowing in our hearts that it is wrong until it is too late? Many give testimony of turning and repenting, while some do not, and have a poor end.
”When Judas, His betrayer, saw that [Jesus] was condemned, Judas was afflicted in mind and troubled for his former folly; and with remorse with little more than a selfish dread of the consequences] he brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders,”[Matthew 27:3 AMP}.
Judas had a poor end. ‘What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul?’ {Mark 8:36 NIV}.
As we know, Judas did not repent. He was remorseful when he realised what he had done and saw what was being done to Jesus... His falsehood influenced by the devil led him to make a final negative choice which was to kill himself.
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BTW: Your reference in John should be 6:70, not 5:70.