Matthew 27:1-10
After the Sanhedrin’s midnight court, the leaders hauled the Lord Jesus Christ to Pilate’s chamber to plead the death penalty.
It was then clear to Judas Iscariot that the Lord Jesus Christ would die.
Judas Iscariot was remorseful.
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1. Judas Iscariot wanted to do the right thing.
But what Judas did was not enough.
It was not true repentance.
True repentance involves our minds, emotions and will.
We must know that sin is wrong and desire to change.
We must have a profound hatred for sin because it offends God.
And we must decide to turn from sin and turn to God in faith.
True repentance involves every aspect of our being.
The remorse Judas Iscariot felt was a self-centered guilt.
He felt bad that he did wrong.
But God does not enter the picture.
The guilt he felt was all about himself.
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2. The chief priests and elders denied responsibility.
When Judas told them that he had betrayed innocent blood, they simply responded "What is that to us? You see to it!"
They were glad to make use of Judas Iscariot in the sin.
When Judas Iscariot offered to betray the Lord Jesus Christ, they did not push him away.
But when Judas realized that what he did was wrong, they kept their distance.
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3. The chief priests and elders tried to do good to ease their guilty conscience.
They would not take back the blood money.
So Judas Iscariot hurled the coins into the temple.
Then they picked the bloody money up.
They consulted together and bought the potter's field, to bury strangers.
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4. Judas Iscariot committed suicide
Judas Iscariot, so overwhelmed with grief, suffocated by his own sin and not knowing how to get rid of the guilt, hanged himself.
Judas Iscariot had a sense of his sinfulness.
But didn’t grasp the mercy of God.
He was crushed by the load of his own iniquity.
In betraying the Lord Jesus Christ, he did not commit a sin that could not be forgiven, for his sin was no greater than that of Peter’s denial.
What drove him to utter despair was that he would not look to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Lesson:
In sorrow, do not ignore the gospel.
Never think you are in too desperate a condition for God’s love.
There is a repentance which can renew.
But a remorse feeling will only ruin even more.
After the Sanhedrin’s midnight court, the leaders hauled the Lord Jesus Christ to Pilate’s chamber to plead the death penalty.
It was then clear to Judas Iscariot that the Lord Jesus Christ would die.
Judas Iscariot was remorseful.
*******
1. Judas Iscariot wanted to do the right thing.
But what Judas did was not enough.
It was not true repentance.
True repentance involves our minds, emotions and will.
We must know that sin is wrong and desire to change.
We must have a profound hatred for sin because it offends God.
And we must decide to turn from sin and turn to God in faith.
True repentance involves every aspect of our being.
The remorse Judas Iscariot felt was a self-centered guilt.
He felt bad that he did wrong.
But God does not enter the picture.
The guilt he felt was all about himself.
*******
2. The chief priests and elders denied responsibility.
When Judas told them that he had betrayed innocent blood, they simply responded "What is that to us? You see to it!"
They were glad to make use of Judas Iscariot in the sin.
When Judas Iscariot offered to betray the Lord Jesus Christ, they did not push him away.
But when Judas realized that what he did was wrong, they kept their distance.
*******
3. The chief priests and elders tried to do good to ease their guilty conscience.
They would not take back the blood money.
So Judas Iscariot hurled the coins into the temple.
Then they picked the bloody money up.
They consulted together and bought the potter's field, to bury strangers.
*******
4. Judas Iscariot committed suicide
Judas Iscariot, so overwhelmed with grief, suffocated by his own sin and not knowing how to get rid of the guilt, hanged himself.
Judas Iscariot had a sense of his sinfulness.
But didn’t grasp the mercy of God.
He was crushed by the load of his own iniquity.
In betraying the Lord Jesus Christ, he did not commit a sin that could not be forgiven, for his sin was no greater than that of Peter’s denial.
What drove him to utter despair was that he would not look to the Lord Jesus Christ.
*******
Lesson:
In sorrow, do not ignore the gospel.
Never think you are in too desperate a condition for God’s love.
There is a repentance which can renew.
But a remorse feeling will only ruin even more.
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