Welcome to our service today. It is great to have you here and we would love to invite you to stay after the service and join us for tea and coffee.
It’s easy to overlook the fact that Jesus chose Judas to be His disciple. We may also forget that while Judas betrayed Jesus, all the disciples abandoned Him. Along with the other disciples, Judas shared a persistent misunderstanding of Jesus’ purpose on earth. They all expected Him to make the right political moves. When He kept talking about dying, they all felt varying degrees of anger, fear and disappointment. They didn’t understand why they had been chosen if Jesus’ mission was doomed to fail.
We don’t know the exact motivation behind Judas’s betrayal, but what is clear is that Judas allowed his desires to place him in a position where Satan could manipulate him. So what can we learn from this? Judas does us a favour if he makes us think a second time about our commitment to God and the presence of God’s Spirit within us. Are we true disciples and followers? Do our desires line up with God’s desires – or should that question be asked the other way around – do God’s desires for us line up with ours? Let us continue to draw close to God each day, asking the Holy Spirit to mold us and make us more like Him so we will be committed followers, not just ones seeking our own ends.
Blessings, Sandra
Beckenham Baptist Church 