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! Introduction:

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I.              The Appeals To A Sinner

*Introduction:* Last week we looked at the:

Reasons For Betrayal ( Mark 14:10-11)

!!! 1.             Jealousy.

Judas Seems To Have Been Jealous Of The Other Apostles.

!!! 2.             Ambition.

Judas Was Definitely Ambitious.

!!!! a)             Ambition is Good If it is being used for seeking:

!!!! b)            Ambition is Evil If it leads to:

!!! 3.             Greed.

Judas Was A Thief, Consumed With Greed And The Love Of Money.

!!!! a)             Desire is never satisfied apart from God.  

!!!! b)            Man’s spiritual desires and cravings cannot be satisfied with physical and material things.

!!! 4.             Men Have Two Thirsts (John 4:13-14)

!!!! a)             The Physical thirst (v.13)

!!!! b)            The Spiritual Thirst (4:14)

!!! 5.             Judas Sought Sin, To Deceive And Betray Jesus (Mark 14:11).

!!! 6.             Judas Sought Sin, To Deceive And Betray Jesus (Mark 14:11).

!! A.            The Appeals To A Sinner (Mark 14:12-21)

Jesus’ Last Chance to Judas: The Appeal to a Sinner.

Introduction: The point of the present passage is to show that Jesus knew about Judas’ betrayal and to show how Jesus went about giving Judas a last chance to repent.

1.

The Passover was approaching (v.12).

2.

Jesus knew about Judas’ denial and betrayal (v.13-17).

3.

Jesus gave Judas every chance to repent (v.18-20).

4.

Jesus gave Judas a last warning (v.21).

!!! 1.

The Passover Was Approaching (v.12).

Jerusalem was astir with excitement.

The Jewish historian Josephus estimated that between two and three million people flooded into the city to observe the Passover.

Pilgrims by the teeming thousands came from all over the world.

The mass of people and the necessary housing, food, and many other arrangements had to be made.

!!!! a)            The Disciples Had To Ask Jesus Where They Were To Celebrate The Passover.

!!!!! (1)           He had not told them, not even given them a hint.

The day of unleavened bread was at hand, and so far as they knew, no arrangement had been made to secure a place for them to observe the Passover.

Considering the housing shortage with the mass of pilgrims, such apparent oversight was most unusual.

The disciples must have wondered and questioned why He had not shared His plans earlier.

!!!!! (2)           Since for the Jews the new day began with sundown, it would be Friday when Jesus and His disciples met in the Upper Room.

This was His last Passover, and on that day, He would fulfill the Passover by dying on the cross as the spotless Lamb of God (John 1:29; 1 Cor.

5:7; 1 Peter 2:21–24).

/"The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!" (John 1:29, NKJV) /

/"For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us."

(1 Corinthians 5:7, NKJV) /

/"For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps: “Who committed no sin, Nor was deceit found in His mouth”; who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously; who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness— by whose stripes you were healed."

(1 Peter 2:21-24, NKJV) /

Thought 1. Jesus worshipped and kept the feasts of the Jews.

He did not neglect the assembling together with others.

The disciples knew this (Hebrew 10:25).

!!! 2.            Jesus Knew About The Denial And The Betrayal Of Judas (v.13-17).

This seems to be the very point of what happened in these verses.

Judas had just plotted with the chief priests against Jesus (Mark 14:10-11).

Jesus knew this, so He had to keep His plans and movements secret.

He could not let Judas know, lest Judas lead the authorities to arrest Him in the Upper Room before He had completed His mission with the disciples.

Note the point of the passage.

!!!! a)            Jesus Had Kept His Plans And Movements Secret.

The disciples did not know where He wished to celebrate the Passover.

He could not reveal the plans to a disciple who was denying and betraying Him.

That disciple (Judas) would only interrupt what Jesus was trying to do with the faithful disciples in the Upper Room.

He would only create havoc, cause disturbance, and hinder and hamper the work of Jesus.

!!!! b)            Jesus Could Only Share With His Faithful And Trusted Disciples.

"No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you." (John 15:15, NKJV)

"It has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven."

(Matthew 13:11, NKJV)

/"Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God." (1 Corinthians 2:12, NKJV) /

!!!!! (1)           Jesus Did Have A Plan, And He Followed That Plan Even To The Minute Detail.

He had apparently pre-planned the arrangements.

He sent two trusted disciples to carry out the arrangements.

They followed His instructions exactly.

Secret arrangements were necessary because Judas and the authorities were seeking to catch Jesus in a quiet place away from the people (Mathew 26:5).

/"But they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar among the people.”"

(Matthew 26:5, NKJV).

/ The Upper Room would have been an ideal place to arrest Him.

 

!!!! c)            He Sent Out Two of His Disciples (v.13-16)

!!!!! (1)           Peter and John saw to it that the supper was prepared (Luke 22:8).

!!!!! (2)           There was a pre-planned sign: a man carrying a pitcher of water on his head.

This was an unusual sight.

Women were usually the ones who carried pitchers on their heads.

It was apparently a sign for the disciples to quietly follow.

!!!!! (3)           Jesus did not name the homeowner or tell where the house was.

He simply said to follow the man with the pitcher on his head and to tell the homeowner, “The Master” requests the room.

!!!!! (4)           Jesus kept His plans despite the betrayer and those who would stop Him.

Note the courage and power of Jesus to control the circumstances and events.

/And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose” (Romans 8:28)./

!! B.            The Upper Room (Mark 14:17-21)

Between Mark 14:17 and 18 are details of the washing of the disciples’ feet (John 13:1–20).

!!! 1.            Jesus Knew His Enemy Was About To Strike And Betray Him (John 13:1).

!!!! a)            Knowing The Hour Has Come, The Time Is Short.

/"And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.

The night is far spent, the day is at hand.

Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light."

(Romans 13:11-12, NKJV) /

/"redeeming the time, because the days are evil."

(Ephesians 5:16, NKJV) /

 

!!!! b)            Loving “His Own,” Those For Whom The Believer Is Responsible.

/"“As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love."

(John 15:9, NKJV) /

/"Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends."

(John 15:13, NKJV) /

/"By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us.

And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren."

(1 John 3:16, NKJV) /