"THE WORLDLY REMORSE"
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Have you every felt bad for something that you did?
Have you ever been in a situation where you only felt bad because you got caught?
Parallel Gospel Accounts -
Matthew 27:1-10 - make a couple of observations -
Acts 1:18-19 - make a couple of observations -
Proposition - As we look to Matthew 27 this morning we are going to learn about: 1) the unfolding of events, 2) the appearance of repentance, and 3) the unfolding of prophecy.
Interrogative question - Have you repented and turned to Christ?
1. The unfolding of Events - vs. 1-2
1. The unfolding of Events - vs. 1-2
1 Now when morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people conferred together against Jesus to put Him to death; 2 and they bound Him, and led Him away and delivered Him to Pilate the governor.
When did the first trial take place?
Why do you think that convened again?
Why did they deliver Jesus to Pilate?
Jesus had two trials, one Jewish and religious, the other Roman and secular. Rome reserved the right of execution in capital cases (see note on 26:59), so Jesus had to be handed over to the Roman authorities for execution of the death sentence. Pilate’s headquarters were in Caesarea, on the Mediterranean coast, but he was in Jerusalem for the Passover celebrations, so he oversaw the trial (see note on Mark 15:1). Christ was brought before Pilate (vv. 2–14), then was sent to Herod for yet another hearing (Luke 23:6–12), then returned to Pilate for the final hearing and pronouncing of sentence (vv. 15–26). MacArthur, J., Jr., ed. (1997). The MacArthur Study Bible (electronic ed., p. 1447). Word Pub.
27:2 delivered him over to Pilate. The governor of Judea and Roman prefect under Emperor Tiberius. To maintain ultimate control, the Romans kept the death penalty under their own jurisdiction and reserved the right to intervene in any case. The Roman historian Tacitus records Christ’s execution “in the reign of Tiberius, by sentence of the procurator Pontius Pilatus” (Annals 15.44, published A.D. 115–120; cf. note on Luke 3:1). Crossway Bibles. (2008). The ESV Study Bible (p. 1884). Crossway Bibles.
2. The appearance of Repentance - vs. 3-6
2. The appearance of Repentance - vs. 3-6
3 Then when Judas, who had betrayed Him, saw that He had been condemned, he felt remorse and returned the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? See to that yourself!” 5 And he threw the pieces of silver into the temple sanctuary and departed; and he went away and hanged himself. 6 The chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, “It is not lawful to put them into the temple treasury, since it is the price of blood.”
What did Judas do?
What do you think it mean’s that Judas felt “remorse?”
Sense: to regret - to feel sad on account of something done or experienced, and wishes could have been different.
changed his mind (Gk. metamelomai). Judas experienced feelings of regret and remorse, but this is less than “repentance” (Gk. metanoia), which means a change of heart. Crossway Bibles. (2008). The ESV Study Bible (p. 1884). Crossway Bibles.
10 For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death.
What did he do with the silver?
18 “You shall not bring the hire of a harlot or the wages of a dog into the house of the Lord your God for any votive offering, for both of these are an abomination to the Lord your God.
Why do you think that Judas hanged himself?
The two accounts of Judas’s death are complementary retellings of the same event, each focusing in different ways on the same details. Both accounts involve: Judas’s remorse, the purchase of a field with his ill-gotten money, its reputation as “the Field of Blood,” and Judas’s gory death (for the location of “the Field of Blood,” see note on Matt. 27:7–8). The main difference is that Matt. 27:5 speaks of Judas hanging himself, while Acts speaks of his body falling headlong and bursting open with all his entrails spilling out. One possible explanation suggests that the field overlooked a cliff, and as Judas hanged himself, the rope (or the branch) may have broken, with his body falling headlong over the edge of the cliff onto jagged rocks below. Others have suggested that Judas’s body may have remained hanging for some time decaying and decomposing (“swelling up,” ESV footnote), eventually falling to the ground and bursting open in its decomposed condition. In either case, there is no reason to see the two accounts as contradictory, since they focus on complementary details of the same event. In both accounts the effect of Satan’s control over Judas’s life is clear, demonstrating the general principle that Satan brings total destruction and disgrace to the person who comes under his control, for “he was a murderer from the beginning” (John 8:44). Crossway Bibles. (2008). The ESV Study Bible (pp. 2081–2082). Crossway Bibles.
3. The unfolding of Prophecy - vs. 7-10
3. The unfolding of Prophecy - vs. 7-10
7 And they conferred together and with the money bought the Potter’s Field as a burial place for strangers. 8 For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day. 9 Then that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled: “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of the one whose price had been set by the sons of Israel; 10 and they gave them for the Potter’s Field, as the Lord directed me.”
Why do you think that they did this with the money?
What do you think the Field of Blood is?
What passage of Scripture is fulfilled in this text?
13 Then the Lord said to me, “Throw it to the potter, that magnificent price at which I was valued by them.” So I took the thirty shekels of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the Lord.
SO WHAT?
Have you repented and turned to Christ?
What’s keeping you from coming to Christ?