Sermon Tone Analysis

Jesus and Judas

Main Idea: Jesus knows your intentions but He still invited you in.

Hey all!

Man what a week it has been!

If I can be honest with you all— I am pretty wiped this week!

With easter coming up and good Friday coming up on you guessed it Friday.

And then the Alive Conference!

I hope that you all are pretty pumped up about!

Deadline is tomorrow so get sign up! Seriously!

It is going to be epic!

And you will not want to miss out on this.

While I normally condemn FOMO--

In this case I want you to fear what you will be missing out on.

So get signed up!

And get your friends signed up as well.

Well we are going be wrapping up our series of Encountering Jesus tonight.

Which is awesome!

I enjoyed this series, I know it was like crazy busy during this time.

I think we had super bowl and surge and then a game night and a photo scavenger hunt as we did a 4 week series on this.

So pretty long series but I am hope that it has been impactful for you.

And tonight we are going to be talking about the encounter that Jesus had with Judas.

I find Judas to be a really interesting character in Jesus’ group.

Judas as we may know was a disciples who betrayed Jesus.

Me: A time where I was betrayed or I betrayed someone else.

Now before we go any further who here has been betrayed before.

By a brother, sister, friend, enemy, boyfriend or girlfriend, maybe a parent?

This one time I was over at my friends house and a bunch of us were hanging out I had to be in like 5th or 6th grade.

And my friend came up to me and told me I had to go home because everyone else was too.

And everyone left.

We all got on our bikes and left his house.

I headed to my grandparents house.

I waited there until my folks came and got me.

And as we were driving home we drove by my friends house.

And all of my friends were out there playing football.

And what happened was they all got on their bikes but they just went around the block and came up and kept playing.

They just didn’t want me there anymore.

And that is an awful feeling, no matter how old you are.

I am sure we all can tell a time where this has happened to us.

We: Has someone ever betrayed you so badly that you could never be in the same room with them?

Like we know that if someone betrays us they are like dead to us.

Or is that just me.

If you betray me like I’ll be kind to you but we will not be friends.

We get this we know what betrayal feels like.

I went to the internet for some help with betrayals of friendships.

"My 'best friend' and I worked together and were asked to give an important presentation to the board of executives.

I worked my tail off preparing for it while my friend did nothing.

She would go out partying while I would work for hours.

The day before, my friend begged for my forgiveness and said she'd been really stressed, so I showed her the presentation.

The day of the presentation arrived, and my best friend tells me the meeting had been pushed back to 4 p.m. instead of 2 p.m.

I show up at 4 p.m. to find the meeting actually happened at 2 p.m., and my 'bestie' took credit for all my work."

OUCH!

"My whole friend group.

They never really talked to me, unless they needed something like homework and etc. Took a while to realize, too long even, but, as much as it hurts, it was unfortunately the best option I had at the time."

My husband and I had a friend that we helped get back on his feet.

We paid off some tickets he had, got his license reinstated, hooked him up with a solid connection for a reasonable, well-running car to replace his beater, AND gave him a place to live and a job (automotive repair)… He then decided it was a better choice to tell all our customers we were overcharging them and that he’d do the jobs cheaper if they’d bring it to him at his house (this was a short time after he moved out of our house, after never repaying anything he owed us.

Not that we’d asked).

Broke my heart…

Not a friend, but a sister.

I had this enormous crush on this guy.

I was too shy to talk to him and just adored him from afar.

My sister told me to “be his secret admirer” so that he could get to know me.

For a month, I put notes and cards in his car a few times a week.

One weekend, my sister and I went out and I saw him.

I pointed him out and told her that he was the guy I’m in love with.

She told me she was going to go talk to him about me and get us hooked up.

I waited for thirty minutes, but she never returned.

I went inside the restaurant and found her making out with him.

That was a devastating blow.

I could read these all night— but here is what I think or at least I hope reading some of these stories did.

It puts you in their shoes and you begin to be feel that betrayal.

And we have all be in places where we have been betrayed and also we have betrayed others.

It is awful stuff isn’t it.

And we all know how that feels.

The moment where we fight back tears and just try to be strong.

We don’t want our betrays to see us break.

It takes every ounce of you to not break-down right then and there.

And we also know what it is like to be toe to toe with someone we hurt.

We see it in their face.

We see the tears welting up in their eyes.

They brush it off and play it cool— but you know that you hurt them deeply and badly.

Man being betrayed may be one of the worst things out there.

As I was reading these stories so many of them you can tell still carry a weight with them.

They have never gotten over it and it haunts them.

And if I were to ask you, if you knew that you were going to be betrayed by so and so would you keep them around?

I think we all would answer no.

Nobody wants someone around who is going to hurt you.

Nobody wants that person.

And I hope that you don’t want to be that person.

But here’s the deal no matter who you are or what your intentions are Jesus still chooses you.

In todays passage we are going to learn that Jesus invited Judas to the table to eat and to wash his feet.

And He knew what was going to happen with Judas and he picked him anyway.

God: Jesus invited Judas to the table to eat and He wash his feet.

Let’s look at a couple of passages and at least set up Judas a bit.

This is Jesus appointing and calling the 12 disciples to him.

And while it says here Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.

Mark and the other gospel writers knew that Judas would betray Jesus hence the name we often see around his name is the betrayer.

Jesus called Judas to him and Judas got a front row seat in seeing Jesus work and do ministry.

Judas is in it!

He is helping with them.

And of course hindsight is 20/20— they can look back and say— yeah he was going to betray Jesus because of his actions.