UNLIKE US - LIKE HIM
Mark: The Savior who was a Servant • Sermon • Submitted
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· 5 viewsHE IS UNLIKE US AND YET WE ARE CALLED TO BE LIKE HIM.
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UNLIKE US - JESUS KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT US AND LOVES US STILL.
Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them.
And when they heard it, they were glad and promised to give him money. And he sought an opportunity to betray him.
And on the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, his disciples said to him, “Where will you have us go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?”
And he sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him,
and wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’
And he will show you a large upper room furnished and ready; there prepare for us.”
And the disciples set out and went to the city and found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.
And when it was evening, he came with the twelve.
And as they were reclining at table and eating, Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me, one who is eating with me.”
They began to be sorrowful and to say to him one after another, “Is it I?”
He said to them, “It is one of the twelve, one who is dipping bread into the dish with me.
For the Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born.”
JESUS LOVED HIS OWN.
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
JESUS LOVES THE OUTSIDER.
During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him,
rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist.
And as they were reclining at table and eating, Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me, one who is eating with me.”
I want to ask why is Jesus saying, “One of you will betray me”? He is saying to Judas, “I see you. I see you.” When he says, “One of you will betray me,” it’s a way of saying to Judas, “I see you.” There’s a warning here because he says, “One of you will betray me, and if you follow through and do what you’re thinking about doing, it would be better if you hadn’t been born.” So he is warning him.
On the other hand, he is not unmasking him. He doesn’t say, “There’s the scum. Traitor. Liar. It’s Judas.” He lets him know. He warns him, but at the same time, he doesn’t humiliate him. He doesn’t expose him. He doesn’t trample on him.
Don Carson says, “This is Jesus’ final act of courtesy and love toward Judas.” Here’s why. Why is he doing it this way? He wants Judas to repent. He doesn’t want to shatter him; he wants to melt him. He doesn’t want to condemn him; he wants to convict him.If he hadn’t said, “I see you,” there’d be no chance for repentance.
If he had actually trampled on him, there would have been no chance for repentance either. Jesus wants to melt him. He doesn’t want to shatter him.
What I want you to behold in Jesus Christ right now is the perfect gentleness of Jesus, the most amazing meshing of justice and sensitivity. If you really love somebody, you do warn him. You say, “I see you, and what you’re about to do is going to be terrible.” If you don’t do that, you don’t love them.
On the other hand, you don’t trash them. You don’t smash them. You don’t ruin them. In Jesus Christ we have this mixture of meekness and majesty, of grace and justice. He is not halfway between grace and justice.
LIKE HIM - WE MUST LOVE THOSE INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE FAMILY OF FAITH.
By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
UNLIKE US - JESUS HAD FOREKNOWLEDGE THAT EVERYTHING WOULD WORK OUT FOR GOOD.
And he said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”
Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand.”
LIKE HIM - WE MUST HAVE FAITH GOD IS WORKING EVERYTHING OUT FOR GOOD.
And Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.”
“Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat,
but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”
UNLIKE US - JESUS COMPLETED THE WORK OF SALVATION THROUGH PRAYER.
And he said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”
BY HIS PRAYING FOR US OUR SALVATION WILL ONE DAY BE COMPLETE.
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies.
Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,
nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
IN 2,000 YEARS NOTHING HAS CHANGED. JUDAS STILL FINDS HIS WAY INTO ALL SEGMENTS OF CHURCH LIFE. EVERY CHURCH THIS DAY, INCLUDING THIS ONE, HAS THERE JUDAS’. HE/SHE IS AS UNKNOWN AS JUDAS WAS IN HIS DAY AND YET JESUS ONCE AGAIN HAS ALLOWED YOU TO HEAR OF HIS GREAT LOVE FOR YOU.
WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH IT THIS DAY?
DEAR STRUGGLING CHRISTIAN
CHRIST IS WORKING IN YOU.
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
CHRIST IS PRAYING FOR YOU.
“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,
that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,
I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.
Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
CHRIST IS KEEPING YOU.
Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy,