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Open your Bibles to Mark 14:10-11.
•We are continuing our study of the Gospel of Mark.
•This morning we come to one of the darkest and most vile portions of the Gospel of Mark.
•This morning we come to the account of Judas Iscariot agreeing to betray the Lord Jesus Christ.
What do you think about when you hear the name “Judas Iscariot?”
•It’s not good.
I know that.
There is a reason that nobody names their sons “Judas” anymore.
•The name of Judas Iscariot tastes awful in the mouths of those who love the Lord Jesus Christ.
•And that is because Judas was the disciple who betrayed Jesus into the hands of His enemies to be crucified.
So wretched is Judas, that his name has become synonymous with betrayal.
•If somebody sells you out, they are a Judas.
And that’s not street-slang, either.
That is in our thesauruses.
•In Christian art, Judas is often depicted with a black halo behind his head to signify the blackness of his heart and the damnation that belongs to him.
•Judas was the betrayer of our Lord.
And even his name is a hateful thing.
This morning we will be considering Judas and the plot to betray Jesus.
•And I plan to stop and spend some time on one theme that we learn from the life and actions of Judas, the Betrayer.
•And here is the theme: How far one can go in religion without actually being converted.
Much of the content of this sermon will be dark and unhappy.
•I think that these two verses in Mark actually serve us as something of a warning text.
And I want to flesh that out before we are finished this morning.
•We will be considering the reality of falsely professing Christians, apostasy, and just how far you can go in the externals of religion without being converted to Christ.
NOTE: I want to be clear about something: I do not doubt the profession of faith of any of the members of this church gathered here today.
•I have no reason to.
None of us here this morning are under the discipline of the church.
•To my knowledge, everyone gathered here is faithfully following the Lord, repenting when they realize their sin, and loving Christ.
•But the text before us highlights the reality of falsely professing Christians.
And so, I need to preach that hard reality.
•And I need to preach it as if preaching to those who may be falsely professing the Faith.
•I believe in a judgment of charity toward those who profess faith in Christ.
But I cannot see hearts.
Only God can do that.
•So, I will preach this theme and step aside and pray that God would do His work in our hearts this morning.
If you would, and are able, please stand with me now for the reading of the inspired, inerrant, and infallible Word of God.
Mark 14:10-11
[10] Then Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went to the chief priests in order to betray him to them.
[11] And when they heard it, they were glad and promised to give him money.
And he sought an opportunity to betray him.
(PRAY)
Holy God who sees all hearts,
We thank you for your Word.
And we thank you that as we read your Word, your Word really reads us.
And so we ask this morning that you would lay us bare before the Word.
Help us to examine ourselves in the light of your Word.
Convert any among us who are unconverted.
And grant the assurance of salvation to all who love the Lord Jesus Christ.
Open our minds and hearts to receive the truth this morning.
And help us all to see the mercy of God found in Jesus Christ, our Lord.
We ask these things in Jesus’ Name and for His sake.
Amen.
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Before we dive in to vv10-11, I think we need to look again at vv1-2 of this chapter.
•Mark has made a “sandwich” of sorts.
He often does this.
vv1-2 are interrupted with the account of Jesus being anointed with perfume.
And then the narrative resumes in vv10-11.
•So vv1-2 are the general context for vv10-11.
So let’s start there:
[1] It was now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
And the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest Him by stealth and kill Him, [2] for they said, “Not during the feast, lest there be an uproar from the people.”
In Mark’s narrative, it is now two days before the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
•This was one of the most important Jewish holidays under the Old Covenant.
•It was this festival that commemorated God’s rescue of Israel from slavery to Egypt.
•And how, on the night before the Exodus, God’s wrath went through Egypt killing the firstborn of every house.
•And the only way to be spared from that was to kill a lamb and put it’s blood on the doorposts of the house.
And wherever the blood was applied, God’s wrath PASSED OVER that house and those inside were spared.
As I said last week, it is a glorious thing to consider that our Lord was crucified on Passover.
•This was not an accident, either.
•The Passover and the slaughtered lamb pointed beyond itself to the true Lamb of God who came into the world to be sacrificed for sinners.
•The Passover pointed forward to Jesus Christ who offered Himself on a cross in the place of all who would believe SO THAT the wrath of God would pass over them because all of it was exhausted on Him.
•So it is only fitting that the substance, the sacrifice of Christ, would take place on the day that the shadow, the Passover, was celebrated.
•Christ Jesus is our Passover Lamb who was been punished and killed in our place so that, by His blood, we can be washed clean and saved from God’s wrath over our sin.
And it was during the Passover that the population of Jerusalem would greatly increase.
•And so, the religious rulers of Israel, who want to kill Jesus, want to wait until after the feast.
•They don’t want to risk a riot breaking out.
Jesus is a popular teacher and healer.
And they are worried that the crowds would be in an uproar if He was arrested in broad daylight.
•So, they want to arrest Jesus secretly.
In the night, as it were.
At an opportune time.
Sometime after the feast.
•BUT GOD HAD OTHER PLANS.
Again, I want you to see that God was in control of this whole situation.
•It was the plan of God that Jesus would sacrificed at Passover.
•And all the schemes and plans of wicked men cannot undo the sovereign will of Almighty God.
•Jesus Christ was going to willingly lay down His life for His People in order to save them.
•And it was going to happen during the feast.
Now, those who desired to arrest and kill Jesus were “the chief priests and the scribes.”
•This was a group within the Sanhedrin.
And it was made up of Sadducees and Pharisees.
And Matthew 26 tells us that it was led by the High Priest, Caiaphas.
•They are the religious elite of Israel in that day.
And they have desired to kill Jesus for quite some time.
And in John 11:57 we read, “Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he should let them know, so that they might arrest Him.”
•Members of the Sanhedrin had put out a notice that if anyone knew where Jesus was, they should come forward and let them know so they could arrest Him.
•Word had gotten around Jerusalem that the chief priests, even the High Priest, wanted information on how and where to arrest Jesus.
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And that leads us right into our text this morning.
•Judas was responding to this horrible notice.
•V10 says that Judas went with the INTENTION to betray Jesus.
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