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Sermon outline
- Betrayal can leave deep emotional trauma
- Now imagine you knew someone was going to betray you in the next 24 hours.
- How would you feel?
- What would you say?
- How would you treat them?
- This is the situation we encounter as we enter into our passage today (Jn 13:21)
- Now imagine you knew someone was going to betray you in the next 24 hours.
- Jesus’ emotions amidst impending betrayal
- Context of Jn 13:21
- Love is sacrifice.
- Love is taking the form of a servant.
- Love is humility not pride.
- Jesus is Troubled (Mt 2:3
- Troubled means emotionally stirred up,
- Probably involved unease, nervousness, maybe sense of fear
- Jesus had the right to feel all of this
- But unlike us, Jesus still loves his betrayer (Lk 13:30)
- Jesus had washed Judas’ feet. (Jn 13:1-19)
- Judas is seated at one of the places of honor. (Jn 13:24-27)
- And then Peter motions to the disciple Jesus loved and he leans back to ask Jesus a question
- The meal seating assignments (Lk 13:30)
- What is more, Jesus feeds Judas (Jn 13:25-26)
- Jesus Loves Judas
- Application Points
- Judas often gets a bad wrap, but if we are honest are we any better than Judas?
- The Sermon on the Mount wasn’t a feel good ideal, but a lived experience (Mt 5:43-46)
- Context of Jn 13:21
- The Scariest Verse in the Bible (Jn 13:27)
- Demonic possession is real…(Mk 9:25, Lk 8:30, Mk 5:12)
- Spiritually speaking we are either filled with the Holy Spirit and indwelt by God himself, or we are vacant land awaiting the squatting of any evil and malevolent force/spirit which seeks to undermine Jesus and destroy God’s church.
- It can happen in the Church (Jn 13:2, Acts 5:3)
- Jesus gave Judas/Satan permission to act (Jn 10:18, 6:70, 13:27, 30)
- Remember – John uses a lot of light and dark contrast.
- Even this dark hour is in God’s control,
- God’s Glory revealed (Jn 13:31-32, Ex 34:6-7)
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