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JUDAS' JOURNEY TO HELL

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JUDAS' JOURNEY TO HELL

Brothers and sisters, much love, blessings and peace to you in the gracious name of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost, three EQUAL eternal inseparable utterly holy Persons in one God who lives in us and will be in us forever.

JESUS CHRIST IS GOD THE SON EQUAL WITH GOD THE FATHER.

Jhn 14:28 - Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.

 Scriptures interpret  scriptures without error nor any contractions whatsoever. When Jesus said:  “ My Father is greater than I”. It never meant He was less to or inferior to God the Father. What it meant is that Lord Jesus in His earthly life/ministry voluntarily of His own free will chose to lower Himself/take on the form of a human being, while never ceasing to be sinless and God the Son. Only in this form could God the Father accept Jesus’ voluntary offer of Himself as the perfect sinless sacrifice to pay for the sins of all who believe in Him. Phl 2:4 - Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

Phl 2:5 - Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

Phl 2:6 - Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

Phl 2:7 - But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

Phl 2:8 - And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

God has given us His Son Jesus as the supreme example of a humble faithful obedient Son who loves God His Father and His people, selflessly putting the will of the Father above His own out of complete trust in the goodness of the Father towards all men. We likewise ought to have the same mind as Christ- willingly subject ourselves to the will of God the Father, and seek not just our own interests, but the interests of others as well, out of love and trust in God.  

After Lord Jesus made the perfect atonement for sins, He was exalted by God the Father as He had always been before coming to earth:  Phl 2:9 - Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

Phl 2:10 - That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

Phl 2:11 - And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

God commands that Jesus receive equal worship with Himself:

Jhn 5:23 - That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him. We shall worship God and the Lamb for all eternity: Rev 5:13 - And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.

We can do nothing without Jesus. We cannot grow to maturity without the gospel. Jesus Christ is the Word of God. He alone is ordained by God the Father to be the only spiritual food that can nourish and sustain the people of God now and forever in the kingdom of God to come Rev 7:17.  God commands us to study His word and live it in this present evil world. Scripture interprets scripture without error nor contradictions of any kind nor in any manner whatsoever.

We fully understand evil people, wicked persons through the perspective of the abundant goodness of God our Father who wants all men to be saved and has provided the sole means of permanent forgiveness of sins through the atonement of His only Son Jesus Christ. All men are born of rebel Adam with a sin nature loving sin, on a journey to hell. However, by the grace of God in sending His only sinless Son Jesus, all who believe in Him are forgiven of all their sins, and guaranteed a one-way free ticket on an irreversible-non-cancellable journey into the kingdom of God forever.  The Bible teaches us that there are evil, wicked people who hate God, His people, and desire to destroy His kingdom. Evil people are not benign, for they persecute the church on earth. It doesn’t matter how often or long they hear the gospel, they will reject it.

Lord Jesus teaches us to: Mat 7:15 - Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Evil people come disguised like a godly person, can speak church-ese, but inwardly they are like a savage animal raging with contempt and hatred for God and His people.

The apostle Paul warns the church that:  Act 20:29 - For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Act 20:30 - Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. Evil people come into the church and also arise from within the church. They are vicious, cruel, greedy, destructive. They don’t care how badly they damage the flock through the use of perverted doctrines to draw followers to themselves.

Timothy warns: 1Ti 4:1 - Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

1Ti 4:2 - Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; the scriptures is clear that the believer is holy of a godly spiritual nature from God the Father, not carnal. Evil people are unholy of a devilish spiritual nature, carnal, of darkness like their father the devil, with the same evil nature, and hatred of God and His people.

The apostle Peter warns:

2Pe 2:1 - But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

Evil people have not changed they still come in secretly, but at some point, they pervert scripture and attack the divinity of the Trinity in whole or in part. They are spiritual poisoners spreading heretical doctrines amongst gullible/ignorant believers.

Brothers and sisters, God commands us to drink solely from the Lord’s table. Anyone claiming to be a Christian, who willingly accepts the heresy and doctrines of devils from these evil people are seen as evil too in the eyes of God and His people.

1Co 10:21 - Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.

2Jo 1:10 - If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:

2Jo 1:11 - For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

2Ti 3:5 - Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. Evil people hide behind a façade of godliness while they deny the equal divinity of the God Head and the power of the body and blood of Christ to forgive all sins forever for all who believe in Him.

The Bible does not teach that unrepentant evil people are evil because they are ignorant of the truth. To the contrary God’s word informs us: Rom 1:19 - Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.

Rom 1:20 - For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Rom 1:21 - Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Rom 1:28 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Rom 1:32 - Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. 2Ti 3:8 - Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

2Ti 3:9 - But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.

Tit 1:15 - Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

Tit 1:16 - They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

 This is why God commands every Christian to know the scriptures: 1Jo 4:1 - Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

It is true that Judas’ fall was prophesied in the scripture, and Christ’s sinless sacrifice was also prophesied in scripture. However, we know that from the beginning God gave men free will. God doesn’t force anyone to love and obey Him. He desires that people would willingly love and trust Him. Even in the garden of Eden, we see that Eve was tricked by the serpent, but Adam willingly sinned in eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, choosing to please himself not God, plunging the whole creation and human race into sin, depravity, spiritual and physical death and separation from God. Jesus didn’t have to die on the cross, He did so voluntarily of His own free will. When one of His disciples tried to fight and save Him Jesus said: Mat 26:53 - Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? Jesus voluntarily gave Himself to pay for our sins out of love for His Father and all men.

Judas did not have to betray Lord Jesus but chose to do so of His own free will. We notice Judas went back to the chief priests to return the money they paid him to betray Lord Jesus, but he never went back to his fellow disciples in repentance, nor did he return the money he stole over the years while he was in charge of the bag that stored contributions given to the ministry. Judas had an impenitent heart. Christ withheld nothing from Judas, treated him the same as the other disciples, knowing he was a thief and a betrayer. Judas over the course of Jesus’ entire earthly ministry directly heard the gospel and the warnings from the Lord, saw the miracles, saw the power to cast out devils, received power to preach the gospel. Jesus even washed Judas feet and gave him the communion dinner, and never threw him out of His presence.  Nothing none of the love, mercy, care, teachings etc. from Jesus made any difference to Judas, he chose not to believe in Jesus. In Judas and in all evil people throughout scriptures and in the world, we grasp the nature of evil people, the will of evil people, and the works of evil people who impenitently choose to reject the goodness and mercy of God. We clearly see the justice of the wrath of God and the necessity of heaven, hell, and ultimately the day when all unrepentant evil persons shall be separated from the kingdom of God forever. How God commands the church individually and as a whole to deal with evil persons is clearly laid out in scripture in the general, specific and the minutiae.

Love and truth forever, serola