Passover lamb

 

Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,  And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.  And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him. Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?  And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.  And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover.  Now when the even was come, he sat down with the twelve.  And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.  And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I?  And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.  The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.  Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said. (Matthew 26: 14-25)

Judas Iscariot received thirty silver from the priest and sold Jesus. He became a disciple of Jesus, but he betrayed and sold Jesus. Why did Jesus' disciple Garroth Judas sell Jesus? Although Judas Iscariot was chosen as one of the twelve disciples, unlike other disciples, he did not use the title of Lord to Jesus, but instead called Jesus as a rabbi and acknowledged that he was not recognized as more than a teacher. Therefore, it can be said that there was no faith in Jesus.

As you can see in John 12:5-6, Judas was caught in greed and lost trust not only in Jesus, but also in his fellow disciples. Judas may have wanted to follow Jesus because he knew that Jesus had many followers and that he could benefit from the funds raised for the group. The fact that Judas was in charge of the money bag for the group indicates that his interest was in the money. Judas, like most people at that time, believed that the Messiah would take the position to overthrow Roman colonial rule and exercise power over the nation of Israel.

Judah may have followed Jesus in the hope of benefiting from a connection with him, who will emerge as a new ruling political force. Undoubtedly, he expected himself to become one of the ruling elites after the revolution. By the time Judas was betrayed, it became clear that Jesus did not begin the rebellion against Rome, but rather planned to die. So Judas, like the Pharisees, would have convinced that Jesus would never be the Messiah Judah expected overthrowing Rome.

Garuda Judah's thinking eventually means that he is under Satan's control. If we do not abide by Jesus' words, everyone can be like Judas Iscariot. Rather than saying, "You were born to be loved by God," you must say, "You must be in the power of Satan and clothe yourself with Christ and escape from Satan." People must realize that the Spirit is dead because they are controlled by Satan's power. So, the Spirit is dead,  you cannot meet God.

It is a contradiction to say that people met God while under Satan's control. If you are not clothed with the Christ of the Cross, you have not met God, but have been held by the Devil. People worship the devil, but they think they are worshiping God. So, it is a child of wrath.

The reason people don't think of God as an object of wrath is because they don't realize that they are against God. Because they become Satan's slaves and do what Satan wants, but they do not deviate completely from it. Why did people become Satan's slaves? This is reason they are those who have followed Satan because they want to be like God. In every human heart, the desire to be like God is crouching like a snake.

『Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. 』 (John 8:44) Nevertheless, if people act as the Devil tells them, they are still children of the Devil. Change of status is not in words, but in action. You must abandon being a child of the devil.

To abandon the devil's childhood is to abandon the "greedy to be like God." So, Jesus said, "Deny yourself." Only those who repent and fear God can deny themselves. Otherwise, people will still be against God. Only those who fear God can obey God entirely. The repentant can realize Satan's tricks. This is because Satan crawls in like a snake with the thought and emotion of “Self”. How do you know it? It is because we can know the identity of Satan through the word of God.

The body reflected in the mirror is made of soil. The concept of "self" was created and settled in the mind because we have been looking at the body for decades, feeling it, packing it with high-level knowledge, and thinking. That is the soul. The soul is thought to be the master of the body. So when something else comes in, the soul rejects it.

Even if you think the other is "Truth," the soul rejects it. Even though you shed tears when you believe that Jesus is the Son of God and that he died on the cross for me, you still think of yourself as a master if you don't realize the identity of the tearful “I”. So, the soul cannot accept the words "deny self". The soul believes in Jesus' cross, but he cannot carry his cross. He who cannot carry his cross is not clothed with Christ. Those who believe that they have been saved without being clothed with Christ can be said to be deceiving themselves. So, the Bible says to repent.

Repentance means giving up the heart of the wrong soul so far and turning to a new way of obeying the Word of God. As long as you have a body, the mind of the soul is bound to appear. However, this mind should not be the subject. Jesus Christ, who died on the cross, must be Lord. We must obey Jesus Christ's words through the Bible, saying, "Do not love the world." You admit and believe in Jesus as the Master, but if you love the world, is Jesus the Master or the Devil as the Master?