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the son of perdition vs. The Son of Man
“While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.
John 17:12 NASB – High Priestly Prayer of Christ Jesus

Judas vs. Jesus

We have entered Gethsemane with Jesus and eleven of the Apostles.
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Jesus – The Last Prayers of Gethsemane
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As Jesus prayed to our Father God they fell asleep.

Just hours before in Jerusalem the Lord had prayed for all of them except Judas.
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Protect them from the evil one
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Jesus had acknowledged in His High Priestly Prayer that Judas, who had left the upper room quickly, was not included in His protection.

John 18: Judas betrays Jesus

2 Now Judas also, who was betraying Him, knew the place, for Jesus had often met there with His disciples.

Judas then, having received the Roman cohort and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns and torches and weapons.

4 So Jesus, knowing all the things that were coming upon Him, went forth and said to them,

“Whom do you seek?”

They answered Him, “Jesus the Nazarene.”

He said to them,

“I am He.”

And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them.

6 So when He said to them, “I am He,” they drew back and fell to the ground. Therefore He again asked them,

“Whom do you seek?”

And they said, “Jesus the Nazarene.”

8 Jesus answered, “I told you that I am He; so if you seek Me, let these go their way,” to fulfill the word which He spoke, “Of those whom You have given Me I lost not one.”

Observation by an awakened Apostle John, witness to this sad scene and seeing Jesus’ betrayer leading the lantern-lit faces into Gethsemane:

And Judas also, who was betraying Him, was standing with them.

The Beginning of the End

Now we turn the page to focus on Judas, the son of perdition (a description long forgotten) and how evil enters into those professing Jesus as their Master and Teacher and Lord.

John adds additional detail to the beginning of the dark night, while Matthew and others witness Jesus’ betrayal from their perspectives.
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September 11, 2020
Jesus Leading Toward Gethsemane
PAUSE — for a moment — & look out over the Kidron Valley as the Disciples would have done when Jesus led them from the Holy of Holies in an upper room in Jerusalem to their quiet gathering place at Gethsemane.

.. he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron…

Toward Gethsemane

When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.
John 18:1 KJV

Toward Gethsemane

In the previous few chapters John sums up for us what Jesus had done which leads right up to this moment and will bring us to the Cross.

Now — after just three years of teaching, ministry and miracles — our timeline of witness of the Son of Man compresses into just hours and occasionally into excruciating detail of the last minutes of our Lord’s mortal life.

Let us tarry here for just a while in just this first verse of John 18; for we often view the events leading up to the crucifixion of Christ Jesus much too quickly.

First, in context of John 13-17

It all took place in one day (if you think of in contemporary terms).

From their last time entering Jerusalem with Jesus to returning to it now in the darkness of the same night, John and the ten faithful will follow in fear. These faithful Disciples will now be separated from the prisoner of sin’s Sacrifice, Jesus, who was betrayed by one of their own. Soon the Disciples will into the accusers court of consequence and rejection by the world.

Earlier this evening…
The Lord’s Supper
John 13: Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come forth from God and was going back to God…

Jesus washes the Disciples feet
The Disciples conversation leads Peter to ask John to ask Jesus for more information about which one will betray our Lord
Judas leaves to betray Jesus

Jesus gives disciples a new commandment!

.. that you also love one another.

The Lord promises the Holy Spirit to disciples who will love Him
Jesus uses the vine and the branches to connect Father, Son and Holy Spirit to disciples of the Lord Jesus.
Jesus again tells of His death and resurrection

ALL THIS — on the night on which He was betrayed and prior to leaving the upper room in Jerusalem with His friends.

And in addition to this, after Jesus had taken the cup and the bread, sharing a new covenant with the Disciples, our Lord intervenes as a Perfect High Priest for us in prayer.

Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, “Father, the hour has come…
I glorified You on the earth, having accomplished the work which You have given Me to do.
John 17: excerpt from Jesus’ High Priestly prayer

“I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word..
John 17:20 NASB

24 “Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they will see my glory, which you have given me because you loved me before the world’s foundation.
Jesus will later reveal to John and the church much more about this mysterious glory He has willed to those God loved before creation and forever.

From Blessing to the place of Personal Prayer

Jesus, followed by just eleven Apostles

— Jesus, who humbly washed their feet — Jesus, who shared the cup and bread of the new covenant with them

— Jesus, who brought them into the Holy of Holies

— this same Christ,

their beloved friend and Master,

emerging from a Last Supper now completed opens the door and descends some stairs followed by His Disciples.

Jesus then leads them past Jerusalem’s guarded gates, exiting down a path into the Kidron Valley toward a familiar garden where they could gather one last time — a garden known as Gethsemane.

After Jesus had said these things, he went out with his disciples across the Kidron Valley, where there was a garden, and he and his disciples went into it.
John 18:1 CSB
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To be continued...
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September 5, 2020
Social Media is not the world
Looking back & ahead

Once you may have thought of the church as a building. Yet recall from reading your Bible that a true church is its people who love Christ Jesus.

Continuing reflection back on my three-score and ten, briefly:

Giving up each dream now beyond my reach and touched my the Hand of the Almighty, I press on to preach to Gospel exclusively to those whom the Lord has chosen. (You may not be one of these.)

Those not saved by the grace of God have most likely scrolled past the Light of their salvation already.
Roger Harned – reflection on why most will never talk of Jesus Christ

Social Media is not the world

Social media and broadcast media are the medium and the message to a world opposed to the Lord God.

We are in the world and of the world, born into sin and continuing in sin, unless the Lord separates us into His holiness.

Spokespersons for the world seek to sway our conversations to follow only their diverse distancing from God.

Christians must not sway back into the ways of the world — ways which demand judgment and deny the grace of Christ Jesus.

Jesus prays

Christ, the sinless man

Jesus is No More in the World (and was never of the world).

As we hear in our Lord’s High Priestly Prayer from an upper room in Jerusalem just before His betrayal, Jesus prays for those given Him — the Apostles (except His betrayer) AND for those in generations to come who will need to be protected from the evil one.

Are you one of these?

Do you need protection by the Lord God Who IS and came to the world in the Person of Christ Jesus?

Jesus, God in Person and One with the Father, prays NOT for the world but exclusively for those given to Him — souls chosen for eternal life.
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The world will hear its media but never the Truth of God.
The world will read any diverse solution except that of Scripture.
I no longer preach to a world which denies Christ Jesus.
Roger@talkofJesus.com 
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You with ears to hear and eyes to see, read what John writes to the church.

John’s Letter

Do you have ears to hear challenging preaching directed specifically to Christians who see Christ Jesus through Scripture?

If so, turn the page and read John’s first letter & my challenge to you, beloved brother or sister in Christ.

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August 31, 2020