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man. The words of the Lord Jesus prove that he did not come to a saving knowl edge of the Lord, hut every effort of love of our Lord was extended to Judas. Our Lord knew from the day He chose Judas that he would never accept Him, but that did not hinder. the Lord’s choosing that man and giving him every possible opportunity to be a believer. The tragedy for us is that there are men and women who sit under the hear ing of the Word and are stirred through the Spirit of God by that Word. Their very beings are shaken by the Spirit of God; they are disturbed; yet when the invitation is given, a spiritual battle goes on inside each one and something says “ Don’t do it now.” How many times when God wanted to save us have we walked out, rejecting Christ. Yet God in His wonderful grace and love kept drawing us back and back until one day we let God take over, and believed to the saving of our souls. After Judas saw what he had done, that our Lord was taken to he crucified, he took in his hands those thirty pieces of silver, and went back to the people who had given them to him. He confessed, “ I have betrayed innocent blood,” and tried to undo what he had done. The enemies of our Lord said, “ What is that to us?” Judas dashed the money to the floor before them and went out and committed suicide. The Lord had told Peter he would deny Him, just as He told Judas he would betray Him. When the Lord said that Judas would betray Him, Peter said, “ I will not deny thee in any wise.” But the Lord knew and said, “ before the cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice.” As the dawn was breaking, Peter denied Him a third time and he heard the cock crowing. The words of the Lord Jesus flooded Peter’s soul, but instead of destroying himself as Judas did, Peter repented and sought forgiveness of the Lord. The first thing the Lord said when He was raised from the grave was “ Go tell . . . [my] disciples . . . and Peter.” Why? There was a brokenhearted man, repentant, and ready to come back. If Judas had gone out and like Peter shed tears of real repentance and sorrow, I believe the message would have been, “ Go tell my disciples and Peter and Judas.” But Judas went out and hanged himself and as an unsaved man went out into a lost eternity. It is a sad thing when we realize the tragedy of this man. The Lord Jesus said in the Word that it is better not to have known than to have known the way of life and rejected it. It would be better to die a stark heathen in some foreign land than to hear repeatedly the way of life, to know the way of salva tion so well that you could give it as well as the preacher, and still go out into a lost eternity as Judas did. Have you refused the gracious invitation of the Spirit of God to accept the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour? Do not be a Judas. Trust Him today. T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
John Wesley's Rules For Personal Expenditures A Lesson fo r Today’ s Christian I F then a doubt should at any time arise in your mind concerning what you are going to expend, either on your self or any part of your family, you have an easy way to remove it. Calmly and seriously inquire, (1.) In expending this, am I acting according to my character? Am I acting herein, not as a proprietor, but as a steward of my Lord’s goods? (2.) Am I doing this in obedience to His word ? In what Scripture does He re quire me so to do? (3.) Can I offer up this action, this expense, as a sacrifice to God through Jesus Christ? (4.) Have I reason to believe, that for this very work I shall have a reward at the resur rection of the just? You will seldom need any thing more to remove any doubt which arises on this head; but by this fourfold consideration, you will receive clear light as to the way wherein you should go. If any doubts still remain, you may further examine yourself by prayer, ac cording to these heads of inquiry. Try whether you can say to the Searcher of hearts, your conscience not condemning you, “ Lord, thou seest I am going to expend this sum, on that food, apparel, furniture. And thou knowest, I act there in with a single eye, as a steward of thy goods, expending this portion of them thus, in pursuance of the design thou hadst in entrusting me with them. Thou knowest I do this in obedience to thy word, as thou commandest, and be cause thou commandest it. Let this, I beseech thee, he a holy sacrifice, accept able through Jesus Christ! And give me a witness in myself, that for this labour of love, I shall have a recompense, when thou rewardest every man according to his works.” Now if your conscience bear you witness in the Holy Ghost, that this prayer is well-pleasing to God, then have you no reason to doubt that that expense is right and good, and such as will never make you ashamed.
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friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.” This is a reference to the betrayal by Judas of our Lord, spoken by David. Remember the Lord called Judas, “ Friend.” From these Scriptures we certainly realize that Judas was never a saved
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