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October 1926
T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
602 he a demon incarnated? What does the Bible say about him? In considering this I ask you each to put from your mind, as far as it is possible for you to do so, all precon ceived ideas, all that you have been accustomed to think about this flame of evil in the story of Christ. “ And first let me say what my own feeling, my own strong personal conviction, is regarding Judas Iscariot. I believe him to have been a demon incarnated by the power of the Devil, whose intent was to frustrate God’s plans. In all his foul work of destruction and confusion, the Devil, from the time of the Pall in Eden, has ever been busy counterfeiting all that God has wrought out .for the salvation of the human race, and as the time approaches for his own utter defeat so the more cunning will his devices of evil become. “ In the foulness of his thoughts to frustrate God’s pur poses of salvation, I believe that when he knew that the Christ had been born, that God had Himself become incar nate, so that He might deliver man— for we must never forget that ‘God was in Christ reconciling the .world unto Himself— that he, the Devil, incarnated one of his demons, who afterwards became known as Judas Iscariot, the betrayer of Christ.” For one instant the' preacher paused, for the aw^d and lis tening mass of people, who had been literally holding their breath, were compelled to inbreathe, and the catch of breath was heard through all the place. “ To use a twentieth century expression,” he went on, “ I may seem to have ‘given myself away’ by this statement of my own conviction. But I am not concerned with the effect; I am concerned only with a great and important truth, as it seems to me, and a truth which will, I believe, be curiously, fatefully emphasized in the days near to come, when our Lord shall have taken away His church at His coming in the air. “ Now let me invite your attention to the actual Scrip tures which speak of Judas Iscariot. But before doing so let me acknowledge my indebtedness for the inceptive thought of all I have said, and shall say, to Dr. Joseph A. Seiss, of Philadelphia, in his wondrous lectures on ‘The Revelation.* “ We will turn first again to my text, to the 6th of John, the 70th verse: ‘Did I not choose you the twelve, and one of you is a devil— a demon? He spake of Judas Iscariot.* The second text I want us to note is in John 17, verse 12, and again it is Jesus who makes the solemn declaration: ‘Those whom Thou gavest me I have kept, and none of.them is lost, but the Son of Perdition.’ The third text I would draw your attention to is in the 25th verse of Acts 1. It is Peter who is speaking, at the time of the choosing of another as apostle in Judas’s place; he says: ‘Judas, by transgression, fell, that he might go to his own place.’ ” In spite of their intentness in the wondrous personality of the messenger, and the extraordinary character of his mes sage, not a few found time to marvel at the facile ease and certainty of touch with which he handled his little pocket Bible, and turned to the desired places. As Jhe finished reading the third passage, and laid the open book down upon the desk, the old hush deepened upon the people. “ Link those three passages together,” he went on, “ and you will instantly see what I meant when I said just now, that I believe Judas Iscariot to have been an incarnated demon, and incarnated by the Devil for the one fell pur pose of frustrating God’s designs for the World’s salvation through Jesus Christ. "There is not a single recorded good thought, word, or deed that ever Judas thought, said, or did. And do please remember that Christ was never once deceived by him, for
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