Temptation, Betrayal, and the Power of Restoration
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"Judas, according to John, Judas revealed his heart in John chapter 12. And in John chapter 12, Judas, there was this kind of a dinner. And at this dinner, there's this lady named Mary. And she has this perfume bottle. And in this perfume bottle, some very, very expensive perfume. It was worth a year's wages. And Jesus is sitting there, and she comes up behind, and she breaks the perfume, and she pours it on Jesus' feet, if you will, anointing him, preparing him for his burial. And she anoints his feet, and she wipes his feet with his tears. And Judas says, hey, hey, hey, hey, guys, what a waste of money. What a waste of resources. You know, we could have used that money. That was a year's worth of wages. We could have used that money to help the poor. We could have, we could have, why be so extravagant?" [00:43:49] (51 seconds)
"Internally, John says the reason he did that was he didn't care about the poor. John says he didn't care about the poor because he was a thief. He was a thief. And if you took all that money, you cashed it in, he would get some more of it. As a treasurer for the ministry, he used to help himself to what was put in. Judas reveals his heart. That's the crack. That's his weakness. His weakness was finances. His weak was something else. He would put something else before Jesus." [00:45:13] (32 seconds)
"And even though he spent time with Jesus, even though he watched the miracles, even though he watched Jesus do the ministry, and he himself did the ministry, that crack was always there. He always had something before Jesus. Greed. Pleasure. Whatever he did with that money. Insecurity. He used that. He was a thief. Verse 4 says this. So when he went his way, he went his way to the leading priests, the temple of the guard, to discuss the best way to talk to Jesus. Watch this. He went his way. It is a decision that he made of his own that then Satan takes advantage of. He went his way. Literally, it says, in the Greek it says, and having gone off, he discussed. Another way." [00:46:34] (55 seconds)
"Peter denies Jesus three times. Peter will go up, and he's putting a fire around a little pit, and he comes up to Jesus, and a slave girl, a young slave girl, comes up and says, I recognize you. You're not from here. Aren't you one of them? Oh, no, no. I don't even know the guy. Peter does that three times. He denies Jesus. Listen to what it says, though. It says that Peter denied Jesus, and it said, Jesus said in that room, Satan wanted to sift him, sift him like wheat. The idea, the sift, is to shake violently." [00:48:21] (41 seconds)
"It is not just a constantly, he just wanted to call you over here. Let's come over here. Let's talk. We'll have a good time. It was a violent action. The word is to separate the wheat, the grain from the chaff. Satan isn't just tempting. He wants to shake the disciples down to their core, church. He wants to violently test their faith to see what is real and what is not. But, and I'm purposely using the plural idea, sift. The word is intense. We don't catch that. When we catch the word, he wants to sift you like wheat. But there's an intensity about it in the original language." [00:49:02] (45 seconds)
"Satan is demanding with an intensity, God, let me sift them like wheat. Let me, let me, let me at them. And Jesus says this. He says, Simon, Simon, more than just once. It's to get their attention. Art, art, right? It's to get their attention, right? He gets his attention. Simon, it's a great, loving call. Simon, Simon. Pay attention, focus. Then he says this. He says, Satan has demanded to have you. You. The you is plural. In the Greek, you can be singular. You and me, right? I can say cleat. Well, you pick up your bag and cleat knows instantly that I'm talking to him." [00:50:52] (54 seconds)
"Satan is after more than Peter. And if you've always seen this and you've only seen this as an attack on Peter, it is not. It is an attack on all of the disciples right there and right then. He wants to sift all of them. Tim Mackey from the Bible Project says this. It's like that you would be like if you're from the south. Y 'all. Y 'all. This is what it says. It says he demands to sift you all. Y 'all. I got to make sure I get there. I'm not from the south. Where is my North Carolina? Y 'all? You got my, right? Y 'all." [00:52:12] (37 seconds)
"Satan is not after just Peter. And if you catch this, then what Jesus says to Peter really begins to make some sense. Because he called Peter the rock, right? Satan wants to expose their flaws. That's what you do when you sift some wheat. You pull it up and you pick it. Satan wants to take all of the disciples and he wants to expose their flaws. Matthew was a tax collector. Nathaniel, you know, he was the guy that studied the word and Nathaniel has faults. He wants to shake loose their faith." [00:52:55] (34 seconds)
"He doesn't just want to test. He wants to shake it so much that they lose their faith. Satan wants to break the disciples apart. Create, where there is unity, create disunity. They will know you by your love for one another. In your unity, they will know you. And Satan wants to expose their flaws. Imagine if Satan could put on this screen right here the sins that you have committed last week. Wow. Would we let you back into church next week?" [00:53:14] (35 seconds)
"How can Jesus do this to me? How can Jesus allow this pain and this suffering for me to go through? How can Jesus, Jesus, he loves me. And why would a loving, why would my friend? So therefore, I'm not going to spend time with him. If he's going to allow me to go through that, then I don't want him in my life that much. He would love for you to say those words. He would love for these things to come your way. Because Satan, don't pass this up as some pastoral thing that he says on Sunday morning." [00:55:32] (36 seconds)
"Jesus is praying for you right now. He's alive today. We're going to celebrate the resurrection in about a month. We're going to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. He is alive today. And what is he doing? He is praying for you. He's praying that Satan, who wants to sift you like wheat, that Satan wouldn't have the authority to sift you like wheat. He is interceding for you. But it is only the you who have trusted in Jesus completely." [00:58:20] (31 seconds)
"Peter was restored. Jesus comes up to him and says, Peter, do you love me? Yeah, I love you. Peter, do you love me? Do you love me? We make a lot out of those ideas. It is, but Peter is being restored, being renewed, being reconciled back to Jesus. And what do we see in the first couple of pages of Acts? The man who fearfully, fearfully fled from a young servant girl, standing boldly at the steps of the temple, proclaiming Jesus, and just a month and a half later, it's pretty incredible." [01:00:17] (42 seconds)
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"Internally, John says the reason he did that was he didn't care about the poor. John says he didn't care about the poor because he was a thief. He was a thief. And if you took all that money, you cashed it in, he would get some more of it. As a treasurer for the ministry, he used to help himself to what was put in. Judas reveals his heart. That's the crack. That's his weakness. His weakness was finances. His weak was something else. He would put something else before Jesus." [00:45:13] (32 seconds)
"And even though he spent time with Jesus, even though he watched the miracles, even though he watched Jesus do the ministry, and he himself did the ministry, that crack was always there. He always had something before Jesus. Greed. Pleasure. Whatever he did with that money. Insecurity. He used that. He was a thief. Verse 4 says this. So when he went his way, he went his way to the leading priests, the temple of the guard, to discuss the best way to talk to Jesus. Watch this. He went his way. It is a decision that he made of his own that then Satan takes advantage of. He went his way. Literally, it says, in the Greek it says, and having gone off, he discussed. Another way." [00:46:34] (55 seconds)
"Peter denies Jesus three times. Peter will go up, and he's putting a fire around a little pit, and he comes up to Jesus, and a slave girl, a young slave girl, comes up and says, I recognize you. You're not from here. Aren't you one of them? Oh, no, no. I don't even know the guy. Peter does that three times. He denies Jesus. Listen to what it says, though. It says that Peter denied Jesus, and it said, Jesus said in that room, Satan wanted to sift him, sift him like wheat. The idea, the sift, is to shake violently." [00:48:21] (41 seconds)
"It is not just a constantly, he just wanted to call you over here. Let's come over here. Let's talk. We'll have a good time. It was a violent action. The word is to separate the wheat, the grain from the chaff. Satan isn't just tempting. He wants to shake the disciples down to their core, church. He wants to violently test their faith to see what is real and what is not. But, and I'm purposely using the plural idea, sift. The word is intense. We don't catch that. When we catch the word, he wants to sift you like wheat. But there's an intensity about it in the original language." [00:49:02] (45 seconds)
"Satan is demanding with an intensity, God, let me sift them like wheat. Let me, let me, let me at them. And Jesus says this. He says, Simon, Simon, more than just once. It's to get their attention. Art, art, right? It's to get their attention, right? He gets his attention. Simon, it's a great, loving call. Simon, Simon. Pay attention, focus. Then he says this. He says, Satan has demanded to have you. You. The you is plural. In the Greek, you can be singular. You and me, right? I can say cleat. Well, you pick up your bag and cleat knows instantly that I'm talking to him." [00:50:52] (54 seconds)
"Satan is after more than Peter. And if you've always seen this and you've only seen this as an attack on Peter, it is not. It is an attack on all of the disciples right there and right then. He wants to sift all of them. Tim Mackey from the Bible Project says this. It's like that you would be like if you're from the south. Y 'all. Y 'all. This is what it says. It says he demands to sift you all. Y 'all. I got to make sure I get there. I'm not from the south. Where is my North Carolina? Y 'all? You got my, right? Y 'all." [00:52:12] (37 seconds)
"Satan is not after just Peter. And if you catch this, then what Jesus says to Peter really begins to make some sense. Because he called Peter the rock, right? Satan wants to expose their flaws. That's what you do when you sift some wheat. You pull it up and you pick it. Satan wants to take all of the disciples and he wants to expose their flaws. Matthew was a tax collector. Nathaniel, you know, he was the guy that studied the word and Nathaniel has faults. He wants to shake loose their faith." [00:52:55] (34 seconds)
"He doesn't just want to test. He wants to shake it so much that they lose their faith. Satan wants to break the disciples apart. Create, where there is unity, create disunity. They will know you by your love for one another. In your unity, they will know you. And Satan wants to expose their flaws. Imagine if Satan could put on this screen right here the sins that you have committed last week. Wow. Would we let you back into church next week?" [00:53:14] (35 seconds)
"How can Jesus do this to me? How can Jesus allow this pain and this suffering for me to go through? How can Jesus, Jesus, he loves me. And why would a loving, why would my friend? So therefore, I'm not going to spend time with him. If he's going to allow me to go through that, then I don't want him in my life that much. He would love for you to say those words. He would love for these things to come your way. Because Satan, don't pass this up as some pastoral thing that he says on Sunday morning." [00:55:32] (36 seconds)
"Jesus is praying for you right now. He's alive today. We're going to celebrate the resurrection in about a month. We're going to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. He is alive today. And what is he doing? He is praying for you. He's praying that Satan, who wants to sift you like wheat, that Satan wouldn't have the authority to sift you like wheat. He is interceding for you. But it is only the you who have trusted in Jesus completely." [00:58:20] (31 seconds)
"Peter was restored. Jesus comes up to him and says, Peter, do you love me? Yeah, I love you. Peter, do you love me? Do you love me? We make a lot out of those ideas. It is, but Peter is being restored, being renewed, being reconciled back to Jesus. And what do we see in the first couple of pages of Acts? The man who fearfully, fearfully fled from a young servant girl, standing boldly at the steps of the temple, proclaiming Jesus, and just a month and a half later, it's pretty incredible." [01:00:17] (42 seconds)
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