Week Fifteen: Day One

    April 07, 2025 | Be God's Family

    Judas' Plots to Betray Jesus

    Scripture: Matthew 26:14-16(NIV)

    14 Then one of the Twelve—the one called Judas Iscariot—went to the chief priests 15 and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I deliver him over to you?” So they counted out for him thirty pieces of silver. 16 From then on Judas watched for an opportunity to hand him over.

    Devotional

    By: Mark Ellcessor

    Judas.

    Judas, called by Jesus to be one of His twelve disciples.

    Judas, trusted to be the keeper of the ministry money bag (John 12:6).

    Judas, referenced by Jesus earlier in His ministry when He said, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!” (John 6:7).

    Judas, rebuked by Jesus when he objected to a woman wasting expensive perfume to anoint Jesus (John 12:4-5).

    Judas, recognized as a thief who helped himself to money for the ministry of Jesus (John 12:6).

    Judas, conspired with the chief priests and Pharisees for a fee to have Jesus delivered to them (Matthew 26:14-15).

    Judas, watched for an opportunity to hand Jesus over to the angry authorities (Matthew 26:16).

    Judas, called out at the Last Supper by Jesus who said His betrayer is the one to whom He gives His piece of bread (Matthew 26:25; John 13:26).

    Judas, leader of a detachment of soldiers to the garden where Jesus was praying for His arrest and capture (John 18:3).

    Judas, entered by Satan in order to carry out his evil plan (Luke 22:3).

    Judas, betrayed His master with a kiss (Matthew 26:49).

    Judas, seized with remorse, then returned the money he had made for betraying Jesus (Matthew 27:3).

    Judas, overcome with grief so deep that he hanged himself (Matthew 27:5)

    Judas, called by Jesus to be one of His twelve disciples.

    Poem

    My King's Desire
    Psalm 21

    You have granted him his heart’s desire and have not withheld the request of his lips. The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath, and his fire will consume them. You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from mankind. Though they plot evil against you and devise wicked schemes, they cannot succeed.
    Psalm 21: 2, 9b-11

    The LORD grants now my King’s desire:
    Life salvaged for His children
    His glory great
    His vict’ry sure
    O’er Death’s most violent villain

    Despite the evil plotting rude
    The wicked schemes devising
    Unfailing love
    Eternal bless
    Stained future be revising

    For though the day seems dark and lost
    And earth quakes in its mourning
    The battle turns
    The Son will rise
    Life’s resurrection dawning

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