The seller (Luke 22:21-23)
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Now the whole world is a huge market. A market is a place where things are sold or bought. Where the function of buying and selling is the function of the market. When the price of an item is negotiated according to each other's needs, a sale is made. However, there are some things that should not be sold in the market. There should be no such things as human trafficking, conscience trafficking, faith trafficking, and the Holy Spirit trafficking.
In today's text, Jesus said, "The hand of him who betrays me is above me. Woe to him who betrays the Son of Man."
There are things in the world to sell and things not to sell. If you violate this rule, you will be treated as a person who has abandoned heaven and humanity. No matter how angry or hard it may be, a person should never sell something that shouldn't be sold.
There is an old saying, 農夫餓生枕厥 species子 (peasant's death). There is a saying that “a farmer may starve to death because he runs out of food, but his seed will die of hunger” “No matter how difficult it is, the farmer must not eat or sell the seeds to be used for the seeds. Even if there is no food due to a famine, the seeds must be cut and killed.
However, if you need to sell and buy something better, you should sell it without hesitation. How dangerous would it be if a person climbing a ladder had something in his hand? When climbing a ladder, throw away everything you have in your hand. Even Jesus once said, "Sell your robe and buy a sword." For the Israelites, the outer garment has several meanings. First, outerwear is one of the most important assets. And secondly, outerwear refers to all the adornment of a human being. However, outerwear wears out with time and needs to be replaced with fashion. When Bartimaeus, a blind and beggar, ran before Jesus, he threw off his cloak and ran to Jesus. He sold his coat and bought the gospel.
However, there are many people in this world who do this backwards. There are many people who sell the gospel and buy outerwear. There are people who sell Sundays to buy work in the first season, sell the sword of the Word to buy face, and sell the sword of the Spirit to buy bluffs.
You shouldn't be the foolish old man from your old textbook who dragged a cow and returned with a box of rotten apples.
The Lord said to the church of Laodia among the seven churches in Asia in Revelation 3:18, "I beseech you, buy from me gold refined by fire, that you may become rich, and buy white clothes, so that you may not see the shame of your nakedness, and buy eye drops, so that you may see them. do it," he said.
Meanwhile, churches and biblical scholars have questioned why Judas sold Jesus.
Some think that the first reason is the result of envy and hatred towards other disciples.
If Judas Iscariot had no choice but to become a betrayer of Jesus, there must have been a conflict of his own. I think hatred and envy towards Jesus and other disciples may have also played a role. Without this, he would not have just sold off his Master, Jesus.
In particular, in the Gospel of John, we can see that the conflict with the apostle John was serious. The apostle John condemned Judas Iscariot as a robber and a thief.
May we not be captured by feelings of envy, jealousy, and hatred.
If you have jealousy, jealousy, or hatred of someone in your heart, you must pluck them out so that they do not take root in the field of your heart.
in the name of jesus christ
You must be expelled by the power of the cross of Jesus Christ, the blood of the blood.
You must rebuke them strongly with the power of the Holy Spirit and drive them out.
The second is the result of materialism.
Judas Iscariot was a greedy man. When Judas saw Mary pouring expensive perfume on Jesus, Judas said, "Why don't you sell this perfume for three hundred delirium and give it to the poor?"
John testifies about this, saying, "Judas says this not because he cares about the poor, but because he is a thief, because he is in charge of the money box and misses what he puts in it."
Since greed leads to sin, the 5th to 10th commandments are given as commandments related to greed.
If you are greedy, you will not respect your parents. They commit adultery because they are greedy and murder because of greed, and they also give false witnesses to their neighbors through greed and covet other people's property. Judas' greed led to the crucifixion of Jesus.
In Korea alone, more than 90% of civil and criminal cases are money-related, that is, cases directly or indirectly related to money. When asked about the motive of the crime, I often hear the answer "because of money" without hesitation.
Third, there is disappointment.
Judas Iscariot was an opportunist. He was an opportunist who stood between his master and his enemies, crossed his legs, and weighed which side he had to stick to. Judas Iscariot was all interested in the things of this world, such as the riches of this world and the fulfillment of his own body. Because he was such a man, he followed Jesus in the expectation that the miracle-working Jesus would bring him success in this world. However, no matter how much they served Jesus, there was no sign of such a thing. Rather, as they were hated by those in power, their disappointment toward Jesus grew even greater. As he began to realize that Jesus was far from his ideals and thoughts, he began to feel disappointment from Jesus, while judging that he could gain some benefit from his enemies.
Judas had a worldly and worldly reason to follow Jesus. Judah desired more power to rule in the secular kingdom than in the kingdom of God.
Even if we come to Jesus for worldly reasons, once we know Jesus right away, we have to throw away our worldly reasons.
These reasons for Judas Iscariot resulted in the summoning of Satan.
Satan is evil in nature, prowling around like a roaring lion and doing all sorts of wrongs (cf. He even tempted the Son of God (cf. Matt. 4:1-11). In this way, Satan is the one who seizes every possibility and opportunity and causes people to stumble. Judas Iscariot created an opportunity for Satan by committing the usual sin of stealing, and as a result he made Satan take control of him (cf. Luke 22:3; John 13:27). We must not create any gaps to prevent Satan from having the possibility and opportunity to rule over us, and we must forsake any form of evil (cf. 1 Thessalonians 5:22).
Jesus is not something that can be exchanged for anything. It is the only way to the Father, the way, the truth, and the life. Therefore, to those who sell it, they are faced with a wrath that nothing can solve.
Rather, like a farmer who found hidden treasure and sold all he had to buy the treasure, Jesus Christ is the one who has to throw everything away to buy it.
hymn 102
I believe that we should not commit the folly of selling Jesus for anything, whether through envy, hatred, material things, disappointment, or anything else.