Pastor Ralph Posted December 21, 2014 Report Share Posted December 21, 2014 Q4. (John 13:27-30) Judas gave into his temptation to greed by stealing from the mission’s money bag. How does habitual sin tend to open us to greater influence from Satan in our lives? How did Judas eating Jesus’ bread illustrate the magnitude of his betrayal? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JanMary Posted March 8, 2015 Report Share Posted March 8, 2015 Q4. (John 13:27-30) Judas gave into his temptation to greed by stealing from the mission’s money bag. How does habitual sin tend to open us to greater influence from Satan in our lives? I think it creates a numbed conscience and a hardened heart. I heard a woman who had a number of abortions say "after the first one it was easy to have others", and a thief on t.v. say "Once I got away with stealing and didn't get caught, the fear left and it became a game" How did Judas eating Jesus’ bread illustrate the magnitude of his betrayal? To me it shows that he had no regard for Jesus at all....he was bent on going to get his 30 pieces of silver. His mind was made up, his heart was hardened and he was fully on board with Satan's temptation and plan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoiKosum Posted March 8, 2015 Report Share Posted March 8, 2015 (John 13:27-30) Judas gave into his temptation to greed by stealing from the mission’s money bag. How does habitual sin tend to open us to greater influence from Satan in our lives? How did Judas eating Jesus’ bread illustrate the magnitude of his betrayal? Habitual sinning opens to the door for satan to enter our lives. Once in, satan then exploits our weaknesses and exposes us more to temptations and sins. If we don't repent and ask for forgiveness and ask for Jesus to help us, the sins will continue to grow stronger and stronger and we become slaves to our sins. Judas eating Jesus' bread showed the magnitude of his sins by biting the hands which fed him. Judas knew that Jesus knows about his impending betrayal and Judas could have repented and asked for Jesus' forgiveness. Judas did not, so that scripture could be fulfilled, and went out to finalise his betrayal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blezed Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 (John 13:27-30) Judas gave into his temptation to greed by stealing from the mission’s money bag. How does habitual sin tend to open us to greater influence from Satan in our lives? How did Judas eating Jesus’ bread illustrate the magnitude of his betrayal? Habitual sin tend to open us to greater influence from Satan in our lives because it becomes easier to sin the more we do it. We move from a small sin to a greater sin. Therefore, Satan will have no problem entering into our lives. Judas eating Jesus' bread showed no remorse. He had become demon-possessed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarence Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 Q4. (John 13:27-30) Judas gave into his temptation to greed by stealing from the mission’s money bag. How does habitual sin tend to open us to greater influence from Satan in our lives? How did Judas eating Jesus’ bread illustrate the magnitude of his betrayal? Sin to start with is subtle. James chapter 1 says:each person is tempted when dragged away by their own evil desire and inticed. This desire gives birth to sin- and full grown sin ..."gives birth to death"... (James 1:14,15 writers paraphrase in places). In Genesis 3 the serpent inticed Eve to take of the fruit, by suggesting that she would not die if she ate the fruit. The fruit was a delight to her eyes and she thought that it would make her wise so she took and ate. A habitual sin can become greater and greater because once one gives in to a temptation it is easier to give in again to even greater temptations. (Amos 5:14-15, 2 Timothy 2:22) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haar Posted March 11, 2015 Report Share Posted March 11, 2015 Q4. (John 13:27-30) Q. Judas gave into his temptation to greed by stealing from the mission's money bag. How does habitual sin tend to open us to greater influence from Satan in our lives? A. When we sin, Satan gets a foothold for further attack and influence over us. Q.How did Judas eating Jesus' bread illustrate the magnitude of his betrayal? By accepting and eating bread from Jesus, Judas lost the opportunity for repentance and thus went ahead with his greedy plan to betray my Lord for some silver coins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hanks Posted March 12, 2015 Report Share Posted March 12, 2015 Q4. (John 13:27-30) Judas gave into his temptation to greed by stealing from the mission's money bag. How does habitual sin tend to open us to greater influence from Satan in our lives? How did Judas eating Jesus' bread illustrate the magnitude of his betrayal? I would say that much of why we sin is habitual, and it is a cycle that is not easily broken. And the fact that we live in a fallen, sinful world makes it even harder to shake off Satan’s influence in our lives. All around us we see people actually enjoying sin, making it look like healthy fun - even becoming a norm in certain societies. It could have been an Eastern custom for the host to give the honoured guest a dipped piece of bread at a meal. I think therefore that Jesus, by offering Judas the bread, made Judas an honoured guest, and he did this to try and win him to repentance by His grace and love. We read that the moment Judas took the bread, Satan entered him (v. 27b), confirming that he rejected Jesus’ offer of salvation. The devil had previously already put it into Judas’ heart to betray the Lord, but now the devil took control of him and he was fully determined to carry on with his evil deed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteD Posted March 15, 2015 Report Share Posted March 15, 2015 Lesson 23 Q4 It seems that habitual sin does make it easier to sin in the future. Once a decision is made to do anything, one can then more easily do the act without much further reflection. In the case of Judas, it seems that Judas was in the habit of giving in to his greed by pilfering funds he was entrusted to keep. It was the beginning of a downward path to perdition. It culminated in the lie of his accepting the bread of fellowship from Jesus while in his heart he was already planning his betrayal. At this point he had allowed Satan to take complete control of his faculties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteD Posted March 15, 2015 Report Share Posted March 15, 2015 Lesson 23 Q4 It seems that habitual sin does make it easier to sin in the future. Once a decision is made to do anything, one can then more easily do the act without much further reflection. In the case of Judas, it seems that Judas was in the habit of giving in to his greed by pilfering funds he was entrusted to keep. It was the beginning of a downward path to perdition. It culminated in the lie of his accepting the bread of fellowship from Jesus while in his heart he was already planning his betrayal. At this point he had allowed Satan to take complete control of his faculties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RebeccaMallinson Posted March 18, 2015 Report Share Posted March 18, 2015 It is the famous slippery slope. Sins start small, just as a thought which is not put into practice. We have a choice of following or resisting that temptation. If the sin is put into action, temptation gets a hold and starts to escalate. The boldness with which Judas sat and ate with Jesus while calmly hearing him predict his betrayal demonstrates how strong a hold temptation now had on Judas. If we resist temptation, we become better and better at resisting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lighthouse2014 Posted March 20, 2015 Report Share Posted March 20, 2015 Q4. (John 13:27-30) Judas gave into his temptation to greed by stealing from the mission’s money bag. How does habitual sin tend to open us to greater influence from Satan in our lives? How did Judas eating Jesus’ bread illustrate the magnitude of his betrayal? Habitual sin in our life makes us sort of numb to the temptation of it, obeying it's desire. In time this could cause us to obey greater sins which could cause us to feel gratified in the flesh. Satan will continue his temptations till eventually we submit to them thus causing the sin to drag us down and away from God. Jesus sharing the bread with Judas illustrates that he knew what Judas must do to fulfill prophecy. Jesus also knew that scripture must be fulfilled, he knew Judas was a disloyal disciple who had a great greed for money, 30 pieces of silver (which was also prophesied ) must have been a great sum all at one time. The money bag he was in charge of probably was empty most of the time and what they did get he helped himself to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 Q4. (John 13:27-30) Judas gave into his temptation to greed by stealing from the mission’s money bag. How does habitual sin tend to open us to greater influence from Satan in our lives? How did Judas eating Jesus’ bread illustrate the magnitude of his betrayal? There comes a point where we are so hardened from our sinful actions that we cannot turn back. We knew at the beginning with the nagging doubts and ignored those warning messages. This should be scary to all of us that we are capable of ignoring our knowledge that something is wrong and keep going because we can. Judas could have repented at the table to the Lord, and even after Jesus told Him to do what he was going to do, he was so set on this path that he went ahead. By this point Judas was hardened and cold to what he was going to do. So completely taken by the alluring and subtle voice of the tempter that he ate bread with the Lord who he had been with for a number of years and knew who He was and still went ahead. So completely used to the practice of thieving and deceit that it was now easy for him. None of us should think ourselves above this. We must read the Word, confess our sins and pray everyday. Our tempter wants the Lords people most, to discredit God. God Bless! Jen Numbers 6:24-26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quilter Posted March 25, 2015 Report Share Posted March 25, 2015 When we let Satan in our lives he overcomes us and we can't see right from wrong. I think this is what happen to Judas he was so full of Satan he thought he could get by with what he was about to do. Greed and money for the want of it will invite Satan into your life. We have to believe that our Savior will take care of us even if we have no money. Greedy people if they don't invite Jesus into their life and love all the same is doomed. Judas was so dead-set on having the money nothing could not stop him he could have told Jesus at the table about what he going to do but greed kept him from doing this. I think in this world people don't know or care that you cannot serve two master and Judas chose his. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pickledilly Posted April 3, 2015 Report Share Posted April 3, 2015 When we repeatedly yield to sin, we are pulled deeper and deeper into darkness a little at the time. Every time we reject the light of truth, our spiritual vision gradually becomes more darkened, our moral hearing more deadened, our heart more hardened, our conscience more numbed, and our strength to resist more undermined. This is a condition in which we’re extremely vulnerable to satan’s persistent and unrelenting influence. He is our natural default setting, the voice we hear when we aren’t seeking the voice of the Spirit of God. When Judas took the bread given to him by Jesus, it was a profound moment. Whatever his motive (I don’t believe he had any idea how it would ultimately turn out), Judas had been thinking about this and making plans for some time, rationalizing and accepting each step one by one as lies slowly replaced truth in his mind. Now he reached the point of the betrayal of his Rabbi, his spiritual leader, his friend. But Judas also betrayed the holy bread of the Seder meal that spoke of Yahweh’s promised One by taking it in utterly degenerate unbelief. And in an even larger sense, this represented something much worse. Judas was betraying and rejecting the very “food that endures to eternal life” that was being offered to him, the Bread of Life who had come down from heaven to give life to the world (John 6:32-33), the Deliverer who was looking him right in the eye and offering a final opportunity to choose a new direction. But Judas had gone so deep into darkness and his mind was so set that there was no turning back for him, and he stepped fully into the black night that would ultimately destroy him. God used Judas' sin to accomplish His glorious plan of redemption, but Judas' choice placed his own life in the deadly hands of satan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grace2free Posted April 11, 2015 Report Share Posted April 11, 2015 Q4. (John 13:27-30) Judas gave into his temptation to greed by stealing from the mission’s money bag. How does habitual sin tend to open us to greater influence from Satan in our lives? Satan is the "the prince of lies" and he wants us to disobey the Lord so that we will all fall short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23). So habitual sin made us to be more disrespectful and no more fear to God. We became slaves of sin in the sense that we obey its temptation more and more frequently. John 8:34 (KJV) 34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. How did Judas eating Jesus’ bread illustrate the magnitude of his betrayal? Judas is determined to betray Jesus. He never love Jesus anyway. All he want is the 30 pieces of silver. It is greed, the sin that makes Judas betray Jesus. It is also a lesson to what will happen to those who are not chosen by God. John 13:18 (KJV) 18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me. Verse 18. I speak not of you all. That is, in addressing you as clean, I do not mean to say that you all possess this character. I know whom I have chosen. He here means evidently to say that he had not chosen them all, implying that Judas had not been chosen. As, however, this word is applied to Judas in one place (John 6:70), "Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?" it must have a different meaning here from that which it has there. There it evidently refers to the apostleship. Jesus had chosen him to be an apostle, and had treated him as such. Here is refers to purity of heart, and Jesus implies that, though Judas had been chosen to the office of apostleship, yet he had not been chosen to purity of heart and life. The remaining eleven had been, and would be saved. It was not, however, the fault of Jesus that Judas was not saved, for he was admitted to the same teaching, the same familiarity, and the same office; but his execrable love of gold gained the ascendency, and rendered vain all the means used for his conversion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stanley Tavaziva Posted May 5, 2015 Report Share Posted May 5, 2015 Q4. (John 13:27-30) Judas gave into his temptation to greed by stealing from the mission’s money bag. How does habitual sin tend to open us to greater influence from Satan in our lives? How did Judas eating Jesus’ bread illustrate the magnitude of his betrayal? Satan’s part in the betrayal of Jesus does not remove any of the responsibility from Judas. Disillusioned because Jesus was talking about dying rather than setting up his Kingdom, Judas may have been trying to force Jesus’ hand and make him use his power to prove he was the Messiah. Or perhaps Judas, not understanding Jesus’ mission, no longer believed Jesus was God’s chosen one. Whatever Judas thought, Satan assumed that Jesus’ death would end his mission and thwart God’s plan. Like Judas, Satan did not know that Jesus’ death was the most important part of God’s plan all along. John describes these few moments in clear detail. We can see that Jesus knew exactly what was going to happen. He knew about Judas and about Peter, but he did not change the situation, nor did he stop loving them. In the same way, Jesus knows exactly what you will do to hurt him. Yet he still loves you unconditionally and will forgive you whenever you ask him. Judas couldn’t understand this, and his life ended tragically. Peter understood, and despite his shortcomings, his life ended triumphantly because he never let go of his faith in the one who loved him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royk Posted May 25, 2015 Report Share Posted May 25, 2015 Q4. (John 13:27-30) Judas gave into his temptation to greed by stealing from the mission's money bag. How does habitual sin tend to open us to greater influence from Satan in our lives? How did Judas eating Jesus' bread illustrate the magnitude of his betrayal?The seven deadly sins, wrath, greed, sloth, pride, ****, envy, and gluttony, part of my repertoire, though not willing to convict ourselves, we need the Holy Spirit to teach us. Judas needed Jesus to convict him in front of the others, in this way they would understand later that this was indeed God's plan. he makes it all good, even from evil deeds. Judas had planned it and Jesus showed him that he already knew it. He told Judas to go do it. This needed to happen for Jesus to die when he did. it was all God's plan to show how he would overcome death on the cross. The humble servant King, our Savior! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_Applegarth Posted September 12, 2015 Report Share Posted September 12, 2015 How does habitual sin open us to greater influence from Satan? Succumbing to sin brings with it coveting, yearning and aspiration which make it increasingly harder to resist the next time temptation rears its head. No matter how slightly, if we open the door to sin we make room for Satan! Once that door is open he’ll do EVERYTHING in his power to make it easy for us to get sucked into the dreadful downward spiral of sin. “Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.” (James 4:7-8) How did Judas eating Jesus' bread illustrate the magnitude of his betrayal? Judas had been a disciple and confidante of Jesus for three years. Jesus obviously loved and trusted him and even though He knew what was about to happen, it was probably difficult for Him to accept that one of His own would betray Him. John explicitly mentions that he (Judas) was next to the Lord at the table yet Judas rejected and refused to honor Him. Because of Judas’ betrayal, Jesus was arrested, publically humiliated, beaten mercilessly, and ultimately nailed to the cross to die a very painful death. Luke says that, as he ate the sop, the devil entered him, and it was at that moment that he made the final decision to betray Jesus. Judas never truly believed in Jesus and that made him highly susceptible to Satan’s temptation. Earlier in the evening Jesus acknowledged the state of Judas' heart when he told the disciples, "But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him." (John 6:64) God doesn’t force anyone to do good; nor does he force anyone to do evil! The bottom line is, God most certainly didn’t compel Judas to betray Jesus; he was acting on his own. Judas had made a conscious decision to betray the Lord and he made it of his own volition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Jerry Posted September 19, 2018 Report Share Posted September 19, 2018 Habitual sin opens up to greater influence from Satan in our lives because it feels so good. We are always fighting sin and to just give into it seems to relax us. So then when we are habitually sinning we are losing our compass and drifting into more sin. Judas took the bread from Jesus just a friend would do and then betrayed him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godswriter Posted May 12, 2019 Report Share Posted May 12, 2019 Q4. (John 13:27-30) Judas gave into his temptation to greed by stealing from the mission’s money bag. How does habitual sin tend to open us to greater influence from Satan in our lives? How did Judas eating Jesus’ bread illustrate the magnitude of his betrayal? Habitual sin can opens us to greater influence by causing us to do things we don't normally do. It showed that Judas wasn't truly Jesus' disciple by doing it and that his heart wasn't with Jesus and that he was already in too deep with sin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Edwards Posted November 27, 2021 Report Share Posted November 27, 2021 Little by little so called little sins destroy a whole hearted devotion to God. Judas thought that he could get away with it...pilfering. He did not grasped the love that Christ had for him; he couldn't grasp the calling to be an Apostle even though he was getting "job training" directly from Christ. So baffling! How a person who just had his feet washed and given a morsel of food directly from Christ---could actually betray our Lord Jesus Christ. Both acts of Christ's love were clarion calls to Judas to forsake his devilish plan. The Prophet Ezekiel often preached about hard-heartness. He preached about a small baby abandoned by the wayside; the child was filthy, no one cared about it until God---our Lord Elohim Adonai took pity. This was Israel. The child became a beautiful young lady., but decided to take the Broadway of sin. Despite all the gifts and love of God, Israel went the way of a prostitue. God respected the free will of Israel; Christ didn't force Judas to repent. Judas' heart wasn't single-minded. Judas grew disenfranchised as he realized Christ's Kingdom was not going to overthrow the Roman Empire. Just the thought that Christ was calling his Apostles to be servants to each other; the thought most likely was abhorrent to Judas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irmela Posted August 30, 2022 Report Share Posted August 30, 2022 Q4. (John 13:27-30) Judas gave into his temptation to greed by stealing from the mission's money bag. How does habitual sin tend to open us to greater influence from Satan in our lives? How did Judas eating Jesus' bread illustrate the magnitude of his betrayal? Habitual sin, as has been stated by others, starts with something small. The less you are caught out the more the sin is done and the greater the sin becomes, or the more daring. Eventually it becomes second nature, and one is quite callous about it. (Allow satan to grab the little finger and it is not long before he has the whole hand.) Judas still reflected before everyone that everything was fine. Up to this point his fellow disciples and Apostles had noticed nothing strange in his attitude or mannerism / behaviour. Jesus , who knew of the deception, did not treat him any different to anyone else. The bread that Jesus, Who Himself was the Bread of LIFE, offered him, he took it as though he was one with Jesus. This is what makes the betrayal so much more unreal. if he was antagonistic beforehand etc., it would have been easier to understand. Before we point a finger at Judas, at Peter or the disciples who fled the scene, or at anyone else for that matter, let us examine our motives in accepting friendship etc., or our accepting of fellowship. What is in our heart? Keep me true, Lord Jesus keep me true Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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