Judas by elder don ellis

JUDAS

By: Elder Don Ellis

I feel impressed and burdened or saddened by this continual argument of being skilled to detect the non-elect or hell bound people in the scripture. We have to believe that certain people in the bible have to go to this eternal torment just to be counted as a Primitive Baptist. It is a great pressure among our ministers when one changes from believing that Judas wa~ a child of God, you can just laugh all the way to the fellowship bank. Other wise if you maintain that the elect family of God is of a very corrupt nature and can commit any sin that the righteous wrath of our God is greatly opposed to, you then are considered a heretic. In Mathew 18:32-35, would it be right for us to say that God would freely, graciously forgive this ten thousand talent debt, and then change and send this man to eternal hell because he would not forgive others? Who would you say the tormentors were? If Judas was a thief, not one that acted like a thief, then whom did God have in mind when it was written, "Thou shalt not steal?" Are our eyes so sharp that we can see one of the non-elect even better than we can see the elect? Do not we judge and compare these people with our own sinful nature in comparison with what they did? Would not our eyes be full of darkness?

The first scripture mentioned was Mathew 10: 1, Jesus calls his 12 diSCiples unto him and gives

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them power against or over unclean spirits to cast them out and to heal alt manner of sickness and all manner of disease, Judas is named among these men. When this command was given all twelve were included. The 11th chapter begins by stating that all twelve were still there.

When each had received power to cast out evil spirits is this not contradictory to the words of Christ in Luke 11 :15-20? Christ is accused of ,. casting out devils by the spirit of the devil or Satan. His answer is, if Satan also be divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? Verse 20 is very plain "But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of i

God is come upon you."

Mathew 10:5-6: These twelve Jesus sent forth and commanded them saying "Go not in the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not. But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." Would our Jesus Christ send a devil to the lost sheep of the house of Israel? Verse 16: Behold I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves, be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves." This seems to teach that the twelve were by nature as sheep timid and meek and weak and they were to go among wolves who were much more powerful. Did Christ send his disciples to preach to the non-elect who are

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supposed to be so much more sinful than 1he elect? I· beJieve the wolves are the elect, the lost sheep who are following their Adam natures and are lost in practicing law, feeling that other people are so much greater sinners than themselves. Shall we say, like the Pharisees (Verse 10:19) "Take no thought how or what you shall speak, for it shan be given you in that same hour what you shall speak." Verse 20: "For it is not ye that speak but the Spirit of your Father which speakest." Did the Spirit of Judas' father speak in him? Was God his Father? IIlf you speak what the Father says you will be hated but he that endureth to the end shall be saved." One of the elect does not have to endure to the end of his life to go to heaven. That end is fixed in God's sight by the shed blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, but this child can lose his part in the Kingdom of God if he does not endure the persecutions of powerful men. This is what Judas lost as well as we can when we fear what men can do to us rather than fearing our God. Verse 38: "And he that taketh not his cross and followeth after me is not worthy of me," Verse 39: "He that findeth his life shall lose it." If you follow the commandments of men to have a better life you will lose it. This did Judas, He got powerful men on his side and lost his fellowship with God.

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This damning piece of evidence in John 6:70-71 about Judas is damning, not just about Judas but to us all that are prone to lie. Jesus says he is a devil and not one possessed ofadevil. Jesus says it plainly "and one ofyou is a devil" but he did not say the devil. What Jesus really said was, and one of you is a liar: In a Greek Concordance, everywhere the word ·diabotos is found, it is always used meaning devil or liar. But, in all places where it is as speaking of a person it is rendered "the devil", That is except 4 places it is rendered a devil or as a synonym of it to describe a liar such as slanderer or false accuser. These words are found in John 6:70; 1 Timothy 3:11 as slanderer, 2Timothy 3:3 is a warning against men that are lovers of themselves that can be false accusers (devils), lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, Is not the fellowship power in the Primitive Baptist Church controlled by such men? Titus 2:3 is written to aged women not to be false accusers as they are to teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste keepers at home, obedient to their husbands that the word of God be not blasphemed, See what a false accuser or devil can do among the brethren of the church. These four scriptures are the admonitions to the children of God not spoken to the non-elect. Now if this fault is found in our churches, which actually is quite common, then

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do we publicly exclude them as non-elect without any repentance? In John 6:70 Jesus is not calling Judas the devil but a devil or -liar.

John 8:30: In this part of the article the question is not about Judas, but is about whether or not one of the elect or child of God have the devil for a father. In John 8:24 Jesus speaks: "I said therefore unto you that ye shall die in your sins, for if you believe not that I am he ye shall die in your sins. If Now a child of God or the. elect does not have to believe on Jesus to go to heaven, ­but he can die unforgiven if he does not believe on Jesus in this world. Verse 30: "as he spake these words many believed on him. Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." Here are children of God in their lamb or babe state being encouraged to become disciples or a pupil or a learner, or followers. Now here is where new church members begin to fall away or cease to grow in grace and knowledge of the truth. The devil begins to tell them that this is too hard. Brethren around them in their lives prove it is too self-sacrificing to follow the Lord. They look at the Kingdom of Heaven and see the strait gate and the narrow way and decide the broad way is easier. This all comes from the Devil who teaches them there is a more fun or easier way.

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JUDAS

By: Elder Don Ellis

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