Sister Sharron Sunday School 3/22/15

Sister Sharron Sunday School 3/22/15

Gall is a bitter herb that you would not ingest of choice.  It is meant to dull the senses.  When gall comes in the throat it is bitter and burning.  Since it is called gall it might be like that.

Deu 18:15  The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;

Deu 18:16  According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.

Isn’t it wonderful that God provided a perfect prophet?  We have something more and greater than one to rule in this life.  We can reign over sin.  It is a wonderful deliverance that works 24/7.  Only Jesus can do this for us.

Psa 2:2  The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,

Psa 2:3  Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

The rulers were the ones that were banding together against Jesus.  To sit with Judas during the last supper and partake of that bread with him was some of what Jesus endured.  Judas was so bold.  He had already betrayed Jesus.  He came and sat among them. 

I have seen boldness by people that are deceivers.  It is not a pretty sight.  Jesus’ heart was grieved of what was to become of Judas.  “It was intended from the beginning, but had to be.  Wo is he.”  He was grieved. 

We fear for what is ahead for those that don’t serve God.  We know as sure as our salvation that sin will not treat them good. 

Judas was sure that Jesus would have recovered himself.  He was so sure, he had it set in his mind.  Sometimes I am that way.  I get my mind so set that I cannot see the whole picture.  Judas when he came to the place, wanted to give the money back and get rid of the wrong that he had done.  It was too late.  The die was cast.  He was so grieved that he took his own life. 

The plan is for us to be a body and to take counsel.  We not only get counsel from our pastor but from the whole body.  We need to take heed to the counsel.  We remember the story of the elephant that was ‘seen’ by 7 blind men.  This is the way that we are.  God is the only one that sees everything.  We see this or that according to where we are coming from.  That is why we need to be joined to each other. 

Without the body we will not be well rounded.  We need to not only take heed and listen but also step over the line and give counsel. 

We need to be easily entreated.  When we are in a tangle that is all we can see.  It is hard for someone to come and say, “I see this and if you are not careful it can hurt you.”  It is really hard if someone has a spirit that gets offended easily.  You feel that no matter what, they will be offended.  We want to help them to get the victory. 

Sometimes the advice giver doesn’t see a portion of it but it is no reason to take offence.  Had Judas been really listening and walking close to Jesus.  That would have been the key.  That is the key for us. 

The other disciples probably didn’t know that Judas was in a place to betray Jesus.  Peter when Jesus said, “Get behind me Satan.”  Took it.  There is grace.  God has a way to help us in those circumstances.

Psa 45:2  Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

This is a wonderful description of Jesus.

Jesus betrayal:

Psa 41:9  Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

Because Jesus was in the human He was hurt.

Psa 55:12  For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:

Psa 55:13  But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.

Psa 55:14  We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.

Psa 55:15  Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.

This was the experience that Jesus had.  It wasn’t the Roman soldiers that had betrayed Him.  It was one that He had eaten bread with and one of His disciples.

Mat 26:47  And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

Mat 26:48  Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.

Mat 26:49  And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him.

Mat 26:50  And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.

Can you envision this?  He plotted to kiss the one that the soldiers were to capture!

Mat 26:51  And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest's, and smote off his ear.

Mat 26:52  Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

Jesus was the one that they were after yet Jesus showed such mercy.  He did not have a fight in Him as to what was to happen.  He had it fully surrendered.

Mat 26:53  Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?

Mat 26:54  But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?

Mat 26:55  In that same hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a thief with swords and staves for to take me? I sat daily with you teaching in the temple, and ye laid no hold on me.

Mat 26:56  But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.

The scriptures were being fulfilled and Jesus was fully submitted to what was ahead.

Zec 11:12  And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.

Zec 11:13  And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house of the LORD.

Exo 21:32  If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

When people go out unsaved they don’t realize the price of the betrayal that they are making.  He came back and said, “I have betrayed innocent blood.”  It was not enough to stop the action.  Like Judas people don’t think of the price of the consequences that sin brings. 

The Jewish leaders didn’t care about Judas’ soul.  They said, “What is that to us see thou to that.”  They should have been concerned about his soul but were not.  This happens when men join hands with the wicked.  The scheme goes deeper into sin than they were willing to go. 

Judas found that blood money could not give him the happiness that it had promised.  He thrust that money away.  How different those thirty pieces of sliver appeared before and after.  Sin always promises more than it can bring.  Thirty pieces of sliver cannot buy a clean conscience.  They could not give him peace. 

In his remorse he hanged himself.  Thirty pieces of silver couldn’t bring him a clean mind and a clear conscience.  Returning it could not save his soul.  “Wo to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed.”  Thirty pieces of sliver could not save his soul.

Isa 50:6  I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

Mat 26:67  Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,

Jesus was silent before His accusers:

Isa 53:7  He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.

It takes a lot sometimes to not say anything.  It has its affect to not defend yourself.

Mat 26:63  But Jesus held his peace. And the high priest answered and said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.

Mat 27:12  And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.

Mat 27:13  Then said Pilate unto him, Hearest thou not how many things they witness against thee?

Mat 27:14  And he answered him to never a word; insomuch that the governor marvelled greatly.

It made the governor uncomfortable.  The governor realized that Jesus was innocent and marveled that in his innocence he still did not fight back or argue.  You can imagine what a normal human would be saying, “I am innocent.  Let me call my attorney.”  Pilot marveled.  This was like nothing that he had ever seen. 

This was so different from the normal that I wonder what the prophets thought as they wrote down these prophecies.

Isa 53:4  Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Isa 53:5  But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Isa 53:6  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

The just for the unjust.

Isa 53:9  And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

He suffered without the camp:

Exo 29:14  But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.

This was the sin offering of that time.

Isa 53:10  Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.

Isa 53:11  He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.

Isa 53:12  Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

He poured out His soul unto death.  I read that it touched my heart.  It was for the transgressors. 

Zec 12:10  And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

Psa 22:18  They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.