Would you do it?
If you were a disciple of Jesus, and
Jesus said that one of his
disciples shall deliver him to suffer many things, and to be killed,
and to be raised again;
and
he said that you
were that disciple,
would you do it?
Which
would be the greater disciple, the one who would do it or the one who
would not? That is the question his disciples debated among
themselves when he told them
that one of them shall deliver him. (Luke 22:21,22,23,24)
To
set their thinking straight, Jesus told them that he was among them
as one who serves. Whom did he serve? In his temptation, Jesus said,
“God only shalt thou serve.” (Luke 4:8) Was it God's will that
Jesus be delivered? (Romans 8:32) Was it God's will that Jesus give
himself? (Galatians 1:4) If Jesus was giving himself in service to
his Father, would not the one who delivered him then be his
servant, a position he taught that the chief among them should take?
(Luke 22:26)
What do you
think? If Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, you shall deliver me
to the chief priests to suffer, and to be killed, and to be raised
again,” should then Peter deliver him or not?
What if that
disciple were not Peter, but another disciple which had recently
betrayed him? And what if, by coincidence, the betrayal had been the
making of a covenant to deliver him after the devil, not Jesus, put
it into his heart to do so? (Matthew 26:14,15,16; John 13:2) If Jesus
then told that disciple that he shall deliver him, what then should
he do?
Could a disciple
who failed Jesus previously not then serve him? If not, then how can
any man serve him? Who among us is without sin?
What
if Jesus forgave that disciple who betrayed him – forgave him
before he told him that he shall deliver him? What if Jesus washed
clean that heel which was lifted up against him? (John 13:5,18) What
if that washing by Jesus removed from that disciple the influence of
the devil, and then that disciple was as clean as Peter; and then
Jesus said, “What you have said you would do, now you will do it,
and do it quickly?” (Matthew 26:25; John 13:27) Should he then do
it? Quickly? Should he leave behind his brothers in Christ who did
not know the intent Jesus said this to him? (John 13:28)
Or do we say
that what Jesus washed is unclean?
Are we beginning
to detect the revelation of that man of sin, the son of perdition (2
Thessalonians 2:3), who was lost (John 17:12), whom Jesus came to
save (Matthew 18:11), whom Jesus gained as his brother (Matthew
18:15), and whom Jesus raised at the last day [of his life] (John
6:39)?
After
we receive this
revelation, then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall
consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the
brightness of his coming, that Wicked whose coming is after the
working of Satan with all power, and signs, and lying wonders, and
with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish;
because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be
saved. (2 Thessalonians 2:8,9,10)
Do we, like
Simon Peter, oppose those things which Jesus said must happen at
Jerusalem? Is our spirit, or attitude, as was Simon Peter's, after
the working of Satan? (Matthew 16:21,22,23)
Have
we received the one
whom Jesus sent? (John 13:20)
Have we received
the love of the truth, the love with which “the truth” loved
them, even unto the last of them? (John 13:1), the love by which he
forgave the one who trespassed against him? (John 13:5), the love
with which he loved us and with which he said we should love one
another? (John 13:34)
Or have we
suffered strong delusion and believed a lie? (2 Thessalonians 2:11)
Would you do it?
If
you were a disciple of Jesus, and Jesus said that one
of his disciples shall deliver him to suffer many things, and to be
killed, and to be raised again;
and
he said that you
were that disciple,
would you do it?
I ask these
questions only in my own name.
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