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>> Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great. Thou art clothed with honor and majesty. >> Who maketh his angel spirits his ministers of flaming fire.

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>> Let us pray. Oh God, our Father, we come to you this morning with thanksgiving in our heart. We thank you, oh God, for giving us a new song to sing.

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Oh God, we thank you for another day. We thank you for our health and our prosperity. We ask that you continue to guide us and strengthen us. We ask that you continue to make us vessels of your grace.

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Guide us and strengthen us in all thy ways. And oh God, we pray a special prayer that you will somehow lead us the way that you see fit. And oh God, give us direction and knowledge.

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In Jesus' precious name we ask, amen. Amen. (orchestral music) ♪ We're marching to Zion ♪

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♪ Beautiful, beautiful Zion ♪ ♪ We're marching onward to Zion ♪ ♪ The beautiful city of God ♪ ♪ Our praises to the Lord ♪

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♪ Let your joys be known ♪ ♪ For in a song of sweet accord ♪ ♪ In a song of sweet accord ♪ ♪ The sun and the throng ♪

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♪ And thus surround the throne ♪ ♪ Devoting desire ♪ ♪ Beautiful, beautiful desire ♪ ♪ The county of which is I ♪

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♪ A beautiful city of glory ♪ ♪ That knows me ♪ ♪ Used to sing ♪ ♪ Who held the free in that home ♪

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♪ My children of the heavenly king ♪ ♪ My children of the heavenly king ♪ [MUSIC] ♪ Marching to Zion ♪

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♪ Beautiful, beautiful Zion ♪ ♪ We're marching upward to Zion ♪ ♪ A beautiful city of God ♪ Our scripture lesson in the gospel according to St. John,

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the 13th chapter, the 21st through the 30th verses. When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit and testified and said, verily, verily, I say unto you

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that one of you shall betray me. Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake. Now there was leaning on Jesus bosom one of his disciples whom Jesus loved.

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Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake. Then lying on Jesus' breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it? Jesus answered, "He it is to whom I shall give a sop when I have dipped." And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.

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And after the sop, Satan entered unto him, then said Jesus unto him, "That thou doest, do quickly." "Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this unto him. For some of them thought because Judas had the bag that Jesus had said unto him, 'Buy those things that we have need of against the feast, or that he should give something

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to the poor.' He then having received the sop, went immediately out, and it was night." And thus endeth the reading of our scripture. Now is our time of prayer.

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Let us come together to the altar, those of us who feel led to do so as we commune together with our Heavenly Father in the blessed fellowship of prayer. [HUMMING] I need Thee every hour.

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Every hour I need Thee. Oh bless me now my Savior, I come to thee. Let us pray. Here we are, oh God, your children,

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bowed reverently in your presence, in your house. We come as empty pitchers before a full fountain, mindful of our need of your presence and your power. We come, oh God, beseeching you

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that you would forgive us of our sins. We confess our weaknesses. We admit our failures. We have not done all that you have commanded us to do.

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so many things we have left undone. We have walked in ways in which we should not have walked. We have said things we ought not to have said. Oh, we recognize that we've fallen so far from the mark,

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but you've been so gracious. You've been kind. We pray that you would forgive us and help us, oh God, to be better, renew the right spirit within us,

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that we might run well this race that you have set before us. Be with us in this service of worship. We pray especially for those families that have lost loved ones.

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Comfort their hearts. Grant that even in the midst of the experience of the messenger of death, that their lives may be enriched and that they may be strengthened in the steadfast hope of the resurrection faith.

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Pray for those who are in hospitals, those who are suffering from diseases of the mind and of the body and the spirit. Oh, we know that you're a great physician. You're able to heal all manner of sickness and disease.

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Have mercy upon them, we pray. We would remember this church family, not only those of us who stand before this altar with our peculiar problems. We know that you understand us, you know us name by name.

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But we would remember that wider fellowship, those who are serving in distant fields, carrying on your work as ministers and missionaries. And then not only do we pray for your church the world over, we pray, O God, for the nations of the world.

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Pray for the day when peace shall come and when your reign shall prevail in the hearts of people everywhere. O bless and use us that we may be a channel of your grace to glorify your name not only this day but every day of our lives we pray through Jesus Christ. Amen.

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[MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] (organ music) [ Music ]

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[ Music ] [chorus singing] ♪ Take me to glory, I'm marching to Zion ♪ ♪ Take me to glory, I'm marching to Zion ♪

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♪ Take me to glory, I'm marching to Zion ♪ ♪ I'll get my share, my share all the way ♪ ♪ In my home, in my home ♪ ♪ You can see me cry ♪

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♪ In my home ♪ ♪ You can see me cry ♪ ♪ In my home ♪ ♪ You can see me cry ♪

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♪ Step by step ♪ ♪ By step ♪ ♪ All the way ♪ ♪ In my home ♪

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♪ In my home ♪ ♪ You can hear me cry ♪ ♪ If I talk, you can hear me cry ♪ ♪ If I talk, you can hear me cry ♪

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♪ Step by step, by step, away ♪ ♪ If I pray, if I pray, you can hear me cry ♪ ♪ In my prayer ♪ ♪ You can hear me ♪

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♪ Christ, in my prayer ♪ ♪ You can hear me ♪ ♪ Christ, step by step ♪ ♪ By step, all day ♪

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♪ Christians pray ♪ ♪ Christ, we keep your call ♪ ♪ Christians pray ♪ ♪ I believe the love of the Lord Jesus ♪

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♪ Makes me stand free ♪ ♪ And believe I'm going step by step ♪ ♪ By step all the way ♪ ♪ Till then I'll be a blessing to them ♪

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♪ Till then I'll be a blessing to them ♪ (music) We now turn to the dedication of tithes and offerings. Let us give unto God in our worshiping,

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not only of ourselves, but also as God has prospered us. Let every man lay aside as God so prospered him upon the first day of the week. Oh God, we come to you this morning offering not only of ourselves but offering that of

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the way you have prospered us. Oh God, we ask that you accept this in the humble manner that we have given. Father, somehow increase our blessings, not only materially, but also spiritually. In Jesus' precious name, amen.

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Amen. [MUSIC PLAYING] (dramatic music) (suspenseful music)

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>> Good morning. This is the announcement period. I am just told that Brother Robert Biles, who has been hospitalized in St. David's Hospital, is now recuperating at home.

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The congregation of the Ebenezer Baptist Church cordially invites you to attend the 11th Annual Appreciation Service of the Shepherding of Our Pastor, Dr. Marvin C. Griffin, today, June 22nd, at 3 o'clock p.m. in the Church Sanctuary. The Reverend George V. Clark, pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church, will be the guest speaker.

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His choirs will furnish special music for this occasion. A reception immediately follows the service. Friends in the Austin community are invited to share in this celebration with the Ebenezer Church family.

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Envelopes for love offerings are available in the outer lobby and from the ushers. Please write on them the words, "Love Offering." This message from Oliver B. Street II, Chairman of the Publicity Committee. I don't have any visitors cards with me.

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Are there any visitors worshipping with us this morning? If so, would you stand and give us your name and home, please? Well it appears that we're all family. Missionary Society and Brotherhood Sunday on June the 29th, the fifth Sunday program will be presented at six o'clock.

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that's next Sunday by Mission One. The fifth Sunday program, which is a time we give emphasis to our responsibility in carrying out the mission of the church, that program which is presented by one of the missionary auxiliaries of the Church will be presented next Sunday at 6 o'clock with Mission One in charge.

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Now we trust that all of the circle leaders, all of the missionary leaders, both of Mission One, Two, and Brotherhood, as well as the Baptist young women and each member of the church, the mission responsibility of the church is everybody's responsibility. The programs from time to time point up this emphasis,

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so we trust that you will respond by being here on next Sunday. It is also the time when we ask that a special offering be given for mission,

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that that offering be placed in the missionary envelope and reported at that time on next Sunday at 6 p.m. Sister Desi Washington has gone to the hospital. She is in Holy Cross Hospital.

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I received word last night that she was in the hospital. She's been on our sick and shut-in list for some time. I hope that she will notice the bulletin. The announcement just made by the announcing clerk here

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is already in the bulletin concerning Brother Biles, who underwent surgery this past week. And we trust that you will remember our sick and our shut in and add the name in your mind, Sister Dessie Washington.

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We have just completed another session of the Congress. This session of the Congress, which was held in Dallas. We, as you know, have had some tensions expressed in the Congress regarding the operation of the Congress. In the last session of our convention, I was elected as president of the Congress for the convention,

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because the Congress in the past has been really owned and controlled by the publishing board. and it amounts to having your Sunday school in your church owned and controlled by a family in the church. This has been an age-old problem that has been sort of swept up under the rug and now it's being brought out and it's creating some tensions and

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it remains to be seen as to just if this problem can be solved without creating a division in the convention. We will be announcing in the forthcoming session of

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the convention in San Francisco, which is the centennial session in San Francisco. We will be celebrating 100 years and we will be announcing the next site for the Congress at that time.

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I have asked that the special committee would give attention to some things that need to be done in to our church view the fact that we will be entertaining the state Congress to see that everything was in order not only a committee to look at some special needs but also the trustees I have not received a report

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Lately from the trustees. I hope to get today, but I have received a report from the special committee that has to do with The ladies parlor the parlor because we not only have ladies there but men is sort of a public parlor used by persons who

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May care to do so and the fellowship hall That committee has looked into it and to make the kind of changes that need to be made. Sister Patricia Calhoun is an interior decorator

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and we are fortunate in having her as a member of our congregation and she has worked closely with that committee and the report which I have seen indicates that we need to spend $10,000

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for that Room that's putting it the way it should be put, you know, we can't get something much cheaper But it's not like us to get something cheap that we know is not going to hold up we're gonna have leather in there and that's something that people can sit on and not

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abuse easily it'll hold up and Will be there for time to come as well as changing the drapery and the like and I don't know how that drapery is But it's pretty old. I've been here 11 years and it's here before I came and And so we're talking about at least $10,000 for that.

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And if we make some changes as far as our air condition is concerned, we're talking about another $10,000 at least. So if we do all of that, we're talking about in the neighborhood of $20,000.

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So let's give the obligations which we have to our budget, let's support them, come up with them. We are running a little behind and I think in the summer we need to sort of brace up that we might meet all of these needs if everyone gives according to the way you can that

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Can be done we can reach our budget we can take care of all of these needs I'm going to be away after this Sunday I haven't been away now for five years on a vacation, at least four years.

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It's been four years. And I'm going to go from there to the Baptist World Alliance, which will be meeting in Canada this year, in Toronto, Canada. On the second Sunday, we will, I will be preaching at one of the churches there.

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I've been invited to preach in one of the Canadian churches on that particular Sunday. And I want to urge us, and I know we will, to be faithful in the services. I hope that we can go on with our rehearsals and the like. Sister DeWitt has been in the hospital, but I hope the choir won't stop rehearsing because

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Sister DeWitt is in the hospital. But we're serving the Lord, and we ought to go on just with that. I'm glad to see this number here present in the gospel choir. Ma'am, you gonna be out too?

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You gonna be in? Oh yes, you gonna be in Toronto too, so she gonna be with me. All right, and now that doesn't mean

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that the gospel choir needs to stop 'cause Sister Lewis isn't here. And just like we're going to have preaching when I'm away, we ought to have good singing also because our worship ought to continue.

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So next Sunday, Brother Henson here is going to be carrying on and I want that we will carry on just as we are carrying on. And I know you're going to do that.

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We want the announcements and everything carried on just as you do when I'm here. Sometimes they say when the what is it when the cats away the mice pray And I don't want us bringing a lot of announcements making them individually and all of that Just let's do it just the way we're supposed to do it and we haven't had an announcement

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Which should be cleared by the person who's acting as the pastor. They ought not be made down here Get those announcements in on time And then now person who's to make those announcements consult with the minister and if you haven't done that don't make them because they need to be cleared. So I hope you will keep that in mind.

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Now the Vacation Bible School will be again on June the 30th and we will run for about 10 days taking July the 4th as a holiday and then of course we're going to have the vacation Bible school at the mission that too will be conducted as we have in years past so let's keep that in mind.

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Let's turn to hymn number 23. Let us all stand and I'd like for you to sort of shake hands and say good morning to the person that's around you. Everybody stand and greet one another. [Music]

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♪ To God be the glory ♪ ♪ Great things He hath done ♪ ♪ So love in the world ♪ ♪ That He gave us His Son ♪

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♪ Who yielded His life ♪ ♪ And atonement for sin ♪ ♪ And opened the way ♪ ♪ For all men to win ♪

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♪ Praise the Lord ♪ ♪ Praise the Lord ♪ ♪ Let the angels hear his voice ♪ ♪ Praise the Lord, praise the Lord ♪

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♪ Let the people rejoice ♪ ♪ O come to the Father ♪ ♪ Through Jesus the Son ♪ ♪ And give him the glory ♪

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♪ Great things he has done ♪ ♪ O praise the God of angels ♪ ♪ The nations of love ♪ ♪ To every believer ♪

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♪ The promise of God ♪ ♪ The world is a better place ♪ ♪ For truth to be pleased ♪ ♪ Than all others ♪

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♪ From Jesus the Father we sing ♪ ♪ Praise the Lord, praise the Lord ♪ ♪ Let the earth hear His voice ♪ Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the people rejoice.

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O come to the Father, through Jesus the Son, and heal him the poor, with great mercy and love. Praise ye the Father, praise ye the Son, ♪ And we are rejoicing through Jesus the Son ♪

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♪ Our cure for life and the reign of His will be ♪ ♪ Our wonder, our transformed, let Jesus we see ♪ ♪ Praise the Lord, praise the Lord ♪ ♪ Let the earth give Him warmth ♪

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♪ Praise the Lord, praise the Lord ♪ ♪ Let the people rejoice ♪ ♪ O come to the Father ♪ ♪ Through Jesus the Son ♪

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♪ And give him the glory ♪ ♪ Great things he hath done ♪ Subject of the message is Judas Iscariot, a false friend. In the gospel according to Mark, the third chapter in the 19th verse are these words, "Judas is Cariot which also

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betrayed him." Jesus went up into the hills of Galilee and called certain ones He chose inviting them to come and join him there, they did. He selected 12 of them to be his regular companions to go out and preach and cast out demons.

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The names are listed by Mark, and among them is the name of Judas Iscariot, who later betrayed him. Judas is remembered as one of

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the vilest villains in history. He occupies a special niche as a treacherous traitor and a false friend. Yet it is interesting for us to note that Judas is one of the twelve. He is among the called and chosen disciples of our Lord.

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Let us consider this man whom Jesus chose to be among his most trusted and devoted friends. Who is this man who wears the name Judas Iscariot? An in-depth character study enables us to open the door and look carefully into his secret closet.

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Friendship is the highest honor persons can bestow on each other. To have openness to each other, concern and care for each other through the vicissitudes of this life. This is what it means to be a friend.

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A true friend is faithful at all times. A friend is there when needed. A friend understands. A friend sympathizes.

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A friend loves in all seasons. Christian discipleship trains persons in genuine friendship. Jesus calls disciples that they may be with him, that they may be his companions, that they may be his friends.

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We are called to be servants, and yet we are to be more than servants. We are to be friends. Jesus calls disciples to be true friends in a world

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where false friendship seems to be the order of the day. Real friendship involves far more than reading Dale Carnegie's book on how to win friends and influence people.

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Real friendship involves love and loyalty. It is engaging in the miracle of dialogue. It is extending a hand and having a hand extended in return.

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There are those who say I'll be your friend through thick and thin, but when it gets too thick, I'll thin out. In a world of callous counterfeits, callous counterfeits and fabulous frauds and pious

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phonies, Jesus ascends to the mountaintop of authentic personhood and calls unto himself twelve disciples to be his friends. Judas Iscariot is among them. His name is at the bottom of the list. Judas Iscariot is identified with treason,

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treachery, and infamy. The name Judas in Hebrew means he is to be praised. And how far he drifts from

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the name which he represents. Miscarriage is associated with Kiriath, and literally means man of Kiriath. Kiriath is located in Judah near Jerusalem,

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and Jericho where date palms flourish. Judas, the man of Kiriath, May God be regarded as a kind of oddball among the 12. He is the only Judean in the group.

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All the other disciples are from Galilee. Judas alone is from Judea. Judas speaks with a different accent. He comes from a different region.

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And it's not unusual for people to make distinctions based on region and tribe and tongue. Maybe Judas felt that he was not wholly accepted by the others. And yet, Jesus calls Judas to be his friend. The master ignores the false distinctions of region, tribe, and tongue and accepts Judas

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as one of his companions. Jesus saw the good in Judas. He calls him because of his possibility and potential. He calls Judas not because of what he is, but for what he may become.

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His potential goodness is rewarded by Judas being elevated to one of the most trusted positions among the twelve. He is elected as the treasurer, a significant and sensitive position. He is the keeper of the purse in a group that must constantly pinch pennies.

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They have no government grant, no supplement to subsidize their ministry. Jesus makes it clear to those who are his friends that they must walk the way of sacrifice. They must learn to endure poverty and deprivation. Jesus has them to understand that foxes have holes,

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birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man hath nowhere to lay his head. Judas accepts a place among the friends of Jesus Because he sees in Jesus that which summons him to the higher happiness and speaks to

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the goodness which he longs to attain. He is not hoodwinked into following Jesus. He comes into the friendship fold with his eyes wide open. is trusted by being given one of the most coveted positions, that of treasurer.

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I think Judas is a shining example of a good man who became bad. He had the best opportunity of a lifetime and ruined it. He had a fortune and lost it. In the course of time is holiness is overshadowed by evil desires. The writers of the New Testament do not try to explain the wickedness of Judas, they

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merely record it. John tells us that Satan took possession of Judas. You know money seems to lead Judas on the road of false friendship. Money serves a good purpose if we know how to handle it. Money becomes a terrible possession in the hands of the person who does not know how to handle it, and Judas did not

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know how to handle money. The scripture says that the love of money is the root of all evil and Judas was overcome by evil desire which is to say that he desired and took for himself that which he had no right to have. Like a child caught with his hand in the cookie jar, Judas Iscariot was caught pilfering from

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the purse. Covetousness is a blight to true friendship. A good name may be ruined by wrong desire. It was greed that led Judas to take what was not his, but But what Judas took was not worth taking. Shakespeare says, "Who steals my purse steals trash, but he that filches from me my good

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name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed." Judas' chariot ruins his good name because he does not know how to handle money. love of money comes through loud and clear in the closing chapter of Jesus earthly ministry. Jesus is in Bethany at the dinner table with Lazarus. Martha is

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serving. Mary takes a bottle of costly perfume and anoints the feet of Jesus. Judas is angry. He says that perfume was worth a fortune. It should have been sold and the money given to the poor. Judas really wants the money put in the treasury so he can get some of it. It is jealousy, greed, and covetousness which

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Judas demonstrates in an unmistakable manner. Judas who is called to be a trusted and devoted friend criticizes the fact that Jesus is the object of sacrificial love. Jesus publicly reprimands Judas by saying concerning this woman, "Let her alone. She did it in preparation for my burial." You can

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always help the poor but I won't be with you very long." A good teacher, a good leader knows how to reprimand a student by speaking the truth in love and a good follower knows how to accept the reprimand. But Judas is vindictive. He He determines in his heart to get revenge.

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He wants to get even. And people who want to be sure to get even with Stephen, who never want to take the last lick, who are going to make doubly sure that they can always come out on top, usually end up on the losing end.

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A true friend knows how to take a reprimand without seeking revenge. Vengeance is mine. I will repay, saith the Lord. A true friend knows how to bear disappointment.

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Judas has certain dreams he expects Jesus to fulfill. He hopes to see a new kingdom established with Rome's rule crushed. He hopes Jesus will declare himself as the new kind of king and [BLANK_AUDIO]