Judas

It’s a terrible feeling to take a test when you think you aced it, only to

find out you failed. I have experienced that a time or two. I am what they call an

incurable optimist. When I turn in my test, I just know that the teacher is going to be

shocked by the genius on the page. But more than once I have gotten the paper back to

find out she didn’t feel that way at all. It’s a terrible feeling to take a test and think you

aced it only to find out you fail, But it’s a tragedy for people who will stand before the

Judgment Bar of God, thinking Jesus will say, “Well done my good and faithful servant”,

only to hear Him say, “Away from me you who work iniquity I never knew you.”

But as we journey through the Gospel according to Luke, we are introduced to a man

who did just that. He had all of the religious credentials that a man could have; he had

checked every box, dotted every “I,” and crossed every “T,” but he was lost and bound

for hell - His name? Judas Iscariot.