John
the thirteenth chapter the twenty-first to the twenty-ninth verses we
read, "When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and
testified and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, 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. Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him,
that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake. He 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 it. And when he had
dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. And
after the sop Satan entered into 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 to the
poor." Which would seem to impress this thought upon us. Oh, may I
say that it is a great sin to be untrue? The only time that Jesus is
severe is not when sinners seek him out, nor when the woman taken in
adultery is driven to him by those who would stone her with stones, nor
with the thief on the Cross, but when he faces hypocrites; he can have
no tenderness for them.

Fourth: I learn from Judas that sin is of slow progress. There may
have been first just a natural ambition. He thought that the Kingdom
of Jesus was to be a great temporal affair, and he desired to be a part
of it. How many men to-day have wrecked their homes and all but lost
their souls, because of unholy ambitions! It may be an ambition for
your family as well as for yourself. Doubtless Jacob had such when he
stopped at Shechem. The result of his tarrying was his heart-breaking
experience with the worse than murder of his daughter. There are souls
to-day in the lost world who were wrecked upon the rock of ambition.

Fifth: He was dishonest. It is a short journey from unholy ambition to
dishonesty. The spirit of God Himself calls him a thief. But,

Sixth: Let it be known that while sin is of slow progress, it is
exceedingly sure. In the twenty-second chapter of Luke and the third
to the sixth verses we read that Satan entered into Judas. It seems to
me as if up to that time he had rather hovered about him, tempting hi