DAVID A. MCMILLEN

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I AM AN 80 YEAR OLD MALE, BORN AGAIN, CHRISTIAN WITH A LOVE FOR JESUS. I DO NOT GET OUT MUCH ANYMORE BUT FIND THAT TELLING PEOPLE ABOUT THE LOVE JESUS HAS FOR THEM IS NOT ONLY WHAT WE ARE SUPPOSED TO DO BUT SOMETHING THAT THE WORLD NEEDS.

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"THE LOVE OF JESUS" BY DAVID MCMILLEN

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By: DAVID A. MCMILLEN
Posted in: INSPIRATIONAL

I COULDN'T FIND ANY INFORMATION ABOUT JUDAS, THE ONE WHO BETRAYED JESUS, OTHER THAN WHAT WAS IN THE BIBLE, BUT DID YOU KNOW HE WAS A BANKER.  IT DOESN'T CALL HIM THAT IN THE BIBLE BUT IT SAYS HE WAS THE KEEPER OF THE BAG.  THE BAG WAS THE MONEY JESUS AND THE DISCIPLES USED IN THEIR MINISTRY AND TO HELP THE POOR.  I CALL THAT A BANKER.






ALTHOUGH THE BIBLE SAYS THAT SOME OF THE MONEY WAS TO HELP THE POOR, JOHN TELLS US THAT JUDAS CARED NOTHING FOR THE POOR BUT HE JUST WANTED THE MONEY THAT WAS IN THE BAG. WHEN MARY, LAZERAS' SISTER, ANOINTED JESUS' FEET WITH SPIKENARD, A COSTLY OIL, JUDAS COMPLAINED.  {JOHN 12:3-6 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment. Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.)



THE REASON SPIKENARD WAS SO EXPENSIVE WAS THAT IT WAS GROWN VERY HIGH UP IN THE HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS AND IT COST A LOT TO BRING IT TO PALESTINE. IT SOLD FOR 400 DENARII A POUND WHICH IS ABOUT $750 AN OUNCE IN TODAY'S MONEY.  EVIDENTLY JUDAS DIDN'T THINK JESUS WAS WORTH THAT KIND OF MONEY BUT MARY WAS DIFFERENT,  SHE REALLY LOVED JESUS.



I WRITE THIS TO SHOW HOW MUCH LOVE JESUS HAD FOR EVERYONE AND JUDAS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THIS LOVE.  ALTHOUGH HE KNEW ALL THAT JUDAS WAS GOING TO DO AND THAT HE WAS A THIEF, HE NEVER CONFRONTED HIM ABOUT IT.  JESUS HATED THE SIN BUT LOVED JUDAS.  I BELIEVE JUDAS FINALLY REALIZED THIS WHEN HE TRIED TO RETURN THE MONEY AND EVENTUALLY KILLED HIMSELF.



LET US PRAY THAT WE REALIZE THE CONSEQUENCES OF OUR ACTIONS BEFORE WE DO THEM.  THIS WILL KEEP US FROM SINNING AND KEEP SATAN FROM HAVING ACCESS TO OUR LIVES. JUST REMEMBER JAMES 4:7 THAT SAYS "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."



GOD BLESS YOU ALL.





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