Psalms Chapter 109:

Psalms Chapter 109:

6 Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.

7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.

8 Let his days be few; and let another take his office.

9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.

11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.

12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.

13 Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.

17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

19 Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

First of all I want to point out that this passage from the Psalms is Christ in prophecy, though it be a Psalm of David. Secondly I would like to point but out that this is Jesus Christ specifically speaking about Judas, who betrayed him. To confirm that I will borrow from the apostle Peter: "Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus... For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take" (Acts 1:16,20). Peter was referring to this passage of scripture in the Psalms, and that is particularly evident by his mention of someone taking over the office vacated by Judas, as we see in verse 8 of our text. The point I am making here today is in regard to a fairly popular school of thought that suggests that Judas was or may have been saved. He most assuredly was not. What I'm saying is that Judas threw away the hope of his salvation when he betrayed Jesus. Anyone who would not be able to see or admit that, in light of this passage of scripture, as well as the things Peter spoke of Judas in Acts chapter 1, simply chooses to be blind.

But just to shine an even brighter light into that particular darkness, Jesus himself clearly said that Judas was lost: "While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled" (Jn. 17:12). And what scripture was Jesus speaking of here, that he said was about Judas being lost? You got it. It's the same passage of scripture that Peter referred to about Judas being lost, which just happens to be the passage that I've copied above. "Son of perdition" is a title given to only two men in the entire Bible. Judas is one, and the other one is none other than the man who is also known as 'The Beast' in the book of Revelation (II These. 2:3; Rev. 11:7). The word 'perdition' simply means destruction, so it is certain that anyone known as 'son or petition' is someone who is lost, not someone who is saved. So it is evident by consistent confirmation of the scriptures that Judas was lost. In light of what the Bible shows us there simply is no argument against that fact. That means that we are supposed to be able to make that judgment.

So why are there so many people who want to believe that Judas was saved? Well, for starters almost all of God's people today have been taught to not judge anything or anybody at all. That mindset is one of absolute ignorance, and it has done much damage to the body of Christ in this time. Because of that erroneous way of thinking sin and those who continue in sin are not judged among God's people, and the result is the same one that the apostle Paul spoke of: "And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you... Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? ... But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person" (I Cor. 5:2,6,13). And again: "For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged (I Cor. 11:29-31). Judas was guilty of stealing, and he did NOT judge himself, as Paul said we must (Jn. 12:6).

A drastic lack of righteous judgment is responsible for most of the undue affliction and division in the body of Christ today. So the bottom line for why many people would like to think that Judas could have been saved, is the same bottom line of why judgment against sin is missing so widely today. That bottom line is simply an allowance of sin among God's people, which is really a condition of utter insanity, in light of everything that's in the Bible about the matter. The same spirit that influences people to think Judas may have been saved, also influences people to find a reason to keep sin in their lives. That same demonic influence also persuades those in leadership positions in the body of Christ to not judge sin in their congregations. But like Judas, those who refuse to judge sin in the Lord's congregations will lose their offices and be replaced by someone who will execute righteous judgment among God's sheep. So instead of looking for reasons to keep sin among us, we need to eliminate it from our own lives, and from the lives of our brethren, that we might all be blessed like we could be; and that we might escape the fate of Judas. Amen