{"id":2189,"date":"2012-09-08T06:48:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T06:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2189"},"modified":"2012-09-08T06:48:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T06:48:14","slug":"judas-and-simon-peter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2189","title":{"rendered":"Judas and Simon Peter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Judas and Simon Peter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What was the difference between the sin of Judas and the sin of Simon  Peter? What they did to our Lord seemed similar yet Simon was forgiven  and converted, while Judas hanged himself and was damned. Every believer  has worried at some point that they could turn out to be a Judas. Here  is the difference.<\/p>\n<p>Judas betrayed the Lord while Peter denied Him. There is a  difference. Judas sold the Lord. Judas turned Him over to others for  money. Judas did not care what happened to the Lord but was only  interested in his own gain. He betrayed the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>Many have done just as Judas did. They have taken the world, a job,  home, family, and any number of things in exchange for Christ. In  forsaking the Lord they are telling the world, \u201cI don\u2019t care about Jesus  Christ, you can have Him. Just give me the money \u2026 give me my family . .  . give me the world . .. you can have Jesus.\u201d No less than Judas, they  have betrayed Him and will end up like him.<\/p>\n<p>Peter denied the Lord. In a moment of cowardice, in order to save his  own skin, he denied that he knew the Lord. His denial was bad enough  and brought him bitter sorrow and great shame, but because of his  previous pride, the Lord had to show him his weakness, inability and  self-righteousness.<\/p>\n<p>Now every believer has denied the Lord many times. There have been  times when we have kept silence to avoid a confrontation over the truth.  We have sinned and acted foolishly, talking and acting like an  unbeliever and not a disciple of Christ. But later, like Simon, we were  very sorrowful and bitter, then upon hearing the gospel again, we cast  ourselves upon His mercy. All have denied Him, but no true believer  would sell out the Lord. No lover of the Lord Jesus Christ would take  any amount of money in exchange for their soul, for eternal life, for  Christ and His people.<\/p>\n<p>Is it so with you? Would you take anything for Christ?-Paul Mahan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judas and Simon Peter What was the difference between the sin of Judas and the sin of Simon Peter? What they did to our Lord seemed similar yet Simon was forgiven and converted, while Judas hanged himself and was damned. Every believer has worried at some point that they could turn out to be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-paul-mahan","category-pictures-and-types"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2190,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions\/2190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}