Today I want to talk about betrayal.

It's kind of the final chapter.

We've been talking about it.

But betrayal, selling out Jesus for anything, never has a good final result.

We'll learn all about it on today's podcast.

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Hey, friends. Welcome back. Brand new chapter today. The penultimate chapter of the book of

Matthew, Matthew chapter 27. We're in a really hard-to-read section of Matthew, not hard-to-read from the standpoint of understanding it, but hard to read section of Matthew, not hard to read from the standpoint of understanding it,

but hard to read because we read about the awful crucifixion and betrayal of our Lord.

And every time I read it, it just gives me a pain in my gut, thinking about all that Jesus did, even just physically

for you and me at the cross, then to add to that the much more profound suffering, spiritually,

the separation, the embracing of our sin, just all of it. It is just amazing every time I read it.

In chapter 26, we learned a lot about betrayal. And that theme of betrayal carries into chapter 27.

It's kind of the end of that Judas story, where Judas had betrayed

the Lord and had sought opportunity. We came back to it several times in our podcasts over the past

few days. And now I want you to see chapter 27 and verse one where the Bible says when the morning

was come. So remember the trial of Jesus took place Thursday night, Friday morning. And we want to

remember, too, that a Jewish day begins in the evening. So already it's Friday as far as the Jewish reckoning of time.

So when the morning of Friday, but already now we've been in Friday this whole time, it began

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