Welcome. Welcome to Truth for Life weekend, where we are beginning a study in the Gospel of Luke today.

Alasturbegg opens the study by taking a closer look at Judas, the apostle who would betray Jesus.

Is it possible? You may be in similar danger of turning

from Jesus and following your own evil desires. We'll hear an important warning today.

Those of you who are familiar with the immense work of John Bunyan will perhaps recall

the staggering way in which he closes his wonderful allegory that we know of as Pilgrim's

Progress.

As he describes the scene of faithful entering into the eternal glory.

Bunyan writes, and then I saw that there was a way to hell even from the gate of heaven

as well as from the city of destruction.

And Bunyan was simply making clear what the New Testament says and the warning that it extends,

both by precept and by example, making clear to us that some professing Christians may not persevere in their profession

of Christ right through to the end of their lives.

The Bible makes it clear, experience confirms the fact that some who profess to follow Jesus

do not continue to the end and therefore will not be saved.

Now nowhere do we have a more chilling illustration of this biblical truth than in the

life of the individual who is the central character in the few verses that were read earlier.

Judas Ascariate lives on in the pages of Scripture as an awful warning to any who may be tempted to grow content

with being involved just in the routine of Christian pilgrimage without ever having come

to place their faith and trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is the head of the

church and the Savior of those who believe.

Now it is this that comes out as we turn to chapter 22.

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