Shockingly, for quite a while loving money and hating God can actually look to others like devotion to God. This is what is unnerving about Judas.
Even while still at Mars Hill Wenatchee The Hatchet heard a lot of praise for John Piper at Mars Hill and found John Piper to be underwhelming. Let's not bore you, dear reader, with the various reasons for that. No, instead there's a teaser quote for an interesting little rumination on Judas' role among the Twelve, as the keeper of the shared purse.
That someone who turns out to betray Jesus presents an image of being the one Jesus personally entrusts all the money to on behalf of his followers could be grist for a lot of reflection and writing but that's not necessarily what's going to happen here.
It may just be enough to note that among Jesus' hand-picked people who were called to follow Him the guy who complained the most about the poor stewardship of others who could have used that money to help the poor was the thief who betrayed Jesus to his death for the sake of some money.
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