Don’t Repent like Judas

Sin will take you further than you want to go and keep you longer than you want to be there. I dob't think Judas realized just how far things would go when he offered to lead the religious leaders to Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. When Judas saw that Jesus was actually condemned to die, he regretted his sin. He was overcome with guilt and tried to give the money he was paid back to the chief priests. He even made a confession of his sin. You could say that Judas repented. He hated what he'd done. He made an effort to turn back from his sin, but his repentance wasn't true repentance, because true repentance leads to life and Judas' repentance led only to death. This week we will learn to discern the difference between true and false repentance.