"Have You Sold Christ?"

Judas went to the Sanhedrin, to the chief council of the city, and said to them, 'What will you give me?' Everything wrong begins with 'Give me.'  The prodigal son when he left home said, 'Give me.'  'What will you give me if deliver him to you?' They talked among themselves, and they fixed the fee at the price of a slave. What was our Lord worth? About thirty pieces of silver. A slave, he was. The Greek word for 'slave' is doulos. It is used over forty times in the New Testament.  A slave does two things: he does hard things, and he does dirty things, even bearing the burden of human sin. So the price was fixed; they gathered together thirty pieces of silver, and they dropped them one by one into that hand that was blessed by the Lord when Judas was called to be an apostle. Judas went out with his thirty pieces of silver. Remember, you can sell the Lord, but you can never buy him. We get sick of selling the Lord as Judas was, when he brought back his money and flung it into their faces, saying 'I've betrayed innocent blood.'  Think about your lives. How many times have you sold Christ?