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Matthew 5:4

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. 

2 Corinthians 7:10 NKJV

“For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.”

THERE ARE MANY WHO LIKE JUDAS HAVE INSINCERE SORROW AND TEARS OVER THEIR SINS. MOST LAMENT THE CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR SINS WHEN THEY ARE EXPOSED AND NOT THE SIN ITSELF

Matthew 27:3-5

Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. 5And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself. 

Judas Iscariot, after betraying his Lord, exclaimed, “I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood.” Matthew 27:4. – {Steps to Christ p. 23.3}

The confession was forced from his guilty soul by an awful sense of condemnation and a fearful looking for of judgment. The consequences that were to result to him filled him with terror, but there was no deep, heartbreaking grief in his soul, that he had betrayed the spotless Son of God and denied the Holy One of Israel. Pharaoh, when suffering under the judgments of God, acknowledged his sin in order to escape further punishment, but returned to his defiance of Heaven as soon as the plagues were stayed. These all lamented the results of sin, but did not sorrow for the sin itself. – {Steps to Christ p. 24.1}

GENUINE SORROW FOR SIN LEADS ONE TO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. JUDAS SORROW LEAD HIS TO BREAK THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, IT WAS WORLDLY SORROW.

Psalm 119:58-60

I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word. 59I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies. 60I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments. 

Exodus 20:13

Thou shalt not kill. 

2 Chronicles 25:2

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart. 

Hebrews‬ ‭12‬:‭15‬-‭17‬ ‭NKJV‬

“looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled; lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.”‬

IT IS SADLY POSSIBLE TO HEAR GOD’S VOICE, TO WALK AND TALK  WITH JESUS, HAVE A HIGH POSITION IN THE CHURCH AND STILL BE LOST WITH ALL THESE PRIVILEGESONY GENUINE SORROW FOR SIN WILL SAVE US

Hebrews‬ ‭3‬:‭12‬-‭15‬ ‭ESV‬‬

“Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. As it is said, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”