The Way

Published on 23 August 2026 at 08:09

The Son's of Perdition Series

No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. (1)

A cross pointing to a direction

The separation... Death...  Letting go...  To lose...  Losing ...  Surrender...  The Way...

Judas did not agree with Jesus, so that he betrayed Him. Jesus came to bring the kingdom of God which meant to lose the kingdom of this world. Judas did not agree. He was angry that Jesus taught to lose the kingdom of this world. Family, money, power (2). Jesus would get rid of the market traders, trading in the house of God (3) and rebuke them and then react so lightly to the waste of material goods being poured out upon His feet (4). Material goods of expensive ointments that Judas valued and had high esteem for. Judas wanted to win this world and Jesus taught, practiced and behaved in a way to intentionally lose it. Even to His death.

His sentence to death was the final straw for Judas. As he did not understand what Jesus was demonstrating. Jesus’ whole ministry and gospel was a demonstration of destroying all ties with the world. Surrendering all ties (2). Family ties. Material ties. Economic ties. Religious ties. Jesus whole mission on earth was a direct affront to mammon. The God of this world. By teaching contrary to it. Teaching to lose where mammon taught the principal to gain, even at all cost. A Teaching initiated by Eve in The Garden where she gained indeed to be like God at the cost of everything (5).

No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. (1)

Something the religious leaders at the time had surrendered to do in gaining an alliance with Rome a depiction of the mammon that Eve also allied herself to for gain and power. An alliance that the Pharisees gained in order to keep their position. Perhaps God had wanted them to lose their position and rather surrender to the captivity of Rome than to compromise their faith and dependence on God as it happened in the captivity at the time of Jeremiah (6). Yet their choice in gaining their position through an alliance rather than losing it was a sort of betrayal to their faith and alliance with God.

The betrayal in this covenant was the exchange of depending and waiting for Him to deliver them and not the strength of their own hands as He had promised to those who He had allowed to go into the captivity because of their disobedience and forsaking of His ways that He taught them and not making concessions to be complicit with Rome for gain and preserving their own powers and benefits. 

It was the Echoes of the Garden of an Adam and Eve who also betrayed their faith in God; His peace, safety and security that they freely had under His care. Yet in exchanging this protection of His guidance and instructions they made a new alliance with the serpent; The fallen angel once called Lucifer who became the adversary of the Lord, known as Satan.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it. (7)

God promises reconciliation, redemption and salvation to the captives as they waited out their time in captivity (8) reflecting upon their actions and repenting in their hearts of the way in which they had turned away from Him. So that they would return to Zion with rejoicing and made a new by the fiery purification of their souls through tribulation and even loss. That though they seemed to have lost they would once again gain much more. Again I will build you, and you shall be rebuilt, O virgin of Israel! You shall again be adorned with your tambourines, And shall go forth in the dances of those who rejoice. (9)

Perhaps the Pharisees were to become as slaves like the people. Losing their authority and positions. But instead they chose to make an alliance to maintain their position and authority working under Rome. Then the steward said within himself, ‘What shall I do? For my master is taking the stewardship away from me. I cannot dig; I am ashamed to beg. I have resolved what to do, that when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.’ (10) Jesus taught first to lose in order to gain. To surrender in order to inherit something much greater. To let go. To die. Like marriage, you surrender a life of independence and singularity, for a life of commitment, sacrifice and self denial in growing with someone until death (11). Like the birth of the child. The baby surrenders the warm dark safe sack of his old residence to be born alive into his mother’s loving arms. Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain. (12)

Jesus’ whole mission was to bring this revelation. This understanding. The baptism of a decision to bury our old life and the way of the world. The Nazarene (13) life of sacrifice that He became whilst here on earth fulfilling His mission. All the way to the crucifixion. To live a life and existences centred towards God. Which is only possible when we tear the veil of religion and sin in order to remove what separates us from Him. Jesus demonstrated this path through His ministry life and death.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. (14)

Jesus' whole life was to paint the picture of a life that leads to God. Even using the contrary detail of the path that leads away from God, a path to perdition illustrated by the programming that was built into Judas. A follower who lived and believed in a way  contrary to the path that the Lord Jesus demonstrated. Showing the two destinations of differing paths. The path of mammon to gain regardless of the consequences or the path of sacrifice and loss in order to gain much more in eternity. A path of surrender and cutting all ties with the world on a daily basis. Deny ourselves daily. Or the path of perdition in trying to gain the whole world. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? (7)

Jesus’ ministry was a depiction of cutting ties with mammon, affronting mammon; an unseen, deliberate war with mammon and the world in every opportunity that arose. The discipleship of Judas was a contrary example of trying to gain the world; of having hope in the things of the world and the legacy it would promise. O LORD, the hope of Israel, All who forsake You shall be ashamed. Those who depart from Me Shall be written in the earth, Because they have forsaken the LORD, The fountain of living waters (15). Judas' discipleship was of storing up treasures through the offerings of the people, delegating the treasuries as a source of provision and rock of the mission of Jesus. Judas' did not understand the example that Jesus left in His lifestyle and mission; he did not comprehend, he was unable to let go from the heart. From his nature. It would manifest with him disagreeing with Jesus until finally his unbelief lead him to the inevitable. The betrayal of the Lord Jesus, fulfilling the prophecy.

Provide neither gold nor silver nor copper in your money belts, nor bag for your journey, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor staffs; for a worker is worthy of his food. (16)

Peter disagreed. Peter had his sword but Peter understood and hoped in His salvation. He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God (17). Peter like Job was ready and willing to lose all so he could inherit the kingdom he believed in, that the Lord Jesus spoke about, taught and demonstrated through His life and ministry. But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and he will stand upon the earth at last (18)... for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God (19).

So much so that Peter would testify of this faith that he had in the way he chose to die for his faith and the gospel. So much so that Peter did not allow the shame of his mistake and shame in denying the Lord 3 times would keep him away from the salvation that awaited him. A Salvation that awaits all those who believe. Do you also want to go away?” But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. (20)

For who is this who pledged his heart to approach Me?’ says the LORD. ‘You shall be My people, And I will be your God.’ (21)

Like king David. Though he made a mistake worse than even his predecessor, king Saul who did not commit as bad as the sin of King David. Yet King Saul chose to forsake Lord by the deceitfulness of sin which is hypocrisy. David committed an atrocious crime yet in his sincerity (22) he found mercy and grace. David remained steadfast in his faith in God. In the God of his salvation. He too desired the presence of God rather than to keep up appearances of a righteous king in that he confessed and paid the price for his sins.

Unlike king Saul who did not want to lose his kingdom though it was not his but the Lord who gave it to him to shepherd His people, His nation. Even so King Saul probably would not have lost it straight away. Like Moses, King Saul was likely to have discipled (23) David from his youth to prepare him for the throne. To help him and share his experience until his departure. King David would inherit the throne after King Saul's departure as Gods new choice to oversee His people that He was preparing for the Promise Seed who would come forth from David His elect, the tribe of Judah... The Christ, the Messiah.

 Saul did not understand. He did not have faith to lose, to deny himself and surrender to God to lead His people in the way and by whom He appointed for His purpose. As Moses the servant of God understood and surrendered his rights to enter and lead the people to the Promised Land to the one whom the Lord had appointed his disciple Joshua. As Abraham surrendered to only seeing the seed of an offspring in Issac with only a promise of a nation as the sand of the seashore to enter into eternity.

 ...for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. (19)

 I suppose in every occasion Jesus taught his disciples to let go. He taught them to lose. That the greatest amongst them is the one who serves (24). That the first shall be the last and the last the first (25). I understood this as though the privilege of the last is to learn from the mistakes of the first so that the last would become the first in learning, understanding, overcoming in what the first had failed in. Like Joshua learning from Moses and King David learning from the error of King Saul in forsaking the Lord and today we learn from the examples of the Son's of perditions who were the first in their time, making errors and mistake so that we who are the last, a chosen generation may become the first when we take heed. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit say's to the churches (26).

Jesus taught His disciples through His ministry, life, death and resurrection to exchange what they have and depended on in order to have and depend on God. Through opportunities that would arise to let go; to surrender, to lose even to die. Demonstrating that God brings opportunities everyday for us to enter into His kingdom; into this Way. To get a glimpse of this eternal glory. In every situation when we have to lose, let go and surrender.

 In every opportunity that we have to cut ties with the world. To say no. To reject. To make a separation. When we do this we become holy and sanctified. In every opportunity we anoint our heads with the oil of the Spirit, the Word of God and become dressed and clothed in righteousness preparing ourselves as a bride for the final surrender when we will affront mammon for the final encounter leaving behind the physical and material for the eternal.

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.(27)

Life is like the little palpitations of labour pains that the woman feels just before the final event and the baby will come out at the full labour force. So everyday these little palpitations of labour pains of problems, conflicts, strife, disagreements are our preparation in practicing this surrender for the ultimate surrender when we will depart from this world in death. Losing... Letting go. So when the main event comes, death; we are able to with ease and preparation surrender our lives through death unto life in eternity for those who believe and have practiced through the work of the Holy Spirit with all our heart surrendering each day and every opportunity that arises to be separate, to be different, to say no. Surrendering and proclaiming through our choice the Saviour of our souls and the one who taught us the Way of surrender and letting go through His life, ministry and death.

The baptism in waters is the symbol of this first death to those who believe and are saved by this decision to make Jesus Christ their Lord and Saviour (28). So that the physical death is the second death for those who are saved through Jesus Christ entering into paradise with the Saviour of their souls at this first encounter with eternity at death.

A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.” (29)

Perhaps we will lose opportunities and positions in this world but God chose us to be the example, to be holy which is to be separated and different. A conscious, fully informed, understood, intentional and learned choice demonstrated by the baptism in waters. Symbolising the decision to become a follower of this Way, this Truth and Life found in Jesus the Promised Seed. Jesus is the fulfilment, author and finisher of the testimonies which is the Word of God. We must have faith to lose at every opportunity. King Saul might have lost the throne but he would have gained an eternal kingdom. Like Moses who lost the promised land but gained eternal life and the true eternal Promised land, the salvation of his soul. God allows and permits strife, problems and tribulation to cause a separation. To separate the wheat from the chaff. To prove those who are His from those who are not. The faithful from the unfaithful. 

Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’ He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it. (30)

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