Day 7: Saturday, March 14

I say this not about you all—I know whom I have chosen—but that the Scripture may be fulfilled: He who eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me (Ps. 41:9). From henceforth I tell you before it come to pass, that when it has come to pass, you may believe that I AM. Amen, amen, I say to you, He who receives whomever I send, receives Me; and he who receives Me, receives Him who sent Me.

Jesus, having said these things, was disturbed in spirit and testified, and said, Amen, amen, I say to you, that one of you shall betray Me. Then the disciples looked at one another, perplexed about whom He said this. And there was leaning on Jesus’ bosom one of His disciples, whom Jesus loved. Simon Peter therefore beckons to him, to inquire who it was about whom He said this. And he, falling upon the chest of Jesus, says to Him, Lord, who is it? Jesus answered, He it is to whom I shall give a sop, having dipped it. And having dipped the sop, He gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. And after the sop, Satan entered into him. Then Jesus said to him, What thou doest, do quickly. But no one knew, of those sitting, why He said this to him. For some thought, because Judas had the pouch, that Jesus said to him, Buy what we have need of for the festival, or that he should give something to the poor. He, then, having received the sop, went out straightway; and it was night. John 13:18-30

If man only believed, as is really true, that all good is from the Lord and all evil from hell, he would neither make the good in him a matter of merit, nor would evil be imputed to him. For he would then look to the Lord in all the good he thinks and does, and all the evil that flows in would be cast down to hell, from which it comes. But because man does not believe that anything flows into him either from heaven or from hell, and therefore supposes that all things that he thinks and wills are in himself and therefore from himself, he appropriates the evil to himself, and the good that flows in he defiles with merit. Heaven and Hell 302

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