And Judas Iscariot: Together with Other Evangelistic Addresses

Judas Iscariot has haunted Christian imagination for two thousand years: the disciple who betrayed the Son of God, who hanged himself in despair, whose name became synonymous with treachery. But what if his story is less about eternal condemnation and more about the unbearable weight of regret? J. Wilbur Chapman, an early 20th-century evangelist,重构s this infamous figure in a collection of sermons that refuse easy answers. Rather than using Judas as a simple moral cautionary tale, Chapman examines the tragedy of a man who saw the divine and still turned away, asking whether grace could have reached him even at the end. The book pairs this exploration with additional evangelistic addresses that probe similar tensions: hypocrisy versus sincerity, the possibility of repentance after irreversible choice, and the terrifying freedom of human will. These are not sterile theological debates but passionate appeals to the conscience, written for an audience grappling with questions that remain urgent: Can the worst among us be redeemed? What separates the betrayer from the faithful? And what do we owe a God who offers forgiveness we might refuse?