A BETRAYER?
Memorise: But behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me
on the table.
Luke 22:21
Read: Luke 22:19-23, 19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and
gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in
remembrance of me.
20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is
the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.
21 But, behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me
on the table.
22 And truly the Son of man goeth, as it was determined: but
woe unto that man by whom he is betrayed!
23 And they began to enquire among themselves, which of them
it was that should do this thing.
Bible in one year; 2nd Samuel 18:1-19:15, Proverbs
13:1-14
MESSAGE
A betrayer is a covenant breaker
and there is danger in being a covenant breaker (Romans 1:31). A betrayer is
someone who knows the secret of the strong and / or the weak point of an
individual through an intimate relationship and leaks example of a betrayer is
Judas Iscariot. Reading the story of the betrayal of Jesus Christ will teach us
many lessons. Firstly, the fact that someone is close to you does not mean he
or she cannot betray you. As a matter of fact, it is the causal acquaintance be
guilty of betrayal because there is hardly any secret to divulge. Secondly, a
betrayal is a killer, betrayal is murderous.
“Yet
stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy
Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have not your
fathers persecuted? And they have slain them which showed before of the coming
of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers.”
Acts 7:51-52
The Bible describes a betrayer as
someone who reveals secrets (Proverbs 11:13). Proverbs 26:22 says
“The
words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost part
of the belly.”
Betrayal is not a Christian
virtue. Before the Almighty God, it attracts a “capital punishment” as it is
written:
“But
whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better
for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned
in the depth of the sea. Woe unto the world because of offences! For it must
needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!”
Matthew 18:6-7
Beloved of God, let us not be
caught-up with the spirit of the end-time as predicted by apostle Paul in his
writings about the characteristics of the perilous times, when there will be
blasphemers, boasters, trucebreakers, false accusers, despisers of godliness,
traitors, and lovers of pleasures than lovers of God. I pray that as many as
have been caught in these deadly habits shall be delivered today in Jesus’
name.
Prayer Point
Father, deliver me from the spirit of betrayal; don’t
let me end up like Judas Iscariot in Jesus’ name.
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