Memorise: But behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the
table. Luke 22:21
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.
Bible in one year; 2nd Samuel 18:1-19:15, Proverbs
13:1-14
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