OPEN HEAVENS DEVOTIONAL-TUESDAY-20/04/2016-A BETRAYER?-BY PASTOR E.A. ADEBOYE
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 inquire among themselves, which of them it was that should do
this thing.
KJV
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 casual 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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