OPEN HEAVENS Devotional – Wednesday
April 20th 2016
TOPIC: A BETRAYER?
Memorize: 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. An 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 offences must 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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