Bible Reading: Luke.22:19-23
A betrayer is a covenant breaker and there is a danger in being a covenant breaker. (Romans. 1:31). A betrayer is someone who knows the secret of the strong and/or the weakpoint of an individual through an intimate relationship and leaks or exposes it to that individual's opponent. A typical 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 that he/she cannot betray you. As a matter of fact, it is the closeness that fosters the idea of betrayal. Hardly could a casual acquaintance be guilty of betrayal because there is hardly any secret to divulge. Secondly, a betrayer is a killer and so a betrayer is murderous.
"Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, Ye do always resist the holyghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have not your father persecuted? And they have slain them which showed before of the coming of the just one. Of which year have been now the betrayers and murderers. "Acts 7:51-52
The Bible describes a betrayer as someone who rivals secrets (Prov. 11:13). The words of a talebearer are like wounds that go down to the innermost parts of the body. 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 . Wow unto the world's because of offences: for it must needs be that offences come, but woe unto the man by whom the offences 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, flash accusers, despisers of godliness, traitors and lovers of pleasures than lovers of God. I pray that as many as have been caught up in these deadly habits shall receive deliverance today in Jesus name.
Culled from the RCCG Open heavens devotional.
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