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From the Book of Prophetic Writings By Ruthie
IS THERE A JUDAS ISCARIOT IN YOUR LIFE?
Is there a Judas in your life? Someone who makes it their lives ambition, and mission to betray, and speak evil of you? If there is beloved? Jesus understands right where you are, as He experienced the ultimate betrayal.
Do you have a Judas who looks for opportunities to betray you? Those who undermine everything you do and say, looking for things you say to distort your word, to cruelly point out your shortcomings, often taking honor for the works you have done? Pushing in ahead of you, keeping you back if they can from ever progressing.
Every disciple of Christ will experience betrayal at one time or another; it is part of the crucifixion of our flesh. Because Jesus understands, He knows how to deliver us out of the hands of our enemies.
His disciples could not stay awake long enough to comfort him in His Hour Of Prayer, while He agonized in the Garden of Gethsemene. Peter denied Him three times. A disciple, and dear friends Judas Iscariot, sold him for thirty pieces of silver. Jesus loved Judas!! As one of Jesus's disciples, Judas sat at Jesus feet and was taught by His Master, just as the other disciples were. Judas sat at the table and ate with His Lord Jesus. Judas also went into the Temple with Him. Everywhere Jesus went Judas followed, Judas was a close dear friend of Jesus. In so much as He trusted him with the money for the ministry.
Is there a crucifixion for Christians?
Yes His beloved there is. The worst kind of betrayal and open humility is when it comes by the hand of the brethren and or a close friend. Those who we, have sat and worshiped God with, and were taught the word together with. Sang songs, praised, and worshiped God with, that kind of pain, and betrayal can almost kill you. That is the ultimate betrayal at these times our souls must cleave to Jesus. I would like to point out that sometimes we are our own Judas when we continually sell ourselves short and put ourselves down.
We must remember that we are more than Conquerors through Christ
We must hide ourselves in His glorious robes of righteousness. When we hide our face in His breast turning our eyes away from our accusers. Allowing the glorious countenance of Jesus' face to shine upon them and they are caught in their shame and disgrace. Yet there in His light they can find His glorious forgiveness and grace. When we hide our hurts in Him, it covers all of us with His grace and forgiveness.
At this time of the year when we think upon His crucifixion, it floods my heart with forgiveness, Jesus has forgiven us from so much. We must forgive others also, those who have hurt us or betrayed us. When we do the river of love begins to flow out to all of those around us. If Judas could have only have felt the river of Gods Love and repented?
Sometimes I find myself feeling sorry for Judas that he lost so much, through his greed for earthly gain, he betrayed Christ our Savior, when He beheld the gaze of his savior, his shame was more than he could bear and he hung himself.
Is there a lesson we can learn from Judas?
Was there forgiveness fo Judas? Yes I think there was. Yet somehow how he missed it. When we are betrayed and hurt, we must let the river of Gods love flow out of our inner most being. We are to pray for those who despitefully use us, so that the glorious light of Christ, will shine down, into their hearts so they may find forgiveness. Jesus will come and comfort you, and hold you in His arms, and tell you of His love. He begins to minister to your broken heart, and life, and then you begin to understand what Jesus suffered, when He was betrayed by His dearest friend Judas.
There you enter into forgiveness just as our Savior did. Our enemies marvel when they see us come away walking taller, and stronger, leaning upon the shoulders of our beloved.
God has promised us that He will prepare a table before us, in the presence of our enemies, there in the sight of all whom have done us wrong. He anoints our head with oil, and fills our cup to overflowing. His word tells us no weapon formed against us will prosper, and every tongue that speaks evil against us, we shall show to be in the wrong.
Child of God this is our heritage in our God and Savior Jesus Christ!
What causes those who are of like faith to betray us and speak evil against us? Just a few things I might suggest are jealousy, greed, and self-promotion just to name a few. It is how we endure these trials of betrayal, that God measures our lives for Him. We have a betrayal, and we have a cross, and we have a crucifixion, We are over comers through forgiveness and His love.
Even as our: LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST SAID IN HIS FINAL HOUR ON THE CROSS.
FATHER FORGIVE THEM THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO.
(Psalms 55:12-14)
For it is not an enemy who reproaches me; Then I could bear it. Nor is it one who hates me who has exalted himself against me; Then I could hide from him. But it was you, a man my equal, my companion and my acquaintance. We took sweet counsel together, and walked to the house of God in the throng.
(Psalms 41:9)
Even my own familiar friend in whom I trusted, Who ate my bread, Has lifted up his heel against me.
A Psalm of David.
(Psalms 23)
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He makes me to lie down in green pastures;
He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul;
He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me;
Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days of my life; And I will dwell in the house of the LORD Forever.
Scriptures:
(Isaiah 54:17)
No weapon formed against you shall prosper,
And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their righteousness is from Me," Says the LORD.
The Christians Crucifixion
(Romans 6:6-11 )
knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be done away with,
that we should no longer be slaves of sin.
For he who has died has been freed from sin.
Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him. knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more.
Death no longer has dominion over Him.
For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that
He lives, He lives to God.
Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin,
but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
(Galatians 5:16-26)
(Walking in the Spirit)
I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.
For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh;
and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish.
But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery,
fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions,
jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,
envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which
I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.
Against such there is no law.
And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh
with its passions and desires.
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
All Scripture is from the (NKJV)
Heart Notes From Ruthie, Saturday, March 27, 2004
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