The ultimate betrayal comes from someone who professes to love us.
Judas knew that he would betray Jesus. He did it anyway.
Hebrews 10:23 23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, 25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
We can hold fast to our faith because God is faithful. And we can show our love for others because of our love for Him. Joy in the Lord is our strength.
Encouraging one another and doing good works strengthens our faith here on earth. Using our talents and gifts for others honors God. We should assemble together with believers who share our beliefs.
Hebrews 6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.
For it is near impossible for those who were once enlightened and made partakers of Holy Spirit if they fall away and scorn the sacrifice of Jesus Christ to return to grace. after we receive the truth if we go back to legalism it is near impossible to return to grace. We cannot earn our salvation. Jesus is the compete and perfect sacrifice there is no other way to the Father. There was no mercy in the letter of the law. There is freedom in Jesus Christ. Those who He sets free are meant to be free forever in God’s mercy and grace.
1 John 3:1 Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. 2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. 3 And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.
What agape love the Father has bestowed on us that we should be called the sons of God.
Philippians 3:20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.
We are here to be the hands and feet of Christ on earth while awaiting His return.
Proverbs 13:13 (ESV) "Whoever despises the word brings destruction on himself, but he who reveres the commandment will be rewarded." It all goes back to what Jesus said: "If you love me, you will keep my commandments" (John 14:15). Though He knew no sin, Jesus became sin and died on the cross so we could receive the righteousness of God (2 Corinthians 5:21). God's correction is always meant to lead us to this gospel Truth.
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” (Thornton Wilder)
Our gracious and loving God,
we thank you that you have been touching our lives:
illuminating us;
opening us at deep levels of our being;
stretching us at points of our narrowness;
confronting us where we are distorted;
challenging us to become the word you speak us forth to be;
but in every way working in all for your good purposes in our lives.
Amen. Robert Mulholland Jr.
Matthew 26:20–25
20 When evening had come, He sat down with the twelve. 21 Now as they were eating, He said, “Assuredly, I say to you, one of you will betray Me.” 22 And they were exceedingly sorrowful, and each of them began to say to Him, “Lord, is it I?” 23 He answered and said, “He who dipped his hand with Me in the dish will betray Me. 24 The Son of Man indeed goes just as it is written of Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born.” 25 Then Judas, who was betraying Him, answered and said, “Rabbi, is it I?” He said to him, “You have said it.” The New King James Version
Judas’ query differs from that of the other disciples. Throughout Matthew’s Gospel, only those who show faith in Jesus call him “Lord.” Rabbi. Jesus confirms that Judas is the betrayer. Faithlife Study Bible
“One of you will betray Me” indicates the Lord’s omniscience.
Repeatedly—in submission to the Father—Christ unveiled evidences of His deity to His disciples. The disciples had already heard that Jesus was going to die in Jerusalem, but His revelation of betrayal was new. Is it I expects a negative response. The meaning is “I’m not the one, am I?”. The NKJV Study Bible
We know not how strongly we may be tempted, nor how far God may leave us to ourselves, therefore we have reason not to be high-minded, but to fear. Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
John 13:18–26 “I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me.’ Now I tell you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe that I am He…
Luke 22:21–23 But behold, the hand of My betrayer is with Me on the table. And truly the Son of Man goes as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed!”…
Mark 14:17–21 In the evening He came with the twelve. Now as they sat and ate, Jesus said, “Assuredly, I say to you, one of you who eats with Me will betray Me.”…
Mark 9:12 Then He answered and told them, “Indeed, Elijah is coming first and restores all things. And how is it written concerning the Son of Man, that He must suffer many things and be treated with contempt?
Luke 24:25–27 Then He said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?”…
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