So it’s been a real long time, but this was very good insight the Lord showed me so I want to share it with you! This blog post is called Beware Of The Judas Spirit not because Judas Iscariot had an apocryphal gospel in his name. Not because he simply betrayed Jesus. It’s called this because God showed me something different about Judas today. Let me use Matthew 26:22-25 to show you what I mean:
22 They were very sad and began to say to him one after the other, “Surely you don’t mean me, Lord?”23 Jesus replied, “The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray me. 24 The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born.” 25 Then Judas, the one who would betray him, said, “Surely you don’t mean me, Rabbi?” Jesus answered, “You have said so.”
Did you catch it? It’s very subtle. Jesus brings it into the open that He is about to be betrayed by one of His closest friends. One of the people Jesus called to be His future presence in this world will be the one that betrays Him! But notice the response of I’m guessing about eleven of the twelve of them. They say, “Surely you don’t mean me, Lord?” This term Lord shows that they are submissive to Him. He has an authority in their lives. He is whom they follow. But notice what Judas calls him, “Rabbi.” He subtly says, “Jesus, you the great teacher, don’t mean me?”
Bryan, what does this have to do with anything? See Judas had a level of intimacy with Jesus that some of us here and now will never have in this life. He walked, talked, ate, drank, and even laughed with Him, all in the physical. He probably shared struggles with Jesus, prayed with Jesus, and did ministry with Jesus. In spite of all of this, this passage shows us that Judas never saw Jesus in the proper view. Throughout every Gospel Judas never calls Jesus his Lord. He simply calls Him his teacher, his Rabbi.
Some of us today are just like this, some more than others. Some of us call ourselves Christians and don’t realize that that term IMPLIES submission to Jesus as Lord. We simply look at our life and what happens and say to ourselves I’m doing this Christian walk, thing, trend like Jesus would want me to. I’m living a good, moral life, yet in the process we miss the point. On the other hand, there are some of us who submit that Jesus is our Lord, yet in certain instances in our lives see him as a teacher. A teacher is someone who tells you the right answers, and how to come to those conclusions; but you don’t have to follow or agree with a teacher at all times. So with that in mind, there are instances in some of our lives that some of us know what to do and how to do it, but since in this area of our lives Jesus is our Rabbi, we follow our own way!
Both of these ways of living the Christian Walk have terrible endings. When your walk is put under the scope of your friends, your family, your spouse, or you significant other and they want to do something contrary to the things of the Lord; for some reason we will throw Christ right on the cross for the thirty pieces of silver we call reputation, affection, or lust. Even worse yet, you may find your spiritual walk diminishing because you are constantly walking in your old, sinful ways and the conviction is so thick that you feel like you committing spiritual suicide. There is such a big disconnect from you and The Lord. All of this comes from us having a similar mindset. I challenge you today fam, submit yourselves to Jesus! He is the Good Shepherd and in your surrender will give you a call and a purpose that nothing or nobody can take from you!
I love you Beloved!
