November 20, 2013
Betrayer
At the Passover meal Jesus revealed that one of
his disciples would betray Him. Interestingly the reaction from the disciples
was not one of anger, but one of sadness. One after another they said to Him,
“Surely not I, Lord?” (Matt 26:22 NIV) Certainly at this particular Lord’s
Supper Judas was the only betrayer. However, when we partake of the Lord’s
Supper each Sunday, the question might be asked, ‘Is there a Judas among us
today?’ One who may be dipping his hand in the bowl as an act of ritual, rather
than an act of remembrance. One who refuses to examine himself, or one who
takes the emblems in an unworthy manner. ‘Surly
not I Lord?’
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Gail;
-----I am never at a loss for a moment of thought or feeling or action of my recent life to which I can point and say, “That was wrong.” John tells us we all sin. So confession is big.
-----If I sit for communion and discover that I am all cleaned up and have come to it perfected, then I am either dead or lying. We all have pieces and parts of us that have and are betraying Christ at any given moment. This is why He told us we must forgive others. We are embroiled in a perpetual stream of our own fallacies, and all we can do about the whole stream is to call out to and give thanks to Him for His forgiveness of what we’ve confessed.
-----Then to participate in communion as a betrayer is to participate in it seeing no need for Him, that is while saying, “I am clean.” We eat His flesh and drink His blood because it is our own sins which put Him to death and so made this meal of Him. But it was His willingness to lay down His life which became the life in the meal nourishing us.
-----It then becomes life in us by our willingness to see our sins, that is, to look truthfully at ourselves. So this examination is more to find and apply the proper attitudes about the sins such examination will discover, if it is true, than it is for finding ourselves to be without sin. It is only through having the attitude of acknowledging the truth about ourselves that we can join Christ in the willingness to lay our selves down. Otherwise, we’ve betrayed Him by holding our selves up.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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