{"id":609,"date":"2018-03-27T16:53:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T16:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=609"},"modified":"2018-03-27T16:53:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T16:53:59","slug":"john-1327-betrayal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"John 13:27 \u2013 \u201cBetrayal\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him. So, Jesus told him,\u00a0\u201cWhat you are about to do, do quickly.\u201d\u00a0John 13:27<\/p>\n<p><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s so easy to judge Judas for betraying Jesus. Then Peter comes right behind Judas with a complete denial of ever knowing Jesus. Both men do their part in sending Jesus to His death.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t begin to count the times I\u2019ve betrayed God. When I sin, I not only betray God and my friendship with Jesus, but I betray my own spiritual integrity. Judas and Peter have nothing on me. My sin sent Jesus to His death, also.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that I have a repentant heart and Jesus knows it. I sit with Him daily to review my short-comings; to ask for His forgiveness. His forgiveness empowers me to sin less and love more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have I admitted my sin to God and asked Him to forgive me? What does my spiritual integrity look like today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cAs soon as Judas took the bread, Satan entered into him. So, Jesus told him,\u00a0\u201cWhat you are about to do, do quickly.\u201d\u00a0John 13:27 Applying God\u2019s Word It\u2019s so easy to judge Judas for betraying Jesus. Then Peter &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=609\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}