Mike Bickle emphasizes the profound impact of betrayal in the Christian journey, particularly as it relates to persecution. He explains that betrayal, especially from those close to us, is not only painful but also transformative, drawing us closer to God and deepening our faith. Bickle encourages believers to prepare for future persecution by understanding its divine purpose and the spiritual growth it can foster. He highlights the importance of remembering Jesus' teachings on betrayal and responding with love and mercy, as exemplified by figures like David and Micah. Ultimately, the sermon calls for a generation of believers to embrace the challenges of betrayal as opportunities for spiritual maturity and to cultivate compassion for those who betray them.

Father, we come to you in the name of the Lord Jesus, and Holy Spirit, we recognize your presence in this room among us, and we ask you, Holy Spirit, to teach us, to escort us into the deeper places of your heart. Come and escort us, Holy Spirit, and teach us. We receive from you, in Jesus' name, Amen." Well, this is session three of John 16, Intimacy with the Trinity, of John chapter 16. Our idea is to do 15-part series. I think we're doing six 15-part series on John 13 to 17, and so this is session three of this 15-part series. And someone asked me the other day, this is on betrayal and persecution, and it's my third message in a row on persecution. And they said, wow, this is really heavy. Is this your new thing? I go, no, it's just the next verse after the other verse. I'm going in order. And so the last seven or eight verses of John 15 are persecution, and the first four in John 16 are persecution. And when you do verse by verse, that's how it works, and I love it that way. Next week is verse five in the Holy Spirit, and then after that is conviction of sin in the church and the historic revivals, and we go right on subject by subject. Roman numeral one, I'm going to give a brief review of some of the material I covered in session two, which is just last week, session two. But I believe we need to hear this over and over. And my goal isn't just that you know it, my goal is that you can say it. And I don't mean everything, but you can say some of the key points to other people, because our mandate is to disciple the next generation. I mean, of those that are in our midst. That's what we always want to do is get prepared to prepare people, no matter what age you are, that's what you want to do. Paragraph A, persecution, I've said this many times in the last few weeks, is both a demonic attack, demonic attack to hinder our spiritual growth, but it's also a divine gift to enhance our spiritual growth. And the church in the west has focused on the demonic attack side, and I think that's appropriate, but we're very shallow on the understanding the divine gift part of persecution. And I talked about that quite a bit in session two, so I don't want to go through that again. Paragraph B, 1 Peter chapter four, verse fourteen, Peter tells us that when you're persecuted, though he uses the word reproached, but he means attacked because of Christ, put down, because of Christ, the spirit of glory will rest on you. Now there will be a greater activity of the Holy Spirit in the lives of people that are being persecuted. And so because we're not encountering much persecution in the west, a little bit of ridicule, particularly in the last two or three years, and some of the cancel censors kind of stuff with technology, a little bit of economic penalties, we see it on the horizon, but not really heavy stuff. So we don't know much about the spirit of glory. So when we think about future persecution, we typically are going, oh no, oh no, but the apostles, I think if they were here, they'd say, well, you might be surprised. There might be something better going on that you didn't expect in terms of the tenderizing of the Holy Spirit, etc. Paragraph C. So we looked at John 16, verse 1 to 4 in our last session. I just want to make a point or two. I really want to zero in on verse 2 and really develop that. Jesus said, these things I have spoken to you, in verse 1, and now he means the last seven or eight verses of John 15. He goes, I have spoken to you these things about persecution. The reason is to prepare you so you won't be offended and shocked and afraid so you stumble. And the word stumble here, he's talking about falling away from the faith. He's not talking about having a rough night or a rough weekend or that kind of thing. He's saying, I want to inform you and prepare you so that you're braced and you're in this conversation with me so you don't stumble. You don't get offended and filled with fear when persecution really does come your way. Now verse 2 is the verse I really want to zero in on. This verse 2, I consider it to be the most costly and painful type of persecution that there is. And Jesus goes right to the top, the most intense. And at first you don't get it because as Gentiles we don't really grasp the implications of what he's telling these Jewish Apostles. He said in verse 2, they're going to kick you out of the synagogues. And yes, the time is coming when whoever kills you, they think they're serving God. Because it's going to be people that have a, that are seeking God and they see themselves as Bible believing people. And they're the ones that are going to kick you out and kill you. And this is really an intense statement. And he goes in verse 14, he says, I want you to remember these things. Now he repeats this idea of remembering a couple times. Again, I mentioned that in the last session. The reason he wants them to remember, because he wants them to be prepared as to what's happening and why it's happening and what God's doing and what the benefits are. Because that's the way that we're going to be prepared. I have written here in paragraph C, John 16 verse 2, Jesus highlights the most costly and most painful type of persecution, which is betrayal. Betrayal. Because it comes from people that you're in a familiar relationship with. You can't be betrayed by a stranger. You could be mistreated and attacked, but not betrayed. Because you don't have a common history. You've never put your guard down. Your heart's not open to them. You don't even know them. But betrayal is not just the most painful and costly type of persecution. Here's the good news. It's the most transformative type of persecution. Meaning when we're betrayed, the pain touches our heart in a deeper level than anything. And it requires, there's a desperation that we touch God in the deepest place of our heart in order to have pain in the place where there would, I mean have joy in the place there would be pain. We have to touch God desperately. We can't be playing around with God and have joy in the place of betrayal. It takes real reality and the Holy Spirit. So when we're persecuted with betrayal, we go deeper in God if we're going to go on that journey. Because we're desperate to get through to get solutions to this. Now the, a man, Brother Yoon is his name. That's the name he goes by. He wrote a book, I'm guessing 15 years ago, I'm kind of forgetting right now, called The Heavenly Man. And he came by and visited us here at IHOP. He was a prominent leader in the underground church in China. And he suffered incredible persecution. I mean beaten, his legs broken, all these horrible things. He puts it in the book. And the book became an international best seller. And he came and just visited us for about a week here. And I was talking to him and he was telling us these gruesome stories of persecution of him and his friends. But his real point was the supernatural miracles and rescue and the power of God that was on him when it was happening. And I was going, wow, this is really something. But then he said the most surprising thing. He said, the persecution in the prison when they beat me with rods and they broke my legs and bones a couple times over a couple years. He goes, by far the most painful persecution is when I got out of prison. And I was betrayed by Christian leaders. They put the, because he got, the book became really well known and a number of Christian leaders got, I don't know, I don't want to weigh in on who did or who said what or whatever, became a controversy. Some of them said, some jealous ones were going, you're false, you're not right. And they put out rumors about him. He goes, that was twice as painful as getting hit with a rod. And I said, come on, not really. I mean, for somebody saying you're a liar, he goes, no, no, the pain was far worse than the beatings I had. And that's always stuck with me. And I, because he was very, very adamant about that. So paragraph E, we're going back to this word. He said, I'm telling you these things. He says it twice. I'm telling you this so you will remember. He says in chapter 16 verse 4, but just a few verses earlier in 15 verse 20, he says it again. I want you to remember. So Jesus was emphasizing the importance that people remember. He wanted them to know that persecution was coming to all nations. You see in the verse there, it says Matthew 24. He said that on Tuesday here in John 16, he's on Thursday at the last supper. He goes, I told you two days ago, persecution is not coming to a few nations. There's coming a time. It will come to every single nation. I want you to know that. Okay. He says, I want you to know why persecution is coming. Why God's allowing it. I want you to know what the benefits are for you because of persecution. I want you to know what God promises to do for you and through you in persecution. You have to remember because you have to have understanding of the biblical narrative because then you won't draw back in fear. You'll have a lot more confidence before the Lord, even as you're anticipating it. Now the church in the West because we've had so little persecution, we don't remember these things because we've never learned them. I'm not saying that negative because the Lord is waking up the church in the West right now. But my passion is to raise up, is to train the next generation of young people where they know what persecutions, why it's happening, what the benefits are, what God's commitments are, why he's allowing it, why it has such a prominent place in end time prophecy because God's cause is allowing it to have a major place because it's going to transform the end time church in a major way. The end time church, God says, I'm going to free them and heal them and deliver them from this Laodicean spirit of compromise. Hundreds of millions of believers stuck in a spirit of compromise and spiritual boredom. I'm going to heal them and rescue them and use them with power to bring in the billion soul harvest and they're going to train the billion soul harvest in New Testament Christianity then my son will come back for a mature bride. So I'm using persecution plus the outpouring of the spirit in order to rescue my church worldwide to get them ready to bring in the great harvest of signs and wonders beyond anything they've ever seen but more than that. But they're going to have a value and a connection with God where they literally will walk as a mature bride with the billion soul harvest coming in. Of course we say the billion soul harvest, that's just a generic number meaning it's hundreds of millions, not a little revival over on the side. Now when you remember it, that means you're talking about it. That means you're having family discussions about it. Just the other day, myself and my wife as I was talking about some of these subjects, we were talking about what, how far would we go in our faithfulness to Jesus if our family was at risk and we were breaking down the details. How far, what would we do if all of our finances were at risk? What if, what if, what if, what if? Those conversations are critical to have over and over because the more we talk about them, the more clarity we get, the more grace comes to our heart as well. What we don't want to be is surprised in one moment and never ever did we remember what Jesus said. But it's a part of our conversation in the kingdom as spiritual families but as Christian natural families as well. Paragraph F, Jesus prophesied in verse 2, I've already mentioned it, the kicked out of synagogues and killed by people thinking they're serving God. He wants them to know the most intense type of persecution. And this would have been shocking to them undoubtedly because they've never thought of being kicked out of the synagogue because you love the Messiah but why would we get kicked out of the synagogue? But to be excommunicated or kicked out of the synagogue is to be driven out of their spiritual family. The group of people that they've had a long history with and their religious background, their religious heritage. Because most of the Jewish people lived in small towns and villages and synagogues were small and families were in them for decades and decades and decades and everyone knew everyone. And to be driven out by those people because you had a loyalty to the Messiah and his teachings like the apostles are going well what do you mean? What do you mean? And then we're going to be killed by religious leaders that claim to have the same similar background in the Bible we have? Why would they kill us? Now it would have been easier to understand if Jesus was talking about the secular government of Rome killing them because that did happen. Rome did kill many of the persecuted many believers in the first two centuries. The secular government punishing you is one thing because they charge you with crimes against the state. You were not loyal to their policies, their atheistic policies. You didn't worship the emperor at Rome. You can understand that but that's not what he's talking about here. I mean he does include that in other places but he goes no I'm talking about your spiritual heritage. Those people will turn on you. Paragraph G here. I said this a little bit in session two so I don't want to spend too much time on it. But inclusion in the synagogue was very important since most of Israel's relational, social, economic, spiritual life was deeply connected to the synagogue. If you got kicked out of the synagogue you didn't have a job. If you got kicked out of the synagogue you didn't have friends. I mean you were shunned. You were completely isolated. We don't have that exact parallel in our world. You get kicked out of one church, you drive about a mile to the next church. It's like well they don't even know me there. I'll tell them my story. But I believe there will be parallels before this is over because Jesus is talking to the apostles but he's actually preparing the end time church with this John 13-17. It left them in a very difficult position to be shunned and kicked out of their spiritual heritage and their religious family. Very very painful. Paragraph H. Then he says well not only are they going to kick you out and there's economic consequences, your family will shame you when you get kicked out. They will not stand up for you because they don't want to get kicked out. And it's pretty intense. He goes well it's going to get more intense. They're going to kill you thinking they're serving God. Now the reason that's more intense because there's a betrayal factor and because people that think they're serving God when they kill you, they're more zealous and bold in killing you. Because they think God's pleased with them. And in the early, the initial persecution of being killed by people who said they believed the God of the Bible, it was rabbinic Judaism. They were killing the early church and the apostles. Then for the next you know many many centuries, it was the institutional church that was killing the true believers. And they were killing the Jews as well. But now it's radical Islam and jihad thinking they're serving God by killing believers, genuine believers in Jesus as well as the Jews. So there's coming a time, what is yet future, where all three of those groups, radical rabbinic Judaism, institutional Christianity and jihad radical Islam, all three groups will be going after genuine believers of Jesus as well as the Jewish people. And it's going to get intense. Let's look at the top of page two. Now just know this, Satan wants to take you out. He wants to take you out of your divine purpose even before you get kicked out of the synagogue. Jesus could have told them, the trouble doesn't just start when they kick you out. Satan will try to offend you and get you betrayed even if it's not on religious grounds. Satan is after destroying your purpose in God. So you'll see here in paragraph I, like for instance, Moses was attacked as an infant long before he was a deliverer. No one knew he would be a deliverer. But Satan went after to kill him before he could ever take a stand for anything. I think of Joseph and David and their teens. They were betrayed by their family long before they had a public ministry. Satan says, I want to take you out now, not just wait until you take a stand. And I'll try to take you out after you take a stand for Jesus. I'll take you out at any time I can. Well paragraph J, we're going to look at this way that the enemy wants to take out people, believers in Jesus. And it's by people who are offended who betray them. Let's look at this for a moment. Paragraph J. So remember, John 16, 15, 16, 17, we're on Thursday night, the Last Supper. He dies on Friday the next day. This is Tuesday. He gives a very significant message about the end times on Tuesday in Matthew chapter 24. But you'll see all the verses here. I have Matthew 24, then the next one is Luke 21, then the next one is Mark 13. Those are all the same sermon. Luke 21 adds another detail or two or a few of them. And Mark 13 adds a few more details. But it's the same message. It's the same day. It's the same time. So you've got to read all three chapters in order to get the whole story. So Jesus is talking to them, verse 8. And He starts and He says that all of these things are the beginning of birth pains. Or the beginning of sorrows. But many translations say the birth pains or the birth pangs, depending on the translation. And what He meant by is verse 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. All of these things, wars beginning, rumors of wars, earthquakes, pestilence, these things, these are the beginning of the birth pains. But notice verse 9, then, which means after that season. Now right now we're still in the season, in my opinion, of the beginning of the birth pains. We're still in that season right now. But there's a time where Jesus could say, and after that or then after that season, that's the time when all nations will hate you. Right now all nations don't hate genuine believers of Jesus. Right now on the wall, I mentioned this in session 2, I've got quite a bit of notes on the session 2 on this, that there are about 200 nations in the world, right close to 200. And 60 of those nations are on the persecution watch list. Which means different ministries have said these are, they have severe regular persecution on an ongoing basis. There's 60 of them. But that means there's 140 nations that aren't on that watch list. They have a little bit, like I said, some censoring on technology, social media, some economic penalties are starting. But nothing really intense yet. We can see it arising, but it's not intense yet. But there's a time then, after the beginning of birth pains, it's still a couple years down the road, all nations, that's a big word, the word all. This is the scope of the persecution will be global. There won't be an exception of a nation who doesn't do this. We're not there yet. And that's why I'm stirred up because the church in the west is in a bubble and they're a bit asleep about this. Because they're thinking, well on the internet we hear some horrible things over there in those nations, but we're doing pretty good. You know, I'll just kind of lay low, keep my mouth shut, be nice and I think everything's going to be fine. No. No, it's going to escalate. But verse 10 gives the next thing that happens. Once all nations are persecuting, meaning the scope, it's universal, it's global, where persecution is in every nation, then verse 10 it takes a different twist, and you've got to pay attention to verse 10 to catch it. It goes, then, once it's global, there's another dimension that's going to come. Many, that means millions and millions, will be offended. And they will betray one another and they will hate one another. This is another sub-unit of the persecution. Many who are offended. And the culture is such that so many people, and we all know it, 2023, are getting angrier and angrier across the earth. And kind of the emotional bandwidth is getting overtaxed. People are just, they're just getting less able to cope with pressure. And they're striking out faster and harder. But it's not just striking out, they're betraying people. Which means those are familiar relationships, close ones. And not all of them are close, but familiar at least. And that's when the offended people, now people will be offended at God as well, but I'm talking about the culture, there's more violence emerging, but there's less patience with people, with people at all walks of life. And Jesus said, when that kicks into new gear, when lawlessness is breaking out on another level, just the anger level of families, of marriages, of parents and children, of churches, of businesses, even believers, their anger level will escalate. And their patience with one another will decrease, and they will be offended, and they will strike out at each other. Now the reason we need to know this, because while this is happening, the Lord is planning, He's got a preemptive plan, He's getting the church ready for this, where we're growing in love, while many in the culture are growing in offense, and they're betraying one another. And we're understanding betrayal in a way where in our interaction with the Lord, I'll get to it in a moment, we're actually experiencing the glory of God and the love of God more. And we're being more transformed by it. We're not being, you know, kind of like sucked down the drain, so to speak, and just lost in a torrent of confusion like the cultures are getting right now. And the anger is getting much more intense now than it was five years ago. But it's only beginning to escalate. Now when people get offended, I want you to see this next sentence here in paragraph J. When many people, when they get offended, they self-justify their betrayal. They don't call it betrayal, they call it justice. When they get offended, their objectivity is clouded, and they think that when they're striking at somebody, or paying someone back, they see it as justice. They don't have a grid that it's betrayal. And betrayal isn't just when somebody turns you into prison. Betrayal is when somebody you're in close relationship with, they are undermining you, and they're mostly behind your back, sometimes to your face, but mostly not. A lot of times they're smiling to their face, showing one face, but they're undermining you because they're offended at you. Well, inevitably, you find out. Then what you do is what we're talking about. That's what this is about tonight. Because the Lord wants a people who understand what betrayal is about, and how He's using it. But of the many believers I know, that when they get offended, and then they start zeroing in on somebody to take them out, to undermine them, to hurt their reputation, to undermine their credibility, again, they see it as justice. They're justice warriors. They're doing what's right. And those people can, in all my years of ministry, I guarantee they can always find five or ten people that will affirm them, and pat them on the back, saying, good job, good job. This thing is going to escalate in all the cultures around the earth. Well, Jesus, He gets a little more specific than, you're going to be, people will be betrayed by offended hearts. They'll betray more and more people. Believers and unbelievers alike. This isn't just only inside the church. Luke 21, remember, Luke 21 is the same message as Matthew 24. Luke adds another thing. He says, well, Matthew didn't say it, but Jesus said, you're going to be betrayed by your parents. Could you imagine your parents turning you, I mean, betraying you, and undermining you, and hurting your credibility, and trying to damage your life and reputation? Like, what? He goes, no, brothers will do it, brothers and sisters, siblings. Relatives, aunts and uncles and cousins will do it to each other. Really? I've seen a bit of that more in the last five or ten years. He goes, friends will do it. People on the same worship team, on the same ministry team, in the same workplace, the same kingdom business, they'll turn on each other. Well, Mark 13, remember, Mark 13 is the same message as Matthew 24 and Luke 21. Mark throws in a few details that Matthew didn't say. Jesus said, and when this season happens, this intensified betrayal, the gospel will be preached in all the nations. And we know from other verses it will be preached in power. And though, and I like to use the number because lots of people use it, the billions will harvest. And again, no one knows the number, the point being it's hundreds of millions, not a little revival over here, a little revival over there, it's a global revival, outpouring of the Holy Spirit. But in the context of that revival, brother will betray brother. Not just undermine, not just block their goals and undermine their credibility, they'll betray them to death. They'll steal their business and they will even turn them into the authorities to death. You're looking at that, so when the great revival happens, this is happening in the culture. But remember, the Lord is using the betrayal to bring people deep in God, because He does have a solution for it. He does have grace for it. There's a spirit of glory that He will put on the heart. There's understanding, there's grace. He'll actually pour love in the genuine believers for the people betraying them. They'll experience the love of God in a depth they never did before. The Lord's using it to, again, get the end time Laodicean spirit off the church in the end times to prepare them for the billions will harvest, to prepare the new believers together that they would be a mature bride that Jesus would come for. He knows what He's doing and He told us far in advance. But the body of Christ needs to start paying attention to this, talking about why, how, when, where, what will God do, how do I respond, where's the conversation at in our family, our church family, our spiritual family, etc. Well look at paragraph K. Paragraph K, I'm going to bring you to Micah chapter 7, because in the Old Testament, Micah was about 700 years B.C. before Christ. He was about 300 years after King David. And the reason I say that, because King David was the model of how to respond to betrayal. David was the most betrayed man in terms of the amount of description in the Bible against any one man, it would be David in the Old Testament. There's unquestionably, he had more betrayals than anyone. But Micah learned from David, and we'll get there in a minute. And I highlight four different responses from Micah chapter 7. And the reason I'm going to Micah 7, because Micah 7 is the passage where the prophet Micah said, brother against brother, father against son, son against parents. That what Jesus is saying, I'm going to tell you what Micah saw. Because what Micah saw was only a down payment of what he saw in his generation. This is going to be global, not just in his generation. So Jesus is actually referencing Micah 7, and part of the reason is so that we would go to Micah 7 and see how we're supposed to respond. Because when Jesus points to a chapter like that, typically he'll point to a verse, but the message is read the whole thing, there's about 10 points I want you to get. Look at verse 1 of Micah 7. Micah 7 is in, Micah's in pain, because he's seeing family members betraying each other for money. This is really bothering him. Because money is the number one motive here. Micah, the prophet, he goes, woe is me. Why? Why are you in pain? The faithful man has perished. And he didn't mean, I mean he was godly, there were some godly people, but there were a lack of godly leaders in the public square. He goes, I don't see the godly leaders like there used to be over business and government and all the different parts of society. Look at verse 2, this is horrible. He goes, every man is hunting his brother with a net. That's a terrible sentence. Because they hunt an animal with a net to entangle the animal so the animal can't get free. And he goes, men are coming after one another with a net where they can entangle them, where they can either blackmail them or they can say, if you do this, we're going to do that, and that's going to hurt you. Maybe it's not blackmail, but we're going to hurt your business, we're going to hurt your reputation. You have to do it our way. And so many people in Micah's day, they're getting entangled in the net where society was really under the pressure of this betrayal and they all wanted money, it was their end game. He says in verse 3, the prince, that means the political government, they want financial gifts. You want your thing to work, give the government, give the mayor, the governor, whatever, the senator, give them money. And there's plenty of that happening in the earth all through history, but it's really going to escalate. He goes, the judge, the legal system, the guy wants money, pay him, and he doesn't care how unjust his decision is, he'll say what you want him to say. He goes, the great man. And what they mean by the great man is the man that has influence in society, the prominent marketplace man, the prominent technology guy, the man with influence. He utters his evil desire, which means it's a negotiation. Give me money. So it's all about money here. His evil desire. Or if you don't give me money, I'm going to censor you. Or I'm going to shut you down and support the other business and put you out of business. He goes, they all scheme together, this wicked scheming. Now this, in Micah's day, Jesus is saying that's what's coming, but on a global level. Verse 5, now this isn't an absolute statement, don't trust in a friend. He's not saying don't ever trust anybody, that's not the point, but in context, he's going, be careful, because there's so much betrayal going on. He goes, it will go past the government officials and the judges and the legal system and the marketplace guys. Verse 6, it's going to go to families. He goes, look at it, a son will dishonor his father, a daughter her mother, a man's enemies are the enemies of his own house. And it's all about payoffs and bribes and blackmail and money. And so now, what does Micah say? How do you respond? And the reason, we want to know Micah's response, and I'm going to be ever so brief because they're pretty straight forward, and some of you will be able to take every one of these points and make big, you know, you can write things and podcast on them and really develop them in the days to come. But these are just a few little hints here. Number one response is the very next verse. Micah, because he's in pain, remember verse 1, woe is me, this is horrible. Society seems like it's caving in. He goes, what will I do? Verse 7, and there's so much you can say about verse 7, I look to God. I wait on Him to vindicate me. I'm looking for His help. This sounds very much like David. God says, look to me, David. Don't think you can fix this on your own. Again, you can spend an hour on that point there, but I don't want to tonight. Number two, it says, now Micah's talking about his own response because he's witnessing this betrayal for money and this opportunist kind of culture and all these guys doing this to each other. He goes, when I fall, verse 8, I will arise. When I sit in darkness, the Lord will break through with light for my life and my heart. What he's saying is this, I'm going to determine to rise up when I'm down about this. My pain, and even when I see my own failure, I'm going to rise up, and I'm going to believe that God's going to break through light in my heart and my life. Now, I have written here, Micah says that when I fall, he might have had a lack of obedience in an area of his life, or it might have been, it might have been that, but this prophet, it might have been a lack of maturity of his love or his mercy, because as a top spiritual leader in the nation, I'm sure that he imagined himself as being a spiritual example and a spiritual leader, but maybe he wasn't as merciful as he thought he was. Maybe he wasn't as, had as much integrity. Like these people attack him, he goes around and attacks them back. And the Lord says, Micah, what are you doing? That's not who you are. I thought you had more integrity then. He goes, so did I. I find myself attacking. Wait, I thought I was a mercy man. I don't have mercy like I, whoa. So he's finding himself dark spots in his heart that he was surprised by, but instead of self pity and caving in, he goes, I'm going to rise up. I'm going to set my heart. I'm going to get through this. I'm not camping out here. That's not what I'm doing. Verse three, this is a really good one. Verse three, which is the next verse, which I mean, response three, not verse three. It's verse nine actually, but he says, I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him until he pleads my case. And I know I will have a breakthrough of righteousness. I know I will see this happen in my life. So what he's saying is, he goes, instead of me having self pity that I see these deficiencies in my life. Again, maybe there's some failures in obedience, but failures in some of his leadership and character in the midst of this hostile environment, he was supposed to be a shining light of the grace of God, merciful integrity, a man of his word. He doesn't fight evil with evil. He doesn't go talk about people, slander people. He doesn't get on that train that the most of the human race is on. He goes, I'm going to bear the discipline of the Lord. He goes, I'm under the Lord's discipline because he's showing me the unperceived fault lines in my heart, in my mind. I have dark spots I never even thought about. I thought I was doing pretty good, but I see them now. And I'm going to, I'm grateful I've come up short in this place I have sinned. You could even put, I've seen my deficiencies in a whole new light. And I'm going to bear this discipline of God until God pleads my case and I see a breakthrough of righteousness in my life. Now that's the response. This is a King David response. Most people, when they get attacked, they stumble into self-pity. They indulge in it. And they don't think of looking at the dark spots of their mind and heart. They look at the dark spots of the people who are attacking them. And they get fixated on it. But then he says, no, I'm not going to do that. I'm going this the right way. That's why Jesus is pointing to Micah 7 to the apostles. But he's really telling, well he's telling them, but he's telling the Micah 7. Then in verse 4, I mean, not verse 4, paragraph 4, response 4, verse 18, Micah breaks out. He goes, who is like you? He worshipped. He goes, you forgive sin. He's talking about his own sin. You forgive sin so abundantly. Why? Because you delight in giving me mercy. Oh, I'm so grateful. And here's what happens. When you see God delighting in giving you mercy, because you've seen your sin in a new way. Because this pressure brings those fault lines to the surface. He's doing pretty good. Until you are attacked by family members and friends or spiritual leaders or whatever. There's raging new feelings. And the Lord says, okay, don't worry about them. Bring them to me. Talk to me about them. Don't deny them. Talk to me about them. And so he goes, God's forgiven me. I love you. He delights in mercy. Here's what happens. When I see God delight in showing me mercy, it makes me energized to show you mercy. I'm happy to show you mercy because that's how the whole kingdom is. I go, this works. You know, you're getting a free deal, but so am I. So am I. I'm getting a good deal. And when you get a good deal, mercy that God delights and he gives to you, you're energized to give it to somebody else. Okay, top of page three. Well, I'm going to do this fast because this is just a review. It's just too important to skip. Though I spent probably 25 minutes on this on session two. It's just straight from those notes. But I want those of you that are new here, just maybe the first time, maybe you'll want to go back to session two and look at it. Because God gave David to be the model of how to respond. David was betrayed more than any man in the Bible in terms of the amount of information in the scripture about his betrayal. He was betrayed by his father-in-law. He was betrayed by his family. He was betrayed by his wife. He was betrayed by his cabinet, his political cabinet, political leaders, military leaders. Now David died when he was 70. And so let's say that his kind of public life began when he was 20. A lot of people suggest that he killed Goliath when he was 18. Nobody knows for sure. Just 20 is a nice round number. But 20 to 70, David had 50 years of dealing with betrayal. I've studied the life of David over the last many years and I've taught it verse by verse maybe 10 times over 40, 45 years, the life of David, 1 and 2 Samuel. And so I'm a little bit familiar with his life. And the part that kind of blows me away about David is that the whole 50 years of his adult life, he has betrayal, betrayal, betrayal. Now when the Philistines attacked him, the enemies, the quote, pagans, that was not betrayal. That was his military conflict. I'm talking about internal relationships turning on him. The whole 50 years he had betrayal, then a little reprieve for a few years. Betrayal, then some reprieve. Betrayal, then some reprieve. Where he didn't have it. So the reason I say that, because I remember when I first started reading it. And you know I'm in my 20s and some guys attack me and say false things. And I get through that season and it goes for a couple of years. Then another season some friends did it. Well I'm through that. It was like the Lord whispers, go read the life of David. His whole 50 years it was, it was, because God was training David the whole time. God was showing David as a man, a king after his own heart. And so I just, I finally concluded whenever it was, you know what? We're never going to be done with this completely until the end, okay? Okay. Because I thought, well I did it. I had a couple of hard seasons. And again betrayal to me is when a trusted friend or an associate, you've shared heart and laughter and fun and love. And they now are undermining you to, to hinder your progress or to, you know, to make your life difficult. That's a betrayal of a friend. Now I've had a good number of those over the life in the last 45 years. And my point isn't like, oh poor Mike, he's got so beat up. That's not my point. That's not my point. My point is that I've got the 45 year look at it and a number of examples of it. And I have found the tenderness and sweetness of God in a way I never thought I would. I went, this is real. This stuff really works. Now I'm not there yet. I'm not quote broke through all the way, but I believe this is doable. I go, I got a little bit of history where I'm not near as nervous about that stuff as I used to be because there's a presence of God and in time that the Lord does vindicate you. But then a little time goes by and another betrayal comes and the Lord says, don't worry, I'm training you because I like you so much and my presence is on you. Just stay with it. Keep seeing the dark spots and keep coming back to me and it will be good. Well, what David did here, you got paragraph A and paragraph B. You can just read them on your own, but he was betrayed season after season. Again, he had reprieves, but David's the one liner that I've used for many, many years for 45 years probably is the first Samuel 24, 15 and I talked about this in the last session. David would say, he would have the enemy in front of him and he would say, I can take you out because he had the military advantage in a number of situations and he goes, I'm not going to because you're of the household of faith and you're in the family and you're an anointed leader. I'm not going to do that and David always, here's what he said, let God decide. I'm not going to use my mouth or my sword to take you out, but I'm going to let God decide or another language depending on what translation, let God judge and David said that over and over and that became my, I mean it stuck out over the years as I taught his life and I went, that's really the way to do it. Let God decide and eventually the jealous King Saul, God actually killed King Saul, first Chronicles chapter 12, God killed, I think it's first Chronicles chapter 10, God killed King Saul. David didn't, God did and God's timing and David's hands were clean and the David, but he had this new history in God, this new experience and then he needed it the years after, the years after, the years after, the years after and the Lord says, that's what I'm training my end time church. I'm showing them I will be near them and I will show them the dark spots of their heart to liberate them. You know the prayer I've said over the years, Lord shock me now, don't shock me then. I don't want you to shock me at the judgment seat, shock me now. If I'm not merciful and I'm not kind and I'm not tender and I'm not trusting you, show me now. Don't let me get there and say, hey Mike, I love you, you didn't really trust me, you thought you did, you really didn't. All the people around you congratulated you because you did, but you didn't. Like I go, please don't shock me then. Let me see where I don't trust you now because I can still change it now and that's what, that's the wisdom of the Lord. I mean it's beautiful, it's wonderful that the Lord shows us these dark spots. David said in paragraph C, the famous statement, into your hands I commit my spirit and because Jesus said that and we have that in Luke 23, I got the text there. Jesus said into your hands I commit my spirit. Jesus didn't mean when I go to heaven, when I die I will go to heaven. That's not what that verse meant, although it's certainly included. He's saying when I commit my spirit, what David meant, everything that was dear to my spirit, my calling, my reputation, my protection, my life, my family, I commit everything dear to me to you. And when Jesus was on the cross quoting David, he wasn't saying father I commit my spirit into your hands. He wasn't just saying I'll see you soon in heaven. He was saying you promised me to be king of the whole earth. You promised me messianic glory. You promised me all the nations. I commit all of these promises. I'll let these men kill me because I know the dear promises are safe in your hand. That's what David is saying and that's what Jesus is saying. Now Romans number three, this is a new idea to some people. This is a very important idea. God has chosen to use betrayal on purpose to train and transform his people. Betrayal has a prominent place in God's end time prophecies. I mean it's there. I showed you a number of them but there's more. It's intentional. We're not going to duck out of this because the Lord knows we're going to get transformed in it in a way we're going to be grateful for. I have an important statement here in paragraph A. We can encounter God's love in a greater way when we're betrayed. What? What do you mean we're going to encounter God's love in a greater way? Number one, the spirit of glory rests on you. There's a tenderizing. There's a sparks of insight and understanding and clarity come to your mind. I don't know if they're sparks but you know what I mean. Just little moments of clarity that are new and a tenderizing of the heart and strengthening. We see our deficiencies more clearly. We might think that's a great gift because we make those changes. We have billions of years to live in the fruit of making changes in our character in this age. This is the only time ever you can repent from sin and deny it because forever you don't ever have that chance. Only one time right now in this age. So when God shows us these things, this is the glory of God to see these things. But not only that, you can experience the love of God for a person that betrayed you. And this is what I mean a few minutes ago when I said I've experienced a bit of this. Not perfect. I don't want to overstate this but I've experienced it a number of times. I'm looking at the guy that has betrayed me. Sometimes they don't know that I know they have betrayed me. I've heard the stories and they're putting me down but they're smiling and they're all, you know, mush bucket type stuff, you know. But I already know they're lying and they're trying, they're scheming. And I feel tenderness. I'm going, wait a second. How does a weak, broken, dorky person like me have Holy Spirit tenderness like this? Where did this come from? The Lord says it's real. I'm real. And you're experiencing it. I go wow. Because when you love someone that betrayed you, you feel it. Beloved, that's the most supernatural display of power. I mean that is a dynamic display of the reality of God. And God's going to use that display of millions of believers loving the ones that betrayed them. And a billion unbelievers going, what do they know about God that we don't know? Now paragraph B. God allows, this is a big statement here. God allows, not a big statement, an important statement is what I'm trying to say. Allows those who betray to get into the inner circle of leadership teams. He does it on purpose. Let me say it this way. It's not an accident. Whenever there's a Holy Spirit is establishing an important kingdom purpose. And let's say in the earth right now there's ten thousand places, maybe there's a million. I don't know. It's none of my business. But thousands of places where God is establishing important kingdom purposes. If that's where He's doing that, I assure you this. There's always people in the midst of that gathering of people who God will use to train His leaders to have a heart like David. Wherever there's a move of God, there's always a jealous Saul somewhere in the mix. Not the whole time, but here and there. There will always be a rebellious, ambitious Absalom who's betraying and ambitious. There will always be some angry Pharisees that love the Bible and fast and pray, but they got an angry spirit and they're coming after you. They're looking to undermine you and to dismiss you and to hurt you. But more than that even, there's always the money loving opportunist Judas. Judas was about money. He was an opportunist. He was not trying to become the new king like Absalom. He wasn't jealous of losing his position like Saul. He was after the money. Paragraph C. Why do people betray? Here, I'll just give a little rapid fire. Judas betrayed because he was a liar and a thief. That's the primary emphasis in the Gospels is the betrayal because of a liar and a thief. Micah 7, it was the liar and the thief and the money person. That's where the majority of the betrayal was. But David, Saul betrayed him out of jealousy, Absalom out of ambition, Ahithophel out of revenge, Korah out of rebellion. And so look at these verses, particularly at the end of page 3, Mark 14. Here's the spirit of Judas. The spirit of Judas says in Mark 14 verse 10, Judas went to the chief priests. He knocks on their door and he goes, hey I hear that you're looking for an opportunity to inquire more about my leader. And it says, if you read the whole text, I don't have it all here, when the Pharisees, the chief priests heard it, the top leaders, they were very glad. And they go, you would be willing to help us get him without creating a riot? Because if they go grab Jesus right in public, I mean there will be a riot and the chief priests will get in trouble by the population, the people, the populace. So first in verse 10, he's seeking an opportunity to get money. But in verse 11, now that they agreed to give it to him, hmm how can I get that money without getting caught? Now I want to get the money and never ever let anybody know I did it. Now he's looking for an opportunity to make it work without getting caught. Paragraph D. Now Jesus, paragraph D here, let me see, okay page 4. I'm just going to give a little bit of this and we're going to bring this to an end in just a few moments. Jesus, here he is, John 13, verse 21, paragraph D, he's at the Last Supper. And he says, I'm really troubled, or one translation says anguish. And it's because of Judas, I'm going to be betrayed. And you think, why are you, have so much anguish about being betrayed? Well because he loved Judas. We'll see that in a moment. Okay, good. But Jesus, you know for sure, within 24 hours, both of you will have died. You're not worried about him rejecting you, like, oh my friend Judas, he doesn't like me, he just doesn't understand me, it hurts so much. It's not that. Jesus isn't saying, oh no, Judas is so powerful, he's going to disrupt the Father's kingdom plans. It's not that. He's not hurt by Judas not getting him. He knew from the beginning. He never trusted Judas ever. He's not worried Judas is going to stop God's purpose. He actually has anguish over the man he actually loves. Because he knows in 24 hours where he's going to be going. And he actually loved him. Look at the next verse, Matthew 26. They're in the Garden of Gethsemane. Now Judas tells the Roman soldiers, the multitude, he goes, I know where they're hiding. They're not in the upper room. They were there earlier. I know exactly where the place is. So Judas has all these Roman soldiers kind of over at the side, because they don't want a big scene. They want to get him and get out of there and not have a riot. They don't quite know. Judas goes, and the Romans go, which one is it? Kind of, which guy is he? He goes, I'll go kiss him. And then when you see him, you see him real quick. So Judas comes, verse 49. He said, greetings Rabbi. And he kissed him, just mush bucket. Oh, you're amazing. Because the spirit of Judas, that's how they present themselves. And then Jesus looked at him and he said, friend, that was an absolutely true statement. No exaggeration. You are really my friend, meaning I'm really offering you friendship right now. I'm really genuine about offering you friendship, and I know everything. Then he asked Judas the most piercing question. He goes, why have you come? Now remember, when God asks a question, it's not because God needs an answer. It's because the person he's asking the question needs the answer. And in kindness, he says, why are you here? In other words, betrayers rarely have clarity of the big picture consequences. They have, they're fixated on the immediate gratification. He's got a bag of gold waiting for him. Judas, stop. Think big picture. Think five years, 50 years, and a million years. Why are you here? I just offered you friendship. I got the bag of gold, man. All I got to do is say he's the one. The gold's mine. I mean, it's mine. And so he does it. So here in verse 49 and 50 is the contrasting of the most intense contrasting of false friendship with genuine friendship. There's never been a greater contrast here. Let me see. Paragraph E, just make a comment on it. Jesus, he's telling the apostles this whole story about betrayal and stuff. He knows that within six hours from the, I made up the six hours, I don't really know, but from the dinner in the upper room to the garden, within six hours, Judas has betrayed Jesus and Jesus has shown friendship. An hour earlier, Jesus was weeping, sweating blood and tears with so much anguish over what he was going to face, but he recovered. And James and John saw that in such a way that he actually has friendship for Judas. How did you recover so quick? And Jesus is saying, I am modeling to you, 11, that you're going to be betrayed. I told you on Tuesday, even your family members will betray you. You'll get kicked out of the synagogue. You must respond like I am responding. And I will give you grace to even have the anguish that I'm going through in the garden of Gethsemane, but I've recovered to show genuine friendship and care for Judas. I mean, betrayal is psychologically traumatizing. I want to say that again. Betrayal is traumatizing psychologically, meaning it typically traumatizes the guy getting betrayed. But I'm going to make, here's the last kind of main point I want to make is that it traumatizes the betrayer too. We think of the guy getting betrayed, going, ah, this is so horrible, painful, and only by the grace of God do people get through that. But there is grace for it. There's a spirit of glory. There really is. But the betrayer, we don't think about the betrayer and the trauma they go through. Here in Roman numeral four, Satan's goal, like I said, is just to wipe us out. He doesn't care if it's before or after you're in ministry or whatever. Sometimes God's servants are attacked because they're promoting some of the truths, the unpopular truths. They're standing for Jesus, and they're attacked because of conviction. But remember Matthew 24 verse 10, Jesus said, many are going to be offended, and they're going to betray you. It's not even about religious conviction. They're just angry at their life, and they see an opportunity to put you down and to take something from you. They'll betray you. Judas did not want Jesus harmed. Judas was not like a violent guy. He wasn't like saying, hey, I'm going to pay you back, dude, for all the ways that you ignored me earlier. No, he's like, I just want the money. Basically, that's it. I don't want you to get hurt. I'm imagining Judas was thinking, Jesus will pull out some miracles. He'll win them over. I get my money. Nobody will ever know I got my money. He wasn't trying to hurt Jesus. He was after the money. Now, the reason I'm putting this in front of you, because if we can see the plight of the betrayer, we have a far greater chance to have compassion on them. The Lord, again, I'm not great at this, so I'm not trying to overdo that I'm an example of this, but I have been able, over the years, to see little glimpses of the anguish of the people that have betrayed me. I've had a good number of them. I go, wow. I've got the Spirit of God touching me and His presence and Godly family, Godly friends, Godly things, purposes unfolding. What am I complaining about? Their life. When a person gets into a spirit of betrayal, and betrayal doesn't happen just one night. Judas thought on this a long time. Betrayal normally has a long term. It's building, building, building, building. But what happens when a person becomes a betrayer, and I have the stuff written here in the notes. Dark thoughts come to their mind. They begin to get despair. They begin to get hopeless in their mind. They can't sleep at night. Their emotions are in turmoil. Their mind is racing 100 miles an hour. They have no peace. Then it starts affecting their body and their health. It starts hitting them. The betrayer's got a tough road. And then it's really tough forever if they don't come out of it. I look at betrayers and go, they got the tough role. They think they're in the power position. No, they're in the ouch position. They just don't know it right now. They just think, well, a little pep talk, I'll get through it. No, no, they can't hardly sleep at nights. That's how betrayers are. And so what I'm doing is I want to train a generation to not be bit by the root of bitterness, paragraph B. Not for bitterness to get them because then they become a betrayer, but to have compassion get them because they look at that betrayer and all of a sudden the glory of God frees their heart. They have peace in their mind. They can sleep at night. They have the pleasure of God. They feel it while they're being betrayed. But a whole generation, if they're not prepared for it, they're going to Hebrews 12, paragraph B. The root of bitterness is going to get them and the betrayal against them is going to make them a betrayer because they're just tired of it. They're just fed up with it. I just have no more bandwidth for anything. That's the pathway, the emotional pathway of a betrayer. That's the trauma of betrayal on the betrayer. So paragraph B, the text, I'm going to read this. Ask the Holy Spirit to release God's compassion in your heart on the people betraying you, knowing they open themselves up to demonic activity. A betrayer doesn't even know it. They think they're like really got it together. They're opening themselves up to demonic activity. They just don't know it. Demons don't tell you when they're getting you. It results in fear, darkness, despair, mostly hopelessness, and just fear, and just unclarity, just clouded mind. I can't get clear. It affects their body. I already said all that. But I have written here in Matthew 5, 44, but we have compassion. You are never more like God than when you bless those who curse you. Matthew 5, 44. Jesus gave four things. He goes, love those that hate you, bless those that curse you, do good to those who come against you, and pray for them. You do good because you will be like your Father in heaven. You are never more like God than when you are responding to mistreatment by a betrayer. I'm talking about someone who is close. I'm not talking about someone far away. Someone close. You will display the glory of God in yourself. You will feel it. Again, I don't want to overdo it, but I felt it a few times over the years. I go, this is doable. I like this. The Lord says, you're just a little peewee. You stay with it. You will like it more as you experience it more and more and more. It says in paragraph C, Peter says, 1 Peter 4, let none of you suffer as a thief, an evildoer, a busybody, a gossiper. Now, you suffer two ways. You suffer as a thief and an evildoer because you get caught, and there are consequences. But you suffer the other way. You don't get caught. It's all internal, but you still have consequences. There are internal consequences. There's suffering. Most of us would only think of the suffering of a busybody if they got caught. The busybody is in turmoil inside, all constantly inside, because a busybody is a betrayer. So is the evil. So Peter, James really says it clear. He says, verse 14, if you've got this envy, if you've got this self-seeking opportunist like Judas, don't lie about it to yourself. Don't boast and say, hey, I'm free. Don't boast. You're in trouble. You're on a trajectory of trouble, of dark mind and dark emotions. Don't lie against the truth because, verse 15, this wisdom, this mindset, it is demonic. You're opening yourself up to the realm of demonic torment. I don't just mean you'll have terrible dreams. You just have anxiety constantly and you can't get free of it. Not all anxiety is demonic. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying a person that is moving like the spirit of Judas and that opportunist spirit, they'll sell someone out to get that little pot of gold. He said here, he goes, verse 16, if you've got that mindset, you have confusion inside of you. And everything evil, he's talking about inside of you. He's not talking about your car breaks down or your house doesn't work. He's talking about internal. You've got evil working in you. You can't have peace. And Satan stirred up Judas. Now, Satan didn't make Judas do this. And this was not a one-time decision. Judas was a thief from the very beginning. And Satan was stirring him up constantly. And finally, he made his choices. But he hung himself. But people think he hung himself because he was so sorry that he did it. I don't think that's true. It says he was remorseful. But I don't think he said, oh, Jesus, I love you so much. Oh, my goodness. I didn't know they were going to do this to you. I think what happened is that Judas did this. He was opening the door to demonic activity. And this dark dynamics began to accelerate in his thinking, in his mind. There was no way out. And he hung himself. And the interesting thing is that David's friend, Ahithophel, he betrayed David and hung himself just like Judas. But the point I'm making is that the verses that David wrote about this man that betrayed him and hung himself are the verses the New Testament describes Judas. They use the David verses. Both of them hung themselves at the end. And because they were so sorry, because the darkness took over, they couldn't stop it and control it. And it's destructive. It's everything evil. It's demonic. And so I believe that paragraph D, worship team, come on up. Paragraph D, it's interesting. I'm not going to develop this, but John 13, the communion takes place, the first communion in John 13 where the betrayal is declared. There's something about communion and betrayal. And when even Paul was talking about 1 Corinthians 11, he said, when the Lord revealed to me communion. He goes, that was the time the betrayer happened. And even Paul associated the communion with betrayal. Why? I love what Lou Engel's doing. Some of you know this. And Francis Chan and some others, they're talking about this global communion revival. Because when we take communion in reality, we are confronting God's delight in forgiving us. And that gratitude touches us. And we look at people that don't deserve your kindness, but you've got kindness for them. Because that's what the communion's all about. The Lord's saying, my son's body and blood, my body's broken, bloodshed, because God delights to show you mercy. Now you are energized to show them mercy. And collectively, the body of Christ, through this season of training, we will be like a living portrait of the glory of God to an unbelieving world. And that's what the Lord is going to use to bring in the billion soul harvest. Signs and wonders, yes. But people that live supernaturally, that instead of becoming bitter and then becoming a betrayer, they saw the plight of the betrayer and felt compassion and felt and wanted to be a vessel to bring redemption to the betrayer. Jesus was literally offering Judah's friendship. It didn't have to be this way, Judah. Why are you doing it? Think it through. Well, amen and amen. Let's stand before the Lord. This is such a, I know I went long. I don't typically want to go this long. But this is such an important subject. And I don't want to do it week after week after week. I just want to get it all in the last three messages. We'll come back to persecution later. But I want to move on to the other subjects. But I've got these three handouts on persecution. You know, at least the beginning to get a conversation going in your heart and your friendship and your family. Unless if you don't have that conversation going right now. So Father, here we are right now before you. Now I'm imagining in this room, 80% at least have somebody that you have a familiar relationship with. A friend, family member, a worker that is betraying you. They're speaking evil against you to undermine you right now. And you're figuring out you're going to either be David and Micah. Or you're going to go take them out and set the record straight. And you're going to put them in their place. Or you're going to let God put them in their place. Because they're in the family of God, many of them. Think about that right now. If you choose the biblical response, little by little, not immediately, you'll get transformed. You'll get liberated on the inside. You go the other direction, you get more vulnerable to that root of bitterness. And that's a dark trajectory. Takes a while to get dark, but it's a dark one. Father, here we are before you. I say, Micah 7.18 Who is like the Lord? He abundantly forgives me. Because he delights in mercy. You delight in mercy, Lord. Thank you. Thank you, Lord. I want to be a man that feels your delight in mercy for me. I want to delight in mercy for them. I want to train a generation to delight in mercy. The gold is not worth it. The money is not worth it. Absalom wanted the kingship. It's not worth it. The position is not worth it. Ahithophel wanted revenge. Revenge isn't worth it. Korah wanted rebellion. That's not worth it. To get your way on the leadership team. Lord, I'm yours. I am yours, O God. I want to encourage you to talk to the Lord in a deep way right now. Because it's not only about you getting free. We need to get the next generation trained and free. We all got to work together. I'm going to cross the earth to get the next generation ready for this. We need millions of us, spiritual moms and dads on board. I will worship and cry. I will love you. Jesus, we love you. Typically, I have people come forward for prayer. I don't want to do that tonight. I want you to talk to everyone in this room. Probably, he's being betrayed by somebody. Somebody's putting you down and trying to hurt you some way to undermine you. And your heart is in the balance right now. The Lord's called you to be a shepherd to train the next generation. Lord, I say yes. Lord, I say yes. Help me, a weak man. Help me, Lord. Jesus, we love you. In mercy, who is like you? Who is like the Lord? He asked Judas. Judas, why are you here? What are you doing? Faith, Judas. Faith, Judas. I'm pouring out an offering to worship and cry. I will love you. Oh, we love you. We love you, Jesus. We love you. But I love this real Jesus. I will love you. Yes, I get to be with you. Oh, to be with you. Oh, I will love you. Jesus, I give my life to you again. And so I will have that everyday, everyday life for you.