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Bible says that God upholds all things by the Word, which is of His authority (Heb. 1:3b). It does not say that God upholds all things by His power. POWER is what is released through authority to accomplish the “doing.” God’s authority represents God Himself; God’s POWER only represents God’s works.

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Here’s the clincher. Imagine the disciples listening to Jesus lay out the golden keys of deliverance for fellow Body members. Embracing what Jesus said would be impossible for the disciples to comprehend without the Spirit revealing such mysteries. And now, we find one of the disciples catching the foundation of the message – extending forgiveness.

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Then Peter came and said to Him, Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Up to seven times? Jesus *said to him, I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven. (Matthew 18:21-22)

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It takes an experienced indwelt Christian, mostly grown up and matured in Christ, to be trusted in releasing the Life of Christ in a meeting like this. They need to be a people accustomed to eating the strong meat of the Gospel. Such maturity grants them the privilege of unveiling the secret things of God, the mysteries of the Gospel.

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Let’s face it. There are three types of people. There is the Spiritual man, one who’s life is accustomed to releasing the Spirit from the dwelling-place of the Spirit of God. Secondly, the indwelt Christian who blocks the mysteries of God, the hidden wisdom of God from within, and functions on the energy of the flesh, self-life or mind of man. And finally, there is the natural man (unsaved), possessing merely the intellect and conscience of ordinary humanity. A Matthew 18 meeting requires the first. If there is doubt as to the assurance of such, do NOT conduct this meeting.

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The method of madness that drives a healthy person into the chaos of betrayal is simple. It classically starts with the child’s attitude toward their parents. When dishonor is shown toward parents, dishonor is activated toward the child by the Lord. It sets off a world of chaos for the child that ultimately cannot be overpowered by the child’s hatred.

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It moves itself into civil dishonor and ends with a fate of being trapped by demonic doctrines, where the child must make up their own kind of Jesus to support their violation of dishonoring their parents, and ultimately other authorities.

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THE ACT OF THE KISS OF DEATH: The double-edged sword of revealing betrayal through the act of intimacy, the kiss, leaves them with the reality that one of their own has been sold to the enemy. Typically, death follows for the betrayer and the victim. Speaking from an eternal perspective, betrayal commits a greater sin – that of stealing from God’s prerogative of leaving room for the wrath of God.

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Vengeance is classically viewed as harsh acts that affect the human body, such as murder. This couldn’t be further from the truth. We learn in the Pictorial Hebrew that the word vengeance (nahkam) is the action that follows chaos. Hebrew customs reveal that vengeance is to reveal, disclose, divulge, tell, give away, leak, unmask, expose, bring out into the open, spill, kiss, tell a secret and sell a family member to the enemy. Judas’s act of the “kiss of death” is believed by the Hebrew people to be the worse form of vengeance.

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THE ACT OF THE KISS OF JUDAS: Among ministers of the Gospel, this act is as common as the act of Judas betraying Jesus. Worse yet is the pretentious expression of fake intimacy from a loved one. The Modern Hebrew word for betrayal is bagad, expose danger by treacherously giving information to an enemy – for the strict purpose of destroying a person out of anger. Therefore, this series is a well-placed study following our recent popularized study “You’ve Got Hate Mail.”

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