Grace Fellowship Church www.GraceDoctrine.org Pastor / Teacher James H. Rickard Thursday, August 14, 2008

Phil 4:13, “I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.” Memory Verse Phil 4:13, “I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.”

The Upper Room Discourse John 13-16

John 13:18 3) God's Omniscience does not hinder or violate human volition.

Doctrine of Betrayal

7. Identifying Problems of Betrayal

The experience of betrayal comes from a broad category of sins.

Hurt feelings can result from a love betrayal, unfaithful coworker / boss; betrayal in a friendship, disloyalty from a workplace, community, even country, the loss of a loved one, and the world seeming to turn on you.

Betrayal is also a loss of trust or faith in our relationship with “something bigger, or spiritual”, (i.e., God, the church or Pastor).

The Pattern Leading to Broken Trust

1. Personal and/or cultural expectations, understood as “The Truth”, are present.

2. Based on these expectations, whole-hearted loyalty is given to another.

3. "The Truth" is shattered; often due to someone making choices despite potential, major damage to the relationship.

4. Shock and intense hurt feelings inevitably result.

The betrayed assumed something to be true (and actually needed to believe for emotional safety), then discovered the core belief was false.

The collapse of a belief structure results in a negative effect on the soul, called garbage of the soul and if unchecked leads to Blackout of the Soul (B.o.S.).

The downward spiral of the B. o. S The downward spiral of the B.o.S. results from emotional revolt of the soul and locked in negative volition toward the Word, which immobilizes previously metabolized Bible doctrine for the believer. Eph 4:17-19

John 12:35, “He who walks in darkness does not know where he goes.”

1 John 1:6, “If we contend that we have fellowship with him and we keep on walking in darkness, we are lying and we do not live the truth.”

1 John 2:11, “When anyone hates his fellow believer, he is in darkness and he walks in darkness, and he does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.”

2 Cor 3:14, “But their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remains unlifted, because it is removed in Christ. 15But to this day whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their heart; 16but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.”

2 Cor 4:4, “In whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.”

The Downward Spiral of the Blackout of the Soul.

1. The more you allow emotional sins to acquire power over your life, the greater your capacity for irrationality.

2. The greater your capacity for irrationality, the more garbage you accumulate in the subconscious of your soul.

3. The more garbage you accumulate in the subconscious, the more you have blackout of Bible doctrine in the soul.

Emotions should respond to the situations in life, but when you allow them to react they become bad emotions filled with sin.

Bad Emotion is often pathological arrogance and the function of: evil obsession, unrealistic expectation, role model arrogance, the feet of clay syndrome, and iconoclastic arrogance.

Upper Room Discourse, Pt 198 Grace Fellowship Church Thursday, August 14, 2008 Tape # 08-056 Betrayal, Pt 4 Upper Room Discourse, Pt 198 John 13:18; John 12:35; Eph 4:17-19; 1 John 1:6; 2:11 James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2008