How Life Feels Part 6 Psalm 55 & Luke 22

1. HOW LIFE FEELS
The Lenten Journey | Evergreen Baptist Church of Los Angeles | 2016

2. Can a
complete
stranger
betray you or
does it usually
involve
someone you
know and
trust? Why?

3. because
betrayal is a
violation of trust
it typically
involves people
we know well

4. A Trust Betrayed
Psalm 55 & Luke 22

5. –Victor L. Cahn
TRUST, v. to lay oneself open to deception.

6. Psalm 55
1-3 Open your ears, God, to my prayer;
don’t pretend you don’t hear me
knocking. Come close and whisper your
answer. I really need you. I shudder at
the mean voice, quail before the evil eye,
as they pile on the guilt, stockpile angry
slander.

7. Psalm 55
4-5 My insides are turned inside out; specters of death have me
down. I shake with fear, I shudder from head to foot.

8. Psalm 55
6-8 “Who will give me wings,” I ask—“wings like a dove?”
Get me out of here on dove wings; I want some peace and quiet.
I want a walk in the country, I want a cabin in the woods.
I’m desperate for a change from rage and stormy weather.

9. Psalm 55
12-14 This isn’t the neighborhood bully
mocking me—I could take that.This isn’t a
foreign devil spitting invective—I could tune
that out.
It’s you! We grew up together! You! My
best friend! Those long hours of leisure as
we walked arm in arm, God a third party to
our conversation.

10. Psalm 55
20-21 And this, my best friend, betrayed
his best friends; his life betrayed his word.
All my life I’ve been charmed by his
speech, never dreaming he’d turn on me.
His words, which were music to my ears,
turned to daggers in my heart.

11. Where Betrayal Often Occurs
marriage family friends work
teams social groups church

12. there are
times when
we are the
betrayed
there are
times when
we are the
betrayer

13. Psalm 55
22-23 Pile your troubles on God’s shoulders
—he’ll carry your load, he’ll help you out.
He’ll never let good people topple into ruin.
But you, God, will throw the others into a
muddy bog, cut the lifespan of assassins
and traitors in half. And I trust in you.

14. Jesus was also betrayed
We can trust him because he understands how it feels and will
restore our ability to love and trust again. It just takes time.

15. Luke 22
1-2 The Feast of Unleavened
Bread, also called Passover,
drew near.The high priests and
religion scholars were looking
for a way to do away with Jesus
but, fearful of the people, they
were also looking for a way to
cover their tracks.

16. Luke 22
3-6 That’s when Satan entered Judas, the one
called Iscariot. He was one of the Twelve.
Leaving the others, he conferred with the high
priests and the Temple guards about how he
might betray Jesus to them.They couldn’t
believe their good luck and agreed to pay him
well. He gave them his word and started
looking for a way to betray Jesus, but out of
sight of the crowd.

17. 14 When it was time,Jesus sat down, all the apostles with him…

18. Luke 22
21-22 “Do you realize that the hand
of the one who is betraying me is at
this moment on this table? It’s true
that the Son of Man is going down
a path already marked out—no
surprises there. But for the one who
turns him in, turns traitor to the
Son of Man, this is doomsday.”

19. 23 They immediately became suspicious of each other and began
quizzing one another, wondering who might be about to do this.

20. –Anonymous
“Trust everyone until you have a reason not to.”

21. Luke 22
39-40 Leaving there, he
went, as he so often did,
to Mount Olives.The
disciples followed him.
When they arrived at
the place, he said, “Pray
that you don’t give in to
temptation.”

22. Luke 22
41-44 He pulled away from them about a
stone’s throw, knelt down, and prayed,
“Father, remove this cup from me. But
please, not what I want.What do you
want?” At once an angel from heaven was at
his side, strengthening him. He prayed on
all the harder. Sweat, wrung from him like
drops of blood, poured off his face.

23. Luke 22
45-46 He got up from
prayer, went back to the
disciples and found them
asleep, drugged by grief. He
said, “What business do you
have sleeping? Get up. Pray
so you won’t give in to
temptation.”

24. Luke 22
47-48 No sooner were the
words out of his mouth than
a crowd showed up,Judas,
the one from the Twelve, in
the lead. He came right up to
Jesus to kiss him.Jesus said,
“Judas, you would betray
the Son of Man with a kiss?”

25. Luke 22
49-50 When those with him saw
what was happening, they said,
“Master, shall we fight?” One of them
took a swing at the Chief Priest’s
servant and cut off his right ear.
51 Jesus said, “Let them be. Even in
this.” Then, touching the servant’s
ear, he healed him.

26. My most trusted friend has turned against me, though he ate at my table. Psalm 41:9

27. –Anonymous
“It is an equal Failing to trust everybody
and to trust nobody.”

28. –Jesus
“Do not let your hearts be troubled.
Trust in God; trust also in Me.”