The story of the "Many Judases" is the story of the world—and of every soul.

To focus solely on Judas is to miss the symphony of the betrayal

Are you the Insider trading covenant for coin (comfort, reputation, advantage)?

· Are you the Crowd, swayed by the loudest voices, betraying my conscience for belonging?

· Are you the Pharisee, using my theology, my laws, my "rightness" to condemn what challenges my control?

· Are you the Soldier, just "doing my job" in a system that crucifies the innocent?

· Are you the Disciple, fleeing when loyalty becomes costly?

· Are you the Pilate, washing my hands of a justice I have the power to enact?

That's because when people are tested they reflect self love and hate for others. That love seeks self preservation. It's a void that can't never be filled; Love tests himself by his willingness to suffer for those he loves. 

To abide in true love is to abide in Jesus and to abide in the love of self is to abide in the Judas spirit, in other words being held down by all seven spirits.

You are who you abide to.

· Abide to the Self → become a void.

· Abide to a Transaction → become a tool.

· Abide to an Unclean Spirit → become a slave.

· Abide to God in Christ → become a sovereign branch, bearing eternal fruit.

Abide to self means to one, or more of the unclean spirits

1. The Spirit of Pride | Anti-Sonship, Anti-Covenant

2. The Spirit of Greed | Compromise

3. The Spirit of Lust | Lack

4. The Spirit of Envy | Comparison

5. The Spirit of Wrath | Destruction of Threat

6. The Spirit of Sloth | Lie, Double-Mindedness

7. The Spirit of Fear | Self-Preservation, Murder

 

The more spirit holds you down the more anguish you feel, imagine each spirit is a level of anguish. When the soul feels anguish he seeks love, and comfort. When they don't find it they seek for honey (from painting to scrolling on your phone) or feed their sin. But if they have no sin to feel, they sit down on that pain.

This map explains the cycles of addiction, depression, and compulsive behavior perfectly.

1. Anguish (from spiritual occupation/disconnection).

2. Craving for relief (seek love/comfort).

3. False remedy (honey/sin).

4. Temporary relief, then deeper anguish (the remedy feeds the occupying spirit).

5. Tolerance & escalation (need stronger honey, deeper sin).

6. Exhaustion & despair (sitting down on the pain).

 

"I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing." (John 15:5)

· To abide in the Vine (Christ) is to have your life, your love, your will flow from His. Your love becomes cruciform—willing to suffer for the other because that is the nature of the Vine. It is love as self-gift.

· To abide in the Self (the "void that can never be filled") is to be a branch cut off, trying to suck moisture from its own sap. This "love" is self-preservation disguised as affection. It is transactional, hungry, and ultimately hateful because it sees others as tools or threats to its own emptiness.

2. The Fractured Covenant: Adam & Eve

Adam was commanded to abide in God, and to cleave to his wife (a sacred, derivative abiding under the primary one). When the serpent spoke, Eve abided to the voice of accusation ("Did God really say...?"). She turned inward—abiding to her own judgment, her own desire.

Adam,in turn, abided to Eve over God. He chose relational unity with his misaligned wife over covenantal fidelity to his Source. This chain of misplaced abiding is the fall. Eve didn't "abide to the Judas spirit" knowingly; she abided to the spirit of distrust, which is the seed of all betrayal.

3. The Bitter Fruit: Michal

Michal loved David initially, but her abiding was conditional—to the young hero, not to the anointed king running from her father. When David danced before the Lord, she abided to the spirit of pride and scorn (2 Samuel 6:16). Her love was transactional: "You should behave like the king I envision." When the transaction failed, her abiding shifted to contempt. She became "bitter" because her branch was attached to the vine of royal propriety, not to the vine of David's God.

4. The Corrupted Wrestle: Samson & Delilah

For Delilah to abide to Samson, he would have had to surrender his secret—the sign of his Nazirite covenant with God. He would have had to break his defense for her, making her the new object of his abiding. But her abiding was already claimed—by Philistine silver, by the spirit of greed and betrayal. Their relationship was a wrestling match of abidance: his flesh abiding to her, her will abiding to money. He lost because he mislocated his source of strength; it was never in his hair, but in his abiding to the God of the covenant.

5. The Gospel as Awakening for those who are asleep 

"One reason we share the gospel is to awaken those who are asleep."

Those"asleep" are abiding to a false vine. They think they are their own source, or they abide to money, status, ideology, or a religious system. The Gospel is a sovereign shout: "You are attached to a dying branch. Come, be grafted into the True Vine." The threat is not just missing an event (rapture); it's the total inanition—the withering—of a church, a soul, that abides to anything but Christ.

6. The Eternal State: Hell as Fixed Abiding

Hell is not merely punishment; it is the final, irreversible state of abiding. The will, having resisted the True Vine, becomes forever fused to the spirit it chose: greed, hatred, lust, pride. The person loses "control" because their will is now a perfect servant to the unclean spirit they abided to on earth. They are what they obeyed.

7. The Sovereign Command: Resist & Submit

"Resist the unclean spirits that is trying to abide to you, submit to God and they will flee."

This is the practical warfare.You cannot be a neutral territory. Every spirit seeks a branch to inhabit.

· To resist is to consciously refuse abiding. You say: "I will not attach my will to this fear, this lust, this accusation."

· To submit to God is to actively re-abide. You re-anchor your vector to the Vine. In that realignment, the parasitic spirits lose their grip. They abided to you only because you were not abiding to Something Stronger.

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"Whether you believe it or not, unclean spirits speak for man. To better understand this, imagine a child who was raised by someone else and is now returned to his birth parents. Because the parents and the child don't have a relationship yet, they communicate through the caretaker. However, man’s caretaker is also the very being killing him. So, don't plead against yourself by sinning; rather, pray.”