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Luke 22:1-6

Jesus declared in John 10:10, ÒThe thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.Ó The thief that Jesus was talking about was active then and is still active today. He is actively active more than ever before. A thief will not announce its time or the way he will strike. When a thief comes, he will have a need for an entrance. In order for thief to gain an entrance, an opening will have to be in place or he will create the opening if you allow him. That thief is the Satan himself. When the thief visited the disciples of Jesus looking for whom to use in selling Jesus, it was in Judas that he was able to found an opening to gain entrance Luke 22:3, ÒThen Satan entered Judas, surnamed Iscariot, who was numbered among the twelve.Ó Satan was able to enter Judas because there was an opening for him to enter. Judas, a disciple of Jesus, left himself opened for Satan. Are you having any opening that Satan could enter into? It does not matter who you are or how long you have been following Christ, when he spots an opening, he will enter and camp inside you until you loose your number among those that are called. The effect of SatanÕs gaining entrance into Judas is stated in Luke 22:4, ÒSo he went his way and conferred with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray Him to them.Ó SatanÕs entrance caused Judas to go out of the Way into his own way. Your own way is the way of death. Proverb 14:12, ÒThere is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.Ó Judas took to his own way and he conferred with the agents of Satan how he was going to betray the one and only Master of all masters. Are you seriously paying attention to your self so that there will be no any conscious or unconscious opening that will give a place for the thief? Ask for GodÕs presence to fill every opening in your life.