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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

David Buruchara

Unmasking Judas: The Double Life of a Disciple

This seminar is titled, The Double Life of a Disciple.

Now, before I pray, I just wanna preface with the fact that addiction is a very layered topic.

I work as a therapist in Virginia, Newmarket, Virginia, and I deal with people dealing with a lot of behavioral addictions.

So I work specifically with men who are recovering from sex addiction, whether it's pornography to, I mean, all kinds of things.

Yeah, there's all kinds of things within the realm of sex addiction and couples who've dealt with infidelity, video game addiction.

So I work with addiction quite a bit and I myself have his testimony and recovering.

So by no means is this seminar an expose on all things addiction and what the Bible says about addiction because it can get deep.

For example, there's a debate about is addiction a disease or is addiction a choice?

There's a huge debate about that and I believe the Bible has a lot to say.

But today we'll be focusing on 3 areas that Judas's story can teach us about the very heart of addiction and what I believe Jesus is calling us to.

And in your life, think about, think about what you might be addicted to.

So let's define that real quick, again before we pray.

Addiction is the continued use of a behavior, a substance, or a device, despite negative consequences.

So despite the negative consequences in your life, you're continuing to use it.

Some experts call addiction an abnormal love.

Why are you so in love with this thing that is only hurting you and hurting others around you?

So it could be a behavior, it could be a substance, it could be a device.

And whether you wanna stop it or not, it can still be an addiction.

But oftentimes we do want to stop, but we find ourselves going back, going back.

It's like, oh, there's something about it that gives me a bit of a dopamine hit.

What is Judas, the life of Judas teaches about addiction?

Father in heaven, we thank you for this opportunity to learn from the tragedy of Judas that Lord it may not be our story.

We believe you put it there for, you put his story out in the open for a reason.

And I just pray that for each and every brother and sister here that you'd speak to them in the areas of their lives where there might be some addictive habits.

They say not all addiction is sin but all sin is addiction and so maybe there's some things we're struggling with that we just can't seem to get over.

Whether it's a substance, behavior, anger, teach us through this seminar and help us to equip others as well in their journey.

Judas, the story of Judas, it's a little spicy, so let me start with something a little spicy.

The man on the slide here is Charlie Kirk.

Charlie Kirk, unfortunately, was assassinated just under 2 months ago on September 10th, 2025.

His death sparked a whole lot of conversation.

On your Facebook, on your Instagram, people were saying this, people were saying that.

It was just people talking about it right and even within the christian church even within adventism let's just talk about adventism there was a debate.

On 1 side, there was a debate and some people were saying like, man, Charlie Kirk, he was a Christian.

He was, in fact, some even would say he was a martyr.

He stood for his beliefs and he stood for truth, even though the culture stood for something else.

He stood for Christian principles, despite what people said about him.

He treated his family well, he treated his friends well.

Charlie Kirk was a true disciple of Christ.

On the other side of the debate, they say, actually, was Charlie Kirk truly a Christian or did he just profess to be a Christian?

Because it sounds like in a lot of the ways that he He talked and the things that he said, they were quite offensive to many.

And would Jesus really treat and talk to others in that way?

And so some people believe that, no, I don't think that it is right to call Charlie Kirk a true Christian.

And so there's this debate going back and forth of whether Charlie Kirk was a true disciple of Christ.

I've seen it on all sides and then there's the people who ride the middle lane, you know, they're like, well I think we can see both sides of the story, you know, and on 1 hand, you know, we can't judge but on the other hand we can acknowledge it.

There's debate about whether Charlie Kirk was a disciple.

Until Judas betrayed Jesus, everyone was convinced that Judas was a true disciple.

In fact, Judas was respected as 1 of the most honored disciples in the 12.

By the way, that slide is, you guys know where that's from?

The scene of the Last Supper, and when you're there say Amen, and as Sebastian would say, if you're not there, have mercy.

So John chapter 13 it's the last supper and Jesus says some important words here verse 21 and it reads when Jesus had said these things he was troubled in spirit and testified and said, most assuredly I say to you, 1 of you will betray me.

And then disciples looked at another perplexed about whom he spoke.

Now we reading this story know who it is correct?

Have you guys ever played the game Mafia or Chameleon and you're like you got a guess like who it is?

Like it was literally that they're just like who could it be?

Now there was leaning on Jesus's bosom 1 of his disciples whom Jesus loved.

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