MY
DAILY COVENANT WITH GOD DEVOTIONAL
Devotion
for Wednesday March 15, 2017
Topic:
No Excuse IV
Text:
Revelation 2:18 – 29
Thyatira was a town where many people
work for a living. Many trade and artisans were there with specialties in
cloth making, dyeing, and pottery. Lydia, Paul’s first convert in Philippi, was
a merchant from Thyatira (Acts 16:14). The city was mostly secular, with no
particular religion known with them.
In this letter, God acknowledged
their works (charity), love, service, faith, and patience. Despite all these,
He had few things against them. He accused them of allowing that woman Jezebel,
who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce His servants to commit
sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. In the church in
Thyatira, a woman taught that immorality was not a sin for believers. Her name
may be Jezebel or maybe, John used that name Jezebel to symbolize the kind of
evil she was promoting. God pronounced judgement on that woman (Revelation 2:22,
23) after He had given her the grace to repent but she did not (Revelation 2:21).
God charged those who were not influenced by this woman’s teaching
to hold fast what you have till He comes (Revelation 2:25).
Beloved in Christ, immorality is a
great sin before man and God. Some pastors teach that these things doesn’t
matter, insisting that what matter before God is confession of Christ as Lord
and Saviour. Sadly, many people believe such teaching because their pastor has
said so. Here is an eye opener. God doesn’t compromise and we shouldn’t do so.
There is no excuse if we accept teachings of what the bible condemns as sin.
Beware because you don’t have excuse before God (Romans 2:1).
Food
for Thought:
Acts 15:20, 29
Memory
verse: Revelation
2 verse 20 - But I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel,
who calls herself a prophetess and is teaching and seducing my servants to
practice sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to idols.
Prayer:
God, deliver me from contamination with things offered to idol and the
teachings of Jezebel in Jesus name. Amen.
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