MY DAILY COVENANT WITH GOD DEVOTIONAL
Devotion for Thursday October 8, 2020
Topic: The Fruit of the Spirit
Text: Ephesians 5:6 – 11
Yesterday, we read Paul’s admonition on the need to be mindful and
cautious about what we say and also to avoid immorality. Few days before I
wrote this devotion, a friend of mine in Facebook asked a question: “Will
someone who is caught up in sin during rapture make heaven?” He went further to
say that the reason for his question was that he heard a renowned General
Overseer of a big church in Nigeria say that not “accepting Christ as Saviour
is the only thing that can take someone out of Kingdom of God and not sin
because Jesus had already paid the price of sin.”
This kind of General Overseer belongs to the group Paul mentioned
in Ephesians 5:6. They are deceivers according to Family Bible Notes which
posited that “Those who maintain that continuance in sin will not exclude men from
heaven are deceivers. As such they should be treated and their doctrines be
rejected.”
Instead of falling to their deceits, we should rather avoid them (Ephesians
5:7) as people who are now in light and should walk as children of light (Ephesians
5:8). The reason we should walk in light is our memory verse for today. We
should bear fruit of the Spirit which is in all goodness, righteousness, and
truth (Ephesians 5:9).
Are you bearing the fruit of goodness, righteousness and truth?
Such fruit is the only thing that can distinguish us as true Christians.
Food for Thought: Galatians 5:22, 23.
Memory verse: Ephesians 5 v 9
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