March 21, 2020 Higher Everyday Devotional :- TRENDING TRAITS
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HIGHER EVERYDAY
SATURDAY MARCH 21, 2020
TRENDING TRAITS
TEXT: 2 TIMOTHY 3:2-8
MEMORY VERSE: “For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy” (2 TIMOTHY 3:2).
H. A. Ironside exclaimed, “The church of God has gone into the entertainment business! People must be amused, and as the church needs the people’s money, the church must, perforce, supply the demand and meet the craving!” This implies that if the people like drama, comedy and self-fulfillment talks rather than biblical sermons, then give it to them.
What a shame! Don’t substitute outward connection with the church for inward union with Christ. In other words, if sinners romance with the Church, it does not make them Christians. The love of the world manifests in many sins of character and conduct as seen in our text. Even unbelievers now complain about the hypocrites in the church, people who outwardly profess what they are not inwardly. It is ‘Empty Religion’. They have lost hold of the substance and are clinging to the shadow. They’re boastful, arrogant, disobedient to parents, ungrateful (to God and others), unholy, malicious and lack self-control. The remedy to this trending evil is experiencing the transforming power of God through faith in Christ and feeding on His word daily.
QUOTE: The love of the world manifests in many sins.
CHALLENGE: Avoid empty religion and its propagators.
PRAYER: Lord, separate me from worldly influences.