07-23-2020, 09:42 AM
CHRIST APOSTOLIC CHURCH
THE LIVING WATER {July ~ Dec., 2020}
DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE
Thursday, July 23, 2020
TOPIC: CLEAN UP THAT MESS
Read Romans 5:12-21
MEMORISE: For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23)
EXPOSITION
The estimated cost of cleaning up an oil producing section of a country affected by oil exploration was well over twenty billion and the job would be completed in five years.
Clean up, especially spiritual clean up, is an exercise that is very needful, tasking and God-required. Man has been so messed up that nothing apart from the blood of Jesus could do the outright purging.
A mess is anything, or situation that defiles, contaminates, or pollutes the original state of a thing or situation. God made man in His own glory and for His pleasure, but the Devil introduced sin to mess up man's life and man fell short of God's glory.
He became unfit to stand in God's presence or associate with God (Genesis 3:1-15). Cleaning up the mess of sin was originally done by God, through His begotten Son, Jesus Christ. Man has no will/power to do that for himself. He was so helpless and needed a Rescuer. All that is expected from you is to make use of the blood of Jesus for your purging.
That a man lives close to a soap making factory does not mean he would be automatically clean, unless he goes ahead to buy some of the soaps and endeavour to bath with them. Sin is a contamination of human race.
As a polluted water is not good for consumption, so a sin-polluted life is not worthy of God. Sin makes you totally unfit for God's kingdom. Hence, the need to make use of the blood of Jesus, like the Israelites did in the land of Egypt, and clean up the mess of sin in your life. (Romans 5:9; Hebrews 12:24).
Besides, the disciples of Jesus became pure through the words of Jesus that He told them. Continuous hearing and heeding the words of God brings wholeness and cleanness.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Lord, deliver me from sin and all its effects.
2. Lord, I receive power and grace to stay clean to Your glory.
3. Oh Lord, assist all Your people to make proper use of Your purifying Word to achieve the God-required wholeness.
EXTRA READING FOR TODAY: Job 4 - 6; James 1
Author: C.A.C WORLDWIDE
Remain blessed!
THE LIVING WATER {July ~ Dec., 2020}
DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE
Thursday, July 23, 2020
TOPIC: CLEAN UP THAT MESS
Read Romans 5:12-21
MEMORISE: For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23)
EXPOSITION
The estimated cost of cleaning up an oil producing section of a country affected by oil exploration was well over twenty billion and the job would be completed in five years.
Clean up, especially spiritual clean up, is an exercise that is very needful, tasking and God-required. Man has been so messed up that nothing apart from the blood of Jesus could do the outright purging.
A mess is anything, or situation that defiles, contaminates, or pollutes the original state of a thing or situation. God made man in His own glory and for His pleasure, but the Devil introduced sin to mess up man's life and man fell short of God's glory.
He became unfit to stand in God's presence or associate with God (Genesis 3:1-15). Cleaning up the mess of sin was originally done by God, through His begotten Son, Jesus Christ. Man has no will/power to do that for himself. He was so helpless and needed a Rescuer. All that is expected from you is to make use of the blood of Jesus for your purging.
That a man lives close to a soap making factory does not mean he would be automatically clean, unless he goes ahead to buy some of the soaps and endeavour to bath with them. Sin is a contamination of human race.
As a polluted water is not good for consumption, so a sin-polluted life is not worthy of God. Sin makes you totally unfit for God's kingdom. Hence, the need to make use of the blood of Jesus, like the Israelites did in the land of Egypt, and clean up the mess of sin in your life. (Romans 5:9; Hebrews 12:24).
Besides, the disciples of Jesus became pure through the words of Jesus that He told them. Continuous hearing and heeding the words of God brings wholeness and cleanness.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Lord, deliver me from sin and all its effects.
2. Lord, I receive power and grace to stay clean to Your glory.
3. Oh Lord, assist all Your people to make proper use of Your purifying Word to achieve the God-required wholeness.
EXTRA READING FOR TODAY: Job 4 - 6; James 1
Author: C.A.C WORLDWIDE
Remain blessed!