ENTHRONEMENT ASSEMBLY DAILY DEVOTIONAL.

Thursday 26th October, 2023.

Topic: Living To Honour God.

Memory Verse: Matthew 15:11. What truly contaminates a person is not what he puts into his mouth but what comes out of his mouth. That’s what makes people defiled.”

Bible Reading: Matthew 15:8-10. Key Verse: v8.

These people honor me only with their words, for their hearts are so very distant from me. They pretend to worship me, but their worship is nothing more than the empty traditions of men.” Then Jesus turned to the crowd and said, “Come, listen and open your heart to understand.

At this point in time, the Pharisses and Scholars came to Jesus and wanted to know why his followers were not following their traditions strictly, expecially in hand washing before eating. It will be good to point out here that the problem these Pharisees had was that of ritualistic process and not of hygiene. At this point in time the disciples of Jesus has grown beyond traditional teachings of their Jewish ancestors that following such traditional procedure anytime one wants to eat is part of righteousness before God that can even guarantee making heaven, even when the heart of such individuals remained dirty or evil. Mathew 15:1-2.

Jesus then began to let them know that procedural or traditional hand washing is not as important as obeying the commands of God. The Jews were good in obeying their personal laws and traditions of men while they ignored the laws of God who is the source and creator of all men. He was trying to make them to shift their emphasis from personal hygiene (which hand washing represented) to realise the importance of spiritual purity which is deeper that what the eyes can see, but can only be felt or weighed by what comes out of a man mouth. “Then Jesus turned to the crowd and said, “Come, listen and open your heart to understand. What truly contaminates a person is not what he puts into his mouth but what comes out of his mouth. That’s what makes people defiled.” Matthew 15:10-11. Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. Luke 6:45.

Even today, there are many traditions of men we need to do away with, if we must serve and please God. People around the world including Nigeria and Africa are still holding on to some values of men handed over to them by ungodly forefathers out of ignorance and deceit because they didn’t know the true God, neither did they know or honour his commandments. Some are deeply involved in certain traditional sacrifices to idols and to that extent bring the wrath of God upon localities, cities and nations. It is time to repent of such involvements and rededicate our localities, cities and nations to Jesus Christ by recognising his sacrifice on the cross as the final one for all men.

Prayer : Thank you Father God because your commands are superior to every traditions of men. From today, help me to live my life to honour you and you alone and not men and their traditions. Let your reverence be in me as my father in Jesus blessed name… Amen 🙏🏿.

Yearly Bible Reading :Acts 11:19-30.

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