DCLM Higher Everyday 29 June 2025 — Warning Against Worldliness
DCLM Higher Everyday 29 June 2025 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — Special Levitical Services
Message: Warning Against Worldliness
Text: Colossians 3:1-7
1If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
2Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
3For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
4When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
5Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
6For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
7In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
Key Verse: “Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth” (Colossians 3:2)
Message
According to Kevin DeYoung, “Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.” His statement underscores why Apostle Paul urges believers to focus on heavenly things, guard against worldly allure, and strive for holiness. Paul identified immorality, impurity, unhealthy passions, and covetousness as worldly qualities that believers must avoid. Worldliness encompasses thoughts, preferences, desires, emotions, and attitudes towards people and objects, and focusing on secular values rather than the spiritual. The Israelites were out of Egypt but their hearts still lusted after the leaks, onions and garlics of Egypt. That is worldliness. Symptoms include materialism, selfish ambition, pursuit of mundane things, and conformity to societal norms that conflict with Scriptural standards. Worldliness hinders spiritual growth and maturity.
Also Read: DCLM Higher Everyday 28 June 2025 – Special Levitical Services
Warnings against worldliness emphasize prioritizing spiritual values and aligning one’s life with faith teachings, and living out godly virtues like compassion, contentment, humility, meekness, patience, forgiveness, and love, thereby pleasing God in every aspect of our lives. The wrath of God awaits those who persist in worldly ways. Living with an eternal perspective helps us resist the pull of worldliness.
Quote: Worldliness hinders spiritual growth
Challenge: Focus on Christ and ignore worldly distractions.
Prayer for today: Dear God, help me to resist the temptations to worldliness.
1. Admit that you are a sinner. "For all [humans] have sinned, and comes short of the glory of God....[and] the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans 3:23)
2. Repent now. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out ...[for] if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness " (Acts 3:19, 1 John 1:9)
3. Believe that God loves you and Jesus died for you. "God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet Sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8)
4. Invite Jesus into your life through prayer of faith. Jesus says, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me" (Revelation 3:20)
