DCLM Daily Manna 24 October 2021 — Price Of Defiance And Pride
DCLM Daily Manna 24 October 2021 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — Price Of Defiance And Pride
TOPIC: Price Of Defiance And Pride (DCLM Daily Manna 24 October 2021)
📜TEXT:ISAIAH 3:3-24📜
3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:
7 In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.
8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.
9 The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
10 Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
12 As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.
13 The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
14 The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.
16 Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts.
18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
21 The rings, and nose jewels,
22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
🔑📖KEY VERSE: “Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him” (ISAIAH 3:11).
MESSAGE:
Sunday School Times once featured the story of a little boy who came running to his mother, shouting, “Mother, I am nine feet tall!” His mother said, “Don’t talk such nonsense.” He answered, “I really am nine feet tall.” She said, “What makes you think so?” “Because I measured myself.” “How did you measure yourself?” “I took off my shoe and measured myself with that. It is just the same size as my foot, and I really am nine feet.” “Oh, I understand now” said his mother, “but, Sonny, your measure was not the right one. You may be nine feet tall measured by your shoe but you are not that tall measured by a twelve inch ruler.”
Also Read: Open Heaven 24 October 2021 – Lessons From The Betrayal Of Christ
Israel, in prophet Isaiah’s time apparently measured themselves with the wrong ruler. They had become defiant and had all classes of pride – pride of race, place and grace. In this backslidden state, they provoked God and incurred His wrath. Here, Isaiah announced the terrible price they would pay for their wickedness. God threatened to destroy all their sources of pride – the abundance of supplies available to them, the power of their military, their noble class and their government. God was going to mete out these desolations to Judah and Jerusalem by the hands of the Babylonians and the Romans.
God specifically referred to the pride of the daughters of Zion who instead of investing in godliness and character, wasted so much money and time on fashion and vanity. If God frowned at such showy and worldly clothes, who says it does not matter what we put on? The Lord threatened to subject them to humiliation as female slaves in exile.
As the cup of the world’s iniquity gets full and brings down divine judgment, true servants of God have no cause to panic.
✍🏽THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: The paycheque of a sinful career is a sorrowful cup.
📜THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR:JEREMIAH 7-9📜
MEDITATION
ESCAPE FROM THE EVILS AND DIVINE JUDGEMENT COMING ON THIS WICKED WORLD
1. The cause of the judgements
a. Godless tongues and actions, v8.
b. Actions and speeches that provoke or annoy the Lord, v8.
c. Openly and shamelessly doing evils in the sight of God without guilty conscience, v9.
d. Wickedness of all forms, v11.
e. Oppression and exploitation of the poor by those in powers, vv14,15.
f. Seductive and distractive comportments and actions of ladies, v16.
g. Corruption and stealing of commonwealth, v14.
Question
Is our generation not worse than that of Isaiah’s days in all dimensions?
Beware and stand your ground as light and salt in this present evil world.
2. Consequences of divine judgments
a. The inexperienced and incompetent people rule over those who are wiser and more experienced, v4.
b. Injustice and oppression in the land, v5.
c. Loss of natural respect for the aged and nobles, v5.
d. The wise and experienced dodging leadership roles and leaving it to rogues,vv6,7.
e. Oppresion, rather than respect, from youths, v11.
f. Women and girls taking leadership roles over the men in every sector; the men losing sense of responsibility, v12.
g. Fiery and painful hairdo for women and loss of sense of shame in exposing the part of their bodies that should be covered, v17b.
h. Spiritual blindness and loss of understanding of women that will turn their costume to stink instead of sweet smell, rent and revealing clothes instead of smart dresses, bald hairs that rely on attachments of animal or borrowed hair instead of well set hair, clothes that look like rags instead of decent dresses, makeup instead of natural beauty, v24.
I. The young men and boys are victims of violence, untimely deaths, corruption and all forms of evil, v23.
WHAT AM WE SUPPOSED TO DO?
1. Save yourself from this untoward generation
2. Save others by preaching the gospel to them.
3. Never remain indifferent about it.
Questions
In view of the fact that these are manifestations of judgements and not just modernism, are we not under God’s judgement already? Are you free from the manifestations of blindness listed above?
PRAYER POINTS
1. Ask for mercy upon you and your nation and confess all their common wickedness and sins🙏
2. Ask God to remove all the judgemental blindness and blame games from you and your Church 🙏
3. Ask for power and grace on God’s children not to conform to this world🙏
4. Pray that the world will not be able to enter the church and that the Church will remain pure and purer🙏
HYMN
PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD
1. Careless soul, why will you linger,
Wand’ring from the fold of God?
Hear you not the invitation?
Oh, prepare to meet thy God.
Refrain:
Careless soul, oh, heed the warning,
For your life will soon be gone;
Oh, how sad to face the judgment,
Unprepared to meet thy God.
2. Why so thoughtless are you standing,
While the fleeting years go by,
And your life is spent in folly?
Oh, prepare to meet thy God. Refrain
3. Hear you not the earnest pleadings
Of your friends that wish you well?
And perhaps before tomorrow
You’ll be called to meet your God.
Refrain
4. If you spurn the invitation
Till the Spirit shall depart,
Then you’ll see your sad condition,
Unprepared to meet thy God.
Refrain
DCLM Daily Manna was written by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi; is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church situated at KM 42 on the busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Nigeria.
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)
