DCLM Higher Everyday 1 February 2024 — Believers’ Debt To Sinners
DCLM Higher Everyday 1 February 2024 Devotional by Pastor W. F. Kumuyi — Believers’ Debt To Sinners
Topic: Believers’ Debt To Sinners
Text: Romans 1:11-17
11For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;
12That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.
13Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
14I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
15So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.
16For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
17For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Key Verse: “I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise. So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also” (Romans 1:14, 15).
Message
Apostle Paul’s passion for souls made him to declare that he was a debtor to various people. A similar passion was found in Ruth Elton. She was born on September 7, 1933 in Britain. At age two she came to Nigeria with her missionary parents, Rev. S. G. Elton and Hannah Elton. They settled in Ilesha for the gospel work. Ruth was later brought up in Okene and also became a missionary, serving in the present day, Kogi, Ondo, Oyo and Osun States of Nigeria. She speaks English, Ebira, Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba well. She has no husband and no child but preached and brought many children into God’s kingdom. She sacrificed all for God’s kingdom. The title of one of her three books is, “The Gospel of the Kingdom.” She is ninety one years old, living in Ilesha.
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Friend, do you have passion for the lost? Are you pained by the torment awaiting them in hell? You owe the Gospel to sinners. Like Apostle Paul and Ruth, preach the gospel to sinners in your home, school and neighbourhood for their salvation.
Quote: You owe the gospel to sinners.
Challenge: Begin today to pay your debt to sinners.
Prayer for today: Give me passion and burden for sinners, Oh Lord.
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)
