“Say No To Evil Communication”
Sunday, February 16, 2025Key Verse
“For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.” Ephesians 5:12
Text — Ephesians 5:10-13
Message
Young people have nowdeveloped a new kind of friendship. Everyone has a friend with whom he/she talks, laughs and claims to be merry. A term has been coined to describe such friends. They call them “Gist friends.” According to them, a gist friend is a special kind of friend with whom you can share “gossips” or discuss everything about you, even the secrets of your family. Children like to talk, laugh and to hear new things. Yet, our Bible passage teaches us that there are things we should be ashamed to listen to and talk about. We listen and talk in many ways: through spoken words, text, songs, signs, body movements or dance. No friend of Jesus is expected to listen to or talk about immodest things, occultic, and all ungodly practices in the world. This is because the things you listen to, talk about and imitate have a quick way of corrupting your good manners.
Prove what is acceptable unto the Lord. Don’t have fellowship or make friends with evil children. Don’t sing their songs or dance in their worldly ways and don’t imitate their evil behaviours.
Further Reading
1 Corinthians 15:33
Prayer for today
Lord, teach me to hate the ways of the wicked and help me never to listen to or share in their ungodly conversations.
About Author - Pastor W.F. Kumuyi
Listed among “500 most powerful people on the planet” by the Foreign Policy magazine in 2013, Pastor (Dr.) William F. Kumuyi is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Christian Life Ministry (DCLM) headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. DCLM started in 1973 as a 15-member Bible study group right in Kumuyi’s apartment at University of Lagos where he was a lecturer. His revolutionary Bible teaching on personal holiness and commitment to evangelism soon gained so much traction and resulted in a widespread revival.
