Topic: Zeal of God not according to knowledge
Bible Reading: Psalm 88-89; Romans 10.
Memory Verse: “For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.” Romans 10:2 (KJV) .
Apostle Paul, before he met Christ was zealous for God. He was going everywhere persecuting Christians because he thought they were serving God in the wrong way. Hear him in Acts 22:3-4 (KJV), “I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day. [4] And I persecuted this way unto the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women.” Then he met Jesus on his way to Damascus. Thus he knew the true position of his Jew brethren and that is what he stated in Romans 10:2 (KJV), “For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.”
There are many people out there that are also zealous for God but do not know how to go about it. I was a Muslim and I was zealous for God and I know quite a lot of Muslims are zealous for God but not according to knowledge. This is the situation of some hardline Muslims and the challenge is that we believers who have the knowledge are not running fast enough to pass the true knowledge of God to those people. Imagine what Apostle Paul did in the christiandom and what more harvoc he would have done to Christianity if the Lord had not arrested him.
As believers, how many people have you sought the face of God to bring to his knowledge. Remember the Call of our Saviour in Matthew 28:19-20 (KJV), “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: [20] Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.” Are you heeding the call? But it is also important that you equip yourself with the knowledge of God, not just by what you have heard from men of God but from studying the word of God, and having revelations from God because you cannot give what you do not have.
Action point:
Decide today how much time you will spend studying the word of God daily even if it is just fifteen minutes at the start.
Bro. Biodun Oyapero