Wednesday January 07th, 2026
« In my first book I told you, Theophilus, about everything Jesus began to do and teach »
1 Then Jesus told the crowds and His disciples,
2 “The scribes and the Pharisees administer the authority of Moses,
3 so do whatever they tell you and follow it, but stop doing what they do, because they don’t do what they say.
4 They tie up burdens that are heavy and unbearable and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they refuse to lift a finger to remove them.
5 “They do everything to be seen by people. They increase the size of their phylacteries and lengthen the tassels of their garments.
6 They love to have the places of honor at festivals, the best seats in the synagogues,
7 to be greeted in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi’ by people.
Talk is cheap.
- I have seen countless people talk about things that are good, but when it comes to practicing them, they are nowhere to be found.
There are many Pastors who preach ‘powerful’ sermons on the altar, but at home, they don’t practice what they preach.
- Talk is cheap, that is why only cheap people stay on the level of talk.
If I tell someone that over-speeding when driving is unsafe and then I do the same, does the fact that I talk about it exempt me from its consequences?
If you talk about prayer so well and you don’t pray, all the problems that follow prayerlessness will keep following you.
This is why we see many people who are sound in Scriptures, yet the word of God does not seem to be yielding anything in their lives.
Many a time, it is because they only know the Scriptures, they don’t live by it.
« The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach »
The above passage shows how Jesus lived.
He first ‘did’ before He ‘taught’.
If you have not yet done that thing, you have no business teaching it.
If it is really valuable as you claim it is, then you should do it first.
We who teach the gospel must note what James 3:1 says that teachers will receive the strictest judgement.
This is because if you teach it, God expects you to have already been doing it.
When you teach what you don’t do, that is hypocrisy.
There are many people who are derailed when they see a teacher of the word not practicing what he or she preaches.
May people not go to hell because you showed them the wrong example, in Jesus’ name.
« It will be terrible for people who cause even one of my little followers to sin. Those people would be better off thrown into the deepest part of the ocean with a heavy stone tied around their necks! »
If you really believe what you teach, practice it. If you cannot practice it, stop teaching it.
Application – Merely talking about something does not accrue its benefits to you. Practicing it is what does.
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
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