20/05/2026
🔥 BIBLE STUDY 🔥
📖 TOPIC:
MALICE AMONG BELIEVERS IN THE CHURCH TODAY
📍TEXTS:
Ephesians 4:31-32
Colossians 3:8
1 Peter 2:1-2
James 3:14-16
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📖 INTRODUCTION
The church today is filled with activities, programs, worship, and gatherings, yet many hearts are secretly filled with bitterness, envy, hatred, offense, jealousy, and unforgiveness.
Many believers pray together but fight secretly.
Many smile outwardly but carry malice inwardly.
God never designed His church to function in division and bitterness. The body of Christ is called to walk in love, unity, peace, and forgiveness.
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📖 WHAT IS MALICE?
Malice is:
❌ Hidden hatred
❌ Deep bitterness
❌ Unforgiveness
❌ Jealousy and envy
❌ Evil intentions toward others
❌ Secret resentment
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📖 WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS
📖 Ephesians 4:31-32
“Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
📖 James 3:16
“For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.”
📖 1 Peter 2:1-2
“Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.”
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⚠️ SIGNS OF MALICE IN THE CHURCH
• Gossip and backbiting
• Jealousy among believers
• Competition in ministry
• Church division
• Unforgiveness
• Silent hatred
• Pretending to love outwardly while hating inwardly
• Celebrating another person’s downfall
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⚠️ DANGERS OF MALICE
❌ It grieves the Holy Spirit
❌ It blocks prayers
❌ It destroys unity
❌ It weakens spiritual growth
❌ It gives room to the devil
❌ It destroys relationships
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❤️ HOW BELIEVERS CAN OVERCOME MALICE
✔ Genuine repentance
✔ Forgiving one another
✔ Walking in love
✔ Avoiding gossip
✔ Praying for one another
✔ Maintaining unity in the body of Christ
📖 Proverbs 10:12
“Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.”
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📖 CONCLUSION
A church filled with bitterness cannot carry revival effectively.
Where there is hatred and division, spiritual growth becomes weak.
God is calling believers back to genuine love, unity, humility, forgiveness, and peace.
The church must reflect Christ not only in prayer and worship, but also in character and love toward one another.
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📌 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. What causes malice among believers today?
2. Can a believer truly grow spiritually while keeping bitterness?
3. Why is forgiveness important in Christianity?
4. How does gossip contribute to division in the church?
5. How can unity be restored among believers?
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🗣 CONTRIBUTIONS
📌 Malice often begins from small offenses that were never settled properly.
📌 Many believers appear spiritual outwardly but secretly struggle with bitterness.
📌 True Christianity is not only prayer and fasting but also genuine love for one another.
📌 A united church carries greater spiritual power and revival.
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🔥 PRAYER SESSION 🔥
🙏 Father, remove every root of bitterness, hatred, envy, and malice from Your church in Jesus Name.
🙏 Lord, heal every broken relationship among believers and restore unity in the body of Christ.
🙏 Every spirit of division, gossip, jealousy, and offense fighting the church, be destroyed in Jesus Name.
🙏 Father, fill our hearts with genuine love, humility, forgiveness, and peace.
🙏 Let the Holy Spirit purify Your church and make us true examples of Christ.
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🔥 PROPHETIC DECLARATIONS 🔥
🔥 Every power sponsoring hatred and division among believers shall scatter in Jesus Name!
🔥 Every hidden bitterness in the hearts of men shall be uprooted by the power of God!
🔥 The spirit of love, unity, forgiveness, and revival shall rest upon the church again!
🔥 Where there has been division, God shall bring restoration!
Where there has been hatred, God shall bring healing!
🔥 The church shall arise again in purity, unity, love, and power in Jesus Mighty Name!
AMEN 🔥
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📖 MEMORY VERSE:
Ephesians 4:31-32
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