Sunday, June 5, 2016

The Announcement (John 8:21)


SPIRITUAL DAIRY FOR 6/5/2016 4:55 PM

My Worship Time                                                                              Focus:  The Announcement

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                 Reference:  John 8:21

            Message of the verses:  “21 Then He said again to them, "I go away, and you will seek Me, and will die in your sin; where I am going, you cannot come.’”

            In Today’s SD we will look at the very short section that comes from verse 21 and this is the last section from “Jesus the Light of the World.”  John MacArthur only has one short paragraph for this section and so I think that I will quote it for our Spiritual Diary this day.

            “In 7:33-34 Jesus had warned the crowd, ‘For a little while longer I am with you, then I go to Him who sent Me, You will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.’  Here He said again that He would go away (a reference to His impending death, resurrection, and ascension to the Father).  But this time the Lord added the warning that those who reject Him will die in their sin and not be with Him in the Father’s presence in the glory of heaven.  Later in this dialogue He would repeat that warning in even stronger terms (v. 24).  The reality of this sobering truth, which is repeated throughout Scripture, is that those who reject Christ will suffer the consequences of their sin—eternal separation from God.  By refusing the Light of the world, they doom themselves to eternal darkness of hell (Matt. 8:12; 22:13; 25:30).”

            As we read these sobering words from our Lord Jesus Christ we must humble ourselves and if one has not accepted His forgiveness of sin that He paid for on the cross that would be the thing to do at this time, otherwise as Jesus tells us here “where I am going, you cannot come.”

Answer to yesterday’s Bible question:  “Locusts and wild honey” (Mark 1:6).

Today’s Bible question:  “What did Jesus advise if one looks upon a woman to lust after her?”

Answer in our next SD.

6/5/2016 5:06 PM

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