SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/25/2016 10:00 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 The Nature of Peace
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: John 14:27a
Message of the verse: “Peace I leave you;”
I just
posted on my other blog a SD that came from March 12, 2003 on the meaning of
Melchizedek’s name and the name of the city he ruled over which was Salem that
would become Jerusalem. Righteousness
and peace come together in his name and the city he ruled over.
I also
remember that the first Pastor that I had after becoming a believer mentioned a
number of times that there is only one verse in the Bible that has the words
blood and peace in it and that verse is Colossians 1:20 “and through Him to
reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His cross; through Him, I
say, whether things on earth or things in heaven.” This verse speaks of our Lord giving those
who are His own peace and that peace came at a great price, through His blood
on the cross.
All believers
have peace with God and this comes through the blood of the cross, and as
mentioned yesterday believers can also have the peace that passes all
understanding as Paul writes to the Philippians in 4:6-7. John MacArthur writes “Peace with God, of course,
is the bedrock of which all other peace is based. If there is no peace with God, then there
cannot be any real peace in this life.
Thus, objective peace is a necessary prerequisite for subjective peace,
neither of which are possible for the unsaved person to enjoy.”
What is it that
caused us to be at war with God? Well we
have to back to the Garden of Eden to understand that and of course sin, sin by
Adam and Eve is what caused the human race to be at war with God, and God could
have just wiped out the human race once they sinned, but He chose not to do
that, God chose to send His Son into the World to die for our sins and thus
bring about peace with God for those who have or will accept what Christ did
for them on the cross. There is no one
who is neutral for Jesus said in Luke 11:23 “He who is not with Me is against
Me; and he who does not gather with Me, scatters.” Paul writes that “all have sinned and come
short of the glory of God.” We have to
look at that word “all” and it means just that that every person ever born is
born a sinner and have fallen short of the glory of God, not 99% but all.
MacArthur
writes “Humanity hates God (cf. John 15:18-19; 1 John 2:16-17), and all who are
part of the world system cannot be at peace with Him, ‘You adulteresses, do you
not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of
the world makes himself an enemy of God’ (James 4:4).”
Anyone who
has looked at some of the Spiritual Diaries that are found on my blogs knows
that there is good news for those who are enemies with God, and that Good News
is the Gospel of Jesus Christ and those who have a desire to be at peace with
God can have it through the blood of the cross, as Jesus paid it all on the
cross for those who desire to have a relationship with God. It can happen by admitting that you are a
sinner, that you sin because you are a sinner, and that Jesus paid it all on
the cross so that you can not only have peace with God, but to live with Him in
eternity. Once you have accepted the
forgiveness that Christ offers you and you turn your life over to Him eternal
life begins at that very moment as before you were lost and not you are
saved.
We will
look at this subject some more in our next Spiritual Diary on the Presence of
Peace.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: Once a person has experienced the peace that
God offers through the blood of the cross he then desires to tell others how to
get that peace. That is what I desire to
do, to tell others how they too can have peace with God.
My Steps of Faith for
Today: Trust the that the Lord will
continue to use the Spiritual Diaries that I write to be used to bring peace to
those who do not have it at this time, and through that that Jesus Christ will
be glorified.
Memory verse for the week:
(Romans 6:5-6) “5 For if you have become united with Him in the likeness
of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection,
knowing this, that our old self was crucified with Him in order that our body
of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin;”
Answer to yesterday’s Bible question: “Because he was short” (Luke 19:3).
Today’s Bible question:
“Who said ‘How shall this be, seeing I know not a man’?”
Answer in our next SD.
11/25/2016 10:47 AM
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