SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/19/2017
10:39 PM
My Worship Time Focus: The Man With
A Sad Future
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Colossians
14:b
Message of the
verses: “and also Demas.”
Demas was a man who evidently started off very good as he
was working with Paul for the cause of Christ, but Paul writes the following
about him in the last letter of his found in the New Testament 2 Timothy 4:9-10
where he writes “Make every effort to come to me soon; for Demas, having loved
this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica.” As I prepare my Sunday school lesson for this
coming Sunday on the 17th chapter of John we will be looking at
verses 11 and 12, and verse twelve has this to say “"While I was with
them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded
them and not one of them
perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.” John, of course was writing about Judas who
is another example of someone who loved the world more than the Lord. So we can say that Jesus had His Judas, and
Paul had his Demas. John MacArthur
writes “The pull of the world system eventually became irresistible to Demas,
and he abandoned both Pau and the ministry…Anyone who has been in the ministry
long enough has shared in that heartbreaking experience. That is not necessarily a reflection on one’s
own ministry, however. It is comforting
to note that even the two greatest leaders the world has even known had those
who failed them.”
Dr. Warren Wiersbe writes the following about Demas as he
uses the following sub-title to describe him:
“The Man Who Strayed (Col. 4:14b).
Demas is mentioned only three times in Paul’s letters, and these three
references tell a sad story. First, he
is called ‘Demas…my fellow laborer’ and is linked with three good men—Mark, Aristarchus,
and Luke (Phile. 24). Then he is simply
called ‘Demas,’ and there is no special word of identification or commendation
(Col. 4:14). But the third reference
tells what became of Demas: ‘For Demas
hath forsaken me, having loved this present world’ (2 Tim. 4:10).”
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