SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/13/2017
6:46 AM
My Worship Time Focus: It was a Fellowship
Church
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
Acts 2:42c
Message of the
verses: “and to fellowship”
John MacArthur writes:
“Fellowship is the spiritual duty of believers to stimulate each other
to holiness and faithfulness. It is most
specifically expressed through the ‘one another’s’ of the New Testament (cf.
Rom. 12:10; 16; 13:8; 14:19; 15:5, 7, 14; 16:16; Gal. 5:13; Eph. 4:2, 25, 32;
5:21; Phil. 2:3; Col. 3:9, 13, 16; 1 Thess. 4:9, 18, 5:11, 13; Heb. 3:13; 1
Peter 1:22; 4:9, 10; 5:5, etc.) The basis
meaning of koinonia (‘fellowship’) is
‘partnership,’ or ‘sharing.’ Those who
receive Jesus Christ become partners with Him and with all other believers (1
John 1:3). That fellowship is permanent,
because our shared eternal life is forever.
The joy associated with it, however, may be lost through sinful neglect
of its duties.
“For a Christian to fall to participate in the life of a
local church is inexcusable. In fact,
those who choose to isolate themselves are disobedient to the direct command of
Scripture. Hebrews 10:24-25 charges
believers to ‘consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, and
not forsaking our own assembling together, as it is the habit of some, but encouraging
one another; and all the more, as you see the day drawing near.’ The Bible does not envision the Christian
life as on lived apart from other believers.
All members of the universal church, the body of Christ, are to be
actively and intimately involved in local assemblies.”
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “God gave water from a rock”
(Exodus 17:1-6).
Today’s Bible
question: “What did the beggar who lay
at the rich man’s gate want to eat?
Answer in our next SD.
8/13/2017 6:59 AM
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