SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/12/2017
9:02 AM
My Worship Time Focus: It Was A Spiritual Church
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Acts 2:42b
Message of the
verse: “to the apostles’ teaching”
God has designed the church to be a place where the Word
is proclaimed and where it is to be explained.
In 2 Timothy 2:2 Paul wrote “The things which you have heard from me in
the presence of many witnesses, entrust these to faithful men who will be able
to teach others also.” Now 2 Timothy was
the last letter of Paul’s found in the Word of God and Paul desired for Timothy
to tell others the truth that he had taught him to other faithful men, then
those men would pass that truth on to other faithful men and continue doing
this so that it would never be lost.
No in my Sunday school class we have been going over the
prayer that the Lord Jesus Christ prayed from John chapter 17 and one of the
things He prays for is that the apostles would pass on the truth of the gospel “20
"I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in
Me through their word;
21 that they may all be one; even as
You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the
world may believe that You sent Me. 22
"The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they
may be one, just as We are one; 23 I in
them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may
know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.” Now the highlighted part of verse 20 actually
speaks of what Peter was doing along with the other apostles when we read our
verse for today: “to the apostles’
teaching.” Verses 21-23 shows us what
the apostles would be teaching, and that is that Jesus Christ came from God,
that God sent Jesus Christ to pay for their sins so that they could have life,
that they would have perfect unity with the triune God.
John MacArthur writes “A believer should count it a
wasted day when he does not learn something new from, or is not more deeply
enriched, by the truth of God’s Word.
The early church sat under the teaching ministry of the apostles, whose ‘teaching,’
now written on the pages of the New Testament Scriptures, is to be taught by
all pastors.”
Just as our bodies need food to keep it going each day,
so our spirits need to be feed from the Word of God each and every day. When I
was a rather young believer I struggled greatly about reading the Word of God
each day, along with studying it every day.
I went to a conference in October of 1980 which was around six years
after receiving Christ as my Savior and was asked by the one running the
conference (as he asked all who were there) do you have trouble reading the
Word each day. He said make a vow to the
Lord that you will read the Bible five minutes each day. I did that and God has reminded me of this
vow every day, especially when it is getting late and I have not read from His
Word, so that I can do it. I remember
one night while driving in a car that the Lord reminded me that I had not read
from His Word and so with family in the car with me I pulled over to the side
of the road, took out my Bible I had in the car and read five minutes from His
Word. It was 11:55 PM when I began to
read. I have missed six or seven times
reading His Word since October of 1980.
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: This comes from
what I have chosen to entitle my blogs “Study to shew thyself approved unto
God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of
truth (2 Timothy 2:15 KJV).”
My Steps of Faith for Today: 2 Timothy 2:15.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “By giving the covenant and
the royal descent of our Lord.”
Today’s Bible
question: “What miracle did God perform
for Moses at Rephidim?”
Answer in our next SD.
8/12/2017 9:33 AM
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