SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/14/2019
12:11 AM
My Worship Time Focus: United in God’s Family
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ephesians
2:19b
Message of the
verse: “and are of God’s household.”
I mentioned in our last SD that we will begin to look at
the sub-sections under the heading of “Closing Summary,” and that once we are
done with all of these sub-sections we will have completed our study of the
second chapter of Ephesians.
In the first part of verse nineteen we learned that once
a person becomes a believer then they are a part of His divine kingdom, and if
that were not enough, God’s gracious work that is in Christ draws us even
closer and makes us members of God household, which is seen in our short half
verse for today. John MacArthur makes
this wonderful point as he writes “Because we have identified ourselves with
His Son by faith, God now sees us and treats us exactly as He sees and treats
His Son—with infinite love. Because the
Father cannot give anything but His best to the Son, He cannot give anything
but His best to those who are in His Son.
‘Both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one
Father,’ the writer of Hebrews tells us, ‘for which reason He is not ashamed to
call them brethren…Christ was faithful as a Son over His house whose we are’
(2:11; 3:6; Rom 8:17).”
When we think about heavenly citizenship and then family
membership, they are not distinct roles or positions but they are simply
different views of the same reality, because every kingdom citizen is a family
member and every family is a kingdom citizen.
The following quote from MacArthur speaks again to unity
even though it is not mentioned: “If
believers have no distinctions before God, they should have no distinctions among
themselves. We are fellow citizens and
fellow family members, equal in every spiritual way before God. If God accepts each one of us, how can we not
accept each other?” That is a great
question, and the answer is that need to accept each other.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “Troas” (Acts 20:6-11).
Today’s Bible
question: “Who was spokesman for the
apostles on the day of Pentecost?”
Answer in our next SD.
1/14/2019 12:26 AM
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