SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 4/7/2019
10:11 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Knowledge of
Christ
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Eph.
4:13-15a
Message of the verses: “13 until we all
attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a
mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of
Christ. 14 As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there
by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men,
by craftiness in deceitful scheming; 15 but speaking the truth in love,”
We
looked at the first result of following God’s pattern for building His church
in our last SD, and so in today’s SD we will look at the second which is
attaining the “knowledge of the Son of God.”
When Paul speaks of attaining the knowledge of Christ he is not talking
about salvation knowledge, but what he is talking about is the deep knowledge (epignosis, full knowledge that is
correct and accurate) and this comes through a relationship with Christ that
can only come from prayer and faithful study of and also the obedience to God’s
Word. We have to remember that at the
time of Paul’s writing this letter to the Ephesians that he had been a believer
for a rather long times and saw things that believers today will not see this
side of heaven, and yet Paul writes the following to the Philippian believers
in Phil. 3:8-10, and 12: “8 More than that, I count all things to be loss
in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I
have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may
gain Christ, 9 and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own
derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the
righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, 10 that I may know Him and the
power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed
to His death; 12 Not
that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I
press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by
Christ Jesus.”
John
MacArthur writes “Growing in the deeper knowledge of the Son of God is a
life-long process that will not be complete until we see our Lord
face-to-face. That is the knowing of which
Jesus spoke when He said, ‘My sheep hear My voice, and I know them” (John
10:27). He was not speaking of knowing
their identities but of knowing them intimately, and that is the way He wants
His people also to know Him.”
Verse that goes along with yesterday’s
quotation from Psalm 1:1-2 “How blessed is the man who does not walk in the
counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of
scoffers, but his delight is in the Law of the Lord and In His Law he meditates
day and night.”
4/7/2019
10:27 PM
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