SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/2/2019
8:53 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 “The Punishment”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ephesians
5:5-7
Message of the verses: “5 For this you
know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is
an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. 6 Let no one
deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God
comes upon the sons of disobedience. 7 Therefore do not be partakers with them.”
I
want to fist of all quote a verse from Revelation 21 that we in my Sunday
school lesson today, and I believe it goes well with verse five: “"But for the cowardly and unbelieving
and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters
and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and
brimstone, which is the second death” (Rev. 21:8).
We
have been talking about this list that Paul has in verse five and this is
surely not the only list given in the Word of God concerning different
sins. In 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 we read “9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous
will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor
adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the
covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom
of God.” Paul then goes on to say “11 Such
were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.” We have three lists of sins and the key to
all of these lists is what Paul writes in verse 11 as he states that “such were
some of you.” He is talking about the
Corinthian believers who followed some of these sins habitually before they
were saved, and that is another key which is habitually. If we see someone who has stated that they
are a believer, but then we see he or she habitually commit sins then we have
the obligation to confront them and ask them about these sins and find out if
they truly are saved. Just to let you
know that Paul writes another list found in Galatians 5:17-21.
Perhaps
you confront a person who is habitually committing one or more of these sins,
and you do it in a loving way. Well Paul
then writes “Let no one deceive you with empty words,” telling you that sin is
tolerable and that God will not exclude unrepentant sinners from His
kingdom. These “empty words” that they
give you are full of error, and they are devoid of truth, and therefore they
perhaps will deceive you.
John
MacArthur writes “It is ‘because of these things,’ that is, because of the sins
listed here and the lies of ‘empty words’that‘ the wrath of God comes upon the
sons of disobedience.’ Such people are
called ‘sons of disobedience’ because it is their nature is to disobey and they
are ‘children of wrath’ (2:3; cf. 2 Thess. 1:8-10), the targets for God’s guns
of judgment.
“God’s
attitude toward perverted love and sexual sin is seen clearly in Numbers
25:1-9, where the Israelites had relations with Moabite women and God
slaughtered 24,000 of them. His attitude
toward sexual sin has not changed, and perverted love attracts God’s wrath like
a fully-lit city attracts enemy bombers.
“In
the final warning, Paul says, ‘Therefore do not be partakers with them.’ ‘Don’t join the world in its evil,’ he
says. ‘Don’t be partners with them in
wickedness. Be partners with Christ in
righteousness. Don’t imitate the world,
but rather be imitators of God, as beloved children’ (v.1).”
This section ends the 15th
chapter in John MacArthur’s commentary, the one that we are mostly following as
we make our way through Ephesians. Lord
willing we will begin to look at verses 5:8-14 which he entitles “Living in
Light” as we look at the introduction to these verses in our next SD.
Verse that goes with the quotation from
E. B. Bounds is from Proverbs 15:3: “The
eys of the Lord are in every place, keeping watch on the evil and the good.”
6/2/2019 9:20 PM
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