SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/25/2019
9:20 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “Purifying Love”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ephesians
5:26-27
Message of the verses: “26 so that He
might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27
that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or
wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and blameless.”
When
a husband loves his wife as Christ loves the church it can be described as
doing it with a purifying love. John
MacArthur writes “Divine love does not simply condemn wrong in those loved but
seeks to cleanse them from it. Christ’s great love for His church does not
allow Him to be content with any sin, any moral or spiritual impurity in
it. God tells His people, ‘Though your
sins are as scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are red like
crimson, they will be like wool’ (Isa. 1:18).
He cast the sins of His forgiven children ‘into the depths of the sea’
(Mic. 7:19), and He forgives their iniquity and remembers their sin no more
(Jer. 31:34).”
We
have been over the gospel message man times in these SD’s and learned that once
a person become a believer in Jesus Christ, making Him Lord and Savior all of
His sins are forgiven. Then when a
believer sins he or she is to confess their sin to the Lord as 1 John 1:9 tells
us and the example is found in John’s gospel where we read of Jesus washing His
disciples feet “He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is
completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you’ (John 13:10). Jesus was speaking of Judas who would later
on that evening betray Jesus.
In
the next statement that MacArthur has in his commentary it truly speaks volumes
to me, although it is something that I know, but needed a reminder. “Love wants only the best for the one it loves, and it cannot bear for a
loved one to be corrupted or misled by anything evil or harmful.” He then goes on to put into the context of
the husband by writing “When a husband’s love for his wife is like Christ’s
love for His church, he will continually seek to help purify her from any sort
of defilement. He will seek to protect
her from the world’s contamination and protect her holiness, virtue, and purity
in every way. He will never induce her
to do that which is wrong or unwise or expose her to that which is less than
good.”
Well
because it is Sunday evening this SD will be short, but Lord willing we will
complete this section in our next SD.
Today’s quotation from “Love in Action”:
But God
demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still
Sinners,
Christ died for us. Much more then,
having now been
Justified
by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through
Him. For if we were enemies we were reconciled
To God
through the death of His Son, much more,
Having been
reconciled, we shall be
saved by
His life.
Romans
5:8-10
8/25/2019 9:42 PM
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