SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/19/2020
10:48 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-4 “The
Condemnation”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
3:8-10
Message of the verses: “8 "Therefore
bring forth fruit in keeping with repentance; 9 and do not suppose that you can
say to yourselves, ’We have Abraham for our father’; for I say to you, that God
is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham. 10 “And the axe is
already laid at the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not bear
good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”
We
ended our last SD by looking at a quote from a Puritan Pastor, and I said that we
would look at a quotation from another Puritan Pastor in today’s SD. His name is William Perkins and he wrote “Godly
sorrow causeth grief for sin, because it is sin. It makes any man in whom it is to be of this
disposition and mind, that if there were no conscience to accuse, no devil to
terrify, no Judge to arraign and condemn, no hell to torment, yet he would be
humbled and brought on his knees for his sins, because he hath offended a
loving, merciful, and long-suffering God.”
We
have talked about effectual calls and we have also talked about divine
appointments, when a person begins to speak with another person, perhaps a
stranger, and then are led by the Spirit of God to witness to that person and
then through a miracle of God that person being witnessed to becomes a
believer. It is then God who ultimately causes
that person to repent of their sins and trust Christ as their Savior. As I stated earlier it is a miracle, and
people don’t believe miracles still happen, well whenever a person becomes a
believer it is a great, perhaps the greatest miracle.
We
can be assured that the Pharisees and the Sadducees that John was talking to
were not given this kind of repentance.
These people should have realized that John was teaching the truth as
they spent much time in their study of the Word of God, but their eyes were
blinded to the truth because they did not want to hear it. These people were hypocrites and they were
phonies as John well knew. They showed absolutely
no evidence of a changed life.
It
is Sunday evening and I am very tried as I taught Sunday school this morning
then attended a church service and then we took two of our grandchildren home
for the afternoon before attending evening church.
This
is a very long, but an important subject we are looking at and it will take a
few more SD’s to complete it.
1/19/2020 11:05 PM
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