SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/20/2020 10:12 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-3 “The Presupposition: Corruption and Darkness”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
5:23-16
Message of the verses: “13 "You are
the salt of the earth; but if the salt has become tasteless, how can it be made
salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out
and trampled under foot by men. 14 “You are the light of the world. A city set
on a hill cannot be hidden; 15 nor does anyone
light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives
light to all who are in the house. 16 “Let your light shine before men in such
a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in
heaven.”
Remember
that if you have not looked at yesterday’s SD, please do so, at least at the
beginning of it to understand what we will be doing as we study this group of
verses.
We
want to begin this SD by looking at some very unpleasant judgments that the
Bible speaks of. These judgments came
after the fall in the garden by our first parents as seen in Genesis chapter
three. We move not too far along in
human history to read about Noah as he prepared an ark for he, his wife and
three sons and their wives to be kept safe as God would judge the world with a
flood. Soon after that the offspring of
these eight would see another judgment from the Lord as He destroyed Sodom and
Gomorrah as they became so rotten that this was necessary. God did this by fire and brimstone. Then we read of the final judgment that is
seen in 2 Peter 3:7-10 “7 But by His word the present heavens and earth are
being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of
ungodly men.8 But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved,
that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like
one day. 9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but
is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to
repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens
will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense
heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up.” We have written about these verses in the
past and the time table for them is after the 1000 year kingdom is over the
kingdom that is headed up by Jesus Christ from David throne in Jerusalem.
MacArthur
writes “Man is infected with the deadly virus of sin, which has no cure apart
from God. Yet unlike their attitude toward
physical disease, most men do not want their sin cured. They love their decadence and they hate God’s
righteousness (cf. John 3:19-21). They
love their own way and they hate God’s.”
“19 “This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather
than the Light, for their deeds were evil. 20 “For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and
does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21 “But
he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be
manifested as having been wrought in God” (John 3:19-21).
I
mentioned what I will call a theory, but as I study the Word of God, I believe
is the truth. Yesterday I mentioned that
technology causes many problems for mankind and in his commentary John
MacArthur also mentions this by stating that “Man’s knowledge is increasing by
quantum leaps, but his increased knowledge is mechanical knowledge, inanimate
knowledge, lifeless knowledge, knowledge that has no bearing on the inner man
(cf. 2 Tim. 3:7). His knowledge does not
retard his corruption but rather is used to intensify and defend it.” “always learning and never able to come to
the knowledge of the truth” (2 Tim 3:7). My theory is that at the tower of Babel when God
confused the languages that He did so in order to stop the learning of man, and
it has worked for many, many centuries until we got to the 20th
century when the computer came into existence and mans knowledge continues to
grow at a rate that has not been seen before.
6/20/2020 10:35 AM
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