SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/11/2021 1:15 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-3 “Differences”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matt.
7:24-27
Message of the verses: “24 “Therefore
everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts on them, may be compared to a
wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 “And the rain fell, and the floods
came, and the winds blew and slammed against that house; and yet it did
not fall, for it had been founded on the rock. 26 “Everyone who hears these
words of Mine and does not act on them, will be like a foolish man who built
his house on the sand. 27 “The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds
blew and slammed against that house; and it fell — and great was its
fall.’”
I
want to say that once we get to the end of this section “differences” that we
will then only have one more SD until we are finished with the 7th
chapter of Matthew, thus the end of the Sermon on the Mount.
It
is good for us to realize that the house that is built on the rock is the life
of difference, as it is the life Jesus has been explaining throughout the
Sermon on the Mount. More as it is also
the life that has a scriptural view of itself, which has been described in the
Beatitudes which we looked at a fairly long time ago. It is also the life that has a Scriptural
view of the world, and living in the times that we are living in that should be
most helpful. This sermon sees itself as
God means for preserving and also enlightening the world while not being a part
of the world. It is the life that has
the divine view of Scripture and that determines not to alter the Word of God
even to the slightest degree, not on jot or tittle. Furthermore it is a life that has a godly
attitude toward what is said and what is done, towards motives, things, money,
and other people. It is a life of
genuineness rather that what the scribes and Pharisees had in common doing
which is hypocrisy, and also it is a life of God righteousness rather than
self-righteousness, another thing the scribes and Pharisees did well at to
their shame.
We
have one more thing in today’s SD that speaks about the house that was built on
the rock and the life that is a part of it and I will quote John MacArthur at
this time to help us out.
“The
house built on the rock is the life that empties itself of self-righteousness
and pride, that is overwhelmed by and mourns over its own sin, that makes the
maximum effort to enter the narrow gate and be faithful in the narrow way of
Christ and His Word. Such a builder does
not build his life or place his hope on ceremony, ritual, visions, experiences,
feelings, or miracles but on the Word of God and that alone.”
In
our next SD we will begin it by speaking about the person who built his house
on the sand, which is completely the opposite of the one who built his house on
the rock.
3/11/2021 1:32 PM
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