SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/14/2021 7:39 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-6 “Differences”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
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.’”
We
begin with a quote from John MacArthur who writes “The rain, the floods, and
the winds do not represent specific types of physical judgment by simply sum up
God’ final judgment. The storm is the
ultimate test that the house of every human life will face. As the angel of death in Egypt passed by the
blood-sprinkled homes of Israel’s children while slaughtering all the
first-born in the rest, so the same judgment that harmlessly passes over the
house that is founded upon the rock of Christ and His Word will utterly destroy
the one that is built…upon the sand—which is anything other than Christ and His
Word.”
If
a person’s “religion” is true or false there will come a day it is going to be
tried, and tried it will be. That trial
will prove with absolute finality what is wheat and what is the chaff, it will
prove who are sheep and who are goats, also who have entered the narrow gate
that leads to the narrow way and who has entered the wide gate to walk on the
broad way.
Let
us look for a moment at 1 Thess. 1:10 and then make some comments on it: “and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He
raised from the dead, that is Jesus, who rescues us from the wrath to
come.” It will be those whose houses are
on the rock of our Lord Jesus Christ and His Word that will be, as the end of
this verse states “rescues us from the wrath to come.” These will only have praise from God as we
read from 1 Corinthians 4:5 “Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the
time, but wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the
things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives of men’s hearts; and then each man’s praise will
come to him from God.” We have
look many times at the book of Revelation and in the 20th chapter we
read about the great white throne judgment, and we will look now at verses 12
and also 15 “12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before
the throne, and books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the
book of life; and the dead were judged from the things which were written
in the books, according to their deeds.”
15 And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he
was thrown into the lake of fire.” This
is the most sobering judgment found in all of the Word of God, and we also read
in that chapter about the crimes or the sins committed which will get a person
thrown into the lake of fire and one of them is lying.
MacArthur
adds “The only difference about the storm in regard to the wise and the foolish
men is the way it affects their houses.
The house of the wise man may have been shaken, yet it did not fall, for
it had been founded upon the rock.”
Now
when we look at the same adversity that came upon the house of the foolish man
we see that it is disintegrated—and great was the fall. The house was utterly demolished, leaving its
builder having absolutely nothing. That
is the destiny of those who build on the sand, the sand of men’s ideas, man’s
philosophies, and also man’s religions.
These who build on the sand will have nothing left, nothing at all. “Their way is not an inferior way to God, but
no way to God at all. Always and
inevitably it leads to destruction; its absolute destiny is to fall.
3/14/2021 8:01 PM
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