SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/3/2021 8:28 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-1 “Rejection of Those Who Are Contemptuous”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
10:13b-15
Message of the verses: “but if it is not
worthy, let your greeting of peace return to you. 14 “And whoever does
not receive you, nor heed your words, as you go out of that house or that city,
shake off the dust of your feet. 15 “Truly I say to you, it will be more
tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment,
than for that city.”
It
is Sunday morning the 3rd of October 2121 and it is the first time
that I have had to teach a Sunday school class in the morning for probably
around a year as we have been doing our Sunday school in the evening, but
started about three weeks ago to do it in the morning. The problem was that on the 9th of
last month I contracted the Covid virus that is going around the world and so
for three weeks I have been unable to teach our class. With all of this being said I don’t think
that this SD will be as long as what I usually write.
In
today’s SD we begin looking at the last principle for ministry as it shows the
reverse side of the previous one, namely, that of not spending undue time on
those who persist in rejecting the gospel.
I realize that I have prayed for many people on my prayer list for many
years who have not as yet come to Christ, and will continue doing so as long as
I am on this earth.
Jesus
told the twelve apostles who were on this short term missions trip that if a
house was “not worthy let your greeting of peace return to you,” which was an
Oriental expression signifying withdrawal of favor or blessing, so that will
help us understand better what the Lord is saying here. MacArthur adds “It is not that such a
household would have a blessing and then lose it, but that the offer of peace was never received and is
therefore withdrawn. The greatest
blessing of God is worthless for a person who will not accept it. God’s gospel is offered to all the world, and
it has power to save all the world, but it is powerless to save or help even a
single person who will not have Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior (cf. John 5:40).” “and you are unwilling to come to Me so that
you may have life.”
John
warns of the same principle to false teachers who come to us in 2 John 10-11,
and with that we will end this SD for today.
“10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not
receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting; 11 for the one who gives him a greeting
participates in his evil deeds.”
10/3/2021 8:43 AM
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