SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/27/2022 11:38 AM

 

My Worship Time                                                                                       Focus:  Intro to Matt. 18:5-9

                                                                                                                  

Message of the verses:  “5 “And whoever receives one such child in My name receives Me; 6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it is better for him that a heavy millstone be hung around his neck, and that he be drowned in the depth of the sea 7 "Woe to the world because of its stumbling blocks! For it is inevitable that stumbling blocks come; but woe to that man through whom the stumbling block comes! 8 "And if your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter life crippled or lame, than having two hands or two feet, to be cast into the eternal fire. 9 “And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter life with one eye, than having two eyes, to be cast into the fiery hell.”

 

            John MacArthur entitles this 12^th chapter of his third commentary on the book of Matthew “The Danger of Causing a Christian to Sin.”  We will begin to look at the introduction to these verses in our SD for today.

 

            I am a father to three children, two of them my wife and I raised, the other was raised by her mother and step-father.  As a parent, a Christian parent you want to make sure that your children are raised in a way that their lives will be going in the direction of following their Savior, and also as a parent you want to screen the influence that others have on them.  This becomes more challenging when they get older.  My children have children of their own right now and so it is their job to watch out for them in the way we tried to watch out for our children when they were living at our home. 

 

            MacArthur writes “Most parents are more grateful for what is done on behalf of and for the benefit of their children than for anything that could be done for themselves.  Likewise, most parents find it easier to forgive an offense against themselves than one against their child.  Parents are grateful to friends, teachers, and others who encourage, support and build up their children. They are incensed, however, By a young man who gets their daughter pregnant, a supposed friend who induces their son to try drugs, or an unbelieving professor who tries to lead their son or daughter away from their Christian faith. 

 

            11/27/2022 12:06 PM