SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/23/2023 9:19 AM
My Worship Time
Focus: “PT-1 "False Leaders Are Cursed For Their Perversion"
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
23:16-22
Message of the verses: “16 "Woe to
you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, that is nothing; but
whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’ 17 "You fools
and blind men; which is more important, the gold, or the temple that sanctified
the gold? 18 “And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, that is nothing, but
whoever swears by the offering upon it, he is obligated.’ 19 "You blind
men, which is more important, the offering or the altar that sanctifies the
offering? 20 “Therefore he who swears by the altar, swears both by the altar
and by everything on it. 21 “And he who swears by the temple, swears both
by the temple and by Him who dwells within it. 22 “And he who swears by heaven,
swears both by the throne of God and by Him who sits upon it.”
We begin the third curse that Jesus used against the
scribes and Pharisees, and this one is for their perversion of truth. Let us look at a couple of verses that shows
that God is the God of truth and cannot lie:
“in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised long
ages ago, (Titus 1:2). “so that by two
unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken
refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us”
(Heb. 6:18). As we look at these two
verses it can be concluded that God desires for His people to people of
truth. Now lest us look at the other
side, and that is that there is no truth in Satan as seen in John 8:44 “"You
are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your
father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth
because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his
own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” I noticed that John 8:45 talks again about
the truthfulness of God: “"But
because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me.”
The
followers of Satan are also skilled in lying, and although I usually don’t get
into what is happening in the world when I am doing my Spiritual Diaries I
think that there is a good example that is happening and it has to do with the
war that is going on in Israel today. A
few days ago there was a hospital that was said to be boomed in Gaza, and by
the way Gaza is mentioned some twenty times in the Bible and only once in a
good light. There was a misfired rocket
from Hamas that actually did not hit the hospital but the parking lot of the
hospital, the first lie, and the second lie was that Israel was bombing the
hospital. As soon as this happened Hamas
said that Israel did it, which was a lie, and then the left wing news agencies
started to say the same thing that Hamas said.
Now you talk about Satan’s followers being liars and here you have it in
cases, Hamas, and the left-wing news agencies.
Ok
that is enough of what is going on in the world today with the exception of
saying that if you watch Israel and what is happening to Israel you will get a
pretty good idea of Bible prophecy being fulfilled, and I am not saying that
what is going on in Israel today is a part of Bible prophecy other than the
fact that once the antichrist comes into power which will happen shortly after
the rapture of the church that he will begin by making a peace treaty with
Israel.
Now
I am really off the track of what is in our verses today, but I want to get
back on the track at this time. Satan’s
followers are liars and this is seen in all of the false “religious systems” that
were in the world during this time and one of them was headed up by the scribes
and the Pharisees, the ones that Jesus is addressing in this section, that is
Matthew 23. These false religious
systems have “exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served
the creature rather than the Creator” (Romans 1:15). Ok I can’t help but say
that after the rapture of the church takes place there will be left the false
church, the ones that don’t tell the truth, and in their case the people who
belong to this “church” will never get into heaven unless they realize that
they need to confess their sins and believe that Jesus is the only way to get
to heaven, and that means that they not only have to confess their sins, but
they then have to accept what Jesus did for them as He died in their place on
the cross.
I
hope that we will get a little farther in talking about these verses in our
next SD, but I believe that what I wrote is the truth, and not a lie and that
is something that I desire to do in each of my Spiritual Diaries.
10/23/2023 9:55 AM
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