EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/26/2024 11:19 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-3 “The Nature of God”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 1 John 1:5
Message of the verse: “This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.”
I have been talking about the truth that God is
light and we have been looking at different verses in both the Old and New
Testaments to show this truth, and these foregoing passages describe the
significance of divine light, they do not define it. Let us now look at Psalm 36:9, which will
define it: “For with You is the fountain of life; in Your light we see light.” Let us compare a verse from 1 Peter to this
verse in Psalm 36:9 “But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A
royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God’s OWN POSSESSION, so
that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of
darkness into His marvelous light;” (1 Peter 2:9). MacArthur comments on this verse in Psalm; “Here
the psalmist employed a Hebrew parallelism, using two statements to say the
same thing. He equates light and life—God
is light in the sense that He is life, and He is the source and sustainer of
both physical and spiritual life.
“John expressed that truth in the
prologue to his gospel:
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All
things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being
that has come into being. 4 In
Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. 5 The Light shines in the darkness, and the
darkness did not comprehend it. 6 There came a man sent from God, whose name
was John. 7 He came as a witness, to testify about the Light, so that all might believe through
him. 8 He was not the
Light, but he came to testify about the Light. 9 There was the true Light which,
coming into the world, enlightens every man. 10 He was in the world, and the
world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. 11 He came to His
own, and those who were His own did not receive Him. 12 But as many as received
Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those
who believe in His name, 13 who were
born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of
God” (John 1:1-13). John MacArthur writes “(cf. 2:23-3:21;
Col.1:15-17). I will post these verses
as I end this SD with them.
23 Now
when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in
His name, observing His signs which He was doing. 24 But Jesus, on His part, was not entrusting
Himself to them, for He knew all men, 25 and because He did not need anyone to testify concerning
man, for He Himself knew what was in man.
1
Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews; 2 this man came to Jesus by night and said to
Him, "Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for
no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him." 3 Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly,
truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of
God." 4 Nicodemus said to Him, "How
can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother’s
womb and be born, can he?" 5 Jesus
answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the
Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 “That which is born of the
flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 “Do not be
amazed that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 “The wind blows where it
wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and
where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit." 9 Nicodemus said to Him, "How can these
things be?" 10 Jesus answered and said to him, "Are you the teacher
of Israel and do not understand these things? 11 “Truly, truly, I say to you,
we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not
accept our testimony. 12 "If I told
you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you
heavenly things? 13 “No one has ascended into heaven, but He who descended from
heaven: the Son of Man. 14 "As
Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted
up; 15 so that whoever believes will in
Him have eternal life. 16 "For God
so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes
in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. 17 "For God did not send the Son into the
world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. 18 "He who believes in Him is not judged; he
who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in
the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 “This is the judgment, that the
Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the
Light, for their deeds were evil. 20 “For everyone who does evil hates the
Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 21
“But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be
manifested as having been wrought in God’” (John 2:23-3:21).
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of
all creation. 16 For by Him all things
were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible,
whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities — all things
have been created through Him and for Him. 17 He is before all things, and in
Him all things hold together (Col. 1:15-17).
8/26/2024 11:43 PM
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