Monday, December 16, 2024

PT-1 "Hope is Secured by Abiding" (1 John 2:28)

 

EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/16/2024 12:53 PM

 

My Worship Time                                                      Focus:  PT-1 “Hope Is Secured by Abiding”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                         Reference:  1 John 2:28

 

            Message of the verse:  28 Now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming.”

 

            I have read that the emphatic particle nun (now) introduces a new section and plainly indicates a paragraph break which is seen in the NASB95 version.  This is not the first time that I have heard or read about how sometimes those who broke the Bible up into chapters have not really done the best job in places like this one.  Now as I read from John MacArthur’s commentary and saw how the verses in this chapter had a couple verses from the 2nd chapter of 1 John with the first three verses of chapter three I was wondering why that happened and now I understand the reason. 

 

            Now as we look at what comes after “Now” we see the words, which seem to be favorites of John, and that is little children, as this is the way that he chose to address his readers.  MacArthur writes “That phrase encompasses believers at all levels of maturity.”  He then gives a number of verses which I am not going to quote that go along with what he just wrote.  He finishes the sentence by writing “and expresses John’s continuing fatherly care and concern for the recipients of this letter (cf. 2:12).”  “I am writing to you, little children, because your sins have been forgiven you for His name’s sake.”

 

            It seems to me that as MacArthur stated that John is addressing the different people when he uses titles like “little children” and other words like this that he is not talking about someone’s age chronologically but their spiritual maturity.

 

12/16/2024 1:07 PM

12/16/2024 11:22 PM

 

            In my next SD I will try and get a little more done.  The evening got pretty busy with a couple of our grandkids.  I want to look at the word “Abide” as I begin this next SD.

 

12/16/2024 11:39 PM

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