SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/24/2024 12:52 PM
My Worship Time
Focus: PT-1 “Trust Your Security”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Timothy
1:12b
Message of the
verse: “but I am not ashamed; for I
know whom I believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have
entrusted to Him until that day.”
In today’s SD I begin looking at a sixth means for
guarding against being ashamed of Christ: Trusting in Spiritual Security.” I think that it is very important to
understand these different ways that show us how we learn not to be ashamed of
Christ. I guess I go back to when I
first learned about Peter denying the Lord Jesus at His crucifixion and then
after the resurrection Jesus brought Peter back into fellowship with Him. I hated to say it but because of the sinful
nature we all have just from being born and still have it even thought we are
born-again that all believers are tempted to fall into temptation even to the
point of being ashamed of Christ. When I
do that all I can say is that it hurts.
John MacArthur writes “Paul was not ashamed of his Lord, for, he says, I know whom I have believed. Oida (know) carries the idea of knowing with certainty. It is used frequently in the New Testament of God’s own knowing and of man’s knowing by direct revelation from God or by personal experience. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus used the verb in assuring His hearers, ‘Your Father knows what you need, before you ask Him” (Matt. 6:8). John repeatedly uses it of Jesus’ knowledge. He records that ‘He Himself [Jesus] knew what He was intending to do’ (John 6:6), and that ‘Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him’ (v. 64; cf. 8:14; 11:42; 13:11).”
We now move to look at the meaning of the word whom
which refers either to God the Father (v. 8) or to Jesus Christ (vv.
9-10). In either case, the basic meaning
is the same—since Paul had firsthand, intimate, saving knowledge of God.
Next we look at I have believed which is the Greek word pisteuo and this is in a perfect tense,
which indicates something that began in the past and has continuing
results. MacArthur adds “As already
pointed out, the object of Paul’s certain knowledge was not a thing, or even
God’s truth, as important as that is, but rather God Himself. It was not Paul’s divinely revealed theology,
but One who revealed to Him that theology, in whom he believed. He
was, in John’s words, a spiritual father who had come to know the Eternal One
(1 John 2:14).”
Ok I will end now, but I do want to mention that in
tomorrow’s SD, which is Christmas day I will post or repost what I usually post
each Christmas.
12/24/2024 1:34 PM
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