EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/18/2025 8:05 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “Satan’s Children Hate God’s
Children”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
1 John 3:13, 15
Message of the verses: “De not be surprised, brethren, if the world hates you…Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.”
Now as we read the beginning of verse fifteen we can
see that in the eyes of God, hatred is the moral equivalent of murder, thus everyone
who hates his brother is a murderer. Now
I think that we realize that only a small percentage of people actually murder
someone. However many more have been
angry enough to have done so, had the circumstances been favorable and were
they not afraid of the severe consequences that they would have suffered. Let us look now at a few verses that back
this statement up.
Genesis 9:6 “6 “Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be
shed, For in the image of God He made man.”
Matthew 26:52 “52
Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place; for all those
who take up the sword shall perish by the sword.”
Romans 13:4 “4 for
it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid;
for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an
avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil.”
Continuing on, but the only outward
difference between murder and hate is the deed itself—the attitudes are the
same. Now in the Sermon on the Mount,
Jesus made this clear
21 "You have heard that the ancients were
told, ‘YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT MURDER’ and ‘Whoever commits murder shall be liable
to the court.’ 22 “But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother
shall be guilty before the court; and whoever says to his brother, ‘You
good-for-nothing,’ shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, ‘You
fool,’ shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell.
MacArthur adds “Impenitent and
unconverted sinners will be eternally condemned for their habitual attitudes of
hate, even if those attitudes never translate into physical actions.”
I
think that is quite a statement to make, as I know that it is true, but what he
was saying is that you will be punished for planning a crime, and in this case
murder, even though you have not even committed it.
Now
I think that because it is Saturday evening and I have to go over the lesson
that I am to teach tomorrow morning in our Sunday school class that I will end
now and Lord willing finish this section in tomorrow evenings SD.
1/18/2025 8:23 PM
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