EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/19/2025 10:11 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 “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.”
I want to pick up from where I left off yesterday
evening. We can see that John warned his
readers that even though they were transformed to love other believers and even
unbelievers (cf. Matt. 5:44; Rom. 12:14, 20; 1 Peter 3:9), they should not be surprised…if
the word hates them. I was talking with
our Pastor this morning before he was about to preach his sermon and mentioned
that what is going on in our country (USA) that I believed that Satan was using
most of the Democratic party in trying to do harm to our President Elect, and
one can see that by the way that they talk in their interviewing people to be
on Trump’s team as this has to happen before they can get these jobs. As our verses talks about the word hating you
it is seen very clearly that the world, and in this case the Democratic party
truly hates the Republican party. I am
not saying that all the Republicans are believers as they have their bad eggs
too, but I do not know of any in the Democratic party that are believers and so
they hate those who are trying to do the right thing.
Now the expression do not be surprised, MacArthur writes “translates
the present active imperative form of the verb thaumazo a term that has the connotation of wonder, astonishment,
or amazement. Rather than being shocked
by the world’s opposition, believers should instead expert it (cf. Acts 14:22;
2 Tim. 3:12; 1 Peter 4:12), because the world has nothing in common with the
kingdom of God (cf. 2 Cor. 6:14-15), and the lives of the righteous rebuke
those of the unrighteous. In the upper
room, Jesus promised the apostles that the world would hate them:
18 "If the world hates you, you know that
it has hated Me before it hated you. 19 “If you were of the world, the world
would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out
of the world, because of
this the world hates you…23 “He who hates Me hates My Father also. 24 “If
I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have
sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well. 25 “But they
have done this to fulfill the word that is written in their Law, ‘THEY
HATED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE’” (John 15:18-19, 23-25).
“By
their hatred, the children of the Devil have always revealed their true
character. Redemptive history contains
many instances of the world persecuting God’s people (cf. Heb. 11:36-40). The people of His own town hated Jesus and
attempted to kill Him after hearing just one message from Him (Luke
4:28-29). The leaders of the nation
later plotted to kill Him (cf. Matt. 12:14; Mark 3:6); 14:1-2, 11; John 10:39;
11:45-57; Acts 7:52). The world hated
the apostles (Luke 21:12-13; John 16:2-3; Acts 4:1-31; 5:17-41; cf. John
17:15-16) and martyred all but the apostle John, whom it exiled to the island
of Patmos (Rev. 1:9). Enemies of the
gospel have always persecuted those who love the truth. Even today believers around die under the
hateful, murderous hands of the children of the Devil.”
Now
as I was listening to a sermon by MacArthur on the letter of 2 Timothy he was
talking about how persecution actually cause growth in the Church, as he
mentioned China and how many believers live their mostly they worship in
underground churches.
“In
this customary absolute, black-and-white style, John reminds readers that no
murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
That does not mean that a believer could never commit an act of murder,
or that someone who has committed murder can never be saved. But it does mean that those who are
characterized by hateful attitudes and who regularly harbor murderous thoughts
evidence an unregenerate heart and will perish eternally (cf. Rev. 21:7-8;
22:14-15) unless they repent.”
1/19/2025 10:37 PM
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