EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/8/2025 11:01 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-1 “The
Confession of the Divine LORD”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 1 John 4:2-3
Message of the verses: “By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.”
I will make this Spiritual Diary rather short
because that is what I usually do on Saturday evening.
‘The first test is theological or more specifically christological. It takes that question what does this person teach about Jesus ‘Christ? The verb rendered confesses is a present tense form of the verb homologoe which means ‘to say the same thing “every spirit (human teacher) who agrees with Scripture that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is therefore from God, confessing a truth taught by the Holy Spirit—that Jesus Christ is God incarnate.
The apostle does not explore all the nuances of
Christology here; he simply echoes the definitive christological statement with
which he opened the epistle.
“1 What was from the
beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have
looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of Life — 2
and the life was manifested, and we have
seen and testify and proclaim to you the eternal
life, which was with the Father and was manifested to us —
3 what we have seen and heard we proclaim
to you also, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our
fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Chris.” (1:1-3)
2/8/2025 11:45 PM
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