EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/9/2025 8:14 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 “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 am going to begin this section where I left off
yesterday as this is to be added right after the quotation from 1 John 1:1-3,
and so I think that it is best that I go ahead and quote that Scripture and
then quote from MacArthur’s commentary on what he wrote afterwards.
“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)”
Now before I give you that quote I want to explain
something kind of personal. I am going
on 78 years old and I have had a problem falling asleep at night and so I
decided to get my prescription filled that helps me to sleep and so I took it a
little bit too early last night and that is why I had trouble writing that
SD. I’m good to go this evening.
“Jesus Christ proceeded from God the
Father as the living Word of God (John 1:1-2) who became flesh (Luke 1:31; John
1:14; cf. Col. 2:9). He is one with the
Father (John 10:30, 38; 14:7-10), manifested to humanity as the second person
of the Trinity (a correct understanding of Christology will inevitably be
Trinitarian), the Son of God (Isa. 9:6; John 3:16; cf. John 1:18; Heb.
1:5,8). According to the plan of God,
Jesus came in the flesh so that He might die a substituionary death as a man
for the sins of other men. That is the
only way He could redeem all who would believe (Gal. 4:4-5; Heb. 2:17; cf. 1
Tim. 2:5; 1 John 2:1-2).”
I
have to say that there is, in my opinion that is crucial to understand that
what was just written above. God created
the earth in six days and rested (not because He was tired, but because He had
finished what He started) and it was on the sixth day, that He created man,
which was the last thing that He created during what is called creation
week. Man was created from the ground
and later on after man (Adam) had finished naming all of the animals and found
out that he did not have a mate like all of the animals that God put him to
sleep and created Eve (woman) from a rib taken from Adam. The next thing we read about is that Eve was
tempted by the devil who used a created being in order to talk to her and she
then ate of the tree of Good and Evil thus committing the first sin. She then talked Adam to do the same. Sin thus entered into the human race and so
all who are born in the human race are born sinners, so we humans sin because
that is what we are born into. Now this
sin-nature is passed on through the male, not the female and so when Jesus
Christ was born into the world the Holy Spirit of God was the One who fathered
Him through the female (Mary) so there was no sin-nature involved. This was all in the plan of God. This was the only way that Jesus Christ could
die for the sins of mankind by becoming a Man.
Paul says in Romans “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” This shows that everyone born is a sinner
because of being born into the human race, so in order to become a child of God
a person has to understand that they are sinners, they sin because they are
sinners. So how are we able to become a
child of God in the spiritual way? Well
first of all we have to realize that we are sinners, then we are to realize
that on our own we can do nothing to please the Lord. Next we must confess to the Lord that we are
a sinner and believe in your heart that Jesus Christ in dying on the cross has
paid for our sins, so we invite the Lord Jesus to come into our hearts in order
to save us, and that He will do.
Now
in tomorrow’s SD on these verses I will quote some more from MacArthur’s
commentary and give some of my comments as I desire to finish this section
then.
2/9/2025 8:40 PM
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