SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/5/2025 8:13 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-4 “The Promise of Eternal Blessing”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Timothy
2:11-13
Message of the verses: “11 It is a
trustworthy statement: For if we died with Him, we will also live with Him; 12 If
we endure, we will also reign with Him; If we deny Him, He also will deny us;
13 If we are faithless, He remains
faithful, for He cannot deny Himself.”
I
promised to look up what I wrote from Hebrews 6:4-6, but I have not found it,
but will keep looking because it is a very important passage for us to
understand. I looked at John MacArthur’s
commentary on these verses and he has a lot to say about it in his commentary,
but I can’t find the lesson that I taught a number of years ago when I went
through Hebrews.
Today
I want to quote from the second negative condition and promise that I said I
would do in yesterday’s SD.
“The
second negative condition and promise are: If we are faithless Christ remains
faithful. In this context, apisteo (are faithless) means lack of
saving faith, not merely weak or unreliable faith. The unsaved ultimately deny Christ, because
they never had faith in Him for salvation.
But He remains faithful, not only to those who believe in Him but to
those who do not, as here. God’s divine
assurance to save ‘whoever believes in Him [Christ]’ (John 3:16) is followed
almost immediately by another divine assurance that ‘he who does not believe
has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only
begotten Son of God’ (John 3:18). Just
as Christ will never renege of His promise to save those who trust in Him, He
also will never renege on His promise to condemn those who do not. To do
otherwise would be to deny Himself, which His righteous and just nature cannot
allow Him to do.
“It
was on the basis of Christ’s absolute faithfulness that Pau declared earlier in
this letter, ‘I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to
guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day’ (2 Tim. 1:12). It was on that basis that the writer of
Hebrews admonished, ‘Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without
wavering’ and then exulted, ‘for He who promised is faithful’ (Heb. 10:23).
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: To believe in what the Lord has promised is a
very important part of living the Christian life.
My
Steps of Faith for Today: Believe in the promises of the Lord like
I am learning as I once again go through my older Spiritual Diaries from the
book of Job who certainly did believe the promises of the Lord.
2/5/2025 8:30 AM
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