EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/31/2025 9:11 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 “Eternal Life”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 1 John 5:13
Message of the
verse: “These things I have written to
you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.”
I have to admit that I really thought that this verse
would only take one SD to finish, but I have to do things in my Spiritual
Diaries that I believe the Lord is guiding me to write, especially when it
comes to the end times sections that come to mind when I am studying a passage.
John MacArthur writes “As has been clear throughout, the
blessings of salvation and assurance are only for those who believe in the name
of the Son of God (cf. the discussion of 3:23 in chapter 13 of this volume).” My Spiritual Diaries from chapter 13 of
MacArthur’s commentary begin on 1-23-2025 to 1-31-2025). “God has guaranteed these blessings to
Christians by giving them the Holy Spirit as a pledge (Eph. 1:14).” “14 who is given as
a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own
possession, to the praise of His glory.” “John’s uncompromising presentation of the
truth in absolute, unqualified terms, the relentless attacks of the false
teachers, and the departure of some of the false believers (2:19) had shaken
his readers. The apostle assured them that
if they passed the doctrinal and practical tests, they could know for certain that
they had eternal life.
“In its most basic sense, eternal life is liven forever
with God in heaven (Matt. 25:46; Mark 10:30).
But as noted in the discussion 5:11 in the previous chapter of this
volume, the term does not refer primarily to duration of life, but to quality
of life. Eternal life is to know Jesus
Christ (John 17:3), who Himself is eternal life (1 John 5:20), and to share in
His life. It is a present possession,
not merely a future hope (John 3:36; 5:24; 6:47, 54; 10:28; 1 John 3:15),
though it is not fully manifested in this life.
But there will come a day in the future when the eternal life believers
already possess will no longer be incarcerate in their sinful, fallen flesh. On
that glorious day, they will experience their “adoption as sons, the redemption
of [the] body’ (Rom. 8:23; cf. Phil. 3:21; 1 John 3:2). Then the glory of eternal life—the power of
the Trinity that works within them (cf. Eph. 3:16-19)—will shine through them
unclouded by their mortal bodies.”
All I can say that this has begun in
my life on the 23rd day of January in the year of our Lord 1974, and
for my wife it was sometime in April of 1974, and praise the Lord my two adult
children became believers when they were very young, and not all of my seven
grandchildren are believers, and I have to say that there is no greater feeling
than that.
Once again I am asking for worldwide
prayer for wife as we have found out that she now has cancer and is to be
operated on at the end of April. My
prayer is that God will be glorified through this as we fight this battle,
praying for wisdom to win this battle with her cancer.
3/31/2025 9:32
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