Sunday, April 13, 2025

PT-2 "Living in the Truth" (2 John 1-4)

 

EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 4/13/2025 9:55 PM

 

My Worship Time                                                                     Focus:  PT-2 “Living in the Truth”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                            Reference: 2 John 1-4

 

            Message of the verses:  1 The elder to the chosen lady and her children, whom I love in truth; and not only I, but also all who know the truth, 2 for the sake of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever: 3 Grace, mercy and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. 4 I was very glad to find some of your children walking in truth, just as we have received commandment to do from the Father.”

 

 

            Last night I ended my evening SD by quoting a paragraph from John MacArthur’s commentary which had many, many references from the Bible that go along with this subject of truth.  As one reads over MacArthur’s commentaries one will find that he does this a lot, and I believe this is a very good way to study the Bible, by comparing one Scripture with another otherwise you can get yourself in trouble by just looking at one verse that perhaps you don’t understand and then if you compare it with other verses you can better understand the Bible.  I have an apt on my phone which if I click on a word from the Scripture it will show you the meaning of that word and also tell you how many times that word is used in different verses of the Bible.  This is very helpful in studying the Word of God.  Now I will quote a paragraph from MacArthur’s commentary on the subject of truth that we have been looking at.

 

            “Believers must be committed to the truth, because we exist in the world, which is the realm of Satan (1 John 5:19), the ‘father of lies’ (John 8:44).  He strives to keep sinners from understanding and believing the truth; he is ‘the god of this world [who] has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God’ (2 Cor. 4:4).  As a result, ‘Everyone deceives his neighbor and does not speak the truth, they have taught their tongue to speak lies’ (Jer. 9:5).  Unbelievers are ‘men of depraved mind and derived of the truth” (1 Timothy 6:5), who ‘oppose the truth’ (2 Tim. 3:8) and ‘turn away their ears from the truth’ (2 Tim. 4:4) because ‘they exchanged the truth of God for a lie’ (Rom. 1:25).”

 

            At this time I want to quote from my Sunday school lesson that I went over this morning which to me has some things to do with some of these verses that we just went over. 

 

In Fayette Township, New York, Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon religion, organizes the Church of Christ during a meeting with a small group of believers.

Born in Vermont in 1805, Smith claimed in 1823 that he had been visited by a Christian angel named Moroni who spoke to him of an ancient Hebrew text that had been lost for 1,500 years. The holy text, supposedly engraved on gold plates by a Native American historian in the fourth century, related the story of Israelite peoples who had lived in America in ancient times. During the next six years, Smith dictated an English translation of this text to his wife and other scribes, and in 1830 The Book of Mormon was published. In the same year, Smith founded the Church of Christ–later known as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints–in Fayette Township.” (From “This Day in History Website.) (Italics added)

            Now as you read this over and think about it you will probably come up with the fact that this is not the truth as far as being a Mormon is not the truth but a lie, and I really don’t know where Smith found these so-called “Hebrew text” which had supposedly been lost for 1500 years. This is how Satan uses a lie, and if I had to guess I would say that Satan had something to do with Smith finding these texts in the first place. 

            Ok that is all I am going to do for this evening as it is my hope to finish this section tomorrow evening. 

            I have mentioned the test that my wife and I are going through as she has cancer and is supposed to be operated on at the end of this month.  We are trying to stay focused on the Lord knowing that He knows all things and controls all things and so my prayer is that the Lord will receive glory through this issue that we are both going through.  Any prayers for Sandy and me will be appreciated.  Thank you in advance.

4/13/2025 10:19 PM

 

 

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