SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 4/4/2025 8:57 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-3 “Lovers
of Self”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Timothy
3:2-4
Message of the verses: “2 For men will be lovers
of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents,
ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving,
irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of
good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers
of God;”
In this section of Paul’s second letter to Timothy
Paul uses a lot of words, words that describe how mankind will be acting in the
last days, and so we will begin to look at the first words “Lovers of self” in
today’s SD and see how many of these words we can look at this morning.
I
continue to look at “Lovers of self” in this SD. I first want to quote from the last paragraph
that I looked at yesterday in order to set the tone for what we will be looking
at this morning. “In the present
passage, it is not the kind of love
that is evil but the wrongly elevated object
of that love, namely self. Whenever
love for self is raised, love for God and the things of God is lowered. For that reason, misdirected love always
engenders vice. It was first from
Lucifer’s and then from Adam’s and Eve’s love of themselves over the Lord—and from
the similar self-love of their descendants—that every other sin has issued.” Now the opposite of this is true when I think
of the Lord Jesus Christ for God demonstrated His love for us by sending His
Son into the world in order to die on the cross to pay for our sins, however
one must first realize that they are sinners, born sinners and that is why all
sin. Next they must confess to the Lord
that they are sinners, and realize that they can do nothing on their own about
it. Next accept the forgiveness that God
offers you through Jesus’ death on the cross.
If you are sincere realizing that that is the only way to be saved, then
the Lord will save you. Now the proof of
this will be a changed life, a life that desires to serve the Lord, to read His
Word and to be around His people.
MacArthur
goes on by writing “I is for that reason that the most frightening development
within the contemporary church is the wide acceptance and enthusiastic
proclamation of self-love, not only as being allowable but as being the basic virtue. Turning God’s truth completely on its head,
the source of all evil is touted as the source of all good. An on the other
hand, the lack of self-love and its many derivatives—such as self-esteem,
self-worth, self-fulfillment, and positive self-image—have been imported almost
unchanged into the church from antibiblical secular psychology.” Now I want to make sure that you understand
that the gospel message I put at the end of the last paragraph is not where I
picked up writing from the quote from MacArthur’s commentary.
I
have to say that I am going to be looking at these verses for a fairly long
time as this is just a warning to you, but I have always tried to make sure that
what I write and what I quote are truth about the Word of God as I do not to
ever led any astray from my writings. My
desire is to write things from the Word of God in order to first of all bring
glory to the Lord Jesus Christ, by telling the truth about His Word, so that
those who do not know Him in a personal way can understand how they can, for
those who know Him to grow in their faith.
At the end of each SD that I post I pray that the Father will bless
those who read them, and that the Father will be blessed by those who read
them. Next that the Holy Spirit will
give an effectual call to those that the Lord chose in eternity past, followed
by believers who read these to grow in their faith, then receive revival for
those who read them. Next I ask the Holy
Spirit to continue to send them around the world, and from the looks of the
stats He surely is answering that prayer.
Lastly I pray that if it is God’s will that the Spirit of God would give
the very last effectual call to save the very last person in the Church age so that
the Rapture of the Church would take place.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: I trust the Lord that the things that I
write in my Spiritual Diaries will be used by the Spirit of God to further the
kingdom of God on earth.
My
Steps of Faith For Today: I trust that the Lord will give my wife and I
the right direction to go in order to cause her to be cancer free.
4/4/2025 9:26 AM
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