EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/16/2025 9:33 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Focus: PT-9 “Truth: “The Test of Christian Hospitality”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 John 9-13
Message of the verses: “9 Anyone who
goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God;
the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son.
10 If anyone
comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your
house, and do not give him a greeting; 11 for the one who gives him a greeting
participates in his evil deeds.
12 Though I have many things to write to you,
I do not want to do so with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you and
speak face to face, so that your joy may be made full. 13 The children of your
chosen sister greet you.
I continue to quote from John MacArthur’s sermon in
this evening’s Spiritual Diary, and just to let you know with this SD we are
now ¾ through this rather long sermon.
It is best to look at the previous Spiritual Diaries on this sermon so
that you can follow what is being taught in this sermon.
“Listen. You can’t be saved without the gospel. You
can’t even be saved with a warped gospel. You can’t be saved without believing
in Jesus Christ. You can’t even be saved without believing in the one true
Christ.
“Galatians 1, Paul says - and
it can’t be, again, argued what he means because it is crystal clear. “Even
though we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to
that which we have preached to you,” let him be what? - “let him be
damned.” And in case you didn’t get that. Verse 9, “As we said before, I say
again, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to that which you’ve
received, let him be damned.” You can’t get there without the gospel and you
can’t get there with a
warped gospel.
“Anyone who doesn’t acknowledge the
true Christ and the true gospel does not know God, does not have God, no matter
what he claims. The one who abides in the teaching of Christ about Christ, he has both the Father and the
Son.
“You know, you really have to look
for this today. I mean you have to have your theological magnifying glass with
the little nuances people want to use to somehow escape a real assessment. The
one who is faithful to a biblical Christology, the one who menō, remains in the
teaching, he has both the Father and the Son. You don’t get the Father without
the Son. You don’t get the Son disconnected from the Father. There’s no possibility of
knowing God apart from knowing Christ. This is the strongest statement
on gospel exclusivity anywhere. It’s a package deal. You don’t know the Father
except by the Son. “No man comes unto the Father but by me.”
“So that is the principle of looking
for the truth. And when you meet someone who has perverted it, deviated from
it, added to it, gone beyond it, act wisely - act wisely. And how would
you act wisely? Verse 10, “If anyone comes to you,” and they did, this is
a - “A” with the indicative, a likely condition. Probably happened to this
lady, as I said, as to many through the centuries and many even today, and even
us as they kind of come into our house through the television and radio and
whatever and sometimes even knocking on the door.
‘“If anyone comes to you and does
not bear this teaching” - what teaching? The teaching of Christ, that is about Him by
Him - “do not receive him into your house.” This is not someone coming to
learn from you or you’d never be able to witness to an unbeliever. This is
someone coming to teach you lies. You understand the difference? We answer the
questions of the ignorant. We answer the questions of those who want to know.
We don’t affirm or give a platform to the deceivers. The fastest way to put
them out of business is to make sure that you never receive them.
“If anyone comes to you - I’m
not talking about someone ignorant who wants to understand the truth. We’re
talking about an apostate, lying deceiver looking for a foothold embedded in
the fellowship of believers to make money off the unsuspecting while he plies
his evil lies. Don’t receive him into your house. He could have said, “Don’t
receive him in your church.” That’s true, but then churches were not the first
place they would go. Why? Because churches were protected by what group of men?
Elders.”
I just have to say that this is a
wonderful sermon, wonderful because it explains some very important things that
John wrote all the way back from the end of the first century, and it is so
needed for us today. I have mentioned on
a number of times from my Spiritual Diaries that a bank teller before they
begin their job has to know everything to be known about real money, and the
reason they learn about real money (bills) is so when a false one comes across
their bank window they know something is wrong with it and therefore know it is
counterfeit. Now as a believer, a true
believer in Jesus Christ you have to know, you have to learn the truths of the
gospel, know it so well that when you hear something or someone who is
preaching a false gospel you know it is wrong, and you know it because you know
the truth. So my advice is for whoever
reads this SD or anyone that I write is to learn your Bible by reading and
studying it each and every day.
5/16/2025
9:50 PM
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