SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/17/2025 9:17 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “The Enabling Scripture”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Timothy
3:17
Message of the verse: “that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.”
I have talked about how important the Bible is to
the unbeliever as the Holy Spirit of God is the One who uses the Word of God to
open up the heart of the unbeliever so that he can understand that he is lost
and in the need of salvation. The
unbeliever can thus have his heart opened so that he will then confess with his
mouth that he is an unbeliever and then believe that Christ died for his sins
and accept the forgiveness that Christ provided for him when He died on the
cross for Him. There is no better thing
that can happen to an unbeliever than receiving the free gift of salvation that
comes from the Lord. The entire godhead
takes part in the salvation of any person who truly becomes a believer. God the Father chose him in eternity past,
God the Son died on the cross for Him, and God the Holy Spirit gives him an
effectual call to be saved. Now you
notice that I used the word “him” in explaining this, but this is true of both
males and females too.
Now in this verse Pau is speaking here of Scripture’s
special value for preachers, who are able, with the Spirit’s guidance, to
understand and to proclaim the truths of God’s Word, something that I mentioned
in the paragraph above.
MacArthur writes “The apostle is addressing the man of
God, a technical phrase used only to Timothy in the New Testament. In the Old Testament it is frequently used as
a title for one who proclaimed the Word of God.
In this context, man of God refers most directly to Timothy and, by extension,
to all preachers.”
Now I have mentioned that recently my studies in the Word
of God has comprised of the books (letters) that were written at the end of the
author’s life, as I have just completed looking at the three letters that the
Apostle John wrote near the end of his life, and in this letter to Timothy,
which is 2 Timothy, Paul wrote it very close to the end of his life as he mentions
in this letter. My point is that these
authors of Scriptures that I have mentioned had much to write to those who are
reading what they wrote about what seems to me very important issues that they wanted
to write about near the end of their lives.
It is my prayer that I will understand these important truths and be
able to pass on what I am learning to those who read them as I post them on my
two different blogs each day. I am a
firm believer that this world as we know it is going to have great changes in
the near future. Now I am not one who
will ever give a date as to when the church age will end, which will end at the
Rapture of the Church, but as I have studied what will happen in the Tribulation
period which begins shortly after the Rapture of the Church, that many of the
things that the Bible teaches about that coming period seem to be very close at
this time we are living in.
John MacArthur writes:
“Artios (adequate) refers to
persons who are complete, capable, and proficient in everything they are called
to be or do. In Christ ‘you have been
made complete,’ Paul tells Colossian believers (Col. 2:10). The preacher who carefully studies and
sincerely believes and obeys the truths of Scripture will stand strong in
living and defending the faith.”
During my life after I became a born-again believer a
little over 50 years ago I have had the privilege of sitting under some very
godly Pastors to which I am thankful.
The first Pastor that I set under was perfect to me as a young believer,
then the next on was one who was very intelligent and who knew deeper things in
the Word of God. Things went downhill
after he retired, and so I had to move to another church where I had the
privilege of again sitting under another godly man who I still am in contact
with. His replacement, the Preacher I
know sit under has, to me, a problem of not getting into explaining the Word of
God in a way that he does not dig deep into the Scriptures. He kind of gives an airplane view of passages
and seems to be in a hurry all the time.
I am thankful to the Lord that He allows me to study the Scriptures by
reading and studying men who I greatly admire, mostly Dr. Warren Wiersbe, and
John MacArthur.
I will complete this short section in my SD for tomorrow,
Lord willing. Once I am done with that I
will then begin the study of the 4th chapter of 2 Timothy, and then,
Lord willing will begin the study of 2 Peter, another letter that takes place near
the end of the life of the human author of the Bible. I certainly look forward to both finishing up
2 Timothy and then begin to look at 2 Peter.
Spiritual Meaning for my Life Today: I am very
thankful for those gifted men that I have sat under in the two different
churches that I have attended since I became a believer. I am a believer who really enjoys good
preaching to help me in my walk with the Lord, something that at times I
struggle with.
My Steps of Faith for Today: I trust the
Lord to give great insight to my wife as she is searching for homeopathic doctors
to help her get rid of any remaining cancer in her body that may remain. Trusting as she takes her time that the Lord
will led her to the person that the Lord has planned for her to go to, one that
will help my wife and bring glory to His name.
6/17/2025 9:55 AM
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