SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/02/2025 9:08 AM
My Worship Time
Focus: PT-6
“The Inspired and Inerrant Scripture”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Timothy
3:16-17
Message of the verses: “16 All Scripture is
inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for
training in righteousness; 17 so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped
for every good work.”
I
continue quoting from John MacArthur’s commentary relating to these two
wonderful verses. As mentioned this will
take me a fairly long time to get through this.
“In Psalm 147, the inseparable relationship between
God’s Word and His words is clear. The Lord
‘sends forth His command to the earth; and His word runs very swiftly. He
gives snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes. He casts forth His ice as fragments; who can
stand before His cold? He sends forth
His word and melts them; He causes
His wind to blow and the waters to flow.
He declares His words to Jacob,
His statutes and His ordinances to Israel’ (Ps. 147:15-19, emphasis
added). It is only through words that
God has revealed His Word.
“Jeremiah testified: ‘The Lord stretched out His hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to me, ‘Behold, I have put my words in your mouth’….Therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, ‘Because you have spoken this word, behold, I am making My words in your mouth fire and this people wood, and it will consume them.’…Thy words became for me a joy and the delight of my heart; for I have been called by Thy name, O Lord God of Hosts’ (Jer. 1:9; 5:14; 15:16, emphasis added). Ezekiel made a similar affirmation, saying, ‘Then [the Lord] said to me, ‘Son of man, I am sending you to the sons of Israel, to a rebellious people who have rebelled against me….But you shall speak My words to them whether they listen or not, for they are rebellious.’…Moreover He said to me, ‘Son of man, take into your heart all My words which I shall speak to you, and listen closely’ (Ezek. 2:3, 7; 3:10, emphasis added).
“In reply to Satan’s temptation to make bread from stones in order to satisfy His physical hunger, Jesus quoted from Deuteronomy 8:3, saying, ‘It is written, ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God’’ (Matt. 4:4, emphasis added). Man if fed spiritually by God’s ‘every word,’ and every revealed word of God is found in His written Word, the Bible. In His last major public discourse, Jesus said, ‘Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words shall not pass away’ (Matt. 24:35, emphasis added).
“Earlier in His ministry, Jesus proclaimed the
essence of the gospel: ‘Truly, truly, I
say to you, he who hears My word, and
believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment,
but has passed out of death into life’ (John 5:24, emphasis added). ‘It is the Spirit who gives life, the flesh
profits nothing,’ He said on another occasion. ‘The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life’ (John
6:63, emphasis added). ‘For I did not
speak on My own initiative,’ our Lord makes clear, ‘but the Father Himself who
sent Me has given Me commandment, what to say, and what to speak. And I know that His commandment is eternal
life; therefore the things I speak, I speak just as the Father has told Me’
(12:49-50; cf. 14:24). Believing in the
Father is believing in the Son, and the Son’s words are the Father’s words.
“Scripture is
inspired and inerrant in everything it teaches and reports. Some scholars
maintain that, because the Bible is not a textbook on such subjects as history,
geography, and science, it is inerrant only when it speaks on spiritual and
moral matters. But like those who claim
to accept the underlying divine concepts and principles of Scripture but not
its words, these interpreters also determine by their own resources what is
divine and infallible and what is human and fallible. Again, man becomes the judge of Scripture.
“Through the centuries, some scholars have pointed to ‘mistakes’
in the Bible, statements about people, places, and things that did not jibe
with the accepted ‘facts’ of history, archaeology, or modern science.
“Until Copernicus’s discovery in the sixteenth century,
men assumed that the sun rotated around the earth, because that is how it
appears from our earthly perspective.
Because we know that the earth rotates around the sun, many scholars
charge the Bible with factual error in reporting that Joshua successfully
commanded the sun to stand still and the moon to be stopped (Josh. 10:12-13),
whereas it must have been the earth that stood still. But highly trained meteorologists still speak
of sunrise and sunset, especially when communicating with the general
public. Those phrases are firmly
established figures of speech throughout the world, and no sensible person
accuses someone of being inaccurate or unscientific for using them. Not only that, but if God created the
universe, stopping the rotation of the earth, the sun, or the moon—or all three—would
have been equally simple. It is
significant that most people who question the reality of such miraculous
teachings of Scripture as well.”
Spiritual Meaning for My Life Today: I trust that
the Holy Spirit of God will teach me the truths found in the Word of God, so that
the things that I write in my Spiritual Diaries which the Spirit of God sends
around the world will all be true so that I can represent my Lord correctly.
I heard a story a long time ago about a preacher or
teacher who stood directly behind the pulpit all of the time with the exception
when he was giving his own opinion and so he was letting his audience know when
he moved from behind the pulpit that what he was saying was his opinion and may
not be the truth. I don’t have a pulpit
to stand behind, but if I am writing something that I am not sure is true, then
I will try and let you know that that is my opinion.
My Steps of Faith for Today: I am
trusting the Lord to give me contentment, and revival in my life as I have come
to a phase in my life where I am claiming what the Old Scottish Preacher that
Dr. Warren Wiersbe talks about in his commentaries where he said, “The
successful Christian Life is a series of New Beginnings,” I need a new
beginning, in the form of a revival.
6/2/2025 9:55 AM
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