SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/07/2025 9:48 AM
My Worship
Time
Focus: PT-1 “The Urgency of his Commission”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Timothy
4:3-4)
Message of the verses: “3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound
doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate
for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, 4 and will turn
away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths.”
I begin this SD by saying that the time has come,
not will come, but come. Why do I say
that? Well I am a firm believer that
when I read the book of Revelation, chapters 2-3 where we see that Christ talks
to seven churches that we in existence during the early Church age, about 90
A.D. He has things to say to each of
them as one goes through His using John to write to them, and there are only
two of the seven churches where He has no rebuke for them, the rest He has
rebuke for them. Now I believe that the
churches are in order as to when the prominent church will be dominant in the
world. I will say that I believe that
all of the churches will be around through the entire church age, but there
will be a dominant one during different time periods in the church age. In his book “There’s A New World Coming”
written by Hal Lindsey he goes into detail as far as the dates of when each of
these churches will be dominant in the world, and when I wrote my Spiritual
Diaries on the book of Revelation, two different times I mentioned these
dates. The one that I want to write
about today is the last one and I will quote what the Lord says to this church
here: 14 "To the angel of the
church in Laodicea write: The Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the
Beginning of the creation of God, says this: 15 ‘I know your deeds, that you
are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. 16 ‘So because you
are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth. 17 ‘Because
you say, "I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of
nothing," and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor
and blind and naked, 18 I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so
that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself,
and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve
to anoint your eyes so that you may see. 19 ‘Those whom I love, I reprove and
discipline; therefore be zealous and repent. 20 ‘Behold, I stand at the door
and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him
and will dine with him, and he with Me. 21 ‘He who overcomes, I will grant to
him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My
Father on His throne. 22 ‘He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says
to the churches.’" Now notice
Christ describes Himself in verse 14, and then in verses 15-16 He speaks about
their deeds, neither hot nor cold, and when we read I will spit you out of My mouth,
He is saying that “you make Me sick and so I will vomit you out of My
mouth. Verse 17 He talks about their condition being you
are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked. In verse 18 He tells them what they can do to
make themselves better off “I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so
that you may become rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself,
and that the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed; and eye salve
to anoint your eyes so that you may see.”
In verse 19 we can see that there are a few who love Him. Now verse 20 is a very important verse as we
read: “‘Behold, I stand at the door and
knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and
will dine with him, and he with Me.” Now
there is a famous painting of Jesus knocking at the door of this church and
when one looks at it there is no doorknob on the side where Jesus is knocking
as they only way He can come in is that they open the door, and I believe that
this is relevant not only to this church but to all sinners as they will have
to open the door of their hearts in order for Jesus to come into their life and
save them. In verse 21 we see the
results of those who allow Him to come into their life. Now verse 22 is a verse that is repeated to
all of the churches. Now it is my belief
that we are in the Laodicean church age and have been for a very long time, and
so as I look at the focus of this section “The Urgency of His Commission” I
believe that is so very true in the time we are living in and we will look at
this as we study what Paul is writing to Timothy in this section beginning,
Lord willing, tomorrow morning.
There
are times when I write my Spiritual Diaries that it seems that the Lord wants
me to kind of go off in writing about something that is important, but kind of
goes off script of the verses that I am looking at and this is one of those
times, as I think that this is very important for me to do from time to time. Now pay close attention to what I have
written about from Revelation 3:20, and if you hear the Spirit of God calling
you to open the door of your heart to receive Christ as your Savior and Lord by
all means say to Him “I know that I am a sinner, and I know that I can do
nothing on my own, but I know that if I invite You into my heart that You will
save me, and then I can walk with You for the rest of eternity, doing the
things that the Spirit of God leads me to do.
Yes there will be ups and downs in your walk with the Lord, and so when
you sin be quick to confess to the Lord as 1 John 1:9 says, and then after
doing that you will again have sweet fellowship with Him, doing the things that
He has called you to do.
Spiritual
Meaning for my Life Today: Always be telling others how they can be
saved as I did in this SD.
My
Steps of Faith for Today: Continue to trust the Lord in doing what I
believe He has gifted me to do, and that is to write my Spiritual Diaries each
day so that the Spirit of God can use them in the lives of those who read them,
to the glory of God.
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