EVENING
SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/02/2025 9:26 PM
My
Worship Time Focus: “Correlations
to Past Apostates”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Jude 11
Message of the verse: “11 What sorrow awaits
them! For they follow in the footsteps of Cain, who killed his brother. Like Balaam, they deceive
people for money. And like Korah,
they perish in their rebellion” (NLT)
“11 Woe to them!
For they have gone the way of Cain, and for pay they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam, and perished in
the rebellion of Korah”
(NASB95).
This
evening will be a rather short SD, as what we will be looking at is like an
introduction to verse eleven which speaks of three men, and because Jude is
writing about apostates then these three men will fit into that category as we
will see as we look at them in Jude 11.
I kind of like to keep my SD’s rather short on Saturday evenings as
tomorrow I began to teach my Sunday school class on Colossians. For the last eight weeks our church has had a
combined Sunday school class on the “Lord’s Prayer,” and now that is over we go
back to our regular classes. I am going
to inform those who are in charge of the adult Sunday school classes that after
I finish teaching through Colossians that I will be retiring from teaching
Sunday school. With the things that are
going on with what my wife is going through and because of the fact that I am
now 78 years old, and with that comes a lack of memory I think it is time to
stop teaching Sunday school. I am doing
three Spiritual Diaries a day and I do believe that this is what the Lord
called me to do and also the fact that I really enjoy doing this, so that is enough
for me to do each day.
I will just quote from what I call
the introduction to Jude 11 from John MacArthur’s commentary which will get us
what we will be looking at for the next few days.
“It was George Santayana (1863-1952),
American poet, philosopher, and literary critic, who said, ‘Those who cannot
remember the past are condemned to repeat it.’
Such was certainly true of the false teachers in Jude’s day.
“Like Santayana, Jude understood the
crucial importance of learning from history.
He had already drawn from biblical history in sketching his portrait of
the apostates in verses 5-7 (see discussion of those verses in the previous
chapter of this volume). He did so again
in this section as he compared them to three influential, familiar examples
from the past: Cain, Balaam, and Korah.”
Now the rather minor problem I have
with my memory has nothing to do with what is being talked about in this SD
written above.
8/2/2025 9:47 PM
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