EVENING
SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/25/2025 7:55 PM
My
Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 “Remain”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Jude 20-21
Message of the verses: “20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most
holy faith, praying in the
Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting anxiously
for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.”
I
realize that last evening’s SD was rather short, but I had a long day, and so
this evening I desire to finish this section with a little help as always from
John MacArthur’s commentary. By the way
they had a two and a half memorial service for John MacArthur last Saturday and
I got to view a part of it. I loved that
man in the Lord and have learned much from him as I have listened too many of
his sermons which I downloaded onto my computer. I wrote to him a while back to let him know
that I was quoting a lot from his commentaries and he had no problem with that
because that is helping to get the Word of God out to those who look at my
Spiritual Diaries from around the world, thanks to the Holy Spirit.
Now
this evening we begin by looking at a second essential element of
sanctification which involves praying in the Holy
Spirit. Now that expression does not refer to
speaking in tongues, but to praying for that which is consistent with the
Spirit’s will-His desired, directives, and decrees. Although His will is revealed through the
plain commands of Scripture as seen in the following verses: (Deut. 17:19-20; Pss. 19:7, 11; 119:11, 105,
130; Prov. 6:23; Matt. 4:4; Luke 11:28; John 5:39; Rom. 15:4; 2 Tim. 3:16-17;
James 1:25), we as believers do not always know how to practically apply it to
the various issues of life. So therefore
the Holy Spirit intercedes for us before the Father with genuine sympathy and
inexpressible fervor (Rom. 8:26-27). Now
of course, the Spirit’s will and also the Father’s will—and even praying in
Jesus’ name—are one and the same, and that has to make since because even
though there are three Persons in the trinity they are all the Same. When we pray in the Holy Spirit we submit ourselves to Him, rest on His wisdom,
and see His will, along with trust in His power as seen in (John 14:14-17; 1
John 5:14-15), verses which we will now look at: “14 “If
you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.15 "If you love Me,
you will keep My commandments. 16 “I will ask the Father, and He will give you
another Helper, that He may be with you forever; 17 that is the Spirit of truth, whom the
world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but you
know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.”
“14 This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask
anything according to His will, He hears us. 15 And if we know that He hears us
in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have
asked from Him.”
I will finish this SD by quoting
from John MacArthur’s commentary: “As we
who believe pursue sanctification, we must also keep ourselves in the love
of the God. This is a vitally important
principle, and it means to remain in the sphere of God’s love, or the place of
His blessing (Rom. 5:5; 8:39; 1 John 4:16).
On a practical level, it means that we must stay obedient to God, since
divine blessing is promised only within the sphere of obedience. As Jesus told the apostles:
“9 "Just
as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. 10 “If you
keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s
commandments and abide in His love. 11 “These things I have spoken to you so
that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full” (John
15:9-11; cf. 1 John 2:5).
“On the other hand,
if we become disobedient, we move from a position of blessing to a position of
chastisement (Heb. 12:3-11).
“Finally, as we pursue
sanctification, we Christians must be waiting
anxiously for the mercy of the Lord
Jesus Christ to eternal life. The
verb translated waiting anxiously (prosdechomai) means ‘to wait for, or ‘to
welcome,’ and connotes doing so with great expectancy. Thus we are to live with
eternity in view as we eagerly anticipate the Lord’s return (1 Cor. 1:7; Phil.
3:20; 1 Thess. 1:10; 2 Tim. 4:8; Titus 2:12-13; cf. 1 Peter 4:7; 2 Peter
3:11-13).” Now we will look at the
verses in 2 Peter when we get finished with Jude’s commentary, Lord
willing. “On that great future day, all
of us who have trusted in Him will experience Christ’s final mercy and enjoy the fullness of eternal life (cf. Rom. 2:7; 1 Tim.
6:12; 1 John 5:13) as we experience the resurrection and glorification of our
bodies (John 5:24; 17:3; Rom. 5:17; 2 Tim. 1:10; 1 John 5:20; cf. Dan. 7:18).”
Lord willing we will begin a new
section in tomorrow evening’s SD which will have a number of sub-sections in
it. Looking forward to that!!
8/25/2025 8:35 PM
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