EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/20/2025 7:17 PM
My Worship Time Focus: “Introduction to 2 Peter 1-4.”
Bible Reading and Meditation Reference: 2 Peter 1-4
Message of the verse: “1 Simon Peter, a bond-servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: 2 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; 3 seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. 4 For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.”
Well we have another introduction to look at this evening, but this introduction is only to the first four verses of 2 Peter 1. John MacArthur entitles this 1st chapter in his commentary on 2 Peter “The Believer’s Precious Faith—Part 1: Its Source, Substance, and Sufficiency.”
He begins this introduction by writing “John Murray, one of the foremost Reformed theologians of the twentieth century, wrote the following about the profound and superlative significance of the atonement:
The Father did not spare his own Son. He spared nothing that the dictates of unrelenting rectitude demanded. And it is the undercurrent of the Son’s acquiescence that we hear when he says, ‘Nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done’ (Luke 22:42). But why? It was in order that eternal and invincible love might find the full realization of its urge and purpose in redemption by price and by power. Of Cavalry the spirit is eternal love and the basis eternal justice. It is the same love manifested in the mystery of Gethsemane’s agony and of Cavalry’s accursed tree that wraps eternal security around the people of God. ‘Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?’ (Rom. 8:35). “For I am persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor things present nor things to come nor powers nor height nor depth nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord’ (Rom. 8:38-39). That is the security which a perfect atonement secures and it is the perfection of the atonement that secures it. (Redemption—Accomplished and Applied [Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1955], 78)
Without question, God’s redemption of sinners unto eternal life through the atoning work of His Son Jesus Christ is, for all those who believe, God’s most precious gift. With salvation’s certainty in view, Peter opens his second letter by enriching his readers concerning three great truths about it: Its source, its substance, and its sufficiency.”
Lord willing we will begin this long section in tomorrow evenings Spiritual Diary as we will finally be done with introductions and jump into this first verse that Peter penned many years ago.
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