EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/25/2025 8:33 PM
My Worship Time Focus: “PT-5 Salvation’s Source”
Bible Reading and Meditation Reference: 2 Peter 1-1
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:”
It is my desire to finish looking at the very first chapter in the book of 2 Peter this evening as there is not too much more to go over this evening. I want to begin with another quotation from John MacArthur’s commentary as in a moment we will be looking at Romans 4:4-8, but first we will look at that he has to say towards the end of his commentary on 2 Peter 1:1.
“Believers’ saving faith is available because of the righteousness of…Jesus Christ. Sinners are given eternal life because the Savior imputes His perfect righteousness to them (2 Cor. 5:21; Phil. 3:8-9; 1 Peter 2:24), covering their sins and rendering them acceptable to Him.” Now before we look at Romans 4:4-8 I want to look at these verses in order that are mentioned above, and then will end with Romans 4:4-8.
“21 He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Cor. 5:21).
“8 More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ, 9 and may be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own derived from the Law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which comes from God on the basis of faith, (Phil. 3:8-9).
“24 for "All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, (1 Peter 1:24). (ESV)
“4 Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. 5 And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, 6 just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works: 7 “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; 8 blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin" (Rom. 4:4-8). (ESV)
“This immensely important doctrine of imputed righteousness is at the very heart of the Christian gospel. Salvation is a gift from God at all points. Both the faith to believe and the righteousness to satisfy God’s holiness come from Him. On the cross Christ bore the full wrath of God against all the sins of those who would believe (2 Cor. 5:18-19). Those sins were imputed to Christ so that God could impute to believers all the righteousness that was His. His righteousness fully covers the redeemed, as the prophet Isaiah beautifully expresses it, ‘I will rejoice greatly in the Lord, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation, He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels’ (Isa. 61:10).
“It is noteworthy that Peter does not refer to God our Father here but to our God and Savior, Jesus Christ. Righteousness here does proceed from the Father, but it reaches every believer through the Son, Jesus Christ (cf. Gal. 3:8-11; Phil. 3:8-9). The Greek construction places just one article before the phrase God and Savior, which makes both terms refer to the same person. Thus Peter identifies Jesus, not just as Savior, but as God (cf. 1:11; 2:20; 3:2, 18; Isa. 43:3, 11:45:15, 21; 60:16; Rom. 9:5; Col. 2:9; Titus 2:13; Heb. 1:8), the author and agent of salvation. The apostle made the same relation clear in his Pentecost sermon, in which he took the Old Testament truth of God and applied it to Jesus (Acts 2:21-36; cf. Matt. 1:21; Acts 4:12; 5:31).
Ok we are done looking at the very first verse in 2 Peter 1, and please take the time to go over this last SD that covers this one verse, especially the portion that speaks of our salvation and how to obtain this salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord, as it is the most important thing you will ever do in your life.
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