EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/27/2025 7:42 PM
My Worship Time Focus: “Spiritual Growth Brings Practical Results”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Peter 1:8-11
Message of the verses: “10 Why the rather, brothers, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall: 11 For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” (AKJV)
“SECURITY” (VV. 10-11)
This will be the last section from Dr. Warren Wiersbe for a while as I will go back to looking at John MacArthur’s commentary in my next SD.
“Security (vv. 10-11). If you walk around with your eyes closed you will stumble! But the growing Christian walks with confidence because he knows he is secure in Christ. It is not our profession of faith that guarantees that we are saved; it is our progression in the faith that gives us that assurance. The person who claims to be a child of God but whose character and conduct give no evidence of spiritual growth is deceiving himself and heading for judgment.
“Peter pointed out that ‘calling’ and ‘election’ go together. The same God who elects His people also ordains the means to call them. The two must go together, as Paul wrote to the Thessalonians: ‘God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation….Whereunto He called you by our Gospel’ (2 Thess. 2:13-14). We do not preach election to unsaved people; we preach the Gospel. But God uses that Gospel to call sinners to repentance, and then those sinners discover that they were chosen by God!
“Peter also pointed out that election is no excuse for spiritual immaturity or for lack of effort in the Christian life. Some believers say, ‘What is going to be is going to be. There is nothing we can do.’ But Peter admonishes us to ‘be diligent.’ This means ‘make every effort.’ (He used this same verb in 2 Peter 1:5.) While it is true that God must work in us before we can do His will (Phil. 2:12-13), it is also t rue that we must be willing for God to work, and we must cooperate with Him. Divine election must never be an excuse for human laziness.
“The Christian who is sure of his election and calling will never ‘stumble’ but will prove by a consistent life, that he is truly a child of God. He will not always be on the mountain-top, but he will always be climbing higher. If we do ‘these things’ (the things listed in 2 Peter 1:5-7, cf. v. 8), if we display Christian growth and character in our daily lives, then we can be sure we are converted and will one day be in heaven.
“In fact, the growing Christian can look forward to ‘an abundant entrance’ into the eternal kingdom! The Greeks used this phrase to describe the welcome given Olympic winners when they returned home. Every believer will arrive in heaven, but some will have a more glorious welcome than others. Alas, some believers ‘shall be saved, yet so as by fire’ (1 Cor. 3:15).
“The word ministered in 2 Peter 1:11 is the same as the word add in 2 Peter 1:5, and is the translation of a Greek word that means ‘to bear the expenses of a choir. When the Greek theatrical groups presented their dramas, somebody had to underwrite the expenses, which were very great. The word came to mean ‘to make lavish provision.’ If we make lavish provision to grow spiritually (2 Peter 1:5), then God will make lavish provisions for us when we enter heaven!
“Jus think of the blessings that the growing Christian enjoys; fruitfulness, vision, security—and heaven’s best! All this and heaven too!
“The Christian life begins with faith, but that faith must lead to spiritual growth—unless it is dead faith. But dead faith is not saving faith (James 2:14-26). Faith leads to growth and growth leads to practical results in life and service. People who have this kind of Christian experience are not likely to fall prey to apostate false teachers.”
Remember we go back to looking at the commentary of John MacArthur in the next SD where we will be looking at 2 Peter 1:12-15.
10/27/2025 8:18 PM
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