EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/120/2025 8:25 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-1 “Their Sacrilege”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: (2 Peter 2:1-c)
Message of the verses: “even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.”
I begin with a couple of paragraphs from MacArthur’s commentary in order to understand some of the words that are in this verse we are looking at this evening.
“The conjunction even underscores the unthinkable magnitude of the false teachers’ arrogance—a pride that evidenced itself by denying the Master. Denying is a strong term meaning ‘to refuse,’ ‘to be unwilling,’ or ‘to firmly say no.’ The same verb appears in Hebrews 11:24 to describe Moses’ refusal to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. Here in this passage, Peter used the present tense participle (arnoumenoi) to denote a habitual pattern of refusal, indicating that false teachers characteristically reject divine authority (cf. Jude 8).” “8 Yet in the same way these men, also by dreaming, defile the flesh, and reject authority, and revile angelic majesties.”
“Master (despotes, from which the English despot derives) means ‘sovereign,’ ‘ruler,’ or ‘lord.’ The word appears ten times in the New Testament and always refers to one who has supreme authority. In four occurrences (1 Tim. 6:1, 2; Titus 2:9; 1 Peter 2:18) it refers to the master of a household or estate, who has full authority over all the servants. Here and in the other five occurrences (Luke 2:29; Acts 4:24; 2 Tim. 2:21; Jude 4; Rev. 6:10) it directly refers to Christ or God.”
I want to begin this paragraph with the meaning of the word sacrilege: “Sacrilege is the violation or injurious treatment of a sacred object, site or person. This can take the form of irreverence to sacred persons, places, and things. When the sacrilegious offence is verbal, it is called blasphemy, and when physical, it is often called desecration.” Now I can move on to how MacArthur used this word in the next paragraph: “Thus for peter the supreme sacrilege of false teachers is that they deny the sovereign lordship of Jesus Christ. Granted, they may not outwardly deny Christ’s deity, atonement, resurrection, or second coming. But internally, they adamantly refuse to submit their lives to His sovereign rule (Prov. 19:3; cf. Ex. 5:2; Neh. 9:17). As a result, their immoral and rebellious lifestyles will inevitably give them away.” Now I will look up these verses from above.
Proverbs 19:3 “3 The foolishness of man ruins his way, And his heart rages against the LORD.”
CF. Exodus 5:2; “2 But Pharaoh said, "Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and besides, I will not let Israel go."
CF. Neh. 9:17 “17 “They refused to listen, And did not remember Your wondrous deeds which You had performed among them; So they became stubborn and appointed a leader to return to their slavery in Egypt. But You are a God of forgiveness, Gracious and compassionate, Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness; And You did not forsake them.”
This is a short SD for this evening, but Lord willing I will pick up tomorrow evening where I left off this evening.
11/20/2025 8:55 PM
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