EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/22/2025 6:20 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-3 “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.”
This evening I want to continue looking at this 2nd part of 2 Peter 2:1c, a verse that has a lot of commentary in it from MacArthur’s commentary and so I will plan to be in it for a few more days. Now yesterday I stopped in the middle of what MacArthur was writing after he made the following statement “the Master who bought them,” and he was giving us some things that different people had stated about this, but did not really agree with their thoughts. I will not pick up where I left off at the end of last evenings SD.
“This perspective says that the Lord Jesus Christ died to make salvation possible, not actual. He did not absolutely purchase salvation for anyone. He only removed a barrier for everyone, which merely makes salvation potential. The sinner ultimately determines the nature of the atonement and its application by what he does. According to this perspective, when Jesus cried, It is finished,’ it really should be rendered, ‘It is stated.’
“Of course, the preceding interpretational difficulties and fallacies arising from this view stem from the misunderstanding of two very important teachings: the doctrine of absolute inability (often called total depravity) and the doctrine of the atonement itself.
“Rightly understood, the doctrine of absolute inability says that all people are dead in trespasses and sins (Eph. 2:1), alienated from the life of God (Rom.1:21-22), doing only evil from terminally deceitful hearts (cf. Jer. 17:7), incapable of understanding the things of God (1 Cor. 2:14), blinded by love of sin, further blinded by Satan (2 Cor. 4:4), desiring only the will of their father the devil, unable to seek God and unwilling to repent (cf. Rom. 3:10-23). So how is the sinner going to make the right choice to activate the atonement on his behalf?” I have been mentioning in my resent SD’s that some of these issues that we are looking at are difficult to understand without the verses that MacArthur inserts into his commentary, and this is one of them, so I will begin with the first reference in this paragraph (Eph. 2:1), and quote the verses in the order that are given in this paragraph.
1 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,
21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,
7 “Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD And whose trust is the LORD.
14 But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.
4 in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
10 as it is written: "None is righteous, no, not one; 11 no one understands; no one seeks for God. 12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one." 13 “Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive." "The venom of asps is under their lips." 14 “Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness." 15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood; 16 in their paths are ruin and misery, 17 and the way of peace they have not known." 18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes."19 Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. 20 For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin. 21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it — 22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, (ESV).
Now these verses are very important verses, as they talk about salvation, but when I take the time to copy and paste these verses into my Spiritual Diaries then it takes a longer time, but I think well worth it, and so I ask you as you read what I have been quoting from John MacArthur to take the time when you see the verse reference to then go down and find that verse which goes along with his commentary and read it, and then move on to the next, as so on.
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