EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/25/2025 6:30 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-6 “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.”
Tonight is the night that I will finally finish this section, and I have to say that I truly enjoy this kind of learning from the Word of God. One of the things that seems to be going on in the church that I attend is we now have a Pastor who seems to preach in a way that he does not get too deep into the passages that he preaches from. For example in the last two Sundays he has covered the entire 24th chapter of Matthew and half of the 25th chapter. My thoughts are that one should take their time when preaching from the Word of God, and that is what I am trying to do as I write my Spiritual Diaries each day and evening. Now this evening we will begin with a quote from MacArthur’s commentary who writes “Contemporary writer David Clotfelter adds these observations:”
Now according to my cell phone here is an overview of him. “David Clotfelter (M.A., Yale University: M. Div., Fuller Theological Seminary; Ph. D., Claremont Graduate University) is the founding pastor of Saints in Motion Christian Church in Taichung, Taiwan.” Now the following is what He wrote:
From the Calvinist point of view, it is Arminianism that presents logical impossibilities. Arminianism tells us that Jesus died for multitudes that will never be saved, including millions who never so much as heard of Him. It tells us that in the case of those who are lost, the death of Jesus, represented in Scripture as an act whereby He took upon Himself the punishment that should have been ours (Isa. 53:5), was ineffective. Christ has suffered once for their sins, but they will now have to suffer for those same sins in hell.
The Arminian atonement has the initial appearance of being very generous, but the more closely we look at it, the less we are impressed. Does it guarantee the salvation of any person? No. Does it guarantee that those for whom Christ died will have the opportunity to hear of Him and respond to Him? No. Does it in any way remove or even lessen the sufferings of the lost? No. In reality, the Arminian atonement does not atone. It merely clears the way for God to accept those who are able to lift themselves by their own bootstraps. The Calvinist does not believe that any fallen person has such power, and so he views the Arminian atonement as unsuited to the salvation of sinners and insulting to Christ. (Sinners in the Hands of a Good God [Chicago: Moody, 2004], 165; emphasis in original).
“Therefore, false teachers’ were not paid for in the atonement of Christ.
“Contrary to what some Christians believe today, people who reject Christ’s lordship are merely to be designated as second-class Christians (as believers but not disciples). Instead, those who reject Christ’s sovereign lordship will face swift destruction if they do not repent from such rebellion (cf. Heb. 10:25-31).” “25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near. 26 For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a terrifying expectation of judgment and THE FURY OF A FIRE WHICH WILL CONSUME THE ADVERSARIES. 28 Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 How much severer punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know Him who said, "VENGEANCE IS MINE, I WILL REPAY." And again, "THE LORD WILL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE." 31 It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” “Swift (tachinos) means ‘quick,’ or ‘imminent,’ and destruction (apoleias) refers to perdition or eternal damnation in hell (cf. Matt. 7:13; John 17:12; 2 Thess. 2:3).” “13 “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it.” “12 "While I was with them, I was keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not one of them perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be fulfilled.” “3 Let no one in any way deceive you, for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction.” “This horrible fate, coming either at death or at Christ’s return (John 12:48; 2 Thess. 1:7-10) awaits false teachers and all who follow their unrepentant path.” “48 “He who rejects Me and does not receive My sayings, has one who judges him; the word I spoke is what will judge him at the last day.”
“7 and to give relief to you who are afflicted and to us as well when the Lord Jesus will be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire, 8 dealing out retribution to those who do not know God and to those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 These will pay the penalty of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, 10 when He comes to be glorified in His saints on that day, and to be marveled at among all who have believed — for our testimony to you was believed.”
I will have to make a decision as to how much I will do in tomorrow evenings SD because there are three short sections and then the next day is Thanksgiving day which we will spend with my family. Blessings to all who read these Spiritual Diaries.
11/25/2025 8:18 PM
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