EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/2/2026
7:22 PM
My
Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “Doctrinal
Perceptiveness”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: 2
Peter 3:15b-17
Message of the verses: “just
as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given him, wrote to
you, as also in all his letters, speaking in them of these things, in which are
some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as
they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand,
be on your guard so that you are not carried away by the error of unprincipled
men and fall from your own steadfastness,”
(NASB).
“just as our beloved brother Paul
also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him, 16 as he does in all his letters when he speaks
in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to
understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as
they do the other Scriptures. 17 You
therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried
away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.” (ESV)
Now because I have not yet installed the NASB onto my
Online Bible Program I am suing the ESV.
Not sure when I will get that done.
Now it looks like by the end of this
week or before I will begin looking at the book of Luke, and I am not sure yet
whether or not I will make that my Morning SD or Evening SD, as I may wait until
I get done with Nahum and do that in the morning, also on my other blog where I
am finishing up with the book of Psalms, I think that I will go over First and
Second Thessalonians there, as those two books have much to say about the end
times and prophecy in general as the second coming of Christ is mentioned in
each of the chapters in both letters.
I will now begin by quoting from
John MacArthur’s commentary on the verses above: “With the phrase just as
also, Peter referenced similar warnings that the apostle Paul had give
about false teaching.
“Peter graciously spoke of his
fellow apostle as our beloved brother Paul, underscoring their common
life and mission. As the two foremost
leaders of the early church, Peter and Paul were certainly well aware of each
other’s ministry. In fact, both had been
present at the pivotal Jerusalem Council (Acts 15:6-21), and both had
ministered with Silas (cf. Acts 15:40 with 1 Peter 5:12).”
(Acts 15:6-21)
“6 ¶ The apostles and the elders were gathered
together to consider this matter. 7 And
after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them,
"Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you,
that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe. 8
And God, who knows the heart, bore
witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us, 9 and he made no distinction between us and
them, having cleansed their hearts by faith. 10 Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the
test by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples that neither our fathers
nor we have been able to bear? 11 But we
believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they
will." 12 And all the assembly fell
silent, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul as they related what signs and
wonders God had done through them among the Gentiles. 13 After they finished speaking, James replied,
"Brothers, listen to me. 14 Simeon
has related how God first visited the Gentiles, to take from them a people for
his name. 15 And with this the words of
the prophets agree, just as it is written, 16 "’After this I will return, and I will
rebuild the tent of David that has fallen; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will
restore it, 17 that the remnant of
mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says
the Lord, who makes these things 18 known from of old.’ 19 Therefore my judgment is that we should not
trouble those of the Gentiles who turn to God, 20 but should write to them to abstain from the
things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, and from what has been
strangled, and from blood. 21 For from
ancient generations Moses has had in every city those who proclaim him, for he
is read every Sabbath in the synagogues.’”
(cf. Acts 15:40 with 1 Peter 5:12)
“40 but
Paul chose Silas and departed, having been commended by the brothers to the
grace of the Lord.”
12 By Silvanus, a faithful brother as I regard
him, I have written briefly to you, exhorting and declaring that this is the
true grace of God. Stand firm in it.”
“More than
twenty years earlier, Peter had even been confronted by Paul when he wrongly
refused to eat with Gentile Christians (Gal.2:11-21; cf. vv. 8-9; 1 Cor. 1:12:
3:22).”
(Gal.2:11-21; cf. vv. 8-9; 1 Cor. 1:12:
3:22)
“11 ¶ But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him
to his face, because he stood condemned. 12 For before certain men came from James, he was
eating with the Gentiles; but when they came he drew back and separated
himself, fearing the circumcision party. 13 And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically
along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy. 14 But when I saw that their conduct was not in
step with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas before them all, “If you,
though a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you force the
Gentiles to live like Jews?” 15 We
ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; 16 yet we know that a person is not justified by
works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in
Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of
the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified. 17 But if, in our endeavor to be justified in
Christ, we too were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin?
Certainly not! 18 For if I rebuild what
I tore down, I prove myself to be a transgressor. 19 For through the law I died to the law, so that
I might live to God. 20 I have been
crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.
And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who
loved me and gave himself for me. 21 I
do not nullify the grace of God, for if righteousness were through the law,
then Christ died for no purpose.”
“8 (for he who worked through Peter for his
apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the
Gentiles), 9 and when James, and Cephas
and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me,
they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to
the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.”
“12 What I mean is that each one of you says, “I
follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.’”
“22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world
or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours,”
“As a primary
spokesman for the early church, Peter was undoubtedly embarrassed by Paul’s
public admonition. Nevertheless, he
graciously accepted the rebuke and responded with repentance. His request for Paul was undiminished.”
2/2/2026
7:51 PM
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