EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/4/2026
9:00 PM
My
Worship Time Focus:
PT-3
“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)
I continue this evening looking at this section of
John MacArthur’s commentary on 2 Peter: “Those
complexities opened the door for the untaught and unstable—namely, the
false teachers—to distort what Paul taught about the future. Untaught denotes a lack of
information, and unstable a vacillating spiritual character. Distort speaks of wrenching someone’s
body on a torture rack. The term vividly
pictures how the false teachers manipulated certain prophetic issues, twisting
them to confuse and deceive the undiscerning.
Such distortion often continues today regarding prophetic revelation.
“Not surprisingly, the false
teachers did not stop with prophecy, but also distorted the rest of the
Scriptures, including the biblical teaching on God’s law, repentance,
justification by faith, and sanctification.
The fact that Peter placed Paul’s writings on a par with the rest of
the Scriptures, including the biblical teaching of God’s law, repentance,
justification by faith, and sanctification.
The fact that Peter placed Paul’s writing on a par with the rest of
the Scriptures clearly affirms that Paul wrote divinely inspired truth (cf.
1:20-21; 1 Thess. 2:13; 2 Timothy 3:16-17).”
(cf.
1:20-21; 1 Thess. 2:13; 2 Timothy 3:16-17)
“20 He was foreknown before the foundation of the
world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you 21 who through him are believers in God, who
raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in
God.”
“13 ¶ And we also thank God constantly for this,
that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted
it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is
at work in you believers.”
“16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and
profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in
righteousness, 17 that the man of God
may be complete, equipped for every good work.”
“The New
Testament writers were aware that they were writing the Word of God, as surely
as the Old Testament prophets were. The
word translated Scriptures is graphas, from the verb grapho (‘to
write’) that occurs about one hundred eighty times in the New Testament, of
which half refer to the Bible, ‘the written word.’ The noun graphe is used about fifty
times, exclusively of Scripture and inclusive of the Old Testament (e. g., Mark
12:10) and the New Testament as this reference makes clear (cf. 1 Cor.
15:3).
(e. g., Mark 12:10)
“10 Have you not read this Scripture: "’The
stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone;”
(cf. 1 Cor. 15:3)
“3 For I delivered to you as of that which first
importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance
with the Scriptures,”
2/4/2026
9:25 PM
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