EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 4/23/2026
10:22 PM
My
Worship Time Focus:
“True
Repenters Recognize Divine Wrath”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Luke
3:7a
Message of the verse: “So he began saying to the crowds who were
going out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers,”
We begin by writing about a legitimate motive for
repentance, and this is fear of God’s wrath.
Sin must be dealt with not merely because it creates problems in this
life, but even more so because of its far-reaching, eternal consequences, and I
think we know what that is all about.
John’s message to the crowds who were going out to be baptized by him
included warnings of God’s coming wrath (cf. Rom. 2:5, 8; 5:9; Eph. 5:6;
Col. 3:6; Rev. 6:16-17). Now because of
the great importance of this section we are looking at this evening I will
quote these verses.
(cf. Rom. 2:5, 8; 5:9; Eph. 5:6; Col.
3:6; Rev. 6:16-17)
“5 But because of your hard and impenitent heart
you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous
judgment will be revealed.”
“8 but for those who are self-seeking and do not
obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.”
“9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified
by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.”
“6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for
because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.”
“6 On account of these the wrath of God is
coming.”
“16 calling to the mountains and rocks,
"Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne,
and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17 for
the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?’”
Now the
notion of some that the suffering in this world is all the hell anyone will
ever know is terribly, tragically wrong.
MacArthur writes that “The Bible clearly and unmistakably teaches—in graphic
terms—the reality of eternal punishment.
Jesus, who preached more about hell than He did about heaven, described
hell as the place ‘where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched’
(Mark 9:48); ‘the outer darkness’ (Matt. 8:12; cf. 22:13;25:30; and ‘the
furnace of fire’ (Matt. 13:42, 50.”
(Matt. 8:12; cf. 22:13;25:30)
“12 while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown
into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of
teeth.’”
“13 Then the king said to the attendants, ‘Bind
him hand and foot and cast him into the outer darkness. In that place there
will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’”
“30 And cast the worthless servant into the outer
darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’”
(Matt. 13:42, 50)
“42 and throw them into the fiery furnace. In
that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
“50 and throw them into the fiery furnace. In
that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
“In Luke
13:28 He warned His hearers, ‘In that place [hell] there will be weeping and gnashing
of teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the
kingdom of God, but yourselves being thrown out.’ In hell the lost ‘will pay the penalty of
eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of
His power’ (2 Thess. 1:9; cf. Matt. 25:41, 46).
In that awful place ‘they will be tormented day and night forever and
ever’ (Rev. 20:10; cf. 14:10-11).” I
will conclude this evening’s SD by quoting those verses above.
(2 Thess. 1:9; cf. Matt. 25:41, 46)
“9 They will suffer the punishment of eternal
destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his
might,”
“41 "Then he will say to those on his left,
‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and
his angels.”
“46 And these will go away into eternal
punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.’”
(Rev. 20:10; cf. 14:10-11)
“10 and the devil who had deceived them was
thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet
were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.”
“10 he also will drink the wine of God’s wrath,
poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with
fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the
Lamb. 11 And the smoke of their torment
goes up forever and ever, and they have no rest, day or night, these worshipers
of the beast and its image, and whoever receives the mark of its name.’”
As mentioned earlier in this SD,
these verses that are mentioned and then copied and pasted are very important
verses to look at and to think about, especially if you are not a true believer
in Jesus Christ for your salvation, for if you are not then these verses speak
of what will happen to you.
4/23/2026
10:50 PM
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