EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/5/2026
9:09 PM
My
Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “Intro
to ‘The Uniqueness of the Gospel’”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference:
Luke
5:33-39
Message of the verses: “33 And they said to Him,
"The disciples of John often fast and offer prayers, the disciples of the
Pharisees also do the same, but Yours eat and drink." 34 And
Jesus said to them, "You cannot make the attendants of the bridegroom fast
while the bridegroom is with them, can you? 35 "But
the days will come; and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they
will fast in those days." 36 And He was also telling
them a parable: "No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and puts
it on an old garment; otherwise he will both tear the new, and the piece from
the new will not match the old. 37 "And no one puts
new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins and it
will be spilled out, and the skins will be ruined. 38 "But
new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. 39 "And no
one, after drinking old wine wishes for new; for he says, 'The old is good
enough.'"
The following is part of the introduction to John
MacArthur’s 29th chapter of his first volume of his commentary on
the Gospel of Luke: He writes “In an age
of religious pluralism and postmodernist relativism, the Christian gospel is
unique. It stands alone, and is
incompatible with any and all other religions.
Any form of syncretism is unacceptable; the Christian gospel, the ‘gospel
of God’ (Mark 1:14; Rom. 1:1; 15:16; 2 Cor. 11:7; 1 Thess. 2:2, 8, 9; 1 Peter
4:17), cannot be mixed with any man-made religion or humanistic philosophy.”
(Mark 1:14; Rom. 1:1; 15:16; 2 Cor.
11:7; 1 Thess. 2:2, 8, 9; 1 Peter 4:17)
“14 ¶ Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into
Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God,”
“1 ¶ Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be
an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,”
“16 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the
Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of
the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.”
“7 Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so
that you might be exalted, because I preached God’s gospel to you free of
charge?”
“2 But though we had already suffered and been
shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had boldness in our God to
declare to you the gospel of God in the midst of much conflict.”
“8 So, being affectionately desirous of you, we
were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own
selves, because you had become very dear to us. 9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and
toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you,
while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.”
17 For it is time for judgment to begin at the
household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those
who do not obey the gospel of God?”
“That is
clear teaching both of the Lord Jesus Christ and the apostles. Jesus said, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and
the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me’ (John 14:6; cf. 1:17).”
(cf. 1:17)
“17 For the law was given through Moses; grace
and truth came through Jesus Christ.”
“On trial
before Israel’s supreme court, the Sanhedrin, Peter and John fearlessly
testified that ‘there is no other name under heaven that has been given among
men by which we must be saved’ (Acts 4:12).
When it comes to salvation, ‘no man can lay a foundation other than the
one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ’ (1 Cor. 3:11). There are not many paths to the top of the
mountain, as those who maintain the essential unity of all religions falsely imagine;
on the contrary there is ‘one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ
Jesus’ (1 Timothy 2:5).
“Un fortunately, many who claim to
be evangelicals seem to have forgotten those foundational, nonnegotiable
truths. Embracing the radical skepticism
about the possibility of absolute truth that marks post-modernism, many in the
emerging church movement apply that skepticism to biblical truth. The idea that there could be certainly
regarding what Scripture teaches makes them uncomfortable; they, to accommodate
their sinful indulgence, view the Bible’s meaning as vague, indistinct,
uncertain, and probably ultimately unknowable.
Further, under the guise of religious tolerance, they are scornfully
intolerant of those who hold to biblical absolutes. Such uncertainty leads to apathy. Since truth either does not exist or cannot
be discovered, why bother about it? They
prefer instead to focus on fulfilled living and social causes. But without a commitment to the clear truth
of Scripture, there can be no standard by which to fulfill God’s priorities.”
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