SPIRITUAL
DIARY
Date: 04-29-03
My
Worship Time Focus: Complete salvation
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Hebrews 9:27,28
1. Message of the verse: “And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to
die once and after this comes judgment, so Christ also, having been offered
once to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time for salvation without
reference to sin, to those who eagerly await Him.” (NASB)
“And just as it is destined that each person dies only once and after
that comes judgment, so also Christ died only once as a sacrifice to take away
the sins of many people. He will come
again but not to deal with our sins again.
This time he will bring salvation to all those who are eagerly waiting
for him.” (NLT)
There are
but a few exceptions to this statement, and that are all of those Jesus Christ
raised from physical death while He was upon this earth, for they all died
again so that would mean that they died twice.
There are two other exceptions to this that are seen in the OT, where
Enoch and Elijah both went to heaven without physically dying, which is a
picture of the rapture of the Church where there will be many who are alive at
that time will not see physical death.
It might be noted that all of these people mentioned above were born
dead spiritually, so in that sense they too died. In verse 28 the writer says that Jesus Christ
died so that all who have excepted His death for them will be saved and the
finial part of that salvation will be seen when He returns to take those home
with Him to heaven at the rapture of the Church and also at His second coming
which takes place at the end of the great tribulation. In the OT on the Day of Atonement the people
eagerly awaited the high priest to come out of the Holy of Holies to show that
God had excepted his sacrifice, so it will be when Christ returns from heaven
as believers will be assured that God has accepted Christ’s sacrifice for their
sins, for salvation will be complete at that time.
2. Spiritual meaning for my life today: These verses are the heart and soul of my
hope and the hope of all believers of all times for in them they tell about the
final aspect of my salvation, which will be given at the second coming of Jesus
Christ when He comes for His Church of which, by His grace and mercy I am apart
of. The Lord’s Table is to remind me of
the whole of this truth as I think back to the death of Jesus Christ, which
paid for my sins, the fact that He is now in heaven as my Great High Priest
interceding for me, and that He will come again to receive me unto Himself.
The Word of God was very inspirational to me as I read it
today, and it also challenged my heart to live for Christ today and everyday.
My
Steps of Faith Today: To
trust the Lord, and to live for Him in all that I do today. To trust Him to work into my life the
qualities of courage and compassion, and to work out of my life the undesirable
qualities of selfishness and fear. To
trust Christ to be in control of IBS, that affects me in so many ways of my life,
physical, mental, and spiritual.
Memory verses for the week:
Psalm 40:9-12, & 1John 4:18
9.
I have proclaimed glade tidings of righteousness in the
great congregation, Behold, I will not restrain my lips, O LORD, Thou knowest.
10. I
have not hidden Thy righteousness within my heart; I have spoken of Thy
faithfulness and Thy salvation; I have not concealed Thy lovingkindness and Thy
truth from the great congregation.
11. Thou,
O LORD, will not withhold Thy compassion from me; Thy lovingkindness and Thy
truth will continually preserve me.
12. For
evils beyond number have surrounded me; My iniquities have overtaken me, so
that I am not able to see; They are more numerous than the hairs of my head;
And my heart has failed me.
18. There
is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves
punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.
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