SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/5/2017
4:50 PM
My Worship Time Focus: This faith
involves God’s Power
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Peter 1:3
Message of the
verses: “3 seeing that His divine
power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through
the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence.”
We realize that the Christian life begins with saving
faith, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
When you know Jesus Christ personally, then you also experience God’s
power, and one of the things that this power produces is found in this verse, “life
and godliness.” Let us look at Ephesians
2:1-3 “1 And you were dead
in your trespasses and sins, 2 in which you formerly walked according to the course of
this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that
is now working in the sons of disobedience. 3 Among them we too all formerly
lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the
mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.” These verses point out our condition we were
in before we became believers in Jesus Christ.
The only way an unsaved sinner can be saved is when Jesus raises them
from the dead: “"Truly, truly, I
say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal
life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life
(John 5:24). Being raised from the dead
is pictured in the 11th chapter of John where we meet a dead Lazarus
who had been dead for four days, and then Jesus raises him from the dead, and
this pictures how a dead unsaved sinner is raised from the dead to a new life
in Christ. John 11:44 we read that Jesus
told those around the resurrected Lazarus “Loose him, and let him go.”
Dr. Wiersbe writes “When you are born into the family of
God by faith in Christ, you are born complete.
God gives you everything you will ever need ‘for life and godliness.’ Nothing has to be added! ‘And ye are complete in Him’ (Col.
2:10). The false teacher claimed that
they had a ‘special doctrine’ that would add something to the lives of Peter’s
readers, but Peter knew that nothing
could be added. Just as a normal
baby is born with all the ‘equipment’ he needs to grow, so the Christian has
all that is needed and only needs to grow.
God never has to call back any of His ‘models’ because something is
lacking or faulty.”
With that we will stop and look at the rest of this
section in our next SD.
8/5/2017 5:04 PM
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