SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
04/24/2004
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 The mist of Darkness
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Peter
2:17c-18
Message of the
verse: “to whom the mist of darkness is
reserved for ever. 18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they
allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were
clean escaped from them who live in error (KJV).” “and their fate will be the black night of utter
darkness. 18 With their high-sounding nonsense they use the sensual pull
of the lower passions to attract those who were just on the point of cutting
loose from their companions in evil Phillips).”
Dr. Wiersbe writes “The word translated ‘mist’ ‘blackness,
gloom,’ so ‘the blackness of the darkness’ would be an accurate
translation. These apostates promise to
lead people into the light, but they themselves end up in the darkest part of
the darkness! (See Jude 6 and 13). The
atmosphere of hell is not uniform: some
places will be darker than others. How
tragic that innocent people will be led astray by these apostates and possibly
end up in hell with them.”
Mt 15:14 "Let
them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a
blind man, both will fall into a pit."
Lu 6:39 And He also spoke a
parable to them: "A blind man cannot guide a blind man, can he? Will they
not both fall into a pit?” These are a
couple of verses that I thought about that seems to me go along with our
subject this morning.
Now since these false teachers really have nothing to
give, then how are they able to attract followers? I suppose that this is a good question and we
will look at some answers to this question from what is seen in the 18th
verse. I am following the outline from
Dr. Wiersbe’s commentary and so this will take more than one day to give all
the answers to this question.
We begin with the first answer and that is that the
teachers are eloquent promoters of their doctrines. Verse eighteen begins in the KJV “For when
they speak great swelling words of vanity.”
You also can look at what the Phillips reads from verse 18. Dr. Wiersbe that “inflated words that say
nothing” is the literal translation of this portion of verse 18. I suppose that we have heard people speak and
perhaps this is the thought that comes into our minds about what they are
talking about. The problem is that many
people do not know the difference between the truth and the lies that the false
teachers speak about. I can truly
understand that an unbeliever can get caught up in the elegant lies of these
false teachers, but believers, true believers have the Holy Spirit in them and
can, and should be studying their Bibles so they should be able to realize the
difference between the real truth of the Word of God and what these false
teachers are teaching.
We will continue looking at the answer to why people fall
for these false teachers lies in our next SD.
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