SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
04/20/2004
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-4 “Their Revolting”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: 2 Peter
2:14b-19
Message of the
verses: “They captivate the unstable
ones, and their technique of getting what they want is, through long practice,
highly developed. They are born under a curse, 15 for they have abandoned the right road and
wandered off to follow the old trail of Balaam, son of Beor, the man who had no
objection to wickedness as long as he was paid for it. 16 But he, you remember, was sharply reprimanded
for his wickedness—by a donkey, of all things, speaking with a human voice to
check the prophet’s wicked infatuation! (Phillips).”
We ended our last SD by reading a story about a bank
officer, and not in today’s SD I want to begin with another quote from Warren
Wiersbe.
“The person who is covetous does have his price, and when
it is met, he will do whatever is asked, even revolt against the will of
God. Peter called this attitude madness.
The word means ‘to be deranged, out of your mind.’ But Balaam thought he was doing the wise
thing; after all, he was taking advantage of a situation that might never come
along again. But any rebellion against
God is madness and can only lead to tragedy.
It was when the prodigal son ‘came to himself’ that he realized how
stupid he had been (Luke 15:17).
“Peter has condemned three sins of the false
teachers: their reviling, their
reveling, and their revolting. All of
these sins spring from pride and selfish desire. A true servant of God is humble and seeks to
serve others (see the contract in Phil. 2:20-21). The true servant of God does not think about
praise or pay, because he serves God from a loving and obedient heart. He honors God and the authority that God has
established in this world. In short, the
true servant of God patterns himself after Jesus Christ.”
Dr. Warren Wiersbe ends this section and the chapter of
his commentary by talking about something that I talked about in a earlier SD,
and that is about the TV evangelists, and how many of them are scamming the
people that follow them in order to get rich.
He notes that these religious frauds will be discovered and put out of
business, and that one day God will deal with them in His own way, a way that
as Jesus says will bring “weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
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