SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/17/2019 12:22 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 “Intro
to Eph. 5:25-33”
Bible Reading & Mediation Reference: Ephesians
5:25-33
Message of the verses: “25 Husbands, love
your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her,
26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water
with the word, 27 that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory,
having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that she would be holy and
blameless. 28 So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies.
He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own
flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the
church, 30 because we are members of His body. 31 FOR THIS REASON A MAN SHALL
LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND SHALL BE JOINED TO HIS WIFE, AND THE TWO SHALL
BECOME ONE FLESH. 32 This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to
Christ and the church. 33 Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to
love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she
respects her husband.”
To
kind of pick up from our last SD I want to look at 2 Timothy 3:1-5 & 13 “1
But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of
money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful,
unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious
gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of
pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5
holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power;
Avoid such men as these…13 But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad
to worse, deceiving and being deceived.” I can’t help but think as I read these verses
that we are living in times just as Paul wrote to Timothy about, and one must
also remember that 2 Timothy is the very last letter that Paul wrote that is
contained in the Word of God.
John
MacArthur writes “In that awesome list of sins there are several—such as
disobedience to parents, lack of love (the Greek term, astorgos, refers to lack of natural affection for one’s family),
and brutality—that are directly undermining the home today. But every sin that weakens the individual
also weakens the home to some extent; every
aspect of ungodliness weakens the relationships between husband and wife,
parents and children, and brothers and sisters.
The home has become fair game for every deceiver, every sexual pervert,
every exploiter, as Satan mounts his great attack on the foundation stone of
society.”
Because
of the curse on marriage at the Fall and the inclinations of man’s fallen
nature and of the world to oppose God’s way, the family has always had
difficulty. In the western culture of
our day, however, it is under an onslaught seemingly unlike any other in this
society’s history. There is less chance
than before of a family’s living together in harmony, love, and mutual respect
apart from God’s provision in Christ. As
every new corruption appears, a new philosophy arises to justify it. And those who persist in flouting God’s way
are destined, as Paul prophesied, to go from bad to worse. Marriage, along with every other institution
and design of God, will be more and more debased, as men go deeper into sexual
perversion and selfishness.” As
mentioned in our last SD this commentary on Ephesians by John MacArthur is
close to 40 years old, and the messages that he used to help write this
commentary are closer to 50 years old, so things have gotten considerably worse
since then, as the Scripture has stated
it would when we get closer to the end of the Church age.
In tomorrow’s SD we will be looking at the very last
quotation from the series that I have from Dr. David Jeremiah, and this one
comes from Brother Lawrence: “We ought
not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the
greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.”
8/17/2019 12:45 PM
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