SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/21/2016
9:17 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Unbelief
Conquered
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: John 4:50-54
Message of
the verses: “50
Jesus said to him, "Go; your son lives." The man believed the word that
Jesus spoke to him and started off. 51 As he was now going down, his
slaves met him, saying that his son was living. 52 So he inquired of them the
hour when he began to get better. Then they said to him, "Yesterday at the
seventh hour the fever left him." 53 So the father knew that it was at
that hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives"; and he himself believed and his whole household. 54
This is again a second
sign that Jesus performed when He had come out of Judea into Galilee.”
We see
after the man kept begging Jesus to come down to Capernaum to heal his son,
Jesus tells him that his son lives. Once
Jesus said this to the man the man started off home. Now we know the distance was around 16 miles,
and we also know that it was rather late when Jesus told him that his son
lives, but we don’t know what kind of transportation he had, whether or not he
had horses or a chariot since he was a nobleman, but we do know that he did not
stay the night to sleep, for he probably wanted to get home right away to see
if what Jesus told him was indeed true.
John MacArthur writes that the man would have gone on the North shore of
the Sea of Galilee which is about 700 feet below sea level. Now as he was traveling home his slaves met
up with him as they had already left his town to tell him the good news about
his son. When he hears the good news he
wants to know what time the boy got better.
Now when Jesus heals a person they are instantly healed which is similar
to what happened when He healed Peter’s mother-in-law as she was very sick with
a fever, something that they had no cure for, but when Jesus healed her she got
right up and began to fix food for her guests, feeling no ill effects from the
fever and this is what happened to this man’s son. He then finds out the time when his son got
better and the slaves told him it happened at the seventh hour, and he
immediately knew that it was the same time when Jesus told him that his son
would live. The reason they tell him it was yesterday was because the man would
have left yesterday and traveled past midnight, so it would have been a new
day.
Because of the healing of the man’s son he became a
believer in Jesus Christ and then told his family who also believed and they
also became believers too. This man
needed a miracle in order to believe that Jesus was the Messiah while as we
spoke earlier the woman at the well just needed Jesus to speak to her, so with
that we see the different kinds of unbelief that each had, however Jesus did what
it took for them to believe in Him.
MacArthur concludes:
“John concluded this account with the footnote, ‘This is again a second
sign that Jesus performed when He had come out of Judea into Galilee.’ This act
of healing was the second of the eight major signs that John records as proof
that Jesus was the Messiah. It was also
the second sign (the first having taken place at the wedding at Cana [2:1-11])
He had performed in Galilee. That it was
not Jesus’ second miracle overall is made clear from 2:23. In this instance, the stunning verification
of Jesus’ power lifted the royal official all the way from sign seeking
unbelief to genuine saving faith.”
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “Weighty and powerful” (2
Corinthians 10:10).
On the day of Pentecost,
where was Jesus’ mother?”
Answer in our next SD.
2/21/2016 9:40 PM
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