SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/23/2016 9:33 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Israel will be cleansed from the
Defilement of Sin
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Zechariah 13:1
Message of the verses: “1 "In that day a fountain will be
opened for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and
for impurity.”
First thing
to see is the totality of the cleansing as Zechariah mentions the house of
David and also the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and this speaks of the royalty and
the laity so both common people and the royal people will be cleansed. Zechariah says that a fountain will be opened
to all as we understand this.
Being
cleansed from sin is the biggest need of all the people, the Jews and also the
Gentiles are in need of this for once someone is cleansed from sin then they
belong to God. In our section from John
13 today we spoke about how Judas was not cleansed, but the other disciples
were cleansed, so Judas was lost and the rest were saved, and now in verse one
we see that these Jews here will be cleansed so they too will be saved from
their sin.
In John
MacArthur’s sermon on this section he says that the word for fountain is maqowrin, and it means to dig out,
perhaps a well or a spring or a fountain so we see from this word that this
fountain will be a gushing fountain. He
goes on to talk about the word “open” and says that in the Hebrew we can get the idea that this fountain will always
be open, never closed and so is the power of the blood of Jesus Christ which
cleanses everyone who accepts His forgiveness is always open to save people
through its power.
MacArthur
writes the following about the word sin:
“I was talking to the Rams football team the other night and I talked to
them about the concept of forgiveness in the Bible. And I said the Christian
cannot stack up one sin in a row that is unforgiven because the blood of Jesus
Christ keeps on cleansing us. The fountain was opened at Calvary and the flow
is perennial. As long as there is sin, there's cleansing for the one who
believes. And someday that perennial fountain will be open for Israel for the
house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And when they come in
repentance and that fountain opens on a national basis to them, notice the end
of verse 1, it will be for sin and uncleanness. The word "sin" is
significant, it means in the Hebrew to miss the mark, chattathto miss
the mark, to go in the wrong way. It was used in reference to sin against men
and sin against God, a very common Old Testament word. But its root idea is you went wrong, you went the
wrong way down the wrong path, the path of disobedience, the path of
indifference, the path of rebellion. It has to do then with what a
person does, going away from God, behaving in a manner inconsistent with God's
pattern.
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