SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/31/2016 10:34 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-1The Profound Expression of Christ’s
Love
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: John 13:31-33
Message of the verses: “31 Therefore when he had gone out, Jesus said,
"Now is the Son of Man glorified,
and God is glorified in Him; 32 if God is glorified in Him, God will also glorify Him in Himself,
and will glorify
Him immediately. 33 “Little children, I am with you a little while longer. You
will seek Me; and as I said to the Jews, now I also say to you, ’Where I am
going, you cannot come.’”
When we ask
the question “What describes loves highest expression?” we can say that the
answer to this question is what our Lord said in John 15:13 “"Greater love
has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.” Jesus we also tell His disciples that they
are His friends, and so He will lay down His life for them, and all who will
come to Him in repentance excepting the sacrifice that He made for them. John also wrote the following in 1 John 3:16 “We
know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down
our lives for the brethren.”
Now as we
look at these verses we see the word glorified in them in some form four times
as I have highlighted and so we need to understand what He is talking about
here. The death of Jesus will be what
glorifies Him and also glorifies His Father and so both will be glorified. The crucifixion is seen as the point of
Christ’s greatest humiliation “Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled
Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross
(Phil. 2:8).” This event, His
crucifixion is seen where Christ is most glorified as seen in John 17:4-5 and Phil.
2:9-11. This is the greatest reason for
Jesus coming to planet earth to be crucified, paying for our sins and all those
who will receive Him as Savior and Lord, waking by faith in Christ after they
have been saved.
As we have
mentioned “when he had gone out” meaning Judas, that Jesus began to give His
farewell address to the remaining eleven disciples and since John, under the inspiration
of the Holy Spirit wrote it in his gospel we have the privilege of being able
to read and study it, to see the love of Christ that is seen in this section
all the way to the end of John 16. Imagine
that Jesus knew He was about to die in a very few hours and yet He takes the
time to prepare His disciples on what they should be doing after His death and
resurrection. John was probably around
90 years old when he wrote this and yet his memory was as clear to him as if he
was right there going over this event sharing it with us so we can learn about
the wonderful love that Christ has for us.
John
MacArthur writes “The first statement, ‘How is the Son of Man glorified’ (cf.
Dan. 7:13-14), refers to His death on the cross the next day. The cross appeared to be a shameful, disastrous
defeat for Jesus. Yet it was through the
cross, where He gave His life for sinners, that Christ’s glory was displayed
most clearly. In Acts 3:13 Peter declared
to the very people who had crucified Jesus, ‘The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our
fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus, the one whom you delivered and
disowned in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release Him.’”
I want to
look at how Jesus was glorified as we conclude this portion of this SD. The first was that His death purchased
salvation and also it satisfied the demands of God’s justice for everyone who
would believe in Him. God’s satisfaction
had to be meet by the death of Christ in order for salvation to be paid for, so
if God’s demands were not meet then Christ’s death would have meant nothing. Let us look at Colossians 2:13-14 “13 When
you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He
made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, 14
having canceled out the
certificate of debt consisting
of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.”
Next the
death of Christ also destroyed the power of sin by “sending His own Son in the
likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, [God] condemned sin in the
flesh (Romans 8:3b).” Let us look at
Romans 6:6-7 to help us better understand this truth: “knowing this, that our old self was
crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with so
that we would no longer be slaves to sin; 7 for he who has died is freed from
sin.”
We will
look at how God was glorified in Christ in our next SD.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I am thankful that I am reminded of the
great, great love that Christ has for me along with seeing it in my Spiritual
Diaries that I am posting from the book of Hebrews which also shows me of His
great, great love He has for me by being my Great High Priest who understand
the trials and temptations that I go through each day and interceding for me
when I fall.
My Steps of Faith for
Today: Trust the Lord to see me
through some things today and tomorrow that will cause my IBS to possibility give
me troubles.
Memory verse for the week (again” (Romans 6:15 “15 What
then? Shall we sin because we are no longer under law but under grace? May it
never be!”
Answer to our last Bible question: “Leah” (Genesis 29:32).
Today’s Bible question:
“The book of Matthew was written primarily to what people?”
Answer in our next SD.
10/31/2016 11:22 AM
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