SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/20/2016 7:46 PM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-1 “The Presence of the Son”
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: John 14:18-20
Message of the verses: “18 "I will not leave you as orphans; I
will come to you. 19 "After a
little while the world will no longer see Me, but you will see Me; because I
live, you will live also. 20 “In that day you will know that I am in My Father,
and you in Me, and I in you.”
What a
wonderful promise that Jesus is giving to His disciples when He says “I will
not leave you as orphans.” I suppose
that the plight of an orphan is a terrible thing and so perhaps that is why
Jesus used that term in the first part of verse 18. My oldest grandson was an orphan for 14
months, but now he is greatly loved by parents, brothers and sisters, and
grandparents too. He is no orphan now so
perhaps later on he will realize what Jesus is saying to His disciples in this
verse.
Jesus then
goes on to say that He will come to them which is also a part of His promise to
them. Jesus would go to the cross to die
for the sins of the world, and His disciples would see that, but in the end
after three days in the grace He would be resurrected and His disciples would
once again see Him which fulfills the promise of coming to them. MacArthur writes “But because of His union
with the Holy Spirit in the Godhead, Jesus would also abide with them through
His Spirit, who would be poured out at Pentecost.” This again is one of the things of the
trinity that is impossible to explain.
We will
look at verse nineteen to finish this rather short SD, as is my custom on
Sunday’s. Jesus goes on to say “A little
while” and this refers to Jesus going to the cross and dying and then after
than the world would not see Him again, as the next time the world will see
Jesus is when He returns to planet earth at the end of the tribulation period
as seen in Revelation 19.
Jesus goes
on to say that His disciples would see Him, as they would be the ones who would
see Him after His resurrection. He then
gives another wonderful promise “because I live, you will live also.” After Jesus paid for our sins on the cross,
was buried, and then resurrected the Bible tells us that He is the first fruits
of the resurrection. At the rapture all
who have believed in Jesus Christ will go to with Him to heaven as we all
receive our glorified body, the one like Jesus has, so we will live as He
lives. Now absent from the body is
present with the Lord is surely true as the Bible tells us, but not until the
rapture will we get our glorified bodies.
As for the kind of body for those who die before the rapture it will
surely be different than our human bodies, but also different than our
glorified bodies too.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible question: “Shushan” (Ester 1:2).
Today’s Bible question:
“What woman tricked Samson into telling his secret of strength?”
Answer in our next SD.
11/20/2016 8:07 PM
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