SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/7/2017
1:24 PM
My Worship Time Focus: Christian
Witness Is Through Believers
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: John 15:27
Message of the
verses: “27 and you will testify also,
because you have been with Me from the beginning.”
I think that what I am about to write is correct. The line of witness comes from the Father, to
the Son, then to the Holy Spirit, and then to the apostles, and from the
apostles it goes to all believers, so when Jesus tells His disciples that they
would testify also about Him then they in turn will tell others to testify
about Jesus, and then since there are not more apostles believers are to
testify about Jesus Christ. Now I also
want to add that there is also an order in the church as Paul speaks of in
Ephesians, and that order is headed up by Pastor and teachers, but understand a
Peter tells us in 1 Peter chapter five that these leaders are not to lord it
over us. “1 Therefore, I exhort the elders among you, as
your fellow elder and witness of the sufferings of Christ, and a partaker also
of the glory that is to be revealed, 2 shepherd the flock of God among you,
exercising oversight not under compulsion, but voluntarily, according to the
will of God; and not for sordid gain, but with eagerness; 3 nor yet as lording
it over those allotted to your charge, but proving to be examples to the flock.
4 And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of
glory.” Now according to Paul these
leaders which are Pastors, or Elders, of Bishops as all the words are similar,
they are to preach and teach those who are in their flock. I believe that the Holy Spirit of God will
give the right Pastor to a local church, the one needed to accomplish what God
wants done in that church and will also speak to the hearts of the Pastor as he
studies His Word which will result in giving that Pastor the message that God
wants to speak to that local church. In
then and as always, it is all about God, His purpose, and His plan so that He
will receive glory which is why we are here on earth.
John MacArthur writes “Believers are the final link in
the chain of witness. Thus Jesus, after
describing the Holy Spirit’s witness, told the disciples ‘you will testify
also.’ The two are inseparably linked,
since it is the Spirit who enables believers to effectively testify to the
world about Jesus Christ. So vital is
the Spirit’s empowering of Christian witness that the Lord instructed the
disciples to remain in Jerusalem until the coming of the Spirit on that day of
Pentecost (Luke 24:49). It was ‘in the
power of the Spirit’ that Paul ‘fully preached the gospel of Christ’ (Rom.
5:10).”
I know that this SD is rather short, but I think it best
to leave it here and look at the rest of what I want to write in our next SD.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “They let him down through the
roof” (Luke 5:19).
Today’s Bible
question: “Who said ‘Silver and gold
have I none: but such as I have give I to
you?’”
Answer in our next SD.
1/7/2017 1:43 PM
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