SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/19/2017
10:57 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 “Jesus Christ in Relation with the
Universe”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Colossians
1:16-17
Message of the
verses: “16 For by Him all things
were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether
thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities-all things have been created
through Him and for Him. 17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold
together.”
I have to say that there are a couple of things that I
really love to study from the Scriptures and one of them of course is prophecy
and the other is creation and I have to say that these two kind of combine as
we will hopefully see as we continue to study these verses.
Now we left off in the middle of a second of three points
and that second point speaks of the universe bearing witness to the tremendous
wisdom and knowledge of its Creator. Now
I have said that the wind and the rain along with animals and fish obey the
Lord, things that were created before God created his crown jewel which is man
but mankind because of sin does not always obey the Lord in fact probably more
times than not disobey the Lord.
As we continue looking at this second point we learn that
the creation gives mute testimony to the intelligence of its Creator and we
will look at a quote from John MacArthur’s commentary from a man named Max
Planck who was the winner of the Nobel Prize and one of the founders of modern
physics and he wrote “According to everything taught by the exact sciences
about the immense realm of nature, a certain order prevails sciences about the
immense realm of nature, a certain order prevails—one independent of the human
mind…this order can be formulated in terms of purposeful activity. There is evidence of an intelligent order of
the universe to which both man and nature are subservient.” This goes along with what the Psalmist wrote
in Psalm 19:1-4 “1 The heavens are telling of the glory of God; And their
expanse is declaring the work of His hands. 2
Day to day pours forth speech, And night to night reveals knowledge. 3
There is no speech, nor are there words; Their voice is not heard. 4 Their line
has gone out through all the earth, And their utterances to the end of the
world. In them He has placed a tent for the sun.”
What the Psalmist is saying here is happening every day
of the year. We know when the sun will
come up on any given day and what time is will set, and we know what phase the
moon will be in years in advance and know what the tides of the oceans will do
each day, and all of this is because of how God created and controls the
universe, and even though it does not talk it does speak as the Psalmist
says.
MacArthur writes “Jesus also has primacy over the
creation because He is before all things.
When the universe began, He already existed (John 1:1-2; 1 John
1:1). He told the Jews in John 8:58, ‘Before
Abraham was born, I am’ (not I was). He
is saying that He is Yahweh, the eternally existing God. The prophet Micah said of Him, ‘He is goings
forth are from long ago, from the day of eternity’ (Micah 5:2). Revelation 22:13 describes Him as ‘the Alpha
and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.’” We know that anyone who existed before time
began at the creation is eternal which is what Jesus is and always was.
Our last point in which we will look at in our next SD
speaks of Jesus’ primacy over creation is that in Him all things hold together
and I believe in that section we will combine creation and prophecy.
1/19/2017 11:18 PM
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