SPIRIUTAL DIARY FOR 4/30/2017
6:36 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-3 “Pilate’s Failed Proposals”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: John
18:39-19:7
Message of the
verses: “39 “But you have a custom
that I release someone for you at the Passover; do you wish then that I release
for you the King of the Jews?" 40 So they cried out again, saying,
"Not this Man, but Barabbas." Now Barabbas was a robber. 1 Pilate
then took Jesus and scourged Him. 2 And
the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on His head, and put
a purple robe on Him; 3 and they began
to come up to Him and say, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and to give Him
slaps in the face. 4 Pilate came out again and said to them, "Behold, I am
bringing Him out to you so that you may know that I find no guilt in Him."
5 Jesus then came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said
to them, "Behold, the Man!" 6 So when the chief priests and the
officers saw Him, they cried out saying, "Crucify, crucify!" Pilate said
to them, "Take Him yourselves and crucify Him, for I find no guilt in
Him." 7 The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by that law He
ought to die because He made Himself out to be the Son of God."”
I mentioned in our last SD that these things that they
are doing to Jesus are very difficult to read and to write about. We are at verse two which talks about the
crown of thorns and also the purple robe they put on Him as they mocked Him
about being King of the Jews. The crown
of thorns must have been very painful to our Lord as they cut into His
head. Perhaps the robe came from one of
the soldiers. The Roman soldiers were
heartless and once I read that they were probably surprised that the beatings
did not kill Jesus and so they tried all the harder, but Jesus had stated that
no one takes My life, I will lay it down.
I can imagine that physically Jesus was probably in perfect shape for
after all when He was conceived in the womb He was unlike any other person ever
conceived in a womb for because of the virgin birth there was no sin or Adam’s
nature to be passed on and sin causes death as once a person is conceived it is
actually all downhill from there.
Matthew 27:29 tells us “And after twisting together a crown of thorns,
they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand; and they knelt down
before Him and mocked Him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!"” Of course this was all done in mockery, but
it was all prophesized that this would happen.
In verse four we read that Pilate came out again, and
perhaps this meant that he had been watching the terrible things that the
soldiers were doing to Jesus, not really taking the advice that his wife had
given to him to not do anything to Jesus.
Pilate again affirms that Jesus is innocent of any crimes as he once
again states “Behold, I am bringing Him out to you so that you may know that I
find no guilt in Him.” A truer statement
was never made by anyone, for indeed there was no fault in our Lord for He is
God come in the flesh and God is and always will be perfect.
Sunday’s SD’s are usually shorter because of all that
goes on, one Sundays and so we will stop here and pick up our look at what is
going on with Jesus in our next SD.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “Judges and makes war.”
Today’s Bible
question: “Who said ‘Bless me, even me
also, O my Father’?”
Answer in our next SD.
4/30/2017 6:58 AM
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