SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 4/26/2017
9:26 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-4 “The Interrogation” and “The
Adjudication”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: John
18:33-38
Message of the
verses: “33 Therefore Pilate entered
again into the Praetorium, and summoned Jesus and said to Him, "Are You
the King of the Jews?" 34 Jesus answered, "Are you saying this on
your own initiative, or did others tell you about Me?" 35 Pilate answered,
"I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered You
to me; what have You done?" 36 Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of
this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be
fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews; but as it is, My
kingdom is not of this realm." 37 Therefore Pilate said to Him, "So
You are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say correctly that I am a king.
For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify
to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice." 38 Pilate said
to Him, "What is truth?" And when he had said this, he went out again
to the Jews and said to them, "I find no guilt in Him.”
In our last SD I promised to give a quote from John
MacArthur on this section about “What is truth,” and then look at the last half
of verse 38 “The Adjudication.”
“Jesus’ words were an
implied invitation to Pilate to hear and obey the truth about Him. But they were lost on the governor, who
abruptly ended his interrogation of Christ with the cynical, pessimistic remark
“What is truth?” Like skeptics of all
ages, including contemporary postmodernists, Pilate despaired of finding
universal truth. This is the tragedy of
fallen man’s rejection of God. Without
God, there cannot be any absolutes; without absolutes, there can be no
objective, universal, normative truths.
Truth become subjective, relative, pragmatic; objectivity gives way to
subjectivity; timeless universal principles become mere personal or cultural
preferences. All fallen mankind has
accomplished forsaking God, ‘the foundation of living waters,’ is ‘to hew for
themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water’ (Jer. 2:13). Pilate’s flippant retort proved that he was
not one of those given by the Father to the Son, who hear and obey Christ’s
voice.”
“The Adjudication:” “And when he had said this, he went out again
to the Jews and said to them, ‘I find no guilt in Him’ (John 18:38b).”
We have mentioned that the Jews took Jesus to Pilate
because they could not inflict the death penalty on Him and so they had to
bring some trumped up charges against Him so that the Romans would think that
He was a threat to them and thus put Him to death. Pilate, at this point would have none of
this, and so he comes out and tells the Jews that he had not found any guilt in
Him. Jesus posed no threat to Roman
rule.
MacArthur concludes “No valid indictment of Him at the
beginning; no conviction of Him at the end.
The Lord of glory was maligned, hated, and falsely accused, but
nevertheless found to be perfect, faultless, and innocent.”
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: God’s Word gives us what truth is and
therefore it is my desire to continue to study the Word of God, in order to
continue to learn truth from it.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Continue to truth the Lord with my
preparation for my Sunday school class as what I am teaching about this Sunday
is probably the most important verse found in the 17th chapter of
John’s gospel, and it is my desire to “that I may make it clear in the way I
ought to speak (Col. 4:4).”
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
Question: “Solomon” (1 Kings 11:1-3).
Today’s Bible
question: “There how many Pauline
epistles?”
Answer in our next SD.
4/26/2017 9:55 AM
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