SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/8/2017
10:10 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2 Intro
to John 19:17-30
My Worship Time Reference: John
19:17-30
Message of the
verses: “17 They took Jesus,
therefore, and He went out, bearing His own cross, to the place called the
Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha. 18 There they crucified
Him, and with Him two other men, one on either side, and Jesus in between. 19 Pilate
also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It was written, "JESUS
THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS." 20 Therefore many of the Jews read
this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city;
and it was written in Hebrew, Latin and in Greek. 21 So the chief priests of
the Jews were saying to Pilate, "Do not write, ’The King of the Jews’; but
that He said, ’I am King of the Jews.’" 22 Pilate answered, "What I
have written I have written." 23 Then the soldiers, when they had
crucified Jesus, took His outer garments and made four parts, a part to every
soldier and also the tunic; now the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece. 24
So they said to one another, "Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, to
decide whose it shall be"; this was to fulfill the Scripture: "THEY
DIVIDED MY OUTER GARMENTS AMONG THEM, AND FOR MY CLOTHING THEY CAST LOTS."
25 Therefore the soldiers did these things. But standing by the cross of Jesus
were His mother, and His mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary
Magdalene. 26 When Jesus then saw His
mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother,
"Woman, behold, your son!" 27 Then He said to the disciple,
"Behold, your mother!" From that hour the disciple took her into his
own household. 28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all things had already been
accomplished, to fulfill the Scripture, said, "I am thirsty." 29 A
jar full of sour wine was standing there; so they put a sponge full of the sour
wine upon a branch of hyssop and brought it up to His mouth. 30 Therefore when
Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, "It is finished!" And He
bowed His head and gave up His spirit.”
I believe that it is safe to say that the cross of Jesus
Christ is the focal point of the entire Word of God, as it is the only way for
a person to receive eternal life after what happened in the garden when Adam
and Eve fell to the temptations of Satan and plunged the entire human race into
sin. John writes in His theme verses for
his gospel “30 Therefore many other signs Jesus also performed in the presence
of the disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these have been
written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and
that believing you may have life in His name.”
The theme of his gospel is the truth of the gospel, that Jesus Christ
came to earth to die on the cross so that those who believe in Him can have
eternal life and not eternal death suffering in hell.
We saw in our last section of verses leading up to the
crucifixion of Jesus Christ that the trials were a sham, and yet we know that
even though they were a sham that God was in control so that His Son would be
crucified and His death would take place when the Passover lambs would
die. We also saw that even though this
was the plan of God from eternity past that those who sentenced Jesus to death,
those who brought Jesus to these sham trials, and the one who betrayed Jesus
did this because that is exactly what they wanted to do, and thus all of them
who were involved will be punished for their sin.
John MacArthur writes “As he related the story of the
crucifixion, John, as was the case throughout his gospel, was concerned to
present Jesus Christ in all His majesty and glory. In keeping with that theme, John does not
focus on features of Christ’s physical suffering (as none of the Gospels do),
or the wickedness of the crucifixion (as for instance Matthew does). Instead, John zeroes in on four aspects of
the cross that emphasize the magnificence of Christ’s person: the specific fulfillments of prophecy, the
superscription written by Pilate, the selfless love of Jesus, and His
supernatural knowledge and sovereign control of events.” These are the things we will be looking at in
our upcoming Spiritual Diaries.
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: Being thankful
for the cross of Christ should be something that I think of much more than I
do, that is thinking about what my Savior went through for me because of His
great love for me, and then make sure that when I have the opportunities that
God gives me to tell others of this that I will do that.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Continue to trust the Lord to give me His
wisdom to prepare for my Sunday school class this upcoming Sunday.
Answer to yesterdays Bible
question: “Seventy” (Luke 10:1).
Today’s Bible
question: “Who said ‘Almost thou persuades
me to be a Christian’?”
Answer in our next SD.
5/8/2017 10:37 AM
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