SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/7/2017
8:19 AM
My Worship Time Focus: Human Weakness and Failure
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: John 21:1-5
Message of the
verses: “1 After these things Jesus manifested Himself again
to the disciples at the Sea of Tiberias, and He manifested Himself in this way. 2 Simon Peter,
and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of
Zebedee, and two others of His disciples were together. 3 Simon Peter said to
them, "I am going fishing." They said to him, "We will also come
with you." They went out and got into the boat; and that night they caught
nothing. 4 But when the day was now breaking, Jesus stood on the beach; yet the
disciples did not know that it was Jesus. 5 So Jesus said to them,
"Children, you do not have any fish, do you?" They answered Him,
"No."”
Verse one speaks of an unspecified time after the events
that were recorded in chapter twenty.
John must like “Jesus manifested Himself” as he uses it here and also in
John 17:6 “"I have manifested Your name to the men whom You gave Me out of
the world,” a little different in that it was Jesus who was praying to the
Father in John 17 telling Him that He had manifested His name to the disciples,
and now in chapter 21 we see Jesus manifesting Himself to the disciples. We see this takes place near the Sea of
Tiberias, or Sea of Galilee and this was where the Lord commanded the disciples
to go after His resurrection (Matt. 28:10, 16; Mark 14:28; 16:7). MacArthur writes “Jesus manifested Himself…to
the disciples’ emphasizes the truth that after His resurrection He was not recognizable
unless He revealed Himself (cf. 20:14).
What was true of physically recognizing Jesus is also true
spiritually. No one, apart from the
leading of the Holy Spirit, can call Jesus Lord (1 Cor. 12:3), because ‘a
natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness
to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised’
(1 Cor. 2:14). Since ‘there is none who
seeks for God’ (Rom. 3:11), was necessary for ‘the Son of Man [to] come to seek
and to save that which was lost’ (Luke 19:10).
Apart from such seeking, the gospel remains foolishness (1 Cor. 1:18,
30-31).”
The “Sea of Tiberias” was the common name for this body
of water with many other names, but during John’s writing of his gospel this is
what it was called because Herod Antipas founded the city of Tiberias on its
western shore and he named it in honor of Emperor Tiberius.
Now because in a few minutes I have the privilege of
taking care of my three year old granddaughter I will end this section of this
SD and pick it up, Lord willing, tomorrow.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “Pilate” (John 19:10).
Today’s Bible
question: “To what island did Barnabas
and Paul go as missionaries?”
Answer in our next SD. 6/7/2017 8:53 AM
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