SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/6/2017
9:05 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-1 Prince
of Life
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Acts 3:15-17
Message
of the verses: “15 but put to death
the Prince of life, the one whom God raised from the dead, a fact to which we
are witnesses. 16 "And on the basis
of faith in His name, it is the name of Jesus which has strengthened this man
whom you see and know; and the faith which comes through Him has given him this
perfect health in the presence of you all. 17 “And now, brethren, I know that
you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers did also.”
We see in this section we are
looking at that Peter is presenting a series of paradoxes. We have seen that Jesus was a servant, and
yet God highly exalted Him. Jesus was
the deliverer of the nation of Israel, as He was their promised Messiah, and
yet they rejected Him and gave Him over to Pilate to have Him murdered. The greatest paradox was that that they “put
to death the Prince of life,” while asking for the release of the one who took
a life or perhaps lives.
John MacArthur tells us “Prince of
life” translates archegos. It refers to the originator, pioneer, or
beginner of something. Hebrews 2:10 uses it in the phrase ‘author of salvation.’ In Hebrews 12:2 it describes Jesus as the ‘author’
of faith. Here Peter uses it to describe
Jesus as the originator of life. That is
a claim of deity for Jesus, since Psalm 36:9 describes God as the ‘fountain of
life.’”
We will look at some verses from the
New Testament which shows Jesus as the source of life. “In Him was life, and the life was the Light
of men (John 1:4).” “God has given us
eternal life, and this life is in His Son (1 John 5:11b).” “This is the true God and eternal life (1
John 5:20b).”
The following verses show us that
Jesus claimed to be the source of life: “"For
just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have
life in Himself (John 5:26).” “"I
am the resurrection and the life; he who believes in Me will live even if he
dies (John 11:25b).” “Jesus said to him,
"I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but
through Me (John 14:6).”
As we continue to look at this
sermon we will see that Peter does not stop at the death of Christ but goes on
to talk about the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the resurrection of Jesus
Christ is certainly one of the main themes that is found in the book of
Acts. Peter states
One only has to go through 1
Corinthians to see what Paul said about the resurrection of Jesus Christ along
with the resurrection of other believer who will follow to understand this
great and wonderful truth which Peter speaks of in this sermon.
Next Peter forcefully brings home
the point that the Jews were the open enemies of the God they professed to
love, the very God they had come to the temple to worship at this time that the
miracle of this beggar occurred. However
we see that the One whom God had exalted they delivered up, and disowned and
executed.
We will continue to look at this
section in our next SD.
Answer
to yesterday’s Bible question: “Gabriel”
(Daniel 9:21-14).
Today’s
Bible question: “Name the river in which
Naaman washed seven times in.
Answer
in our next SD.
9/6/2017
10:12 AM
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