SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
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My Worship Time Focus:
PT-3 “The Temple”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Acts 7:44-53
Message of the
verses: “52 “Which one of the
prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who had previously
announced the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you
have now become; 53 you who received the law as ordained by angels, and yet did
not keep it."”
John MacArthur writes:
“Stephen then draws the parallel to its bloody conclusion. As their fathers had ‘killed those who had
previously announced the coming of the Righteous One,’ the Messiah, so had they
become His ‘betrayers and murderers.’
While priding themselves on having ‘received the law as ordained by
angels,’ they ‘did not keep it.’ They
were without excuse, since the law pointed to Christ (John 5:39). Stephen once again echoes the words of his
Lord, who said to these same leaders, ‘If you believed Moses, you would believe
Me; for he wrote of Me’ (John 5:46).
They had no real respect for Moses or the law or they never would have
murdered the One Moses promised (Gen. 18:14) or the One of whom the law spoke.”
Matthew 23:29-32:
“29 "Woe to you, scribes and
Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the
monuments of the righteous, 30 and say, ’If we had been living in the days of
our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of
the prophets.’ 31 “So you
testify against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 “Fill
up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers
All I have to say is that Stephen was a very gracious man
even though it may seem that what he is saying is pretty harsh, yet when we
look at the life of Jesus while on earth He said many of the same things, he
like we will see of Stephen was murdered although Jesus’ death was planned by
the Father in order to pay for our sins, and Stephen’s death was surely also
planned by the Father, yet for a different reason. Stephen would become the very first Christian
martyr as we will see in our next SD which will cover Acts 7:54-8:1a.
Tomorrow in the United States we celebrate Thanksgiving
and for that I am very thankful to live in a country that has a special holiday
to give thanks to the Lord for all He has done for us.
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Memory verse: “Philippians 4:8” “Finally, brethren, whatever is true,
whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,
whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if there is anything
worthy of praise, dwell on these things.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “About 30 years” (Luke 3:23).
Today’s Bible
question: “Who said ‘Behold and Israelite
indeed, in whom is no gile’?”
Answer in our next SD.
11/22/2017 2:58 PM
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