SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/25/2018
7:37 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-5 “Jesus: The Fulfillment of Prophecy”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Acts
13:23-37
Message of the
verses: “23 "From the descendants of this man,
according to promise, God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, 24 after John had proclaimed before His coming a
baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel. 25 "And while John was completing his
course, he kept saying, ’What do you suppose that I am? I am not He. But
behold, one is coming after me the sandals of whose feet I am not worthy to
untie.’ 26 "Brethren, sons of
Abraham’s family, and those among you who fear God, to us the message of this
salvation has been sent. 27 "For
those who live in Jerusalem, and their rulers, recognizing neither Him nor the
utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled these by
condemning Him. 28 "And though they
found no ground for putting Him to death, they asked Pilate that He be
executed. 29 "When they had carried
out all that was written concerning Him, they took Him down from the cross and
laid Him in a tomb. 30 “But God raised Him from the dead; 31 and for many days He appeared to those who
came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, the very ones who are now His
witnesses to the people. 32 "And we
preach to you the good news of the promise made to the fathers, 33 that God has
fulfilled this promise to our children in that He raised up Jesus, as it is
also written in the second Psalm, ’YOU ARE MY SON; TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU.’ 34
“As for the fact that He raised Him up from the dead, no longer to return to
decay, He has spoken in this way: ’I WILL GIVE YOU THE HOLY and SURE blessings
OF DAVID.’ 35 "Therefore He also
says in another Psalm, ’YOU WILL NOT ALLOW YOUR HOLY ONE TO UNDERGO DECAY.’
36 "For David, after he had served
the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep, and was laid among his
fathers and underwent decay; 37 but He whom
God raised did not undergo decay.”
We will be looking at three promises that are found in
verses 33-37. The first promises is seen
in verse 33 as we read “that God has fulfilled this promise to our children in
that He raised up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, ’YOU ARE MY
SON; TODAY I HAVE BEGOTTEN YOU.’” John
MacArthur writes “Psalm 2:7, quoted here by Paul, predicts not only Christ’s
incarnation but also His resurrection.
The resurrection magnified and glorified Christ’s sonship.”
Promise number two comes from Isaiah 55:3, as it came
true when God “He raised Him up from the dead, no longer to return to decay, He
has spoken in this way: ’I WILL GIVE YOU THE HOLY and SURE blessings OF DAVID.’” God had promised David that the Messiah would
come through his line, which is what happened, but if the Messiah had not been
raised from the dead then none of these blessings that God had promised through
a living Messiah would never happen.
John MacArthur writes the following on the third blessing
and then his conclusion to this section:
“The last, and greatest, promise comes from ‘another Psalm,’ Psalm
16. David writes in verse 10, ‘Thou wilt
not allow They Holy One to undergo decay.’
That David had Messiah, not himself, in view is obvious, ‘for David,
after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep, and
was laid among his fathers, and underwent decay.’ That David’s body remained in his grave after
his death is also obvious, since no one believed that he had already been
resurrected. In sharp contrast to David,
however, the One ‘whom God raised did not undergo decay.’
“All those promises, and countless others, required the
resurrection of Jesus for their fulfillment.
A dead Messiah, fulfills nothing.
Thus those promises are also powerful Old Testament proofs that Jesus is
the Messiah.”
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “Mount of Olives” (Zechariah
14:4).
Today’s Bible
question: “Who was cursed from the earth
and became a vagabond and fugitive because he murdered his brother?”
Answer in our next SD.
2/25/2018 7:54 AM
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