SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/21/2018
10:29 AM
My Worship Time Focus: God is the Controller
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Acts 17:26
Message of the
verses: “26 and He made from one man
every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined
their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,”
The first thing that I want to do is to pay tribute to my
mother who was born on this date back in 1922, and she died in July of 2012 a
bit over ninety years old. I have to say
that I miss her and look forward to one day seeing here when the Rapture of the
Church comes.
I also want to say that this will be a rather short SD,
and I suppose those who read these will be happy about that. I follow the outline that is in John
MacArthur’s commentaries and this happens to be a short one.
I want to also say that people in today’s world who don’t
know the Lord, and even some who do know the Lord will have a difficult time
with what Paul is saying in this verse, especially those who believe in
evolution. Paul states that “from one
man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth.” That one man of course was Adam and if it
were not for sin, the sin he committed things on this earth would be perfect,
but that is not the case as we can see.
Adam and Eve had children and when their children got older they married
each other and had other children and so on.
The same was true after the flood when there were only eight people on
the Ark and so Noah’s sons and daughter-in-laws had children who married either
their sisters and brothers or their cousins.
How could this happen and not have problems with their children like
would happen today if a brother had children with his sister. The answer is what we could call
de-evolution. What is de-evolution? Well evolution teaches that things are going
up and getting better, while de-evolution teaches the opposite, things are
getting worse off. The problem is in the
gene pool. It was during the time when
Moses was leading the people out of Egypt and then giving the law to them that
God instructed Moses to not have people marry in their immediate family up to a
distant cousin. “6 ’None of you shall
approach any blood relative of his to uncover nakedness; I am the LORD (Lev.
18:6).” As you look at the following
verses you will see more about this subject.
If it were not for sin then the gene-pool would not be a problem, but
because of de-evolution things continue to get worse off.
John MacArthur writes the following on verse 26: “God is not only the sovereign ruler of the
universe but also the controller of the affairs and destinies of men and
nations, Paul declares that He made ‘from
one’ (Adam) ‘every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth.’ That statement was a blow to the national pride
of the Greeks, who scornfully referred to non-Greeks as ‘barbarians.’ All men are equal, because all were created
by God. He ‘determined their appointed
times;’ the rise and fall of nations and empires are in His hands (cf. Dan.
2:36 ff.; Luke 21:24). God also set ‘the
boundaries of their habitation,’ placing certain nations in specific
geographical locations (Deut. 32:8) and determining the extent of their
conquests (cf. Isa. 10:12-15).”
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: By learning and
better understanding the attributes of God, one has no problems in
understanding verses like this from the Word of God. “My God is so big, so strong and so mighty,
there’s nothing my God cannot do” is what the children sing. Too bad when they get older they forget the
truth of this song.
My Steps of Faith for Today:
Continue to trust the Lord as He,
through His Spirit, and His Word led me each day.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “Cornelius” (Acts. 10:1).
Today’s Bible
question: “Which two books tells of
David as a king?”
Answer in our next SD.
5/21/2018 10:57 AM
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