SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/7/2018 10:42 AM
My Worship Time Focus: The Accusations Presented
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Acts 25:6-7a
Message of the verses: “6 After he had
spent not more than eight or ten days among them, he went down to Caesarea, and
on the next day he took his seat on the tribunal and ordered Paul to be
brought. 7 After Paul arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood
around him, bringing many and serious charges against him.”
We can see that Festus, unlike Felix was true to his word
and so after eight or ten days he went down to Caesarea, which is about a 65
mile trip so I am not sure if he took it in one day or perhaps two days. After this long trip of sixty-five miles
Festus brought Paul to him while he was on his seat on the tribunal, something
I suppose has something to do with judgment.
John MacArthur calls it (the bema,
of judgment seat). Paul speaks of this
in his letter to the Corinthians where he talks about believers coming to the
judgment seat of Christ, which is not a seat where, from my understanding, sin
is not brought up. I look at the
Judgment seat of Christ as a place where believers are judged for what they did
for the Lord while on earth. I have
mentioned in many earlier SD’s that in my view of Ephesians 2:10 “For we are
His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared
beforehand so that we would walk in them,” that God has given each believer
works to do which he says that He “prepared beforehand” and my belief is that
if we do these works through the power of the Holy Spirit, then we will be
rewarded at the “Bema, or Judgment seat of Christ.
We see that after the defendant had arrived then “the Jews
who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious
charges against him.” If anyone is
following the Supreme Court hearings for a man who is as well qualified as any
man ever who has served on the court, then you will get a picture of what these
Jews did against Paul. A bunch of
emptied headed wind bags would be a good description of both hearings. The unsubstantiated charges that the Jews
brought against Paul were no more likely to convince Festus than they had Felix.
Spiritual meaning for
my life today: Trust the Lord in all
cases like Paul was during this hearing, for even though you know you have done
nothing wrong, what can happen to you is still in the hands of the Lord. Think of what happened to Jesus as what
happened to Him was entirely wrong, but perfectly in the will of the Lord.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Trust the
Lord to give me victory over my IBS as we do things on our vacation today that
will stretch me.
Answer to yesterday’s
Bible question: “The whole creation”
(Romans 8:22).
Today’s Bible
question: “According to Revelation 19:11
what is Christ’s name?”
Answer in our next SD
9/7/2018 11:08 AM
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