SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/20/2021 11:13 AM
My Worship Time
Focus: PT-2
“Intro to Matt. 8:1-15”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
8:1-15
Message of the
verses: I mentioned in our last SD
that I am not going to put in the verses as there are many and so I won’t put
them in until we have less verses.
We
saw in our last few studies of chapter seven that Jesus never quoted any of the
older teachers of that day, Jesus did not quote the Talmud, the Midrash, the
Mishnah, or other rabbis. Jesus
recognized no written authority but the Old Testament Scripture, and He even
put His own words on a par with Scripture, for after all God is the author of
the Scriptures, and Jesus is God come in the flesh. We also mentioned that it was Matthew,
inspired by the Holy Spirit who wrote the following “28
When Jesus had finished these words, the crowds were amazed at His teaching; 29
for He was teaching them as one having authority, and not as their
scribes.”
MacArthur
writes “In establishing Jesus’ messiahship, Matthew demonstrated His legal
qualification through His genealogy, His prophetic qualification through the
fulfillment of prophecy by His birth and infancy, His divine qualification by
the Father’s won attestation at His baptism, His spiritual qualification by His
perfect resistance to Satan’s temptations, and His theological qualification
through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.
“In
chapters 8 and 9 Matthew dramatically sets forth still another
qualification: Jesus’ divine power. Through the miracles of these two chapters,
Matthew shows beyond doubt that Jesus is, in fact, the very Son of God, because
only God could perform such supernatural feats.
In an astounding display of power, Jesus cleansed a leper, healed two
paralytics, cooled a fever, calmed a storm at sea, cast out demons, raised a
girl from the dead, gave sight to two blind men, restored speech to a man made
dumb by demons, and healed every other kind of disease and sickness.
“These
two chapters are particularly critical to understanding the life and ministry
of Christ. In this section Matthew
records a series of nine miracles performed by the Lord, each one selected out
of the thousands He performed during His three-year ministry. The nine miracles of Matthew 8-9 are
presented in three groups of three miracles each. In each group Matthew recounts the miracles
and then reports the Jew’s response.”
We
you get to the end of John’s gospel you read these words “24 This is the
disciple who is testifying to these things and wrote these things, and we know
that his testimony is true. 25 And there are also many other things which Jesus
did, which if they were written in detail, I suppose that even the world itself
would not contain the books that would be written.” In John’s
gospel we read about seven “signs” and theses signs are seven miracles that he
uses to show that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God and that by believing on
Him one can have eternal life. The point
is that the miracles that are recorded in the NT gospels are there for a
specific purpose as we can see from what John wrote in his gospel and how John
MacArthur explains in the quoted paragraphs above. I suppose that Jesus could have come to earth
and stated to everyone that He is the Messiah and not done anything to prove
that, but that is not the way that Jesus did that. Jesus wanted His Father to be glorified by
the sings and miracles that He did and the greatest miracle that was done was
His resurrection from the dead. The
greatest miracle that I have ever received was the effectual call of the Holy
Spirit giving me salvation, and then giving it to my wife and my children and
then my grandchildren, those are indeed true miracles.
3/20/2021
11:37 AM
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