SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/19/2021 9:13 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 “The Command to the Men”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
9:30b
Message
of the verse: “And Jesus sternly warned them: "See that no one knows about
this’”
I
want to finish up this section this morning and then look at another short
section. We have been speculating why it
was that Jesus told the men not to tell others about the miracle of sight that
He gave to these men. Jesus may have
told them not to spread this around because He did not want people just to be
only thinking of Him as a miracle worker, and again this relates to the feeding
of the 5,000 as told in John’s gospel.
In the sixth chapter of John’s gospel we see that Jesus speaks to some
of those who were feed as they came looking for Him after the “free meal,” and
told them that they only wanted more free food, not really the “True Bread of
Life.”
One
last possible reason is that Jesus did not want people to form an opinion of
whether or not He truly was the Messiah, as they needed to make up their own
minds about who He was. MacArthur
concludes this sub-section by writing “Jesus was concerned that especially the
Jews, as God’s chosen people, accept His messiahship on the basis of His
fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy, not simply on the basis of hearsay or
mere verbal claims.”
The Contrariness of the Men: the two men immediately “went out, and spread the news
about Him in all that land” (Matt. 9:31).
I
think that if you are a true believer in Jesus Christ that you would agree that
you need to say more about Him to others, something called witnessing, however
in this case we are looking at today they were told not to say anything, but
they did it anyway. I just have to
interject again saying that if I were in their position and have been blind for
a very long time like these men that I would have to tell others the wonderful
thing that the Lord had done for me. In
fact when I first became a believer that is exactly what I set out to do, and
although there have been times of “drought” I still love sharing what Christ
has done for me. John MacArthur
concludes: “Because it was disobedience
of the Lord, what they did was wrong; but it was a kind of sin that only a
grateful, overflowing heart could commit.
The men could not resist the overwhelming desire to tell everyone of
their wonderful deliverance and of the Lord who delivered them.”
6/19/2021 9:31 AM
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