SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/14/2021 8:39 AM
My Worship Time
Focus: PT-2 “The Cry of the Men”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matt.
9:27-32
Message of the verses: “27 As Jesus went
on from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out, "Have mercy on us,
Son of David!" 28 When He entered the house, the blind men came up to Him,
and Jesus said to them, "Do you believe that I am able to do this?"
They said to Him, "Yes, Lord." 29 Then He touched their eyes, saying,
"It shall be done to you according to your faith." 30 And their eyes
were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them: "See that no one knows about
this!" 31 But they went out and spread the news about Him throughout
all that land. 32 As they were going out, a mute, demon-possessed man was
brought to Him.”
The Right Knowledge About Jesus: Now in the past we have talked about Messianic
names of the Messiah that are found in the Old Testament, and one of those
names is “Son of David,” and Matthew uses this title in the very first verse of
his gospel “The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David,
the son of Abraham” (Matt. 1:1). Now as
we look at what these two blind men called Jesus we see the same words “Son of
David,” as they truly believed that Jesus Christ was indeed the promised
Messiah. Son of David was a royal title
as David was king over Israel. Being the
Son of David Jesus had the right to be King over Israel as He will rule in the coming
kingdom that will last for a thousand years.
Let me go
over something that was a part of my Sunday school lesson on the book of
Hebrews that we looked at yesterday in order to help us better understand more
about the heritage of our Lord in the Old Testament, showing the path that
would bring Him to earth as the promised Messiah: “All
the Old Testament came in pieces. To Noah was revealed the quarter of the world
from which Messiah would come. To Abraham, the nation of Messiah; to Jacob, the
tribe of Messiah; to David and Isaiah, the family of Messiah; to Micah, the
town where He’d be born; to Daniel, the time when He’d be born; to Malachi, the
forerunner who would come before him; to Jonah, his resurrection was typified;
and every one of those pieces and bits come together. But in Jesus Christ,
everything was whole and total, and the revelation was full and complete.”
MacArthur
writes “Every Jew who heard the blind men call Jesus the Son of David
recognized it as a clear confession of their belief in His messiahship. Publicly and boldly they affirmed Jesus as
the promised Deliverer of Israel, and they came to Him seeking their own deliverance.”
The Right Attitude Toward Jesus: I mentioned this in our last SD how these men
were not only looking for physical healing, but for spiritual healing as they
cried out to Jesus “have mercy on us.”
In doing this it is believed that not only Jesus could heal their
physical needs, but more important their spiritual need. We all need mercy if we are going to become a
believer in Jesus Christ as mercy is holding back what we deserve and grace is
giving us what we can never earn. By
grace you are saved is what Paul wrote to the Ephesians. More from MacArthur: “Although one cannot be dogmatic in assuming
so, it seems reasonable to suggest that they felt a spiritual need that only
Jesus could meet, and they came to Him in hungering humility, openly throwing
themselves on His grace. They knew they
were undeserving of the Lord’s help, but they also must have known that ‘the
Lord is gracious and merciful; slow to anger and great in lovingkindness,’ that
He ‘is good to all, and His mercies are over all His works’ (Ps. 145:8-0). They heeded the call of Joel to ‘return to
the Lord your God, for He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger,
abounding in lovingkindness’ (Joel 2:13).”
We will
look more at this subject of “the right attitude” in our next SD.
6/14/2021 9:12 AM
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