SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/20/2021 9:45 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
“The Commitment of the Men”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew 9:32
Message of the
verse: “32
As they were going out, a mute, demon-possessed man was brought to Him.”
It is the belief of some that as
these two former blind men go out that they then brought this mute,
demon-possessed man to Jesus. Another possible
rendering of this verse from the KJV is “As they went out, behold, they brought
to him a dumb man.” It seems the idea is
that these men ran into a friend of theirs and knowing what had happened to
them they brought this man to Jesus.
This is what happens when a person gets saved, that is they want to tell
others what happened to them. I don’t
think that it is out of the realm of possibility that these three men knew each
other as they all had handicaps. You have
two blind men and a person who can’t hear and so what you have is a full person
(for lack of a better term) when you put the three together.
I have to mention that this is going
to be a very short SD and as I end it I will quote the last paragraph from
MacArthur’s commentary.
“Kophos
(‘dumb’) often included the idea of deafness (see Matt. 11:5).” ( “the
BLIND RECEIVE SIGHT and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed
and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the POOR HAVE
THE GOSPEL PREACHED TO THEM”) “because
inability to speak is frequently caused by inability to hear. As with blindness, deafness was common in the
ancient world. Accidents and disease
caused loss of hearing, infectious organisms that eventually destroyed
hearing. In this man’s case, however
dumbness was caused by being ‘demon-possessed,’ and when he was delivered from
the demon, he was delivered from deafness.”
It is my desire to all fathers who
read this today to have a very happy “Father’s Day,” and to be grateful for
your children and grand-children if you have any yet.
6/20/2021 10:01
AM
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