SPIRIRUAL DIARY FOR 9/15/2021 11:20 AM
My Worship Time
Focus: PT-1”A Central Objective:
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew 10:5b-6
Message of the
verses: “"Do
not go in the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter any
city of the Samaritans; 6 but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of
Israel.”
This central objective is the second
principle for ministry that emerges indirectly from this passage. Some may wonder what our Lord did not want
his apostles to go to any gentiles or Samaritans, but as we go through His
reasons for this we will understand more about this. In the fourth chapter of John’s gospel we see
that the very first person that our Lord gave the gospel to was a woman who was
a Samaritan. This is obviously a
different situation.
MacArthur writes “The Great
Commission was Christ’s broad, general order to proclaim the gospel to the
whole world, but in carrying out that commission, the apostles would be given
specific gifts and specific ministries.
Yet as this particular time in Christ’s plan for proclaiming the gospel
and for preparing the apostles, His objective was especially narrow and
limited.”
I want my readers to know that both
my wife and I are struggling with covid and
in doing these Spiritual diaries it takes a great deal of effort for me
to do them, and so they will be rather short until I am feeling better. Your prayers for us would be appreciated.
9/15/2021 11:35 AM
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