SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/16/2021 9:25 PM
My Worship Time
Focus: PT-2
“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.”
I decided to wait until the evening
to write my Spiritual Diary hoping that my mind may be a bit clearer as this
Covid seems to have a bad effect on my thinking.
We mentioned in our last very short
SD that Jesus did not want His apostles to speak to any gentiles or Samaritans. In other words, they were not at this time to
proclaim the kingdom message of salvation to non-Jewish people.
If one looks at the great commission
at the end of Matthew’s gospel we know that this was just temporary. We also mentioned that Jesus spoke to the
woman at the well who was a Samaritan.
There are other people that Jesus healed who were gentiles like that
slave of a centurion.
The Jews hated the Samaritans
because that were half Jews. I don’t
think that Jesus wanted His apostles to get involved with the gentiles and the
Samaritans on their very first missionary trip.
MacArthur writes “Had the apostles
gone first to the Samaritans and Gentiles, the Jews would have been perceived
the apostles as bearers of a pagan religion.
Although they had greatly distorted and disobeyed God’s revelation, the
Jews were right in their relief that His revelation to them was unique and that
they had a unique role in His plan of redemption.
9/16/2021 9:46
PM
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