SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/27/2021 12:47 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 “A Disciple Emulates His Master”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matt.
10:24-25
Message of the verses: “24 “A disciple is
not above his teacher, nor a slave above his master. 25 “It is enough for the
disciple that he become as his teacher, and the slave as his master. If they
have called the head of the house Beelzebul, how much more the members of his
household!”
We want to move to the second point that Jesus makes
here and this is also an unquestionable point that He makes, and that is that
the true disciple is to learn from his teacher in order to “become as his teacher,
and that the purpose of a faithful slave is to serve and become “as his master.” Luke 6:40 gives us another similar teaching
of our Lord “"A pupil is not above his teacher; but everyone, after he has
been fully trained, will be like his teacher.”
So a disciples single, overriding purpose is to emulate his “teacher. It is enough “for him to become as his
teacher, not only in the teacher’s wisdom and character but also in the teacher’s
treatment. The disciple desires nothing
more and settles for nothing less.
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John 2:6 says “the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the
same manner as He walked.” We find in
the great commission the function of discipleship, which is clearly
stated: “to observe all that I commanded
you” (Matt. 28:20). When a believer
(disciple) becomes like Christ, his Teacher, when he learns and obeys Scripture. The disciple is the one whom the Word of
Christ richly dwells according to Colossians 3:16. Growing in discipleship is growing in
Christlikeness, as we look forward to the day when “we shall be like him,
because we shall see Him just as He is” (1John 3:2).
Here
is the logical thing that happens when we are like Christ, and that is that we
will be treated like Him, and as we look toward the last part His ministry we
know that He was not treated well at all.
Jesus speaks to this at the end of verse 25 “. If they have called the
head of the house Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!” MacArthur writes “Jesus continues to develop
the same truth but changes the figure from those of disciple/teacher and slave/master
to that of head of the house/members of his household. Family members and servants should not expect
to be treated better than “the head” of the family is treated.”
Paul
understood this truth as he declares in Philippians 3:10 “the fellowship of His
sufferings, being conformed to His death,”
As we read through the book of Acts and also some of Paul’s writings,
especially 2 Corinthians, we will see that Paul suffered much for the gospel of
Jesus Christ. MacArthur adds “The ture
disciple does not demand to be accepted and loved by the world, when his Lord
was rejected and crucified by the world.
He does not expect his commitment to the Lord to cause him to become
famous and respected, when his Lord was considered infamous and was despised.”
Lord willing we will finish this section
in our next SD. 10/27/2021 1:12 PM
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