PT-2 Revelation" (Matt. 11;27)

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/28/2021 11:41 AM

 

My Worship Time                                                                                   Focus: PT-2 “Revelation”

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                         Reference:  Matt. 11:27

 

            Message of the verses: 27 "All things have been handed over to Me by My Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father; nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him. 

 

            I mentioned in our last SD that I kind of had the cart before the horse as we looked at this verse, but we will add some things in today’s SD as we look at this second truth from verse 27, which is explicit.  In our Lord’s deity He not only was intimate with His Father but had received “all things” including all authority, sovereignty, truth, and power that came from His Father.  MacArthur adds “At some time in preexistent eternity, the Father committed these ‘things’ to the Son (cf. John 5:21-24).”  “21 “For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom He wishes. 22 “For not even the Father judges anyone, but He has given all judgment to the Son, 23 so that all will honor the Son even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him. 24  "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.”

 

            We now conclude this second point as again I wish to quote from MacArthur’s commentary.  “It was because all authority had been given to Him ‘in heaven and on earth’ that Jesus had the right to send out His followers to ‘make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit’ (Matt 28:18-19).  The underlying purpose of Jesus’ miracles was to demonstrate His authority over illness, disease, demons, nature, life, death, and sin.  He had authority to forgive sins, to save from divine judgment, and to sovereignly control everything on earth and in heaven.  ‘All things’ in the universe and pertaining to the universe are under His divine sovereignty.  His power displayed during His ministry was a preview of the full display in the coming earthly millennium, when He will reign over the earth.”

 

            There is a third truth found in this verse and that is that “no one knows the Son except the Father.”  Man has no way in himself of discovering what God is like, because his finite mind cannot grasp God’s infinite nature.  Because the truth is that the Son is divine, as Jesus says, only the divine Father truly “knows” Him.  The obverse is equally true; “nor does anyone know the Father, except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.”  The truth is that divine truth can only be divinely perceived and divinely imparted as seen in 1 Corinthians 2:9-16. 

 

            There are some who believe that philosophy and religion are the way to understand about God, or understand His truth, but that is not the case.  The only way that we can truly know God and know about God is through His Word and His Word teaches us about His Son who came to earth to die in our place, and also to show us about who the Father is.  It is God who must break into the darkness and emptiness of man’s human understanding and then show Himself before man can know Him.

 

            MacArthur concludes “When Jesus teaches here about God’s revelation of Himself  is at once simple and utterly profound.  It is to the person who sets aside all human knowledge and wisdom and becomes as an unlearned, helpless infant, that God chooses to ‘reveal’ Himself.  ‘No man has seen God at any time; the only begotten God, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him’ (John 1:18).  Only the person emptied of human wisdom can be filled with divine truth.

            Martin Luther said, ‘Here the bottom falls out of all merit, all powers and abilities or reason or the free will men dream of, and it all counts nothing before God.  Christ must do and must give everything.’”

 

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  I am so very thankful that the Lord made Himself known to me, and it is my desire to serve Him and tell others what He has done for me in saving me.

 

My Steps of Faith for Today:  I am trusting the Lord that He will give comfort to the newest widow as our friend went into the presence of the Lord early this morning.  I will truly miss him.

 

12/28/2021 12:36 PM