SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/18/2022 8:34 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “The Insurrection”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
12:14
Message of the
verse: “14
But the Pharisees went out, and counseled together against Him, as to
how they might destroy Him.”
As I think about what we have been writing over the
past few days about the hardness of heart that the Pharisees had it reminds me
of a number of things. The first thing that
it reminds me of is what sin did to people right after Adam and Eve
sinned. They hid from God, and tried to
cover their sin by making clothes to cover their nakedness. They immediately died spiritually, and the
effect of that has gone to every person who has been born since. Eventually they died physically, and got a glimpse
of when Cain killed Able, which is the first recorded death in the Word of
God. I remember a story, that I have
probably have told different times on my blogs, and that story is about a
Pastor we had at a church I used to go to.
We had an undertaker going to our church at the time and we were talking
about being spiritually dead. The Pastor
asked the undertaker if any of his clients could ever respond if he asked them
what color of tie they wanted to be buried in.
Of course all his clients were dead and could not respond. As we look back at our story about the
Pharisees we know that they had witnessed miracle after miracle that Jesus had
done, and yet because they were spiritual dead those miracles did nothing to
move their dead heart to repentance.
I truly believe that the Bible
teaches that God has chosen people before the foundation of the earth that will
respond to the effectual call that the Holy Spirit gives to them for
salvation. I also believe that people
have to respond to that call, and this is also taught in the Bible. I also believe that no one can totally
understand this, which is why I have to go to Deuteronomy 29:29 which says “"The
secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us
and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law.” This is one of the secret things that belong
to the Lord and so it has to be one of the things that we have to take by
faith, trusting the Lord. There have
been a number of times that I have had to go to that verse after reading things
that I don’t understand in the Word of God, and as the middle of that verse
says “the things revealed belong to us,” and what this means to me is that the
things that we do understand we need to obey, trusting the Lord that His Holy
Spirit will cause us to obey the things that we are suppose to obey that are
found in the Scripture. “Therefore as
you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him” (Col. 2:6). How are we saved? We are saved by grace through faith, and this
is how we are to walk worthy in the Lord, knowing that on our own we can’t do
it, no more than on our own, and in our own strength we can become a true
believer in Jesus Christ.
Well this SD was very short, but it
gave me a chance to say some things that I wanted to say. By the way I don’t think that there were too
many Pharisees that came to know Christ as their Savior, but one did for sure
and he wrote a good portion of the New Testament letters.
1/18/2022 8:55
AM
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