SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/10/2022 9:34 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
“The Indictment”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
Matthew 12:2
Message of the verse: “2 But when the
Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, "Behold, Your disciples do what is not
lawful to do on a Sabbath.’”
The first thing that I want to mention is that this
will be a very short SD, as we will only be looking at what these very foolish
Pharisees were asking our Lord. Another
thing I would like to know is why were these Pharisees out in this grain field
in the first place, as we can be sure that they were more than 3000 feet from
their houses. MacArthur thinks that
perhaps these men had certain exceptions that were made for those
self-appointed guardians of tradition.
Kind of like the politicians of our day when they say we all should wear
masks and then we see many pictures of them without masks. In our world today we sometimes see policemen
breaking the law in order to catch a speeder or crook, so this may be what
these Pharisees were doing.
MacArthur
writes “The charge that Jesus’ ‘disciples’ were doing ‘what is not lawful to do
on a Sabbath’ was itself sinful, because it put human tradition on a par with “God’s
own Word. Rabbinic tradition was not legitimate
Jewish law, but many centuries of observance had given it that status in the
minds of most Jews, especially the legalistic scribes and Pharisees. God’s Word was honored in name and was the
supposed basic used as a means to justify the traditions, many of which
actually contradicted and ‘invalidated the word of “God’ (Matt. 15:6).”
I
think what we have here is that these Pharisees believed that they could work
their way into heaven by adding to the Mosaic law that God gave while Moses was
on the mountain found in the book of Exodus where the entire law was given to
him along with details about building the tabernacle where the offerings were
to be given. Also the Priesthood for
Israel was given there on the mountain.
Moses was a bit over 80 years old when he got all of these things from
the Lord and it seems that he memorized all that the Lord had given to him and
then came down and began to put them into practice along with building all the
things that had to do with the tabernacle, which was about the worship of our
Lord. What we see here is also something
that were pictures of our Lord as seen in the book of Hebrews. After the death of Jesus on the cross the
curtain between the holy place and the Holy of Holies was torn into from top to
bottom which in effect ended Judaism.
What
these Pharisees were doing was indicting the Lord and His disciples for
disobeying their distorted, man-made traditions, thus perverting God’s
intention for the Sabbath, which was to provide man with a special day of rest,
not a painful day of burdens.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: It is my desire to just do the things that
God has in mind for me to do, and if I see myself doing things that go against
the written Word of God, then I must stop doing them, after confessing them to
the Lord as being sinful. In order for
me to understand what I am to be doing for the cause of Christ I must be in the
Word of God each day, and also be praying that the Lord will show me the things
that I am to do for the cause of Christ.
My Steps of Faith For Today: Trust the
Lord to continue to do the things that He has planned for me to do, which were
planned in eternity past.
1/10/2022 10:00 AM
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