SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/20/2022 8:06 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-1 “The
Principle”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matt.
12:34b-35
Message of the verses: “For the mouth
speaks out of that which fills the heart. 35 "The good man brings out of his
good treasure what is good; and the evil man brings out of his evil
treasure what is evil.”
Now as we look at the Scriptures we will find
different principles in them and what we are looking at in this verse and a
half is one of the most basic principles of Scripture regarding men: the mouth speaks what is in the heart. What a person is on the inside the mouth will
certainly reveal, that is give evidence on the outside. Our Lord’s half brother James says that one
who did not sin with his mouth would be “a perfect man” which is seen in James
3:2. As we have been looking at this
section in the 12th chapter of Matthew we have seen that the
Pharisees’ hearts are very evil which made them blaspheme the Holy Spirit by
accusing Jesus of casting out demons by Satan’s power. We have gone into detail about this in our
past SD’s and said what they did was what is called the unpardonable sin. These Pharisees’ spoke evil because their
hearts were filled with evil, and by their words they condemned themselves as
they sought to condemn Jesus.
John
MacArthur writes “In Scripture the heart represents the seat of thought and
will, rather than the seat of emotions (represented by the bowels, or stomach
area, as indicated in the KJV renderings of Song of Sol. 5:4; Jer. 31:20; Phil.
1:8; 2:1; Philem. 7, 12, 20; and 1 John 3:17).
The heart represents the character of a person, and therefore to say
that words reveal what the heart is like is to say they reveal what the person
is like. When it speaks, the mouth
simply reproduces verbally what is in the heart. Using that same figure, Jesus explained on a
later occasion that ‘the things that proceeded out of the mouth come from the
heart, and those defile the man. For out
of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts,
false witness, slanders’ (Matt. 15:18-19).”
Now
as we look at the phrase that which fills that translates the Greek noun perisseuma, writes MacArthur “which
means great abundance, fullness, or overflow.
It carries the idea of excess, which, in the terms of Jesus’ figure,
spills over from the heart and out of the mouth in the form of words. What the heart is full of will overflow from
the mouth.”
Spiritual meaning for my life today: There is much food for thought in this
section of Matthew to which I need to certainly think about, especially from
what is coming out of my mouth from time to time.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Trust that the Lord will fill me with things
from His Word in order to have the right things come out of my mouth.
2/20/2022 8:24 AM
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