SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/14/2022 9:27 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 “The Parable of the
Householder: Proclamation”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matt.
13:51-5 2
Message of the verses: “51 “Have you
understood all these things?" They said to Him, "Yes." 52 And He
said to them, "Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple of the
kingdom of heaven is like a head of a household, who brings forth out of his
treasure things new and old."
I
want to begin by looking at Matthew 9:38, and I have to say that before I go
ahead and quote this verse that this verse has become precious for me because
it is the name of a little booklet that I have been reading most every day in
order to pray for different ways for Baptist Mid Missions. If one would like to follow this prayer
booklet for thirty days they can download it from the Baptist Mid Missions
website. Just search BMM and once on the
site search for “Pray 938. It only takes
a few minutes a day to go over this but the rewards are out of this world.
“"Therefore
beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest." Now as far as why we are looking at this
today we can see that Jesus had instructed the disciples to “beseech the Lord
of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest” as seen in Matt. 9:38, in
order to proclaim the coming harvest of judgment and to warn men of it and tell
them how to escape it while they could.
MacArthur writes “In the following four chapters, we see Him
specifically call them to this ministry and begin teaching, training, and in
every way preparing them for it.”
Now
in our last SD we talked about the disciples affirmative response, and so based
on this Jesus then said to them, "Therefore every scribe who has become a
disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like a head of a household. MacArthur then adds A grammateus (scribe) literally referred to one who wrote.
But among Jews the term had long carried that distinctive connotation of
a man who was a learner, interpreter, and teacher of the law, God revealed Word
that we now call The Old Testament.
Although the scribes and rabbis had added so much tradition that it
subordinated and often contradicted God’s true Word (Matt. 15:6), their
purported task was to study and interpret Scriptures. They were the theologians of Judaism, and
many were members of the high Jewish council, the Sanhedrin.”
Now
under Jesus’ instruction, each of the Twelve was becoming a genuinely learned scribe
and a true disciple of the kingdom of heaven.
They also had become like a head of a household, who brings forth out of
his treasure things new and old."
Now the head of the household was responsible for the entire welfare of
the family, and a major part of what his duties were was to maintain ample
supplies of food, clothing, and all other things the members of the household
might need. He kept these supplies in a storehouse,
or treasure, from which he would dispense items as they were needed. One of the things that has come to my mind is
that there were some of these Twelve who would write parts of the New Testament,
speaking of scribes. We will stop for
today. 5/14/2022 9:48 AM
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