SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/24/2022 8:05 AM
My Worship Time Focus: “Unbelief
Builds Up The Irrelevant”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matt
13:55-56
Message of the verses: “55 “Is not this
the carpenter’s son? Is not His mother called Mary, and His brothers, James and
Joseph and Simon and Judas? 56 “And His sisters, are they not all with us?
Where then did this man get all these things?’”
We have been talking about how the overwhelming
evidence of Jesus Christ being the Messiah has been seen, even to those in His
home town, and yet what we see in these two verses are actually irrelevant
things that the people were bring up.
MacArthur writes “It was indeed surprising to see someone they had
watched grow up and with whom they had gone to synagogue all His life suddenly
come on the scene as a great leader—with no formal training and no recognition
by the accepted religious hierarchy.”
Matthew
is pointing out a number of facts about Jesus including that He had
half-brothers and sisters, but again these were irrelevant in so much as Jesus
being who He claimed to be and who had done things to prove that He was indeed
their Messiah. I have written in past SD’s
about who the Jews were looking for in their Messiah, as they wanted someone to
take them out of the control of Rome.
There are actually two pictures of Messiah in the Old Testament as one
shows a conquering leader and the other shows of a Person who would come to
earth humbly in order to pay for the sins of the world. The people of Nazareth should have had
overwhelming joy that God chose for their Messiah to be brought up there, but
they didn’t to their shame.
John
MacArthur writes the following very important paragraphs: “From this text and numerous others (see, e.
g., Matt. 12:46-47; Luke 2:7; John 7:10; Acts 1:14), it is clear that Mary did
not live in perpetual virginity, as Roman Catholic heresy claims. After Jesus’ birth, Joseph began normal
marital relations with his wife, and she bore at least four sons and two
daughters by him. Mary was a woman of
extraordinary godliness, but she was not more divine than any other woman ever
born, and certainly was not the mother of God, as Catholic dogma
maintains. She even referred to the Lord
as ‘God my Savior’ (Luke 1:47), affirming her own sinfulness and need of
salvation.
“Joseph
had been a tekion (carpenter), which
was the general term for a craftsman who worked with hard material, including
wood. He may also have worked with
bricks and stones. In any case, he had
surely built many houses, windows, doors, yokes, and other things for his
neighbors in Nazareth; and many products of his workmanship probably still
being used in the village. Joseph was an
ordinary laborer like most other men of the village, and Jesus learned carpentry
under him and no doubt took over the business after Joseph died (see Mark 6:3).”
“"Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James and
Joses and Judas and Simon? Are not His sisters here with us?" And they
took offense at Him.”
5/24/2022 8:27 AM
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