SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/24/2022 10:11 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “Proof of His Divine Protection”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matt.
14:26-27
Message of the verses: “26 And when
the disciples saw Him walking on the
sea, they were frightened, saying, "It is a
ghost!" And they cried out for fear. 27 But immediately Jesus spoke to
them, saying, "Take courage, it is I; do not be afraid.’”
In my SD today I will begin looking at the third
proof of Jesus’ deity as it was manifested in His protection of the disciples
as can be seen in our verses for today.
I truly can’t imagine being in that boat and then seeing Jesus come
walking across the water during this violent wind storm with the waves high
enough to probably sink their boat. I
have to agree with what they said or what they thought they were seeing as
being some kind of a ghost and then they began to cry out in fear. Now remember who we are talking about as
these were men who were strong as most of them were a fisherman which is a very
difficult job to be able to handle the large nets and to take care of their
boats and their catch of fish. They were
strong men, and were becoming stronger in their faith in the Lord as they continued
to be around Jesus. John MacArthur
comments on this section “And they cried out for fear. Theoreo
(from which saw is derived) means to look intently, indicating that the
disciples’ gaze was transfixed on the apparition before them. At first Jesus did not walk directly toward the
boat but appeared to be passing by (Mark 6:48), but that made little difference
to the disciples. For a ghost to be
anywhere near them frightened almost out of their senses. The term ghost is the Greek phantasma, which refers to an
apparition, a creature of the imagination, and is the word from which come the
English phantom and phantasm.”
I
suppose that I need to talk about the liberal interpreters who are always right
in their own minds as they try their best to discredit the Word of God all of
the time. Perhaps they should get a real
job! They think that because the
disciples were so tired that they really only thought that they saw Jesus
walking on the water, as their tiered minds played tricks on them. However it would have been quite impossible
for all twelve of them to simultaneous experience the same imagined apparition,
but of course they didn’t think about that.
There is then the section we will be looking at later that tells us that
Jesus got into the boat, and oh by the way stopped the storm. I have to tell you of a preacher that was in
the church I went to as a child. He
stated about the feeding of the 5,000 that all of the people just brought a
lunch to eat and thus Jesus did not do a miracle to feed some 25,000 people,
making food from nothing. He is the guy
that wrote a book with the same title that Hitler had on his book Mein Kampf. This man is dead now and I don’t really want
to think about where he went after he died.
We
will continue to look at this section in our next SD, Lord willing as my wife
has some heavy duty lifting jobs for me to do as we are about to get some of
our carpet cleaned.
6/24/2022 10:33 AM
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