SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/11/2022 9:33 AM
My Worship Time
Focus: PT-1
“The Principle Stated”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
15:10-11
Message of the verses: “10 And after He
called the multitude to Him, He said to them, "Hear, and understand. 11 “Not
what enters into the mouth defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth,
this defiles the man.’”
We are not told who this multitude is, but it is
probably the same people that Jesus was speaking to in Matthew 14:3-36. I am not really sure of the importance of who
it was but I suppose it would be really nice to know.
Now
as we look at two comparing passages from John and Mark we cans see that the
particular period of healing and teaching by our Lord apparently lasted for
many days, and the reason is because it carried Jesus to numerous villages,
cities, and countryside’s as we see in Mark 6:56 “Wherever He entered villages,
or cities, or countryside, they were laying the sick in the market places, and
imploring Him that they might just touch the fringe of His cloak; and as many
as touched it were being cured.” MacArthur
adds “Sometime during this period of delegation of scribes and Pharisees from
Jerusalem had come to Galilee to discredit Jesus and had instead been
discredited by Him.”
It
was the multitudes that had been standing along the sidelines listening to Jesus
condemn the religious leaders. Now it
was time for Him to call them in order to explain what He had just said about
unscriptural traditions and about empty worship.
We
see Jesus had said to them Hear and understand and this is a common way of saying
to the crowd that they had better listen up for what I have to say is very
important. Now of course everything that
Jesus said was important, but He wanted them to listen carefully as He began to
tell them about what He has to say, it is extremely important. The words that Jesus was using will not
really be hard to understand, but that it would be hard to accept because of
the long time teaching that they had heard from the Pharisees and other
religious leaders. MacArthur writes “The
greatest stumbling block to salvation has always been lack of acceptance and
belief of the gospel, not lack of understanding it. It is precisely when the gospel is clearest—as
when it was taught by Jesus Himself—that it is also likely to be the most
unacceptable.” Perhaps this statement is
true because of the brainwashing of the false teachers. Now to add to this I want to talk about a
group of teenagers from our church those who had just finished the 9th
grade to those who finished graduating who spent a week in Mormon country in
Utah and Arizona. My oldest grandson was
with this group and from what we heard from the Pastors who went along he did a
great job. My point is not to brag about
my grandson but to say that the people they encountered as they witnessed to
the Mormons was that these Mormons had been brainwashed just like the Pharisees
and other religious leaders had brainwashed the people of Israel with their
traditions. We can call both cults,
people who do not understand and believe who the Person of Jesus Christ really
is, that He is God incarnate who came to do His Father’s will while on earth in
order to be our Sacrifice as He died on the cross for our sins, was buried for
three days, and then God raised Him from the dead. He is the God/Man who created the world, who
is the second Person of the trinity, and I am thankful to say that He is my
Savior and my Lord, the One who deserves all worship from me.
Lord
willing we will continue on this section in our next SD.
7/11/2022 10:13 AM
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