SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/9/2022 10:18 AM
My Worship Time
Focus: Intro
to “The Blind will Never See”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
16:1-4
Message of the verses: 1 And the Pharisees and Sadducees came up, and testing Him
asked Him to show them a sign from heaven. 2 But He answered and said to them,
"When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky
is red.’ 3 “And in the morning, ’There will be a storm today, for the
sky is red and threatening.’ Do you know how to discern the appearance of the
sky, but cannot discern the signs of the times? 4 “An evil and
adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and a sign will not be given it, except
the sign of Jonah." And He left them, and went away.
I mentioned that in our last SD that I have
concluded the second book of four books that make up John MacArthur’s
commentary on the book of Matthew. Sometime
in the middle of November, Lord willing, we will begin our fourth year in our
study of Matthew, and to tell you the truth I never dreamed that it would take
so long to go through this first book of the New Testament, but I can also say
that I believe this has been a very rewording task in studying this Gospel.
Having
good eyesight is very important to every person on this planet, and in America
we spend billions of dollars a year to make sure we can see well. However there are still many blind people who
live in our country.
Here
is a bigger problem that everyone on planet earth has, and that is since the
sin of Adam and Eve all people are born spiritually blind. MacArthur writes “They fall into two
categories; those who will never see and know God and those who, by the grace
of God and the illumination of the Holy Spirit, are enabled to see and to have
intimate fellowship with Him. The
deciding factor is how a person is related to Jesus Christ. The person who rejects, the Savior remains
forever blind; the person who confesses Him as Lord is given spiritual sight as
well as spiritual life. Unfortunately,
men do not universally have the desire for spiritual sight that they do for
physical. The vast majority do not know
they are spiritually blind and do not care.
Even when offered sight, many refuse it.” I believe that this quote is truthful, and I
also believe that because it is truthful that it is very sad.
Let
us now look at John 1:9-11 which speaks about our Lord: “9 There was the true Light which, coming
into the world, enlightens every man. 10 He was in the world, and the world was
made through Him, and the world did not know Him. 11 He came to His own, and
those who were His own did not receive Him.”
Paul writes the following in Romans 1:20-21 20 For since the creation of
the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have
been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they
are without excuse. 21 For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as
God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was
darkened. We see here that even
with evidence of God plainly before them, unregenerate men refuse to see
Him. That is because their eyes reject
the evidence because their hearts reject the One who gives it. I have to say that this section of Romans
goes entirely against evolution, something that comes straight out of the mouth
of Satan. The word in Hebrew Ex Nihilo
means that God created things out of nothing, as He just spoke and the world
came into being. In evolution there
always has to be something there that grows or something else, but that is not
true with creation as God spoke and the worlds came into existence.
We
will look at a couple more verses and then will stop for today. “14 But a natural man does not accept the
things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot
understand them, because they are spiritually appraised” (1 Cor. 2:14). Evolutionists are what this verse calls “a
natural man.” 17 So this I say, and
affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles
also walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 being darkened in their understanding,
excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because
of the hardness of their heart;” (Eph. 4:17-18).
Now
keep in mind we are talking about blindness, and Lord willing we will continue
this introduction in our next SD.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: “I
once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see.” That is truly Amazing Grace.
My Steps of Faith for Today: To walk in
the light as He is in the light.
8/9/2022 10:50 AM
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