SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/15/2022 5:15 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 “The Provision Delivered”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
17:27b
Message of the verse: “go to the sea, and through in a hook, and take the first fish that comes up, and when you open its mouth, you will find a stater. Take that and give it to them for you and Me.”
I mentioned that we would look at what Peter wrote
in his first letter, as he no doubt still vividly remembers the miraculous
provision of the stater in the fish’s mouth and the teaching of Jesus that
accompanied this miracle. We see this in
the second chapter of First Peter and verse nine; “You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a
holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the
excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous
light.”
John MacArthur comments “Peter reminds his Christian
readers that they are elected by God to be His own people and to minister as
His priests to the unbelieving world around them. They are uniquely the Lord’s possession, His
children, and citizens of His divine kingdom, with their assignment on earth
being to fulfill a divine mission.
Having previously been a people of no consequence, they are now the
people of God. Having previously been
apart from God’s mercy, they now live under His abundant mercy (v. 10). Because of that high standing, Peter says, ‘I
urge you as aliens and strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts, which wage war
against the soul. Keep you behavior
excellent among the Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as
evildoers, they may on account of your good deeds, as they observe them glorify
God in the day of visitation’ (v. 11-12).”
Paul had something to say regarding the same issue, and
in spite of the godlessness of Rome and the claim to deity by Caesar, Paul
wrote, “Let every person be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God,
and those which exist are established by God.
Therefore he who resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and
they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves…For because of
this you also pay taxes, for rulers are servants of God devoting themselves to
this very thing. Render to all what is
due them: tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear;
honor to whom honor” (Rom 13:1-2, 5-17).
Let me just say that after living all of my life in the
USA and see how it seems to me that it is crumbling from the inside as many
things going on in our country are in direct opposition to the Word of God, I
have to say that these verses that we are looking at and continue to look at
are things that I am in need of being reminded of. Now because all has gone pretty well ever
since I was born, shortly after WWII, and so this makes it harder on me than if
I was just born say 20 years ago. I hate
to see what is happening to our country, but I have said over and over again
that all the way back to 1974 when I first became a believer that I knew that
the USA would have to fall from the power that they have because we are not in
the end time events that are written in the Word of God. I suppose that this is true of many nations
too, and so we, along with these other nations that are not mentioned will have
some kind of role in the end times, and when I say that I am talking about the
seven year tribulation period that is seen in the book of Daniel and also in
the book of Revelation chapters 6-19.
Other books also speak of this too, but these are the two dominant ones
that speak of it.
11/15/2022 5:40 PM
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