SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/22/2023 9:56 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 “The Application”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
Matt. 21:43-44
Message of the verses: “43 “Therefore I
say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you, and be given to a
nation producing the fruit of it. 44 “And he who falls on this stone will be
broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust.’”
As mentioned in our last SD God chose Israel and
will always love Israel, and will discipline Israel when they need to be
disciplined, and that is what is soon going to happen to them, for less than 40
years from the time Jesus was talking to these leaders Jerusalem will be
destroyed and their system or religious activity will be done with. Remember what they were imposing on the
Jewish people was not what Judaism was all about.
Jesus
says that the Kingdom of God will be taken from them and given to a “people”
(NASB95) who will produce fruit. Jesus
is talking about the church age, which would begin on the day of Pentecost as
seen in the second chapter of Acts. Let
us look at what Paul writes about this in Romans 9:25-26 “25 As indeed he says
in Hosea, "Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’ and her
who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’" 26 “And in the very place
where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘sons
of the living God’" (ESV).
John MacArthur writes “And he who falls on this rejected
stone, that is, Jesus Himself, will be broken to pieces. The Jewish leaders who, as it were, fell on
Jesus and put Him to death would themselves be broken to pieces. And on whomever it, Jesus the stone falls, it
will scatter him like dust. For those
who will not have Jesus as a Deliverer, He becomes Destroyer. Just as the Father has given all salvation to
the son (John 14:6), He has also “given all judgment to the Son” (John 5:22).”
Paul declared the following in 1 Cor. 16:22 “If
anyone does not love the Lord, he is to be accursed. Now as we look at this and
compare it to the language of our text, let such a person be broken to pieces, crushed
into power and scattered like dust, just as the Lord Jesus Christ Himself had
warned. MacArthur adds “God’s enemies
are destined to be pulverized into nothingness.
To try to destroy Christ is to assure one’s own destruction. Through Daniel the Lord predicted Christ’s
ultimate coming in judgment against the unbelieving peoples and nations of the
world, represented by the magnificent and seemingly invulnerable statute of
gold, silver, bronze, iron, and clay. As
the ‘stone…cut out without hands,’ Jesus will one day strike the statue of
unbelieving mankind, and ‘then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver and the
gold [will be] crushed all at the same time, and [become] like chaff from the
summer threshing floors; and the will [will carry] them away so that not a
trace of them [will be] found’ (Daniel 2:32-35).”
Lord
will we will be looking at the last section in the 21st chapter of
Matthew in our next SD.
7/22/2023 10:35 AM
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