SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 7/19/2023 7:47 AM
My Worship Time Focus: PT-2
“The Explanation”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
Matthew 21:42
Message of the verse: “42 Jesus said to
them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS
REJECTED, THIS BECAME THE CHIEF CORNER stone; THIS CAME ABOUT FROM THE
LORD, AND IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES’?”
I’m sorry that this will be another short SD as I
again have a very full day as our family is getting ready to help us celebrate
50 years of marriage.
We
have been talking about Israel being the chief cornerstone, but they have been
rejected and been actually taken advantage of.
However the nation will one day receive salvation as seen in passages
like Romans 11:26 “and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written,
"THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB.’”
MacArthur
writes “But the figure has even greater significance than that. Peter declared in Jerusalem before the
religious rulers shortly after Pentecost, “Let it be known to all of you, and
to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene,
whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead…He is the stone which was
rejected by you, the builders, but which became the very corner stone. And there is salvation in no one else; for
there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men, by which we
must be saved” (Acts 4:10-12). The
greater stone than Israel is Jesus Christ and the builders who rejected Him were
the Jewish leaders, representing all Israel, and in a fuller sense the entire
unbelieving world. The stone…rejected was
the crucified Christ, and the restored chief corner stone is the resurrected
Christ.” That is a very impressive
paragraph to read and to understand.
What
Jesus did was tie that messianic psalm to the parable in order to reinforce His
point. I remember while listening to the
sermon that goes along with this section that MacArthur stated that many people
who read through this parable have no idea of why this quotation for Psalm 118
is in His parable. The rejected Son and
the rejected stone both refer to Christ.
The verse from Psalm 118:22 goes beyond the parable to allude also to
the resurrection of the Son, something the parable could not cover and still
maintain its simple naturalness.
7/19/2023 8:08 AM
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