SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/16/2023 8:49 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “The Infinite Reality”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
22:43-45
Message of the verses: “43 He said to
them, "Then how does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying, 44 ‘THE LORD SAID TO MY LORD, "SIT AT MY
RIGHT HAND, UNTIL I PUT THINE ENEMIES BENEATH THY FEET"’? 45 “If David
then calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his son?’”
I have to begin with a quotation from MacArthur’s
commentary in order for us to understand the word Lord. “The terms kurios (Lord) and its corresponding Hebrew word adonay are among the most common
designations for deity in the New and Old Testaments, respectively. Because God’s covenant name, Yahweh, or Jehovah,
was considered too holy to be spoken, the Jews always substituted the word Adonay.
In many English translations that unique use of ‘Lord” is indicated by
its being printed in large and small capital letters (Lord), meaning that the Hebrew text actually reads Yahweh. “When God is called “lord”
as a title, rather than as a substitute for His covenant name, the word is
printed simply with capital and lower case letters (Lord), meaning that the
Hebrew text reads Adonay.” Now it was my understanding that when the
word for Yahweh is used in most English translations it is in all capital
letters (LORD). Another thing it seems
to me that in the church where MacArthur preaches they have a translation that
uses the word Yahweh where as it was used LORD before. I am not sure what that translation is, but
to me it seems to be a better one because of the use of the word Yahweh.
The
following would be Jesus’ argument: “If
the Messiah, the Christ, is no more than a man, the human son of David, Then
how does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying, ‘the Lord said to my
Lord.’”
Notice the highlighted words in the Spirit, indicating that David was
speaking under the inspiration of God’s Spirit when he wrote those words that
are found in Psalm 110:1. By the way that
110th Psalm is quoted more times than any other Old Testament
chapter in the New Testament. It is a Messianic
Psalm. MacArthur adds “The Greek phrase
behind in the Spirit is identical to that used by John of his vision on Patmos,
when he “was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day” (Rev. 1:10; cf. 4:2). It refers to being under the control of the
Holy Spirit in a unique and powerful way.
And as Mark makes clear in his account of this incident, Jesus’ full
statement was, “David himself said in the Holy Spirit” (Mark 12:36), ruling out
the possibility Jesus was referring to David’s human spirit.”
I
think that things like this quotation above is very important in understanding
the Word of God, and that is why I have named by blogs 2 Timothy 2:15 “Study to
shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth (KJV).”
There is a second and third point as we continue
looking at this section, but will do it in our next SD, Lord willing. 9/16/2023 9:25 AM
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