SPIRITIUAL DIARY FOR 9/17/2023 7:53 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 “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?’”
We learned yesterday that first of all that Jesus
was declaring that was speaking under the influence of the Holy Spirit, and not
today second every Jew recognized Psalm 110 as being written by David and as
being one of the clearest messianic passages in all of the Old Testament. This being stated there could be no argument—and
there was none by Jesus’ opponents—that David was speaking here about the
Messiah, the second Lord mentioned in verse 1.
The first Lord in the Hebrew text is Yahweh, whereas the second is Adonay. The idea is The Lord (Yahweh) said
to David’s Lord (Adonay), Sit at My right hand, until I put
Thine enemies beneath Thy feet.” In
other words, David addressed the Messiah as his Lord.
There is a third thing here that we need to go over,
and this is most importantly, Jesus was declaring that the of Messiah’s deity,
and yes this is most important. Under
the guidance of the Holy Spirit, David had declared that God told the Messiah
to sit at His (Gods) right hand, and this was a place that was recognized by
Jews to be a designation of coequal rank and authority. MacArthur writes “The verb being sit in the
original text indicates continuous sitting in the place of exaltation. God was going to bring the Messiah to a place
of equality with Himself in honor, power, and glory.” This certainly all new for the Jewish people
as they nave though that their Messiah was God incarnate because they did not
believe in the trinity, so eventually their leaders would do something to this Messianic
Psalm to show the Jews that it was not really saying what it said. They do that with Isaiah 53 too. If it shows them something that they probably
know is true, and yet can’t believe it is true then they have to do something
to change the meaning of it. However
that makes no difference, because the truth still remains the truth.
Sunday
mornings are shorter SD’s as I have to go over my Sunday school lesson for this
morning, and today it is on the end of the third vision of Zechariah, and then
the introduction to the fourth vision, something that has taken me a lot of
time in trying to understand it.
9/17/2023
8:24 AM
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