SPIRITIUAL DIARY FOR 9/20/2023 8:51 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-5 “The Infinite Reality”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
22:43-45
Message of the verses: “43 He said to
them, “How then does David in the Spirit call Him ‘Lord,’ saying: 44 ‘The LORD
said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool”’?
45 “If David then calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his Son?”
I want to continue to quote from John MacArthur’s
commentary as we finish up this section.
“The New Testament consistently presents Christ as Son of David and Son
of God. The gospel message Paul preached
and wrote about was promised by God “beforehand through His prophets in the
holy Scriptures, concerning His Son, who was born of a descendant of David according
to the flesh, who was declared the Son of God with power by the resurrection
from the dead, according to the spirit of holiness, Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom.
1:2-4). Paul admonished Timothy to “remember
Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, descendant of David” (2 Tim. 2:8).
In his letter to believers at Philippi, Paul wrote,
‘5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was
also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although He
existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be
grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, taking
the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. 8 Being
found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the
point of death, even death on a cross. 9 For this reason also, God highly
exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL
BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father’ (Phil. 2:5-11).
“The Word
became flesh, and dwelt among us,’ John
declared, ‘and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the
Hither, full of grace and truth’ (John 1:14).
“In his classic apologetics work Protestant Christian Evidences, Bernard Ramm
gives a series of incisive answers to the question he himself propounds: ‘If God became incarnate, what kind of man
would He be?’ In abbreviated form, six
of the answers are: we would expect Him
to be sinless; we would expect Him to be holy; we would expect His words to be
the greatest words ever spoken; we would expect Him to exert a profound power
over human personality; we would expect Him to perform supernatural doings; and
we would expect Him to manifest the love of God. Of all human beings who have ever lived,
Jesus Christ also met all of those criteria ([Chicago; Moody 1953], pp.
166-75).”
This
SD ends this section we have been looking at for the last five days. 9/20/2023 9:15 AM
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