SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/23/2024 12:21 PM
My Worship Time
Focus: “The
Judge”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
25:31a
Message of the verse: “But when the Son of Man”
When we look at the gospel records we will find out
that in the public ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ that He was always
judicious in the way He made claims that He was the King. He did not want to needlessly incite the ire
of His enemies. When we go back to what
is called Psalm Sunday, (celebrated tomorrow) the people who saw Jesus ride
into Jerusalem really thought that He was their Messiah, but the reason that
most of them thought this was because they wanted Him to be King and take care
of the Romans who were ruling over them at that time. When this did not happen they would be the
first to yell Crucify Him.
Now in this 24th and 25th chapter
of Matthew Jesus is out of the public eye and only with His disciples and so He
unambiguously declared that He, the Son of Man, would one day take His rightful
place as the great King and Judge, and that would happen when He returns from
Heaven with His raptured saints and with the angels to end the war of
Armageddon, separate the sheep from the goats, send Satan, Antichrist, and the
false prophet into hell, (I believe) recreate the world that was greatly destroyed
from the Tribulation Period, and set up His Millennial Kingdom in Jerusalem to
rule from David’s throne.
MacArthur writes “The certainty of God’s ultimate
judgment of the wicked was prophesied even by ‘Enoch, in the seventh generation
from Adam.’ Through divine revelation,
that ancient man of God declared, ‘Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of
His holy ones, to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of
all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the
harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him’ (Jude 14-15).
“In light of the utter and perfect holiness of the
Almighty and the persistent sinfulness and ungodliness of man that Enoch
pointed out, it is not the Lord’s coming in wrath to render judgment that is
amazing but rather His first coming in grace to offer salvation. The wonder is not that Jesus will some day
come in glory to judge the world but that He first came in humility to save
sinners. The marvel is not that God
promises to condemn sinners for their sin but that He first offers them
deliverance from it. In coming to save
those who trust in Him, the Lord Jesus Christ demonstrated His great love for
the unlovely by bearing the penalty of their sin, dying the death they
deserve. What is remarkable is that He
came to redeem sinners who are worthy only of His judgment.” To which I say AMEN!!!
3/23/2024 12:40 PM
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