SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/30/2024 8:09 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
“PT-2 "The Illegal and Unjust
Conduct of the Court"
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
Matt. 26:67-68
Message of the verses: “67 Then they spat
in his face and knocked him about, and some slapped him, 68 crying,
"Prophesy, you Christ, who was that who hit you?’”
I
am not sure but it makes sense that the older ones from the council were the
ones who just slapped Him. And instead
of spitting on Jesus they threw verbal abuse in His face. After blindfolding Him as Luke says in Luke
22:64 they demanded sarcastically, Prophesy to us, You Christ; who is the one
who hit You?”
MacArthur
writes “Luke also reports that ‘They were saying many other things against Him,
blaspheming’ (22:65). The true blasphemers
here were the accusers, not the accused.
Jesus had not blasphemed because He was indeed God, but the ungodly
Sanhedrin blasphemed repeatedly as they condemned, humiliated, and abused the
sinless Son of God. And when these
judges of Israel tired of tormenting Jesus, they turned Him over to the Temple
police for further maltreatment (Mark 14:65).
“As
the later mob reaction before Pilate would prove conclusively, the ungodly
religious leaders who rejected and profaned Jesus were a microcosm of the
Jewish nation. Spiritually and morally
Israel was a rotting carcass waiting to be devoured by vultures, as indeed it was
devoured by Rome less than forty years later.
In A. D. 70 the Temple was burned and razed, most of Jerusalem was
destroyed, and hundreds of thousands of its citizens were slaughtered without
mercy.
“Every
person who rejects Christ spits in His face, as it were, and is guilty of
blasphemy against God, who sent His beloved Son to save that person and all
mankind from sin. The irony is that all
who misjudge Jesus will themselves be rightly judged by Him one day. Men continually misjudge Jesus, but He will
never misjudge them. The tables will be
turned. The criminals will no longer
unjustly condemn and crush the innocent but will themselves be justly condemned
and crushed.
“Even
in the midst of the cruel injustice against Him, our Lord’s grace shined
undiminished. Throughout His ordeal, ‘while
being reviled, He did not revile in return; while suffering, He uttered no
threats, but kept entrusting Himself to Him who judges righteously’ (1 Pet.
2:23). This was His divinely-apointed
time, and He resoulutely and gladly faced hell’s moment of seeming
victory. He would not turn or be turned
from suffering and death, because only in that way could he bear ‘our sins in
His body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness’ (v.
24).”
With this SD we end this 16th chapter in John
MacArthur’s fourth commentary on the gospel of Matthew. There is one more chapter, 17 on this 26 the chapter
of Matthew which, Lord willing we will begin tomorrow. 6/30/2024 8:30 AM
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