SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/11/2024 9:29 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “Intro to Matthew 27:57-66”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Matthew
27:57-66
Message of the verses: “57 When it was
evening, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who himself had
also become a disciple of Jesus. 58 This man went to Pilate and asked for the
body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him. 59 And Joseph
took the body and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, 60 and laid it in his own
new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a large stone
against the entrance of the tomb and went away. 61 And Mary Magdalene was
there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the grave. 62 Now on the next day,
the day after the preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered
together with Pilate, 63 and said, "Sir, we remember that when He was
still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I am to rise again.’ 64
"Therefore, give orders for the grave to be made secure until the third
day, otherwise His disciples may come and steal Him away and say to the people,
‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the
first." 65 Pilate said to them, "You have a guard; go, make it as
secure as you know how." 66 And they went and made the grave secure, and
along with the guard they set a seal on the stone.”
The
first thing that I want to say it that this introduction to these last ten
verses of Matthew chapter 27 will take us a few days to get through, as these
verses show us that Jesus Christ, the Son of God was truly dead, even though
some people have written that Jesus did not die. One has to remember that when the Romans
crucified someone they would certainly die.
I
begin with a quotation from MacArthur’s commentary as he begins his long
introduction with “One of the majestic attributes of God is His absolute
sovereignty. His supreme rulership and
ultimate control over all things in the universe. He has created and He sustains all things
that exist, and He ordains and brings to pass all things that happen.” A person who does not believe this truth is a
person who does not accept what the Bible says for what MacArthur wrote can be
proved in the Word of God.
Let
us look at 1 Chronicle 29:11-12 “11 "Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and
the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that
is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is the dominion, O LORD, and You exalt
Yourself as head over all. 12 “Both riches and honor come from You, and You
rule over all, and in Your hand is power and might; and it lies in Your hand to
make great and to strengthen everyone.”
This certainly goes along with what MacArthur wrote in his first
paragraph of his introduction to our verses in Matthew 27:57-66. Now look at 2 Chronicles 20:6 “and he said,
"O LORD, the God of our fathers, are You not God in the heavens? And are
You not ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in Your
hand so that no one can stand against You.”
I continue to look at mover verses, and next comes
from Job 23:13 “"But He is unique and who can turn Him? And what
His soul desires, that He does.” Job is
speaking of the Lord in this verse. Next
the psalmist wrote in 115:3 “But our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He
pleases.” Next Ps. 135:6 “Whatever the
LORD pleases, He does, In heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.” The rest of Psalm 135 speaks of things that
the Lord has done, please take some time to read the rest of this great
Psalm. Next we more to the writer of
Proverbs as he said the following in Proverbs 21:30 “There is no wisdom and no
understanding And no counsel against the LORD.”
Now through the prophet Isaiah the Lord proclaimed in Isaiah 46:9-10 “9 “Remember the
former things long past, For
I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me,
10 Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things which
have not been done, Saying, ‘My purpose will be established, And I will
accomplish all My good pleasure.”
Perhaps you remember what happened to the pagan
king, Nebuchadnezzar when the Lord caused him to act like an animal for a
certain period of them as found in the book of Daniel. Now many commentators believe that after this
happened that Nebuchadnezzar become a true believer in the Lord. Let us look at Daniel 4:34-35 “34 "But
at the end of that period, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven and
my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High and praised and honored
Him who lives forever; For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, And His
kingdom endures from generation to generation. 35 “All the inhabitants
of the earth are accounted as nothing, But He does according to His will in the
host of heaven And among the inhabitants of earth; And no one can ward
off His hand Or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
Lord willing we will continue to look at the verses
that are found in the introduction to Matthew 27:57-66 that MacArthur uses to
introduce us to “The Amazing Burial of Jesus.”
9/11/2024 10:09 AM
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