SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 1/28/2025 9:29 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-4 “The Preeminence of the Lord”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
2 Timothy 2:8
Message of the verse: “Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, descendant of David, according to my gospel.”
This
morning we continue to look at Jesus Christ, but this morning we want to look
at His humanity descendant of David.
Here we find in His humanity His identification with fallen mankind, for
we read in Romans 1:3 the following “concerning His
Son, who was born of a descendant of David according to the flesh.” Now before Jesus was born, at His conception
the angel proclaimed the following to Mary “32 "He will be great and will
be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne
of His father David; 33 and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and
His kingdom will have no end.’” Our Lord’s human descent from David not only
speaks of His humanity as our sympathetic and merciful High Priest who knows
all our suffering and has felt all our pain (Heb. 2:14, 18), but also of His
royalty and majesty which is seen in the verses above from Luke’s gospel. MacArthur writes “In his last direct words to
the apostle John on Patmos, Jesus spoke of Himself as ‘the root and offspring
of David, the bright morning star’ (Rev. 22:16).”
Now as I think about God becoming a man in order to
understand what sinful man has to go through, although I know it is impossible
for Him to sin, but by living among sinful men He understood what it was like,
and that is something for me to think about as I realize that Jesus did not
have to become a man, He did not have to leave heaven and He did not have to
save us, but because of love HE DID.
MacArthur
then goes on to write “Therefore, if Jesus Christ is our divine Savior and
sovereign Lord, why should we worry about what happens to us in this life? As our perfect High Priest, He is able to ‘sympathize
with our weaknesses,’ because He ‘has been tempted in all things as we are, yet
without sin. Let us therefore draw near
with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find
grace to help in time of need’ (Heb. 4:16).”
Now in a sense these verses from Hebrews go along with what I wrote in
the paragraph above.
More
from MacArthur’s commentary: “As our
sovereign Lord, Jesus Christ controls everything that we are and everything
that happens to us. We must resist temptation,
but we need not fear ti, because our Lord will not allow [us] to be tempted
beyond what [we] are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of
escape also, that [we] may be able to endure it’ (1 Cor. 10:13). We have no need to worry about the depts. of
our troubles or our sorrows. Isaiah
gives comfort to all those who belong to the Messiah, Jesus Christ. ‘Like a shepherd He will ten His flock, in
His arm He will gather the lambs, and carry them in His bosom’ (Isa. 40:11). ‘Surely our griefs He himself bore, and our
sorrows He carried’ (53:4), the prophet later writes.”
Now here is something that I have written about
recently and that is as true believers we have no need to fear the loss of
salvation, because our Lord assures us of our perfect and absolute security in
Him. I mentioned 1 John 5:13 as proof of
this, which I will quote now and then some other verse from John’s gospel after
that. “These things I have written to
you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you
have eternal life.” “27 "My sheep
hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; 28 and I give eternal life
to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand”
(John 10:27-28). “25Therefore He is able
also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always
lives to make intercession for them” (Heb. 7:25). “19"After a little while the world will
no longer see Me, but you will see Me; because I live, you will live
also” (John 14:19). “For to me, to live
is Christ and to die is gain” (Phil. 1:21).
Now if you are having trouble realizing that you salvation in Christ is
secure read over these verses again and take some time to think and to meditate
on them which will give you confidence in the Lord that what is written in
these verses is true.
MacArthur
concludes this section by writing “According to my gospel does not refer to
Paul’s personal opinion about the gospel but to the divinely revealed message
of Jesus Christ entrusted to him and that he proclaimed as ‘an apostle of
Christ Jesus by the will of God’ (2 Tim. 1:1).
It was the One who was the theme of the gospel he was referring to when
he said, ‘Timothy, keep your eyes on the preeminent Jesus Christ as the Son of
God as well as the Son of man, and as Savior as well as Lord and King.”
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: I am so very thankful that I can know for
sure that when the Lord saved me 52 years and 2 days ago that He saved me for
eternity.
My
Steps of Faith for Today: I trust the Lord through His Holy Spirit to
use me in the way that He has planned to use me in eternity past as seen in
Ephesians 2:10 “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good
works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.” It is my prayer that I will do all the things
that He has planned for me to do for the cause of Christ in the power of the
Holy Spirit.
1/28/2025 10:19 AM
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