EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/23/2025 8:41 PM
My Worship Time
Focus: PT-4 “The Particulars of God’s
Testimony”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference:
1 John 5:6-9
Message of the verses: “6 This is he who came
by water and by blood, Jesus Christ; not by water only but by water and by
blood. 7 And the Spirit is the witness, because the Spirit is true. 8 There are
three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood: and all three are in
agreement. 9 If we take the witness of men to be true, the witness of God is
greater: because this is the witness which God has given about his Son.”
I said that I would begin this SD by talking about
another miracle and this comes from Matthew 27:51b-53 “the earth shook and the
rocks were split. The tombs were opened,
and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and coming out
of the tombs after His resurrection they entered the holy city and appeared to
many.” MacArthur states “Their
appearance in bodily form testified to Christ’s resurrection as the ‘first
fruits of those who are asleep’ (1 Cor. 15:20).
So overwhelming was God’s miraculous testimony to Jesus that a
battle-hardened Roman centurion who witnessed it cried out in terror, ‘Truly
this was the Son of God!’ (Matt. 27:54; cf. Mark 15:39).”
Now we move to the Old Testament to see more about the
Father’s testimony to prophecies that His death fulfilled, and this most
notable one comes from the 22nd Psalm:
“7 All who see me sneer at me; They separate
with the lip, they wag the head, saying, 8 "Commit yourself
to the LORD; let Him deliver him; Let Him rescue him, because He delights in
him." (vv. 7-8; cf. Matt. 27:39-40).
“14 I am poured out like water, And all my
bones are out of joint; My heart is like wax; It is melted within me. 15 My
strength is dried up like a potsherd, And my tongue cleaves to my jaws; And You
lay me in the dust of death. 16 For dogs have surrounded me; A band of
evildoers has encompassed me; They pierced my hands and my feet. 17 I can count
all my bones. They look, they stare at me; 18 They divide my garments among
them, And for my clothing they cast lots” (vv.
14-18).
Now
we will look at Isaiah 53:2-9”
“2 For He grew up before Him like a tender
shoot, And like a root out of parched ground; He has no stately form or
majesty That we should look upon Him, Nor appearance that we should be
attracted to Him. 3 He was despised and forsaken of men, A man of sorrows and
acquainted with grief; And like one from whom men hide their face He was
despised, and we did not esteem Him. 4 Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And
our sorrows He carried; Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, Smitten of God,
and afflicted. 5 But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was
crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for our well-being fell upon
Him, And by His scourging we are healed. 6 All of us like sheep have gone
astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the
iniquity of us all To fall on Him. 7 He was oppressed and He was afflicted, Yet
He did not open His mouth; Like a lamb that is led to slaughter, And like a
sheep that is silent before its shearers, So He did not open His mouth. 8 By
oppression and judgment He was taken away; And as for His generation, who
considered That He was cut off out of the land of the living For the
transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due? 9 His grave was
assigned with wicked men, Yet He was with a rich man in His death, Because He
had done no violence, Nor was there any deceit in His mouth” (Isa. 53:2-9).
I
will quote one more paragraph from MacArthur’s commentary and then perhaps I
can finish this section in my next SD.
“The
Father also testified to the Son through the ministry of the Spirit who is the
truth (cf. John 14:17; 15:26; 16:13).
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth in that He is true and,
therefore, the source and revealer of divine truth (1 Peter 1:12; cf. Acts
1:16; 28:25; Heb. 3:7; 10:15-17), particular about Jesus Christ (John
15:26). The Spirit was involved at Jesus’
conception (Matt. 1:18, 20; Luke 1:35), baptism (Matt. 3:16), temptation (Mark
1:12; Luke 4:1), and throughout His ministry.
Peter said to those gathered in Cornelius’s house, ‘You know of Jesus of
Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went
about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was
with Him’ (Acts 10:38; cf. Matt. 12:28; Luke 4:14;John 3:34). Because the Holy Spirit empowered Jesus for ministry,
to attribute Christ’s miraculous works to Satan was to blaspheme The Holy Spirit
(Mar, 3:28-30). Jesus always did the
will of the Father in the power of the Spirit.”
3/23/2025 9:12 PM
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