EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
4/5/2026 9:30 PM
My
Worship Time Focus: PT-2 “The Person Of The Good
News”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Luke
2:11-12
Message of the verses: “for today in the city of David there has
been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign for you: you will find a
baby wrapped in clothes and lying in a manger.”
I want to continue quoting from John MacArthur’s
commentary as he brings up some wonderful commentary on this section: “Lord in a human sense is a term of
respect and esteem, given to someone in a position of leadership and authority. Especially it was the title borne by slave
owners; kurios (Lord) and doulos
(slave) were connected. To call
someone Lord was to acknowledge your subservience. In the New Testament Sarah called Abraham
lord, acknowledging his authority over her as her husband (1 Peter 3:6).”
(1 Peter 3:6)
“6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And
you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is
frightening.”
But in this context Lord is no mere
elevated human designation; it is a divine title. To say that this Child is Lord is to say that
He is God. When used in reference to
Jesus Christ kurios (Lord)
conveys all that is implied by the tetragrammaton YHWH (“Yahweh,” which the
Septuagint translates kurios)—the name of God (cf. Ex. 3:14-15).”
(cf. Ex. 3:14-15)
“14 God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM."
And he said, "Say this to the people of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to
you.’" 15 God also said to Moses,
"Say this to the people of Israel, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’
This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all
generations.”
“The most
fundamental and basic confession of Christianity is, “Jesus is Lord’ (1 Cor.
12:3).”
(1 Cor. 12:3)
“3 Therefore I want you to understand that no one
speaking in the Spirit of God ever says accursed “Jesus is accursed!” and no
one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit.”
“No one
who does not affirm Christ’s full deity and equality with God the Father can be
saved for, as He warned the Jews, ‘Unless you believe that I am [God], you
will die in your sins’ (John 8:24). Romans
10:9 declares that ‘if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and
believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.’
“The Angel then gave the shepherds a sign by
which they could recognize this remarkable Child: they would find the baby wrapped in
cloths and lying in a manger. That
the baby would be wrapped in cloths would not single out Jesus
for the shepherds, since that was done to all Jewish babies…To fail to properly
care for a newborn baby, including wrapping it, was unthinkable (cf. Ezek.
16:1-5).”
(cf. Ezek. 16:1-5)
“1 ¶ Again the word of the LORD came to me: 2 "Son of man, make known to Jerusalem her
abominations, 3 and say, Thus says the
Lord GOD to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth are of the land of the
Canaanites; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite. 4 And as for your birth, on the day you were
born your cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water to cleanse you, nor
rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. 5 No eye pitied you, to do any of these things
to you out of compassion for you, but you were cast out on the open field, for
you were abhorred, on the day that you were born.”
“But
Jewish mothers did not usually put their newborn babies in a manger, so
that would narrow the shepherds’ search to the Child of whom the angel
spoke. The stark contrast between Jesus’
exalted status as Savior, Messiah, and God and the humble circumstances of His
birth emphasizes the magnitude of His ‘[emptying] Himself, taking the form
of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men’ (Phil. 2:7).”
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