EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/26/2026
8:45 PM
My
Worship Time Focus: Intro to “The Healing, Forgiving Savior”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference:
Luke
5:12-26
Message of the verses: “12While He
was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man covered with
leprosy; and when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and
begged Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You
can make me clean.” 13And
He reached out with His hand and touched him, saying, “I
am willing; be cleansed.” And immediately the
leprosy left him. 14And
He ordered him to tell no one, saying, “But
go and show yourself to the priest, and
make an offering for your cleansing,
just as Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.” 15But the
news about Him was spreading even farther, and
large crowds were gathering to hear Him and to
be healed of their sicknesses. 16But Jesus Himself would often slip away
to the wilderness and pray.
A Man Lowered Through a Roof
17 One day He was
teaching, and there were some Pharisees and
teachers of the Law sitting there who had
come from every village of Galilee and Judea, and from Jerusalem;
and the power of the Lord was present for Him to
perform healing. 18And some men were carrying a
man on a stretcher who was paralyzed; and they were
trying to bring him in and to set him down in
front of Him. 19But
when they did not find any way to bring him
in because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and
let him down through the tiles with his stretcher, into the
middle of the crowd, in front of Jesus. 20And seeing their faith, He
said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven you.” 21The scribes and the
Pharisees began thinking of the implications, saying,
“Who is this man who speaks blasphemies?
Who can forgive sins, except God alone?” 22But Jesus, aware of
their thoughts, responded and said to them, “Why are you
thinking this way in your hearts? 23Which is easier, to say:
‘Your sins are forgiven you,’ or to say, ‘Get up and
walk’? 24But
so that you may know that the Son of
Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,” He
said to the man who was paralyzed, “I say to you, get up,
and pick up your stretcher, and go home.” 25And immediately he
got up before them, and picked up what he had
been lying on, and went home glorifying God. 26And they were
all struck with astonishment and began glorifying God.
They were also filled with fear, saying, “We have
seen remarkable things today!”
In this evening’s SD I will quote from the
introduction to John MacArthur’s commentary from the 27th chapter of
his first commentary on Luke’s gospel, a commentary that covers the first five
chapters of the gospel of Luke. This
will be a short introduction.
“As we have seen, this section of
Luke’s gospel reveals Jesus Christ’s absolute and total power over everyone and
everything. In 4:1-13, He defeated every
temptation hurled at Him by the devil, and further demonstrated His power over
Satan’s realm by casting out demons (4:33-35, 41). His healing of Peter’s mother-in-law and many
others (4:38-40) displayed Christ’s power over disease, while the miraculous
catch of fish (5:1-11) demonstrated His power over the realm of nature. The miracles He performed are critical
testimony in the biblical record of Jesus’ life, since they offer proof of His
divine nature.
“This passage records two more
examples of Jesus’ supernatural power over disease. He healed two conditions, leprosy and paralysis,
whose cure was far beyond the limited medical knowledge of that day. But these healings do more than reveal Jesus’
divine power and compassion. The story
of His healing the leper provides an analogy of the penitent sinner’s approach
to Him, and the account of His healing the paralyzed man contains the
revelation of His authority to forgive sin.”
Now as I look ahead into this
section that we will be looking at I can see that the outline is a bit
different that the ones we have been looking at lately, but have seen this
outline form in earlier chapters of MacArthur’s commentaries. I will go ahead and quote this next section
from MacArthur’s commentary in order to not make tomorrow morning’s SD too
short.
“JESUS HEALS A LEPER:
THE PENITENT SINNER’S APPROACH TO
HIM
“12While He was in
one of the cities, behold, there was a man covered with
leprosy; and when he saw Jesus, he fell on his face and
begged Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You
can make me clean.” 13And
He reached out with His hand and touched him, saying, “I
am willing; be cleansed.” And immediately the
leprosy left him. 14And
He ordered him to tell no one, saying, “But
go and show yourself to the priest, and
make an offering for your cleansing,
just as Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.” 15But the
news about Him was spreading even farther, and
large crowds were gathering to hear Him and to
be healed of their sicknesses. 16But Jesus Himself would often slip away
to the wilderness and pray.”
“The exact time and location of the Lord’s encounter
with this leper is not known. It occurred
during His Galilean ministry in one of the cities or villages near the
Sea of Galilee. The encounter may be
discussed under three headings: the
dreaded disease, the desperate victim, and divine compassion.” Now these are the three sections that I will
begin to look at in tomorrow morning’s SD, Lord willing.
5/26/2026
9:04 PM
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