MORNING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/22/2026
10:06 AM
My
Worship Time Focus:
“Jesus’
Power Over The Eternal Realm”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: “Luke
4:42-44”
Message of the verses: “When day came, Jesus left and went to a
secluded place; and the crowds were searching for Him, and came to Him and
tried to keep Him from going away from them.
But He said to them, “I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities
also, for I was sent for this purpose.”
So He kept on preaching in the synagogues of Judea.”
John MacArthur writes the following on the verses
above, which are the very last verses of the fourth chapter of Luke’s
gospel. “When day came on Sunday
after a Sabbath in which He demonstrated massive power over the natural and
supernatural realms, Jesus left Peter’s house just before daybreak while
it was still dark (Mark 1:35) and went to a secluded place. Mark reveals that His purpose in doing so
was to pray (v. 35). But before long the
crowds were searching for Him, and came to Him and tried to keep Him from going
away from them. Awed by His power to
deliver them from disease and demons, they understandably did not want Jesus to
leave them. The Lord did not rebuke
their interest in the miraculous signs He had performed. But those signs were not an end in
themselves, but rather a means to an end.
Jesus was not primarily a miracle worker, but a preacher of the
gospel. Therefore, He said to them, “I
must preach the kingdom of God to the other cities also, for I was sent for
this purpose.” Jesus repeatedly
affirmed that the Father had sent Him (Matt. 10:40; Mark 9:37; Luke 10:16; John
4:34; 5:24, 30, 36, 37: 6:38, 39, 44, 57; 7:16, 28, 29, 33; 8:16, 18, 26, 29,
42; 12:44, 45, 49; 13:20; 14:24; 15:21; 16:5; 17:8, 18, 21, 23, 25;
20:21). He came not merely to
demonstrate His power over the effects of sin in the body by physical healing
and the mind by overcoming demonic influence, but mot importantly His power to
overcome sin’s eternal consequences. For
that to happen required repentance and faith in the gospel preached (cf. Rom.
10:13-17).”
(cf. Rom. 10:13-17)
“13 For “everyone who calls on the name of the
Lord will be saved.” 14 How then will
they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in
him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone
preaching? 15 And how are they to preach
unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those
who preach the good news!” 16 But they
have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what
he has heard from us?” 17 So faith comes
from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.”
“Only by faith in the truth preached could sinners
be rescued from Satan’s kingdom of darkness and enter into the kingdom of
God. This is the first of thirty-two uses of this
important theological term in Luke’s gospel (he used it six more times in (Acts). The kingdom of God is the sphere or
realm of salvation that those who respond in repentant faith to the preaching
of the gospel enter, so in keeping with His kingdom mission, Jesus kept on
preaching in the synagogues of Judea, which here is a generic term for the
entire nation of Israel including Galilee (Mark 1:39), not merely the southern
part.
“The power the Lord displayed over the natural,
supernatural, and eternal realms authenticated Him as the Son of God, sent by
the Father to preach the saving gospel of salvation to lost sinners.”
Now as I look at why the Lord Jesus
Christ came to earth, that is to save sinners through His death, burial, and
resurrection from the dead, along with preaching and teaching about the kingdom
of God to mostly the children of Israel, it causes me to think of why I spend
so much time in the mornings and the evenings writing my Spiritual Diaries. I do this to tell the story of the Lord Jesus
Christ, my Lord and my Savior so others can see the sinful condition that they
were born into, and then repent of their sin, and then ask the Lord Jesus to
come into their lives in order to save them from their sin. Paul writes “All have sinned and come short
of the glory of God.” This certainly is
true and so if an unbeliever realizes that this verse Paul wrote is true, and
then comes to the Lord Jesus Christ in prayer confessing that they are a sinner
and have sinned, asking Him to save them, then He will and that person will
move out of the kingdom of the world, and into the kingdom of God.
I also take the time to write these
Spiritual Diaries to hopefully cause people to grow in their faith as Peter
writes in 2 Peter 3:18 “but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity.
Amen.” I have to say that doing my
Spiritual Diaries each day, a couple of times each day does bring joy to my
heart believing that the Holy Spirit of God will continue to send them around
the world to use them for the glory of Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.
5/22/2026
10:53 AM
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