MORNING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/23/2026
11:54 AM
My
Worship Time Focus: PT-1
“Jesus Is The Source Of Truth”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Luke
5:1-3)
Message of the verses: “1Now it happened that
while the crowd was pressing around Him and
listening to the word of God, He was standing by the
lake of Gennesaret; 2and
He saw two boats lying at the edge of the lake; but the
fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their
nets. 3And He
got into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him
to put out a little distance from the land. And He
sat down and continued teaching the
crowds from the boat.”
This morning I begin to look at these verses with the
help of John MacArthur’s commentary, and I do need to mention that this may
take a number of SD’s to get through it, but hopefully all who read it will
learn and grow in the Lord as a result of reading it.
The first thing we want to look at
is the phrase now it happens, and this indicates that an indefinite
amount of time had passed since the events that were recorded in Luke 4:38-44. It is not know what happened during that time
period. We do know that the Lord was
still in Galilee, and according to Luke 4:44 He was preaching, healing, and
also casting out demons (vv. 40-41), which, understandably, resulted in large
crowds following Him as seen in verses (42; cf. 4. 14:5; 5:15; 6:17; 7:11-12;
24:8, 42, 45; 9:11, 37; 11:14, 29;12:1, 54; 14:25). MacArthur adds “Writing later in the first
century, the Jewish historian Josephus estimated the population of Galilee at
about three million, which allows for the vast size of the crowds that followed
Jesus.) In a day when no media existed,
gifted communicators drew huge crowds, and Jesus was obviously unparalleled (John 7:46).”
(John 7:46)
“46 The officers answered, “No one ever spoke
like this man!”
Now as I read about all of the
healings that Jesus did, and of course many of them were not told about, but
many were the ones that the Holy Spirit wanted to put into the Word of
God. What I am wondering about is how
many of those healed became true believers in Jesus Christ, for we read in the
book of Acts that after Jesus had returned into heaven that there were only 120
people in this room where they were told to wait until the Holy Spirit would
come upon them. They did wait and once
that event happened the disciples went out into the city of Jerusalem when
Peter gave the very first sermon of the church age; (Acts 2:41).
(Acts 2:41)
“41 So those who received his word were baptized,
and there were added that day about three thousand souls.”
Now think about this for a moment, think about the
church going from 120 to an addition of 3,000 people who just received Christ
as their Lord and Savior, but as mentioned when Jesus was preaching and doing
miracles it seems to me that for the most part that those who received healing
did not truly become believers. I think
about the young blind man in the 9th chapter of John’s gospel and we
know from that story that he truly did become a believer. The demoniac that is seen in different
Gospels, and he became a true believer.
Think about two other times when Jesus feed the five thousands, and then
the 4000 and we are not clear as to any of them being truly saved. After the feeding of the 5000 the people
tried to come and make Jesus their King so that as they went out and would
fight against the Romans, they would not have to worry about being fed, and if
someone got killed then Jesus could bring them back to life to go out and fight
another day. These people had it wrong
as to why Jesus came to earth, as He came to teach and preach, but most of all
to die on the cross for the salvation of those who would come to Him, asking
that their sins would be forgiven so that they then could have eternal
life. As I was studying about the
movements that were and are still going on, and I am talking about healings it
seems to me that the most important thing that should be going on is the
preaching of the Word of God and not about healings, for if not many became
believers when Jesus was on earth teaching, preaching and healing many, many
people that not many of them would get saved, how many will become saved from
this movement that is going on. When I
first became a believer and was introduced to this kind of charismatic movement
the friend that that was mentoring me told me that God heals you every time
except the last time. I think that I
will end this SD for this morning and hopefully pick up where I am leaving of
in this evening’s SD.
Spiritual
Meaning for My Life today: It is my desire to tell the truth about what
I write and put on my Spiritual Diaries, and then allow the Holy Spirit of God
to use what I write to bring honor and glory to my Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ.
My
Steps of Faith for Today: I am trusting the Lord to led me to the right
people that will be able to help my wife as she battles the cancer in her
body. I know that all of us, including
believers and non-believers have an expiration date, and we don’t know when it
will be, but I believe we are to continue to do what we can when we are ill to
have the illness taken care of and leave the results up to the Lord.
5/23/2026
12:34 PM
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