MORNING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/2/2026
10:30 AM
My Worship
Time Focus: PT-2 “The Spirit’s Anointing”
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Luke 3:22a
Message of the verse: “and the Holy Spirit descended upon
Him in bodily form like a dove,”
I want to continue writing from where I left of in yesterday’s
SD, and so if you have not read my SD from yesterday then you probably will
want to do that.
Now the Old Testament also taught
that God would give the Spirit to the Messiah. Isaiah 11:1-2 predicted that “the Spirit of
the Lord will rest on Him.” In Isaiah
42:1, God said of the Messiah, “Behold, My Servant, whom I uphold; My chosen
one in whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him,” while in
Isaiah 61:1-2 the Messiah says,
“The
Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring
good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to
proclaim liberty to captives and freedom to prisoners; to proclaim the
favorable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all
who mourn.”
MacArthur writes “Throughout Christ’s
entire life, including His development (Luke 2:52), sinless obedience, triumph
over temptation, preaching, healing, casting out demons, death (cf. Heb. 9:14),
and resurrection (cf. Rom. 1:4), His deity was mediated to His humanity by the
Holy Spirit. The Spirit’s power was
essential—in His humanity Christ would not have done the miraculous deeds He
did, or say the divine words He spoke.
The reason for that is found in Philippians 2::6-7, which says that ‘although
[Christ] existed in the form of God, [He] did not regard equality with God a
thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant,
and being made in the likeness of men.’
Jesus voluntarily surrendered the independent use of His divine power,
and submitted Himself completely to the will of the Father. And though His human nature was sinlessly
perfect, it nevertheless did not have supernatural power. Thus much so that to attribute His works to
Satan is to blaspheme the Holy Spirit (Matthew 12:31-32).”
(Matthew 12:31-32)
31 Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy
will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be
forgiven. 32 And whoever speaks a word
against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy
Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.”
Now let me try to explain a little
more about these verses in the context of which they are in. The 12th chapter of Matthew is a
turning point in the book of Matthew. In
this chapter the Pharisees stated that Jesus was doing His miracles in the
power of Satan, “(24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said,
“It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this man casts out demons.’”
As mentioned when they said this, Jesus then began to teach in parables so that
no one would be able to understand His teaching, but He explained the parables
to His disciples.
“It must
be stressed that in no way limits Christ’s full deity and equality with the
Father (cf. Col. 2:9).”
(cf. Col. 2:9)
“9 For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells
bodily,”
“But in
the wonder and mystery of the incarnation, He set aside the independent use of
His divine attributes.
“That the Spirit descended upon Jesus
in bodily form like a dove does not, as is commonly assumed, mean that
the Spirit appeared in the physical form of a dove. The phrase does not describe a birdlike
visible manifestation of the Spirit’s presence, but rather that visible
manifestation’s manner of movement as it descended upon Jesus. ‘What was
visible was not a dove, but rather what was seen in compared to a dove,…The
manner of the Spirit’s descent was like the way a dove floats gracefully through
the air’ (Carrel L. Bock, Luke 1:1-9:50, Baker Exegetical Commentary on
the New Testament [Grand Rapids, 1994] , 338).
The visible reality of the Spirit’s presence indicates His approval of
and involvement in the Son’s ministry.”
It was truly a shame that the
Pharisees and the other “religious” groups did not understand who they were
dealing with when the Messiah, the Lord Jesus came to earth, and because of
that in the year 70 A.D the Romans would come into Jerusalem and tear down the
beautiful temple that Jesus ministered in from time to time while on earth, and
that began the dispersion of the Jewish people which is still going on today. However they do have a choice now as the Jews
are free to move into the state of Israel, which began again, this time on May
14th, 1948. God is still
watching over Israel and is prospering them, but there will come a time in the “Tribulation
Period” that Israel will fall into the hands of the Antichrist as he will make
a deal with them for seven years, but will then turn against them half-way
through that time period and again the Jews will be persecuted until they all
turn to the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord.
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: After the Lord Jesus went back into heaven as
seen in Acts chapter one He said that the Holy Spirit would come upon those 125
believers that were gathered. This
happened on the Day of Pentecost and that is when Peter preached that first
great sermon of the church age and many came to know Christ as Savior, and
Lord. The Holy Spirit comes on all who
accept the forgiveness that Christ offers and that is an amazing power we as
believers all possess. Because we are
still sinful people the Spirit cannot do the things He did in the life of
Christ, but He can do wonderful things in believer’s lives to cause them to do
the things that God has called each believer to do.
My
Steps of Faith for Today: Trust the Lord to have His Spirit
work in my life so that I can do the things that He has called me to do for the
cause and glory of Christ.
5/2/2026
11:07 AM
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