MORNING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/30/2026
10:52 AM
My
Worship Time Focus:
Pt-3 “The
Context”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference:
Luke
5:17-19
Message of the verses: ““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.”
John MacArthur writes:
“That scribes and Pharisees there that day had come from every
village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem testifies to the level of
concern the Jewish authorities had about Jesus.
His first act in His Judean ministry had been to disrupt the Sadducees’
temple business operations by driving out the money changers and merchants
(John 2:14-16).”
(John 2:14-16)
“14 In the temple he found those who were selling
oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. 15 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all
out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he poured out the coins of the
money-changers and overturned their tables. 16
And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not
make my Father’s house a house of trade.’”
“They,
along with the Pharisees, had watched in growing alarm (and jealousy; cf. Matt.
27:18) as His ministry of teaching and healing had drawn huge crowds, both in
Judea and Galilee (cf. 5:15). Now they
dogged His steps, looking for something for which they could indict Him. The incident that was about to unfold would
provide these hostile visitors with an unforgettable, undeniable (John 11:47)
experience—and formidable challenge to their aberrant theology.”
Now Luke’s note that the power of
the Lord was present for Jesus to perform healing reminds his
readers of the truth that he had mentioned earlier. It was in His incarnation, when He “emptied
Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant” (Phil. 2:7), Jesus set aside the
independent use of His divine power.
(Phil. 2:7)
“7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a
servant, being born in the likeness of men.”
Jesus set
aside the independent use of His divine power, as He ministered in submission
to the Father, and in the power of the Holy Spirit is how these miracles were
done. Now I have written about this in
earlier SD’s as this all took place, at the baptism of Jesus Christ. That event,
His baptism, was the beginning of Jesus’ public ministry, and as mentioned it
was done in the power of the Holy Spirit that He did these miracles. I realize that when a person accepts the Lord
Jesus Christ in the Church age, that they too have the Holy Spirit come into
their lives in order for Him, (the Spirit) to show each believer what their
ministry is and that is what is needed in order for believers to do the things
that they are to do for the cause of Christ.
Now when the judgment seat of Christ happens after the rapture when all
true believers in the Church age are in heaven that they will receive rewards
from the Lord for how they did the things that they were called to do in the
power of the Holy Spirit. It is also at
that time that believers who receive these rewards will lay them down at the
feet of Jesus, for with Him, and His sacrifice for them that none of this will
be possible.
John MacArthur writes: “While the Lord was teaching, some men
arrived (Mark 2:3 notes that there were four of them), carrying on a bed a
man who was paralyzed. He was one of
the countless others with physical problems who sought out Jesus wherever He
went. Unable to come to Jesus on his
own, he was fortunate enough to have loyal and determined friends available to
help him. How he became paralyzed, whether
through a birth defect, spinal cord or brain injury, or a degenerative disease,
is not stated. Unlike lepers, the
paralyzed were not ostracized from society.
They were stigmatized by their condition, however, since many would see
all such disabilities as God’s punishment for their sin (cf. John 9:2).”
(cf. John 9:2)
“2 And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who
sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’”
“Having arrived at the house where
Jesus was ‘speaking the word’ (Mark, 2:2), the paralyzed man’s friends were
trying to bring him in and to set him down in front of Him. But they could not find any way to
bring him in because of the overflow crowd (cf. Mark 2:2). No one would move aside to allow the men to
carry him in; the crowd formed a barrier both with their bodies and their
hearts. Fortunately for the paralyzed
man, his friends were both determined and resourceful. Unable to gain access to the house, they
went up on the roof. Most houses in
Israel were single story houses. The
beams spanning the walls and supporting the roof were set below the tops of the
walls to form and enclosed patio, which was accessible by a stairway. The larger houses had tiles between the
beams, as this one did. After moving
aside some of the tiles and digging through the underlying roof (Mark
2:4), the four men lowered their paralyzed friend with his stretcher into
the middle of the crowd, in front of Jesus.”
Spiritual
Meaning for My life today. I want to focus in on the friends
of this paralyzed man and their desire to help their friend to receive healing
from Jesus. As mentioned his friends
were surely loyal to this man, but they did not know that their friend would
not only receive physical healing from Jesus, but also spiritual healing from
Jesus. To me this pictures what I can do
to help friends of mine come to Jesus to receive spiritual healing through the
new birth that can only come from the Lord Jesus Christ through the power of
the Holy Spirit. Yes this man had
wonderful friends who wanted their friend to receive healing from the Lord. This is one of the goals of the Spiritual
Diaries that I have, and that is to be used by the Holy Spirit to call
unbelievers to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.
My
Steps of Faith for Today: I trust that the Holy Spirit of God will use
these Spiritual Diaries that I write to bring many people to a saving knowledge
of Jesus Christ so that they can receive salvation from the Lord Jesus Christ
as He suffered and died for them on the cross, and was then buried for three
days to be then resurrected from the dead in order to pay for their sins as God
was pleased with what His Son did in dying for them.
5/30/2026
11:59 AM
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