EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/2/2026
8:04 PM
My
Worship Time Focus:
“The Father’s
Testimony”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Luke
3:22b
Message of the verse: “and
a voice came out of heaven, “You are My beloved Son, in You I am well-pleased.”
I have to say that this is going to
be a very short SD, but hopefully very meaningful.
Perhaps the best way for all to
understand the things in this SD is for me to again quote from John MacArthur’s
commentary.
“Grammatically, this is the main
clause of the passage, and the ones that have preceded it are subordinate to
it. The Father’s testimony to the Son is
the primary point of the passage. The
Father’s audible voice from heaven expressed His approval of His beloved
Son, in whom He is continually well-pleased. The Father’s expression of approval
protects Jesus from any misunderstanding as to why He was baptized (see the
discussion earlier in this chapter).”
You can look at previous SD’s in order to accomplish this. “If Jesus were not sinless, He would not have
had God’s approval, since His ‘eyes are too pure to approve evil and [He] can
not look on wickedness with favor’ (Hab. 1:13).
“As He did here, the Father would
once again audibly state His approval of the holy perfection of Jesus at the transfiguration
(Matt. 17:1-5).”
(Matt. 17:1-5)
“ 1 ¶
And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James, and John his
brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. 2 And he was transfigured before them, and his
face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light. 3 And behold, there appeared to them Moses and
Elijah, talking with him. 4 And Peter
said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good that we are here. If you wish, I will make
three tents here, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.” 5 He was still speaking when, behold, a bright
cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my beloved
Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.’”
“His
reference to Jesus as His Son affirms that Jesus is of the same essence as
Himself, and thus fully God…It is also the fulfillment of Psalm 2:7, where God
says to the Messiah, ‘You are My Son, today I have begotten You.’
“To have the Spirit descend on Him
and the Father express love and approval for Him was the most auspicious way
for Jesus to launch His public ministry.
Their public confirmation should have been more than enough to compel
belief in Jesus as the Messiah. Sadly
however, such was not to be the case. In
spite of such manifest testimony and all the mighty words and works that
followed, most of those there that day, along with the majority of the Jewish
people, would ultimately reject Jesus and demand that He be crucified. But His sinless life and sacrificial death
brings salvation to ‘as many as received Him, to [whom] He gave the right to
become children of God, even to those who believe in his name’ (John 1:12).”
Now it has taken me a while to
understand the love that God has for His Son, and I suppose that one of the
reasons is the relationship that I had with my father, especially when I was
growing up, as there were things that were tried to be done to me that were not
good at all, but very bad. My father had
a very difficult childhood and was actually on his own when he was very young,
and even in children’s home where a couple came in to adopt him, but would not
because he wore classes, as my father had very bad eyesight. With that said it was still difficult for me
to look back on some of the things that were done to me. With all this said that has made it difficult
to understand the perfect relationship between Jesus and His Father as His
Father, while Jesus was on earth stood by Him as He was doing His ministry.
5/2/2026
8:28 PM
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