“The Significance of Four Names”

 

EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 5/5/2026 10:30 PM

My Worship Time                                                       Focus:  “The Significance of Four Names”

Bible Reading & Meditation                                                                     Reference: Luke 3:38b

            This very short SD will be a bit difference as there are not any specific verses to put into the reference, but it will be verses from the genealogy from Luke’s gospel that we will finish looking at this evening.

            There are four names in the genealogy that sum up the person of Jesus Christ.  As a son of God (v. 38b) by creation, Adam bore His image unspoiled, unpolluted, and uncorrupted until he fell into sin.  Now that sin marred the image of God, so that none of Adam’s descendants were true sons of God in the same manner that he had been before he sinned. You remember that after Adam and Eve sinned by eating the forbidden fruit that they realized they were naked, and went to make some kind of clothes, and my thoughts have always been that the got clothes from a lamb.  Anyhow they hid from God because their fellowship had been broken with Him.  Moreover, Jesus was the Son of God in His deity, being of the same essence as the Father (Phil. 2:6; Col. 2:9).

(Phil. 2:6; Col. 2:9)

“6  who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,’

“9  For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,”

            John MacArthur writes:  “As the son of Adam (v. 38b), Jesus was fully human, and because of that ‘we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weakness, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin’ (Heb. 4:15).

(v. 38b)

“the son of Adam, the son of God.”

            “As the son of Abraham (v. 34), Jesus is the seed promised to the patriarch (Gal. 3:16), in whom the promised blessings of the Abrahamic covenant will be realized.”

(v. 34)

“34  the son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,”

(Gal. 3:16)

“16  Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to one, “And to your offspring,” who is Christ.”

            “Finally, as the son of David (v. 31), Jesus ‘will reign forever and ever’ (Rev. 11:15; cf. Luke 1:33).

(v. 31)

“31  the son of, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,”

(Rev. 11:15; cf. Luke 1:33)

“15  Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.’”

“33  and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.’”

 

            “His royal ancestry, confirmed by both of His parents’ genealogies, is yet another proof of Jesus’ messianic credentials.”

            This SD ends the third chapter of Luke, and much of those three chapters were preparing us for what will begin to happen in the fourth chapter of Luke, which is the ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ, as it begins after his baptism, when the Holy Spirit of God is the person of the godhead that will cause Jesus to begin to minister to those in Israel.

5/5/2026 10:54 PM