MORNING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/5/2026
9:48 AM
My
Worship Time Focus:
PT-2
“Rejecting The Righteous”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference:
Luke
5:30-32
Message of the verses: “The Pharisees and their scribes began
grumbling at His disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax
collectors and sinners?” And Jesus
answered and said to them, “It is not those who are well who need a physician,
but those who are sick. I have not come
to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.”
I mentioned in my Spiritual Diary
last evening that there was not much left in this section to write about, but I
will finish this SD this morning and then, Lord willing begin the last chapter
in MacArthur’s first commentary on the gospel of Luke this evening. I ordered the next volume a while ago and I
hope that it will get here before I finish this volume.
Now the truth is that God cannot
save those who refuse to see themselves as sinners, the ones who ignore, gloss
over, or trivialize their sin. It is
only those who understand by the grace of God and the convicting work of the
Holy Spirit that they are the poor, prisoners, blind, and oppressed, headed for
a Christless, Godless eternity in hell, and trust in Christ’s work on the cross
as payment in the full for their sins (Col. 2:13-14) can be saved. Now as James wrote, “God is opposed to the
proud, but gives grace to the humble” (James 4:6).
(Col. 2:13-14)
“13 ¶ And you, who were dead in your trespasses and
the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having
forgiven us all our trespasses, 14 by canceling the record of debt
that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing
it to the cross.
John MacArthur writes “The Scribes
and Pharisees had badly misunderstood God’s purpose in giving the law. He did not give the law as a means of
achieving self-righteousness, but to provoke self-condemnation, awareness of
sin, conviction, repentance, and pleading to God for mercy. The law is ‘our tutor to lead us to Christ,
so that we may be justified by faith’ (Gal. 3:24). As Paul wrote in 1 Timothy 1:9-10,
[God’s] law
is not made for a righteous person, but for those who are lawless and
rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those
who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers and immoral men and
homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else is
contrary to sound teaching.
Only
those who recognize themselves to be in the latter group can embrace the
glorious gospel of forgiveness. Such a
one was Paul, the self-proclaimed foremost of all sinners (1 Tim. 1:15), who
nevertheless found that ‘the grace of our Lord was more than abundant’ to save
even him (v. 14).”
Spiritual
meaning for my life today: This reminds me of when the Lord saved me in January
of 1974 in a Lums restaurant in Casselberry Florida after listening to a series
of tapes from Hal Lindsey on the end times as taught in the Word of God. My testimony has a lot more in it than this
but I suppose this is the most important part of it as this happened on January
26, 1974. I have to say the most
important date of my life as the Lord saved my wife in April of that year and
then our two children when they were very young, and then their children and spouses
too, all seven grandchildren, actually one is in heaven as a stillborn child.
My
Steps of Faith for Today: Trusting the Lord to give grace to my wife as
she continues to deal with cancer.
6/5/2026
10:10 AM
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