EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
6/10/2026 9:38 PM
My Worship
Time Focus: PT-3 “In a Synagogue”
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Luke 6:6-11
Bible Reading & Meditation “6 On another
Sabbath He entered the synagogue and taught; and a man was
there whose right hand was withered. 7 Now the
scribes and the Pharisees were watching Him [closely to
see if He healed on the Sabbath, so that they might find a
reason to accuse Him. 8 But
He knew what they were thinking, and He said to the man with the
withered hand, “Get up and come forward!” And he got up
and came forward. 9 And Jesus said to them, “I
ask you whether it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do harm, to save a
life or to destroy it?” 10 And
after looking around at them all, He said to him, “Stretch out your
hand!” And he did so; and his hand was restored. 11 But
they themselves were filled with senseless rage, and began discussing
together what they might do to Jesus.”
I will pick up from where I left off in this morning's
SD by continue to quote from John MacArthur’s commentary, and I will let you
know that there is a fairly long quote from the book of Isaiah in this part of
his commentary.
“The scribes and Pharisees knew the
correct answer to Jesus’ question, which the book of Isaiah records. In two passages in Isaiah God indicted Israel
for their superficial, shallow, false religion—the very issue Jesus was
addressing:
Isaiah
1:11–17 (NASB95):
11“What are your multiplied
sacrifices to Me?”
Says the LORD.
“I have had enough of burnt
offerings of rams
And the fat of fed cattle;
And I take no pleasure in the blood
of bulls, lambs or goats.
12“When you come to appear before
Me,
Who requires of you this trampling
of My courts?
13“Bring your worthless offerings
no longer,
Incense is an abomination to Me.
New moon and sabbath, the calling
of assemblies—
I cannot endure iniquity and the
solemn assembly.
14“I hate your new moon festivals
and your appointed feasts,
They have become a burden to Me;
I am weary of bearing them.
15“So when you spread out your
hands in prayer,
I will hide My eyes from you;
Yes, even though you multiply
prayers,
I will not listen.
Your hands are covered with blood.
16“Wash yourselves, make yourselves
clean;
Remove the evil of your deeds from
My sight.
Cease to do evil,
17Learn to do good;
Seek justice,
Reprove the ruthless,
Defend the orphan,
Plead for the widow.”
Now we
will look at Isaiah 58:6-14.
6 Is this not the fast that I
choose: To release the bonds of wickedness, To undo the ropes of the yoke, And
to let the oppressed go free, And break every yoke?
7 Is it not to break your bread with the hungry, And bring the
homeless poor into the house; When you see the naked, to cover him; And not to
hide yourself from your own flesh?
8 Then your light will break out like the dawn, And your recovery
will spring up quickly; And your righteousness will go before you; The glory of
the LORD will be your rear guard.
9 Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; You will cry for
help, and He will say, “Here I am.” If you remove the yoke from your midst, The
pointing of the finger and speaking wickedness,
10 And if you offer yourself to the hungry And satisfy the need of
the afflicted, Then your light will rise in darkness, And your gloom will
become like midday.
11 And the LORD will continually guide you, And satisfy your desire
in scorched places, And give strength to your bones; And you will be like a
watered garden, And like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.
12 Those from among you will rebuild the ancient ruins; You will
raise up the age-old foundations; And you will be called the repairer of the
breach, The restorer of the streets in which to dwell.
13 If, because of the Sabbath, you restrain your foot From doing as
you wish on My holy day, And call the Sabbath a pleasure, and the holy day of
the LORD honorable, And honor it, desisting from your own ways, From seeking
your own pleasure And speaking your own word,
14 Then you will take delight in the LORD, And I will make you ride
on the heights of the earth; And I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob
your father, For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
“As those
two passages indicate, God rejected religious ritual divorced from compassion,
mercy, and doing good. The Sabbath above
all days was a day to express goodness; to show mercy and kindness to the
needy. But the rabbinic restrictions had
so strangled the Sabbath as to render such kindness forbidden.”
I think
that I will do the rest of this section in the Morning SD as I really don’t want to make this evening’s SD
too long.
Now there is another issue that I
need to think about and that will happen in the second chapter of MacArthur’s
commentary. In the next chapters which
is about 70 pages long John MacArthur dives deep in writing about the twelve
apostles and while I was studying the book of Matthew he pretty much did the
same thing, and so I am thinking about using what I wrote from my commentary on
the gospel of Matthew. Which ever way I
go it is going to take a great deal of time, but it is important too look at
these disciples, and the reason is that God used these 11 men (not counting
Judas) to spread the Word of the Gospel around the world. If it were not for these eleven men along
with the apostle Paul then we today would not know about the gospel of Jesus Christ,
so it is very important to look at their lives.
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