EVENNING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR
6/14/2026 8:54 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-3 “Their
Significance”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: “None”
In this evenings SD it is my desire
to finish this section, one I began last evening. As mentioned I am just
quoting from John MacArthur’s commentary, and also mentioned that I will be in
this section, probably until the end of the summer as in this section John
MacArthur will go in debt with all of the twelve apostles that Jesus chose, and
perhaps there will be some surprises to be seen as we go through this
list. I have been challenged to memorize
all of the Lord’s apostles and it is easy to remember Peter, James, John, and
also Matthew, but the others are a bit mysterious because there is not much
said about them. I suppose that Judas
and Thomas are also easy for people to remember.
“Finally, the apostles lacked
power. Puzzled by their inability to
cast out a demon they asked Jesus, ‘Why could we not drive it out?’ (Matt.
17:19). Jesus remedied their lack of
spiritual power by sending them the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:8).”
(Acts 1:8)
“8 But you will receive power when the Holy
Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all
Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.’”
“Humanly speaking, then, the Twelve
hardly seemed qualified for the momentous task to which Jesus had called
them. But God uses less than adequate
people, because that is all He has to work with. After being delivered from the unprecedented
catastrophe of the worldwide flood, Noah got drunk and disgraced Himself (Gen
9:20-21).”
(Gen 9:20-21)
“20 Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he
planted a vineyard. 21 He drank of the
wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent.”
“Abraham, the
father of the nation of Israel and spiritual father of believing Gentiles, lied
about Sarah. Fearing that the Egyptians
would kill him and seize her if they knew she was his wife, he pretended she
was his sister (Gen. 12:12-13).”
(Gen. 12:12-13)
12 and when the Egyptians see you, they will
say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me, but they will let you live.
13 Say you are my sister, that it may go
well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.’’
“Later,
his son Isaac did the same thing with his wife Rebeka (Gen. 26:7).”
(Gen. 26:7)
“7 When the men of the place asked him about his
wife, he said, "She is my sister," for he feared to say, "My
wife," thinking, "lest the men of the place should kill me because of
Rebekah," because she was attractive in appearance.”
“Jacob
extorted his brother Esau’s birthright from him (Gen. 25:30-33).”
(Gen. 25:30-33)
“30 And Esau said to Jacob, "Let me eat some
of that red stew, for I am exhausted!" (Therefore his name was called
Edom.) 31 Jacob said, "Sell me your
birthright now." 32 Esau said,
"I am about to die; of what use is a birthright to me?" 33 Jacob said, "Swear to me now." So
he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.”
“Moses’
prideful disobedience of God’s command kept him from entering the Promised Land
(Numbers 20:10-12).”
(Numbers 20:10-12)
10 Then Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly
together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels:
shall we bring water for you out of this rock?" 11 And Moses lifted up his hand and struck the
rock with his staff twice, and water came out abundantly, and the congregation
drank, and their livestock. 12 And the LORD
said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not believe in me, to uphold me
as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this
assembly into the land that I have given them.’’
“Aaron,
Israel’s first high priest, led the people into idolatry and immorality (Ex.
32:1-24).” (I will not quote these verses because of the length of them.”
“Joshua
made a treaty with some of the inhabitants of Canaan, which the Lord had forbidden
Israel to do (Josh. 9:3-27).” (Same
thing as you will have to look up and read these verses, because of the length
of them.)
David,
Israel’s greatest king, the ‘man after [God’s own heart’ (1 Sam. 13:14), and
the ‘sweet psalmist of Israel’ (2 Sam. 23:1), committed adultery with Bathsheba
(2 Samuel 11:1-4) and then murdered her husband in an attempt to cover up her
resulting pregnancy (vv. 14:15).
(1 Sam. 13:14)
“14 But now your kingdom shall not continue. The
LORD has sought out a man after his own heart, and the LORD has commanded him
to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded
you.’’
(2 Sam. 23:1)
“1 ¶ Now these are the last words of David: The
oracle of David, the son of Jesse, the oracle of the man who was raised on
high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:”
(2 Samuel 11:1-4)
“1 ¶ In the spring of the year, the time when
kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all
Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained
at Jerusalem. 2 It happened, late one afternoon,
when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king’s
house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very
beautiful. 3 And David sent and inquired
about the woman. And one said, "Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of
Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?" 4
So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay
with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she
returned to her house.”
(vv. 14:15)
14 ¶ In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab
and sent it by the hand of Uriah. 15 In
the letter he wrote, "Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting,
and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die.’’
“After his
triumph over the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel, Elijah fled in abject fear
from one woman (1 Kings 19:1-3).
(1 Kings 19:1-3)
“1 ¶ Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done,
and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah,
saying, "So may the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your
life as the life of one of them by this time tomorrow." 3 Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for
his life and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant
there.”
“Isaiah
confessed himself to be ‘a man of unclean lips’ (Isa. 6:5). Jonah disobeyed God’s
command to go to Nineveh and proclaim judgment (Jonah 1:1-2), and instead fled
in the opposite direction. After being
cast overboard in a raging storm and spending three days in the stomach of a huge
sea creature (vv.15-17) the reluctant prophet obeyed God’s original mandate
(3:1-3). But when the people of Nineveh
repented instead of rejoicing, Jonah became angry and wanted to die (4:1-3).”
(Jonah 1:1-2)
“1 ¶ Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the
son of Amittai, saying, 2 "Arise, go
to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come
up before me.”
(vv.15-17)
“15 So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into
the sea, and the sea ceased from its raging. 16
Then the men feared the LORD exceedingly, and they offered a sacrifice
to the LORD and made vows. 17 And the LORD
appointed a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the
fish three days and three nights.”
(3:1-3)
“1 ¶ Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah the
second time, saying, 2 "Arise, go to
Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell
you." 3 So Jonah arose and went to
Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly
great city, three days’ journey in breadth.’
(4:1-3)
“1 ¶ But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he
was angry. 2 And he prayed to the LORD
and said, "O LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country?
That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that you are a
gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and
relenting from disaster. 3 Therefore
now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than
to live.’’
“Even the
apostle Paul proclaimed himself to be the foremost of sinners (1 Tim. 1:15) and
‘the least of the apostles, and not fit to be called and apostle, because [he]
persecuted the church of God’ (1 Cor. 15:9).
(1 Tim. 1:15)
15 The saying is trustworthy and deserving of
full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom
I am the foremost.”
(1 Cor. 15:9)
“9 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy
to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.”
“Jesus knew the apostles’
weaknesses, faults, and shortcomings.
But He also saw in them the potential under His power to change the
world. These twelve common men received
the most noble of all callings, the ministry of the New Covenant, proclaiming
the glorious truth of salvation in the Lord Jesus Christ. But like all ministers of the New Covenant, they
had ‘this treasure in earthen vessels,
so that the surpassing greatness of the power [would] be of God and not from
[themselves’ (2 Cor. 4:7).”
6/14/2026
9:41 PM
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