EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 8/30/2026
9:45 PM
My
Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 “The Application”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference:
Luke
7:33-34
Message of the verses: ““For John the Baptist has come eating no
bread and drinking no wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon!’ The Son of Man has come eating and drinking,
and you say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax
collectors and sinners!’”
“But the spiritual brats’ rejection
of the gospel did not stop with John.
The term Son of Man, a messianic title taken from Daniel 7:13,
was the Lord’s favorite designation of Himself, which He used more than eighty
times.”
(Daniel 7:13)
“13 "I saw in the night visions, and behold,
with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and
was presented before him.”
“Unlike
John the Baptist, Jesus came eating and drinking; that is, He
participated in the normal enjoyments and occasions of social life, including
weddings (John 2:1-11) as well as funerals (Luke 7:11-16; John 11:1-44).”
Needless to say I will not be quoting 44 verses from the 11th
chapter of John, as you are on your own to look that up.
(John 2:1-11)
“1 ¶ On the third day there was a wedding at Cana
in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus also was invited to the wedding with
his disciples. 3 When the wine ran out,
the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” 4 And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this
have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” 5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever
he tells you.” 6 Now there were six
stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding
twenty or thirty gallons. 7 Jesus said
to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the
brim. 8 And he said to them, “Now draw
some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it. 9 When the master of the feast tasted the water
now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who
had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom
10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the
good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you
have kept the good wine until now.” 11
This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and
manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.”
(Luke 7:11-16)
“11 ¶ Soon afterward he went to a town called Nain,
and his disciples and a great crowd went with him. 12 As he drew near to the gate of the town,
behold, a man who had died was being carried out, the only son of his mother,
and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town was with her.
13 And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion
on her and said to her, “Do not weep.” 14
Then he came up and touched the bier, and the bearers stood still. And
he said, “Young man, I say to you, arise.” 15
And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him to his
mother. 16 Fear seized them all, and
they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and “God has
visited his people!’”
“John’s
ministry too place in the wilderness, but Jesus traveled extensively through
the towns and villages of Israel (cf. Matt. 9:35; Mark 6:6, 56; 8:27; Luke 8:1;
13:22).”
(cf. Matt. 9:35; Mark 6:6, 56; 8:27;
Luke 8:1; 13:22)
“35 ¶ And Jesus went throughout all the cities and
villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the
kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction.”
“6 And he marveled because of their unbelief.
And he went about among the villages teaching.”
“56 And wherever he came, in villages, cities, or
countryside, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and implored him that they
might touch even the fringe of his garment. And as many as touched it were made
well.”
“27 ¶ And Jesus went on with his disciples to the
villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, “Who do
people say that I am?’”
“1 ¶ Soon afterward he went on through cities and
villages, proclaiming and bringing the good news of the kingdom of God. And the
twelve were with him,”
“22 He went on his way through towns and
villages, teaching and journeying toward Jerusalem.”
“If John’s
ministry was reminiscent of a funeral, Jesus’ ministry more closely resembled a
wedding. In fact, the Lord likened His
ministry to a wedding, picturing Himself as the bridegroom and the disciples as
the bridegroom’s attendants. (Matt. 9:15; cf. John 3:29”
(Matt. 9:15; cf. John 3:29
“15 And Jesus said to them, "Can the wedding
guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when
the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.”
“29 The one who has the bride is the bridegroom.
The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the
bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete.”
“Because John was aloof and did not
associate with people, they denounced him as demon possessed. But because Jesus interacted with people,
even the outcasts of society, His enemies scornfully denounced Him as a
gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners. That
Jesus frequently associated with those whom they viewed as the dregs of society
never ceased to infuriate the Jewish religious leaders. When the Lord attended a banquet given by the
former tax collector Matthew after his call to follow Him, the Pharisees
confronted His disciples and demanded, ‘Why is your Teacher eating with the tax
collectors and sinners?’ (Matt.
9:11). Luke records later in his gospel
that ‘all the tax collectors and the sinners were coming near Him to listen to
Him’ (Luke 15:1). Predictably shocked
and outraged, ‘both the Pharisees and the scribes began to grumbling, saying, ‘This
man receives sinners and eats with them’’(v.2).
When Jesus did the unthinkable and invited Himself to the house of the
hated tax collector Zaccheus, ‘they all began to grumble, saying, ‘He has gone
to be the guest of a man who is a sinner’ (Luke 19:7).
“The Lord rebuked that evil
generation for rejecting both divine messengers who proclaimed the truth, despite
their different styles of ministry. John
was sober, severe, stark, a preacher of judgment, calling for repentance,
weeping in light of God’s wrath, and keeping himself separate from
sinners. Jesus, in contrast, was tender,
merciful, gracious, compassionate, a preacher of blessing who mingled with
sinners. Whom He came to seek and save.
“In the end, it is not the style of
ministry that matters but its substance.
The people ultimately rejected the ministries of both John and Jesus. Though their emphases may differed, both John
and Jesus called for repentance, promised forgiveness, warned of judgment, and
proclaimed the coming of the kingdom.
The outward form of ministry is never the issue, but rather the truth of
the message. In every generation there
will be spiritual brats who reject the truth, like those who refused to mourn
with John or laugh with Jesus.”
8/30/2026
10:35 PM
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