EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/7/2026
9:30 PM
My
Worship Time Focus:
“A
Christian Messenger Proclaims Salvation”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Luke
9:2b
Message of the verse: “And He sent them out to proclaim the
kingdom of God”
As we look at this partial verse we
can see what the mission had, a single purpose: they were to proclaim the
kingdom of God. The Greek word for
proclaim is kerusso, which refers to a herald’s formal, authoritative,
public announcement of important truth.
In an era before mass media, that was how important messages were
communicated to the public, that is they had town criers who would do it in
later times. In town after town, the
apostles publicly were proclaiming that the kingdom of God was at hand because
the Lord, Savior, and King had arrived.
That message never gets old. They
also announced that entrance to the kingdom was through repentance (Mark 6:12),
with confession of sin, and faith in the Messiah (John 1:12-13).”
(Mark 6:12)
“12 So they went out and proclaimed that people
should repent.”
(John 1:12-13)
“12 But to all who did receive him, who believed
in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will
of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.”
MacArthur writes “The preaching of
the Twelve followed the pattern set by Jesus.
In Luke 4:43 He announced, ‘I must preach the kingdom of God to the
other cities also, for I was sent for the purpose.’ One of the proofs of His messiahship that He
offered to the messengers from John the Baptist was that the ‘poor have the
gospel preached to them’ (p7:22). At the
beginning of chapter 8, Luke recorded that ‘He began going around from one city
and village to another, proclaiming and preaching the kingdom of God’
(8:1). As Luke noted in that same verse,
‘the twelve were with Him,’ learning from His example. When He sent them out, the Twelve preached
the same message that Jesus did. The
church today has that same responsibility to preach exactly what Jesus did
without altering it. The church’s
message is not a social, political, philanthropic, or moral one. It is a message of sin, salvation, and
forgiveness, which without being changed has been explained and enriched in the
New Testament epistles.
“The Lord narrowed the scope of the
apostles’ first preaching assignment by commanding them, ‘Do not go in the way
of the Gentiles, and do not enter any city of the Samaritans; but rather go to
the lost sheep of the house of Israel’ (Matt. 10:5-6; cf. Rom. 1:16).”
(Rom. 1:16)
“16 ¶ For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is
the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and
also to the Greek.”
“The
Jewish people, heirs of God’s covenants, law, and promises (Rom. 9:4), were to
have the gospel preached to them before it was widely proclaimed to the
Gentiles and Samaritans. It would also
be helpful for the Twelve if their first preaching assignment was to people of
their own culture and not to the pagan Gentiles and half-breed Samaritans.”
(Rom. 9:4)
“4 They are Israelites, and to them belong the
adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the
promises.”
“But
eventually, the gospel would be preached to the entire world (Matt. 28:19-20).”
(Matt. 28:19-20)
“19 Go therefore and make disciples of all
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe
all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of
the age.’’
“Israel
was never intended to be a cul-de-sac for the message of salvation, but rather
a conduit through which it would flow to the world. Chosen to be God’s witness nation, Israel’s
stubborn unbelief caused it to be temporarily set aside. The Lord chose a new people, the church,
composed of believers from every people and nation. God has not permanently rejected
Israel (Rom. 11:1-2, 25-26), and in the future the believing remanent will once
again be His Witnesses (Rev. 7:1-8).”
(Rom. 11:1-2, 25-26)
“1 ¶ I ask, then,, has God rejected his people? By
no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of
the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not
rejected his people whom he foreknew. Do you not know what the Scripture says
of Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?”
“25 Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not
want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come
upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And in this way all Israel will be saved, as
it is written, “The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness
from Jacob”
(Rev. 7:1-8)
“1 ¶ After this I saw four angels standing at the
four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, that no
wind might blow on earth or sea or against any tree. 2 Then I saw another angel ascending from the
rising of the sun, with the seal of the living God, and he called with a loud
voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm earth and sea, 3 saying, “Do not harm the earth or the sea or
the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.”
4 And I heard the number of the sealed,
144,000, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel: 5 12,000 from the tribe of Judah were sealed,
12,000 from the tribe of Reuben, 12,000 from the tribe of Gad, 6 12,000 from the tribe of Asher, 12,000 from
the tribe of Naphtali, 12,000 from the tribe of Manasseh, 7 12,000 from the tribe of Simeon, 12,000 from
the tribe of Levi, 12,000 from the tribe of Issachar, 8 12,000 from the tribe of Zebulun, 12,000 from
the tribe of Joseph, 12,000 from the tribe of Benjamin were sealed.”
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