EVENING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/18/2026
7:52 PM
My
Worship Time
Focus: PT-1“The Answer of Divine
Revelation”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference:
Luke
9:20-22
Message of the verses: “And He said to them, “But who do you say
that I am?” And Peter answered and said,
“The Christ of God.” But He warned them
and instructed them not to tell this to anyone, saying, “The Son of Man must
suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes,
and be killed and be raised up on the third day.”
This section is a fairly long section that also has
many verse references in this section which I will quote when they come up.
Now in light of the confusion and
unbelief that His first question revealed, the Lord asked the Twelve, “But
who do you say that I am? Now the word you is emphatic in all three
gospel accounts of this incident (cf. Matt. 16:15; Mark 8:29). Who did they, in contrast to prevailing
public opinion, believe Jesus to be.
(cf. Matt. 16:15; Mark 8:29)
“15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I
am?”
“29 And he asked them, “But who do you say that I
am?” Peter answered him, “You are the Christ.”
The apostles’ answer, voiced by
their spokesman Peter, was the absolute antithesis of the crowd’s
suggestions. When the Twelve confessed
Jesus to be the Christ of God, they did so with full knowledge of the
alternative views of Him being proposes.
To make their view of Him unmistakably clear, they added their
affirmation that He is ‘the Son of the living God” (Matt. 16:16). Christos (Christ) is the Greek
translation of the Hebrew word mashiach.
Both words refer to the anointed one (cf. 4:18; Acts 10:38; Heb. 1:9),
the one whom God Himself chose to be prophet priest, and king, as the
possessive phrase of God indicates (cf. 2:26; 23:35; Acts 3:18; 4:26;
Rev. 11:15; 12:10).
(cf. 4:18; Acts 10:38; Heb. 1:9)
“18 "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to
proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set
at liberty those who are oppressed,”
“38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the
Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were
oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.”
“9 You have loved righteousness and hated
wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness
beyond your companions."
(cf. 2:26; 23:35; Acts 3:18; 4:26; Rev.
11:15; 12:10)
“26 And it had been revealed to him by the Holy
Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.”
“35 And the people stood by, watching, but the
rulers scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others; let him save himself, if he is
the Christ of God, his Chosen One!”
“18 But what God foretold by the mouth of all the
prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled.”
“26 The kings of the earth set themselves, and
the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed’—”
“15 Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and
there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become
the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and
ever.”
“10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying,
"Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the
authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been
thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.”
Anyone who
rejects Jesus, God’s Messiah, is cursed (1 Cor. 16:22) and deserving of the
most severe punishment (Heb. 10:29).
(1 Cor. 16:22)
22 If anyone has no love for the Lord, let him
be accursed. Our Lord, come!”
(Heb. 10:29)
“29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will
be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has
profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged
the Spirit of grace?”
John MacArthur writes “The apostles
knew Jesus was not merely another prophet, nor was He the political and
military ruler that fit the expectation of the people. He was God’s chosen,
anointed Messiah and His beloved Son (Matt. 3:17; 17:5; Col. 1:13; 2 Peter
1:17), the king of Israel (John 1:49).”
(Matt. 3:17; 17:5; Col. 1:13; 2 Peter
1:17)
“17 and behold, a voice from heaven said, “This
is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
“5 He was still speaking when, behold, a bright
cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my beloved
Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.”
“13 He has delivered us from the domain of
darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son,’
“17 For when he received honor and glory from God
the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, “This is my
beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,”
(John 1:49)
“49 Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the
Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”
“The faith
of the apostles would continue to waver at times between this confession and
the Lord’s death and resurrection. But
despite the fluctuations of their trust, they would hold fast to their
identification of Him. They would
question His plan, especially when He spoke of His death. But never did they doubt His person.”
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