MORNING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/7/2026
9:38 AM
My
Worship Time Focus:
PT-4 “A
Profile of a Christian Messenger”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Luke
9:1-9
Message of the verses: “9 Now He called the twelve together
and gave them power and authority over all the demons, and the power to
heal diseases. 2 And He sent them out to proclaim the kingdom
of God and to perform healing. 3 And He said to them, “Take
nothing for your journey, neither a staff, nor a bag, nor bread, nor money;
and do not even have two tunics. 4 And whatever house
you enter, stay there [until you leave that city. 5 And
as for all who do not receive you, when you leave that city, shake the dust off
your feet as a testimony against them.” 6 And as they were
leaving, they began going throughout the villages, preaching the gospel
and healing everywhere.
7 Now Herod the tetrarch heard about
all that was happening; and he was greatly perplexed, because it was said by
some that John had risen from the dead, 8 and by some that
Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the prophets of old had risen. 9 Herod
said, “I myself had John beheaded; but who is this Man about whom I hear such
things?” And he kept trying to see Him.”
Last night I left of quoting John MacArthur’s
introduction in the middle of a paragraph, and so I will begin where I left of
in this morning’s SD;
“They,
however, were not apostles. Their
ministry, though powerful (cf. vv.9, 17), was temporary, a special one-time
expansive mission to preach the gospel yet again to the hard-hearted Galileans.”
(Luke 10: vv.9, 17)
“9 Heal the sick in it and say to them, ‘The
kingdom of God has come near to you.’
17 ¶ The seventy-two returned with joy, saying,
“Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”
“The
apostles’ ministry on the other hand, was permanent. They were the foundation of the church (Eph.
2:20).”
(Eph. 2:20)
“20 built on the foundation of the apostles and
prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,”
“Their
teaching was authoritative (Acts 2:42) and they and their close associates were
the human authors of the New Testament.”
(Acts 2:42)
“42 ¶ And they devoted themselves to the apostles
’teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.”
“The reason the Lord chose twelve
men to be His apostles instead of some other number was that twelve was
symbolic of the twelve tribes of Israel.
The number twelve’s importance was reinforced by the addition of
Matthias to take Judas’s place (Acts 1:23-26), thus ensuring that the apostles
would continue to be a twelve-man unit.”
(Acts 1:23-26)
“23 And they put forward two, Joseph called
Barsabbas, who was also called Justus, and Matthias. 24 And they prayed and said, "You, Lord,
who know the hearts of all, show which one of these two you have chosen 25 to take the place in this ministry and
apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place." 26 And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell
on Matthias, and he was numbered with the eleven apostles.”
“Jesus’
choice of these twelve men, none of them members of any part of the religious
establishment, was an act of judgment, emphasizing the reality that Israel and
its spiritual leadership were apostate.
“One of the earliest official acts
of Christ’s ministry was His first cleansing of the temple (John 2:13-22),
which highlighted the corruption, apostasy, and spiritual bankruptcy of the
Jewish religious leaders and all who followed them.”
(John 2:13-22)
“13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and
Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14 In the
temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers
sitting there. 15 And making a whip of
cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen. And he
poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables. 16 And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take
these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade.” 17 His disciples remembered that it was written,
“Zeal for your house will consume me.” 18 So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you
show us for doing these things?” 19
Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will
raise it up.” 20 The Jews then said, “It
has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three
days?” 21 But he was speaking about the
temple of his body. 22 When therefore he
was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and
they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.”
“Their
hostility toward Him had intensified over the intervening eighteen months. When the time came to choose His apostles,
the Lord ignored the religious establishment.
Instead, He chose twelve common, ordinary men to be the leaders of the
new, true Israel of God—the redeemed, believing remnant. Jesus made that connection clear in Luke
22:29-30 when He told the Twelve that they would reign over Israel in the
millennial kingdom: ‘Just as My Father
has granted Me a kingdom, I grant you that you may eat and drink at My table in
My kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of
Israel. Their names will also be
emblazoned on the foundation stones of the New Jerusalem for all eternity (Rev.
21:14).”
(Luke 22:29-30)
“29 and I assign to you, as my Father assigned to
me, a kingdom, 30 that you may eat and
drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of
Israel.”
(Rev. 21:14)
“14 And the wall of the city had twelve
foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the
Lamb.”
“From Luke’s inspired account of our
Lord’s commissioning of the Twelve, a profile of a messenger of Jesus Christ
emerges. A Christian messenger proclaims
salvation, manifests compassion, maintains trust, demonstrates contentment, and
exercises discernment.”
This last paragraph shows the
outline to which we will follow as we begin to study these verses, and Lord
willing that will be in this evening’s SD.
10/7/2026
10:07 AM
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