MORNING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 11/12/2026
10:02 AM
My
Worship Time Focus:
PT-2 “Mercy
Extended to All”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Luke 9:52-56
Message
of the verses: “and He sent messengers on ahead of
Him, and they went and entered a village of the Samaritans to make arrangements
for Him. But they did not receive Him,
because He was traveling toward Jerusalem.
When His disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want
us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?” But He turned and rebuked them, and said,
“You do not know what kind of spirit you are of; for the Son of Man did not
come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.”
And they went on to another village.”
In lasts night’s SD there were many,
many verses that I copied and pasted into that SD, actually I only quoted one
paragraph from John MacArthur’s commentary, and so today I will pick up from
where I left off last night.
“Jesus needed to teach His Disciples
the inclusive character of the gospel of mercy, and the first incident on their
journey to Jerusalem provided such a teaching opportunity. Surprisingly, the Lord chose to travel
through Samaira, which most Jews took great pains to avoid doing. Jews traveling from Galilee to Judea would
cross to the east side of the Jordan River, travel south through Perea, and
then recross the river at Jericho and go up into Judea. Those who did travel through Samaria carried
their own food so as not to have to eat food defiled by the unclean and
despised Samaritians.
“The animosity between the Jews and
the Samaritians dated by several centuries before the time of Christ. After the
northern kingdom (Israel) was defeated by the Assyrians, the ten northern
tribes of
Israel
[were] carried away into exile from their own land to Assyria…[and] the king of
Assyria brought men from Babylon from Cuthah and from Avva and from Hamath and
Sephar-vaim, and settled them in the cities of Samaria in place of the sons of
Israel. So they possessed Samaria and
lived in its cities. (2 Kings 17:23-24).
“Those
Gentile foreigners intermarried with the Jews who had not been deported,
forming a nixed race know as the Samaritans (the name derives from the region
and capital city of the northern part of the divided kingdom, both called
Samaria). The new arrivals brought
their idolatrous false religion with them (2 Kings 17:29-31), which became
mixed with the worship of the true God (vv. 25-28; 32-33).”
(2 Kings 17:29-31)
“29 But every nation still made gods of its own
and put them in the shrines of the high places that the Samaritans had made,
every nation in the cities in which they lived. 30 The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, the
men of Cuth made Nergal, the men of Hamath made Ashima, 31 and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and
the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech,
the gods of Sepharvaim.”
(vv. 25-28; 32-33, 41)
“25 And at the beginning of their dwelling there,
they did not fear the LORD. Therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which
killed some of them. 26 So the king of Assyria
was told, "The nations that you have carried away and placed in the cities
of Samaria do not know the law of the god of the land. Therefore he has sent
lions among them, and behold, they are killing them, because they do not know
the law of the god of the land." 27
Then the king of Assyria commanded, "Send there one of the priests
whom you carried away from there, and let him go and dwell there and teach them
the law of the god of the land." 28
So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and
lived in Bethel and taught them how they should fear the LORD.”
“32 They also feared the LORD and appointed from among
themselves all sorts of people as priests of the high places, who sacrificed
for them in the shrines of the high places. 33
So they feared the LORD but also served their own gods, after the manner
of the nations from among whom they had been carried away.”
“41 So these nations feared the LORD and also
served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children’s
children— as their fathers did, so they do to this day.”
“Eventually
the Samaritans abandoned their idols and worshiped Yahweh alone, after their
own convoluted fashion (for example, the accepted only the Pentateuch as
canonical Scripture, and worshiped God on Mt. Gerizim, not at Jerusalem). This is the background of the Lord’s
encounter with the Samaritan woman, recorded in (John 4:7-42).”
(John 4:7-42)
“7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water.
Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8
(For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it
that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have
no dealings with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus
answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to
you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you
living water.” 11 The woman said to him,
"Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do
you get that living water? 12 Are you
greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself,
as did his sons and his livestock." 13
Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be
thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks of
the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I
will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal
life." 15 The woman said to him,
“Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to
draw water.” 16 Jesus said to her, “Go,
call your husband, and come here.” 17
The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to
her, "You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one
you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true." 19 The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive
that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers
worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where
people ought to worship." 21 Jesus
said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this
mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we worship
what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when
the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and worship him must
worship in spirit and truth."
25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah
is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all
things.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I who
speak to you am he.”
“27 ¶ Just then his disciples came back. They
marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?”
or, “Why are you talking with her?” 28
So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the
people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me
all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” 30 They went out of the town and were coming to
him. 31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging
him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” 32 But he
said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33 So the disciples said to one another, “Has
anyone brought him something to eat?” 34
Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me
and to accomplish his work. 35 Do you
not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you,
lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. 36 Already the one who reaps is receiving wages
and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice
together. 37 For here the saying holds
true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 38 I
sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you
have entered into their labor." 39
Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s
testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” 40
So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them,
and he stayed there two days. 41 And
many more believed because of his word. 42 They said to the woman, “It is no longer
because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and
we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”
Spiritual
Meaning for my Life today: I can learn from this section above
not to be prejudice against someone because who they are, but be ready to tell
them the truth of the gospel so they too can receive Christ and be saved from
their sins.
My
Steps of Faith for Today: Trusting the Lord to rid me of some
things that need to be gotten rid of.
11/12/2026
10:34 AM
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