SPIRITUAL DIARY
Date: 12-06-03
My Worship Time Focus:
This Salvation
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: 1Peter 1:10-12
1.
Message of the verse: “10 ¶ As to
this salvation, the prophets who prophesied of the grace that would come to you
made careful search and inquiry, 11 seeking to know what person or time the
Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He predicted the sufferings of
Christ and the glories to follow. 12 It was revealed to them that they were not
serving themselves, but you, in these things which now have been announced to
you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from
heaven—things into which angels long to look.”
(NASB) “10 ¶ This salvation was
something the prophets wanted to know more about. They prophesied about this
gracious salvation prepared for you, even though they had many questions as to
what it all could mean. 11 They wondered
what the Spirit of Christ within them was talking about when he told them in
advance about Christ’s suffering and his great glory afterward. They wondered
when and to whom all this would happen.
12 They were told that these things would not happen during their
lifetime, but many years later, during yours. And now this Good News has been
announced by those who preached to you in the power of the Holy Spirit sent
from heaven. It is all so wonderful that even the angels are eagerly watching
these things happen.” (NLT)
Peter now looks backwards into the
time of the OT, when the prophets of the OT wrote about the coming of the Lord
Jesus Christ, and the salvation that He would provide through His suffering,
and the glories that would follow. These
prophets did not understand what they were writing about, however they did know
that the Messiah would come. Jesus’
apostles did not even understand about this, even when He told them plainly
that He had to go to Jerusalem and be sacrificed for the sins of the
world. The reason that they did not
understand Him was because the Holy Spirit had not been given to them yet. In verse 12 Peter tells he readers that the
OT prophets knew that they would not see these things in there own life time,
but would happen many years from then.
He then goes on to tell them that they had already heard the Good News
of Jesus Christ dying for them, and this was given to them by the preaching of
a Spirit filled preacher. He then goes
on to talk that the angels were eagerly watching these things happen. I am sure that this is referring to the good
angels who did not leave with the bad angels, but stayed true to God. There is no redemption for those evil angels,
however there is for sinful man, so these good angels have know idea what it is
like to go from being a sinful person to one who has been born from above, now
having the new nature and the Holy Spirit living in them.
Spiritual meaning for my life
today: I want to focus in on having the
Holy Spirit living within me as a result of the new birth. There have been many times in my life when I
was reading the stories in the OT and thought that some of these people had
things better that the NT believers had it.
This is not necessarily true, and in most cases is not true at all, for
having the Holy Spirit within me allows me so many benefits that were not given
to the OT believers. The Holy Spirit
gives me understanding as I read His Word, which was unlike the apostles of
Jesus Christ had when they were walking with Him before they received the Holy
Spirit. The Holy Spirit gives to me
verses of Scripture when I need it, like last Sunday when I had the great
privilege of leading Mary Catalusci to a saving knowledge in Jesus Christ. As a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ for
salvation, I want to be ready to tell others about the grace that is available
to them when the Holy Spirit gives me opportunity to talk to someone. I want to lay hold of Christ Jesus for what
He has laid hold of me for.
The Word
of God was instructive, and refreshing to me as I read it this morning.
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