SPIRITUAL
DIARY
Date: 05-03-03
My
Worship Time Focus: Christ sacrifice was
better
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Hebrews 10:5,6
1. Message of the verse: “Therefore when He comes into the world, He
says, "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but You have prepared a
body for Me. In burnt offerings and
sacrifices for sin You have had no pleasure.
(MKJV) “That is why Christ, when
he came into the world, said, “You did not want animal sacrifices and grain
offerings, But you have given me a body so that I may obey you. No, you were not pleased with animals burned
on the altar or with other offerings for sin.”
(NLT)
There are
a number of things that need to be talked about concerning this verse. First this verse is quoted from Psalm 40:6-8,
and it does not read like this verse from the OT. It came from the LXX version which is a Greek
translation of the OT. The part that is
not the same is where it says in Hebrews, “ but You have prepared a body for
Me.” In the OT is say, “Mine ears Thou
hast opened.” Different commentators
give different reasons as to why this was changed so much from one translation
to the other. I will use a quotation
from the 1912 Scofield reference Bible, “#Ps 40:6 the rule, applicable to all modifications of the
form of quotations in the N.T. from O.T. writings, is that the divine Author of
both Testaments is perfectly free, in using an earlier statement, to recast the
mere literary form of it. The variant
form will be found invariably to give the deeper meaning of the earlier
statement.” Dr. Wiersbe says
the when the OT says, “My ears Thou hast opened,” the writer is saying that
because His ears are a readiness to hear and to obey the will of His
Father.
Next is to
describe the sacrifices that are spoken of here. Jesus Christ fulfilled each type of sacrifice
that was given in the OT sacrifices.
This verse mentions it more clearly in the NLT version where it gives
the names of these sacrifices. (See this
version written above.) All of these sacrifices
are mentioned in Lev. 1-7.
The next
point that I have learned from this section is that OT sacrifices were given by
men, while God is the One who has given the sacrifice for the NT, and that of
course is Jesus Christ Himself, for it says in verse five that God has prepared
a body for Him so that He could do His will.
The will of the Father was that the Son would obey Him in dying of the
cross as a sacrifice for the sins of the world, that is why Christ came to
earth the first time.
2.Spiritual meaning for my life today: The obedience of the Son doing the will of
His Father is what has spoken to my heart as I went over this passage. I know that there are far to many times when
I put myself into the place of another person and think that what he or she is
doing has been made easy for them to do and not realize the difficulty of their
given task, and I am sure this is the case of Jesus Christ that I do not (nor
ever will) understand all of the emotions that He went through to come to earth
as a man, living for over thirty years in the body of a man and then becoming
sin so that man can live forever because of His perfect sacrifice for me and
others. Me thinking that this was easy
for Him to do is not correct at all, for the emotions that He went through to
fulfill this task would have killed any other man who was born a sinner, but
not the perfect Son of God who was not born having an earthly father.
The Word of God was very refreshing, convicting and a
challenge to my heart as I read it this morning.
Memory verse for the week:
Psalm 40:12
12. For
evils beyond numbers have surrounded me; My iniquities have overtake me, so
that I am not able to see; They are more numerous that the hairs of my head,
And my heart has failed me.
No comments:
Post a Comment