SPIRITUAL
DIARY FOR 12-28-02
My
Worship Time Focus: Perfect through suffering
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Hebrews 2:10
1. Message of the verse:
“For it
was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing
many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through
sufferings.” (NKJV) “And it was only right that God—who made
everything and for whom everything was made—should bring his many children into
glory. Through the suffering of Jesus,
God made him a perfect leader, one fit to bring them into their
salvation.” (NLT)
There are a couple of words that are
translated from the Greek in this passage that need to be explained. The word translated “captain” in the NKJV is
a word that means pioneer or leader, so Jesus was the pioneer, leader, the One
who lead the way. The word “perfect” can
also be translated complete, effective, or adequate. I do not think it can be said that Jesus
Christ had any imperfections, thus He was perfect because He is God in the
flesh, but Dr. MacArthur has something to say about this subject in his study
Bible, “In His divine nature, Christ was already perfect. However, His human nature was perfected through obedience,
including suffering in order that He might be an understanding High-Priest, an
example for believers, and establish the perfect righteousness to be imputed to
believers.” The Bible says that
Jesus Christ was the second Adam and this along with the circumstances of His
birth lead me to believe that He had a body like that of the first Adam which
is described in Genesis. Adam was a much
more intelligent person than his offspring are because of the fact that he was
not marred by sin when he was created.
Jesus Christ was born of a virgin, fathered by the Holy Spirit, thus the
sin nature was not passed on because there was no human father, which is how
the sin nature is passed on. The first
prophesy about Christ in Genesis 3:15 states that He would be the “seed of the
woman.” “And I will put enmity between
you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your
head, and you shall bruise His heel."
So as I look at this verse from Hebrews that I am studying today I can
understand that even though Christ has a perfect body that would never have
died if He had not caused it to, could still be made complete by His sufferings
for my salvation.
2.
Spiritual meaning for my life today:
As I look into more detail the perfect plan that God had for my
salvation it makes me think of how perfect that God is and how He had all of
the details worked out so that I can be His son through the cost of His Son as
He died for me and became sin for me on the cross. The details are marvelously perfect because
the Planner is also perfect. Halleluiah
what a Saviour!
The
Word of God was marvelously refreshing to me this morning.
My Steps of Faith Today:
I want to
live for my marvelous Saviour this day.
I know that “me” gets in the way a lot of the time, so I need to focus
on Him today and for that matter every day.
Memory
verses for the week: Ehp. 2:10; Mark
12:30; Romans 12:5; Phil. 2:5; 1Peter 4:10
For we
are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God
prepared in advance for us to do.
Love
the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all
your mind, and with all your strength.
…so in
Christ we who are many form one body, and each member belongs to all the
others.
Your
attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus…
Each
one should use whatever gifts he has received to serve others…
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