SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 9/6/2017 9:05 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-1 “Prince of Life”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Acts 3:15-17
Message of the verses: “15 but put to death the Prince of life, the one whom God raised
from the dead, a fact to which we are witnesses. 16 "And on the basis of faith in His name,
it is the name of Jesus which has strengthened this man whom you see and know;
and the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect health in the
presence of you all. 17 “And now, brethren, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers
did also.”
We see in
this section we are looking at that Peter is presenting a series of paradoxes. We have seen that Jesus was a servant, and
yet God highly exalted Him. Jesus was
the deliverer of the nation of Israel, as He was their promised Messiah, and
yet they rejected Him and gave Him over to Pilate to have Him murdered. The greatest paradox was that that they “put
to death the Prince of life,” while asking for the release of the one who took
a life or perhaps lives.
John
MacArthur tells us “Prince of life” translates archegos. It refers to the
originator, pioneer, or beginner of something. Hebrews 2:10 uses it in the
phrase ‘author of salvation.’ In Hebrews
12:2 it describes Jesus as the ‘author’ of faith. Here Peter uses it to describe Jesus as the
originator of life. That is a claim of
deity for Jesus, since Psalm 36:9 describe God as the ‘fountain of life.’”
We will
look at some verses from the New Testament which shows Jesus as the source of
life. “In Him was life, and the life was
the Light of men (John 1:4).” “God has
given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son (1 John 5:11b).” “This is the true God and eternal life (1
John 5:20b).”
The
following verses show us that Jesus claimed to be the source of life: “"For just as the Father has life in
Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself (John 5:26).” “"I am the resurrection and the life; he
who believes in Me will live even if he dies (John 11:25b).” “Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and
the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me (John
14:6).”
As we
continue to look at this sermon we will see that Peter does not stop at the
death of Christ but goes on to talk about the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and
the resurrection of Jesus Christ is certainly one of the main themes that is
found in the book of Acts.
One only
has to go through 1 Corinthians to see what Paul said about the resurrection of
Jesus Christ along with the resurrection of other believer who will follow to
understand this great and wonderful truth which Peter speaks of in this sermon.
Next Peter
forcefully brings home the point that the Jews were the open enemies of the God
they professed to love, the very God they had come to the temple to worship at
this time that the miracle of this beggar occurred. However we see that the One whom God had
exalted they delivered up, and disowned and executed.
We will
continue to look at this section in our next SD.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible question: “Gabriel” (Daniel 9:21-14).
Today’s Bible question:
“Name the river in which Naaman washed seven times in.
Answer in our next SD.
10:12 AM
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