SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 12/21/2017 10:09 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
Salvation Must Center on Jesus Christ
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Acts 8:35
Message of the verse: “35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture he preached Jesus to him.”
I want to say first of all that this SD will be a short
one as we will finish up the last main point with this SD. It seems to me that this section from John
MacArthur’s commentary on the book of Acts is a bit different than the rest of
it as far as how he separates the verses.
What we have been looking at as far as the second main point is the
proper presentation of the gospel message.
I have mentioned that the sermon that we read about in
the 24th chapter of the gospel of Luke, that even though we don’t
get to read all that Christ had to say, is the sermon that I would have loved
to be there when Jesus spoke it to the two disciples while they were on the
road to Emmaus. What we see in verse 35
of Acts chapter eight is a verse that is similar to what happened in the 24th
chapter of Acts as Philip “beginning from this Scripture he preached Jesus to
him.” We don’t know exactly what other
verses that Philip used to preach Jesus to this man, but I would have to think
that he used some of the exact verses that Jesus used when speaking to the
disciples as He was preaching about the Messiah, which of course was Him.
As far as an OT passage there is probably no better place
to begin preaching Jesus than the latter part of Isaiah 52 all the way through
chapter 53, which is where this eunuch was reading when Philip came upon
him.
John MacArthur writes “A gospel presentation, to be
effective, must clearly and comprehensively present the Person and work of
Jesus Christ. Perhaps the reason some
reject Jesus is that He has not been presented well enough for them to
understand who He is and what He has accomplished. To proclaim to others what Christ has done in
our lives is important, but the biblical truth about Jesus Christ is the
essential message the sinner must hear.
As Paul wrote to the Romans, ‘Faith comes from hearing…the word of
Christ’ (Romans 10:17).”
Spiritual meaning
for my life today: It is not only
good to tell others the truth of who Jesus is and what Jesus did, but it is
good for me to continue to read and study what Jesus did so that it makes me
better prepared to answer questions that people I run into can understand the
truth about Jesus. On this note I want
to say that this past year (2017) I have been beginning my day by doing my
Spiritual Diaries and then after prayer time I have been reading a devotional
from a Bible that I got in the mail last year, and the Scripture reading from
this Bible that one has to read each day takes you through the OT once and the
NT along with the book of Psalms two times.
I have to say that this has been a challenge to keep up with it. What I do is actually listen to the Bible
from a DVD that I have. This coming
year, Lord willing, I want to go slowly through the Gospels along with the book
of Psalms along with doing my Spiritual Diaries each day so that I can focus
more on Jesus Christ.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “Peter” (John 13:8).
Today’s Bible
question: “Name the mountain where Aaron
died.”
Answer in our next SD.
12/21/2017 10:33 AM
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