SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 6/12/2017 10:06 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-3 “The Man With a Servant’s Heart”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Colossians
4:7-8
Message of the verses: “7 As to all my affairs, Tychicus, our beloved brother and faithful servant and fellow bond-servant in the Lord, will bring you information. 8 For I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know about our circumstances and that he may encourage your hearts;”
We have been looking at Tychicus, a friend and fellow
worker for the Apostle Paul, a man with a servant’s heart. In our last SD we spoke about Tychicus being
the one who would deliver letters from the Apostle Paul to some different NT
churches, the last being to the Colossian church, and it is to that church that
he will bring news of how Paul is doing, what his circumstances were, which
would include how his health was. No
doubt Tychicus would bring encouragement to the Colossian Church.
We will conclude this section by quoting John MacArthur’s
commentary: “Paul next lists three
credentials Tychicus possessed that qualified him to act as Paul’s personal
envoy. First, he was a ‘beloved brother’
in the Lord. That Paul calls him a
‘brother’ shows he was one of the family of believers. His personal character had earned him the
designation ‘beloved’ from no less than the apostle Paul himself. Second, Paul describes him as a ‘faithful’
servant.’ He never achieved prominence,
but he served in an important capacity as Paul’s liaison to the Churches. He was a ‘faithful’ steward of his
ministry—the highest commendation Paul could give (cf. 1 Cor. 4:2). Finally, Paul calls him a ‘fellow bondservant
in the Lord.’ He was a diakonos (‘servant’) in relationship to
Paul, but a sundoulos (‘fellow
bond-servant’) with Paul in relationship to ‘the Lord.”
Now it is my plan to move onto “The Man With a Sinful
Past” “Onesimus” in our next SD as we seek to finish up writing on the book of
Colossians.
6/12/2017 10:30 PM
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