DECEMBER 22 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#1-33 SUMMARY-08 The Gospel of Matthew: A Study of the Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ

 

DECEMBER 22  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#1-33 SUMMARY-08

  The Gospel of Matthew: A Study of the Life, 

Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ 

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer    

{{The Holy Spirit is again leading me to post a prayer originally written in 2004}}

 “Jesus, You are the Messiah, praise Your Holy Name, 

God became flesh, the Redeemer of all men from the bondage of sin,

 You have freed us from the Law of Sacrifice for You 

have substituted Your Holy Self as the Atonement, once for all!!! 

 Lord, teach me to share the Good News to both Jew and Gentile

 that the Messiah has come,

 the GOOD NEWS that Jesus, the Son of Man has sacrificed His Perfect Life

 and shed His Spotless Blood, the Sacrifice of GOD’S Passover Lamb

 so that the angel of death will “pass over” all who believe 

that Jesus is the Passover Lamb and apply His Blood 

to the doorposts and lintel of our hearts. 

Salvation is through the Messiah, God’s Anointed One,

 for God sent His Son, born of a “virgin”, sacrificed on a cross, 

buried in a borrowed tomb, and was raised to Glory on the 3rd Day —

 The MESSIAH HAS COME!!!    

AMEN

DECEMBER 22  THE JESUS QUESTIONS

<<Note: >> The JESUS Questions have their relevance ONLY in the 

TRUTH OF GOD 

that 

JESUS IS GOD’S SON, GOD’S ANOINTED, 

GOD”S CHOSEN ONE, GOD’S MESSIAH 

and through the “understanding” of

 GOD’S TRUTH 

we come to a 

TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD HIMSELF!   

My individual encounter with the Holy Spirit as He leads me in the writing of 

The JESUS Questions

 sometimes is VERY personal as was the DECEMBER 21 blog

 in which I wrote of being led by the Holy Spirit to fulfill “part of a 2004 prayer”

 and that “part” was for me to get personally involved 

in the work of the Holy Spirit and I was 

“to do something about this evil and vile situation 

that is removing the Name of JESUS from so many [aspects of our lives] ” 

and today in my study of His Word, the Holy Spirit led me to an article 

about the Messiah written by Tracey R. Rich that states:

 “If you want to know how Jews interpret the passages that Christians

 consider to be messianic, see Jews for Judaism, a counter-missionary 

organization not associated with this website, especially their article about

 Christian Proof-Texting.”  

Today when I read the DECEMBER 21 prayer that said, 

“teach me to share the Good News to both Jew and Gentile

 that the Messiah has come” 

the thought that struck me was that there is a sect of Jews that has

 taken the Name of Jesus and “separated Him from His Messiahship” 

which is every bit as “vile and evil” as America promoting 

“separation of church and state” if taken from the viewpoint

 of removing the name of God from public places. 

To “legislate” that God is not allowed in public schools literally removes

 God’s “moral standard” from our government and therefore the

 “federal government is free to decide what is moral in our society” ———

 and there is nothing more “vile and evil” 

than man usurping God’s Power ——— 

for man has been proven untrustworthy since the first bite of forbidden fruit!

 Therefore, in fair and equal treatment of everyone, every nationality,

 and every religion, I will continue to be led by the Holy Spirit and continue

 writing articles based on “God’s Standards” and “His Holy Word” 

and keep letting the Holy Spirit remind us that GOD IS TRUTH, 

“so if you are not listening to God, then you are not listening to the Truth!!!” 

 If man (and woman) had listened when God said 

“do not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,

 for in the day you eat of it you shall surely die” (Genesis 2:17) 

instead of listening to THE LIE when the Tempter said, 

“you will not surely die”  (Genesis 3:4) then the knowledge of 

good and evil would have remained on the tree and man would have 

remained in the Garden of Eden, forever.! 

So at the very beginning even Satan himself was (and still is) using 

the Word of God to lead us FROM GOD’S TRUTH 

but each of us must listen to what God says and 

KNOW GOD IS TRUTH !!!

 DO NOT LISTEN to Satan for Satan is the father-of-lies!?!?!?! 

Jesus at an early age (starting first with the ‘IMMACULATE CONCEPTION” 

and with the “VIRGIN BIRTH”) was fulfilling prophecy 

about the Messiah and starting with the 3rd chapter of the Gospel 

bearing his name, Matthew documents that the life of Jesus revealed 

Jesus IS the True Messiah by His actions — because 

the actions of Jesus Himself could only be accomplished by the True Messiah!!! 

At the start of the 3rd Chapter of the Matthew’s Gospel of Jesus, 

Matthew introduces the Messiah’s “star witness”, John the Baptist.

 Here again we will see that Jesus fulfills prophecy of the Messiah 

by circumstances beyond His control and starting with the 3rd Chapter,

 Matthew demonstrates that all Scripture and all prophecy

 point to Jesus as the Messiah and even the most casual reader 

will see that Jesus by His actions and lifestyle cannot be interpreted as 

“just a good man doing good works” 

as Satan would have you believe, but 

the “good works” of Jesus were accomplished by God Incarnate,

 Immanuel, and it was the Power of God in Jesus that was doing 

“miraculous works” that could only be accomplished by God Himself 

— and therefore the “actions” of Jesus proclaim and witness that:

 JESUS IS CHRIST, GOD’S ANOINTED ONE!!!

DECEMBER 21 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#1-33 SUMMARY-07 The Gospel of Matthew: A Study of the Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ

 

DECEMBER 21  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#1-33 SUMMARY-07

  The Gospel of Matthew: A Study of the Life, 

Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ 

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer    

JESUS, today I pray, “I am Yours, save me” as was prayed by Martin Luther,

 a prayer that must have been a great glory to Your Name and a great time

 of “coming out of darkness” into the LIGHT of YOUR WORD! O Lord, 

there is a new ‘Spiritual Dark Ages’ for our nation as America continues

 down this disastrous course of “separation of church and state” 

and if America continues to drift from our faith in God, we will lose

 the religious freedom established by our Creator 

and acknowledged by our Christian forefathers. 

Lord we simply cannot allow Christ to be taken out of Christmas

 and let “Happy-Holidays-Gift-Buying” replace “Merry-Christmas-Gift-Giving”

 in our lives, especially in our schools and public places. 

Lord, I pray for the Holy Spirit to lead “believers in Christ” to do 

something about this evil and vile situation that is removing Your Name 

from so many things that have made our nation great.” 

 Like many Americans who have felt the the need for unity in Christ,

 my prayer is that Christ will be allowed back into our schools and public

 places and that as a nation that we will once again proclaim 

“IN GOD WE TRUST” and from a Joyous heart proclaim, “Peace on Earth —

 Merry Christmas to ALL”!!!!    AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has now been connected to 4 prophecies that point to Him as

 the Messiah and yet it is our “faith” that will actually seat Him on

 the “throne” of our heart!!! It is a simple TRUTH of this world that all

 the evidence in the world will not be sufficient to enlighten those worldly

 ones that want to trust in the “doctrines and traditions of man” and not

 the “commands of God”! Jesus adamantly demonstrated against the

 hypocrisy of abandoning God’s Light for man’s darkness throughout 

His earthly ministry and especially after making His “Triumphal Entry”

 into Jerusalem. During the Passover Week Jesus was very specific 

as He is quoted as saying:

 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!

 For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, 

and when he is won, 

you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.” 

(Matthew 23:15) 

With statements like that from Jesus which attacked power hungry 

religious leaders of Israel and called them out with such great 

condemnation (and especially being called out like that in Jerusalem

 during the Passover Week) that they as “national leaders” would

 certainly not want Jesus to be confirmed as the Messiah for that 

would expose their greed for control of the people and would be 

Divine confirmation of them being “sons of hell”! 

That particular problem still exists today among people greedy for power 

that still refute the claim that Jesus is not the “Messiah” and they still today

 go so far as to say that the word “Messiah” has been defiled by translation ———

 those believing that the “mashiach” (“the anointed one”) has not yet come

 to this earth even today argue that the “mashiach” (according to the

 traditions of men) is not “God” but that the “mashiach” is a “human” 

that will be a warrior king like David. 

Those dedicated to this “Messianic Idea in Judaism” base their

 arguments on arguments put forth in such writings as 

“Rambam’s 13 Principals of Faith” which are in their own words

 “the minimum requirements of Jewish belief” and when they refer

 to God’s Holy Scriptures these that are so dedicated to “Judaism”

 use the same prophets that declared the coming of the “Messiah” 

and “signs” of His Coming through their interpretation of the Scriptures,

 use those same prophets and Scriptures to claim that the Scriptures

 “prove” that Jesus is not the “mashiach”. It was this claim of their side

  that the Scriptures prove Jesus who was standing before them 

fulfilling prophecy was not the Messiah, was the basis therefore

 for Jesus rightfully called them “hypocrites” for these misguided 

leaders claim to know the Scriptures better than God Himself!  

This is the exact same problem that Jesus questioned the scribes 

and Pharisees from Jerusalem who had sought out Jesus because of

 His “Works” (the “Works” that Jesus had done were “miraculous” by

 any definition) and when Jesus answered their question 

with a Question of His own, 

“Why do you transgress the commandment of God 

because of your tradition?” (Matthew 15:3) 

and called them “hypocrites” by referring to the prophet Isaiah: 

“Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying, 

‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me

 with their lips, but their heart is far from Me, and in vain they worship Me,

 teaching as doctrines the commandments of men’” 

(Matthew 15:7-9) 

So if those that claim Jesus is not the Messiah do so by quoting 

“commandments of men” such as “Rambam’s 13 Principals of Faith” 

then I will let each of you make your own decision and review 

the “evidence” yourself, but each individual must still come

 to the same point of decision put forth by Joshua — 

“Choose this day whom you will serve!” 

(Joshua 24:15)