APRIL 18 THE JESUS QUESTIONS (Day 4) Summary Review of JESUS Questions JQ#01-01—JQ#13-07 (Matthew 5:1 thru Matthew 12:34)

 

APRIL 18  THE JESUS QUESTIONS 

(Day 4) Summary Review of JESUS Questions 

JQ#01-01—JQ#13-07 (Matthew 5:1 thru Matthew 12:34)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Glory and Honor to the Son of the Living God who “so loved the world” that the Father “willed” the Son to become “flesh and dwell among [the world the Father loved]”. 

The Son demonstrated His Love for the Father with the Ultimate Obedience to the Father as the Son became the Sacrificial Lamb for ALL the sins of “the world”. 

It was through this Great Sacrifice on the Cross at Calvary that all Glory and Honor is due the Son who demonstrated such “Love”, even our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus Taught us in Lesson 1 about our personal responsibility to the kingdom of God and now in Lesson 2 He begins to Teach us the “tools” that the Father will equip us with in order that we may promote His Kingdom:

Lesson 2  JQ#2    “What do you really know about Love?”          Matthew 5:43-48

The first precept that Jesus introduces is the concept of “True Love” and not the “love of the world” but the “Love of the Father” that is to reside within those that choose to follow Him. The importance of “Loving as the Father Loves” and as “Christ Loved the Church” is confirmed for His followers as Jesus states:

 “A new commandment I give you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” (John 13:34-35) 

As Jesus Teaches Lesson 2 He also shows us glimpses of the Father and demonstrates that 

The Father and The Son are going to be The Perfect Examples of TRUE  LOVE and that before we are asked to “love others” 

we will first be loved by the Father and the Son. 

In the passage from John 13 we just read Jesus saying that we are to love 

“as I have loved you”

 and everyone knows John 3:16 

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son…” 

so it is no surprise that the first Lesson Jesus Teaches is our responsibility to the kingdom and in His 2nd Lesson Jesus Teaches us how to best represent the Kingdom of God by Teaching us about “The True Love of God”! 

Jesus confirms the importance of knowing how to “LOVE” when He states why we should emulate the

 Father’s Love “…that you may be sons [and daughters] 

of your Father in heaven…” (Matthew 5:45) 

Jesus further clarifies that we are to Love as the Father and the Son Love and not as the world loves because Jesus started the Lesson on Love with “You have heard it said…” and adds immediately, “But I say to you…” clearly warning us that the world will tell us wrongly how to love — for the 

only True Love comes from the Father and the Son 

who “first loved us” (1 John 4:19) 

and by Their Perfect Example we are to “love one another”. 

Jesus demonstrates that He has come to live His life as an example and that before Jesus asks us as His disciples to do anything, we will have both the Father and the Son to look to as “Perfect Examples” of how we are to live our lives. When we determine to

 “Love one another as God first Loved us” 

we will best promote the Father, the Son, and Their Kingdom. 

Jesus continued throughout His ministry to Teach His disciples about “Love” and we see the disciples in turn teaching “God’s Love” Lesson to others as we read the Apostle Paul writing to the Church in Corinth 

“And now abide faith, hope, and love, these three, 

but the greatest of these is love.” (1 Corinthians 13:13). 

It is only fitting that this Summary Review of Lesson 2 on God’s Love should end with a love statement from the disciple known as the “disciple that Jesus loved” and the disciple that wrote his entire Gospel on “Love” as John teaches some of his last lessons before his death on the island of Patmos in what is described as a “family letter” to “his little children” as John writes:

 “Beloved, if God so loved us, 

we also ought to love one another.”    (1 John 4:11)      

Could the importance of “God’s Love” be made any more Sincere and True 

than for the Father and the Son to live as examples of “Perfect Love” 

and to hold “Love” in such High Regard in Heavenly Places?

APRIL 17 THE JESUS QUESTIONS (Day 3) Summary Review of JESUS Questions JQ#1-13 (Matthew 5:1 thru Matthew 12:34)

 

APRIL 17  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

(Day 3) Summary Review of JESUS Questions JQ#1-13 

(Matthew 5:1 thru Matthew 12:34)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Lord, may Thanksgiving and Praise always be on my lips for You Lord have blessed me beyond anything I could have imagined and certainly more than I deserve. Jesus, thank You for showing me that True Blessings are so much more valuable than anything money can buy! 

Lord, to know that we are held safe in the hands of the Father and that His Perfect Will is only directed towards “good” for us is the most comforting assurance life can provide, and we know that You, Lord Jesus 

are THE WAY, THE TRUTH, and THE LIFE

 

— Praise God from Whom ALL BLESSINGS flow.           

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Summary Review of JESUS Questions JQ#1-13 (Matthew 5:1 thru Matthew 12:34)

Jesus as The Master Teacher has asked each of “The JESUS Questions JQ#1-13” not to gain information from anyone but to impart wisdom to His listeners.

 Those that take the time to “listen” to Jesus and honestly “answer” His Questions will learn very valuable Spiritual Lessons 

— below is a Summary Review of the individual JESUS Questions JQ#1-13 that have been studied so far in Matthew, starting with 

Lesson 1  JQ#01    “Are you salt and light?”      Matthew 5:1-16

JQ#01 started after Matthew had documented in Chapters 1-4 that

 

Jesus had compassion on the multitudes and out of His Great Compassion for us Jesus had taught His famous “Sermon on the Mount” in Matthew 5:1-13

 and then after encouraging the multitudes with

 

His Beatitudes which Teaches us what must be done with our earthly lives in order to obtain our inheritance in “the kingdom of heaven”, 

Jesus then asks His first personal JESUS Question JQ#01 by making us think about ourselves and to consider the 

Truth of God that what we are actually “doing” with our lives has a direct impact on our inheritance in the kingdom of heaven!!!  

Jesus states emphatically: 

“You are the salt of the earth;…” (Matthew 5:12a) 

and then He promotes the concept of the necessity to get personally involved. Jesus introduces 

God’s  Divine Law of Choice and Consequence 

which illustrates our personal responsibility to exercise our 

“God-Given Free Will” 

to promote the kingdom of God. Jesus declares that we “are the salt of the earth” and “the light of the world” then immediately Jesus asks us to consider the “consequence” of not using our personal talents and abilities to promote the kingdom when He asks us to consider the “Consequence” resulting if “salt… loses its flavor” or if a “light” is “put under a basket”? 

Jesus then tells us very clearly that if we “lose [our] flavor” then we are

 “good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men” (Matthew 5:13) 

and it is obvious that if a light is put under a basket it is useless! 

Thus with JQ#01 Jesus demonstrates that 

if we follow Him and take on the name Christian that our responsibility is to be “salt and light” 

for the kingdom’s sake but if we fail in that responsibility then we will have to suffer the “consequence” that is the “Truth of God” which states:

 “We are free to choose our actions but we are not free to choose the consequence of that action for God in His Supreme Sovereignty has already determined the consequence of our choices!” 

<<A. W. Tozer “Knowledge of The Holy”>> 

which implies personal responsibility to “listen and obey” all that God has prepared as “Spiritual Lessons” for our lives which are to be “lived” for “His Glory” and the Kingdom’s Sake! 

There is no denying that if we look at this first JESUS Question that we will learn several Lessons about our personal responsibility to the kingdom of God — but the greatest Lesson is that

 God has provided for us everything we need in order to personally know Him and He expects our personal involvement in accomplishing His Kingdom Work here on earth!   

Our first Spiritual Lesson to learn is that God wants us to understand that 

He has chosen to use His “followers” to “lead” others to the Kingdom of God by the way we “live” our lives 

and not by who we “say” we are! 

We “are” the “salt of the earth” and the “light of the world” and our responsibility to the kingdom is laid out plain and clear as Jesus ends Lesson  1 with:

 “Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.” (Matthew 5:16)

 If Jesus starts His Lessons by Teaching us that we have a personal responsibility to the Kingdom of God, don’t you think that He will continue with His subsequent Lessons and lay out the “Way” and make it clear what He requires of us as 

“followers of JESUS”?

APRIL 16 THE JESUS QUESTIONS SRJQ#1-13 (Day 2) Summary Review of JESUS Questions JQ#1.1—JQ#13.7 (Matthew 5:1 thru Matthew 12:34)

 

APRIL 16  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

SRJQ#1-13 (Day 2)  Summary Review of JESUS Questions JQ#1.1—JQ#13.7 

(Matthew 5:1 thru Matthew 12:34)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, another day that You have “graced” us with and another day of praises for the King of kings and Lord of lords. Jesus, my prayer on this day is that Your Spirit will be upon all believers so powerfully that we will unite in one voice and one “Hope” as we pray for Your Kingdom to come on earth as it is in heaven! 

Lord Jesus, each day I pray for my eyes to be opened but today I pray for our hearts to be united in Your Love, the only True Love, given unconditionally to all that would believe that it was Love that put You on the Cross, Love that put You in a Grave, and Love that Conquered Death, and it was in Perfect Love that You were Resurrected — grant it Lord that we may share in 

Your Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection 

that we may KNOW LOVE!       

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has been Teaching us through His Question/Lessons the Truth of God and by Jesus revealing these “TRUTHS OF GOD” to us through these Questions that we Learn to better see ourselves — not through the eyes of the world but through the eyes of God who is revealed to us “Precept-Upon-Precept” and “Line-Upon-Line”. 

Jesus proclaimed that He came to reveal the Father, “All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.” (Matthew 11:27)   

However, before we Review the “JESUS Questions” themselves we should note the obvious that these are Questions being asked by Jesus, the Son of God, and before we consider answering His Questions we should answer the obvious question

 — “Why would Jesus, who is The All Knowing Master Teacher and Son of the Living God, ask Questions of mere mortals?” —

 The only logical answer is that Jesus is not asking these Questions to gain knowledge for Himself but Jesus is asking “rhetorical” questions to impart knowledge to those He is trying to Teach and introduce the “learner” to God Himself! 

These are all introspective Questions and deeply personal but if we honestly answer each one we will learn about ourselves that which Jesus Himself desires us to know about the Kingdom of God and our “inheritance” in it! In order to fully understand the Divine Objective let us list a few of the Divine Circumstances and Divine Context

 in which these “JESUS Questions” are being asked. 

The Divine Circumstance: 

Isaiah (whose name means ‘salvation of the LORD”) wrote in the 8th Century B.C. many prophecies covering “Divine Events” from “The Creation” to the “New Heavens and New Earth” to be formed during the “Millennial Reign” of Jesus Christ but the writings of the Prophet Isaiah are mostly noted for 

“the great Messianic predictions in which are foretold Christ’s birth (Isaiah 7:14; 9:6), His Deity (9:6-7), His ministry (9:1-2; 42:1-7;61:1-2), His death (52:1-53:12), His future millennial reign (for example, chapters 2; 11; 65), etc.” {{pg. 910 The Scofield Study Bible Introduction to the Book of Isaiah, the 2002 Edition}}. 

So the Divine Circumstance had been prophesied over 800 years before Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem and all prophecies point to Jesus as being the long awaited Messiah!

The Divine Context:

The Gospel According to MATTHEW was written C. A.D. 50 and was written originally for the Jews and presents 

Jesus as the Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham, and the place of His birth was the City of David, Bethlehem 

— all of which point to the 

Divinity of Christ and to Jesus being God made flesh (John 1:14) 

and walking among us. Matthew starts his documentation of the Life of Christ with a genealogy that traces the lineage of Jesus back to Abraham then covers the Divine Event of the birth of Jesus to the virgin Mary. 

Matthew then introduces John the Baptist who was preaching in the wilderness, 

“Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” (Matthew 3:2) 

and proclaimed that John said that he was

 “The voice of one crying in the wilderness; ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; 

Make His paths straight.’” (Matthew 3:3) 

Matthew then records that Jesus was baptized by John, and then was led into the wilderness where Jesus was “tempted by the devil.” (Matthew 4:1) and then Matthew writes:

 “From that time Jesus began to preach and to say ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand’” (Matthew 4:17)  

then later in Chapter 4 Matthew continues; 

“And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.” (Matthew 4:23)  

These miracles of God by the hand of Jesus became widely known and great multitudes started following Jesus which leads us into the first of the JESUS Questions which immediately followed the famous “Sermon on the Mount” (Matthew 5:1-12)

 This is where we start learning the Lessons of God’s TRUTH that Jesus Teaches by asking “The JESUS Questions”. 

Lesson 1: JQ#1    “Are you salt and light?”                                       Matthew 5:1-16 

OPEN YOUR BIBLE, READ THESE VERSES, AND GIVE JESUS YOUR ANSWER IN A PRAYER AND RECEIVE GOD'S BLESSINGS!!!!!!!!