MAY 21 Mining for God's Treasure - Digging Deep in God's Word

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

MAY 21    Posted from Cumberland Springs Bible Camp. Dayton, TN. Saturday 5/21/16

Today we are at the annual "Calvary Children's Camp" which is now in its 27th year. The theme for this year's camp for the 1st through 5th Graders is "Digging Deep to Find God's Treasures" and the memory verse comes  from Proverbs 2:1-5 "My son, if you receive my words, and treasure my commands within you, so that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding; yes, if you cry out for discernment, and lift your voice for understanding, if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures; then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God."  Pastor Steve used a passage from Luke 8 where Jesus is teaching the parable of the sower and the soils and related the condition of the soils to the success or failure of the seed to produce fruit. In the "hard soil" the seed could not take root  and the result of the seed not being able to penetrate the hard soil it laid on top of the ground and the birds came along and ate the seeds so no fruit came from that soil. Pastor Steve then said that the soil in the parable is our hearts and the Word of God are the seeds. The kids quickly picked up on the "NO ROOT __NO FRUIT" part of the lesson and then they began to understand that  as children that they need to "prepare the soil of their heart" so that the "seeds" they will get at this Calvary Children's Camp will take root and grow deep into their heart and then they will see the fulfillment of the "Promise of God" that if you will seek God's Word like you would seek for "hidden treasures" then God will reward you with treasures of great value, and they are "understanding and knowledge" of God Himself. The kids interest was at full throttle when the talk of "hidden treasure" and God's Promise that He will show us where these treasures are buried but we must "dig deep" in His Word. The kids really got excited when Brother Steve announced that they were going on a "treasure hunt" and were ready to start the hunt which began with lessons in using God's Word like a treasure map. The Holy Spirit put His Blessings on the Camp because for a week the weather forecast was for severe thunderstorms and heavy rains for Friday and Saturday but the light rain ceased when we drove onto the camp property on Friday evening and Saturday was sunny and dry so the kids got to enjoy their treasure hunt in God's Word and His world! The Holy Spirit had one more confirmation as He confirmed the theme of digging for God's Treasure in the Bible when I opened up my Oswald Chambers Daily Journal for May 21st  written around one of God's greatest Treasure Promises that is found in Matthew 6:33 "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added to you." This is a great promise with great value for how much would you "pay" to not have to worry about what to eat, drink, or wear or how much would you "spend" on security that would guarantee that your valuables and precious possessions would be safe forever? Well the context for Matthew 6:33 begins with Matthew 6:19-21 that says "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth...lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there you heart will be also." Add to that very valuable advice from the Word the fact that Jesus said that we are not to worry about food or clothing for our "Father in heaven" promises to provide for all our need and all we have to do is to "seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness"! So here we are talking about treasure hunting in God's Word, and preparing our hearts to receive His Treasures and now the Holy Spirit directs us to the Treasure found in Matthew 6:33!  The third source of confirmation can be found on this blog for MAY 18 as we reviewed the Jesus Question JQ#3 which is built around this same passage in Matthew 6:19-33 with the focus on how much God cares for us and His Promise to provide ALL OUR NEED. I know that getting rid of worry in our lives certainly could be called "priceless".  Can you  think of a better retirement plan than to have a "mansion" already paid for in a place that money can't can't buy and guaranteed that thrives can't break in?

MAY 20 Summary Review SRJQ#1-13 (Day 7) The Jesus Questions

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

MAY  20   SUMMARY REVIEW OF THE JESUS QUESTIONS    JQ#1-13

365 Prayers to JESUS 

Jesus, Praise You Lord just for the simple fact that You are there every day so that we can awake to a new day You have provided for us. Lord, we don’t stop to think about the fact that You are there listening to our prayers when we go to sleep, You are there to comfort us when we awake in the night and cannot sleep, and then when we awake in the morning You are right there to greet us with the best of “Good Mornings” and we never stop to consider that You never sleep but are always right by our side and regardless of our need, You are there to hold our hand, dry our tears, or simply nod Your head in calm reassurance that everything will be alright for You have taken care of everything! Lord Jesus, may I never lose sight of the Divine Truth that You never lose sight of me!       AMEN

The Jesus Questions

SRJQ#1-13 (Day 7) — Summary Review of The Jesus Questions JQ#1 - JQ#13.

Lesson 5  JQ#5    “Why should you Ask-Seek-Knock?”                        Matthew 7:7-14

Jesus teaches us by introducing a “precept” and reveals a “Truth of God” and then Jesus asks us one of His “Introspective” questions that in order to honestly answer His question we must look inside ourselves and dig out our core beliefs and then challenge those core beliefs with this new “precept” and “Truth of God”. It is only by this sequence of “Precept” followed by “Truth of God” then applying them to our core beliefs “Introspectively” that we come to understand that God wants only good for us. The simple fact that God wants “Good” for us goes against the “Every-man-for-himself” secular philosophy that our society believes we have to accept. Just by making the statement: “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you” (Matthew 7:7) Jesus introduces a concept foreign to our “dog-eat-dog” modern lifestyle. When Jesus then ties the “precept of Ask-Seek-Knock” to the “Truth of God” that “…everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened…” (Matthew 7:8) we gain an insight to God that we had not formerly considered, and that is that God Himself is making us a personal promise that if we follow His directions (Ask-Seek-Knock) that He promises us success! The “Truth of God” found in this lesson is that to “guarantee our success” all we need to do is “follow God’s directions”! There are no strings attached and nothing for us to sacrifice to gain success except that we must learn to “Trust God” and “lean not on our own understanding” (Proverbs 3:5). Jesus gets us thinking about changing our internal values and core beliefs and that’s when He drives the point home to our souls with “Introspective Questions” like: (1) “Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?” (Matthew 7:9)  (2) “Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent?” (Matthew 7:10) and concludes with (3) “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to this who ask Him!” (Matthew 7:11) It is a win-win when you learn to give up your foolish pride and accept directions from the God of All Things who refers to Himself as “your Father in heaven” and promises to “give good things” to His [sons and daughters] that Trust Him enough to “ask Him”!  Don’t you think that giving up your stubborn will to do-it-yourself is a small price to pay for such success, after all, if the God that can do all things can’t keep His Promise, what chance to do you have of putting your “hope” in sinful man? 

MAY 19 Summary Review SRJQ#1-13 (Day 6) The Jesus Questions

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

MAY  19   SUMMARY REVIEW OF THE JESUS QUESTIONS    JQ#1-13

365 Prayers to JESUS 

Jesus, as always, this time that I spend directly with You in the form of prayer is the most important part of my day. Lord Jesus, it is not always easy to look at the necessity to daily pick up “our” cross and follow you without a little apprehension but then it is Your Peace that makes me realize there is no other name that we can call on for “Peace” for Jesus, only You have the Words of eternal life and we can say when we feel our cross is getting a little to heavy for us to bear, Lord Jesus I know I can do this if You will just help me for You Lord carried Your Cross to the point of success that You could declare with Your dying breath “It is finished”! O Lord Jesus, give me the strength to endure to the end of these earthly trials to where I to can finish my race with confidence in the Only Begotten of the Father and proclaim as I enter into Your Rest — “It is finished” and I can hear You say “Well done!”.     AMEN

The Jesus Questions

SRJQ#1-13 (Day 6) — Summary Review of The Jesus Questions JQ#1 - JQ#13.

Lesson 4  JQ#4  JQ#4    “What gives you the right to judge?”                 Matthew 7:1-6

In this review so far we found JQ#1 asked us to consider our own personal responsibility to the Kingdom of God then JQ#2 taught us that we need God’s GPS for our journey to Him which whenever we get off the path we just need to remember that the “Love of God” will never steer us wrong and will keep us on the “Straight-and-Narrow” path to the “Kingdom of God”. JQ#3 opened our eyes to God’s great provisions for us and because He cares so much for us that we should “Trust God” in “all things” and we should not “worry” about those things the Father has promised that He will take care of because He Loves us! To keep things personal Jesus then teaches us that just as we “Trust God” for our “physical” needs that we should also realize that God wants to take care of our “Spiritual” needs as well. Jesus not only makes it personal with JQ#4 “What gives you the right to judge?” He also makes it serious as He warns us that our own worst enemy is ourselves as He emphatically uses the term “Hypocrite!” (Matthew 7:5). The fact that this is a personal issue is established when Jesus first states the problem: “JUDGE not, that you be not judged” (Matthew 7:1) and then Jesus makes us aware that if we take on the personal responsibility to “judge others” then we will be personally responsible for being “judged ourselves” in a like manner! Jesus declares the “consequence” of us choosing to be the “judge” when He states: “For with what judgement you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measure back to you.” (Matthew 7:2) When you think about the fact that God just told you that He was going to provide for you (in JQ#3) if you will “Trust Him” then why would we try to take in His job as “Judge of the Universe” away from Him and take all that responsibility on yourself in JQ#4 just after having given your “worries” over to Him in JQ#3? Jesus keeps us focused on the fact that if we are going to “Trust God” with “some things” that we should “Trust God in All things” for we are the created and He is the Creator; therefore, we should let Him “judge” others for He knows all things and can see everything from a Divine Perspective while we are sinners and at best our “judgement” will always have a degree of personal bias to it — so Jesus says the best way to prevent us “sinning” against God is to “not judge” others for we will be a “hypocrite” if we say we “Trust God” but do not let Him do His job. Jesus teaches us with JQ#4 that we do not have the “right to judge others” because the “right to judge” belongs to God and God Alone! Why should we “Trust” a God that needs our help in deciding what is “Right or Wrong”?  Once we start down the path of assuming the responsibility designated to the Divine Creator then we will quickly find that we are unable to navigate through the “Infinite” with our severely limited “finite” intellect! Don’t you think the safest path is to follow the route Jesus has already traveled and successfully reached His Divine Destination?

MAY 18 Summary Review SRJQ#1-13 (Day 5) The Jesus Questions

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

MAY  18   SUMMARY REVIEW OF THE JESUS QUESTIONS    JQ#1-13

365 Prayers to JESUS 

Jesus, it is beyond my understanding “why” would You and the Father “Love” a world of lost sinners such as myself. Lord Jesus, I praise You for this “knowing” that the Holy Spirit has imparted to me that says to me that for my “spiritual” health I do not need to understand or explain  “why” You “Love” me but it is “enough to KNOW that You “Love” me and that You demonstrated that “Love” by Your death on the Cross and the Father demonstrated His “Love” towards us that He RESURRECTED You from the grave! Lord Jesus, my prayer is simply to let my life reflect that Supreme Love with which I KNOW I AM LOVED!     AMEN

The Jesus Questions

SRJQ#1-13 (Day 5) — Summary Review of The Jesus Questions JQ#1 - JQ#13.

Lesson 3  JQ#3    “What good is worry or ‘who cares’?”                      Matthew 6:25-34

So far in our “Question/Lessons” Jesus has in the first two lessons taught us to be aware of our personal responsibility to our own eternity and the Kingdom and then Jesus started us on our “Spiritual”  journey with the one tool we must become familiar with if we are to find our way and that necessary tool is God’s GPS system which is the “Love of God”.  Jesus then asked His 3rd Question to get us to appreciate the first two lessons when He bluntly asks us “What good is worry?” and to help us keep the proper spiritual perspective on “worry” Jesus illustrates  the best of all reasons not to worry and that is because everything we could possibly worry about has been or will be taken care of by “The Father” that knows our every need. Jesus is illustrating another “Truth of God” by showing us that if we will take the “negative” which is “worry” and learn that we can exercise our “spiritual” muscle and make a “positive” out of the “negative worrying” by turning our “worry” into “Trusting God” then we are well on our way to understanding “Faith” and how to “grow” our Faith by Trusting in God! This very important lesson of “Trust” is the perfect companion to “Love” and with our knowing that we have a personal responsibility to the Kingdom and that God will provide everything we need to complete our journey to eternity with Him and that our obligation is to “Love” as the Father “Loves” and to “Trust” that He will provide our every need then we will not “worry” but move expectantly towards our eternity as we walk by “Faith”, “Faith” not in ourselves but “Faith” in our Heavenly Father and His desire for our good. This journey of “Faith” becomes our life as we worry less and less as we see day by day that God has provided for the lilies of the field and clothes them so beautifully!  We grow our “Faith” as we recognize that if God does such amazing things with birds and flowers and the sun, moon, and stars that He cares so much more about us because He made us in His image! So we can answer with confidence that we do not need to “worry” because “God cares” about our lives! Jesus ends the lesson with another beautiful summary of the lesson truth with a simple but powerful thought: “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” I know myself that when I realized that if God is going to add “all these things” to me simply because He desires to impart His Righteousness on me so that I can enter His Kingdom, that I no longer worried about “all these things” and my faith grew proportional to how successful I was in turning “worry about the world” into “trusting in the Goodness of God”! If you just stop and think about it in your own life, has the world or God provided for your daily bread? After all, if we know bread comes from a seed, then isn’t the One who imparts life to the seed more important to our daily bread than the one who gathers the grain? 

MAY 17 Summary Review SRJQ#1-13 (Day 4) The Jesus Questions

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

MAY  17   SUMMARY REVIEW OF THE JESUS QUESTIONS    JQ#1-13

365 Prayers to JESUS 

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]” and 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 the Christ.     AMEN

The Jesus Questions

SRJQ#1-13 (Day 4) — Summary Review of The Jesus Questions JQ#1 - JQ#13.

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

In Lesson 1 Jesus made us aware of 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 to promote His Kingdom. The first precept that Jesus introduces is the concept of “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 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 He follows that with a lesson how to best represent the Kingdom of God by teaching us about “love”! Jesus confirms the importance of us 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 example we are to “love one another”. Jesus demonstrates that He has come to live His life as an example and that before we are asked as 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 and love one another as our best tool to 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 the “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 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 love be made any more important 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?

MAY 16 Summary Review SRJQ#1-13 (Day 3) The Jesus Questions

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

MAY  16    SUMMARY REVIEW OF THE JESUS QUESTIONS    JQ#1-13

365 Prayers to JESUS 

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 directed towards only “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

SRJQ#1-13(Day 3) — Summary Review of The Jesus Questions JQ#1 - JQ#13. Each of the Jesus Questions were asked by The Master Teacher, not to gain information from His listeners 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 lessons — below is a Summary Review of the 13 Jesus Questions that have been studied so far in Matthew:

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

Jesus had compassion on the multitudes and 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 question by making us think about ourselves and to consider 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 as Jesus introduces the Law of Choice and Consequence which illustrates our personal responsibility to exercise our “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” 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” and it is obvious that if a light is put under a basket is is useless! Thus with JQ#1 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 that 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 has already determined the consequence of our choices!” so that implies personal responsibility to “listen and obey” all that God has prepared as “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 and expects our personal involvement in accomplishing His Kingdom Work here on earth during each individuals lifetime. Our first 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 the lesson with: “Let you 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, don’t you think that He will layout and make clear all that He requires of us as “followers”? 

MAY 15 Summary Review SRJQ#1-13 (Day 2) The Jesus Questions

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

MAY  15    SUMMARY REVIEW OF THE JESUS QUESTIONS    JQ#1-13

365 Prayers to JESUS 

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

SRJQ#1-13(Day 2) — Summary Review of The Jesus Questions JQ#1 - JQ#13. Day 2 of our Summary Review of the 13 “Jesus Questions” will start with JQ#1 and go through the Jesus Questions in the order that they were asked in the Gospel according to Matthew: 

Before we Review the “Jesus Questions” themselves we should note the obvious that these are questions being asked by Jesus and before we consider answering His questions we should answer the obvious question, “Why would Jesus who is The All Knowing Master Teacher 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. These are all introspective questions and if we but honestly answer each one we will learn about ourselves what Jesus Himself desires us to know about the Kingdom of God and our place in it! In order to fully understand the Divine Objective let us list a few of the Divine Circumstance 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 from The Creation to the New Heavens and New Earth to be formed during the Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ but the writings are most 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 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 Jesus teaches by asking “The Jesus Questions”. 

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