NOVEMBER 25 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#32-12 >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?” (Matthew 26:40)

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NOVEMBER 25  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#32-12  >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?”  (Matthew 26:40)

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Jesus, Jesus, Jesus - Praise to the Son that was Obedient to the Father’s will, the Only Begotten Son that Lived a Sinless Life, gave up His Glory to become the Propitiation of our sins, that instead of condemnation of death we could be resurrected to life! O the Mystery of God that He loved the world so much that His Plan of Salvation of the world that has rejected His Grace could receive His Mercy. Truly Jesus is the Son of God and  to all those that want to be made well that we can be made well by believing in the name of the only begotten Son of God, even our LORD — JESUS!!!   AMEN

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NOVEMBER 25  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#32-12  >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?”  (Matthew 26:40)    Jesus has prayed three times in the Garden of Gethsemane where the betrayal of our LORD into the hands of the chief priests was about to occur just as Jesus had told His disciples it would for two days before the Passover Jesus had said: “You know that after two days is the Passover, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.” (Matthew 26:2) and then as the Passover began Jesus told His disciples, “Assuredly, I say to you, one of you will betray Me.” (Matthew 26:21). Now Jesus and His disciples with the exception of Judas Iscariot are in Gethsemane and Jesus awakes the sleeping disciples and announces, “Rise, let us be going. See, My betrayer is at hand.” (Matthew 26:46) Matthew writes: “And while He was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, with a great multitude with swords and clubs, came from the chief priests and elders of the people.” (Matthew 26:47) Judas then gave Jesus a kiss as a sign of identifying Jesus and said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” (Matthew 26:49) Jesus replied to this greeting from Judas His betrayer, “Friend, why have you come?” (Matthew 26:50). Jesus of course knew the reason Judas had approached Him in the darkness with an armed guard but no one else knew that this was all part of the Master Plan of Salvation and it should be noted that even though Jesus KNEW that He was being betrayed by Judas that Jesus still addressed Judas as “Friend”! Had this event caught Jesus by surprise and had Jesus been mad at Judas then it would have been a victory for evil and darkness but Jesus by His calm greeting of “Friend” to Judas at this exact moment announced VICTORY for all that is good for the Plan of Salvation was going according to Plan and even though this final Path for Jesus would lead to the Ultimate Sorrow on the cross, Jesus KNEW that His Suffering would lead to the Ultimate Joy and with the Final Destination clearly in view, Jesus called Judas “Friend”!!! All Christians who profess Jesus as the Son of God and believes that God so loved the world that He gave us GRACE through the Sacrifice of His Only Begotten Son that we should see the betrayal of God and His Son by the world as part of the Path to God’s Glory! We should never seek to “judge others” nor seek “revenge” for Jesus commanded to “judge not” and God has declared “vengeance is Mine”  and when we see Jesus fulfilling prophecy as He becomes the Passover Lamb of God we should see VICTORY over evil as the Ultimate Outcome of any life lived in Obedience to the Father’s Will! This Ultimate Confidence comes when Peter pulls his sword in an effort to protect Jesus from His betrayer’s and Jesus says to Peter: “Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels? How then could the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it happen thus?” (Matthew 26:52-54) Jesus knew His “hour had come” and as always Jesus points “the multitudes” to the Scriptures as He expresses the Ultimate Confidence in the Scriptures to provide “Deliverance” when He the explains why the betrayal and why the Sacrifice: “But all this was done that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” (Matthew 26:56) However Matthew records what is still today our human response when evil raises its ugly head for immediately after Jesus spoke those words Matthew wrote: “Then all the disciples forsook Him and fled” (Matthew 26:56) — and we today when faced with great sorrow and great evil we fail to listen to JESUS,  but instead we forsake Him and go the way of the world and we fail to “Watch and Pray” — but that does not change the Plan of Salvation nor diminish the VICTORY OF THE CROSS!!!

NOVEMBER 24 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#32-11 >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?” (Matthew 26:40)

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NOVEMBER 24  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#32-11  >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?”  (Matthew 26:40)

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Jesus, O Jesus, the Name above all names, but even more amazing is that the Most High God would send His Only Begotten Son to live a Perfect and Innocent Life and die upon a cross as the Passover Lamb that whosoever believed in Him could call on that Precious Name for Salvation and enter into the Eternal Kingdom of God! Lord, the longer I live under Grace, the more I realize the need for Your Mercy, indeed give me this day Your Daily Bread, for only You have the Words of Eternal Life! Blessed be the Name of Jesus!!!   AMEN

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NOVEMBER 24  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#32-11  >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?”  (Matthew 26:40)    Jesus has entered into His Great Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane for He knows that soon He will be “despised and rejected” as foretold by the prophet Isaiah and Jesus knew the Divine Extent that He would be “wounded for our transgressions, …bruised for our iniquities, … the chastisement for our peace [laid] upon Him, … [Jesus would receive] the stripes [in His Body] that would heal our souls.” (Isaiah 53) Earlier in His Ministry Jesus had read from Isaiah in the synagogue at Nazareth and pronounced: “Today this Scripture {Isaiah 61:1-2} is fulfilled in your  hearing” (Luke 4:21) and here in the Hour of His Betrayal the disciples will observe the Scriptures once again being “fulfilled” as they will witness first hand the fulfillment of the Prophecy of the Suffering Servant and we can be sure that with our limited intellect that while we are in this mortal body we will not be able to comprehend the extent of the Agony of Gethsemane nor the excruciating pain of Golgotha but we can be sure that Jesus KNEW that for Him to be the Atonement of ALL sin that He would have to Suffer and accept the Pain for our iniquities and Jesus was there when it was Divinely determined that “without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin”!!! (Hebrews 9:22) Jesus knew He was the Passover Lamb to be killed as the Acceptable Sacrifice by God for the remission of ALL sin and Jesus has encouraged us: “Follow Me” and “enter into God’s Labor and Harvest of souls” when He asked, “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?”  (Matthew 26:40)  Jesus again admonishes the sleeping disciples: “Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.” (Matthew 26:45) and then Jesus tells us how to move forward in our ministries “Rise, let us be going. See, My betrayer is at hand.” (Matthew 26:46) …Jesus never gives up on us and He never quits Teaching and every Lesson is for all people. The Timeless Message of Jesus is appropriate to our generation especially as we see that once again we are in bondage to sin as never before in our great nation as the forces of evil leading our once great society has enslaved us by removing prayer from our schools, God from our government, passed laws allowing the murder of the unborn, and “legalized” many activities that God Himself has declared as “abominations”, yet as a culture we are openly embracing them!?!? Surely the Words of Jesus rings true, “Are [Christians] still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.” (Matthew 26:45)   If we are going to claim to be “Followers of Christ” then we must prove our loyalty and our love to Jesus and do as Jesus instructs us — “If you love Me, keep My commandments.” (John 14:15) and Jesus in His Gethsemane plea has commanded, “Watch and Pray and Rise, let us be going…”! The “hour” is getting late and we have slept long enough so let us “be going” for soon, very soon, God will complete His Plan of Salvation which includes as the Conclusion of our time on earth, the Final Judgement where God Himself will separate the sheep from the goats and we will hear Jesus saying: “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.” (John 10:27) Jesus is “talking” but the SERIOUS question is “Are we not listening to Him because we have let the world put us to sleep?” 

NOVEMBER 23 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#32-10 >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?” (Matthew 26:40)

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NOVEMBER 23  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#32-10  >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?”  (Matthew 26:40)

328 of 365 - Prayers to JESUS    

Jesus, Lord and my Redeemer, what is man (?), and certainly, what am I (?) that the Son of God would suffer and die the cruelest death, and to offer Himself as the Passover Lamb to deliver the undeserving?!?! Lord, I plead as did the thief on the cross: “Lord, remember me [now that] You [have] come into Your kingdom!” (Luke 23:42)    AMEN

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NOVEMBER 23  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#32-10  >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?”  (Matthew 26:40)    Jesus  has just made His Crucifixion personal with this Question He asked as He was in the Garden of Gethsemane after eating the Passover with His disciples. Judas has left the group to betray Jesus to the chief priests, Peter has sworn to die defending Jesus, and the other 10 disciples had followed Jesus to the Garden and Jesus has told them to “Sit here…” while He went to pray but Jesus left them with a serious command: “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me.” (Matthew 26:38) So the disciples knew this was a critical time and yet they fell victim to the world because it was late and they were tired so even though Jesus had just commanded them to “watch with Me” that they fell asleep and Matthew records: “Then He came to the disciples and found them sleeping…” (Matthew 26:40) It is at this point that we all find ourselves guilty of not watching and we know we are guilty as we answer Jesus when He asks us as He catches us sleeping instead of “watching” with Him — “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?”  (Matthew 26:40) —It was after Jesus asked this direct personal question that Jesus then made it clear that we were putting our souls in danger when He said immediately: “Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.” (Matthew 26:41) Jesus never asks a Question and especially when He has made the Question a personal one without leaving us with a Truth of God that if we apply it to our daily lives we will be blessed. Jesus does not leave anything to “interpretation” because He makes it simple and plain, or as Pastor Steve says, “Put the cookies on the bottom shelf so everyone can get to them!” Jesus simply commanded us “Watch and pray…” which is within everyone’s capabilities and Jesus gave us some helpful incentives because if we “Watch and pray…” as He commands us then the problem of us falling victim to the “flesh” and entering into the “temptation” of the world will be averted. The Lesson we should learn is that God intends for mankind to “enter into His labors with Him” and to be part of the solution and not the problem. God could have made us robots without the ability to “fall into temptation” but instead He gave us freewill and commands us to “Watch and pray” with Him and it is through “obedience” to His Word that our weak flesh will be strengthened and we will have the strength to pull others from the pit. Jesus confirms the importance of being “obedient” to the Father: “Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, saying, ‘O My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done.’” (Matthew 26:42) This passage makes me think about the song “Trust And Obey” and Jesus makes it clear that “there is no other way” — so when we think about the Garden of Gethsemane we should think of it as another “Great Commission” — “Watch and Pray”!!! 

NOVEMBER 22 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#32-09 >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?” (Matthew 26:40)

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NOVEMBER 22  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#32-09  >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?”  (Matthew 26:40)

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Jesus, Lord when I stop and realize what You gave in terms of Yourself for the good of others, I am ashamed at what little I have done for the eternal security of even my own family. Lord, forgive me of the sin of omission and may I from this day forward look for each opportunity  that You will place in my life that through serving those in need that I will be serving You. Lord You gave Yourself without conditions that we may inherit the kingdom — an inheritance that You paid so high a price for but gave freely, Lord let me die to the old sinful self and serve others as You served, not for my benefit, but for the Glory of God!   AMEN

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NOVEMBER 22  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#32-09  >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?”  (Matthew 26:40)    Jesus has just shared the Passover with His disciples and made it clear that this Passover would be His Last Passover until He partakes of the Passover “with [them] in My Father’s kingdom” (Matthew 26:29) which is a very powerful statement to the disciples for Jesus has been talking about His Imminent Death as the Passover Lamb! Jesus and His disciples rose from the Passover Meal and have now entered into the Garden of Gethsemane and Jesus told them, “Sit here while I go and pray over there.” (Matthew 26:36) Matthew then writes: “And [Jesus] took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.” (Matthew 26:37) Peter had just sworn his allegiance to Jesus up to and including his own death so when Peter hears Jesus saying He was going to “pray” and then observes that Jesus is “sorrowful and deeply distressed” and knowing that Jesus has announced His Imminent Death that Peter would have been concerned — but when Jesus said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me” (Matthew 26:38) that you would certainly think Peter would be on guard!? “He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.” (Matthew 26:39) In quick succession Jesus has announced His Death, Burial, Resurrection, made it clear that He would meet them in “My Father’s kingdom”, demonstrated His body would be broken and His blood shed for the “remission of sin”, left the Upper Room Passover and entered into Gethsemane where He began to “pray”, became “deeply distressed” and “exceedingly sorrowful” and then “fell on His face” and Jesus cried out, “O My Father…” which should serve as the Perfect Example of how we should face both life and death by Trusting God The Father! Jesus KNOWS that He will be RESURRECTED but the fact that He is asking His Father to “let this cup pass from Me” that there is going to be great pain involved on the cross! Nowhere else in Scripture does it state that Jesus is “deeply distressed” nor “exceedingly sorrowful” or that He requests His Father to change His situation so we can be certain that Jesus was making the Ultimate Sacrifice for He knew that His Father would allow the great weight of ALL SIN to be put on His Shoulders and the Father has made it clear from the Garden of Eden that the penalty for sin is death so here in the Garden of Gethsemane Jesus knows that He must feel the pain of death for EVERY SIN ever committed in the Past, the Present, and all Future Sin!!! If Jesus is going to Sacrifice His Innocent Life for ALL SIN then He would have to suffer the Penalty for ALL SIN and Jesus knows that at some point that the Father would have to abandon His Only Begotten Son for God cannot look on sin and it is my belief that Jesus is distressed because He has NEVER BEFORE been left ALONE by HIS FATHER — but for the FATHER to be FAIR AND JUST, JESUS MUST SUFFER DEATH ALONE AND SHED HIS BLOOD or the SACRIFICE WILL NOT BE ACCEPTABLE! That is the Supreme Responsibility Jesus was about to face and He was both “distressed” and “sorrowful” on a scale we cannot imagine but it tells this TRUTH OF GOD — ONLY THROUGH JESUS IS THE REMISSION OF SIN POSSIBLE!!! It is a small wonder that Jesus is concerned and commanded His disciples to “watch with Me” and I can hear the disappointment in His voice when the disciples went to sleep on Him and Jesus asked,  “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?”  (Matthew 26:40). Surely each of us that reads the Scriptures knows the Sacrifice  was Supreme and those that do not read the Scriptures know that sin is a very serious issue in every life so when we become aware that Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life and that His Purpose was to be our Savior then we should accept the challenge to “pray and watch with [Jesus] one hour” or do you find yourself as I do keeping company with the disciples and Peter and we are sleeping on our “watch”?!?!?!

NOVEMBER 21 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#32-08 >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?” (Matthew 26:40)

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NOVEMBER 21  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#32-08  >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?”  (Matthew 26:40)

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Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, I come today with a broken spirit for the thought that I entertained yesterday! I realized that I was grieving the Holy Spirit with that thought I let form in my mind for the Holy Spirit convicted me and I immediately begged for forgiveness. I have again grieved the Holy Spirit for I have not trusted in the Promise that if I will repent that God is Faithful and will forgive and it is my lack of faith again entering into my thoughts that separate me from fellowship with God. I know how my spirit has been depressed since I knew I was having an unclean thought because I can feel that separation and it hurts me deep in my soul — Lord, again I pray for a “clean heart” and a “renewed spirit” for I desire your fellowship and beg for forgiveness of letting my spirit drift away — and I know it is my fault because You have promised to “never leave nor forsake me” — Praise God!!!  AMEN

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NOVEMBER 21  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#32-08  >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?”  (Matthew 26:40)    Jesus has announced His death, burial, and resurrection and has eaten the Passover with His disciples and demonstrated with the bread and the wine that His body will be broken and His blood will be required of Him as part of the “new covenant” and Jesus stated clearly the Divine Purpose was “for the remission of sin” (Matthew 25:31-26:32). Jesus has up to this point been explaining and showing by example what His Divine Responsibility is in God’s Plan of Salvation and starting with Matthew 26 verse 33 Jesus will Teach us another Truth about ourselves as Jesus responds to Peter’s promise that he would “never be made to stumble” (Matthew 26:33) Peter has been the first to declare that Jesus was Christ the Son of the Living God, Peter has walked on water, Peter was present at the Transfiguration and saw Jesus with Moses and Elijah, and when many disciples of Jesus was leaving and going back to the world that when Jesus asked the twelve if they too were going to leave it was Peter that said there was no where to go because only Jesus had the “words of eternal life!” All these scriptural credentials should be sufficient for us to have confidence that Peter would indeed never “stumble” so it at first shocked me when Jesus replied to Peter, “Assuredly, I say to you that this night, before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” (Matthew 26:34) Matthew then records: “Peter said to Him, ‘Even if I have to die with You, I will not deny You!’ And so said all the disciples.” (Matthew 26:35) Jesus is leading up to His next Teaching Question which in light of the context of the Passover, the Betrayal, and the Imminent Suffering at the hands of those Jesus came to Save, that when Jesus announces that even Peter will “deny” Him that when Jesus asks His next Question as they enter Gethsemane after the Passover Meal that we should know that Jesus is personally calling each individual to look at our lives we claim to be living for Him and answer the very personal Question  “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?”  (Matthew 26:40) We should understand that Peter was not being attacked by Jesus nor was Peter possessed by an evil thought from Satan like we ascribe to Judas who betrayed Jesus to the chief priests for 30 pieces of silver, Peter knew Jesus was the Son of the Living God and Peter believed in his heart he would not stumble so why does Jesus call Peter out personally? Here is a Truth of God that the world does not want us to hear but Jesus Teaches in a dramatic fashion but we have to see Peter through the eyes of a Gracious and Merciful God and not a callous and condemning world view because Jesus is using Peter to say that all the world’s (and Peter’s) righteousness is but “filthy rags” and “all sin and fall short of the Glory of God” and even so that there is “nothing to hard for God” and God will prove Himself ———“If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1:9)  The Lesson Jesus is Teaching then is that there is no sin that we can commit that if we confess it to God that He will be Faithful to “forgive us our sins” and “cleanse us from all unrighteousness” and as part of the context surrounding Jesus telling Peter {paraphrased} “Yes Peter, even you will deny me, and not just once but three times but remember that I have come to be the Passover Lamb and my death on the cross is for the remission of sin, all sin, including this night when you will deny Me even after promising Me your loyalty — I will forgive when you confess your love for Me AFTER I am RESURRECTED!” Jesus has invested His earthly life to Teaching about the Father and the Power and Glory of God and how God Promises to use that Power and Glory to rectify the problem of sin in our individual lives! The Lesson is simple: “We will sin, but God will forgive if we but repent and confess!”

NOVEMBER 20 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#32-07 >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?” (Matthew 26:40)

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NOVEMBER 20  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#32-07  >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?”  (Matthew 26:40)

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Jesus, each morning my spirit looks to Your Spirit for the renewing of Your Mercies and for my “daily bread” that will nourish both my soul and my physical body. Lord You  were obedient to the Father unto death as You suffered and died for my iniquities in order that my sins would be forgiven and through Your Righteousness and the Remission of Sin I might have Fellowship with the Father — and the Really Good News is that “IT IS FINISHED” and there is NOTHING LEFT FOR GOD TO DO and to receive the Free Pardon from sin all that needs to be done to enter into Your Peace is to Believe so I pray as did the disciples that you would daily grow my FAITH and help me with my unbelief. Lord You are Sovereign and I believe that “all things are possible with God”!!!   AMEN

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NOVEMBER 20  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#32-07  >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?”  (Matthew 26:40)    Jesus had just sat down at the Passover Table in the upper room and Jesus opened the Passover Meal with an announcement that one of the disciples eating this Passover Meal would “betray” Him. (Matthew 26:21b) This statement of imminent betrayal got the disciples attention and it should get our attention as well for Jesus is the Master Teacher and is demonstrating that His Purpose is to educate the world of God’s Plan of Salvation and with both by His Life and soon, very soon His Death, Jesus will reveal the importance of  Living a Sinless Life up to His Death on the Cross to completing God’s Plan that was in place “before the foundation of the world”!!! As the murmurs of His disciples died down as they had each asked “Is it I” that “Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, ‘Take, eat; this is My body.” (Matthew 26:26) This was the institution of the Lord’s Supper or Communion which is still observed today but even still today after being observed for over 2000 years we still miss the total significance of what Jesus meant when He said, “Take, eat…” in reference to the Passover Bread He offered to the disciples as Jesus “broke” the bread which He explained as He had done with His Parables  that the “bread” was symbolic of His Body which Scripture records that Jesus broke the bread with His own hands and then Jesus “gave it to the disciples” (Matthew 26:26) We miss that Jesus voluntarily “broke” the “bread” and “gave it” freely to those that had chosen to share the Passover with Him. Jesus then did the same with the Passover Cup as Jesus clearly commanded His disciples, “Drink from it, all of you. For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sin.” (Matthew 26:27-28) Jesus could not have Taught a better Lesson than calling our attention to our “sin of betrayal” of which we are all guilty and then Jesus demonstrating God’s Solution to the sin problem by Jesus Himself having “His Body Broken” and “His Blood Shed” for the “remission of sin”!!! In the continuity of God’s Master Plan Jesus and the disciples ate the Passover Meal and went out to the Mount of Olives and again to get the disciples attention and to focus them on the important issue, Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of Me this night…” (Matthew 26:31) but as with all Lessons Jesus Teaches, He never leaves us hanging as to what He “Means” for immediately Jesus referred to Scriptures and explained “the Shepherd” would be killed and the “sheep scattered” but as part of God’s Plan that once the “Shepherd” is killed that God will “resurrect” the “Shepherd” and Jesus has made it perfectly clear that He is the “Good Shepherd” and that He has Supreme Confidence that He “MUST DIE” and that He “WILL BE RAISED THE THIRD DAY”!!! Once again God demonstrates that everything is part of God’s Plan of Salvation and everything is “Under His Control” — up to and including death!!!  

NOVEMBER 19 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#32-06 >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?” (Matthew 26:40)

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NOVEMBER 19  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#32-06  >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?”  (Matthew 26:40)

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Jesus, Lord as I start another day in Your Word I praise you for being Obedient to the Father and faced death and the cross for my sake, my sin, even though You ARE the Son of God and lived the Perfect Sinless Life. Lord Jesus teach me to be a willing servant of the Most High God and to be a good steward of the blessings that He pours out daily along with the greatest of blessings, GRACE. Lord I deserve death for my many iniquities and shortcomings so as I start this day I give Thanks with one breath and plead for Mercy with the next!   AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

NOVEMBER 19  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#32-06  >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?”  (Matthew 26:40)    Jesus has made His Purpose clear with His announcement that He was to “be delivered up to be crucified” and when next He was anointed with oil He explained the oil was for “My burial” so it should have been clear to the disciples that Jesus was to be the Passover Lamb and fulfill the prophecies of the Messiah but they were blinded by the world as each generation is blinded by the deceitful world in which we live. Matthew records that Judas Iscariot had conspired with the chief priests to betray Jesus and “from that time [Judas] sought opportunity to betray Him.” (Matthew 26:17) None of His disciples had yet understood that Jesus was to be the Passover Lamb even though Jesus had plainly told them He was to die in Jerusalem at the Passover. Jesus however was being obedient to God’s Plan and He continued to Teach His disciples by living the perfect example. “Now on the first day of the Feast of the Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying to Him, ‘Where do You want us to prepare for You to eat the Passover?’” (Matthew 26:17) Jesus continues Teaching and as He instructs His disciples on the preparation of His Last Passover as He tells them to “go to a certain man” and tell the man, “The Teacher says, ‘My time is at hand; I will keep the Passover at your house with My disciples’” (Matthew 26:18) So again Jesus is telling His disciples that the Event that Jesus became flesh for was about to occur and Jesus makes it clear that it is the Passover that is His Purpose. The “disciples did as Jesus had directed them” and as Jesus sat down with the twelve and began eating the Passover that Jesus again made a statement that the disciples and Judas Iscariot especially should have understood that Jesus was saying that He knew everything that was going to happen as He said as they were eating, “Assuredly, I say to you, one of you will betray Me.” (Matthew 26:21) Jesus demonstrates with this statement that He has knowledge of the future events for He has said He will be delivered up by the chief priests, that He would be crucified, that He would be buried, and now He is revealing that it is one of His own disciples that is going to betray Him. Instead of marveling at the fact that Jesus knows everything that is going to happen and give God the Glory for using His Only Begotten Son for the Plan of Salvation, the disciples did exactly what we all do in our worldly selfishness as they each asked, “Lord, is it I?” (Matthew 26:22) and Jesus answered as He always answered by referring to the Scriptures as He answered His disciples, “The Son of Man indeed goes just as it is written of Him, but woe to the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed.” (Matthew 26:24) Jesus is being sacrificed on the cross because it is the Father’s Plan of Salvation and not because of one man’s betrayal of the Truth of Jesus nor is Jesus being crucified because Satan had convinced Judas to sell his soul for 30 pieces of silver! Jesus demonstrates by His every action that GOD HAS A PLAN and that SALVATION WILL COME THROUGH THE SACRIFICE OF THE LAMB THAT GOD HIMSELF HAS PROVIDED!!! Every action of the world is the other side of that coin in that everything that the world has done to persecute Jesus has all contributed to the completion of GOD’S PLAN even though they had acted “unintentionally” and with evil intent! The world gives Satan to much credit and we fail to see in our daily lives that we are guilty of betraying Jesus because we do not see God’s Plan in our lives — Jesus expressed the importance of believing in God’s Plan as He said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgement, but has passed from death into life.” (John 5:24) Therefore as we study the events that unfold at this Historic Passover, let us PRAISE GOD that He has provided GRACE for a lost and dying world and each generation “betrays” God’s Only Begotten Son but receives MERCY instead of JUDGEMENT because we believe that “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)