JANUARY 17 THE JESUS QUESTIONS Introduction-17: Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus: JQ#1-JQ#33 (Matthew 1:1 thru 3:17)

 

JANUARY 17  THE JESUS QUESTIONS   Introduction-17:

 Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus: JQ#1-JQ#33  

(Matthew 1:1 thru 3:17)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, oh how blessed are we among men that we can call on the Name of Jesus

 so openly and so freely. Praise You Lord for the freedom that exists in our

 lifetime and our generation that we have a country founded on the belief 

in The One True God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.  

Lord, I pray for the strength and courage to help in any small way to maintain

 this extraordinary privilege that we have to worship You freely in our churches

 and to have unfettered access to Your Word through Your Holy Bible.

 Forgive me Lord when I take this great blessing of free access to Your Word

 as just another freedom that abounds in plenty — for in our abundance

 we have become lazy and in our laziness we are losing our freedoms 

bit-by-bit, so Lord let me daily recognize the “Peace” and “Joy” of starting 

my day with the Name of Jesus and walk in freedom

 guided safely by the “Light” of Your Holy Word.      

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus, by external circumstances surrounding Him and not of His own

 volition has already fulfilled enough prophecy documented in the first three

 chapters of His Gospel written by Matthew that were He to do nothing else, 

Jesus could be shown to be the Messiah with the single event of His being

 a first born Jewish male in the town of Bethlehem from the lineage of 

King David but His Messiahship was completely sealed by the fact that His

 mother was a “virgin” when she gave Birth to Jesus,

 thus making her Seed Pure, for her

 Seed came from God Himself making Jesus the Son of God! 

To be sure, common logic demonstrates that if a bird gives birth,

 the offspring of that bird will be a bird and as that bird grows it will have feathers

 like its parents and will eventually exhibit all the characteristics of a bird 

and will someday take off and fly — and anyone observing that bird in flight

 will not have to ask, “I wonder if that bird’s parents are birds?” 

This simple logic is God’s way of teaching us His TRUTH!!!  

In His Creation account found in Genesis, God made it clear that every 

living thing would reproduce 

“according to its kind” and “whose seed is in itself” (Genesis 1:11) 

so the fact that God would put 

His Seed into a “virgin womb” in order that His Seed 

would reproduce “after its kind” 

should be simple common logic— for with the “Virgin Birth” event 

it must “logically” be assumed that the mother’s womb was “undefiled” by man

 and her “Seed” was “Holy” therefore the “Offspring” of the “Virgin Birth” 

would grow in

 “Grace and Truth” and exhibit every characteristic of the “Holy Father”,

 thereby confirming that 

Jesus indeed IS THE MESSIAH, the Son of the LIVING GOD. 

John wrote in his Gospel of Jesus Christ 

“For the law was given through Moses, 

but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” (John 1:17)

 Therefore (logically), Jesus being the offspring of an undefiled woman,

 is “logically” proven to be the Son of Man and coming forth from her 

“Virgin Womb” from the Holy Seed of the Father, 

Jesus is also “logically” proven to be the Only Begotten Son of God 

— so it is “natural” that just like the offspring of a bird will grow feathers and fly,

 so likewise will the Offspring of the Holy God 

grow in “Grace” and will speak “Truth”.

 If Jesus were not the Son of God, then He would not be able to “fly” 

with such natural ease that everyone who observed His Life would declare 

as did the Roman centurion who saw how Jesus died at His Crucifixion, 

“Truly this Man was the Son of God!” (Mark 15:39) 

So the object of the Gospels are to demonstrate the cliche’

 “Like Father like Son” and that Jesus being the Holy Seed 

proves Himself to be the Messiah, the Offspring of  His Holy Father

 both by the “Way” that He lived His Life 

and the manner in which He faced His Own Death

 at the hands of those His Father had sent Him to Redeem — 

and His Resurrection from a “borrowed” grave fulfills God’s Promise

 to His Only Begotten Son — 

this Promise of God to His Son was another prophecy written by King David

 that the Resurrection of Jesus fulfilled, 

“For You [My Father] will not leave [Your Son’s] soul in Sheol, 

nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption!” (Psalm 16:10) 

Jesus is shown to be the Son of God because of prophecy, 

His “Virgin Birth”, His Holy Life, and His Perfect 

Sacrificial Death as the Lamb of God, 

and His Glorious Resurrection by His Father on the 3rd Day! 

We, as offspring of our parents, will quite naturally exhibit the nature of our parents

 and that was true of the Baby, born to a virgin in Bethlehem from the 

HOLY SEED OF GOD HIMSELF — 

and we still today call out the NAME OF JESUS, Immanuel — 

God with us!!!!!!!! 

Once we see how naturally Jesus shares the Grace of God, we know

 He is from God, and we should strive to be “born again” that when we

 are observed living our life before men that we live our life in such a manner

 that they will know we have been born of heaven, “according to Our Kind” —

 Praise God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit 

who so graciously decided “in the beginning…” to 

“Let Us make man in Our Image, according to Our likeness…” 

(Genesis 1:26) 

It’s time to step into the “Light” and spread our “spiritual" wings 

and “mount up on [those spiritual] wings like eagles” 

and soar up to heaven itself — 

for freedom from the world is our Divine Heritage

 freely given to all that will receive 

Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior!

JANUARY 16 THE JESUS QUESTIONS Introduction-16: Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus: JQ#1-JQ#33 (Matthew 1:1 thru 3:17)

 

JANUARY  16  THE JESUS QUESTIONS   Introduction-16:

 Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus: JQ#1-JQ#33  

(Matthew 1:1 thru 3:17)

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer 

JESUS, JESUS, JESUS — there will be a time when “every tongue” 

will confess that You are LORD! “Every tongue” takes in a lot of territory 

and is all inclusive of “every” one that has a “tongue” will use it to confess 

that Jesus is Lord — Mohammed will confess it, Buddha will confess it,

 and more importantly, each individual personally will confess it as 

EACH WILL stand before God!!!  It doesn’t get any closer to home than

 when we see prophesy being fulfilled in our own lives — but there is one

 small caveat; this “confession” comes at the “Judgement” and confessing

 the Name of Jesus is not a “ticket-to-get-into-heaven” phrase —

 the Bible states that everyone must stand before God and make an

 account of our actions and thoughts toward God! It is our thoughts

 and actions while we were living on earth that will “condemn or commend”

 us during our “Final Judgment” in Heaven. 

Our thoughts and our actions while we are living will lead to us to being

 “condemned to” either a burning hell separated from God or will “commend us” 

to God Himself , to live with God in Heaven for eternity!!! 

 After “every tongue” has stood trial for the lives we lived while on earth

 and we are standing before God, KNOWING HE IS GOD, we will accept

 our reward or punishment (earned for what we did with the Name of Jesus 

while we were on earth and breathing God’s air) — and before we leave His 

Presence we will all stand before God in Heaven and receive our 

rewards/punishments that were established by our actions on earth that declared

 “JESUS IS THE LORD OF MY LIFE”!!!      

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus so far has been shown to be the Messiah by circumstances of

 His “Virgin Birth” and through His lineage back to King David. Upon the

 announcement of His Birth to King Herod, Herod tried to thwart God’s Plan 

by killing all male children two and under in the City of David, Bethlehem 

where Jesus was born. Herod, while trying to protect his throne, 

unwittingly fulfilled yet more prophecies of the Messiah. In the 3rd

 Chapter of Matthew’s Gospel of Jesus Christ, Jesus Himself begins to

 demonstrate by His Own Actions that He is the Messiah! Matthew starts

 Chapter 3 by introducing the “Star Witness” of Jesus Christ — 

John the Baptist — John himself was the fulfillment of yet another prophecy:

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

 make straight in the desert a highway for our God.” (Isaiah 40:3) 

Matthew writes of John: 

“In those days [when Archelaus was reigning over Judea instead 

of his father Herod] John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness

 of Judea, and saying, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.’” 

(Matthew 3:1-2) 

Matthew covered enough material about the “Virgin Birth” of Jesus

 and circumstances that could not have been orchestrated or controlled by Jesus

 and His disciples that proved that it could not have been a “fabricated” story

 or any form of “conspiracy” for the “facts” surrounding Jesus were a matter

 of public record and the “Virgin Birth” was announced by His earthly 

parents (facing the penalty of death for blasphemy) before He was born,

 remember also that Mary and Joseph made their confession while Mary

 was pregnant even though it could have meant their death — 

Mary and Joseph had nothing to “gain” from declaring the “Virgin Birth” 

account and risked being made complete “outcasts” from the Synagogue

 and their community which was the worst thing that could happen to a

 young Jewish couple so why would they insist that Jesus was the Messiah

 by virtue of His “Virgin Birth”, and they claimed this truth not according

 to any less authority than God Himself through the angel Gabriel!!!

 When John the Baptist comes upon the scene he was “preaching in 

the wilderness of Judea, and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven

 is at hand” but again this historical fact was part of Jewish history BEFORE

 Jesus began His earthly ministry — therefore John the Baptist and his “history” 

is still another “fact” that Jesus and His disciples could not fabricate and is yet 

another “fact” that can be directly related to prophecy written hundreds of 

years before Jesus began His public ministry! Of Divine Significance 

is that the prophecy of Isaiah about the forerunner of the Messiah was

 written in the 8th Century B.C. and specifically states 

“the voice of one crying in the wilderness” and “make straight in the desert” 

and the voice in the desert wilderness was to

 “prepare the way of the LORD” (Isaiah 40:3) 

so one must answer some obvious questions such as why would God 

choose a desert wilderness and not the public square in Jerusalem to

 announce the arrival of the “Anointed One” and also why would any person

 randomly or purposefully chose to clothe himself in camel hair, go into

 the desert wilderness, eat locust and honey, and then preach “repentance” 

and to declare “the kingdom of heaven is at hand” !?!?!? 

You can’t make up things like these and present them as facts and not get

 blown out of the water by the existing authorities, especially if the story 

includes facts that fly in the face of all tradition and existing laws which 

could result in that person’s life imprisonment and/or their death?? Matthew’s

 accounts leave us with two  obvious questions

 (Q1?) why would a young couple risk death just to claim a “virgin” birth(?) and 

(Q2?) why would one man go out into the desert and risk his life for 

some locusts and honey (?) — 

it makes no sense unless they were driven by a “force” or a ”power” 

greater than their fear of death!?!? The “obvious” answer is that they are 

driven by God’s Master Plan and that the Plan itself is more important 

than “life and death” — God’s Master Plan is about 

“Eternal Life” in the presence of God Himself

 and is the only reasonable explanation for all that appears in the Holy Scriptures

 that establish through prophecy and innocent lives the

 validity of Jesus being the Messiah!!! 

Just think on why and when these things occurred to fulfill prophecies

 in the Scriptures that were written hundreds of year before the events

 occurred and you will not find a better explanation than prophecy,

 its giving and fulfillment, is part of God’s Master Plan!!! 

 The really Good News is that THERE IS A MASTER PLAN 

for “MANKIND’S SALVATION” and that the ONE that AUTHORED 

the MASTER PLAN is the CREATOR of ALL and is

 in CONTROL OF EVERYTHING!!!  

When one reads the Bible from the viewpoint that 

EVERY WORD 

is 

DIVINELY INSPIRED 

and the Holy Bible is 

GOD’S MASTER PLAN OF REDEMPTION 

that was already in place 

“before the foundation of the earth”, 

then one can see how important it is that we read God’s Word — 

for indeed His WORD is TRUTH — 

that’s why HIS WORDS are called

 The Holy Scriptures for 

ONLY TRUTH IS HOLY!!!