APRIL 28 THE JESUS QUESTIONS (Day 14) Summary Review of JESUS Questions JQ#01.01—JQ#13.07 (Matthew 5:1 thru Matthew 12:34)

 

APRIL 28  THE JESUS QUESTIONS 

(Day 14) Summary Review of JESUS Questions 

JQ#01.01—JQ#13.07 (Matthew 5:1 thru Matthew 12:34) 

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, aside from Your Mercy and Grace, there is no good thing in me, 

all I have accomplished in my life is worthless for as much worldly success

 as I have had, it is only temporary 

and of no consequence to that which is eternal. 

Lord Jesus, thank You for Your marvelous gifts of Grace,

 Mercy, Salvation, Forgiveness, and Peace! Lord, thank You for the 

reminder that the “Gifts of God” are priceless 

and that they cannot be earned by works

 nor is there any earthly thing that can be valued enough

 to purchase these “Gifts from GOD”. 

Only the Blood of the Only Begotten of the Father Himself can be 

found worthy enough to purchase this Gift of Righteousness and 

therefore let us forsake the “hay and stubble” upon which we 

have formerly established this earthly house and build our heavenly 

foundation on the “Rock” ——— “This Rock is Jesus”!!!       

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus continues His line of “serious” Questions about 

our relationship to the Father with JQ#13:

Lesson 13  JQ#13  “Is your life a plus or minus in God’s kingdom?”     

Matthew 12:24-45

Our life cannot count for anything that has earthly value or is prized in the eyes

 of sinful man. Jesus asks us to evaluate our life in terms of God’s Kingdom

 for Jesus knows that we cannot earn enough money or collect enough things

 on this earth to justify our entrance into God’s Kingdom, thereby making 

our physical accomplishments as worthless as they are finite! 

Jesus has brought our understanding of God to the point that we are aware that 

our Faith in God and our relationship with God 

will have the only bearing on our eternity 

and Jesus is revealing to us that the physical things of this earth are going

 to pass into nothingness while the spiritual aspects of our soul are going

 to be carried with us as

 we enter into eternity through the doorway of death

 that all souls must use as we exit this present mortal physical life 

and enter into the eternal spiritual existence 

God has intended for each soul He creates. 

If we spend our earthly time collecting earthly treasures then when our

 physical life is terminated we will find that everything finite is terminated as well

 and the only thing that passes through the doorway of death 

are those things that have

 “eternal spiritual value” —

Jesus had taught this to Nicodemus when He discussed the kingdom of God 

with the most learned religious man of his day: 

“Jesus answered and said …’Most assuredly, I say to you, 

unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God’” 

(John 3:3) 

and to clarify that it is a 

“spiritual vs. physical” 

conflict Jesus tells Nicodemus 

“…Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one

 is born of water and the Spirit, 

he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 

That which is born of the flesh is flesh, 

and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” 

(John 3:5-6) 

So Jesus makes it clear that we are first born of flesh and while in the flesh

 we must seek to understand the mysteries of God and 

by gaining the knowledge of God we will be born of “His Spirit”, 

for as our earthly fathers gives us physical life of the flesh, 

our Heavenly Father will give us the eternal life of His Spirit, 

for flesh cannot enter into the kingdom of God, only Spirit. 

The total value of our physical life therefore can be summed up as 

either a “spiritual” plus or a minus in God’s Kingdom, 

so each of us must ask ourselves, 

“Does our Spiritual life add up to anything good in God’s eyes?”

APRIL 27 THE JESUS QUESTIONS (Day 13) Summary Review of JESUS Questions JQ#01.01—JQ#13.07 (Matthew 5:1 thru Matthew 12:34)

 

APRIL 27 THE JESUS QUESTIONS 

(Day 13) Summary Review of JESUS Questions JQ#01.01—JQ#13.07 

(Matthew 5:1 thru Matthew 12:34) 

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Lord of Life, You are greatly to be praised, 

Your Name is to be lifted up by all men 

and one glorious day every tongue will speak

 the Name above names, Jesus.

 Lord, there will be those that will regret not having called on that Name

 for salvation while still residing in these earthen vessels to transport us 

through the “physical” life, for without calling on the name Jesus, the “physical”

 cannot be transformed to the “Spiritual” for You are the Giver of All Life, 

both the “Physical” and the “Eternal”, and though it is as simple as “asking”,

 it is also the most difficult task because the “asking” 

must be done from a “humble” heart. 

Lord I thank You that You have changed my heart and now I pray for those

 that do not know the earthly peace of the confidence of Heaven,

 through the knowledge of Jesus Christ, that their “spirit” will yield to

 Your Divine Holy Spirit’s leading them to an understanding of the

 TRUTH OF GOD.      

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus gives us Divine Guidance for our “Spiritual health” through

 the Subject Lesson and the Order of His Teaching Questions and through the

 first 11 JESUS Questions, Jesus has outlined the plan for our discipleship

 by developing the proper perspective of both 

the Kingdom and the King of Heaven. 

Starting with JQ#12 Jesus “gets real” with our perspective of our 

“relationship” with God during our life on earth! 

Lesson  12  JQ#12  “Who decides what is legal, God or man?”       

Matthew 12:1-23

This JQ#12 question of “Who decides…?” really “cuts to the bone” but 

when we consider that this Question comes immediately after Jesus asked

 about our “Spiritual Expectations” of Him in JQ#11 —

 this JQ#12 JESUS Question is very serious indeed! 

First of all 

Jesus states that He is who He is because of the Father’s Will 

and not because of any “personal expectations” on our part 

and then Jesus makes the most practical application

 to why our beliefs should be based on the 

“Truth of God” 

and not some “interpretation” of what we think we believe! 

A.W. Tozer told this “Truth of God” in his book “Knowledge of the Holy”

 when he begins his book with:

 “What comes to our minds when we think about God 

is the most important thing about us.” 

Tozer is pointing out the 

“Truth of God” 

that if we have the wrong idea of God 

then our “eternal soul” is in jeopardy. 

There is not enough “money” or “power” in the world to justify thinking wrongly

 about God for God alone determines the “Truth” and man has no power

 to change the “Truth of God”, and no man ever will!! 

Jesus tries to call our attention to the fact that

 

we can know the “Truth of God” 

for it will be revealed to us 

but our obligation is to believe it when we see it. 

Jesus told the disciples of John who were looking for the 

“Coming Messiah” 

to look at what Jesus had actually been doing in His ministry 

and not 

what other men were claiming what “they thought” He was doing

 and the same is True for God, 

all we have to do is look at what God has done

 and what He is still doing today 

and admit that only God can accomplish those things!

 We must then accept

 the Truth of God that He ALONE is in control 

of every thing that happens in His Creation 

and not what some men say “they believe” about God. 

Our personal belief does not change God, 

God is ‘Unchangeable” 

— our “belief” changes us 

and it is not just a matter of “life and death” at stake, 

our personal belief in God 

is a matter of “where will our soul spend its eternity”!! 

Jesus warns us that we must see Him as the 

True Messiah 

for it is the only path that leads to the Kingdom of God 

and that it is God that is the Creator of our souls 

and it is God alone that determines the final and eternal resting place 

for each man’s soul. 

The “evidence” for God sending His Son Jesus is overwhelming, however, 

God gives us “Free will” so the responsibility

 to examine the “evidence” is up to us ——— 

but regardless of the “verdict” we pass

 after reviewing the evidence,

 the “Truth of God” remains unaltered. 

Don’t you think that “accepting” the 

“Truth of God” 

carries greater reward 

than us trying to change that which cannot be changed?