JULY 14 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#21 “What do you think about fish, taxes, lost sheep, forgiveness, and your fellow servants?” (Matthew 17:25, 18:12,33)

 

JULY 14  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#21  “What do you think about fish, 

taxes, lost sheep, forgiveness, and your fellow servants?” 

(Matthew 17:25, 18:12,33)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily  Prayer    

JESUS, Giver of Life, Hallowed be Thy Name, the Name above all names.

 O Lord my God, Praise, Glory and Honor to the Only Begotten Son 

that became sin for my sake that through His Sacrifice

 I might be clothed in His Righteousness that I might have

 fellowship with the Father. 

Lord Jesus, there is no explanation why You would choose to give up

 Your Divinity for sinners but Lord we Praise You because we know

 in our heart of hearts that were we left to our sin that we would

 remain forever lost in that sin and while we were yet lambs

 being led to the slaughter and lost in that sin

 that You accepted the Task as the Good Shepherd 

and now we praise You as did King David, 

You “make [us] to lie down in green pastures, 

You lead [us] beside the still waters, 

You restore [our] soul 

and lead [us] in paths of righteousness 

for [YOUR] Name’s sake!”      

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus spent His every breath of His earthly ministry living His Life 

as an Example of how we should live our lives for God so that when

 we read His Story in God’s Holy Word we should appreciate 

all the heavenly forces God employs to provide for our daily needs

 and we should pay attention to each Lesson God has to Teach us

 about His Kingdom and the Singular Path God has determined

 that we must take to ENTER into His Glory! 

There is no argument that can be made

 as to “why” 

there is only ONE WAY —

 God has plainly demonstrated that even before 

He Created the Heavens and the earth, 

He had settled on His Plan of Salvation 

and over thousands of years 

God revealed that Plan to a fallen world 

that God has committed all His Divine Resources to saving. 

God has been Faithful to that Plan and His Plan

 has been executed without flaw 

as our Salvation has been Sealed and Sanctified 

by the Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection 

of His Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ. 

The first Scriptures were written with the Hope of the Messiah 

and the Law was written in anticipation of the fulfillment of the Law 

by the Coming of God’s Holy One ——— 

and now the Scriptures record: 

“For the law was given through Moses, 

but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.” 

(John 1:17) 

So when the Messiah Himself spends such a great proportion 

of His Words Teaching us about the sin “problem” 

we should search the scriptures for the “solution” 

and have Faith that God who has always provided for our daily needs

 will Teach us the True Path to Salvation which leads to entering

 through the “Kingdom Door” which Jesus Himself declared,

 “I am the door. 

If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, 

and will go in and out and find pasture.” 

(John 10:9)

 

Jesus then continues to clarify God’s Truth as Jesus tells us

 

“I have come that they may have life, 

and that they may have it more abundantly. 

I am the good shepherd. 

The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep.” 

(John 10:10-11)

 

Then to make sure that we understand God’s Plan of Salvation

 Jesus states:

 “I am the way, the truth, and the life. 

No one comes to the Father except through Me.” 

(John 14:6) 

There is no way that anyone can read the Holy Scriptures and not see

 God’s Plan of Salvation and the extent to which God 

had committed to BEFORE the beginning of time 

as we read that central verse 

“For God so loved the world 

that He gave His only begotten Son

 that whosoever believes in Him 

should not perish but have everlasting life.” 

(John 3:16) 

***Notice John 3:16 is written in the past tense, 

it has already been accomplished 

and has been written in God’s History Book, 

the Holy Bible, 

for thousands of years and as Jesus Himself

 said as He was breathing His last 

earthly breath Jesus cried: 

“It is finished.” 

(John 19:30)*** 

Generations upon generations have proved that He Lives 

as we have a great cloud of witnesses that have been touched

 by the Savior’s Grace and their lives have been forever changed. 

What God said He would do, He always accomplishes! 

      

     

    …when I AM 

     …says I WILL

        !!! HE  DOES !!!

The only question we can ask ourselves is 

“Why in the world do we question a God 

that has so unselfishly given 

so much of Himself for our good?”  

Could it be because we are so selfish 

that we are blinded to His Holiness?

JULY 13 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#21 “What do you think about fish, taxes, lost sheep, forgiveness, and your fellow servants?” (Matthew 17:25, 18:12,33)

 

JULY 13  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#21  “What do you think about fish,

 taxes, lost sheep, forgiveness, and your fellow servants?” 

(Matthew 17:25, 18:12,33)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, (From a song given to me by the Holy Spirit in 2003) 

“Jesus, Precious Jesus, Thank You, 

You took my sins away, 

and I want to thank You 

for all that You’ve done, 

so this is the prayer that I pray — 

Please grant it Lord that I may grow strong, 

yet give more than I take. 

Teach me to lean on Jesus my King 

and guide me each step that I take. 

In all that I do let Your Love Shine through,

 that lost sheep might find the way 

and come back Home to this Peace I’ve known 

— this is the prayer I pray.” 

 Praise to God from whom ALL Blessing flow, forgive me of my daily sins,

 and create in me a clean heart, O God!       

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus always gave us a Living Example of the Lessons He was Teaching

 and each Lesson reveals a 

Truth of God 

so that we may know who God is by knowing His Truth. 

I have always asked the question:

 “Couldn’t there have been some other way 

for our sins to be forgiven other than God 

having to send His Son to Sacrifice Himself for our sins?” 

There has been one answer that the Holy Spirit gives me 

and it is in the form of a question as my heart and soul hears:

 “Why do you question God?” 

When I stop and “think” about it, I come to the conclusion 

that instead of questioning God that I should look to see what 

Truth of God 

is revealed in the things that He does! 

So instead of asking

 

“Why would God sacrifice His Only Begotten Son for my sin”

 I make this observation and I see that

 (TRUTH 1) the creator God who can do all things without my help

 has made a Divine Personal Decision to help those that 

He certainly doesn’t need any help from ——— and 

(TRUTH 2) not only does God help others who cannot repay Him 

for His Divine Help, He used His Most Precious Possession 

to accomplish His Desire to do “Good” for others, 

(TRUTH 3) God had no motivation to make His Decision 

except His Own Pure Character of Mercy 

(TRUTH 4) besides proving Himself to be a Merciful God, 

He also reveals that He is a Loving God for we know that our sin

 is nothing but rebellion against God and even though God Knows

 all things and Knows that we are undeserving of Love, 

God pours out His Divine Compassion on us and proves 

He is a Gracious and Compassionate God and finally 

(TRUTH 5) The fact that God would send His Son to die a cruel death

 for our sin proves that God is an “Unchanging” and “Just” God !!! 

In the beginning God said that disobedience to Him must be punished

 by death and my worldly thoughts say that 

“if I am the rule-maker and I am in charge of enforcing those rules 

then I can change the rule if I want to” ——— but 

God proves He is a GOD that GOD NEVER CHANGES 

and the rules apply to everyone 

and will be enforced fairly and justly — 

FOREVER — 

PROVING GOD IS 

ETERNALLY UNCHANGING 

AND UNEQUIVOCALLY JUST!

 

When we question God we are using the world’s standard 

of ever-changing priorities but 

when we observe God from the point of “Truth and Fairness” 

we see that God’s Moral Standard is the only True 

and Fair Standard by which all mankind 

should judge ourselves and others!  

By using God’s Unchanging Moral Standard 

we have confidence that God will judge everyone equally

 by the same fair standard which NEVER CHANGES, 

and we know His Standards NEVER change 

because God Himself NEVER CHANGES. 

So the Truth of God is that sin MUST be punished———

 

and the Compassion of God 

(“For God so loved the world”)

 is demonstrated by His Grace towards sinners

 (“that He gave His only begotten Son”) 

and by providing Himself a Sacrifice for our sin problem 

(“that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish

 but have everlasting life.” John 3:16)

 and God goes the extra mile in that not only will we

 “not perish” 

but God rewards our 

“belief in His Only Begotten Son”

 with 

“everlasting life”! 

 

The fact that “sin” is a problem in the world is not what is being disputed

 by mankind, mankind just does not want to admit 

that “sin” is a PERSONAL problem 

that we are EACH personally responsible for OUR OWN SIN! 

We refuse to admit

 that we cannot solve the sin-problem ourselves 

and that we must turn to God for the solution. 

This is God’s Plan of Salvation in a nutshell: 

God gave us Free Will but we used it poorly 

and chose to sin instead of following God 

and we ended up lost in our sin. 

Once lost in sin, we cannot see our way back to the

 TRUTH OF GOD 

And our selfish pride prevents us from asking God for directions.

 God however RESCUES us from our sin 

but in Honor of His 

Gift of Free Will 

to us, God will not “force” the RESCUE on us 

but waits for our call for “Help!” which comes when 

we REPENT of our sin and call out to God for His Mercy.

 When God hears our cry, He immediately 

“RESCUES” us, 

THIS TRUTH OF GOD RESCUING US  

we call

 “SALVATION”.

 My question to those that read this passage is simply:

 “Why do you not accept God’s Help 

instead of questioning ‘why’ He is such a 

Good, Kind, Gracious, and Forgiving God?”