JUNE 19 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#19 “For what profit is it to man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?” (Matthew 16:26)

 

JUNE 19  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#19  “For what profit is it to man 

if he gains the whole world, 

and loses his own soul?” 

(Matthew 16:26)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, I start my day again by Your Word and today The Holy Spirit reveals

  the Truth of God that John proclaimed to start his Gospel,

 “In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, 

and the word was God. He was in the beginning with God” 

(John 1:1-2) 

Lord Jesus, You ARE the WORD and the Holy Spirit revealed to John

 that it is the “WORD” that is the Creative Power and that the

 “WORD IS GOD” 

and that before there was a “beginning” the “WORD” already existed

 and the “WORD” has been revealed as being Jesus,

 the Only Begotten Son of the Father and it is by the “WORD”

 that all men have “the right to be called children of God”. 

Blessed thought that the “WORD” has been etched into our “soul” 

that if we follow the command of God and “hear Him”,

 we may truly know the 

“Eternal Way to Everlasting Life and Fellowship with God” !!!     

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus I start today with a prayer to the Holy Spirit to guide the words

 that will summarize this Jesus Question/Lesson on the reality of our 

“Soul” and the upcoming “Exchange/Final Judgment”  

for God has gone above and beyond to bring us into the knowledge of

 

(Truth 1) Who Jesus really is (See JQ#18) and

 

(Truth 2) Who we really are in relationship to God. (See JQ#19) 

Jesus is Teaching His disciples by 

“Word” and by “Life Example” 

and these Lessons are each Lessons within themselves 

but there is also the “revelation” to those that study the “WORD” of the

 “Divine Plan”— 

Jesus is Teaching that it is our “soul” 

that is at the center of God’s Divine Plan. 

Before we stop and insist that man is not the center

 of the universe therefore God cannot exist, 

let us consider these “observable” facts about what has been revealed

 about God by what is “known” by mankind and our written history.

 Since the objection raised by the detractors of God

 is that God cannot be explained then I respectfully submit 

that reality itself exists even though reality cannot be explained 

and even the fact that we can argue the existence of God 

makes God part of reality. 

These two Jesus Questions JQ#18 and JQ#19 

put back-to-back is a “Lesson” in itself and the reality IS

 that we are sitting here contemplating these two Questions! 

I know I exist, I know that reality includes 

“The Book” and all the “Words” printed in “The Book”, 

I know that reality includes someone that wrote the first words, 

and someone real has printed these words, and now someone real

 is reading the words. I can only submit to you this argument:

 “The Book” 

is real and the

 “intelligence to write and to read and to understand words”

 is real, and we cannot explain how we 

“understand”

 but that does not prevent us from 

“understanding” 

and being able to perceive the reality that there is an 

“Unseen Power”

 that can affect both our “physical” life and our

 “spiritual” life. If we can “understand” 

the words without being able to fully explain how we

 “understand” 

them, then it is logical to assume that being able to explain  

“The Book”

 is not a necessary requisite for us to understand 

“The Book” or for the “The Book” to be real! 

“The Book” IS GOD’S WORD to Teach us about HIMSELF, 

and because you may choose not to believe what “The Book” Teaches,

 your personal belief does not have the power to change reality 

——— “your personal “belief” can only affect

 “your personal understanding” of the reality of 

“The Book” !

 The “conclusion” of the matter is that God 

has revealed Himself to us through His Son 

and the Truth is written in “The Book” for all to read! 

God has promised that to all who read it that He will give them 

“understanding” 

and what God is saying with JQ#18 & JQ#19 is that 

His Only Begotten Son is Teaching us 

(T1) that “Who” we say Jesus is and “Who” we say we are 

in relation to Him determines the “Reality” of our “Eternity” and

 (T2) God places the PERSONAL responsibility to find the 

TRUTH OF REALITY on our  OWN “souls”, 

(T3) and God has placed a time-limit on our decision — 

by God’s Divine Plan our decision must be made 

before the moment of our “physical death” 

(no one can dare argue the “reality of death”), 

(T4) God has given us our “physical” finite time on earth

 to decide if we want to spend eternity with God 

or remain forever separated from Him !!! 

I know I can’t explain it, if I could then God wouldn’t be God, I would be God — for 

God is the Supreme Being and the only ONE 

that can explain reality is God!!! 

So consider your “final answer” as the conclusion of the matter:

 “Who do you say Jesus is and have you considered 

that God created you with an eternal soul, 

and as your Creator, God is going to require you 

to give an account of your life 

and what you have done with the gifts 

that He has offered to you?”

JUNE 18 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#19 “For what profit is it to man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?” (Matthew 16:26)

 

JUNE 18  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#19  “For what profit is it to man 

if he gains the whole world, 

and loses his own soul?” 

(Matthew 16:26)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, what Blessed Thought that before the Creation 

our future was planned even before time itself began — 

and to think that our future is 

a product of the Mind of God 

because His Heart was so filled with Compassion

 for His Creation that His Plan for all mankind

 included a Path of Light

 back to the Creator for those He Loved. 

Such Great Love for all mankind 

yet His own would not “receive” His gift!?!?  

Lord Jesus, forgive me

 for the many times I have chosen

 to reside in the darkness of my sin 

and shun the “Light” of Your Salvation — 

Lord I have strayed so many times 

and I admit that I have used Your Gift of Free Will

 to purposefully get “lost” 

and I am among those that “loved darkness” 

and did not want to find Your Path of Light 

but walked in the shadows

 to self-destruction. 

Lord Jesus, keep my eyes always on Your Light, 

keep my feet always on Your Path, 

that I may know Your Joy in my heart ——— 

as  I pray right now in the depths of my desires

 that my soul will always be humble

 and repentant before the Just and Righteous God!!!            

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus wraps up the Lesson here just as He began this 

“soul-searching” Question

 that brings our attention to the eventuality of our 

“physical death” and the “spiritual judgment”. 

Jesus began the JQ#19 Lesson

 by announcing to His disciples that He must

 “be killed and be raised the third day” 

and when He gets their undivided attention, Jesus then 

directs His disciples to consider that each individual 

has a “soul” and that there will come a judgment of that “soul”

 by the Creator of all “souls”. 

 Until we as individuals recognize that there is nothing 

of earthly value that can be “exchanged” for our “souls” 

which are “eternal” by the design of the Creator, 

then we can never know the Great Price

 paid for our Redemption.  

The Creator designed “eternity” into our existence 

but the Creator also designed our physical bodies with an “expiration date” 

and at the time of our “physical” death of our body,

 our “soul” is immediately in the Presence of the Creator,

 who as the CREATOR AND CONSTANT MONITOR of our “soul” 

will know if we used 

God’s Gift of Free Will 

given to each individual “soul” 

to become one of His children or not!?!?! 

Jesus made this clear when He asked 

“…what will man give in exchange for his soul?” 

(Matthew 16:26) 

and then Jesus immediately said that the 

“Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father” 

and “will reward each according to his works” 

(Matthew 16:27). 

Jesus illustrated this six days later 

as Peter, James, and John his brother saw Jesus

“transfigured before them” 

as Jesus was transformed instantly and 

“His face shone like the sun, 

and His clothes became white as the light.” 

(Matthew 17:1-2) {{See also Genesis 1:3}} 

 This was a visual Example of what Jesus 

had just Taught about the

 “soul” 

being eternal and would leave our “physical” body 

and enter our “spiritual” form and be in the 

“glory [presence] of the [Creator] Father” 

and the fact that the disciples “recognized” 

both Moses and Elijah 

(who had been dead hundreds of years)

 is proof that all “souls” are “eternal” 

and we will have “spiritual understanding” 

of all things because how could the disciples 

recognize men that had been dead for hundreds of years ??? —

 we know there were no photos taken of Moses and Elijah

 so how on “earth” could the disciples know Moses and Elijah

 without God imparting this knowledge to their 

“spiritual eyes”? 

After Peter suggested that “three tabernacles” be erected to honor

 Jesus, Moses, and Elijah, the voice of God spoke to them:

 “This is My beloved Son, 

in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him.” 

(Matthew 17:5) 

The disciples were “greatly afraid” for they knew they were 

wrong about erecting temples to anyone other than God Almighty 

“But Jesus came and touched them and said, 

‘Arise, and do not be afraid.” 

(Matthew 17:7) 

Jesus then instructed the disciples to wait to share the vision after 

“the Son of Man is risen from the dead” 

(Matthew 17:9) 

and Jesus concluded this Lesson by correcting wrong doctrine 

that had been taught to the disciples by

 the tradition of their elders through the scribes. 

Then just as Jesus had begun the Lesson 

talking about His upcoming death,

 Jesus ended the Lesson by identifying those that would cry

 “crucify Him” 

as Jesus told the disciples that

 “the Son of Man is also about to suffer at their hands.” 

thereby revealing to the disciples that 

God’s Plan for His Son would culminate 

in the Death of the Only Begotten Son 

fulfilling the words of Abraham to Isaac,

 “God will provide the lamb.” 

(Genesis 22:8) 

but God would also demonstrate 

to all mankind His Supreme Power, 

for God would Resurrect the Son on the Third Day 

and then all mankind would have the Gospel — 

The Truth of God of the Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection 

of the Beloved Son of God, Jesus Christ!!!! 

Can you think of a more important Lesson 

and Truth for God to impart on “all who believe”?