MAY 01 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#14 “Jesus said to them, ‘Have you understood all these things?’” (Matthew 13:51)

 

MAY 01  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#14 “Jesus said to them,

 ‘Have you understood all these things?’” 

(Matthew 13:51)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer   

JESUS, Kings of all kings, Lord of all lords, Prince of Peace, let every tongue

 confess and every knee bow before You! Lord make me nothing of myself 

so that all that I am will be You living through me. 

Lord, so many times I have failed You as all the good Your Spirit has 

accomplished in me comes under attack from “Self”!?!? Jesus, in 

Your Precious Name I pray that the Holy Spirit will anoint me anew

 with the passion to obey as I have desired in my heart to follow You 

and to Love others as You have Loved me. 

I call on You as a Friend to have someone to confide in … my walk

 has not been perfect for I have strayed, but You always have and 

always will, 

turn me back to the straight and narrow.     

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has been Teaching in the first thirteen chapters of the Gospel of Matthew

 “by Example” and by asking Questions that can be technically labeled as

 “rhetorical” in order to Teach us how to live not only in this world with

 our fellow man but also how to

 live “eternally” in the Kingdom of God and dealing with God Himself! 

These have been some very serious Question/Lessons and Jesus has not only

 “asked” us Questions so that we might focus on the relevant kingdom issues

 but 

Jesus has  gone the “extra mile” 

and has “Lived” the answers as the “Perfect Example”! 

So far the Holy Spirit has guided us through 13 “Spiritual” Questions that Jesus

 has both asked and explained to us by using easily understood parables as

 well as demonstrating with His own Life how to apply these kingdom Lessons

 to living our daily lives. 

The importance of 

“learning” from Jesus carries “eternal consequences” 

— it is imperative for the kingdom’s sake that we 

understand

 that Jesus is being very plain, yet very serious as He Teaches us that

 how we live BEFORE death 

is going to determine how we live AFTER death!

 Too many people are still struggling with the question that

 every generation has had to answer:

  

“Is there life after death?”  

Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and God the Father (the HOLY TRINITY) 

have gone to extreme limits to demonstrate the “Truth of God” 

that man is made up of “body and soul”. 

 

The body comes from our “physical birth” which will someday “die” but then 

our soul will separate from the body at the moment of death and

 

the God-given soul of every individual will return to its Creator. 

When God bestows upon each individual the miracle of “physical life” 

at the point of conception, He also bestows a second miracle 

on each unique individual at the moment of conception 

when God creates a “unique eternal soul” 

(just think ———

 

we start our lives with two miracles of God 

within a single heartbeat)!!! 

Our God-given eternal soul 

will separate from the finite physical body 

at the point of our physical death and will

return to the Eternal Creator God who made it. 

The Creator of the soul knows all things the soul has done 

and the Creator will pass judgement on the soul 

and make the “final fair judgement” 

and make the “Divine Determination” 

of where the “soul will spend eternity” 

based upon the “Truth of God” 

(and not on man’s interpretation of “God’s Truth”!) 

Since our eternity is based on God’s Judgement of how each soul deals with the

 “Truth of God”, 

Jesus and the Holy Spirit have been Teaching us the

 “Truth of God” 

and how to apply the 

“Truth of God” 

to living our daily lives, 

so that when our soul  stands before 

GOD

 on the 

Judgement Day of GOD 

that 

GOD 

will say to our soul,

 “Well done, enter into My Rest” 

and we will forever be with

 

GOD in Heaven!!!  

However, if we have ignored and rejected the Creator, the Creator will say 

“I never knew you” 

and our eternity will be spent separated from our Creator ———

Pretty serious stuff don’t you think?  

It IS SERIOUS — therefore let us consider 

JQ#14 “And Jesus said to them, ‘Have you understood all these things?’”

 (Matthew 13:51) 

and let us consider JQ#14 with all the seriousness we can muster, 

or do you think like so many in the world today 

that learning about 

GOD 

and His requirements for 

ETERNAL LIFE

 is just wasting your “Time”?!?!?!

APRIL 30 THE JESUS QUESTIONS (Day 16) Conclusion to Summary Review of JESUS Questions JQ#01.01—JQ#13.07 (Matthew 5:1 thru Matthew 12:34)

 

APRIL 30  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

(Day 16)  Conclusion to Summary Review of JESUS Questions 

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

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily  Prayer    

JESUS, today is a new day that You have given us and with each new day

 that you bless us with You also renew Your Mercies. Lord Jesus we give You 

thanks that You would come from Your Glory in Heaven to take on flesh and

 live on this earth a Perfect Life, though confronted by the same temptations 

of the flesh as we are tempted! 

Even though You were tempted on a greater scale than we, You Lord Jesus

 being innocent, in Obedience to the Father’s Will, You went willingly to the

 cross and died for our sins! 

Lord, eternity will not be long enough for us to give You all the Praise, Glory,

 and Honor due to the Chosen One who died for our sins. Lord Jesus, each 

day is a transition so Lord each day let us look to You to lead us 

in paths of righteousness for Your Name’s Sake.      

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has been Teaching us in the review of the JQ#1-JQ#13 JESUS QUESTIONS

 to “understand” that life is both “physical” and “spiritual” 

and Jesus has pointed out in JQ#1-JQ#13 

the great extent that God has gone through 

to provide for us the “understanding” 

of how the Kingdom works 

and about our “spiritual responsibility” 

to God and His Eternal Kingdom. 

For the last 16 days the Holy Spirit has given us a “summary” of 

JQ#1-JQ#13 as God’s Way 

of making sure that we are given enough information and insight to

 His HOLY WORD 

that we can 

”truly understand” His Lessons and apply them to our Daily Lives 

that we may Honor God by living according to

 His Way. 

The theme through these first 13 Lessons Jesus Taught by 

asking a Question and by studying the “context” and observing how

 Jesus Lived His Life as the Perfect Example, 

we will be able to give Jesus an honest answer to His Teaching Questions.

 God demonstrates the depth of His concern that we “understand” His Word  

by  JQ#14 where Jesus directly addresses the issue with His disciples — 

“Jesus said to them, ‘Have you understood all these things?” 

(Matthew 13:51)  

— Jesus, as the Master Teacher,  

uses His own Life to insure we “understand”

 God’s “intent” for sending His Only Begotten Son to the earth

 and taking on flesh and living among us 

(See John 1:14  “And the Word became flesh 

and dwelt among us, 

and we beheld His glory, 

the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,

 full of grace and truth.”)  

Just the very fact that we have 

The Holy Bible and it is full of God’s Words 

like mercy, grace, forgiveness, sanctification, 

redemption, sacrifice, and eternal salvation, 

those words alone should be enough for us to

 TRUST GOD 

but when 

God goes that “extra mile” 

by actually 

coming down to earth, taking on flesh, and living among us 

so that He could know what life in the flesh is really like ———

 therefore Jesus the Son of God Himself, can say

 “I know what it’s like to live in the flesh” ! 

Because Jesus knows what it is like to live in the flesh,

 we can TRUST JESUS 

to give us the Perfect Advice on how to live in a 

“Way”

 that honors God the Father! 

The essence of the JESUS Questions is not for Jesus to 

“gain knowledge from us” but to “enlighten us in the Way” 

and it is important enough to God that we really “understand” 

that Jesus asks everyone the specific question:

 “Do you understand all these things 

that I have been Teaching you with these Questions?”  

Therefore let us transition from our “review” of the first 13 JESUS Questions

 and pause to remind ourselves that the JESUS Questions are for our

 “Spiritual benefit” 

and 

it is of great importance to God the Father

 that we “understand” the TRUTH OF GOD 

contained in each JESUS Question Lesson. 

Jesus asks His Questions in a specific order, Teaches a specific Lesson, 

 and each Lesson builds upon the previous Question 

and all done in specific order that we might 

“understand the TRUTH OF GOD” 

contained in His Holy Word. 

The Scriptures are written

 that we may KNOW GOD 

and the better we UNDERSTAND HIS WORD 

the more INTIMATE WILL BE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF GOD 

and the more JOY 

we will have in living our Daily Lives for HIM!