MAY 27 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#17 “How many loaves do you have?” (Matthew 15:34)

 

MAY 27  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#17  “How many loaves do you have?”  

(Matthew 15:34)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer   

JESUS, take our daily desires of the world and Resurrect  them instead 

to the Will of the Father in Heaven. 

When we start our day with prayer to the Only Begotten who died for our sin,

 let it be as Paul told the Corinthians, 

“We…plead [within ourselves] … not to receive the grace of God in vain…” 

but that with all our hands find to do, that we will be doing it for the 

Glory of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. 

Lord let us hear anew each morning Your Prayer for us

 that we will be “one with the Father” 

and know that it was the Father’s Will that His Only Begotten Son 

would be obedient the the Father’s Will and die on the cross for our sins 

thereby providing for the Salvation of all who would 

call on the Name of JESUS, 

so let us as be obedient to the Father’s Will and take up our cross daily

 as we die to our sins and follow Jesus 

for we know He is One with You 

and has prepared a place that we may be together

 as “ONE” for Eternity,

 but only through the shed blood of Jesus who purchased our “pardon” ——— 

Praise God from whom all blessings flow.     

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus is pictured as God giving the “gift” of “understanding” to His 

newly created world as God’s first recorded act of addressing sin

 was accomplished with the first words God spoke to address

 the “darkness” of the earth as God declared,

 “Let there be light, and there was light.” 

(Genesis 1:3)  

We know that “light” is the “understanding” 

that Jesus keeps trying to Teach us because the “Light” 

is the greatest weapon against the darkness of sin and the 

“Light” IS the LIGHT (UNDERSTANDING) OF JESUS 

who as the apostle James wrote of Jesus,

 “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, 

who gives to all liberally…” 

(James 1:5) 

This advice to seek “wisdom” came as James was addressing the fact that

 “knowing the testing of your faith produces patience…” 

and then the solution was to ask God for wisdom for the 

Truth of God that Jesus is Teaching with the “bread” Question 

is that we must eat the “good” bread that God Himself provided, 

just as He sent Manna from Heaven to feed the Israelites 

while they were learning to follow God 

while wandering in the wilderness. 

So if God gives us “Light” to dispel the “darkness” 

then we should develop the “understanding” that 

“man cannot live by bread alone…” (Matthew 4:4) 

but to resist temptation by consuming the word of God.

 So Jesus uses the “bread” illustration to give us “understanding” 

that our only way to fight “sin and darkness” is to

 abide in the “Light of His Word” —

 the “Light” is Jesus ——— 

“[Jesus is] the true Light which gives light

 to every man coming into the world.” 

(John 1:9) 

Jesus had been Teaching the disciples all along that 

by our “belief” that we will be “healed of our infirmities” 

and Jesus was continually “Teaching” and then asking

 “do you understand(?)” 

and then to make sure we get the point, 

Jesus gives us a deeper explanation by using examples of everyday things

 that we have a common knowledge about ——— 

so the “bread” Lesson that Jesus is Teaching in this passage 

is to remind us that

 

our “need” for “bread” is “daily” 

and it is by “understanding” of the Word of God  “DAILY” 

that we nourish our spirits,

 in essence we fulfill the prayer Jesus prayed when the disciples asked Him

 to “teach us to pray” and Jesus prayed: 

“Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name, 

Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 

Give us this day our daily bread…” 

(Matthew 6:9-11) 

So if Jesus is the Light and He has come

 with the single purpose 

to reconcile our sin 

so that we may have fellowship 

with God the Father in heaven, 

don’t you think it would be wise to 

“UNDERSTAND”

 that in order for “bread” to nourish our bodies 

that we must “consume” it?  

As Jesus told the Pharisees that were continually testing Jesus 

as to being the Son of God — Jesus told them 

“A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, 

and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.”

 (Matthew 16:4) 

Jesus is the fulfillment of the sign of the “prophet Jonah” 

as the “Bread” was “broken for our sin” 

and the “Blood” was shed, 

and the “Light” was buried IN DEATH 

but on the THIRD DAY Jesus rose victorious 

over “darkness, sin, death, and the grave”!!!   

Don’t you think 

that’s a pretty good days work 

on a loaf of

 “Bread” 

and a drink of

 “Living Water”?

MAY 26 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#17 “How many loaves do you have?” (Matthew 15:34)

 

MAY 26  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#17  “How many loaves do you have?”  

(Matthew 15:34)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Jesus, Jesus ——— there is NO other Name that we can call on

 that produces such “LIFE” as that which You Provide for believers ———

 abundant and free, for You have paid the price for the penalty of sin! 

All sin, which was taken upon Yourself as You faced death and the grave

 all alone on that Cross at Calvary has been atoned for by Your Blood

 which was shed for the sins of the world! 

Who can explain the mind of God that chose to correct the sin problem

 by such a Great Sacrifice of giving to an undeserving world the Precious Gift

 of His Innocent, Only-Begotten Son so that God’s Grace could be extended

 to all that “Repent” and turn from their sin. 

No, we cannot explain the mind of God but we can see and know for 

ourselves the Heart of God because His Plan for us and our “Good”

 has been executed and as Jesus said when He had accomplished 

ON THE CROSS

 the “Work” of the Father, 

“It is Finished!”

 Praise the Heart of God and the Great Sacrifice of His Son 

that all who believe “shall not perish”, so my prayer Lord Jesus is 

“lead us in paths of righteousness 

for His Name’s sake and deliver us from evil” 

for Your’s is the Eternal Kingdom Forever!     

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus is the fulfillment of the words Abraham spoke to his son Isaac

 as both were being obedient to the Will of God and were climbing the

 mountain where God had commanded Abraham to offer his son Isaac

 as a “sacrifice”, when Isaac turned to his father Abraham and asked, 

“…but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?” 

Abraham who had been told by God, 

“…take now your son, your only son Isaac…and offer him…”

 turned to Isaac who was carrying the fire and the wood

 for this momentous sacrifice spoke these “Prophetic” words,

 “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb…” 

(Genesis 22:8) 

God’s Plan of Salvation was revealed through Abraham’s obedience

 to the will of the Father when Abraham raised the knife to sacrifice

 his only son for an Angel of the Lord spoke and told Abraham 

not to harm Isaac!  Abraham had been Faithful in being obedient to God

 and had in effect “offered” Isaac and proved that he would be obedient

 to the Father’s Will. 

God had demonstrated that His Plan of Salvation 

also included a “Substitute” —— 

for God had intended from before creation 

to solve the sin problem of the world by providing Jesus 

as the “Lamb without blemish”, 

His Only Begotten Son (Genesis 22:1-14). 

We read the confirmation of God’s Plan to resolve the sin issue

 in the book of Revelation when at the end of time 

that there is scheduled the separation

 of the sinners from the repentant, 

fulfilling the

 Teaching of Jesus in the parable of the 

“separating the wheat from the tares”  —— 

as the “repentant” will have their names written in 

“the book of Life of the Lamb

 slain from the foundation of the world…”. 

(Revelation 13:8) 

but those that have not accepted 

God’s Plan of Salvation ——— Jesus Christ ——— 

will burn eternally in the lake of fire! 

Yes God is very serious about “Life” 

and God does not want any to “perish” 

so God provided the “Lamb” 

in the form of His Only Begotten Son Jesus 

who was “Sacrificed” for the sins of the world. 

Jesus is Teaching in 

JQ#17 “How many loaves do you have?”

 that the greatest problem in our lives is getting “bread” 

for our very existence and Jesus boldly states that

 “leaven” represents sin and death ——

Jesus declares Himself 

as the answer to sin when He states:

 “I Am the Bread of Life” 

(John 6:35) 

It is important that we understand that God provides the 

“Bread and the Lamb” 

but we must be obedient to Him to “offer sacrifice”

 and to “beware” of the doctrine of sin

 that we allow into our lives (Repent) 

and consume the “bread” that gives “life”.

 Don’t you think it is reasonable to assume that since God 

wrote an entire book centered around 

His Only Begotten Son and His Death on a Cross 

as the Atonement of Sin, 

and that our Eternal Destiny rests 

on our “believing in Jesus”, 

and that God is truly serious about “sin”? 

The Bible front to back, every jot and tittle, 

is a picture of “Salvation — God’s Greatest Gift” — 

can you not reach out and accept His Gift? 

God not only will give you your “daily bread” — 

He is Gracious and Merciful 

and desires “abundant life” for you 

and He will also give you 

butter and jam for your “bread”!!!