APRIL 14 THE JESUS QUESTIONS - Summary Review of JESUS Questions JQ#1.1—JQ#13.7 (Matthew 5:1 thru Matthew 12:34)

 

APRIL 14  THE JESUS QUESTIONS - 

Summary Review of JESUS Questions JQ#1.1—JQ#13.7 

(Matthew 5:1 thru Matthew 12:34)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS…only by our association with You do we have any Hope

 to be able to stand before God [at the judgement] for You alone can forgive us —

 for we are full of iniquity and sin, [deserving the verdict of guilty with the

 punishment of death] but You and Your Grace has been extended

[to all sinners] as a Gift from God the Father to all mankind — 

we can do nothing to deserve or to earn Your Love.

 You proved You Loved us by Your Sacrificial death on the cross which was

 the Ultimate Demonstration of Obedience to God’s Will! 

Lord Jesus, give us the knowledge of our sin that we can REPENT in the 

fullness of Your Truth and boldly approach the Throne of Grace with confidence

 that our sins have been covered by Your Precious Blood 

when You died on an earthly cross 

that we may live eternally in heaven!            

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has now taken us through 13 JESUS Questions with each Question

 enlightening our souls with a Deeper Truth of God  as Jesus has laid 

the Foundation of Discipleship if we will but answer His Call —

 “Follow Me”.

 The Holy Spirit  moved my writing of His Word today as I was reviewing

 JQ#13-7 from APRIL 13  and the Holy Spirit has directed me to conclude: 

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

with the closing sentences of JQ#13-7   

+++Then Jesus declares, 

“But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak,

 they will give account of it in the day of judgement.

 For by your words you will be justified, 

and by your words you will be condemned.”

(Matthew 12:33-37)    

It is easy to see that Jesus and God think this is very serious 

and there is “eternity” riding on your answer — trust me, 

this IS A BIG DEAL, so what is the verdict that you are going 

to pass on yourself, 

“Is your life a plus or a minus in God’s kingdom?” +++  

Once the Holy Spirit directed me to conclude JQ#13 He then directed me to

 write a “Summary Review” of “The JESUS Questions” 

that covers JQ#1-1 through JQ#13-7. 

For all those who have not been following “The JESUS Questions Project”

 from the beginning (January 1), this 

“Summary Review of JQ#1-1 through JQ#13-7” 

will serve as an outline of 

“The JESUS Questions Project” from JQ#1 through JQ#13-7. 

For those that have been following “The JESUS Questions Project” regularly this

 “JESUS Questions Summary Review” 

will demonstrate the 

“Precept-Upon-Precept” 

way the Master uses to bring us along in our 

Spiritual Maturity that we may walk boldly with Him to the Throne of Grace 

and proclaim with Great Confidence that our sins have been covered 

by the Blood of the Lamb of God!  

The “JESUS Questions Summary Review” will begin with a simple list of 

“The JESUS Questions” in the order in which they appear 

in the Gospel of Matthew. 

SRJQ#1-13  ——— Summary Review of The JESUS Questions  JQ#1-13

JQ#1    “Are you salt and light?”                                               Matthew 5:1-16

JQ#2    “What do you really know about Love?”                     Matthew 5:43-48

JQ#3    “What good is worry or ‘who cares’?”                         Matthew 6:25-34

JQ#4    “What gives you the right to judge?”                           Matthew 7:1-6

JQ#5    “Why should you Ask-Seek-Knock?”                           Matthew 7:7-14

JQ#6    “What kind of fruit does your tree bear?”                    Matthew 7:15-23

JQ#7    “What’s bigger, your ‘Fear’ or your ‘Faith’?                 Matthew 8:23-27

JQ#8    “How do you put ‘Feet’ to your ‘Faith’?”                      Matthew 9:1-13

JQ#9    “Are you a friend of the ‘Bridegroom’?”                       Matthew 9:14-26

JQ#10  “What is your ‘Spiritual Value’?”                                   Matthew 10:1-42 

JQ#11  “What are your ‘Spiritual Expectations of Jesus?”     Matthew 11:1-30

JQ#12  “Who decides what is legal, God or man?”                  Matthew 12:1-23

JQ#13  “Is your life a plus or minus in God’s kingdom?”        Matthew 12:24-45

It is challenging at this point before we go any further to “review” these 

13 JESUS Questions asked so far and see if we can detect a pattern

 and possibly predict what the next question may be? 

Look at all the Questions in the sequence that they were asked and see if you 

can see the “Precept-Upon-Precept” style and also notice that the Questions

 are all “personal” and are getting more serious as we build our knowledge

 and understanding of what it means to

 “Follow Jesus” — 

Always keep in your mind this question: 

“If I ‘Follow Jesus’, what is the ‘Final Destination’?” 

  

All of life is about CHOICE — 

Think about the GIFT of FREEWILL 

that God has bestowed on each individual at birth.

 

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THE DIVINE LAW OF CHOICE & CONSEQUENCE

You have the CHOICE to “Accept or Reject” God 

but you do not get to decide where you will spend ETERNITY 

because God declared that 

we are “Free to Choose” our actions (Freewill) 

but God has reserved His Sovereign right 

to determine the Consequence!!! 

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It is by our own words that we will be judged!!! 

Choose your words carefully because a “No” to God 

will result in Eternal Separation from God 

but a “Yes” will mean Living Forever with the Creator 

in a Mansion custom built for you by Jesus

—just remember—

 WHERE YOU WILL SPEND ETERNITY 

is your OWN “CHOICE” 

so 

!!!“CHOOSE WISELY”!!! 

APRIL 13 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#13 * Is your life a plus or a minus in God’s kingdom?* “How can you, being evil, speak good things? ” (Matthew 12:34)

 

APRIL 13  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#13 

* Is your life a plus or a minus in God’s kingdom?*  

“How can you, being evil, speak good things? ” 

(Matthew 12:34)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Lord, Savior, and Son of God — what glorious names that You are Worthy

 to be called! There is no name like the Name — JESUS. Lord as I think about

 all the names that I can remember, even the most famous and legendary names,

 even among fictional names, there is ABSOLUTELY NO name

 that even begins to compare 

TO THE NAME OF JESUS! 

For with every name there is a set of characteristics associated with that name

 and there simply is NO other name that brings to mind all the attributes that

 we recall when we utter the Name of Jesus!!!  There has been no name 

associated with Salvation, with Eternity, with Forgiveness, with Mercy, 

and with Grace but the Holy Name of Jesus! May we ever speak the 

HOLY NAME JESUS and know the SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST!!!

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus never Teaches us a Lesson that we cannot look at His Life and see

 that before Jesus Teaches us a Lesson, Jesus Himself has Lived that Lesson

 as an example for us to not only “hear” His Lessons but we can “look” at

 His Life and “see” the Lesson being Lived out before us.

 It is because 

Jesus Lives what He Teaches 

that HE has earned the right 

to ask us such a personal Question that He asks in 

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

  We can look at everything Jesus has done up to this point and we can see that 

Jesus Himself has been forgiving people of their sins, 

calling men to repentance, Jesus has cast out demons, 

He has healed the sick, gave sight to the blind, 

He has fed the poor and made the lame to walk,

 and He did all those things as He proclaimed, 

“The kingdom of heaven is at hand.” 

Jesus is saying that we are to look at His Life and know that His Life is “proof”

 that His Power comes from “the Spirit of God” and if the Spirit of God 

is moving so powerfully in your life that you must realize that

 “surely the kingdom of God has come upon you.”

 (Matthew 12:28) 

Jesus is telling us, 

“Look at what I have done with My life and know that only the 

Power of God could accomplish these good works!”   

Everything we have observed and know about Jesus points to the Divine Father! 

The only logical conclusion is that Jesus is sent from God 

with the Divine Purpose 

to make mankind aware that the kingdom of God is at hand! 

Each individual is given the knowledge of God and should personally evaluate

 our individual contributions to the “kingdom of God”! 

Jesus made this personal connection clear when He said we are either 

“for Him” or we are “against Him” (Matthew 12:30)! 

We should stop to consider 

what possibly could have been the “purpose”

 of God in sending His Only Begotten Son to the earth 

to be Sacrificed on a cross? 

To add to the obvious, God states in His written Word

 that He has done everything,

 from the creation of all things to the last breath you will breathe 

BECAUSE He loves us 

and wants us to be with Him in this “Kingdom”

 that He is preparing for us!   

With all that God has done in preparing a place for us

 and preparing us for His place, 

then we should give a reasonable and honest answer

 to His simple Question, 

“Is your life a plus or a minus in God’s kingdom?”  

This is such serious business that God would invest His Everything 

into revealing Himself to us and His expectations for us that He has placed

 “eternity” as the finish line 

and the ultimate failure in life is to end our life 

without the “hope” or the “assurance” 

of spending our “eternity” with the God

 who bestowed such “Grace” upon us — 

a “GIFT” to all mankind 

that came at such Great Personal cost to God Himself! 

Jesus follows this Lesson with some additional serious examples as

 in Matthew 12:31-32 where Jesus says that 

“blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven men” 

and “whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit,

 it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.” 

Matthew 12:31-32

Then Jesus talks about trees with “good” fruit or “bad” fruit, and calls those

 that are against God a “Brood of vipers” who “being evil” cannot speak

 good things. Then Jesus declares: 

“But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak,

 they will give account of it in the day of judgement. 

For by your words you will be justified, 

and by your words you will be condemned.” 

(Matthew 12:33-37)

 It is easy to see that Jesus and God think this is very serious 

and there is our personal “eternity” riding on our answer — 

trust me,

 this IS A BIG DEAL, 

so what is the verdict

 that you are going to pass on yourself, 

“Is your life a plus or a minus in God’s kingdom?”