MAY 21 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#17 “How many loaves do you have?” (Matthew 15:34)

 

MAY 21  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

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

(Matthew 15:34)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Lord You are always Teaching and every Lesson is intended 

for our good so my prayer Lord is that my attention to “learning Your Truth”

 will be sharpened and my focus will be completely on Your Word. 

Lord Jesus, open my eyes that I may see Your Truth and that it may 

soften this heart that has been hardened and defiled by the doctrines

 of the world, doctrines that I have allowed to enter into my life

 and become the desires of a defiled heart. 

Lord create in me a clean heart like You did in David for I also claim 

You as my Shepherd and Trust You to lead me 

in paths of Righteousness for Your Name’s Sake!

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus never ceases building “precept upon precept” and we see 

that with each attack on the Character and the 

Truth of God 

that Jesus is able to take that attack and expose the attackers

 and accomplish the Mission of bringing 

God’s Truth 

back into focus in our daily lives.

 The main weapon against the enemy 

is living a life of God’s Truth 

and being consistent in how we treat others 

as Jesus demonstrates with JQ#17. 

In JQ#16 Jesus had used the attack from the Pharisees who claimed

 the disciples of Jesus were “breaking Jewish tradition” by eating 

with “unwashed hands” and Jesus Taught them that 

any tradition they observed that was not in line 

with God’s Commandments would end up in “Judgement” 

and Jesus pointed out the 

Truth of God

 that 

God is the Judge of all men 

and when Judgement Day comes 

God will be sitting in the Judgement Seat  — 

God will not use the “laws of men” 

but God will use His Commandments 

to pass Judgement on all 

to determine our right in the eyes of God 

to enter His Kingdom. 

God has established the requirements 

that will make us “legal heirs” to His Kingdom 

and that is the Standard by which God 

has declared and has made known 

through His Only Begotten Son 

whom God Resurrected from death 

and made Victorious over the grave 

and the Truth of God Taught by Jesus

 is the Only Truth 

that God will use on Judgement Day 

to separate the “wheat from the tares” 

(Matthew 13:24-30).  

As soon as Jesus had Taught the Lesson of “man’s tradition” verses

 “God’s Commandments” 

we read: 

“Then Jesus went out from there 

and departed to [another region]…” 

(Matthew 15:21) 

and there Jesus resumes doing the

 “Father’s Work” He was sent to do, 

which is what Jesus has been doing 

with His earthly Ministry all along, 

He has been healing infirmities, 

casting out demons, 

giving sight to the blind, 

raising the dead, 

and feeding the multitudes. 

Aside from the immediate individual and personal help these

 Acts of God 

accomplished, they also provided Teaching Tools 

which in the Hands of the Master Teacher

 are Miracles within themselves. 

The first healing recorded after Jesus Taught the 

“traditions of men” vs.“Commandments of God” Lesson 

was a woman who had brought her daughter who was

 “severely demon-possessed” to Him.  

This woman received her requested healing after she persisted in

 acknowledging the Power of God 

as she addressed Jesus as 

“O Lord, Son of David” 

(Matthew 15:22) 

and continued to cry out to Him and 

“then she came and worshiped Him, 

saying ‘Lord, help me!” 

(Matthew 15:25) 

The woman’s only credentials she presented to get the healing

 for her demon-possessed daughter was that she 

believed that Jesus was the Son of David 

and God’s Chosen One 

and she directed her request to the

 One that had proved by His Works 

that He was the Son of God.

 So we can see the importance of why Jesus was always doing the 

“work of the Father” 

to demonstrate to

 those that would believe that Jesus was sent by God 

would be healed by God and their sins would be forgiven! 

***

It should be noted that the first Lesson Jesus Taught after 

the “tradition vs. Commandment” Lesson 

was a Lesson about “healing” a young person that was 

“severely demon-possessed” and it is my opinion that 

when a society gets “possessed” by following “Godless laws” 

and rejecting God’s commandments, that same society is under 

some form of “demonic anti-God possession”. 

My reasoning is that rejecting God comes from a 

“personal desire to be our own God” 

and we ask the same question 

that the demons asked Jesus when they wanted 

to know what God had to do with them? 

*** 

It is a personal decision to accept living by “tradition” 

without making the assessment that if “tradition of men” 

(legal or not by whatever government passed the immoral law) 

goes against a Commandment of God or not? 

How can an individual decide to go against God’s Commandment 

just because a majority of men decide to legislate 

that it is “legal” by the government’s “authority” 

to “transgress the Commandment of God”? 

Certainly you must agree with the logic that if one chooses 

to follow man instead of following God 

that there is some form of “anti-God possession” 

that accounts for one making such a poor choice!?!?  

MAY 20 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#16 “Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?” (Matthew 15:3)

 

MAY 20  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#16 “Why do you also transgress the commandment of God 

because of your tradition?”  (Matthew 15:3)

LIVING FOR JESUS Daily Prayer   

JESUS, Lord my day does not really start

 until this time that I spend with You in prayer.  

I thank You for “prayer” and that You have promised to “hear”

 all prayers that are prayed to You 

in the Father’s Name and for the Kingdom’s Sake. 

Lord, when it seems we are all alone and the world is against us we 

hear Your encouragement to believe You have “been-there-done-that” 

and that You remind us not to let the world’s hate and rejection get to

 us because the world hated and rejected You first and You have overcome

 the world! Lord my prayer is to stay focused on You and Your Commandments 

to “not fear” and to “love others” as You showed us True Love,

 the Love You have for us even though You were hated and rejected,

 yet You died on a cross for us and then on the Third Day You rose Victorious

 from death and the grave and You reminded us

 that Your desire is for us to be with You in Your Kingdom!

 

Lord Jesus, let me live with my eyes on You 

and my heart on Your Kingdom.     

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus never let the Truth of God be swept under the carpet of “tradition”

 established by those that “lord” themselves over the general public. 

We see the same problem in our society today as was this problem

 that Jesus addressed in this part of His Ministry on earth ——— 

the problem is that when a group of self proclaimed elitist from a society

 elevates themselves above the general public and then “legislates” how the

 general public should live then they are in effect usurping the sovereignty of 

God who has already established (Commanded) 

how the whole of society should live. 

The results of abusing the trust that the general public puts in their government

 is what we see today in the form of “laws” being passed for the general public

 that actually go against the commandment of God, abortion being the

 most glaring example! It is most obvious that Jesus was addressing 

this issue when He asked the Pharisees

 

“Why do you transgress the commandment of God

 because of your tradition?” (Matthew 15:3  JQ#16) 

Jesus is pointing out that the real problem was more than just the

 “washing of hands”!  

Jesus was Teaching us the

 Truth of God that God Says what He Means

 and He Means what He Says 

and there is no reason for man 

to add to or subtract from the Commandments of God. 

There is always a group in every society that desires God’s Power

 for themselves and sadly that group tends to elevate themselves

 into government positions 

and then by the “power of legislation” in the name of “the public good” 

the governing elitist actually take away the God-given freedoms

 and liberty from the general public and create in effect

 “government slaves”.

 God intends for all men to be free and when a society uses any standard 

other than God’s standard for living a “Free” life,

 then every law established as “legal-by-man” 

that goes against a commandment of God serves as another chain 

around the neck of the society in general. 

Jesus made it clear that this was important when He 

“called the multitudes to Himself” (Matthew 15:10) 

and Taught:

 “Hear and understand: 

Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; 

but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.” 

(Matthew 15:10-11) 

Then when His disciples said the Pharisees were “offended” 

by His statement against their “Traditional laws” Jesus passed

 Divine Judgement

 on them,

 

“Every plant which My heavenly Father 

has not planted will be uprooted.” 

(Matthew 15:13) 

and then Jesus called them 

“the blind leading the blind” 

and said 

“…both will fall in a ditch!” 

(Matthew 15:14) 

When Peter then asked Jesus to “explain” what He meant, 

Jesus quickly said to Peter,

 “Are you also still without understanding? 

Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth 

goes into the stomach and is eliminated? 

But those things which proceed out of the mouth 

come from the heart, and they defile a man…” 

(Matthew 15:15-20) 

Jesus makes it clear that just because a man desires to do something 

against the commandments of God and has stolen from the general public

 the power to legislate it into “law”, that if our desires are against 

the commandments of God then those desires will defile us,

 regardless of how many generations of men accept it as “tradition” 

or how many “laws” the government passes —

 every single one of those man-made laws and traditions will 

“transgress the commandment of God” 

and will “defile” all who follow “traditions and laws” passed by man

 apart from the commandments of God! 

We are between a rock and a hard spot in America today 

because as a society we are under “government law” 

and many laws are being enforced as “tradition” 

in the form of “the law of the land” 

but in reality if

 

we are disciples of Christ, we must 

“understand” 

that any law that 

“transgresses the commandment of God” 

is not “legal” in God’s Holy Judgement 

and when God’s Judgement Comes 

do you think that we will see a copy of the U. S. Constitution 

and Bill of Rights on the table before the 

Judge of the Universe 

or perhaps we will see a simple list of the original 

Ten Commandments 

that have never been amended by the One True God?