OCTOBER 21 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#31 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?” (Matthew 24:45)

 

OCTOBER 21  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#31 

“Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master

 made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?” 

 (Matthew 24:45)

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer    

JESUS, ALL Praise, Glory, and Honor is due to the Name above all 

names, the Holy, Holy Name of Jesus! Lord Jesus, You alone are the 

King of kings and Lord of lords and the Master of my soul. Lord, You and

 you alone are the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Only through belief in You

 will TRUTH be revealed to us so Lord I pray that I will draw closer to You

 each day as I try desperately to separate myself from my worldly 

desires and seek only Your Spiritual Gifts that You so abundantly provide,

 gifts that free us from our physical desires of the flesh and reveals to us

 the TRUTH OF GOD! Lord, these Spiritual Gifts can only be received

 when we put our TRUST in You and Your Plans and abandon ours. 

Lord, I pray that our family puts all our TRUST in You and abandons 

ourselves to Your service so that You can use us in a mighty way for

 the “kingdom’s sake” — Lord I am TRUSTING You completely in every

 phase of my life  and pray that the family can come to see Your Love 

and start uttering in their prayers “ABBA FATHER” — and pray as 

I pray, “Give us this day our daily bread.”   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus admonished us at the start of this new Lesson to 

consider the “Fig Tree” as He said, “Now learn…” 

which is also saying that we should consider 

what He has just been Teaching and then build upon the understanding

 of the last Lesson and come to a deeper revelation of the Truth of God. 

Jesus had just been Teaching “signs” about the “end of the age”

 and His “Coming Again” but let us not miss the obvious Truth that Jesus

 is telling us that there  WILL BE   an “end of the age”— and in

 order for Him to “Return” that He must first leave, and this being

 His Last Passover Week on earth, these statements reveal that 

God has a Plan and that Plan includes Jesus having to go away,

 fulfilling the prophecy that only Jesus as the Messiah and the 

Sacrificial Lamb of God, Spotless and Without Blame, could fulfill

 the Word of God. These WORDS OF PROPHECY were spoken at 

the “initiation” of the Passover when God was giving instructions

 to Moses to give to the congregation of Israel on what to do

 to make the “death angel” “pass over” them:

 “Speak to all the congregation 

of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month every man shall take

 for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, 

a lamb for a household…your lamb shall be without blemish…

a male of the first year (a first born male) …then the whole 

assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight.’” 

(Exodus 12:1-7) 

Jesus made His Triumphal Entry at the beginning of the Passover Week 

and His first order of business was “cleaning the temple”, demonstrating

 that the nation had brought judgment upon themselves because they had

 moved away from God and were following the “doctrines of men” — 

further proof that they had come under judgment was demonstrated by 

Jesus cursing the Fig Tree (the Fig tree represents the “congregation

 of Israel” and those God had made “rulers” over Israel and God’s

 “house” in Jerusalem) and clearly telling the nation Israel that God 

was removing Himself and giving His kingdom to another nation 

that bears kingdom fruit. “Now” Jesus is building on those Lessons 

and directs our attention to signs — and again Jesus uses the Fig Tree

 and takes us on a different viewpoint as He leads up to His next question: 

“Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made 

ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?”  

(Matthew 24:45) 

Our attention goes from “signs” to consideration of “service, 

faithfulness, and wisdom” as Jesus reveals the 

Truth of God that “rulers” are “made rulers” 

only by the “master” making it so!  

Moses, the one chosen by God to lead Israel out of bondage, was 

“made ruler” by God — (freedom from bondage is what the 

Passover Week is all about), David was “made king” of Judah by God 

and then Jerusalem was made the capitol of the kingdom of Judah 

because God “made” David victorious over the Canaanites — 

a Promise which God had made to Israel on their way

 to the Promised Land of Canaan that 

“the [Great I AM] LORD GOD of your fathers, 

the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob… has visited you and 

has seen what is done to you in Egypt; and I have said I will bring 

you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites…” 

(Exodus 3:16-17)   

So now Jesus is going to give us instructions on how

 to prevent being cursed to hell by the ““death angel” that will “pass over”

 the whole earth in “judgment” at the “end of the age” and it will center 

around the “Blood” of the “Passover Lamb” that was shed for the sins

 of the world which will fulfill God’s Master Plan for the world!!! 

This is a good time then to consider who is your “Master” and do you 

plan to “apply the blood” of the “Passover Lamb” like God instructed 

all those that had to face the “death angel” in Egypt

 and had ignored God when He said,

 

“I will execute judgment.

 I AM the LORD. 

Now the blood 

shall be a sign for you 

on all the houses where you are. 

When I see the blood, 

I will pass over you.” 

(Exodus 12:12-13) 

All of this ties in nicely to Jesus making the statement in His question 

“…whom his master made ruler over his household…” 

so Jesus is bringing together all the history of Israel with the 

Great I AM God 

of their fathers, freedom from bondage, and the

 Truth of God that God Himself is the MASTER 

and it is God Himself 

that makes us “rulers over [our] own households” 

and God expects us to be responsible in taking care of our family 

as God leads all families to the Promised Land ——— 

“all these things APPLY TODAY” ——— 

so “now” you probably should

 consider the

 “wisdom” and rewards 

of “faithfully serving” 

God 

or do you not fear 

the Promised Judgment!?

OCTOBER 20 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#31 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?” (Matthew 24:45)

 

OCTOBER 20  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#31 

“Who then is a faithful and wise servant, 

whom his master made ruler over his household, 

to give them food in due season?”  

(Matthew 24:45)

OCTOBER 20  LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Lord we do pray to be wise and faithful servants, but only

 to the All-Wise and Forever-Faithful God who has proven Himself 

Faithful and True to us, a Loving God who demonstrated that He  

“so loved the world” that He gave His Only Begotten Son to be 

the Acceptable Sacrificial “Lamb of God” for the atonement of all sin. 

Lord let us realize that it is sin that separates us from Your Wisdom 

and divides our desires thereby decreasing our “faithfulness to God”

 which leaves us a slave to sin and to self. Lord, it is a daily struggle 

and sin daily saps our strength of spirit and loss of spirit can only 

be renewed by the indwelling of Your Holy Spirit — Lord I pray for

 forgiveness where I fail You each and every day because I always

 drift away from the Shelter of God’s Grace in the Still Waters of 

Your Peace and I let the secular winds blow me back to the world 

and myself — both of which are naturally servants to sin and 

faithful only to self. Lord I know that if, and only if, 

“the Son makes you free” that then, and only then, I can truly

 be free of self and my slavery to the world.  Never before have

 I written this ——— with my heart so focused on  Jesus ——— 

“ I LOVE YOU LORD”!!!!   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus asks with JQ#31 a Question that on the surface seems simple — 

but if we fail to look below the obvious outer layer of the Question 

we will fall victim to our natural prejudices that have been ingrained 

in us by the secular world. For instance, many may find it 

“below” their “privileged status” to consider themselves as 

“servants” to anyone or anything because they have bought into

 the mantra, “I am the Captain of my Soul” and sing at the top of 

their secular voice “I Did It My Way”. Surely these secular dogmas of

 “self” are superior to being a “servant” — or could you already be

 enslaved to a secular society that has placed invisible chains around

 your initiative and imprisoned you to a lifetime of progressive

 secularism that is devoted to self-promotion from which there is no 

freedom — being devoted entirely to self meets all the criteria of 

the true definition of slavery! If we do not look at “Who?” is asking the

 Question, “When and Where?” the Question was asked, 

and take into serious consideration “Why?” the Question was even

 asked (i.e., the context of the Question) and “What?” could Jesus 

possibly want to Teach us by asking such a humiliating simple Question,

 then you will forever remain in your secular shackles! 

 Let us first look 

at “Who?” is asking the question — Answer: 

Jesus Christ, the Messiah, the Son of the Living God. 

(Need any more references — I’ll give you one more, 

Jesus is my personal Lord and Savior!) 

Next we must consider “When and Where?”

 the Question was asked: Answer(s): “When?” — The Last Week of 

Jesus being on earth to bring salvation to a world that was moving 

away from God — further His Last Week was the Passover Week:

 the major Jewish spring festival that commemorates the liberation

 of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery and “Where?” — in Jerusalem, 

the City of David where the temple of the Living God was built by

 King David’s son Solomon who was considered the wisest person 

to ever live and who built the temple for the Living God to reside in 

and it was God that gave Solomon his wisdom and it was God

 that gave David victories over his enemies and gave David the city

 of Jerusalem which became the capital of the ancient kingdom of Judah. 

The common meaning of “Jerusalem” is “The City of Peace”. 

To understand “Why?” Jesus asked the Question and to understand 

“What?” Jesus is trying to Teach us, we must look at the Question 

itself and listen to what Jesus tells us about being a good servant,

 not from the viewpoint of the secular world, but from God’s 

own heart and Compassion.

God’s Great Compassion for His Creation is demonstrated 

by God freeing the Israelites from Egyptian bondage and 

instituted the Passover Feast and culminating with this 

particular Passover Feast in which God’s Only Begotten Son

 will become the Sacrificial Lamb of God thereby bringing

 salvation from the bondage of sin to everyone that believes 

the Living God and His Only Begotten Son would love the

 world so much that They ( the TRINITY) 

 would go to such great extent to prove

 Their Love for a lost and dying world!

 Until you understand that when you become a “servant of God”

 that only then will you be the “master of your household” 

and only then you can truly begin to understand why 

“servanthood” to the GOD OF HEAVEN 

is better than being 

“King of the secular world”!!!!!!!!!!!!