OCTOBER 02 THE JESUS QUESTIONS
JQ#29
“What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?”
(Matthew 22:42)
LIVING FOR JESUS Daily Prayer
JESUS, Lord I praise You today as I read in Your
“High Priestly Intercessory Prayer” found in the Seventeenth Chapter
of the Gospel of John that You prayed to the Father on our behalf
just before You were Sacrificed as the Lamb of God!
In that Prayer You revealed Two Amazing Truths of God
that jumped out and proved to me that
God’s PLAN OF SALVATION
was the TRUTH
even BEFORE CREATION!!!
First Lord You acknowledged to the Father that
“the hour has come” (John 17:1)
- which means that before the hour had come it must have first
been planned in advance for this hour to come) and then
“I have finished the work which
You have given Me to do” (John 17:4)
which means
the PLAN OF SALVATION came from the FATHER
and that the SON has COMPLETED it!!!)
but the real eye-opener was when You said,
“And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself,
with the glory which I had with You before the world was.”
(John 17:5)
LORD, to think that You and the Father had the
PLAN OF SALVATION
in place “before the world was” is indeed MIND BLOWING!!!
Thank You Lord for (1) having a PLAN OF SALVATION in place BEFORE
You CREATED the world and (2) that the PLAN OF SALVATION
is now “finished” —
GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME
— and now I can say with
SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING —
GOD WAS GOOD BEFORE TIME BEGAN!!!
AMEN
THE JESUS QUESTIONS
Jesus has been Teaching about the “Seven Woes” of falling into the
world’s trap of “hypocrisy”. Jesus has pointed out that “hypocrisy”
will cause “spiritual blindness” which will prevent us from coming
to the “Light” and we will live our lives in “darkness” and suffer
the “condemnation” of not believing
“in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
(John 3:18)
Jesus is now going to wrap up His “Seven Woes” to the scribes
and Pharisees which apply to everyone that chooses to “self-indulge”
in the “doctrines of men” instead of the “self-discipline” of following
the “Commands of God”.
Jesus has made a separate point with each of the previous 6 “Woes”
and each “Woe” has contained a specific
“Truth of God”
but the “Seventh Woe” contains a detailed list of the fruits of
“hypocrisy" and the dire “Consequences” of having made the
“Choice” to follow the “doctrines and traditions of men”
instead of allowing themselves to be
“led by God Himself”!
WOE #7
“Woe #7” contains very clear language from Jesus that shows
that God is justified in sending His Only Begotten Son to address
the “spiritual virus” that is “blinding” the entire nation of Israel and
the entire world! Jesus makes two statements that summarizes
“Woe #7”
(S1) “Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves…”
(Matthew 23:31)
and
(S2) “Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape
the condemnation of hell?”
(Matthew 23:33)
These two statements point to the Truth of God that there will
be a “Final Judgement” and that God will judge us according
to our deeds. In “Woe #7” Jesus shows how “serious” that the sin
of “hypocrisy” is in our lives because the
“Consequence” of our “Choice” of “hypocrisy”
is “the condemnation of hell”!!!
Jesus could not make it any clearer
and could not have said it any plainer —
The “Consequence”
of rejecting the Commands of God
will result in our “self-condemnation”
and our eternal souls will spend eternity
separated from the Goodness of God!!!
“Woe #7” is a wake up call that God knows everything we do
and that there will be a “Final Judgement”
where the Truth of our lives is revealed by the
“Light of the Truth of God”
and our own actions will either be rewarded by
Eternal Fellowship with God Himself in Heaven
or Eternal Condemnation in “Hell”
separated from God with NO HOPE!?!?!?!?
Surely no one would choose to be eternally separated from God?!?!?
— however, Jesus did mention that following the
“traditions and doctrines of men” would make you
“Fools and blind!”!!!
There will be ONE Question that God,
the Supreme Judge,
will ask you at the Final Judgement:
“What do you think of the Christ?
Whose Son is He?”
(Matthew 23:42)
You now have “THE Question” so it would be wise for you to have
an “answer” for God prepared before it is to late!?!?!?!?
Heaven is a “Choice”
that can only be made by the living,
the dead will be judged on the
“CHOICES”
they made as they had lived
the life that God had provided for them —
and the
“Consequence of their eternity”
will be determined by whatever “CHOICES” they made with their
“God-given Freewill”
a blessing of “Eternal” life with God
or
a curse of “Eternal” death separated from God,
but the Truth of God is that you must make your “Choice” while alive
for when you are dead,
you have to accept the “Consequence” that God had already
assigned to our actions as part of
GOD’S PLAN OF SALVATION,
and remember — the PLAN OF SALVATION
was in place even before
God created us in the first place
