JUNE 18 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#19 “For what profit is it to man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?” (Matthew 16:26)

 

JUNE 18  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#19  “For what profit is it to man 

if he gains the whole world, 

and loses his own soul?” 

(Matthew 16:26)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, what Blessed Thought that before the Creation 

our future was planned even before time itself began — 

and to think that our future is 

a product of the Mind of God 

because His Heart was so filled with Compassion

 for His Creation that His Plan for all mankind

 included a Path of Light

 back to the Creator for those He Loved. 

Such Great Love for all mankind 

yet His own would not “receive” His gift!?!?  

Lord Jesus, forgive me

 for the many times I have chosen

 to reside in the darkness of my sin 

and shun the “Light” of Your Salvation — 

Lord I have strayed so many times 

and I admit that I have used Your Gift of Free Will

 to purposefully get “lost” 

and I am among those that “loved darkness” 

and did not want to find Your Path of Light 

but walked in the shadows

 to self-destruction. 

Lord Jesus, keep my eyes always on Your Light, 

keep my feet always on Your Path, 

that I may know Your Joy in my heart ——— 

as  I pray right now in the depths of my desires

 that my soul will always be humble

 and repentant before the Just and Righteous God!!!            

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus wraps up the Lesson here just as He began this 

“soul-searching” Question

 that brings our attention to the eventuality of our 

“physical death” and the “spiritual judgment”. 

Jesus began the JQ#19 Lesson

 by announcing to His disciples that He must

 “be killed and be raised the third day” 

and when He gets their undivided attention, Jesus then 

directs His disciples to consider that each individual 

has a “soul” and that there will come a judgment of that “soul”

 by the Creator of all “souls”. 

 Until we as individuals recognize that there is nothing 

of earthly value that can be “exchanged” for our “souls” 

which are “eternal” by the design of the Creator, 

then we can never know the Great Price

 paid for our Redemption.  

The Creator designed “eternity” into our existence 

but the Creator also designed our physical bodies with an “expiration date” 

and at the time of our “physical” death of our body,

 our “soul” is immediately in the Presence of the Creator,

 who as the CREATOR AND CONSTANT MONITOR of our “soul” 

will know if we used 

God’s Gift of Free Will 

given to each individual “soul” 

to become one of His children or not!?!?! 

Jesus made this clear when He asked 

“…what will man give in exchange for his soul?” 

(Matthew 16:26) 

and then Jesus immediately said that the 

“Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father” 

and “will reward each according to his works” 

(Matthew 16:27). 

Jesus illustrated this six days later 

as Peter, James, and John his brother saw Jesus

“transfigured before them” 

as Jesus was transformed instantly and 

“His face shone like the sun, 

and His clothes became white as the light.” 

(Matthew 17:1-2) {{See also Genesis 1:3}} 

 This was a visual Example of what Jesus 

had just Taught about the

 “soul” 

being eternal and would leave our “physical” body 

and enter our “spiritual” form and be in the 

“glory [presence] of the [Creator] Father” 

and the fact that the disciples “recognized” 

both Moses and Elijah 

(who had been dead hundreds of years)

 is proof that all “souls” are “eternal” 

and we will have “spiritual understanding” 

of all things because how could the disciples 

recognize men that had been dead for hundreds of years ??? —

 we know there were no photos taken of Moses and Elijah

 so how on “earth” could the disciples know Moses and Elijah

 without God imparting this knowledge to their 

“spiritual eyes”? 

After Peter suggested that “three tabernacles” be erected to honor

 Jesus, Moses, and Elijah, the voice of God spoke to them:

 “This is My beloved Son, 

in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him.” 

(Matthew 17:5) 

The disciples were “greatly afraid” for they knew they were 

wrong about erecting temples to anyone other than God Almighty 

“But Jesus came and touched them and said, 

‘Arise, and do not be afraid.” 

(Matthew 17:7) 

Jesus then instructed the disciples to wait to share the vision after 

“the Son of Man is risen from the dead” 

(Matthew 17:9) 

and Jesus concluded this Lesson by correcting wrong doctrine 

that had been taught to the disciples by

 the tradition of their elders through the scribes. 

Then just as Jesus had begun the Lesson 

talking about His upcoming death,

 Jesus ended the Lesson by identifying those that would cry

 “crucify Him” 

as Jesus told the disciples that

 “the Son of Man is also about to suffer at their hands.” 

thereby revealing to the disciples that 

God’s Plan for His Son would culminate 

in the Death of the Only Begotten Son 

fulfilling the words of Abraham to Isaac,

 “God will provide the lamb.” 

(Genesis 22:8) 

but God would also demonstrate 

to all mankind His Supreme Power, 

for God would Resurrect the Son on the Third Day 

and then all mankind would have the Gospel — 

The Truth of God of the Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection 

of the Beloved Son of God, Jesus Christ!!!! 

Can you think of a more important Lesson 

and Truth for God to impart on “all who believe”? 

JUNE 17 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#19 “For what profit is it to man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?” (Matthew 16:26)

 

JUNE 17  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#19  “For what profit is it to man if he gains the whole world, 

and loses his own soul?” (Matthew 16:26)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

Jesus, thank You Lord for Your Word which is the Word of Life 

and only Your Words are of “life” to sustain our physical body 

and of “eternal life” to sustain our soul.

 Lord, Your Words speak volumes but Your Life and Perfect Example

 Teach us so much more and I Praise You for the Perfect Example 

of “actions-speak-louder-than-words” TRUTH!!! 

 Lord Jesus, my prayer is that everything I both do and say 

will be a Glory and Honor to Your Life which You lived 

to the Glory of God Almighty, our Father who abides forever in Heaven

 and wills that all men would be drawn to the Father through the Son,

 the Only Begotten Son, 

who paid the Ultimate Price 

for our Freedom from the slavery of sin!     

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus is the Master Teacher not only because He possesses

 Unlimited Knowledge that cannot be fathomed by the finite mind of mankind

 but aside from His Divine Knowledge

 the Lord Jesus Taught by the Perfect Example

 of Living His Life to Honor the Father and then pointing us to His Life 

and Teaching what He Lived in the form of Life Lessons

 which He Taught by asking us Questions that could always be answered

 by observing the way He Lived His Life while in the flesh! 

There is no Greater Sacrifice than Jesus giving up His Heavenly Glory to

 “become flesh and to dwell among us” (John 1:14) 

with the expressed purpose of coming into the world to fulfill the Father’s Will,

 “for God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world,

 but that the world through Him might be saved” (John 3:17) 

and we often miss the Divine Fact that Jesus lived the example

 of Abraham and Isaac being obedient to God 

as both Abraham and Isaac prepared the altar together

 for the Sacrifice Commanded of God and 

JESUS

 fulfilled the scripture that said

 “God Himself will provide the Lamb…” 

(Genesis 22:8) !  

We know that it was the Life of Jesus that the Scripture was foretelling because

 John the Baptist, who was the “witness” sent from God to testify 

that it was Jesus that is the “Light” and it is that “Light” 

that is the “life of all mankind” 

(John 1:6-9) 

that was proclaimed loudly by John when he saw 

Jesus, “Behold the Lamb of God 

that takes away the sins of the world…” 

(John 1:29) 

The overlooked Truth of God is 

that God promised the Messiah, 

God declared what the Messiah was to accomplish, 

and then “God so loved world” that God 

fulfilled His Holy Scripture with the 

Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection of His Only Begotten Son, 

Jesus Christ, the Messiah made flesh!!! 

That is the Gospel and the greatest part of the Gospel is that

 “God so loved the world” 

that He gave us JESUS and that Jesus so Loved the Father

 that Jesus was Obedient unto the Fulfillment of all Scripture

 by willingly accepting that He MUST DIE ON THE CROSS, 

then Jesus “Lived” the Perfect Example 

and Jesus “Died” the Perfect Example 

and through His “Life” and “Death” Jesus gave us the Perfect Example

 of the “WAY” to the Father and Eternal Life 

demonstrated by His Burial and Resurrection!!! 

Jesus with His Question about considering our “soul” 

and what we may “exchange” for it was saying in effect,

 “If you follow MY EXAMPLE 

then you will know the way to the Father and Eternal Life”

 and the Question and the Answer Produce the Results of Eternal Life 

for ALL who believe in the 

Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ 

living and dying the Perfect Example, just as God has proclaimed 

through the prophets. Jesus introduced JQ#19 with the announcement that

 “He [The Messiah] must suffer…

be killed…

and be raised the third day…” in Matthew 16:21 

and then He asks the Question in Matthew 16:26

 but as soon as He asked the Question, as always Jesus explains the answer:

 “For the Son of Man [The Messiah] 

will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, 

and then He will reward 

each according to his works.” 

(Matthew 16:27)  

Then Jesus continued this most important 

Lesson of Teaching-by-Example as He takes

 “Peter, James, and John his brother…

and led them up on a high mountain by themselves; 

and He was transfigured before them. 

His face shone like the sun, 

and His clothes became as white as the light. 

And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, 

talking with [Jesus].” 

(Matthew 17:1-3) 

Surely no words could express to the disciples and to all of His followers

 what they saw that day in the “life” of Jesus 

that proved that Jesus is

 

“[The Messiah] the Beloved of the Father” 

and that the eternal future of all mankind 

rests with the belief or rejection of Jesus!  

There is no “WAY” to the Father

 except through the Son ——— 

are you on the Path

 that leads to the Narrow Gate?