AUGUST 25 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#27 “Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?” (Matthew 22:12)

 

AUGUST 25  THE JESUS QUESTIONS   

JQ#27 

 “Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?” 

(Matthew 22:12)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, You are worthy, You are the Holy One, You Lord and only You

 are the Way, the Truth, and the Life. What is man that God the One 

True Creator with Infinite Wisdom and Knowledge would create 

a universe of this magnitude and then create man to have dominion

 over the creation?! Why did God create only man in His image and

  endow man with the greatest of all gifts — Freewill!! God then in

 His Infinite Wisdom allowed for our shortcomings by providing 

for our Salvation through the sacrifice of Himself ——— the Creator 

giving Himself for the created!!! O Jesus, what a great Sacrifice  You

 made for a world that has so horribly abused our gifts that 

You so freely and abundantly bestowed upon us — and with our

 abusing and defiling Your Gift of Freewill we have brought shame

 upon ourselves as a consequence of our disobedience! 

Praise You O Lord, my God, my Savior. 

I pray for anointing daily from Your Holy Spirit 

that my sin against Thee will be no more!   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus was confronted as to His “authority” by the chief priests, 

religious leaders and the elders and Jesus responded by Teaching

 them in three consecutive parables that only God has “authority”!

 The first parable was about a man asking his two sons to go work

 in a vineyard, the second parable was about a landowner that built

 a vineyard and leased it to vinedressers who refused to give the

 landowner his rightful “fruits” and the vinedressers not only refused

 to surrender to the landowner his rightful dues but they killed, beat, 

and stoned the landowner’s servants who came on the landowner’s

 “authority” when they tried to collect from the landowner’s vinedressers. 

When the landowner sent his son to the vinedressers they killed 

the son as well. The second parable was prophetic of the purpose

 of Jesus being in Jerusalem on this Passover and it was also 

God’s judgement on the chief priests and religious rulers 

that refused to accept Jesus as 

Messiah at which point Jesus pronounced, 

“Therefore I say to you,

 the kingdom of God will be taken from you [Israel] 

and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it.” 

(Matthew 21:43) 

The chief priests and the Pharisees which Jesus had been 

in confrontation with throughout His earthly ministry 

“perceived that He was speaking of them” 

and instead of repenting, they 

“sought to lay hands on Him”. 
(Matthew 21:45-46) 

Jesus continued teaching them by parables as He gave them

 the 3rd parable 

“The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king who arranged 

a marriage for his son…” 

(Matthew 22:1-2) 

Jesus has now used parables that include 

(P1) a man who sent his sons into his vineyard to work and asked 

the Question “Which of the two sons did the will of the father?”, 

(P2) a landowner that built a vineyard and leased it to vinedressers

 who did not meet the obligations of the “lease” and actually killed 

the landowners son, and now Jesus presents 

(P3) the third parable that ties all three together and adds 

additional impact to the Question: 

Where does authority originate from, heaven or men? 

In the third parable Jesus starts out with 

“the kingdom of heaven” which is clearly where True Authority 

comes from and then Jesus says that heaven is like a “certain king” 

and announces that the king “arranged a marriage for his son” 

which brings in the traditions of Abraham and Isaac and the start of 

the nation of Israel through the twelve sons of Jacob. Surely all the

 chief priests and religious leaders that spent all their time studying

 the Holy Scriptures had to see that Jesus is painting a picture of 

God the Father arranging the Marriage 

of His Only Begotten Son, 

the Messiah!!! 

The parable continued as the 

“certain king” [God] sent out his servants [God’s prophets]

 to call those that were invited to the wedding [Israel], 

and they were not willing to come.” (Matthew 22:3) 

 It seems hard to believe that the religious rulers could not see that the

 work Jesus was doing could only be done through and by the

 True Power and Authority of God 

just as Nicodemus had said upon observing the miracles that

 Jesus was doing among the people, 

“Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; 

for no one can do these signs that You do 

unless God is with Him.” (John 3:2) 

Even with seeing the works of Jesus and knowing that He was sent

 from God they were nonetheless blinded to

 

The Truth of God 

that Jesus is God’s Only Begotten Son 

and the “Chosen One”, 

the Messiah. 

Our generation has all the 

God-Breathed Holy Scriptures and a “cloud of witnesses” 

that Jesus is the Son of God but we are blinded by our 

“selfish desires” and we too are 

“not willing to come [to the wedding feast” 

— when will we ever learn?

AUGUST 24 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#26 “Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those called to labor for him?” (Matthew 21:40)

 

AUGUST 24  THE JESUS QUESTIONS   

JQ#26

  “Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, 

what will he do to those called to labor for him?”  

(Matthew 21:40)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer   

JESUS, Giver of Life, You alone are Worthy — Lord, it would be more

 than enough for You to provide Salvation for us but when we 

consider “How” and “Why” You provided that most precious

 Gift of ETERNAL LIFE, it is truly more than we can begin to understand.

 Lord Jesus, for You to come down from Your Glory in Heaven to this 

sin-filled earth is one thing, but to descend from Your Deity to take 

on flesh is beyond comprehension — add to that mix that You chose 

to be born of a woman and then to live a perfect example, not as a king

 or ruler but as a “servant” and then to take that Perfection and use 

it as the DIVINE Perfect Sacrifice for the sins of the world — O Lord,

 we shall never in this mortal body and limited intellect know, but when 

You give us our glorified bodies and we take on the 

TRUE MIND OF CHRIST, 

then we will finally understand and then 

THROUGHOUT ALL ETERNITY

 we will give to You all praise and Glory due to the

 ONE THAT DIED TO REDEEM OUR LOST SOULS!!!!!   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus is living and Teaching His last week on earth in Jerusalem

 where He has made His Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem as the Son

 of David and His first order of business was to clean out the temple of 

God which had become a “den of thieves” and Jesus re-established 

the temple as a “house of prayer”. Jesus immediately was confronted 

by the religious rulers who did not question His “works” ——

— however, they were indignant that Jesus had not come to get 

permission from them so they questioned His “authority” — 

obviously these “rulers” were blinded by their 

self-assumed authority and missed the

 Truth of God 

that only God had the power to do miracles 

and healing and that these miraculous works of God was 

being accomplished through Jesus, 

the Chosen One under 

the leadership of the Holy Spirit 

in the temple at Jerusalem 

right before their eyes, with their permission or not!!! Jesus went right

 to the point of correcting their mistakes and He started with returning

 their question of “authority” by pointing out that

 ALL AUTHORITY AND POWER COMES FROM GOD 

— If there were no God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob there 

would be no Israel, no City of David and no Temple of God

 and all the “rulers” would have NO authority whatsoever

 outside the existence of God! 

When the “rulers” continued their confrontation, Jesus then began

 to Teach with parables as only the Master Teacher could do.

 Just as Jesus had taught by the 

“the-baptism-of-John”  Question 

the Truth of God 

that ALL SIN is against the True Authority of God 

and that God will “Judge” all that do not “Repent”!!! 

(Matthew 21:28-32)

 

Jesus is now using the parable of the two sons to continue

 the Lesson — as a continuation of His Lessons to the “rulers” Jesus 

goes immediately into the next parable as He said to them, 

“Hear another parable: 

There was a certain landowner

 who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, 

dug a winepress in it and built a tower. 

And he leased it to vinedressers 

and went into a far country.” 

(Matthew 21:33) 

Keep in mind to whom Jesus is “Teaching” and what “Lesson” He

 will convey with these 3 parables Taught in succession — 

for these three parables all address the issue 

of how we should respond to the

 True Authority of God! 

 Oswald Chambers in his commentary on SEPTEMBER 22

 (from the journal “My Utmost for His Highest”) really nails what

 the whole problem really is with not only “rulers” but with everyone

 who denies the reality of God and His Perfect Plan of Salvation

 as Oswald writes: 

“To have a master and teacher is not the same thing 

as being mastered and taught. 

Having a master and teacher means that there is

 someone who knows me better that I know myself, who is closer 

than a friend, and who understands the remotest depths of my 

heart and is able to satisfy them fully. 

It means having someone who has made me 

secure in the knowledge that he has met and solved 

all the doubts, uncertainties, and problems in my mind.

 To have a master and teacher is this and nothing less

—for One is your Teacher, the Christ…” 

(Matthew 23:8) 

Jesus is “Teaching” in Matthew 21-22 through parables about 

“True Authority and Lordship” 

and then in Matthew 23 He sums up the “why and how” for all who 

will listen and allow themselves to be “Taught” by the “Master”.

 The question each of us must ask ourselves is 

“Are we willing to be taught by the Master 

who is the One True Lord of Life?” ——— 

Jesus immediately started the second parable but where the first

 parable established the penalty for not obeying the father, the 

second parable is prophetic as He summed up the 

history of Israel and the hope of the Messiah 

as Jesus said that the landowner planted

 a vineyard and equipped it with everything they needed to have 

a good crop and a good living and then he 

“leased” the vineyard and  “went into a far country”. 

Jesus has been telling His disciples

 that He was going to be betrayed into the hands of men and He 

would be crucified and buried 

but on the third day He would be “resurrected” 

and Jesus repeats that prophecy of His death as 

He teaches in this prophetic parable that when the

 “vintage time drew near” that the landowner sent 

servants (prophets) and vinedressers (religious rulers)

 “beat one, killed one, and stoned the other…” 

(Matthew 21:35)

 then the landowner finally sent his son saying 

“they will respect my son…”

 (Matthew 21:37) 

Jesus then predicts His death as He continued,

 “the vinedressers said among themselves,

 ‘This is the heir.

 Come let us kill him and seize his inheritance.’” 

(Matthew 21:38) 

Jesus then asked JQ#25 

“Therefore when the owner of the vineyard comes, 

what will he do to those vinedressers?”

 (Matthew 21:40). 

Once again the religious rulers gave the obvious answer

 that the landowner would 

“destroy those wicked men miserably, and 

lease his vineyard to other vinedressers who will render to 

him the fruits in their seasons.” 

(Matthew 21:41) 

Jesus then let the scriptures pronounce the religious rulers fate 

as He quoted from the Psalms: 

“The stone which the builders rejected

 has become the chief cornerstone. 

This was the LORD’s doing, 

and it is marvelous

 in our eyes…” 

(Psalm 118:22-23) (Matthew 21:42). 

Then Jesus let the ax fall on the Sanhedrin and all the “religious rulers” 

of Israel that had rejected Him as the Son of God 

as Jesus gives His final judgement:

 “Therefore I say to you, 

the kingdom of God will be taken from you 

and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it.” 

(Matthew 21:43)

 This parable about the landowner really hit home because 

“Now when the chief priest and Pharisees 

heard His parable, 

they perceived that He was speaking of them.” 

(Matthew 21:45) 

But even though they could answer the obvious Question 

they could not see the prophetic picture 

of God coming back to His Creation and

 will require an accounting of all that He has called into His labors 

— The question we must ask ourselves is:

 

“Have we been doing everything 

we should have been doing

 to render to God 

the ‘fruits in their season’?”