MARCH 26 The Jesus Questions

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

March 26 / Day 27

365 Prayers to JESUS

Jesus, Precious Jesus, thank you for the visit from the Holy Spirit on this Easter weekend and the reminder that yesterday was Good Friday and what that means to the world and its great impact of our eternity — but mostly for the Great Sacrifice You made and the Suffering You endured for my sake! Lord Jesus and as I think about all You have done for me I am also reminded by the Spirit that part of that Suffering was to be in the grave and experience death for us! Just like You experienced life for us by being born of the flesh, You also have experience death for us, and not just death but the worst death imaginable so that You can Truly say “I know what you’re going through and Rejoice I have won in life and now I am Victorious in death! Praise be the Name Jesus the Christ.  

The Jesus Questions

JQ#6 - We have started a new section for JQ#6 in Matthew 7:15-28 which actually contains two questions, but if the section is studied in context, both questions are essentially the same, just asked at different angles which Jesus always does to get us to think more completely about the lesson He is trying to teach us. As I studied this section I see that it is broken into 3 sections. Section 1 is verses 15-20 and deals with “false prophets”, Section 2 is verses 21-23 and deals with false profession of who our “Lord” really is, and Section 3 is verses 24-27 and is a parable of two builders and warns us to build our lives on the True Foundation that is the “solid rock” and not on a false foundation that is the ever-changing sands of humanism. There is one key phrase that the Holy Spirit pointed out to me today that pulls this all together and that is where Jesus is teaching the parable of the two builders and in the middle of His teaching He says: “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand…” (Matthew 7:26) This verse spoke to me and said that if we “listen and hear” Jesus and study His “sayings” then we will not fall for “false prophets” nor profess anyone but Jesus Himself as “Lord” and we will not be guilty of having “prophesied” in any name but the Name of Jesus. And lastly the obvious: if we build our life on the “Rock” that we will have a True Shelter in time of storm. Read this passage again with these thoughts win mind and see if Matthew 7:15-27 is not 3 sides to the same issue of being a True Christian, for we can only truly be a Christian if we listen, live, and follow Jesus the Christ, and Him Only! From this viewpoint we can give Jesus the obvious answer to His two questions found in this section: (1) JQ#6a — “Do men gather grapes from thorn bushes or figs from thistles?” (Matthew 7:16) and (2) JQ#6b — “Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord,Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name , cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’” (Matthew 7:22) To fully answer this question we must also recall that during one Passover in Jerusalem and performing many signs and wonders and many believed in Him because the saw “signs” we read: “but Jesus did not commit Himself to them, because He knew all men, and had no need that anyone should testify of man, for He knew what was in man.” (John 2:24-25) Therefore we should be very careful to build our Spiritual Life on the solid “Rock”!