MARCH 6 The Jesus Questions

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

March 6 / Day 7 

365 Prayers to JESUS

Jesus, today is a special day for our Sunday School as we will have the parents of our students joining our class and my prayer is that Your Holy Spirit will abound in our classroom and teach all of us as only You can! Lord, what a privilege to sit under Your teaching with these children and open Your Bible and let Your Spirit guide us through Your Word, Your Eternal, Matchless, Life-giving Word! Lord, I pray now for the parents to see the importance of their influence in the lives of their children to bring their child to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ!

The Jesus Questions

JQ#2 Matthew 5:41- 6:4 (Context) — JQ#2 Matthew 5:45,46,47 (Question): Today we will move from JQ#1 question about “salt” losing its flavor to the next question that Jesus asked; remember as you study what Sharon Anderson so astutely states, “Context is king”. It is imperative that we read the context around each question and in doing so it becomes obvious to even the casual reader that Jesus is a Master Teacher and as such we must understand that when Jesus asks a question He is not looking for knowledge from the student. When Jesus asks His question He is making a common sense statement that if one really wants to learn the TRUTH then one must answer within themselves the questions that are asked to see if we are listening to the answer! Jesus never spoke without teaching as every breath, every step, every moment of silence, every action Jesus made, all were lessons Jesus was teaching us in how we are to live our lives by following His Perfect Example! Jesus became flesh and dwelt among us for a reason, and He had a purpose for being born in a manger and growing up as “one of us” yet He lived without sin! How did He do it? Jesus accomplished this because He knew the Father’s Will for His life and was Obedient to do that which the Father had taught Him. Jesus told this to His disciples just before going into the upper room for His final Passover, “For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak. And I know that His command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told Me, so I speak.” (John 12:49-50). Our study of the questions that Jesus asked should be studied from this specific viewpoint: “If Jesus asks a question He is engaging us to dig deeper to learn the TRUTH because He is trying to teach us what the Father taught Him, and the result of our efforts will be ‘everlasting life’” We should never take anything Jesus said lightly because in His own words, Jesus is speaking only the words that the Father God in Heaven spoke to Him and then sent Him to earth to speak those words from God to us! We should be in AWE of these words spoken by Jesus and exclaim as even His enemies did who heard Him: “The officers answered, “No man ever spoke like this Man!” (John 7:46). Let us then consider the next lesson/question(s) Jesus spoke in Matthew 5:45-47 and dig deep because every word spoken by Jesus is a Kingdom Treasure.