MAY 15 Summary Review SRJQ#1-13 (Day 2) The Jesus Questions

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

MAY  15    SUMMARY REVIEW OF THE JESUS QUESTIONS    JQ#1-13

365 Prayers to JESUS 

Jesus, another day that You have “graced” us with and another day of praises for the King of kings and Lord of lords. Jesus, my prayer on this day is that Your Spirit will be upon all believers so powerfully that we will unite in one voice and one “Hope” as we pray for Your Kingdom to come, on earth as it is in heaven! Lord Jesus, each day I pray for my eyes to be opened but today I pray for our hearts to be united in Your Love, the only True Love, given unconditionally to all that would believe that it was Love that put You on the Cross, Love that put You in a Grave, and Love that Conquered Death, and it was in Perfect Love that You were Resurrected — grant it Lord that we may share in Your Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection that we may KNOW LOVE!     AMEN

The Jesus Questions

SRJQ#1-13(Day 2) — Summary Review of The Jesus Questions JQ#1 - JQ#13. Day 2 of our Summary Review of the 13 “Jesus Questions” will start with JQ#1 and go through the Jesus Questions in the order that they were asked in the Gospel according to Matthew: 

Before we Review the “Jesus Questions” themselves we should note the obvious that these are questions being asked by Jesus and before we consider answering His questions we should answer the obvious question, “Why would Jesus who is The All Knowing Master Teacher ask questions of mere mortals?” The only logical answer is that Jesus is not asking these questions to gain knowledge for Himself but Jesus is asking “rhetorical” questions to impart knowledge to those He is trying to teach. These are all introspective questions and if we but honestly answer each one we will learn about ourselves what Jesus Himself desires us to know about the Kingdom of God and our place in it! In order to fully understand the Divine Objective let us list a few of the Divine Circumstance and Divine Context in which these “Jesus Questions” are being asked. 

The Divine Circumstance: 

Isaiah (whose name means ‘salvation of the LORD”) wrote in the 8th Century B.C. many prophecies covering from The Creation to the New Heavens and New Earth to be formed during the Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ but the writings are most noted for “the great Messianic predictions in which are foretold Christ’s birth (Isaiah 7:14; 9:6), His Deity (9:6-7), His ministry (9:1-2; 42:1-7;61:1-2), His death (52:1-53:12), His future millennial reign (for example, chapters 2; 11; 65), etc.” {{pg. 910 The Scofield Study Bible Introduction to the Book of Isaiah, the 2002 Edition}}. So the Divine Circumstance had been prophesied over 800 years before Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem and all prophecies point to Jesus as being the long awaited Messiah!

The Divine Context:

The Gospel According to MATTHEW was written C. A.D. 50 and was written originally for the Jews and presents Jesus as the Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham, and the place of His birth was the City of David, Bethlehem — all of which point to the Divinity of Christ and to Jesus being God made flesh (John 1:14) and walking among us. Matthew starts his documentation of the Life of Christ with a genealogy that traces the lineage of Jesus back to Abraham then covers the birth of Jesus to the virgin Mary. Matthew then introduces John the Baptist who was preaching in the wilderness, “Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” (Matthew 3:2) and proclaimed that John said that he was “The voice of one crying in the wilderness; ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; Make His paths straight.’” (Matthew 3:3) Matthew then records that Jesus was baptized by John, and then was led into the wilderness where Jesus was tempted by the devil. (Matthew 4:1) and then Matthew writes: “From that time Jesus began to preach and to say ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand’” (Matthew 4:17) . then later in Chapter 4 Matthew continues; “And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.” (Matthew 4:23)  These miracles of God by the hand of Jesus became widely known and great multitudes started following Jesus which leads us into the first of the Jesus Questions which immediately followed the famous “Sermon on the Mount” (Matthew 5:1-12) This is where we start learning the lessons Jesus teaches by asking “The Jesus Questions”. 

Lesson 1: JQ#1    “Are you salt and light?”                                           Matthew 5:1-16