JUNE 20 JQ#17-1 “How many loaves do you have?” (Matthew 15:34) The Jesus Questions

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JUNE 20    JQ#17-1 “How many loaves do you have?” (Matthew 15:34) 

365 Prayers to JESUS 

Jesus, Lord You are always Teaching and every lesson is intended for our good so my prayer Lord is that my attention to “learning Your Truth” will be sharpened and my focus will be completely on Your Word. Lord Jesus, open my eyes that I may see Your Truth  and that it may soften this heart that has been hardened and defiled by the doctrines of the world that  I have allowed to enter into my life and become the desires of my heart. Lord create in me a clean heart like You did in David that I too will claim You as my Shepherd and Trust You to lead me in paths of righteousness.       AMEN

The Jesus Questions

JUNE 20   JQ#17-1 “How many loaves do you have?” (Matthew 15:34)  Jesus never ceases building “precept upon precept” and we see that with each attack on the Character and the Truth of God that Jesus is able to take that attack and expose the attackers and accomplish the Mission of bringing God’s Truth back into focus in our daily lives. The main weapon against the enemy is living a life of God’s Truth and being consistent in how we treat others as Jesus demonstrates with JQ#17. In JQ#16 Jesus had used the attack from the Pharisees who claimed the disciples of Jesus were “breaking Jewish tradition” by eating with “unwashed hands” and Jesus taught them that any tradition they observed that was not in line with God’s Commandments would end up in “Judgement” and Jesus pointed out the Truth of God that God is the Judge of all men and their deeds and when Judgement Day for all men comes that it will be God sitting in the Judgement Seat and God will not use the “laws of men” to pass Judgement on them and their right to enter His Kingdom. God has established the requirements that will make “legal heirs” to the Kingdom and that is the Standard by which God has declared and made known that He will use to separate the “wheat from the tares” (Matthew 13:24-30). As soon as Jesus had taught the lesson of “man’s tradition” verses “God’s Commandments” we read: “Then Jesus went out from there and departed to [another region]…” (Matthew 15:21) and starts doing the “Father’s Work” He was sent to do, which is what Jesus has been doing all along, He has been healing infirmities, casting out demons, giving sight to the blind, raising the dead, and feeding the multitudes. Aside from the immediate help these Acts of God accomplished they also provided Teaching Tools which in the hands of the Master Teacher are Miracles within themselves. The first healing recorded after Jesus taught the “tradition vs. Commandment” lesson was a woman who had brought her daughter that was “severely demon-possessed” to Him.  This woman received her requested healing after she persisted in acknowledging the Power of God as she addressed Jesus as “O Lord, Son of David” (Matthew 15:22) and continued to cry out to Him and “then she came and worshiped Him, saying ‘Lord, help me!” (Matthew 15:25) The woman’s only credentials she presented to get the healing was that she believed that Jesus was the Son of David and God’s Chosen One and she directed her request to the One that had proved by His Works that He was the Son of God. So we can see the importance of why Jesus was always doing the “work of the Father” and that was to demonstrate to those that would believe the Jesus was sent by God would be healed by God and their sins would be forgiven. It should be noted that the first lesson after the “tradition vs. Commandment” lesson was about healing a young person that was “severely demon-possessed” and it is my opinion that when a society gets “possessed” by following “Godless laws” and rejecting God’s commandments, that society is under some form of demon possession. My reasoning is that rejecting God comes from a personal desire to be our own God and we ask the same question that the demons asked Jesus when they wanted to know what God had to do with them? It is a personal decision to accept living by “tradition” without making the assessment if that “tradition” goes against a Commandment of God or not? How can an individual decide to go against God’s Commandment just because a majority of men decide legislate that it is “legal” to “transgress the Commandment of God”? Certainly you must agree with the logic that if one chooses to follow man instead of following God that there is some form of “possession” that accounts for one making such a poor choice!?!?