JULY 17 JQ#19-13 “For what profit is it to man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will man give in exchange for his soul?” (Matthew 16:26) The Jesus Questions

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

JULY 17   JQ#19-13  “For what profit is it to man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will man give in exchange for his soul?” (Matthew 16:26) 

365 Prayers to JESUS 

Jesus, thank You Lord for Your Word which is the Word of Life and only Your Words are of “life” to sustain our physical body and of “eternal life” to sustain our soul. Lord, Your Words speak volumes but Your Life and Perfect Example teach us so much more and I Praise You for the Perfect Example of  “actions-speak-louder-than-words” TRUTH and Lord Jesus, my prayer is that everything I both do and say will be a Glory and Honor to Your Life which You lived to the Glory of God Almighty, our Father who abides forever in Heaven and wills that all men would be drawn to the Father through the Son, the Only Begotten Son, who paid the Ultimate Price for our Freedom from the slavery of sin!      AMEN

The Jesus Questions

JULY 17   JQ#19-13  “For what profit is it to man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will man give in exchange for his soul?” (Matthew 16:26)  Jesus is the Master Teacher not only because He possesses Unlimited Knowledge that cannot be fathomed by the finite mind of mankind but aside from His Divine Knowledge the Lord Jesus Taught by the Perfect Example of Living His Life to Honor the Father and then pointing us to His Life and Teaching what He Lived in the form of Life Lessons which He Taught by asking us questions that could always be answered by observing the way He Lived His Life while in the flesh! There is no Greater Sacrifice than Jesus giving up His Heavenly Glory to “become flesh and to dwell among us” (John 1:14) with the expressed purpose of coming into the world to fill the Father’s Will, “for God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved” (John 3:17) and we often miss the Divine Fact that Jesus lived the example of Abraham and Isaac being obedient to God as both Abraham and Isaac prepared the alter together for the Sacrifice Commanded of God and fulfilled the scripture that said “God Himself will provide the Lamb…” (Genesis 22:8) and we know that it was the Life of Jesus that the Scripture was foretelling because John the Baptist, who was the “witness” sent from God to testify that it was Jesus that is the “Light” that is the “life of all mankind” (John 1:6-9) proclaimed loudly when he saw Jesus, “Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world…” (John 1:29) The overlooked Truth of God is that God promised the Messiah, God declared what the Messiah was to accomplish, and then “God so loved world” that God fulfilled His Holy Scripture with the Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection of His Only Begotten Son, Jesus the Christ. That is the Gospel and the greatest part of the Gospel is that God “so loved the world” and that Jesus so Loved the Father that Jesus was Obedient unto the Fulfillment of all Scripture by willingly accepting that He MUST DIE ON THE CROSS and then Jesus both “Lived” the Perfect Example and Jesus “Died” the Perfect Example and through His “Life” and “Death” Jesus gave us the Perfect Example of the “WAY” to the Father and Eternal Life. Jesus with His Question about considering our “soul” and what we may “exchange” for it was saying in effect, “If you follow MY EXAMPLE then you will know the way to the Father and Eternal Life” and the Question and the Answer Produce the Results of Eternal Life for all who believe in the Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ living and dying the Perfect Example, just as God has proclaimed through the prophets. Jesus introduced JQ#19 with the announcement that “He must suffer…be killed…and be raised the third day…” in Matthew 16:21 and then He asks the question in Matthew 16:26 and as always Jesus explains the answer as soon as He asks the Question: “For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works.” (Matthew 16:27)  Then Jesus continues this most important lesson of teaching by example as He takes “Peter, James, and John his brother…and led them up on a high mountain by themselves; and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light. And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with [Jesus].” (Matthew 17:1-3) Surely no words could express to the disciples and to all of His followers what the saw that day in the “life” of Jesus that proved that Jesus is the “Beloved of the Father” and that the eternal future of all mankind rests with the belief or rejection of Jesus!  There is no way to the Father except through the Son, are you on the Path that leads to the Narrow Gate?