DECEMBER 16 THE JESUS QUESTIONS SUMMARY-03 of the Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus: JQ#1-JQ#31 (Matthew 1:1 thru 26:16)

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

DECEMBER  16  THE JESUS QUESTIONS   SUMMARY-03 of the Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus: JQ#1-JQ#31  (Matthew 1:1 thru 26:16) 

365 Prayers to JESUS    

Jesus, ever will I praise Your Name, for You are ever-Faithful and Your Glory will endure forever! Lord I praise You for Loving me and dying for me while I was lost in my sin — Your LIGHT has lead me into a new day where I pray my new song will be to “work until Jesus comes!” Lord, You have directed my paths to this point and I pray that my eyes and heart will be kept firmly fixed on You and the kingdom’s work and that I will be a good witness to Your Love. Lord Jesus, again and yet anew do I yield my life to serving You and to telling Your “Good News” to those You send my way.       AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

DECEMBER  16  THE JESUS QUESTIONS   SUMMARY-03 of the Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus: JQ#1-JQ#31  (Matthew 1:1 thru 26:16)  Jesus told His disciples and even the Pharisees and Sadducees that the Holy Spirit would be a “witness” to who He really was and Matthew, being an eyewitness led by the Holy Spirit and Divinely inspired by the Spirit of God, wrote for a permanent record the events that point clearly to Jesus being the Divine Son of God sent to earth with a specific Purpose. Matthew was primarily writing for the Jews because it is the Jewish Holy Scriptures known as the Talmud that the Jews had been reading for thousands of years and had been waiting expectantly for the Messiah, God’s Chosen One! The prophets of old were led by the Holy Spirit to write down the “signs” that would point Jews to their Messiah, just like Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were led by the Holy Spirit to write down the fulfillment of those prophecies. You cannot read the Holy Scriptures without seeing God, His Plan, and the fulfillment of all the Spirit led prophecies that God used to “lead His people to the Promised Land” which was true for the Jewish people in the Old Testament of our modern Bible and is true for all that will “seek the kingdom of God and His righteousness” as Jesus directed and is fully documented in the New Testament. God has a Plan and a Purpose for each individual person that breathes the breath of life imparted to us by God as He demonstrated with the first man that God brought into existence. For six days God spoke everything into existence and God declared all His Work to be “good” and when everything was in place, God then deviated from His Creative Process of speaking everything into existence when God decided it was time for mankind — “This is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, before any plant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground. And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed…Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and to keep it.” (Genesis 2:4-15) God spoke everything into existence except man and woman — for with mankind God used His own Hands to form man and then God “breathed” life into the man, and again God used His own Hands to form the woman out of the rib of man, an operation which again was accomplished by God demonstrating His “Hands On” commitment to mankind — and to “seal the deal” and to show that God had all His Creation planned out before “the beginning” that we read of God’s intent for mankind to be special: “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He crated him; male and female He created them.” (Genesis 1:26-27) So let us approach this “Summary” of God’s Plan for the world as documented in the Gospel of Matthew in this way: The Old Testament is a written record of God revealing His Plan and “how” He intends to “execute” His Plan and then the New Testament is a written record of eyewitness accounts of the fulfillment of prophecies in Jesus Christ as well as prophecies  regarding the “completion” of God’s Plan for all Mankind. Again, the fact that Matthew writes primarily for the Jews is because it is through the Jews and the nation Israel that God has intended from BEFORE the beginning of mankind to fulfill God’s Plan for the world! The main point is that BEFORE man came into existence God “had a Plan” — and the obvious Truth of God in that statement is that God had made His Plan without man so mankind must accept that God is in control and is the Master Plan Maker — and life for mankind must fit God’s Purpose for He alone is the giver of life, the Creator — and everything that is not God is His Creation — get that part straight and the rest is a piece of cake!