DECEMBER 20 THE JESUS QUESTIONS SUMMARY-07 of the Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus: JQ#1-JQ#31 (Matthew 1:1 thru 26:16)

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

DECEMBER  20  THE JESUS QUESTIONS   SUMMARY-07 of the Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus: JQ#1-JQ#31  (Matthew 1:1 thru 26:16) 

365 Prayers to JESUS    

Jesus, each day starts a new day in our spiritual life and I pray that You through the Holy Spirit will make each of my new days in the Spirit be a great witness unto God. Lord, I pray for forgiveness of all sins known and those that are unknown to me but  known or not, if they grieve the Holy Spirit, they dishonor the Father and the Son, so I beg forgiveness for Holiness sake. Lord, I desire in my heart to dedicate this temple to the Holy Spirit, to You,  and Father God — Lord Jesus I am so close to being separated from the world and if it be Thy will, Lord lead me to total dependance on You and live only to serve You. Take now this prayer as an offering to You, use my life for the glory of Your Kingdom. Lord I yield to Your will, You are my Lord, my God, my Savior, my Redeemer, and the Prince of Peace.      AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

DECEMBER  20  THE JESUS QUESTIONS   SUMMARY-07 of the Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus: JQ#1-JQ#31  (Matthew 1:1 thru 26:16)  Jesus has been shown by Matthew’s Gospel to be in the line of David and Matthew drew the lineage from the traditional Jewish doctrine of tracing the family line through the father and listing who the birth mother of the offspring. It is Jewish tradition because of the teachings of God as found in Deuteronomy 21:15-17 that the first born male that was also the first issue of his mother’s womb would be granted a special portion of the father’s estate so when Matthew being a well educated Jew found that Jesus was the first born from her womb and then the claim that the Child was conceived by the Holy Spirit making God Himself the Father, then the prophecy of the “virgin birth” in Isaiah 7:14 “Therefore the LORD Himself will give you a sign; Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.” So when Matthew put the “virgin birth” prophecy with the fact that the mother of Jesus gave birth to Him in Bethlehem which also fulfilled the prophecy by the prophet Micah “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me the One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from old, from everlasting” Matthew had two prophecies that pointed to Jesus being the “One” that was written by God’s prophets about God’s Messiah. Granted their had been a lot of Jewish males that had been the “first born” of their mother’s womb and had received the special inheritance from their earthly father but Jesus was the first Jewish male that could claim that His Father was God Himself and had been “born of a virgin” — and least we forget, the story of the “virgin birth” of Mary began before she had given birth and in those days she could not have known that she was carrying a male child therefore her claim that she was told by an angel that she would conceive a child in her virgin womb and give birth to the “Son of God” could be easily disproved if she had given birth to a daughter!?!? So from a “spiritual Truth” standpoint, the only way that Mary could “know” that she was giving birth to a ‘son” was that it was revealed to her by God!!! Since Matthew was well versed on prophecy then he could see the significance of Joseph having to return to Bethlehem to pay his taxes and Mary actually giving birth to her first born in the town of Bethlehem was enough to raise expectations of the Jewish community but when the story which had been circulated during her pregnancy of Mary’s claim that God had chosen her to be the mother of the “Son of God”  became known to Matthew that these two prophecies (1) the “virgin birth” and the (2) location being Bethlehem when they were added to the simple fact that Jesus was a firstborn male from Mary’s womb then Matthew could state the simple facts and show that Jesus had fulfilled two major prophecies of the Messiah and that is what Matthew writes first in his Gospel of Jesus Christ. The first claims made by Matthew should be enough evidence for all of us but God still wants each individual to search the Scriptures for ourselves so that we too can through “faith” know the “Joy” of discovering the “Messiah” !!!