DECEMBER 29 THE JESUS QUESTIONS SUMMARY-16 of the Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus: JQ#1-JQ#31 (Matthew 1:1 thru 26:16)

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

DECEMBER  29  THE JESUS QUESTIONS   SUMMARY-16 of the Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus: JQ#1-JQ#31  (Matthew 1:1 thru 26:16) 

365 Prayers to JESUS    

Jesus we thank You for Your daily Presence in our lives as we see You revealed by Your Holy Word and by Your Holy Spirit. Lord I pray that in my life that I will know that You are always there and if I fail to recognize You then it is my own flesh that is blinding me and that upon that realization I will take up my cross and be crucified with You and know that Your Spirit is Resurrected in us and will illuminate our darkness with YOUR LIGHT! Lord, our daily walk is our “now” and is the only “time” we can experience GRACE but only if we decrease and You are allowed to increase that we can behold the Messiah! Forgive me of my daily shortcomings and my failure to see You working in my life — even so, come now Lord Jesus!          AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

DECEMBER  29  THE JESUS QUESTIONS   SUMMARY-16 of the Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus: JQ#1-JQ#31  (Matthew 1:1 thru 26:16)  Jesus was revealed as the Messiah by circumstances beyond His control but were obviously circumstances coming about as part of God’s Master Plan. Up to the point where Jesus is baptized by John the Baptist in the Jordan river, the Messiah was validated by many witnesses to be Jesus the son of Mary and Joseph but now Jesus Himself will begin His public Ministry which will demonstrate that the way that Jesus lives His Life in the flesh will be a “witness” to the TRUTH that JESUS IS THE MESSIAH for everything that Jesus does, He does at the direction of His Heavenly Father. Before beginning the summary of the actual JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#1-31(of 33) that also reveal and witness to Jesus being the Messiah, let us look at one more detail of Matthew’s introduction of Jesus that is also a separate witness to Jesus being the Messiah and what His “Mission” and “Purpose” was in being born in the flesh, at this particular time, in this particular place, to these particular parents. Matthew starts his Gospel of Jesus Christ with “The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ” (Matthew 1:1) and within this “genealogy of Jesus Christ” is further “witness” to God’s Master Plan and Jesus being the Messiah. Jewish tradition from the very beginning placed great importance on the “lineage” or family line and one of the main reasons the lineage was so important was that the lineage determined their “tribal inheritance” based upon the fact that at God’s directions, each Jewish tribe had received a particular piece of land and for a person to inherit land in a particular area assigned to that tribe that the person had to produce evidence that he was from that particular tribe and that “evidence” of birth into a “tribe” came through the family genealogy. The genealogy of Jesus therefore will determine His Inheritance and a close look at the genealogy of Jesus Christ reveals some very important “signs” or “evidence” of some miraculous claims by Jesus as they relate to the “Purpose and Life” of the Messiah as revealed by Jesus who was born “the Son of David, the Son of Abraham.” (Matthew 1:1) Now is a good time to revisit the “book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ” as listed in Matthew 1:1-17 and ask yourself about what importance your personal lineage is in “inheriting” what has been set aside for you in “the kingdom of heaven”??? This investigation of your personal spiritual inheritance can really be understood by reading what Jesus told Nicodemus in John Chapter 3:1-21 which includes these statements which address your spiritual inheritance (1) “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (John 3:3) and (2) “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes on Him shall not perish but [inherit] everlasting life.” (John 3:16) so by reading the “promise” of God for your inheritance you must ask yourself “Have I received Him and claimed my right to become [a child] of God” by “believing on the [Name and Person] of Jesus.?” (See John 1:12-13)