OCTOBER 21 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#31-06 >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#31 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?” (Matthew 24:45)

LIVING FOR JESUS --- Daily Devotional

OCTOBER 21  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#31-06  >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#31 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?”  (Matthew 24:45)

295 of 365 - Prayers to JESUS    

Jesus, ALL Praise, Glory, and Honor is due to the Name above all names, the Holy, Holy Name of Jesus! Lord Jesus, You alone are the King of kings and Lord of lords and the Master of my soul. Lord, You and you alone are the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Only through belief in You will TRUTH be revealed to us so Lord I pray that I will draw closer to You each day as I try desperately to separate myself from my worldly desires and seek only Your Spiritual Gifts that You so abundantly provide, gifts that frees us from our physical desires of the flesh and reveals to us the TRUTH OF GOD! Lord, these Spiritual Gifts can only be received when we  put our TRUST in You and Your Plans and abandon ours. Lord, I pray that our family puts all our TRUST in You and abandons ourselves to Your service so that You can use us in a mighty way for the “kingdom’s sake” — Lord I am TRUSTING You completely in every phase of my life  and pray that the family can come to see Your Love and start uttering in their prayers “ABBA FATHER” — and pray as I pray, “Give us this day our daily bread.”   AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

OCTOBER 21  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#31-06  >>> Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus <<< JQ#31 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?”  (Matthew 24:45)  Jesus admonished us at the start of this new Lesson to consider the “Fig Tree” as He said, “Now learn…” which is also saying that we should consider what He has just been Teaching and then build upon the understanding of the last Lesson and come to a deeper revelation of the Truth of God. Jesus had just been Teaching “signs” about the “end of the age” and His “Coming Again” but let us not miss the obvious Truth that Jesus is telling us that there WILL BE an “end of the age” and in order for Him to “Return” that He must first leave, and this being the Passover Week, these statements reveal that God has a Plan and that Plan includes Jesus having to go away, fulfilling the prophecy that only Jesus as the Messiah and the Sacrificial Lamb of God, Spotless and Without Blame, could fulfill the Word of God spoken at the “initiation” of the Passover when God was giving instructions to Moses to give to the congregation of Israel on what to do to make the “death angel” “pass over” them: “Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household…your lamb shall be without blemish…a male of the first year (a first born male) …then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight.’” (Exodus 12:1-7) Jesus made His Triumphal Entry at the beginning of the Passover Week and His first order of business was “cleaning the temple”, demonstrating that the nation had brought judgment upon themselves because they had moved away from God and were following the “doctrines of men” — further proof that they had come under judgment was demonstrated by Jesus cursing the Fig Tree (the Fig tree represents the “congregation of Israel” and those God had made “rulers” over Israel and God’s “house” in Jerusalem) and clearly telling the nation Israel that God was removing Himself and giving His kingdom to another nation that bears kingdom fruit. “Now” Jesus is building on those Lessons and directs our attention to signs — and again Jesus uses the Fig Tree and takes us on a different viewpoint as He leads up to His next question “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?”  (Matthew 24:45) Our attention goes from “signs” to consideration of  “service, faithfulness, and wisdom” as Jesus reveals the Truth of God that “rulers” are “made rulers” only by the “master” making it so! Moses, the one chosen by God to lead Israel out of bondage, was “made ruler” by God — (freedom from bondage is what the Passover Week is all about), David was “made king” of Judah by God and then Jerusalem was made the capitol of the kingdom of Judah because God “made” David victorious over the Canaanites — a Promise which God had made to Israel on their way to the Promised Land of Canaan that “the [Great I AM] LORD GOD of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob… has visited you and has seen what is done to you in Egypt; and I have said I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites…” (Exodus 3:16-17) So now Jesus is going to give us instructions on how to prevent being cursed to hell by the ““death angel” that will “pass over” the whole earth in “judgment” at the “end of the age” and it will center around the “Blood” of the “Passover Lamb” that was shed for the sins of the world which will fulfill God’s Master Plan for the world!!! This is a good time then to consider who is your “Master” and do you plan to “apply the blood” of the “Passover Lamb” like God instructed all those that had to face the “death angel” in Egypt and had ignored God when He said, “I will execute judgment. I AM the LORD. Now the blood shall be a sign for you on all the houses where you are. When I see the blood, I will pass over you.” (Exodus 12:12-13) All of this ties in nicely to Jesus making the statement in His question “…whom his master made ruler over his household…” so Jesus is bringing together all the history of Israel with the Great I AM God of their fathers, freedom from bondage, and the Truth of God that God Himself is the MASTER and it is God Himself that makes us “rulers over [our] own households” and God expects us to be responsible in taking care of our family as God leads all families to the Promised Land ——— “all these things APPLY TODAY” ——— so “now” you probably should consider the “wisdom” and rewards of “faithfully serving” God or do you not fear the Promised Judgment!?!?!?!?!?