OCTOBER 26 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#31-11 >>> 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 26  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#31-11  >>> 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)

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Jesus, Savior, Redeemer, Creator of all things, Blessed Son of the Living God, King of kings and LORD of lords, Name after Glorious Name and to think that the ONE to whom ALL PRAISE is due would HUMBLE HIMSELF, take on the form of man to be tempted in the flesh in all ways that man is tempted, being PERFECTLY INNOCENT would suffer and die for the sins of the world in OBEDIENCE to the FATHER’S WILL, because of HIS GREAT LOVE for mankind and the FATHER, and Who after suffering as no man ever has nor ever will suffer, endured death and the grave??? O Great Mystery of God that the FATHER GAVE THE SON TO SUFFER, and in seeing the SON SUFFER, one cannot imagine the AGONIZING SUFFERING OF THE FATHER HAVING TO WATCH THE SON WHOM THE FATHER WILLED TO SUFFER!?!?!?!?! — and all this for the sake of each and every unloveable sinner and all their hateful sins???? Lord forgive me when I fail to see how much “agony” my redemption cost You, how much Your Son “suffered”, and how much it must have “grieved” the Holy Spirit!?!?!?!?   AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

OCTOBER 26  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#31-11  >>> 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 has now made it clear that “heaven and earth will pass away” and invoking “the days of Noah” it is obvious that “the coming [again] of the Son of Man” at the end of the age will be to execute the “Consequence” of mankind’s “Choice” to reject God, who had demonstrated with Noah and the flood that God is patient but there is a limit to how far God will let mankind stray into darkness before He is Faithful to HIS PLAN and TRUE TO HIS WORD!!! Jesus also made it clear that the event will happen but only God knows when so Jesus warns us to “be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect” (Matthew 24:44) and Jesus followed the warning with His 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) We should all then “listen” to Jesus and consider that we are made “rulers” on this earth and in this lifetime which is passing away by the ETERNAL GOD and HIS WORD which “will by no means pass away”!!!! In His question Jesus draws our attention to the concept of “servitude” but let us not miss that though God makes us “rulers” that He also holds us responsible for being “faithful and wise [servants]” to the MASTER.  Jesus then gives us the assurance of a great reward for our “faithfulness” and our “service” to GOD THE FATHER when He immediately states this TRUTH after His Question on being “servants”: “Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing.  Assuredly, I say to you that [the master] will make the [servant] ruler over all [the master’s] goods.” (Matthew 24:46-47) Being the “servant” of God will be “blessed” by having the access to all that God has — sounds like a good deal to me and all I have to do is “Love God” and “Love Others”??? — sign me up!!!!  Jesus does remain “True” to His “mission” as He assures us also that although there is great reward for the “faithful and wise servant” that there is severe “judgement and penalty” for the “evil servant” that is not prepared for the return of the MASTER as Jesus describes the penalty: “…the [MASTER] of [the unprepared] servant will come on a day when [the evil servant] is not looking and [the MASTER] will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 24:48-51) Jesus had pronounced earlier after cleansing the temple that the “unfaithful and unwise” leaders of the house of God that God had made “rulers” over His temple had been judged because they had chosen to follow “traditions and doctrines” of man’s evil desires instead of being led by God and the “judgement and penalty” of those “hypocrites” were “Seven Woes” (Matthew 23:1-33) and the kingdom of God was taken from them! (Matthew 21:43) Therefore if God judged everything that breathed on the earth in the days of Noah, and if God will remove His kingdom from His “Chosen” people and destroy His temple that has been defiled by man, then it is obvious that God will judge the “evil servant” that is not prepared for the “the coming [again] of the Son of Man” and I can only imagine how much “agony” the “evil servant” will have to suffer to cause the “weeping and gnashing of teeth”!?!?!? God is consistent in both HIS REWARDS (behind DOOR #1) and in HIS JUDGEMENTS (behind DOOR #2) and GOD IS FAIR because HE GIVES US A CHOICE ——— the GOOD NEWS: God GIVES us a CHOICE but the BAD NEWS: We have to make our own CHOICE ——— my prayer is that YOUR CHOICE will be to be a “faithful and wise servant” of the MASTER OF ALL CREATION and realize that being an “evil servant” is a personal “CHOICE”!?!?!?!?