FEBRUARY 17 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#04 “And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?” (Matthew 7:3)

FEBRUARY 17  THE JESUS QUESTIONS   JQ#04  “And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?” (Matthew 7:3)

LIVING FOR JESUS Daily Prayer    

JESUS, each day as I start my day with the thought of “Jesus”, there is a Peace that cannot be explained — but LORD I need no explanation and that amplifies my Peace. There is no name like the Name of Jesus and there are no thoughts like thinking about Jesus! Each morning as I rise and go to Your Holy Word there is an eternal Hope for my life and then I write the Name “JESUS” and my soul knows that You are the Light of men and that Your Light is THE  LIFE. Jesus forgive me of my daily shortcomings and carry me until I finally become One with You, the Father, and the Holy Spirit.     AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

JESUS is the Master Teacher and He has been Teaching these first four Lessons in a specific order therefore He has a specific overall objective because each Lesson builds upon the last Lesson and points us to the next Lesson while keeping us focused in the direction of “Light” that He is leading us into. This section on “Judging” has been a struggle for me and my spirit feels violated by the world. Jesus was always Teaching Lessons that are “universal” in that every soul of every generation can apply EVERY LESSON THAT JESUS TEACHES to their daily lives! In other words — “Each Lesson Jesus Taught was relevant when Jesus first spoke His Words and they are just as relevant today as we read His Words for the first time in our lives!!!”  I know that every thing that I read about in God’s Holy Word points to Jesus and when we focus on Jesus we can see God’s Love being poured out on all generations through the Great Sacrifice and Obedience of the Only Begotten Son yet when I read this command from Jesus as written in Matthew 7:6 I struggle, not because I struggle with following Jesus but because I struggle with the fear that I am not understanding the True Lesson Jesus is trying to Teach when He says: “Do not give what is holy to the dogs…” (Matthew 7:6)!! Yesterday the Holy Spirit led me consider that this new age of unbelievers are in the process of “re-defining God’s Moral Standard” by which God has commanded us that “we should judge our own actions and let God Himself judge others”, and it is through that process of “re-defining God’s Moral Standard” that the new unbelievers have removed all that is “Holy” from the “judgment process established by God” thereby making the New Age Moral Standard “relative” to the reigning political thought of what is best for the political beast to retain power! I gave two instances: (1) Abortion and (2) Same Sex Marriage. If we look at “Abortion” from its “re-definition perspective” then we see that the “politics” of abortion is what is driving the “re-definition” of abortion which is now defined, not from God’s Moral Standard but from the political viewpoint which our modern society is told is “the woman’s right to choose”. There is a great conflict with God’s Holy Word with this modern re-definition of “abortion” as a “woman’s right” to take the life of the new “unborn” human growing within the mother’s body designed by God to give “life” to the unborn growing in her womb!  God grants each individual “life” and God does not give the “right” to anyone to take that “God-given life” from the individual God gave life to. Only by taking the “Holy” aspect away from life can they “re-define” abortion! You cannot show a single abortion that has not deprived an individual of that individual’s “God given right to life”!! The same is true with “Same Sex Marriage” — Two people of the same sex have been given by those seeking “political power” the “?legal?” right to marriage but there is no “Biblical Justification by God’s Moral Standard” that same sex couples can enter into “Holy Matrimony”. The political “re-definition” of marriage has removed the “Holy” element of marriage therefore “Holy Matrimony” is impossible when “Holy” has been “politically” removed from marriage!  Again this has been done to “politically re-define” those terms that have always kept our common moral compass pointing to the “Truth of God”. Jesus is Teaching us on “judging” in Matthew 7:6 that we must not abandon God’s Laws and we should always “judge” as led by the Holy Spirit of God and not by some “politically motivated re-definition” of men seeking to remove that which is “Holy” from “God’s Moral Standard”! Our society today has lost our direction and has strayed from the TRUTH OF GOD’S MORAL STANDARD as determined by God to be the True Definition of “Right and Wrong”. Each society must come to the TRUTH that God is Eternal and His Holiness is UNCHANGING — God Himself and His Holiness must NOT be removed from the laws of our society — for without God’s Holy Moral Standards we are left with man’s standard which has demonstrated that we are “fallen” from God’s Holiness and we are left living in an un-Holy Godless Society without a Moral Compass for our Guiding Light — and where there is no “Light” to guide us, we always end up in darkness!   Tomorrow we will start looking at JQ#05 in Matthew 7:7-12 which will return “Holy” to our judgments.