DECEMBER 22 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#1-33 SUMMARY-08 The Gospel of Matthew: A Study of the Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ

DECEMBER 22  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#1-33 SUMMARY-08  The Gospel of Matthew: A Study of the Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ 

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer    

{{The Holy Spirit is again leading me to post a prayer originally written in 2004}} “Jesus, You are the Messiah, praise Your Holy Name, God became flesh, Redeemer of all men from the bondage of sin, You have freed us from the Law of Sacrifice for You have substituted Your Holy Self as the Atonement, once for all!!!  Lord, teach me to share the Good News to both Jew and Gentile that the Messiah has come, the GOOD NEWS that Jesus, the Son of Man has sacrificed His Perfect Life and shed His Spotless Blood, the Sacrifice of GOD’S Passover Lamb so that the angel of death will “pass over” all who believe that Jesus is the Passover Lamb and apply His Blood to the doorposts and lintel of our hearts. Salvation is through the Messiah, God’s Anointed One, for God sent His Son, born of a “virgin”, sacrificed on a cross, buried in a borrowed tomb, and was raised to Glory on the 3rd Day — The Messiah HAS COME!!!    AMEN

DECEMBER 22  THE JESUS QUESTIONS

<<Note: The JESUS Questions have their relevance in the TRUTH OF GOD that JESUS IS GOD’S SON, GOD’S ANOINTED, GOD”S CHOSEN ONE, GOD’S MESSIAH and through the “understanding” of GOD’S TRUTH do we come to a TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD HIMSELF!   My individual encounter with the Holy Spirit as He leads in the writing of The JESUS Questions sometimes is very personal as was the DECEMBER 21 blog in which I wrote of being led by the Holy Spirit to fulfill “part of a 2004 prayer” and that “part” was for me to get personally involved in the work of the Holy Spirit and I was “to do something about this evil and vile situation that is removing the Name of JESUS from so many [aspects of our lives] ” and today in my study of His Word, the Holy Spirit led me to an article about the Messiah written by Tracey R. Rich that states “If you want to know how Jews interpret the passages that Christians consider to be messianic, see Jews for Judaism, a counter-missionary organization not associated with this website, especially their article about Christian Proof-Texting.”  Today when I read the DECEMBER 21 prayer that said, “teach me to share the Good News to both Jew and Gentile that the Messiah has come” the thought that struck me was that there is a sect of Jews that has taken the Name of Jesus and “separated Him from His Messiahship” which is every bit as “vile and evil” as America promoting “separation of church and state” if taken from the viewpoint of removing the name of God from public places. To “legislate” that God is not allowed in public schools literally removes God’s “moral standard” from our government and therefore the “federal government is free to decide what is moral in our society” ——— and there is nothing more “vile and evil” than man usurping God’s Power ——— for man has been proven untrustworthy since the first bite of forbidden fruit! Therefore, in fair and equal treatment of everyone, every nationality, and every religion, I will continue to be led by the Holy Spirit and continue writing articles based on “God’s Standards” and “His Holy Word” and keep letting the Holy Spirit remind us that GOD IS TRUTH, “so if you are not listening to God, then you are not listening to the Truth!!!”  If man (and woman) had listened when God said “do not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for in the day you eat of it you shall surely die” (Genesis 2:17) instead of THE LIE when the Tempter said “you will not surely die”  (Genesis 3:4) then the knowledge of good and evil would have remained on the tree and man would have remained in the Garden of Eden, forever.! So at the very beginning even Satan himself was (and still is) using the Word of God to lead us FROM GOD’S TRUTH but each of us must listen to what God says and KNOW GOD IS TRUTH !!! DO NOT LISTEN to Satan for Satan is the father-of-lies!?!?!?!  Jesus at an early age (starting with the “Virgin Birth”) was fulfilling prophecy about the Messiah and starting with the 3rd chapter of the Gospel bearing his name, Matthew documents that the life of Jesus revealed Jesus IS the True Messiah by His actions — because the actions of Jesus Himself could only be accomplished by the True Messiah!!! At the start of the 3rd Chapter of the Matthew’s Gospel of Jesus, Matthew introduces the Messiah’s “star witness”, John the Baptist. Here again we will see that Jesus fulfills prophecy of the Messiah by circumstances beyond His control and starting with the 3rd Chapter, Matthew demonstrates that all Scripture and all prophecy point to Jesus as the Messiah and even the most casual reader will see that Jesus by His actions and lifestyle cannot be interpreted as “just a good man doing good works” as Satan would have you believe, but the “good works” of Jesus were accomplished by God Incarnate, Immanuel, and it was the Power of God in Jesus that was doing “miraculous works” that could only be accomplished by God Himself — and therefore the “actions” of Jesus proclaim and witness that JESUS IS CHRIST, GOD’S ANOINTED ONE!!!