MAY 30 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#18 “But who do you say that I am?” (Matthew 16:15)

MAY 30  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#18  “But who do you say that I am?” (Matthew 16:15)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, You Lord are to be greatly praised for Your Love and the fact that in Your example of “Loving” us when we were truly “unlovable” we can experience “first hand” the Matchless Love of God! Because You first loved us even though there was nothing in us to Love, we know that Your Love comes with NO CONDITIONS and that You LOVE because it is Your Choice to Love — not because of who we are, but simply because You Love because You freely choose to Love because of who You are!!! We cannot know or explain “Why” You chose to Love, but our limited understanding does not diminish in any way the FACT that You Love us. Lord we pray that because You Loved us when we were unlovable that we in turn will Love Others Unconditionally because that is a “Choice” that we will make to Honor Your “Choice” to Love us!       AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus is Teaching us in JQ#18 by asking us to take “Spiritual Inventory” of what we “believe” about Him and who we actually believe Jesus to be? Who we see Jesus as and what we “believe” ABOUT HIS PURPOSE is multifaceted in that we must examine our answer for the “Truth of God” contained within the Teachings of Jesus!As we answer from the “Truth of God” perspective, we must also observe the other side of our answer about Who we believe Jesus is which will lead us to examine how our “belief” in God lines up with the “Truth of God” about His Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ. God has already revealed Himself to us through His Word — the Holy Bible  —which is the entire story of Jesus from His Hand in the Creation, to the story of Jesus the Only Begotten Son being provided by the Father as the Sacrificial Lamb of God, and it takes us to the end of time itself when Jesus returns to gather His Bride and the Father in heaven throws a Great Wedding Feast as we enter into eternity with our Redeemer. This Most Important Question and then our examination of our “belief” about God must be viewed through the “eyes of God Himself” for God is Truth. When we “understand” that Jesus was sent by God, that Jesus is God’s Very Son, and that Jesus has “pleased the Father” by being obedient to the Father’s will even unto a cruel death, then we will be able to start aligning what we “believe in our hearts about God” with the “Truth of God” and that is when we can learn the Lesson Jesus is going to Teach, and Teach, and Teach!Jesus asks us personally to look deep into our soul and then look Him in the eye and tell Him face-to-face “who” we believe Him to be. When we look at our “belief about God” as compared to the Unchanging and Eternal Truth of God, we will realize the Truth of God that  (1) GOD IS ETERNALLY UNCHANGING and (2) that our“belief” of who Jesus is has no impact on the Unchanging Truth of Who Jesus IS — our belief changes us not Jesus!!!! So the Lesson Jesus is really getting at is this Question, “Do we know the Truth of God as God has revealed it and will reveal to each individual seeking to know God?” We must further consider the impact of our “belief” on our eternity for our ultimate eternity is based solely on how well that which we “believe” about God and Jesus actually “lines up” with the revealed “Truth of God” ——— the best place to learn that Truth is from the Word of God which can be found in His Bible, His Son, and His Holy Spirit Who is sent to “Teach” us the Truth of God. Remember, our Belief in God is important but our “belief” has no impact on the Self Existing God and His Truth so we must learn that God is the Unchanging Truth on which our eternity is based and therefore the real question is: “What do I know of what God says Himself to be and who does God say Jesus is and why did Jesus, God’s Only Begotten Son have to be obedient to the Father’s Will???”

MAY 29 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#18 “But who do you say that I am?” (Matthew 16:15)

MAY 29  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#18  “But who do you say that I am?” (Matthew 16:15)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, I thank You Lord for this season of learning — for by Your chastening and correcting I know that You Love me! When I don’t deserve Your Love, when I am “straying” from Your Truth and cannot find myself for the “darkness” that shrouds my wandering from You, Your Love Shines like a Guiding Like and You draw me back onto the “Narrow Pathway”! You Lord Jesus shelter me with Unconditional Love from the attacks of the world and the evil offerings of the wicked. Lord, I pray that l share with others in like manner the Pure and Unconditional Love that You have “Shared” with me and to all those that You put in my pathway may my light guide them to Your True Light!       AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus in His mysterious way has taken all the lessons and experiences that I have been “Graced” with along my Journey to God and He has placed a task before me that is a culmination of all the little pieces in my daily life in such a way that I cannot but be totally amazed that God uses daily life experiences to Teach us about His Kingdom!  However, we should not be surprised because God Himself Promised to reveal Himself to us if we but search for Him with all our heart.  In this study of The JESUS Questions, God has revealed His Plan and demonstrated that He will build our “understanding of God” one small block at a time. As each block of “understanding of God” is securely mortared into place with Holy Scripture and we have taken care to set each block in place using God’s “Level” of Moral Standards, we see that we are building a strong Foundation on the “Rock of Ages” and slowly but surely our House of God is taking shape. That is what has been happening with me through these Lessons and my personal involvement with Kingdom Work — the Holy Spirit has put all the memory verses and recent Lessons together in such a way that I see the “Strong Tower of Faith” where I may be sheltered from the world. This “Strong Tower of Faith” has formed to a point that I can clearly see God at work and the “Truth of God” being clearly revealed in my daily struggles. The Lesson that was really brought out was that God introduced what I now at this point of my Journey I can with all confidence declare as the “Cornerstone” of my Faith ——— When I started to give my honest answer to the personal Question Jesus asks of everyone: “But who do you say that I am?” (Matthew 16:15) that I could clearly see that all the Holy Spirit has Taught me so far is neatly summed up in a single verse, “Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” (John 14:6) Here as I asked myself, “What have I learned about Jesus in my life?”, the Holy Spirit brought that verse to my mind and I can say with all the twists and turns my “Journey to God” has taken me through thus far, (and I use the word “through” on purpose) that I see and know that Jesus is the “TRUTH” and the “THE TRUTH OF JESUS IS THE THE ONLY WAY” and it is only BY FOLLOWING THE WAY OF JESUS THAT I HAVE TRUE LIFE!!! This JQ#18 JESUS Question is a very, very, if not the most important Question asked so far in this JESUS Questions Study so I am praying that as I start this “Deeper Still” Journey into the Truth of God that all who read this will stop at this point of their life and set down some “markers” at this point of their Journey to God and seriously consider “Who do you say that Jesus is, to you?”  Jesus has very clearly stated “Who” He IS — therefore the Question really boils down to a Question of our personal belief, and so we must ask ourselves, am I going to believe the “TRUTH of God” or am I going to keep listening to the “lies of the world”? Read about the fall and note that even before Eve listened to Satan’s lie that she had already lied to herself — we need to ask ourself, “Am I lying to myself about God?” then go back and read John 14:6 and remember that “the Truth will set you free!”

MAY 28 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#18 “But who do you say that I am?” (Matthew 16:15)

MAY 28  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#18  “But who do you say that I am?” (Matthew 16:15)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Your Grace is sufficient. Lord, let this journey that You have placed before me  reflect a prayer prayed in 2004 where I prayed “Lord, help me take my head knowledge and convert it into heart knowledge because I know what I should be doing but my heart keeps hanging on to the old nature, take me away from the old nature and clothe me as You promised with a new creature that I may ‘…go and sin no more…’ against You and Thy Kingdom.” Lord Jesus, we need Thee every hour!     AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus is relentless in getting His Teachings across to us and He desires for us to look deep into our own lives and souls so that we can truly understand “Who” He really is and “Why” the Very Son of God took on flesh! When we think that we have come to a deep understanding, most often it is in reality still just a “surface” knowledge of His Grace. Jesus with His Questions makes us stop and think on a level that always takes us “deeper still”! The disciples have experienced Jesus first hand in their daily lives as they have literally spent 24/7 with Him and have seen Him accomplish miracle after miracle yet, Jesus with every Lesson and Life Experience always pointed to “our Father in heaven” as the source of His Power, so if anyone knew “Who” Jesus really is, it should have been the disciples that had seen Him calm the wind and the waves twice already and healed the multitudes every where He went! The disciples have seen Jesus take a few loaves and fishes and feed thousands and thousands just by breaking bread and praying to His Father to bless and to provide and God being faithful, answered all the prayers of Jesus. The disciples had just been given a great Lesson on discernment when Jesus taught “beware the doctrine of the Pharisees and the Sadducees” as the Pharisees and Sadducees were teaching “doctrines of men” and not “God commandments” to men, and we read in Matthew’s gospel that, “When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?” (Matthew 16:13) This Question would make the disciples stop and answer Jesus from the literal viewpoint of what they had heard other men say about who they thought Jesus was but we just like the disciples will miss the Lesson Jesus is about to Teach because the Main Question Jesus is asking is, “But who do you say that I am?” (Matthew 16:15) This very important personal Question is not a Question Jesus asked His disciples to give Jesus knowledge or information for we know that Jesus “knows the heart of men” so by now the disciples should know that when Jesus asks a Question that He is about to take us “deeper still” and sure enough this Question is a lead-in Question that Jesus uses to get us to focus our attention on another Truth of God! This method of Teaching is starting to reach His disciples and it is at this point of studying about Jesus that we also should pause and reflect on the Person of Jesus and look not at what men say about Jesus but dig deep into our personal experiences and ponder what it is that we really “know” about Jesus and not just what we have “heard” what other men think about Jesus. Jesus is asking a Question that will change your personal viewpoint for eternity ——— answer this Question from your personal experience and Jesus will change your heart from “I heard” to “I know”. Everyone who hears the question will find that what we think about Jesus is our “reality” of Jesus and don’t you think you know what is in your heart of hearts better than what men tell you should be in your heart? Think about this lead in Question and then answer what I believe to be the most important answer in regards to your eternal soul as you honestly answer Jesus face-to-face as He asks you this very, very personal question, “But who do you say that I am?” (Matthew 16:15) 

MAY 27 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#17 “How many loaves do you have?” (Matthew 15:34)

MAY 27  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#17 “How many loaves do you have?”  (Matthew 15:34)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer   

JESUS, take our daily desires and make them the will of the Father. When we start our day with prayer to the Only Begotten who died for our sin, let it be as Paul told the Corinthians, “We…plead [within ourselves] … not to receive the grace of God in vain…” but that with all our hands find to do that we will be doing it for the Glory of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Lord let us hear anew each morning Your Prayer for us that we will be “one with the Father” and know that it was the Father’s Will that His Only Begotten Son would be obedient the the Father’s Will and die on the cross for our sins, so let us as well be obedient to the Father’s Will and take up our cross daily and follow Jesus for we know He is One with You and has prepared a place that we may be together as “ONE” for eternity, but only through the shed blood of Jesus who purchased our “pardon” ——— Praise God from whom all blessings flow.     AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus is pictured as God giving the “gift” of “understanding” to His newly created world as God’s first recorded act of addressing sin was accomplished with the first words God spoke to address the “darkness” of the earth as God declared, “Let there be light, and there was light.” (Genesis 1:3)  We know that “light” is the “understanding” that Jesus keeps trying to Teach us because the “Light” is the greatest weapon against the darkness of sin and the “Light” IS the LIGHT (UNDERSTANDING) OF JESUS who as the apostle James wrote of Jesus, “If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally…” (James 1:5) This advice to seek wisdom came as James was addressing the fact that “knowing the testing of your faith produces patience…” and then the solution was to ask God for wisdom for the Truth of God that Jesus is Teaching with the “bread” Question is that we must eat the “good” bread that God Himself provided, just as He sent Manna from Heaven to feed the Israelites while they were learning to follow God while wandering in the wilderness. So if God gives us “Light” to dispel the “darkness” then we should develop the “understanding” that “man cannot live by bread alone…” (Mathew 4:4) but to resist temptation by consuming the word of God. So Jesus uses the “bread” illustration to give us “understanding” that our only way to fight “sin and darkness” is to abide in the “Light of His Word” — the “Light” is Jesus ——— “[Jesus is] the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world.” (John 1:9) Jesus had been Teaching the disciples all along that by our “belief” that we will be “healed of our infirmities” and Jesus was continually “Teaching” and then asking “do you understand” and then to make sure we get the point Jesus gives us a deeper explanation by using examples of everyday things that we have a common knowledge about ——— so the “bread” Lesson Jesus is Teaching in this passage is to remind us that our “need” for “bread” is “daily” and it is by “understanding” of the Word of God  “DAILY” that we nourish our spirits, in essence we fulfill the prayer Jesus prayed when the disciples asked Him to “teach us to pray” and Jesus prayed: “Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread…” (Matthew 6:9-11) So if Jesus is the Light and He has come with the single purpose to reconcile our sin so that we may have fellowship with God the Father in heaven, don’t you think it would be wise to “UNDERSTAND” that in order for “bread” to nourish our bodies that we must “consume” it?  As Jesus told the Pharisees that were continually testing Jesus as to being the Son of God — Jesus told them “A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” (Matthew 16:4) Jesus is the fulfillment of the sign of the “prophet Jonah” as the “Bread” was “broken for our sin” and the “Blood” was shed, and the “Light” was buried IN DEATH but on the THIRD DAY Jesus rose victorious over “darkness, sin, death, and the grave”!!!   Don’t you think that’s a pretty good days work on a loaf of “Bread” and a drink of “Living Water”?

MAY 26  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#17 “How many loaves do you have?”  (Matthew 15:34)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Jesus, Jesus ——— there is NO other Name that we can call on that produces such “LIFE” as that which You Provide for believers ——— abundant and free for You have paid the price for the penalty of sin! All sin, which was taken upon Yourself as You faced death and the grave all alone on that Cross at Calvary has been atoned for by Your Blood which was shed for the sins of the world! Who can explain the mind of God that chose to correct the sin problem by such a Great Sacrifice of giving to an undeserving world the Precious Gift of His Innocent, Only-Begotten Son so that God’s Grace could be extended to all that “Repent” and turn from their sin. No, we cannot explain the mind of God but we can see and know for ourselves the Heart of God because His Plan for us and our “Good” has been executed and as Jesus said when He had accomplished ON THE CROSS the “Work” of the Father, “It is Finished!” Praise the Heart of God and the Great Sacrifice of His Son that all who believe “shall not perish”, so my prayer Lord Jesus is “lead us in paths of righteousness for His Name’s sake and deliver us from evil” for Your’s is the Eternal Kingdom Forever!     AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus is the fulfillment of the words Abraham spoke to his son Isaac as both were being obedient to the Will of God and were climbing the mountain where God had commanded Abraham to offer his son Isaac as a “sacrifice”, when Isaac turned to his father Abraham and asked, “…but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?” Abraham who had been told by God, “…take now your son, your only son Isaac…and offer him…” turned to Isaac who was carrying the fire and the wood for this momentous sacrifice spoke these “Prophetic” words, “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb…” (Genesis 22:8) God’s Plan of Salvation was revealed through Abraham’s obedience to the will of the Father when Abraham raised the knife to sacrifice his only son for an Angel of the Lord spoke and told Abraham not to harm Isaac!  Abraham had been Faithful in being obedient to God and had in effect “offered” Isaac and proved that he would be obedient to the Father’s Will. God had demonstrated that His Plan of Salvation also included a “Substitute” —— for God had intended from before creation to solve the sin problem of the world by providing Jesus as the “Lamb without blemish”, His Only Begotten Son (Genesis 22:1-14). We read the confirmation of God’s Plan to resolve the sin issue in the book of Revelation when at the end of time that there is scheduled the separation of the sinners from the repentant fulfilling the Teaching of Jesus in the parable of the “separating the wheat from the tares”  —— as the “repentant” will have their names written in “the book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world…”. (Revelation 13:8) but those that have not accepted God’s Plan of Salvation ——— Jesus Christ ——— will burn eternally in the lake of fire! Yes God is very serious about “Life” and God does not want any to “perish” so God provided the “Lamb” in the form of His Only Begotten Son Jesus who was “Sacrificed” for the sins of the world. Jesus is Teaching in JQ#17 “How many loaves do you have?” that the greatest problem in our lives is getting “bread” for our very existence and Jesus boldly states that “leaven” represents sin and death ——Jesus declares Himself as the answer to sin when He states: “I Am the Bread of Life” (John 6:35) It is important that we understand that God provides the “Bread and the Lamb” but we must be obedient to Him to “offer sacrifice” and to “beware” of the doctrine of sin that we allow into our lives (Repent) and consume the “bread” that gives “life”. Don’t you think it is reasonable to assume that since God wrote an entire book centered around His Only Begotten Son and His Death on a Cross as the Atonement of Sin, and that our Eternal Destiny rests on our “believing in Jesus”, and that God is truly serious about “sin”? The Bible front to back, every jot and tittle, is a picture of “Salvation — God’s Greatest Gift” — can you not reach out and accept His Gift? God not only will give you your “daily bread” — He is Gracious and Merciful and desires “abundant life” for you and He will also give you butter and jam for your “bread”!!!

MAY 25 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#17 “How many loaves do you have?” (Matthew 15:34)

MAY 25  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#17 “How many loaves do you have?”  (Matthew 15:34)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer   

JESUS, Thank You Lord that “our sin” took top priority in Your concerns. The more I study and see the mighty works of God accomplished in the life of this sinner and read of the mighty miracles God orchestrated among entire nations of sinners, I am overwhelmed with how much “effort” that the Father God, His Only Begotten Son, and the Powerful Spirit of God has expended on the correction of man’s greatest problem, PERSONAL sin. And to think that man volunteers to sin so easily and to recognize that man has brought the curse of sin upon himself, it makes Grace that much more Merciful! God who is uncreated and does not need us for His Self-existence, has chosen to address the “sin problem” for us and has gone to extreme lengths to provide “atonement” for our sins and a path by which we can attain His Forgiveness, and we fail to recognize that God has had a plan all along, from the first words God spoke after creation to the last words He will speak before time itself comes to an end — all His efforts have been to address sin in our lives! Praise God, for without Him there would be no life, no forgiveness, and no HOPE FOR A FUTURE!!!     AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus asked this simple Question but just like all Questions Jesus asked, the Question is for our learning benefit and not to provide information or knowledge to Jesus. If we find ourselves lost on a journey we will stop and ask directions but we know with all certainty that Jesus is NOT LOST so the Questions that He asks are actually to give directions to us. Jesus Teaches us by asking Questions that make us reflect on our “common knowledge” and He encourages us with the Questions to “reason within ourselves” by using the intellect that God has bestowed on everyone, and thereby Jesus Teaches that if we will but stop and look at the world around us and use our God-given faculties to consider the Truth of God that He reveals to us with our day-to-day experiences, that we will come to an “understanding” that will lead us into the knowledge of God and the beginning of wisdom. This Lesson Jesus is Teaching on “bread” is one such Lesson where Jesus uses something everyone of every generation and culture can relate to — bread. We can easily tie many Teachings of God together using bread like this passage which is specifically built around bread, and as Jesus mentions “leaven” our thoughts should turn to the Passover when God demonstrated His Power to “free” His people from our “slavery” and also to the greatest thing that enslaves every generation, “sin”, so the Passover is significant because of the command of God to eat unleavened bread as the death angel passed over all who had applied the blood and those that had complied with God’s commands were saved from the plague of death God released in order to free His people from slavery! Then, more bread as King David ate the “Showbread” as he went about doing the work of God. Jesus in this passage is recognized as the “Son of David” and Jesus is also using “bread” to accomplish His Work for the Kingdom, and soon the culmination of the entire ministry of Jesus will be summed up as Jesus takes a loaf of bread and “breaks bread” and declares “this is my body which was broken for you” (Matthew 26:26) and Jesus specifically stated: “For the Son of Man has come to save that which was lost.” (Matthew 18:11) So we can easily see that bread has been used by God and that God has been “planning” our salvation from the first words God spoke, “Let there be light” (Genesis 1:3) which was to address the darkness and emptiness of the world, which we all know is a picture of sin. The entire Bible is God executing His Plan for His chosen people to free us from our selfishness which expresses itself as “sin” as we reject God, yet God parts the sea and provides for our safety even in the worst storms and then to seal-the-deal, God because of His Love for this sinful world, “gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in [Jesus] shall not perish but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16) If we will but listen to the Master Teacher we can learn the Truth of God and apply even the simplest things, such as the eating of bread, to remind us of the Great Love of God and turn from our sin and as the multitudes did when Jesus healed them, we will marvel at His Grace, we will worship at His feet, and we will glorify the God of Israel. Don’t you think that is a pretty good plan?  

5/24/20 Sunday - Covid-19 Destroyer of Worlds

Observing Covid-19 through the social media lens during “quarantine” is very eye opening - I see the whole world is hurting.

OBSERVED:

(1) Covid IS responsible for the deaths of thousands of people world wide.

(2) Covid IS NO respecter of race, religion, or nationality.

(3) Covid IS preventable and has a high recovery rate.

(4) Since Covid is world-wide and deadly then the world itself is “at risk”.

(5) Therefore, the world should unite and work together to “understand” the Truth of Covid in order to insure the world is not destroyed.

(6) More monies have been spent and lost worldwide on Covid than on any other thing in this generation.

(7) Fear itself has been elevated to a position of deity and controls the world more than any religion.

THREE QUESTIONS OF COVID TRUTH

(1) Q1?-How is Covid transmitted?

(2) Q2?-Are there any successful methods against the Covid?

(3) Q3?-Where did Covid originate?

OBSERVATION AND STATEMENT OF THE OBVIOUS

If the world’s water supply was becoming contaminated then the source of the contamination would be determined and then a successful antidote would be developed and applied. At the same time that the source was being identified, poisoned water made drinkable, the world would also need to prevent the contamination from infecting healthy water sources. If all the world’s water sources become contaminated then no one survives.

Substitute “healthy people” for “water supply” and equate “Covid” with “contamination”

If the world’s “healthy people” are becoming “infected with Covid” then the source of the “Covid” would be determined and then a successful antidote would be developed and applied. At the same time that the source was being identified, “infected people” would be made “healthy”, the world would also need to prevent the “Covid” from infecting healthy “people”. If all the world’s “healthy people” became “infected” then no one survives.

DECLARATION OF THE 3 PRIORITIES

Since it is agreed that Covid is deadly and worldwide then the world must accept Covid as a “real and present danger”!

PRIORITY #1 - Once the world agrees that Covid is deadly and a worldwide “real and present danger”, the world must develop ways to keep “healthy people” healthy and prevent those “infected with Covid” from dying.

PRIORITY #2 - In order to achieve Priority #1 the world should determine how “Covid infects” individuals. If the world does not know how Covid “infects” and spreads throughout the world population then the only hope is to direct all efforts worldwide to achieve Priority #1.

PRIORITY #3 - If the transmission of the infection can be determined then the next logical step is to follow the “Covid infection” to its original source. The “source” determination should not be the priority endeavor unless it helps the world understand how “Covid infects” (PRIORITY #2) and at all times PRIORITY #1 SHOULD REMAIN THE WORLD’S TOP PRIORITY!!!

Any activity that is in opposition to these 3 PRIORITIES or hinders the progress of any of these 3 PRIORITIES must be viewed as an attack on the peoples of the world. Any activity that is promoted above these 3 PRIORITIES is not acceptable and has no validity in the RESOLUTION of the CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER of Covid to the world’s population.

All monies worldwide should be spent to promote the 3 Priorities. Certainly, any monies spent to promote death should not be deemed an “essential world expenditure” - funding of Planned Parenthood and similar abortion facilities should be suspect since all abortions result in the death of the unborn and therefore all “abortion” facilities and activities related to this “death” culture must be declared as “non-essential” world activities because they do not contribute to the success of the 3 PRIORITIES! If “death” is promoted over “life” then the motives of those promoting any activity against the 3 PRIORITIES should be disallowed and investigated as a crime against world humanity.

Secondly, any activities such as “name calling”, “pointing fingers”, “financial gain”, “unconstitutional legislation”, “political promotions”, and any general “abuse of authority” must not be tolerated as each can only be viewed as a “distraction” from achieving success with the 3 PRIORITIES!!! Any activity that does not contribute to the success of the 3 Priorities can not be allowed!

UNTIL THE WORLD IS HEALTHY AND SAFE FROM COVID, THERE SHOULD BE NOTHING BUT THE 3 PRIORITIES

If there is something more important than saving the world then the 3 PRIORITIES can be amended, but before amending the 3 PRIORITIES for World Health and Safety the world must be consulted - the world population should be in the hands of “We the People” of the world and not in the hands of a few “elitists” that declare that the problem with the world is that the world is “overpopulated”!

MAY 24 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#17 “How many loaves do you have?” (Matthew 15:34)

MAY 24  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#17 “How many loaves do you have?”  (Matthew 15:34)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Lord, Redeemer, my Rock and my Salvation, Praise Your Holy Name.  Lord Jesus when I look back at where the journey that seeking You has taken me, I am in awe of the “Way” that You have Provided for my needs, all my needs, both the “physical” and the “Spiritual”. Lord, I may never understand but my understanding should and shall not interfere with my Praise for the ONE that is Worthy, the ONLY ONE that is worthy — in You alone is “Truth”, and You alone can give “Life”. No greater “Love” has ever been given, no greater “Gift” will ever be given than the “Gift of God” of the “Sacrificial Lamb” — His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ — “Sacrificed of God” that man could be reconciled to his Creator in spite of all our sins and iniquities!     AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus never asks a Question without a Divine Intent to Teach us about the Father!  Any time Jesus asks any Question we should really pay attention because the Master Teacher is using the Question to bring our focus on some “Spiritual Truth” by using our common everyday experiences to give us “understanding” of the supernatural life God gives so abundantly to all those that believe Jesus is the Savior and that as a believer in the Son of God that we are going to live for the rest of our “eternal” existence with Father God!!  JQ#17 taken by itself is a simple six word sentence with the longest word being six letters (keep in mind the whole earth was created in just six days) and the subject is a physical item that is experienced by every soul that has ever lived or will ever live on the earth ——— “bread”! When we look at the context surrounding this Question and see that the woman that came to Jesus requesting that her daughter who was “severely demon-possessed” (Matthew 15:22) be healed was first addressed by a statement that on the surface seems out of place for Jesus the “Healer”, as He initially stated to the woman: “It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs.” (Matthew 15:26). However, if Jesus is starting another “Teaching of Deep Spiritual Truths” then He will do so by using a “shared experience” that everyone can relate to and an “experience” that we already have a base understanding of. In this case Jesus has used the consumption of “bread” as the common experience and we see how He puts the consuming of “bread” in juxtaposition to “great faith”. Before you accuse the writer of grasping at straws let us look at the progression of this lesson of consumption of bread as a “Great Spiritual Truth” as Jesus puts the “Bread Lesson” down on the bottom shelf so everyone can get to it as we read from Matthew 15:21 through Matthew 16:12 the “Master’s Lesson” on “Bread”. In Matthew 15:21-28 Jesus heals a severely demon-possessed girl and uses the seemingly out of place phrase about throwing “children’s bread” to the “dogs” and the mother responded “even …dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table” (Matthew 15:26-27) and Jesus then responds to the woman’s comments of eating “crumbs” [of bread] “from [the] masters’ table” with this great commendation to the woman: “O woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire.” (Matthew 15:28) and then we see the results of her “great faith” as we read “and her daughter was healed that very hour.” (Matthew 15:28). Then Matthew records  that the “multitudes” brought to Jesus those in need of “physical healing” and Matthew notes “and [Jesus] healed them.” (Matthew 15:29) with the results of all those mighty works that the [multitudes] “glorified the God of Israel”. (Matthew 15:31)  The significance of “bread” in the works of God starts to surface when we consider the first comment Jesus made as the woman had first petitioned Jesus by declaring “O Lord, Son of David!” and Jesus responded “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” (Matthew 15:22-24). This “bread” Lesson then begins with a Jesus introducing the problem of “lostness” and we see the introduction of “[bread] crumbs…from the masters’ table” and Jesus then saying to the woman who realized the significance of “bread” in relation to her “faith” was rewarded by Jesus in the form of commending her on her “great faith” and then Jesus heals her “demon-possessed” daughter which was a “spiritual” ailment. Then Jesus immediately heals “physical” infirmities from the “multitudes” and then when Jesus mentions “compassion” for the multitudes we somehow end up talking about “loaves” of bread… [JQ#17] ?? Then the topic moves from “physical” infirmities to “spiritual infirmities” as Jesus, in response to another attack by the legalist of His day, introduces the “spiritual” concept of “leaven” of the false teaching of “the Pharisees and the Sadducees” (Matthew 16:6) and ends with this summary of the Teachings on “Bread” with this verse, “Then [the disciples] understood that [Jesus] did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” (Matthew 16:12) Are you still surprised by the simple “bread” Question JQ#17 “How many loaves do you have?”  (Matthew 15:34) or do you not consider that Jesus is asking you to take inventory of all the “false doctrines” that you personally consume as your “daily bread”?!?!? —just a thought.  There is a reason we have the cliche “You reap what you sow” and Jesus is telling us in His “Bread Lesson” that we make bread from the harvest of the seeds we’ve sown in our life!