MARCH 30 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#12 *Who decides what is legal, God or man?* ——— “What man is there among you who has one sheep and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out? Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep?” (Matthew 12:11-12a)

 MARCH 30  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#12 *Who decides what is legal, God or man?*  ———  “What man is there among you who has one sheep and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out? Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep?” (Matthew 12:11-12a)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, I am overwhelmed again by Your Grace and Endless Mercy! Lord, the more I try to get rid of self and decrease, You seem to pour out blessings so rich that I pray for humbleness to know that it has nothing to do with me and everything to do with You! Lord keep me knowing that all that I do for the kingdom is nothing more than my “reasonable service” and that all the good that has come my way is just “crumbs” from the King’s Table. Lord, as I walk for this season on Your Holy Ground, my prayer is that I will keep my focus on Glorifying God and know that after the mountain top there is a valley where my “reasonable service to others” will be used for the uplifting of Your Kingdom!    AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus is a historical fact. The Holy Bible is the most published book, ever, and that is just another fact. The Holy Bible contains a consistent dialog throughout its 66 books even though the books were penned by various writers of which 44 have been identified over a period of over 1500 years. That single fact that there is a unity throughout the writings contained in the Holy Bible sets the Holy Bible apart from every other writing of any language or any nation or any people in the recorded history of mankind! Add to the unity exhibited in the Holy Bible the additional fact that the writers were from different cultures, different eras in history, and different social and economic strata yet each writer maintained this remarkable unity of thought! That single unique fact can not be matched by any set of writings previous nor will any set of writings in the future be able to supplant the Holy Bible as “The Book”! The Holy Bible has been printed in 2,454 languages and is “The All Time Best Seller” with over 5 billion copies having been printed! These “facts” can be found from more accepted scholarly sources than any other document ever printed and that also is a “fact” that makes the Holy Bible a completely unique entity. Not to get off track here, let me point out that the topic of JQ#12 deals with “legality” and if “legality” itself does not rest solidly on “facts” then legality itself does not have a “leg to stand on”! Jesus not only Teaches us God’s Truth with each Lesson but Jesus does so in a logical sequence that is the secret to the “Unity” discovered and documented in the Holy Bible and that secret is that God is in control of every thing in His Creation and only because He IS the Creator can He accomplish the Divine Unity that is a “fact” easily established by the Holy Bible. This “fact” is unique to the Holy Bible and the Creator God of the Holy Bible. It is important to establish as historical fact that Jesus walked the earth and just like court records of any legal proceedings, the Holy Bible has recorded the statements of eyewitness accounts of the events recorded in the Holy Bible. The “fact” that recorded statements of so many different people over such an extended period of time documenting that they have observed the same exact “Truth” should establish “precedent” that cannot be questioned in any court anywhere in the world — in any and every legal system ever established.  It is with this “legal” establishment of the “facts” of these eyewitness accounts that we begin our “trial” of JQ#12 Jesus Question “Who decides what is legal, God or man?” by taking a statement from Jesus Himself that as after He had asked the Question on legality to the “lawmakers” of His time on earth (the Pharisees) that Jesus said to the lawmakers: “But if you had known [God’s Law] … you would not have condemned the guiltless.” (Matthew 12:7)  The beginning of American Jurisprudence was established by our forefathers using God’s Law as the moral basis for making decisions and I question how it is that man has gained enough “wisdom” in 2000 years that we have now “legally” abandoned the Eternal Living God and excommunicated Him from our legal system — especially when we have so great a cloud of witnesses that know for a fact that God is not dead for we still receive blessings from Him on a daily basis? To legislate God out of the legal system is equivalent to making the oxygen in air and water illegal to consume!!! Without God, there is no TRUTH!!!