SEPTEMBER 15 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#29 “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?” (Matthew 22:42)

 SEPTEMBER 15  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#29  “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?”  (Matthew 22:42)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Lord we awake each morning to a new circumstance in our earthly life and are aware that our lives are constantly changing as we get one day older, then another year older as our bodies grow older each day, even with our best efforts to stay in the best of physical health. It is when we realize our “mortality” that we can see how God has revealed Himself to us through life itself, for we experience physical birth, are nurtured by our parents, become independent and yet we are always moving one day closer to death which will overcome even the strongest of physical bodies! Yet as we see the physical world decay, we see God not as a physical corruptible God but as a Spiritual Incorruptible Creator God that is Eternal and Unchanging! This Eternal God has demonstrated His Power over both life and death so we can see the physical world and our physical bodies decaying into death and dust but through that mortal lens we can gaze into God’s Immortality — we have HOPE in our “spirit” when we hear this Eternal, Incorruptible, Unchanging, All-Powerful God tells us to call Him “Abba Father” and then His Son tells us how to “Be Born Again” and become “Spiritual” Heirs to the Kingdom of this Awesome, Gracious, Merciful God, knowing that our Spirit is Eternal for it has joined with the Eternal Unchanging Spirit of God! Thank You LORD, for NEVER CHANGING and for ETERNALLY EXTENDING YOUR GRACE!!!   AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus is now in His Final Week, He has made His Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday with the multitudes crying “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!” (Matthew 21:9/ Psalms 118:26). Jesus made His entry into Jerusalem on a donkey fulfilling the Prophecy of the Messiah that the prophet Zechariah had written 600 years earlier about the entry of the Messiah into the city of Jerusalem: “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold your King is coming to you; He is just and having salvation, lowly and riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey.” (Zechariah 9:9) Once Jesus entered Jerusalem His first order of business as the Messiah was to clean out the temple and return it to a “house of prayer” and immediately Jesus was questioned “By what authority are You doing these things?” (Matthew 22:23) which started Jesus Teaching 3 Parables on “The Supreme Authority of GOD” revealing 3 Spiritual Laws that demonstrated that “True Power and Authority come from God, and God alone!” Jesus concluded the Lessons on True Power and Authority with the declaration that it is the Commandments of God on which “…hang all the Law and the Prophets.” (Matthew 22:40) Jesus has been spending His Last Days Teaching the Truths of God that the legalists (the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the Herodians, the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders of Zion) had become blinded to because of their selfish desire to “be like God” {power mongering} and to have “authority” over the people. Jesus continued addressing the “legalists/power mongers” and one can only assume that Jesus knows that “legalism/power mongering” and following the “doctrines of men” were the most detrimental things to those “…seeking the kingdom of God and His righteousness…” (Matthew 6:33) therefore Jesus continues His Last Week of Lessons on resolving this “legalism/power mongering” issue for “While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, saying, “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?” (Matthew 22:41-42). This is a good question for everyone who might be questioning the “True Authority of God” keeping in mind that Jesus is the Son of God sent to take away the sin of the world and bring repentance and salvation! “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)