JANUARY 03 THE JESUS QUESTIONS Introduction-03: Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus: JQ#1-JQ#33 (Matthew 1:1 thru 3:17)

 JANUARY  03  THE JESUS QUESTIONS   Introduction-03: Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus: JQ#1-JQ#33  (Matthew 1:1 thru 3:17)

LIVING FOR JESUS   Daily Prayer    

JESUS, I pray for Your Mercy and Grace with each new day that you present to me as Your Gift of Life! Lord Jesus, I know that if I follow You as You commanded that Your blessings will be upon my life and I can experience Your Rest which You have promised. Lord I have made many wrong turns and foolish mistakes in my life by going out on my own and each wrong turn ends up proving that I truly need “Guidance” and You have “led me safe thus far”. Lord Jesus, daily I look to You for my “daily bread”, both physical and spiritual and I thank You Jesus for providing both “spiritual bread” and “physical bread” to me in such abundance even though I am so undeserving! Lord Jesus, my goal still is that one day I will stand in Your Presence and hear You say, “Well done thy good and faithful servant.” (Matthew 25:21)    AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus led a “Lifestyle” that has never been approached by any other person throughout all of history and the “Lessons” that He Taught as part of His Lifestyle are still being successfully applied to every person’s life that is willing to “learn” from the “Master”. On my spiritual journey to “TRUTH” I have been introduced to several sources that claim to know who Jesus really was but then the thought struck me that if a person claims to be an “authority” on someone that lived over 2000 years ago, then how could any person so far removed from the “factual Jesus” proclaim 2000 years later that they know the “TRUTH” about Jesus? It does not make sense for someone to take a document like the Holy Bible that has been unchanged and undefiled and “divinely” preserved for thousands and thousands of years and 2000 years later arrogantly proclaim that all those “eyewitness” accounts of the Life of Jesus are not accurate accounts of the “real” Jesus!?!? I want to ask those making those arrogant claims what “authority” do they claim to be the “source” of this newfound ?Truth? and I am guessing that they will reply with some vague statement that puffs up their own personal intellect which is obviously a greater intellect than anyone before them and also greater than God’s own Supreme Intellect because now 2000 years later, the world is now obviously being blessed by someone smart enough to point out God’s “mistakes”! Believers should now abandon thousands of years of commentary and eyewitness accounts and personal testimonies because after all these misguided people writing and reading the Bible could not possibly know what this new “intelligence” has had revealed to them therefore believers should abandon their old faith and accept a new faith in the word from someone that lived 2000 years after Jesus died on a cross for our sins (surely this new intelligence has more authority than this “Son of God” who got himself killed by His own people!) — yes, believers indeed should ignore everything the Holy Bible attests to as the “TRUTH” (as per the very WORD OF GOD HIMSELF ) and listen instead to this new “superior intellect”!?!?!?  I have learned to distrust those who claim to “know what God really meant to say” {{see Genesis 3:1-7 that gives a description of one such “superior intellect” who claims to know “what God really meant”}} — the purpose of this blog is to encourage you to read the Holy Bible FOR YOURSELF and to let the Spirit of God reveal the “TRUTH” to YOU PERSONALLY from the TRUTH OF GOD contained within those Sacred Pages and BELIEVE that God Himself has Promised that the “TRUTH” is waiting to reveal itself to you personally. There is no claim from the writer of this blog as to being a superior intellect that wishes to share with the less intellectually endowed the “TRUTH” according to some “new revelation” as if “TRUTH” has been hidden from even God for all these years!?!? The purpose of this blog is to go through the “eyewitness” account of the writer of the first book in the New Testament, St. Matthew, and to listen to what this person who lived with JESUS and observed the Lifestyle of JESUS had to say about the most well known person in history. The Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus has had more positive influence on more lives than any person or event in the past, including Mohammed Ali who claimed himself to be “The Greatest” (and boy was he good!) or the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended the 2nd World War!  If Jesus has accomplished all these things that are now historical facts witnessed by literally billions of people in their personal lives then surely we can learn from those who wrote down for future generations what Jesus had personally Taught them and what their BELIEF in Jesus has accomplished in their lives — they wrote because they recognized the “TRUTH” when they saw it and heard it! Remember that none of the writers of the 66 books in the Bible received any financial compensation and on several occasions the things they wrote resulted in their death so we know they were not “profit driven” and we must assume they were inspired to write by a “Source” greater than their fear of starvation and death!!!  The Holy Bible begins with the only “TRUTH” we will ever really need to know as Genesis 1:1 starts with the five most powerful words ever written, “In the beginning, God created…” and if you can get past those first five words then you have moved past the greatest roadblock on your personal journey to “TRUTH”. So the purpose of this blog then is to encourage you to read the Holy Scriptures and to let them “Teach” you “TRUTH” ! This blog will also point out that on this spiritual journey that you must travel your path alone with your chosen guide and you will do so in your life until you find and “believe” the “TRUTH” when it is revealed to you! Welcome to The Journey, let’s see what St. Matthew wrote about Jesus as we will start our “spiritual journey” with the assumption that the Holy Bible is TRUTH and GOD HIMSELF is the SOURCE and then when we read the Holy Scriptures we know that we are reading the “DIVINE RECORD” of God’s Instructions on Life — If you cannot begin your reading with GOD IS TRUTH then there is no need for you to bother to read either the Bible or this puny blog!