JUNE 25 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#20 “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you?” (Matthew 17:17)

 JUNE 25  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#20  “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you?” (Matthew 17:17)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer   

JESUS, Lord as I awake to a new day there is great Peace in my soul as I turn my thoughts to sitting down with my Bible and can feel the Presence of the Holy Spirit. Lord Jesus, sometimes and especially today it is almost like I am sitting and listening to the Holy Spirit with His “still small (and very comforting) voice” reading me stories of You Jesus. Lord I, nor can all the voices that have ever been lifted up in praise to You, shall ever be able to praise You enough! Your Eternal Presence which You have graciously bestowed on each individual that will “receive” You is worthy of ALL Praise, and Lord I pray for the Holy Spirit to Teach me how to make my spirit and soul an honorable place for you to reside in!!!     AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus uses each “Question” that He asks us to Teach a fine point about our “relationship to God” and JQ#20 has been preparing His disciples to consider the eventuality of Jesus returning to the Father, but only after Jesus Himself suffers and dies!?!? Jesus has been “Teaching” the disciples how to “live” their life in a manner in which God’s Power will be exhibited through them and now Jesus is Teaching that fine detail that there is no “Power” in the “physical” body but that “ALL Power” is in the form of the “Spirit of God” and the “physical” body is only a vessel that contains the “spiritual conduit” through which the “Power of God” will flow through our soul to others in which God chooses to do His Work. Jesus has previously Taught that the body and soul are separate and that we are not to “worry” about those that can “kill the body but cannot kill the soul” and immediately Jesus makes it clear that only God has the “power” to “destroy both body and soul in hell”  (JQ#10 — Matthew 10:28). Jesus with these two statements draws our attention to the fact that there are “forces” in the world that can “kill the body” but “cannot kill the soul” therefore the distinction is that our “physical” bodies are temporary vessels that contains our eternal “spiritual” souls and that our real concern should not be about our “physical” bodies which can be killed by worldly forces but we should be really concerned about our “spiritual relationship” to the “One” that can “destroy both body and soul in hell” and by that statement Jesus is warning us that there is a “Coming Judgment” for every individual at which time the ONE THAT CREATED our soul will make a decision if HE WILL DESTROY our  eternal soul by fire in the pits of Hades!?!?!  The Lessons Jesus Teaches us is that His Purpose for taking on a “body of flesh” is to Teach us how to “preserve” our eternal soul through a “spiritual relationship” with “our Father in Heaven” and that “relationship” is “Spiritual” in nature. In JQ#20 Jesus is telling us again not to worry about the “physical” body which the world has power to “kill” for that is nothing compared to the “Power of God” to preserve our “Eternal Soul” as Jesus reminds us at the start of JQ#20 that His “physical” body is going to be “killed” but that the “Power of God” will preserve His Eternal Soul by raising Jesus from the dead on the third day thereby demonstrating that God alone has the “Power” over our souls which are “eternal” so we should not worry about our bodies but be totally concerned about our souls —— — remember when Jesus Taught not to be concerned about “physical” things that He said, “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness” (Matthew 6:33) which now makes sense that we do not find God by looking for “physical” things but we must “seek” God with our “Spiritual” nature which God has imparted to our “souls”.  Now in JQ#20 Jesus tells us the “key” to a “spiritual relationship with God” is through our “Faith” or “Belief in God” as Jesus answers His disciples when they asked Him why they had failed to cast out the demon in the boy as Jesus ends the JQ#20 Lesson by stating to His disciples why they failed when He answered them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.”  (Matthew 17:20) Then Jesus concludes JQ#20 just as He introduced JQ#20 with a reminder of His upcoming death and “resurrection”, “The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill Him, and the third day He will be raised up.” (Matthew 17:21) Jesus is Teaching that God will demonstrate His Glory and Power over death and the grave by “Resurrecting Jesus” but we are so brainwashed by the world that we fail to see the “Spiritual Glory of God” and focus only on the “physical” death and we feel just like what Matthew recorded in this statement about the reaction of the disciples when Jesus told them He would be “killed by men” ———“And [His disciples] were exceedingly sorrowful.” (Matthew 17:21) Jesus in the same sentence stated that “men” would “kill Him” and that “God” would “raise Him the third day” so we must answer the personal question that surfaces here ——— why do we worry more about what “men” can do to the body than what “God” can do to the “soul” ????? — —— you don’t think it could be Satan trying to scare us with his threats of “death” just like He has been doing every day since God told him “because you [Satan] have [deceived Adam and Eve], you are cursed more than all cattle, and more than every beast of the field; on your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.” (Genesis 3:14) ———well I know that if I had been cursed to crawl on my belly and eat dust that I would attack everyone that walked upright on two feet, wouldn’t you?