NOVEMBER 14 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?” (Matthew 26:40)

 NOVEMBER 14  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?”  (Matthew 26:40)

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer   

JESUS, Lord and my Savior, all my praise is Yours for You alone are Worthy of praise. Lord You have showered more blessings on me than I deserve for I know that I have nothing with which I can repay my “sin-debt” to God so my prayer is “Have Mercy on me a sinner”. Lord I can only place myself at Your Mercy and pray that when I am judged before God that He will look upon the Blood Bought Righteousness of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, sacrificed for all my sins and all the sins of the world! Lord I believe You GAVE Your Life for mine and in Your Death Only is Life Eternal for all who do BELIEVE!    AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has been Teaching His disciples all things that they should know in order that they could in turn teach His Truth to a lost and dying world and now Jesus is in Jerusalem for His Final Passover where  the prophecy of “The Suffering Servant” will be fulfilled and the Lamb of God will be sacrificed and fulfill what Abraham had stated to his son Isaac, “And Abraham said, ‘My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.’” (Genesis 22:8) It is significant as we study the last two Jesus Questions (JQ#32 & JQ#33) that we keep in perspective that Jesus culminates His public ministry during the Passover in Jerusalem as the Lamb of God and that as His last drop of Innocent Blood was shed at Calvary that His final Words were “IT IS FINISHED.” (John 19:30)! So let us look at the last two days leading up to the culmination of all prophecy of the Messiah, God’s Chosen One, and His Purpose on earth as we read, “Now it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, that He said to His disciples, ‘You know that after two days is the Passover, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.’” (Matthew 26:1-2) Jesus had just wrapped up His Teaching about the Kingdom of Heaven and the Final Judgement when Jesus had stated clearly that at the “Final Judgement” that “All nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats…then the King will say to those on His right hand, ’Come you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.’” (Matthew 25:31-34) and then Jesus lists those things that the “King” is pleased with that the disciples asked Jesus when they were given the opportunity to do those things for Him and Jesus answered them, “Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do [these things] to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.” (Matthew 25:45) therefore Jesus is Teaching His disciples that they are to do for others all the things Jesus had showed by His Example as the way to live our lives giving sacrificially to others, especially to “the least of these”! Jesus has just announced how we should treat others and then Jesus moves on to fulfilling His Purpose on Earth as He announces that in “two days is the Passover” and brings the disciples attention to His Final Act of Obedience to His Father as Jesus says, “…the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.” (Matthew 26:2) The reaction to this announcement by Jesus is prophetic to America’s response over 2000 years later as Matthew records, “Then the chief priest, the scribes, and the elders of the people …plotted …[against] Jesus by trickery [to] kill Him.” (Matthew 26:3-5) Can you not see that the main issue in America today is that our government and the majority of our leaders and lawmakers are offended by the crucifixion of Jesus and His Resurrection and they have “plotted” to “kill Him [and His Teachings]” by removing prayer from our schools, by forbidding God in the government (Separation of Church and State), and by passing laws (Abortion) that make taking life from the unborn “legal”!?!  After all, Jesus had just Taught that what we do to the “least of these” that we are doing it “to Him” and if we kill the unborn then by God’s definition we are killing Jesus His Only Begotten Son!!! Jesus had mentioned the reward of protecting the innocent as inheriting the kingdom but He ended that Lesson by listing the punishment of those that harm the innocent when He said, “And these [that harm the innocent] will go away into everlasting punishment…” and the rewards of those that protect them are, “…but the righteous [enter] into eternal life.” (Matthew 25:46) It goes beyond all logic to conceive that God would reward with “eternal life” those that choose to end the life of the unborn, for surely the unborn qualify as the “least of these”!?!?!?!?!?!  As always, Jesus gives us the choice and He has provided the Perfect Example so you must ask yourself, “How have I been treating “the least of these”????