SEPTEMBER 23 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#29 “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?” (Matthew 22:42)

 SEPTEMBER 23  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 — Praise, Glory, and Honor to the Only Begotten Son of God that was Obedient to the Father’s Will and Sacrificed Himself for our sins! Lord, there is truly none good among us and yet You became one of us to show us the Way to the Righteousness of God. Jesus, the Father has a reason for “why?” the DIVINE PLAN of SALVATION required Your BLOOD, Your Innocent Guilt-Free BLOOD to be shed for our sins — In the beginning, God decreed that the PENALTY FOR SIN IS DEATH and You shed Your Precious BLOOD as the Propitiation for our iniquities in OBEDIENCE to the Father’s Will — forever will all men receive the Father’s GIFT OF GRACE because HIS SON was OBEDIENT — Praise, Glory, and Honor to the SON!   AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus answered all the scribes and Pharisees questions and then Jesus in turn asked them a Question from the Holy Scripture that the scribes and Pharisees could not answer. This inability to give Jesus an answer from the Holy Scriptures which they were supposed to be the “authority” on was such a great embarrassment to them that “…from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore…” (Matthew 22:46)  Jesus, being the Master Teacher, then “spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples” (Matthew 23:1) and explained to them “why” that He had spent the majority of His Last Week on earth dealing with the scribes and Pharisees who had been continually attacking Jesus and questioning His Authority. Jesus does this because the main problem with the scribes and Pharisees was the fact that they were supposed to be representatives of God and God’s Commands but because of their desire for personal power they had usurped God’s rightful Authority and imposed a defiled doctrine on the nation Israel and the people had no one to turn to except the priests and elders who were now getting their instructions from the “doctrines of men” instead of the “commands of God”. Jesus was sent by God like Moses was sent by God to free God’s chosen people from the oppression of the ruling class — Moses had to deal with Pharaoh and the Egyptian army and Jesus came to deal with the chief priests, scribes, Pharisees, Sadducees, Herodians, and all those that had “great authority” over God’s people; however, the “rulers” had forgotten that it was God that gave the Law to Moses and also it was God that commanded the prophet Ezra (who was a “skilled scribe”): “And you Ezra, according to your God-given wisdom, set magistrates and judges who may judge all the people…” so now Jesus has come to remind all those in “authority” that they are only “in power” because God had earlier commanded it so and that they were supposed to use their “God-given wisdom” to judge and rule according to the “Laws of God”. (Ezra 7:1-6) Jesus had come because those in “power and authority” were no longer “teaching God’s Ways” using God’s commands but had defiled their “authority” and were teaching instead the “doctrines of men”! Jesus was now making His Judgement against men of “great authority” that had succumbed to their “selfish desires” for “personal power”!  Jesus knew that this was a major problem because the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees was like leaven and like leaven in bread affects the whole loaf, the leaven of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees was affecting the whole nation. It is also fitting that Jesus Teaching “the removal of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees” from the nation Israel came during the Passover Week. Moses had been instructed by God Himself on the Passover night “Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.” (Exodus 12:15) And again God stated, “You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.” (Exodus 12:20) So it is very easy in this Passover Week to draw a parallel between the Exodus led by Moses at the direction of God and Jesus coming at the direction of His Father and Teaching: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known.” (Luke 12:1-2) and “Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.” (Matthew 16:6) So Jesus is doing the will of the Father and He is Teaching those that do not know “The Law of God” that He has come to reveal the hidden agenda of those in “great authority” that are “lording” it over the nation of Israel, God’s Chosen People!  Jesus is going to pronounce “Seven Woes” on the “hypocrites!”  thereby Jesus is addressing the problem of “leaven” in the “doctrines of men” and demonstrating that even the most “powerful people” on earth are subject to the Supreme Power and Authority of the Father God in heaven and are ruled by “The Divine Law of Choice and Consequence” established by God at the dawn of creation itself — God is Eternal therefore what God established is also Eternal and everyone in the creation must abide by the Commands of the Creator. It’s really quite simple, God has revealed the TRUTH, so now the burden is on you to “Choose” to believe God’s TRUTH or decide for “yourself” what you “think” is true — but beware, you may have consumed “leaven” that was hidden in the “doctrines of men” and will come under the judgement that is the “Consequence” of those that remain in rebellion against God!