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) 

Jesus then lists those things that the “King” is pleased with and 

 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 {in heaven with God}” 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”???? 

NOVEMBER 13 THE JESUS QUESTIONS Conclusion:JQ#31 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?” (Matthew 24:45)

 

NOVEMBER 13  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  Conclusion:JQ#31 

“Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master 

made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?”
 (Matthew 24:45)

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer   

JESUS, Lord and Savior, my Redeemer, You are the Prince of Peace,

 and it is Your Sacrifice that I owe my Eternal Life to — for it was the 

Shedding of Your Blood, the Blood of the Only Begotten Son 

of Father God in Heaven that Bought my Salvation and was the 

Propitiation of all my past, present, and future iniquities.  

Because of those things that my Gracious and Merciful God GAVE

 to undeserving sinners such as I, that I can now look forward with Hope

 to my future and no longer fear death. For it is through the Precious Blood

 of the Lamb of God that God Almighty has freed us from the condemnation 

of sin and we can enter into His Kingdom and the Joy of the LORD!   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus uses the Parable of the Talents (Matthew 25:14-30) to remind

 us that regardless of our situation in life that God has bestowed on our

 individual lives everything that we need to live an abundant life — but 

least we forget where all blessings come from, the Parables and Lessons

 that Jesus has been Teaching in this Passover Week in the final days

 before His Crucifixion is that 

(T1) He is Coming Again!!! 

(T2) When He RETURNS there will be the “settling of accounts” 

(T3) and depending on the “Choices” we have made with our God-given 

Gift of Freewill, we will either suffer the “great tribulation” or we will 

enter into “the joy of the Lord” 

(T4) God Himself will not “judge” us for it is by our own choices and 

actions that we are “witnesses against ourselves”.  God, at the

 “end of the age” will administer our just rewards and penalties that 

were foreordained before the foundation of the world. 

Jesus has Taught again and again that there will be a “Judgement Day” 

and God Himself has shown from generation to generation that He has a Plan! 

God reveals Himself to everyone that seeks knowledge of Him.

 God has given us His Holy Word through the lives of individuals that

 were Divinely inspired to write the TRUTH OF GOD. God has through 

writings of individuals under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit 

documented His Plan of Salvation for all to read in the Holy Scriptures. 

God has sent His Only Begotten Son Jesus to be born of a virgin

 in order that Jesus could become flesh and Live the Perfect Life 

and that as the Lamb of God, Jesus could through His Death

 and the Shedding of His Precious Blood be the only Acceptable 

Sacrifice in the Eyes of The Holy and Just God for the 

sins of the world, a world of sinners that God loved 

enough to send the Messiah to save! 

When we read the parables we must read the “bottom line” and 

understand that it is our actions that will gain us the “reward” of hearing

 God Himself say to us “Well done, good and faithful servant…

Enter into the joy of your lord.”(Matthew 25:23) 

or “Cast the unprofitable servant {who was not a faithful, wise,

 and watchful servant} into the outer darkness. 

There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 25:30) 

If we only read the Lessons that Jesus Taught in His Last Week on Earth,

 there would be enough knowledge of God and the Kingdom of Heaven 

to know that God’s Plan of Salvation includes the Blood Sacrifice 

of the Lamb of God which God Himself had promised that He 

Himself would “provide the sacrifice”, a Promise from God 

which was fulfilled with the Life, Death, Burial, 

and RESURRECTION of Jesus Christ!!! 

Jesus came and obeyed the Father’s Will, suffered at the hands of His

 own people and died on a Cross at Calvary, was buried in the 

borrowed tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, and as Jesus had stated clearly

 several times before His Death, on the Third Day He would be 

Resurrected by God and then Ascend into Heaven and sit at the 

Right Hand of God —— until that time when God sends the Bridegroom

 to get His Bride and THEN THE FINAL JUDGEMENT!!! 

There is no confusion to any that study the Holy Scriptures that no one can 

stay the hand of God and if God declares it, it will be done! 

There is no excuse, we have been given every opportunity to know God

 for He has “Revealed Himself” to us, and at the “end of the age” 

when Jesus “Returns” God will “settle accounts” — 

God has provided each with a menu, 

but we must choose what meal we will eat — 

will you eat at the table prepared by the King of Heaven and Earth 

and hear the joyful sounds of the wedding feast and 

“enter into the joy of the Lord”

 or will you choose to eat of the bitter, molded bread of selfishness 

which we must partake of as a result of providing for ourselves, 

a lonely meal which will be served in darkness 

and the only sound the unrepentant will hear will be the

 “weeping and the gnashing of teeth”!?!?!?!?!?!?