DECEMBER 31 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#1-33 Conclusion. The Gospel of Matthew: A Study of the Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ

 

DECEMBER 31  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#1-33 Conclusion. The Gospel of Matthew: A Study of the Life, 

Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ 

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DECEMBER 31  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#1-33 THE CONCLUSION —  The Gospel of Matthew: A Study of the Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ 

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer   

JESUS, Lord and Savior, as this year ends, let us REJOICE

 that it ends with HOPE, Your HOPE!!!  

THE TRINITY OF HOPE — 

TRINITY HOPE #1 — The  HOPE of CHRIST IN US 

TRINITY HOPE #2 — The HOPE of the RESURRECTION 

OF THE SPIRIT TO NEW LIFE after the PHYSICAL DEATH 

has consumed our earthly vessel 

TRINITY HOPE #3 — The HOPE OF OUR SPIRIT SPENDING 

OUR ETERNITY WITH GOD IN THE ETERNAL LIGHT OF HOPE

 ITSELF WHICH IS JESUS CHRIST, 

THE SON OF THE ETERNAL LIVING GOD!!!

The past year You have filled our Cup of Grace to overflowing

 and Your Mercy has showered upon us an abundance of Your

 Spirit of Peace and Joy. 

Thank You Jesus for Your Mercy and Grace that You

 have bestowed so Graciously upon us and as the year ends

 today we rely on Your Promise that You

 will never leave us nor forsake us so just as each new day

 is given to us as the sun rises because of God’s Faithfulness

 to Provide for our daily needs we look forward to a New Year

 that will be filled with Promise and Hope because each day

 we will have the SON RISE to LIGHT our way.  

O the Blessed Walk from darkness into LIGHT!!!     

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus Lived a Perfect Life that proved He was the Chosen One, God’s Messiah,

 for only this Jesus, born in Bethlehem to a “virgin” could have Taught the

 world about the “kingdom of heaven” filled with the Promise 

that “whosoever” believes that “God so loved the world” that 

He “gave His only begotten Son” 

SO THAT EVERY BELIEVER WOULD INHERIT ETERNAL LIFE

 as part of GOD’S Master Plan of Salvation 

sealed with the Blood of Jesus Christ 

would indeed receive GOD’S ASSURANCE THAT THE BELIEVER

 “SHALL NOT PERISH” (JOHN 3:16)!!! 

From Genesis to Revelation God has revealed this

 Plan of Salvation through the Sacrifice of the Passover Lamb 

to Provide Deliverance of God’s Chosen People to the Land of Promise!

 Only the Messiah would have lived a Perfect Life and then Sacrificially

 die a cruel death and  VOLUNTARILY Shed His DIVINE Innocent Blood 

for the Remission of ALL mortal SIN. 

The study of Matthew is a study of the “kingdom of heaven” as revealed

 to us through the Eyes, Heart, and Mind of THE One who has been there. 

 Jesus made it clear that “all authority” was His because God the Father

 had willed it so and Jesus laid out the pathway for us to 

“inherit the Father’s kingdom” — but at the same time Jesus was also 

making it clear that if we chose to live for ourselves that we would spend

 an eternity separated from God. 

As much as Jesus Preached “Salvation” He also Preached the

 “Final Judgement” when at the end of our lives EACH INDIVIDUAL 

will stand before God and we will be judged by how we lived our lives! 

Jesus Preached “you will know a tree by its fruits” and on several occasions

 Jesus said plainly that “by [our] own words” [and beliefs] we will condemn

 ourself and we will either be rewarded by our Faith in God and His Son

 or we will receive judgement for rejecting God and His Plan of Salvation.

 If one “choses not to be saved” then that person has

 “condemned oneself to eternal lostness”! 

God is Faithful and Jesus Taught that everyone is given the opportunity 

to either “Accept” or “Reject” God’s Plan and it is this “Choice” 

alone that determines our “Eternity”!!! 

God is Sovereign and has declared that we have the right to

 “Act according to our Choices” but in His Sovereignty God has reserved 

the Right to determine the “Consequence of our actions” thereby 

establishing the Eternal Consequence of Self Determination — 

God does not send anyone to hell,

 “WE PUNCH OUR OWN TICKET TO OUR CHOSEN DESTINATION” —

 we either choose to believe God and spend eternity in heaven with Him or

 we choose to reject God and by our own choice we condemn ourselves

 to eternity separated from God — 

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU ASK FOR BECAUSE GOD NEVER FORCES

 HIMSELF ON ANYONE, IT IS OUR CHOICE TO BELIEVE IN HIM OR NOT,

 IF ONE CHOOSES TO NOT BELIEVE IN GOD THEN GOD WILL GRANT 

YOU YOUR REQUEST AND LEAVE YOU TO YOUR OWN DEVICES. 

Just remember, Heaven OR Hell are where we must live OUR ETERNITY 

with our Choices we make in our lifetime ——— TRUTH ETERNAL 

is that GOD IS LOVE and we will know for Eternity we were 

RIGHT TO CHOOSE GOD or WRONG TO REJECT HIM!!! 

Jesus Taught us above all that we were to “Choose Life” and “Reject Evil” 

and spend an ETERNITY WITH GOD — and Jesus not only Taught us “How”, 

He Taught us “Why” and made it clear “Where” our Choice to Accept

 or Reject Him would take us!!! 

Let us therefore end this year and this study of Jesus with thankful hearts

 and look forward to another year knowing that we need not worry about tomorrow

 (or next year) for God the Father is already there 

and has all the provisions we need already waiting for us!!!   

Life is a Gift, but like any gift — we must open THE GIFT 

and accept it before it becomes ours!  

 In the famous Christmas quote from Tiny Tim, “God Bless us everyone!!!” 

DECEMBER 30 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#1-33 SUMMARY-16 The Gospel of Matthew: A Study of the Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ

 

DECEMBER 30  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#1-33 SUMMARY-16 The Gospel of Matthew: A Study of the Life,

 Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ 

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer   

JESUS, Lord as I come to the last days of another year that You have

 so graciously provided for us, my thoughts are turned to the wonders

 of Your Love which You have so graciously bestowed on such an 

unloveable creature as me. Lord Jesus, I know that aside from those

 Good Things You have given me and my family over the past year that 

there would be little to no good at all in my life were it not for 

Your Forgiveness of my many shortcomings and I would still be lost in my sin —

 BUT GOD, O the Mystery of God’s Love that has been given without

 condition or limit and we, the recipients of that UNCONDITIONAL LOVE OF GOD,

 have experienced the Abundant Life.  As I look toward another year

 I confidently pray, not my will, but Thine be done!      

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus was shown by circumstance to be the Messiah as recorded in

 the first four chapters of Matthew’s Gospel of Jesus Christ and starting with

 Chapter 5, Matthew records the Sermon on the Mount with which Jesus 

started demonstrating through His Life and Teachings that He was the 

Son of God and the long awaited Messiah. Jesus was first 

recognized as an extraordinary Teacher after the Sermon on the Mount

 and throughout the remaining writings of Matthew, Jesus then asked 

a series of Questions which would focus our attention on a specific topic

 or Lesson that Jesus used to explain to us 

“How” to live a life pleasing to “our heavenly Father”. 

The Lessons that Jesus Taught from His Questions were always

 built around an Example that Jesus Himself had Lived. That Jesus

 was Teaching Spiritual Lessons from God the Father was evident to 

everyone that had witnessed the Life that Jesus Lived and the 

Lessons of God that Jesus was Teaching. 

This Teaching of God and His Kingdom of Heaven “Fact” was best 

expressed in a conversation Jesus had with 

“a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 

He [Nicodemus] came to Jesus by night and said to Him, 

‘Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; 

for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with Him.’” 

(John 3:1-2) 

Jesus went right to the “Point” of His Teachings:

 “Jesus answered [Nicodemus] and said to him,

 ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, 

he cannot see the kingdom of God.’” (John 3:3) 

Nicodemus knew that Jesus was Teaching about the things of God 

and if we study all the Questions Jesus used to introduce each 

Kingdom Lesson we too will know Jesus is the Greatest Teacher

 of the Mysteries of God that will ever walk the earth and in our

 “understanding” (that Jesus was so concerned about) of His Lessons 

that we also will “know” that 

Jesus IS the Son of God and was sent to bring Salvation 

to a lost and dying world. 

Jesus certainly didn’t ask Questions to gain “understanding” from us but rather, 

Jesus asked His Questions to impart “understanding” to us 

that we may know that God “so loved the world” (JOHN 3:16)  

…and that there were no limits to what God would do to impart Kingdom Knowledge

 to us in order to lead us “Home to be with our Heavenly Father”!!! 

The Gospel of Matthew begins: “The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ…” 

(Matthew 1:1) and ends with Jesus summing up His Lessons: 

“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them

 in the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 

teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you;

 and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen 

(Matthew 28:19-20) 

Jesus never got off Point and Jesus never spoke without Teaching

 and for certain, after studying the Birth, Life, Death, Burial, 

and Resurrection of Jesus, 

we can confidently proclaim Jesus as the Messiah. 

To confirm to yourself the intent of The JESUS Questions, all one 

needs to do is “understand” that 

Jesus, the Son of God is asking the Questions directly to you 

and if you will give Jesus an “honest answer” — 

you will KNOW as did Nicodemus that 

Jesus is Teaching us about the Kingdom of God”!!! 

Once you “learn” what Jesus is Teaching, you will possess all the knowledge

 necessary “to become children of God…

born not of…the will of man, but of God.” (John 1:11-13) 

The study of Matthew introduces Jesus Christ as the Son of God and 

if we learn the Lessons Jesus Taught with His Questions we will

 be equipped to enter into God’s Labor with Him for the Kingdom’s Sake 

and 

as we stand before God at the Final Judgement 

we will hear God declare to us 

“Well done thy good and faithful servant…

enter into My Rest!!!”