JANUARY 04 THE JESUS QUESTIONS Introduction-04: Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus: JQ#1-JQ#33 (Matthew 1:1 thru 3:17)
LIVING FOR JESUS Daily Prayer
JESUS, I awoke this morning with the need to pray first in my mind but when I started to pray there was some sort of “spiritual” distraction of unknown origin that seemed to prevent me from praying in “Spirit and in Truth” — and I was disturbed!?!? I lay in bed and struggled to “commune” with God but the “perceived separation” caused me great uneasiness! After meditating on “cause” and coming up empty, I then thought about the “effect” and almost immediately I was confident that I was being given a “taste” of going on my journey alone.
Jesus, I am also confident that I no longer want to walk by myself and be alone as I traverse this “valley of the shadow of death” and I praise You for the glimpse of where I could end up if I had not started following You. Lord Jesus, You simply told Your disciples “Come follow Me” and You still today invite those that do not wish to travel this journey of life alone to “walk” with You.
Lord Jesus, in going before us and walking the extra mile with us, You add the promise that You will never leave us nor forsake us! The “glimpse” today was a reminder to me that if we get separated it will be my fault — Lord Jesus, I pray with all my heart, keep me focused on following Your “LIGHT” and always staying on Your “paths of righteousness”! AMEN
THE JESUS QUESTIONS
Jesus and who Jesus “really is” was a topic of debate from the time of His virgin-born arrival on earth and who Jesus “really is” continues to be debated today. It is very interesting to note that there is a great “double standard” being applied to the debate on the “person and purpose” of Jesus Christ and whether or not He should even be given the title of “Christ”.
Today in our highly “legal” society here in America, our government is dominated by “lawyers” and it is a fact that our government now has more “control” over our personal lives than at anytime in the past — and in the debate on the “TRUTH of JESUS”, our society is being forced to accept as “truth” what “elected” lawyers, “party-appointed” judges, and “self-serving legislation” passed by our “elected law makers” decide is “truth-for-the-common-good”???? These “anti-God” laws imposed by “progressive” legislators on our modern society today include the “legal-right” to kill unborn children, which should give us a clue as to what the main problem with our society “really is”!
For example; in our “double-standard” society today there are “laws” addressing “slander” (the action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person’s reputation) and “libel” (a published false statement that is damaging to a person’s reputation; a written defamation) which directly apply to the debate on “who Jesus really is” and the “double standard” (a rule or principle that is unfairly applied in different ways to different people or groups) that is prevalent in this ongoing debate is that the government that has passed the laws on “slander and libel” are themselves the most guilty of both since they have legislated God out of government and will not allow God Himself, through His Holy Bible, to declare “who Jesus really is”!!!!!
The “irony” in this “double standard” is that the legal system today will make witnesses who appear in court to give their “eye-witness” account must first put one hand on the Bible and the court makes them “swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God” and yet the same legal system has legislated God and the Bible out of the legal system and will not allow the Bible as a “witness” in the same courtroom that the Bible must be sworn upon to make a testimony valid!?!?!?!?
I am sure that in the highly legalist religious theocratic system of the Pharisees and Sadducees that there were many of the same such “double-standard legalistic self-serving laws” existing in Israel to protect the “power” of the “legalist elite” and therefore the New Testament writers would have been held accountable in the Jewish legal system in place at the time of Jesus. All the writers of the New Testament were not only “evangelists” that were clearly stating Jesus had addressed problems with the “legal authority” of the Pharisees and Sadducees but the New Testament writers wrote these claims as a matter of public record!
Jesus Himself by today’s standards would be labeled a “terrorist” because He made “direct threats” against their “legal system” and said the temple itself would be destroyed — just imagine if someone today said that the U.S. Government, the White House and our legal system was going to be “destroyed” and this person was also directly claiming that the U. S. Government's “rule” would be “taken from them” and further, if that person was publishing public documents and writing letters (or emails) stating how the government would be overthrown, that person would be arrested and their statements and writings would be used to convict them of “crimes” against the government and these “crimes” would carry the severest penalty!
However, in today’s society the very evidence that would be used to convict Jesus of being a “terrorist” would not be allowed in the same courtroom to prove that Jesus was and IS who the Bible documents Him TO BE!!!
So as we begin our Journey to discover “TRUTH” then we must agree we need a “reasonable unbiased Moral Standard” to be be used to determine the final verdict as to the validity of “TRUTH” itself!>!>!>! Because the Moral Standard itself is in the hands of biased “progressive” legalist who control both the Moral Standard and the legal system we can rightly assume that a government of “legalists” find it to their advantage to impose their will on “we the people” ———and we can readily see the problem of letting a “special interest” group decide on the Moral Standard to be applied to an entire society (by government force and legal action)!?!
St. Matthew wrote a document dated C. A.D. 50 which puts his “eyewitness” account very close to the actual event of which he wrote about “who Jesus really was” and the “facts” that St. Matthew wrote down would have to have been highly scrutinized by the “legalist” of that era and all the claims of Jesus that St. Matthew put in his document would have been “judged” as to it being “libel” based on “slander” which was directed against the “reputation” of those that were in “power” at the time Matthew wrote of Jesus!
To be fair we must read Matthew”s document and ask ourselves, “If St. Matthew did not write what is true then why has there been so many printed copies of his testimony and why was Matthew been made a ‘Saint’ instead of being punished for his ‘crime’?”
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THE PATRIOT’S PULPIT
Comment: 1/4/24 Thursday 4:59A - As I started doing this blog today it popped out that today was the 4th of January and I was doing “Introduction-04”, I looked at the top of my screen and it read “Jan 4 4:44 AM” so I took a screen shot. Just as I took the screen shot, Debbie made a comment about Mel Gibson doing the “Passion” and making comments about the POPE and Catholics in reference to Martin Luther which was in a devotion she was reading and it made reference to “double standards” and who the Catholics must cede all authority to when making decisions about scripture, and Catholics have been taught (programmed) to believe what the POPE says “what God really means”. Today we are seeing all this “double standard” false doctrine playing out in the American Judicial System and it is referred to as “the two-tiered justice system” as the “sitting President” is using the DOJ to bring false charges against the “sitting President’s” chief political opponent and trying to use the “legal system” to prevent the opposition party’s leading candidate to even being on the ballot in the upcoming election. This dilemma being created by “political law-fare” is very closely related to the same issue Jesus faced and the reason and solution for both cases could and should be resolved by a determination of “who is telling the TRUTH”? Jesus was crucified because He said “I am the Son of Man” and insisted that He was indeed the Messiah and that was considered by the legalist and religious authorities that according to their interpretation of the “law” that Jesus should be crucified, and He was! Today, if the “political party in power” continues to use their interpretation of the “law” to protect the guilty “sitting president” and persecute the innocent opposition candidate who is trying to represent the Constitution of the Republic which is the TRUE SOURCE of Justice, there will be a “crucifixion” of the American Rule of Law. We are sitting at a crossroads in America and we must return to the Source of TRUTH and return to “In God we TRUST” and “we hold these TRUTHS to be self evident”!!! When the Constitution was established there was a corresponding oath that was established where all public officials took the oath to “uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic” — it is time to return to God who is the Source of ALL TRUTH and is the Source of TRUE JUSTICE. If America remains in the hands of men who think they have the right to determine what is best for us and they continue to apply their two faced double standard of laws for us and none for them, we will find ourselves in Hell on Earth instead of God’s Promise of Heaven on Earth? America must go back to basics and answer that 1970s Big Question: “Who’s your daddy?”
Scripture: Genesis 1:1-5 (As you read these 1st five verses in God’s Holy WORD, take note about the “Order” of things God did on His First Day of Creative Work)
The History of Creation
Genesis 1
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.
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