JANUARY 06 THE JESUS QUESTIONS Introduction-06: Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus: JQ#1-JQ#33 (Matthew 1:1 thru 3:17)

 JANUARY  06  THE JESUS QUESTIONS   Introduction-06: Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus: JQ#1-JQ#33  (Matthew 1:1 thru 3:17)

LIVING FOR JESUS   Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Lord, LORD, El Elyon, Creator, Prince of Peace, Glory, Honor and Praise to the Lamb of God, Conceived by the Holy Spirit, Born of a virgin, You are the WORD and You became flesh and dwelt among us, yet You Lord Jesus Christ were without sin, living a Perfect Life in Obedience to the Will of the Father. 

You LORD JESUS became the Perfect Sacrifice for ALL sin so that Your Divine Righteousness could be imparted to mankind as the Atonement for our transgressions. And through the Shed Blood of Jesus Christ on the Cross at Calvary, ALL Repentant sinners could, through the Forgiveness of our iniquities by our Heavenly Father, enter into Eternal Fellowship with Almighty God! Praise be the Matchless Name of JESUS CHRIST!!!       AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus always lived a Lifestyle every minute in a manner such that with any inspection, from any viewpoint, the New Testament ALWAYS reveals that 

JESUS was OBEDIENT to HIS FATHER! 

The Questions, Lessons and Parables that Jesus used to Teach the TRUTH OF GOD our Father are always presented in the Gospels in a way such that the reader will Gain Understanding of the TRUTH OF GOD — all we have to do to understand TRUTH is to observe how Jesus lived His own Life in the flesh through the SPIRIT OF GOD! 

The Scofield Bible introduces the Gospel written by St. Matthew as follows: “The first of the four Gospels was written by Matthew, also called Levi, who was an Apostle of Jesus and this Gospel that carries his name was originally written for the Jews and presents Christ as the Son of David and the Son of Abraham. Because Jesus is portrayed in Matthew’s Gospel as King, the genealogy of Jesus is traced back to King David. Only in Matthew does Christ Himself speak of ‘the throne of His glory’. In this Gospel according to Matthew, Jerusalem is referred to as ‘the Holy City’ and ‘the city of the great King’…since Matthew is the Gospel of the King, it is also the Gospel of the ‘kingdom’  and in this Gospel written by Matthew, the word ‘kingdom’ appears more than fifty times and the expression ‘the kingdom of heaven’ which is found nowhere else in the New Testament, appears about thirty times.” {{See The Scofield Study Bible, New King James version. Copyright ** 2002 by Oxford University Press, Inc. pg.1299}} 

It is safe to say that the main theme in this Gospel according to Matthew is that 

Jesus Christ IS the King! 

Matthew does an excellent job of documenting the Life and Teachings of Jesus in a manner that clearly demonstrates that only Jesus Christ by His Birth, Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection fulfills all the prophecies written about the Messiah and the “Soon Coming King”. This introduction of The Jesus Questions JQ#1 thru JQ#33 is to alert the reader that every Step Jesus Took and every Lesson that Jesus Taught was to illuminate the WAY and guide the reader to the “Truth of God His Father” and to “the kingdom of heaven” where Jesus Christ will Rule as King for all Eternity! 

Matthew begins his Gospel with: “The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham” (Matthew 1:1) and with the first three chapters, Matthew sets the stage for the Ministry and the Teachings of Jesus Christ. Matthew then at the end of Chapter 3 quotes Jesus for the first time in the Gospel, “But Jesus answered and said to [John the Baptist], 

‘Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting 

for us to fulfill all righteousness.’” (Matthew 3:15) 

Matthew, in Chapter 1, lists the Genealogy of Jesus starting with “Abraham begot Isaac …and Jesse begot David the king…and Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus who is called Christ. So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations, from David until the captivity in Babylon are fourteen generations, and from the captivity in Babylon until the Christ are fourteen generations.” (Matthew 1:1-17) 

Thus Matthew in the Jewish tradition lists the genealogy of Jesus through the husband and declares the birth mother. Also in Jewish tradition, the Jewish genealogy uses the “first born male” to perpetuate the “Family” line! Thus Matthew establishes that Jesus can trace His Genealogy back to Abraham through Isaac and Jacob and can claim the fulfillment of the “Promise of God” to Abraham that 

“I will bless those who bless you, 

and I will curse him who curses you, 

and in you all the families 

of the earth shall be blessed” (Genesis 12:3)! 

 Jesus fulfills the Promise of God to King David through the prophet Isaiah,

 “For unto us a child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder; and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon His kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgement and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.” (Isaiah 9:6-7). 

Thus Matthew tied Jesus to prophecy and establishes Jesus as the

 TRUE HEIR to the THRONE of Thrones 

as KING of Kings and LORD of Lords! 

In case you have not been formerly introduced to the most important NAME in the history of life itself —

 HIS NAME IS JESUS!

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THE PATRIOT’S PULPIT

Comment: 1/6/24 Saturday 4:59A - My spirit is continuously stirred by the necessity to share that GOD IS TRUTH and my soul since the early 1960s has been distressed by the passing of legislation that goes directly against GOD, such as (1) removing prayer from our schools and (2) Roe v. Wade. 

Growing up in a community of nearly 30K (of which half I was related to) which was “pro-family” & “pro-GOD”, my worldly perspective changed dramatically when the “government” started forcing the “Anti-GOD” legislation on we-the-people. There was deep sentiment in our Godly community that our country was going away from God and that was the first time I sensed that God’s Promise to Abraham was both a “blessing” and a “curse” and that our government, by removing God from our nation’s laws, was removing the “blessings of GOD” from AMERICA and look at where we are today! 

Little by little the government has passed more and more legislation which are more abominations to GOD than any nation can long endure and we can see that AMERICA no longer enjoys God’s blessings of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness but instead we are deep into the “curse” for not being obedient to the Will of GOD to follow Him to the “Promised Land” for if we are not looking towards God, how can we see where He is leading? — ANY “Promise” is only as good as the “Promise Giver” and life in America has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that God Always Keeps His Promises and that the government never does! 

Remember that God called Abraham and Abraham followed God and through obedience to God’s Commands, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob became God’s chosen people. It has been God’s Plan all along to use common men to accomplish His Will in His Creation as God seeks men to follow Him and all who follow Him, GOD BLESSES! God has provided all the RESOURCES we need but God insists that we ALLOCATE those RESOURCES in accordance to GOD’s WILL. If we will simply yield to the Will of God, we will find TRUTH and the Land of Promise, but, if we deny God we will remain cursed and in darkness. 

Today I read John 1:5 “There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.” The phrase that jumped out at me and made my spirit soar was “sent from God” which tells me that God has always had a plan and that God’s plan is all about calling us to execute His Plan and through the execution of God’s Plan for our lives, God will “BLESS” those that follow Him. The Scriptures are full of “CURSES” as well but we have been “programmed” to believe that only the “government” can take care of us and if we separate the church and state that our families will be taken care of. However, if we take God out of our schools, home, and families then the reality is that we are being led by a Godless government, teaching our children in a Godless education system and raising them in Godless homes and how can we expect anything from a Godless society but curses? 

God told Abraham, go to a land that I will show you and Jesus called all His disciples with two simple words, “Follow Me” so if our society never listens to God or “Follow” His directions for our lives, how do we expect to ever make it to the Promised Land or receive God’s Blessings? 

It is long past the time to return to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and follow the way that God Promised to show us!

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