JANUARY 14 THE JESUS QUESTIONS Introduction-14: Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus: JQ#1-JQ#33 (Matthew 1:1 thru 3:17)

 JANUARY  14  THE JESUS QUESTIONS   Introduction-14: Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus: JQ#1-JQ#33  (Matthew 1:1 thru 3:17)

LIVING FOR JESUS Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Creator of all things, by whose Hand and Will all things are held together, You are worthy of all Praise, all Glory, all Honor! Lord, to You and You alone will every nation bow and every tongue in every language confess that Jesus is CHRIST! — the Savior of mankind, the King of kings. Lord, I praise You this day, let not the world interfere with our worship of Thee — You Lord, are the Guiding Path.

 I pray that You part the “Sea of Doubt” and give us the strength and courage to lift up Your Name as we cross on dry land between the walls of worldly distractions built up on every side on our journey to Your Promised Land, especially in this circumstance and at this time of “testing” in America — for it is in these types of circumstances that there is special strength coming from the Throne of Grace, let us receive Your Divine Strength into our lives and into our homes, and Lord Jesus, give everyone someone in their life that they will share Your Love with today.      AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus is being revealed through circumstance and simple fact to be the Messiah and in any court of law there would be enough evidence to sentence Him to a LIFE sentence for being the “Chosen One”. If we could look at His “Birth” certificate we would see that He was born a Jew to Mary and Joseph in Bethlehem in Judea and it could be demonstrated that Jesus was of the lineage of David the former King of Israel therefore making Jesus a Jew that can trace His ancestry all the way back to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 

But the most compelling evidence was given by His own mother Mary who swore under oath that she had never been with a man and had conceived Her baby boy while still a “virgin” and that she further testified that she was informed by God Himself through His angel Gabriel, that she would carry the “Son of God” in her virgin womb thereby confirming that her “Son” was “The Son of God”! Not needed to convict her but required by law that there be two witnesses, Mary’s husband to which she was betrothed when she became pregnant through “Immaculate Conception” with this “Holy Child”, Joseph took the witness stand and confirmed Mary’s confession that she was carrying the “Son of God” in her virgin womb!!! Joseph testified that he too had been visited by the Angel Gabriel and was informed by God that his betrothed was “with a Child” that had been “conceived by the Holy Spirit”. 

Jewish law is very strict and had not Joseph withheld his public accusation of worldly infidelity, Mary could have been stoned to death as per Jewish law, so neither she nor Joseph had anything worldly to gain by this outrageous claim of her “Virgin Birth” which declared the “Child” to be born to Mary was indeed the “Son of God” ——— and all this transpired BEFORE the actual “Virgin Birth” so this piece of historical evidence of Christ’s identity was established BEFORE Jesus was even born! To think that all the prophets and the Jewish Holy Scriptures was simply a clever “conspiracy” organized by Jesus and His followers goes against all logic for why in the world would those that wanted Jesus dead be compliant with a plot to make Jesus “God Incarnate” via the “Virgin Birth”?!?!?!?!? 

There is simply no way that anyone could put together one man’s life to remotely complete more than two or three of the prophecies {{See January 11 this blog}} and certainly not two prophecies of this Divine Significance of a Jewish male born in Bethlehem to a “virgin” — Matthew therefore using Jewish law and Jewish tradition along with confirmation from the Jewish Scriptures documents that this Jesus, born of Mary in Bethlehem must be declared as “The Messiah” and is the Christ, for if their claims were not true, then by Jewish law and tradition the Jewish religious leaders could have killed Mary and Joseph, and Jesus would not have been born — BUT, we have a 2000 year old Bible and you know the rest of the story!!! 

In God’s Great Plan for mankind, each individual must deal with this “Revelation of Jesus Christ” and “work out your own salvation” through the exercise of Your God-given Freewill and decide if your “Faith in God the Father” (though it be a small as a “mustard seed”) can be planted into this fertile soil of God’s GRACE and TRUTH and grow to reach “Heaven” itself!!! God’s simple promise is “I WILL PROVIDE” — and regardless of the “evidence” it still boils down to “FAITH IN GOD THE FATHER” — it is time for everyone by “FAITH IN GOD THE FATHER” to “Repent from sin against HIM” and to reclaim THROUGH BELIEF IN THE SON OF GOD our “Heavenly Inheritance”— “IN GOD WE TRUST”!!!

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THE PATRIOT’S PULPIT

Comment: 1/14/24 Sunday 3:59A - Glorious Day! I got up to relieve myself a little before 3 AM  this morning and as I came back through the living room I decided to see if my method of putting the fireplace to bed at 7:00P yesterday was producing the right amount of coals overnight to be able to start my morning fire with my bucket of cedar kindling? I opened the vents and flue and there was a good bed of coals and I was able to lay down a row of the fragrant cedar that I am using for starting my morning fire and by the time I wet a rag and cleaned the  fire-glass on my fireplace door with some of the ash from the firebox, the kindling was ready to flame and with a little “air” it sprang into flame. I could see  in the fireplace ash Holy Scripture coming to life,

 “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.” (Genesis 2:7) 

Here in my fireplace God used His air to produce flame in the wood He had grown in His cedar tree and breathed life and the fire was alive with the Glory of God!  I loaded some more kindling into the firebox and the fire  with the breath of God became a living flame and was starting to dance! I have  received so many blessings from this fireplace and I am just spiritually overwhelmed! 

God is    SO O O O O O O O O     GOOD! 

I sat in my fireplace chair watching the dancing flames and started reciting some of the scripture that I am memorizing and again I was overwhelmed that here at 3AM in the morning, sitting in my chair watching a roaring fire and quoting scripture, that I could be so warmed in my spirit but let me humbly say, I was having a moment with God and all I could think to say is,

 “My cup runneth over!!!” 

The Holy Spirit then dropped this little gem into my train of thought, 

“If you want to determine the character of an individual you do not look at their physical appearance or the amount of “resources” that they may have “privilege” to in their life 

but rather if you want to know an individual’s TRUE CHARACTER 

you look not at the amount of resources they have not but instead you look at how they “allocate” the resources that they do have! 

You can have millions of dollars and yet be poor. 

You can have barns full of grain and yet still starve to death —

so life is not about what you “don’t have” but rather

 your character is determined by what you “do” with what you “have” —

So here we are back to “RESOURCE ALLOCATION” again. “All things work together for good for them that LOVE the LORD…”

That is why Jesus comforted  us with these “Do Not Worry” words about  how to think about our resources:

Matthew 6:25-34

25 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? 

26 Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 

27 Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?

28 “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; 

29 and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 

30 Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

31 “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 

32 For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. 

33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. 

34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” 

I am excited in my Patriotic soul today because I KNOW in my spirit that what I have been given in life comes from God and the things that have been taken from me or that have been held back from me by men and the “traditions of men” can and will be restored by the God who created them in the first place!

 John 1:3 “All things were made through Him, and with Him nothing was made that was made” and John 1:9-10 “That was the True LIGHT which gives light to every man coming into the world. He was in the world and the world was made through Him and the world did not know Him.” 

Dictatorial  dictates are not the same as Divine Endowments and those that are trying to suppress our Patriotism have overlooked the TRUTH of GOD that the “government” of any nation is not the “SOURCE” of “Patriotism” nor can any “government” in the world legislate morality or loyalty, those are “existential cornerstones” of our character which like our “inalienable rights” are not given to us by the government but they are “endowed by our Creator”!  

Character is not contained in your resources, character consists of how you allocate your resources and the cornerstone of your character is instilled into your soul by your personal choices and you either allocate your resources to improve your character or you wither and die on the vine because you did not use what God gives you to better yourself — Patriots KNOW this because Patriots KNOW God and Patriots KNOW that God is the Creator. 

It is really quite simple: Your choices control your character which grows from your soul and the government has no say in what you think about yourself. If you want to be a Patriot and use what God gives you for good, the government can just go suck an egg. The bad guys should be worried because God can burn it all down in a single heartbeat, put that in your government NGO sponsored  privileged-pipe and smoke it!

 Keep on Keeping On Patriots, God’s got your six!!

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