JANUARY 22 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#01 “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned?” (Matthew 5:13)
LIVING FOR JESUS Daily Prayer
JESUS, Lord and Savior, Redeemer, Lover of my soul, all praise and honor to You and Your Holy Name, the Only Name by which ALL SOULS are ETERNALLY SAVED - JESUS! Lord let us always be mindful that You are unchanging and as we rise to face each new day let us start with Your Name on our lips and Your Grace in our hearts. Lord Jesus, my prayer is that every day will be lived in a way that honors You and advances the Father’s Kingdom.
Lord Jesus, open our hearts and our minds that we can see the Father God as You reveal Him through Your Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables as You “TEACH” us the TRUTH OF GOD through Your Questions — You have asked The JESUS Questions for our benefit that we might dwell on the TRUTH OF GOD and my prayer is that we will listen with our hearts and apply Your TRUTH OF GOD to our day-to-day lives so that we may accept Your Gifts of Mercy and Grace with which You WILL Bless us daily — so give us the Self-Discipline to HONESTLY answer Your “Questions” for YOU KNOW OUR HEARTS! AMEN
THE JESUS QUESTIONS
JESUS has been introduced by St. Matthew as “Messiah” who was prophesied from the Jewish Holy Scriptures. St. Matthew started with the “genealogy of Jesus Christ” and established that Jesus is “the Son of David” and “the Son of Abraham” (Matthew 1:17) Matthew then moved to the “Virgin Birth” and demonstrated that Mary the mother of Jesus bore Him in a “Virgin Womb” for she had known NO man and the “Seed” she carried was the “Holy Seed of God Himself” which made Jesus both the “Son of Man”, born to a “virgin”, and the “Son of God” , born from the “Holy Seed”!!! (Matthew 1:18-25)
Matthew then documents the significance of where and when Jesus was born and establishes that John the Baptist had fulfilled the prophecy of the “forerunner” of Messiah by preaching in the wilderness, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” and was baptizing by water in the Jordan River and those that were being baptized by John were “confessing their sins”. When John saw Jesus coming to be baptized in the Jordan, John, the prophesied forerunner of “Messiah”, acknowledged that Jesus was Messiah and at this point and felt unworthy to baptize “The Lamb of God” but Jesus said to John, “Permit it to be so now, for it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” (Matthew 3:1-15)
Matthew then documents God’s Recognition that Jesus was the Messiah for as “Jesus came up immediately from the [baptismal] water; … behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying,
‘This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.’” (Matthew 3:16-17)
Matthew has now shown that Jesus fulfilled the Messianic prophecy through circumstances that Jesus had no control over such as (1) His parents (lineage), (2) His Birth from a “Virgin Womb”, and (3) the place of His Birth in the City of David — Bethlehem — and (4) His Baptism by God’s “forerunner” of the Messiah, John the Baptist was done to “fulfill all righteousness”. (5) Upon Jesus being “Obedient” to the Father’s Will by being baptized by God’s “forerunner”, God Himself spoke from heaven and called Jesus “My Son” which was heard by a crowd of many witnesses! (Matthew 1:1 thru Matthew 3:17)
Starting with Matthew 4:1 Jesus Himself is going to show He is the Messiah by His Lessons, His Lifestyle, and His “Teaching” the TRUTH OF GOD !!! Jesus used circumstances to get His followers to meditate on the TRUTH OF GOD. Jesus demonstrated His Messiahship as He addressed each circumstance and instead of His Messiahship being “compromised” by the circumstance, Jesus demonstrated that His Messiahship was from God as He turned each circumstance into a “Lesson” and “Taught” the “Truth of the Lesson” which “Confirmed”
Jesus Messiah, the Christ!
Jesus included in His “Lessons” a Method to get our attention and to focus us on the “issue” at hand, and that “Method” was to ASK a QUESTION for us to “think about” and then He would wait for the TRUTH OF GOD to soak in as we thought about His Question. Sometimes Jesus would immediately tell us the TRUTH OF GOD so that there would be no mistake or misunderstanding of the TRUTH OF GOD that Jesus Taught with every Lesson. It is this Method of Jesus “asking” us “Questions” to make us focus on the TRUTH OF GOD that is the basis for this blog “The JESUS Questions”.
JANUARY 1 introduced “how and why” The JESUS Questions came about by the Holy Spirit who issued a Question/Answer challenge to read the Gospel of Jesus Christ as written by St. Matthew ——— here is that “JESUS Question/Answer Challenge”:
“Read through the complete Gospel of Jesus Christ written by St. Matthew (the first book in the New Testament) starting with Matthew 1:1 read through the entire Gospel of Matthew and every time you come to a ‘Question’ that Jesus asks, your challenge is to give Jesus a ‘Truthful answer’.” Think about that “challenge” and your “mission” <<< should you choose to accept it >>> is to read the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Matthew and “each time you come to a JESUS Question, give Jesus a TRUTHFUL answer” and I personally will give you a double-your-money back lifetime guarantee that it will change you from the inside out and that you will see that person in the mirror in a different “Light” — remember that TRUTH is FREE so what have you got to lose??? The Holy Spirit left me with these words of wisdom:
“No one but GOD OWNS the TRUTH and GOD gives it FREELY to all who search for TRUTH, so if someone tries to charge you for TRUTH, don’t buy The Lie - no matter how pretty the package!!!
Once you accept the challenge to let Jesus show you the TRUTH OF GOD then continue in the Gospel of Jesus Christ written by Matthew starting with Chapter 4:1 and read for yourself and observe how Jesus lived His day-to-day life to witness to the TRUTH OF GOD!!! Just like Matthew used Chapters 1-3 to introduce Jesus as the Messiah by circumstances controlled by God then Matthew uses Chapter 4 through the end of Matthew’s Gospel of Jesus Christ to let Jesus introduce Himself by how Jesus reacted to the “circumstances” that confronted Him in His day-to-day life on this earth. Matthew begins his account of the Ministry of Jesus Christ as follows:
“Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness
to be tempted by the devil.”
(Matthew 4:1)
It “is fitting for us” then to know that Jesus started His ministry with a most difficult circumstance and the “Divine Example” that Jesus gives us with His response to being confronted by the devil should be a “Lesson” that we apply to our daily lives to make it through our living in the flesh day-to-day life on earth and having to face difficult circumstances!
After all, Jesus has changed the course of History
for ALL ETERNITY so He certainly can do the same for our lives —
FOREVER FOR ALL!!!
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THE PATRIOT’S PULPIT
Comment: 1/22/23 Monday 4:29A - I was not checking my Patriot news feed over the weekend but Sunday evening as I was putting everything “to bed” I noticed that I had made a notation on my calendar for Jan 21st and it was “Ron done” which came from someone that is at the top of my list of Truth Tellers and among this community of True Patriots everyone is aware that you never know what’s going to happen next and since 2017 when I started following certain individuals it became obvious that certain individuals were trying to get “followers” much like the National Enquirer tries to sell papers, and the sensationalism of making Nostradamus-like predictions but just like Jean Dixon gained fame at first, the TRUTH finally came out and her shooting star fizzled out.
The real Patriots however have reported the TRUTH and occasionally “wished” for an outcome to happen on a specific timeline but were smart enough to know that you don’t go to war by sending your enemies your battle plans and expected timeline to invade — so I started being weary of those “shock and awe” predictors that said a specific event would happen on a specific day, especially when that event involved uncertain possibilities controlled by an enemy with many weapons. I did however appreciate the TRUTH TELLERS who simply let you know what was really happening and good or bad for “our team”, the event was reported without embellishment. I say all this because the Truth Tellers believe as I do that only God has the ability to predict the future or insure a specific outcome because God is in control and HE does things in His Time and I have come to believe that if God says it is going to happen it will but everyone who studies Biblical prophecy knows that God makes it clear that He will make it happen, when He wants it to happen, and He will do it in ways that we could never imagine so our job is to live according to God’s Outcome.
If someone says they know when or how God is going to do something then you can take their “guess” with a grain of salt which I always do. So why did I write on my calendar for 1/21/24 “Ron done”? I wrote that “prediction” down because the “source” that said it has never given a date before but said this “event” would happen on the 1/21/24 date IF and only IF the Patriots had gained control of certain political “high ground”!!! The next major “White Hat” victory “marker” would be IF the Federal Reserve was dissolved!
So I wrote the 1/21/24 date down several weeks ago and last night after spending all day splitting wood and watching Larry Bird videos on youtube I decided to check social media and see IF the 1/21/24 “marker” had been achieved and there was the announcement that Ron Desantis has dropped out of the 2024 Presidential race! I am an “optimist” because I believe that God is in control and when others that believe as I do say “IF” a specific event happens on a specific date and it happens then God, not man, is making it happen! Well, Ron Desantis is “done” and he endorsed Trump. The “Black Hats” have spent a lot of “ammunition” on Ron to try and stop Trump so the fact that this extraordinary event happened on a specific date means that God is moving because man can not predict what is going to happen until God signs off on it, this is one of those specific events that could only happen if God allows it to happen, that is GOOD NEWS Patriots.
THE BEST IS YET TO COME!!!
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