JANUARY 25 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#1 “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, praise the Name above all names, for You Jesus are the Only Door that opens into Eternal Life! Lord Jesus, guide us in Your Ways that we can with all confidence know that if we walk in Your Light that the “darkness of this world” will never overshadow us and make us lose the path to Your Kingdom.
Lord we are caught up this year especially in trying to return our nation back to the greatness we had as “One Nation Under God”.
{{{Author’s NOTE 1/25/24: This “JANUARY 25 JESUS QUESTION” was originally written in 2016 and then modified in 2017 and today in 2024 this “daily prayer” is even more relevant as our prayer for AMERICA is to return to being “One Nation Under God” and restore peace and prosperity to our GREAT NATION!!!}}}
You have already proven that the nations that follow You will be led to the Only True Peace. Lord Jesus, forgive our nation for straying from the path of Righteousness You have laid out before us, and forgive me for hiding my Light for the darkness is great in America — here I am, Lord use me! AMEN
THE JESUS QUESTIONS
JESUS was shown to be the Messiah by the fulfilling of prophecies through circumstance of His Lineage, His Birth from a “virgin” womb, and being identified as the Messiah by John the Baptist who was the prophesied “forerunner” of the Messiah. Jesus was further identified as the Messiah by the way King Herod reacted to the wise men when they asked, “Where is He that is born King of the Jews?” (Matthew 2:2) — all these circumstances and historical facts are circumstances beyond the control of Jesus to manipulate His own circumstances or His disciples to manufacture “false witness” after Jesus had been crucified by Roman authority at the request of the Jewish leaders!
These external circumstances documented by St. Matthew in the first three chapters of his Gospel of Jesus Christ clearly point to the historical fact that Jesus fulfills prophecies of the long-awaited Messiah but at the end of chapter 3 Jesus began demonstrating the importance of His Baptism by John in regards to fulfilling Messianic prophecy when Jesus allowed Himself to be baptized by John and by declaring to John the Baptist, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” (Matthew 3:15)
Starting with Matthew Chapter 4 Jesus begins to demonstrate by His “Actions” that He IS the Messiah. A quick list of the first Actions by Jesus reveals His Lifestyle is the Perfect Example of living our day-to-day lives in such a way that every thing we do and say should “glorify God”. Here is a list of the First Actions of Jesus recorded by Matthew and how Jesus responded to His day-to-day circumstances:
(ACTION 1) — “Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.” (Matthew 4:1) After being in the wilderness for 40 days of fasting and prayer Jesus was tempted by the three temptations that are most common to man and Jesus responded thusly:
(Temptation 1) “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’” (Matthew 4:4)
(Temptation 2) “It is written again, ‘You shall not tempt the LORD your God.’” (Matthew 4:7)
(Temptation 3) “Away with you, Satan! For it is written, you shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only you shall serve.’” (Matthew 4:10)
Matthew records that when Jesus avoided temptation by using the Word of God that “Then the devil left [Jesus] and behold angels came and ministered to Him.” (Matthew 4:11) This first Messianic Action of Jesus was truly the Action of God’s Chosen One as Jesus demonstrated that He was well versed in the Holy Scriptures and relied completely on the Holy Scriptures to resist temptation. In responding to the devil’s temptations with scripture Jesus “Glorified God” and showed that He would do nothing without having a solid Scriptural background to justify His Actions — again Jesus from the very beginning was all about living in a way that Honors God!
(ACTION 2) — Matthew records next: “Now when Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, He departed to Galilee. And leaving Nazareth, He came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the regions of Zebulun and Naptali, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet saying: ‘The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles: The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death Light has dawned.” (Matthew 4:12-16) Matthew writes: “From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.’”(Matthew 4:17)
(ACTION 3) — Matthew records that Jesus then began to call His disciples and declared to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” (Matthew 4:18-22)
(ACTION 4) — Matthew next records: “And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of diseases among the people. Then His fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics; and He healed them.” (Matthew 4:23-25)
With these actions Jesus showed by His life that He was the Messiah and that indeed Jesus had the AUTHORITY and POWER of God for Jesus did nothing that did not GLORIFY HIS FATHER! After these Messianic Actions Jesus gave His “Sermon on the Mount” (Matthew 5:1-12) immediately after giving His Sermon on the Mount Jesus began using Questions to focus our attention to the TRUTH of GOD contained in every Lesson that Jesus Taught with such Great Authority! Immediately after delivering the “Sermon on the Mount” Jesus asked His first Question JQ#1 “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned?” (Matthew 5:13)
Why should we study the Questions of Jesus? Why should we give Jesus an honest answer? Personally, this “JESUS Questions” blog began because the Holy Spirit made clear to me the need to dig deeper and to encourage more people to dig deeper into their personal relationship with Jesus — this blog is written to encourage all believers to consider the possibility that we are guilty of what was spoken by Jesus in Revelation to the angel of the church at Ephesus: “I know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars; and you have persevered and have patience, and have labored for My name’s sake and have not become weary. Nevertheless, I have this against you, that you have left your first love.” (Revelation 2:1-4)
Jesus spoke these words in the book John the disciple of Jesus wrote while John “was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day” (Revelation 1:10) The Holy Spirit urges all “Born Again Believers” to return to our “first love” and TRUST that Jesus is the Only Way! This study of The JESUS Questions has been initiated by the Holy Spirit and is to be shared with everyone; therefore I will challenge everyone that reads this daily blog to dig deep into their relationship with Jesus and consider your current personal day-to-day relationship with Jesus —
The Holy Spirit asks: “How’s your ‘Love’ life?”
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THE PATRIOT’S PULPIT
Comment: 1/25/24 Thursday 5:08A - Good Morning Patriots! From my view I am seeing more involvement on many different levels and more Patriots are right on point with this “Razor Wire” issue that is highlighting the TRUTH that the Constitution is the Law of the Land and not the “appointed judges responsible” for the correct application of the Law as written in the Constitution and not some “biased political opinion” of what some anti-God movement would like for the Constitution to say! There needs to be more AMERICANS reading the CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES and to understand that the Constitution means what is says and not what the “judges” think it really says!!!
To know “why” the Constitution was written helps to understand what the LAW was written to accomplish and if the founding fathers started off with FREE SPEECH and followed that with our RIGHT TO DEFEND OURSELVES against our own government then we should see clearly that if our government tries to take away our right to speak about the way the government is “failing in their responsibility” to represent our public interests and then seeing that same government actually put people in jail for exercising their Constitutional Rights, then we have reached the point our AMERICAN forefathers wrote about in the Declaration of Independence:
“But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”
Our founding fathers fought for their freedom from an oppressive political environment and when they freed themselves from political slavery they wrote the Constitution and gave “We_The_People” the right to govern ourselves and if those we choose to “enforce” and “uphold” the Constitution for “We_The_People” fail to faithfully execute their duties and responsibilities then the Constitution provides “We_The_People” the right to remove them from “elected office”. It is important to review the Federal Reserve Act of 1871 at this point in our nations fight for freedom from this “long train of abuses and usurpations” because it was in 1871 that AMERICA and the AMERICAN CONSTITUTION was “sold out” to the Central Bankers and we have been “debt slaves” ever since! There is a movement in AMERICA back to AMERICA PATRIOTISM and AMERICAN NATIONALISM and the road to victory is going to take us back to our ORIGINAL AMERICAN CONSTITUTION that was replaced by a “Corporate Constitution” in 1871 — Let’s make 2024 the year AMERICA returned to AMERICA and kick those Central Bankers and Corporate Tyrants to the CURB!!!
We will never be GREAT AGAIN until we allow GOD TO LEAD OUR NATION AGAIN because “When the SON sets you free, you are free indeed!!”
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