MARCH 17 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#10 “Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin?” (Matthew 10:29)

 

MARCH 17  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#10 “Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin?” (Matthew 10:29)

LIVING FOR JESUS Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Lord, may thanksgiving and praise always be on my lips for You Lord have blessed me beyond anything I could have imagined and certainly more than I deserve. Jesus, thank You for showing me that True Blessings are so much more valuable than anything money can buy! 

Lord, to know that we are held safe in the hands of the Father and that His Perfect Will is directed towards only “good” for us is the most comforting assurance life can provide, and we know that YOU LORD JESUS — YOU ARE —  

THE WAY, THE TRUTH, and THE LIFE 

— Praise God from Whom ALL BLESSINGS flow.     

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

JESUS uses two sparrows and a copper coin, common everyday things, but leave it to the Master to use the common everyday things in our daily lives to Teach the “Sublime”! 

Though the objects are common, the Lesson Jesus Teaches is all about “value”! “Value” is a relative term, for instance, if a man has a million dollars but is lost in the desert and is dying of thirst, how many millions of dollars would the thirsty man give for a single class of water? 

We are all familiar with the term “inflation” and the affect “inflation” has on our “household income” — “inflation” is nothing more than money losing its “value” thereby we can observe in our daily lives that the “value” of money is not constant and therefore the “true value” of money is 

SUBJECT TO THE EVER-BLOWING WINDS OF CHANGE! 

God is addressing “spiritual value” in JQ#10 — and the “Way” that He conveys His message about how we think about our “spiritual value” is truly “Divine”! 

The immediate context to the Question of “true value” found in 

JQ#10 “Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? (Matthew 10:29) 

focuses our attention to the important Lesson of how we assign “true value” to our lives. 

Jesus in Matthew 10:28 directs our thinking so that we will understand that “value” is relative and that there is both “physical value” and “spiritual value” to our lives when He declares to His Disciples (whom Jesus is sending out into the world with His Message): 

“And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.” (Matthew 10:28) 

Jesus is very specific and very serious because He specifically uses the terms 

“fear”, “kill the body”, “kill the soul”, “fear Him”, and

 “able to destroy both body and soul in hell”. 

Jesus has just introduced the most serious terms that anyone, anywhere, anytime will ever have to address. 

Let’s look at these terms that Jesus uses to introduce the specific topic of “spiritual value” and keep in mind that Jesus is in the middle of Teaching His disciples how to go out into the world to witness about the “kingdom of God”. Therefore there has to be a “Divine Reason” that Jesus gets so serious and so specific!!! Therefore, we should “listen and learn” with equal seriousness.

 The first term that gets our attention is “fear” and again if we look at how Jesus uses the word “fear” it is to tell us first “do not fear” and then turns around in the same sentence and says “but rather fear”?? 

Jesus is revealing one of those “deep” mysteries of God! The secret God reveals here is the “Truth of God”  that “fear” is a good thing if it is directed towards the purpose God intended when He spoke “HIS TRUTH” into the world.

 “GOD’S TRUTH” NEVER changes therefore  ——— GOD’S TRUTH IS OF ETERNAL-INFINITE VALUE 

so we must dig deep enough into these statements that Jesus makes to discover the “Truth of God” about “proper fear” and see the “good” that only God can bring forth from every element of His Creation — all earthly “value” is “relative” to its association with God’s Kingdom. 

In this case Jesus places “do not fear” with “those who kill the body” and immediately Jesus points to the “Truth of God” that there is something more “deadly” than killing the “body” and that we should be concerned more 

about our “soul” than about our “body”. 

Jesus is telling us that the death of the “body” is of no “consequence” to our “eternity” but that our “soul” is “priceless”!!!

 Jesus is seriously Teaching that all our energy should be expended towards consideration of our “spiritual eternity” ——— and that, my “brothers and sisters”, is where the “rubber hits the road”. Have you checked your “spiritual condition” lately?