APRIL 23 THE JESUS QUESTIONS (Day 9) Summary Review of JESUS Questions JQ#01-01—JQ#13-07 (Matthew 5:1 thru Matthew 12:34)

 

APRIL 23  THE JESUS QUESTIONS 

(Day 9) Summary Review of JESUS Questions 

JQ#01-01—JQ#13-07 (Matthew 5:1 thru Matthew 12:34) 

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer   

JESUS, Praise be to the One! You LORD and You Alone are Worthy of all the Praise, Glory, and Honor that men utter, for there is no one that has ever lived besides Jesus Christ that has done a single righteous thing to be worthy of any praise. 

Lord Jesus please accept this offering of Praise and Thanksgiving because of “Who” You ARE and what You continue to do for a lost and dying world! 

Lord, I pray that Your Light will shine through my darkness so that all anyone sees when they look at me is You! Jesus, I know that daily I must die to self that I may be resurrected in You, so my prayer is that I may become “One” with You 

that I can reflect all that You are.      

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has been progressively Teaching us with His JESUS Questions how to reflect, evaluate, and grow “Spiritually” and now Jesus is giving us specific Spiritual advice on how to develop the necessary tools for “Kingdom Work”. 

Lesson  8   JQ#8      “How do you put ‘Feet’ to your ‘Faith’?”        Matthew 9:1-13

Jesus has in the first 7 Jesus Questions Taught us to see that we should follow His Example as He teaches us how to be “salt and light” (JQ#01), to know the meaning of “True Love” (JQ#02), to forget about “worrying” because God is worrying for us and promised to provide for all our needs (JQ#03). 

Then Jesus starts in on some characteristics we should develop as He tells us

 “not to judge” because that’s God’s responsibility (JQ#04),

 and that we should pursue the Kingdom as we “Ask-Seek-Knock” (JQ#05), 

with our goal to be producing “good fruit” for ourselves and for others (JQ#06), 

so that our “Faith in God” will overcome our “Fears” (JQ#07). 

And then Jesus says that as His disciples we should follow His Example of “walking the walk” and not just “talking the talk” as He Teaches us by example in

 JQ#08 how to “put ‘feet’ to our ‘Faith’”. 

To learn these Lessons and develop the characteristics of Jesus and not share them with others is a huge problem in doing “Kingdom Work” because Jesus says we should take and apply the Lessons that are “in here” to the problem that is “out there”! Jesus Teaches us in JQ#08 the importance of “doing” for the “Kingdom’s Sake” instead of just talking about it. 

JQ#08 points to the importance of “going” as Matthew writes

 “So [Jesus] got into a boat, crossed over, came to His own city. Then behold, they brought to [Jesus] a paralytic lying on a bed. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you.’” (Matthew 9:1) 

In this one verse we see one “action” after another (1) Jesus got into a boat  (2) He crossed over  (3) [He] came to His own city  (4) they brought to Him a paralytic  (5) Jesus saw their faith … then as a result of all these “actions” Jesus (6) forgave the paralytic of his sins and (7) Jesus healed the paralytic and (8) the paralytic took up his bed and (9) walked. Jesus not only accomplished all these miracles 

but He Taught us that our “Faith in God” is to be used to “help others” 

and that we are to actually put “Feet to our Faith” 

for when Jesus sees us “exercising our Faith in God to help others” 

then Jesus will recognize our “efforts for the Kingdom” 

and then Jesus will perform miracles in the lives of those that come into contact with our “Faith in God”. 

Jesus confirmed He wanted us to “exercise” our “Faith” as he commanded

 “Arise and walk” (Matthew 9:5)

 Isn’t it obvious that if we “Arise” and “Walk” in the Name of Jesus 

and do “Kingdom Work” 

that we are going to accomplish more 

than if we just selfishly “Sit” and “Talk” about helping others???