JUNE 26 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#20 “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you?” (Matthew 17:17)

 

JUNE 26  THE JESUS QUESTIONS   JQ#20  

“O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you?

 How long shall I bear with you?” (Matthew 17:17)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer   

JESUS, Precious Jesus, Lord where would this wretched soul be

 without Your Salvation? Lord Jesus if You had not changed

 the direction that I was going, I shudder to think where

 my deceitful heart would have led me,

 I just know that it would have been destruction and darkness

 and not Your Glorious Peace and Light.

 Lord I also thank the Holy Spirit for daily reminding me

 that I am always just one wrong decision away 

from the broad way that leads to that place of destruction

 where I once was headed ——— but the Holy Spirit 

reassures my spirit that the Father has me in the palm of His Hands

 and there is no power able to remove me from His Protection — 

no power that is except my own Free Will 

and my personal decision to leave

 the Path of Light that leads to the Narrow Gate — 

so Lord I thank You that each sunrise is a reminder that without You 

we choose the darkness but with You changing our hearts 

and comforting our souls, there is True Peace 

and we can enter into Your Rest.     

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus with this JQ#20 Question is pointing His disciples to what they must do

 to be successful in doing kingdom work after Jesus departs and returns

 to the Father. 

Jesus is telling the disciples that the Power of God is available to us

 and that His Life on earth has been an example of how to live our daily lives

 in such a manner that God will accomplish His Work through us. 

Jesus was equally Teaching about the 

Power of God 

with His Death as well as with His Life because 

after the world took its best shot and had Jesus crucified,

saw Him dead, and buried in a borrowed tomb, 

that God would demonstrate 

His Great Power and Glory 

and give Jesus Victory over death and the grave 

and raise His Only Begotten Son on the Third Day, 

just like Jesus had been Teaching and Prophesying all along! 

Also with JQ#20 Jesus draws our attention to the 

Truth of God 

that what He has been Teaching us about the 

“Spirit of God” 

will remain with us after the “physical” Jesus returns to His Spiritual form

 and that the 

Truth of God is ETERNAL. 

The Holy Spirit has led me to conclude this JQ#20 Lesson with a commentary

 from Oswald Chambers written for JULY 24

 in his “My Utmost for His Highest Daily Devotional Journal”. Oswald uses

 Matthew 5:20 “…unless your righteousness

 exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, 

you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven”

 and then Oswald writes: 

“The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does

 good things, but that he is good in his motives,

 having been made good by the supernatural grace of God. 

The only thing that exceeds right-doing is right-being. 

Jesus Christ came to place 

(within anyone who would let Him)

 a new Spiritual Heredity that would have a righteousness

 exceeding that of the scribes and Pharisees. 

Jesus is saying, ‘If you are My disciple, 

you must be right not only in your actions, 

but also in your motives, your aspirations,

 and in the deep recesses of the thoughts in your mind.’ 

Your motives must be so pure that God Almighty

 can see nothing to rebuke. Who can stand 

in the eternal light of God and have nothing for Him to rebuke?

 Only Jesus Christ the Son of God 

claims that through His redemption 

He can place within anyone His own nature 

and make that person as pure and as simple as a child…

no one can make himself pure by obeying laws. 

Jesus Christ does not give us rules and regulations 

— He gives us in His Teachings those Truths of God 

that can only be interpreted by His nature which 

He places within us. 

The great wonder of Jesus Christ’s salvation 

is that He changes our heredity. 

He does not change human nature — 

He changes its source, and thereby its motives as well.” 

 Jesus knows we will remain a “perverse” and “faithless” generation 

until we learn the Lessons that He has been Teaching by His Life

 and is about to Teach with the ULTIMATE Lesson:

 His Death, Burial, and Resurrection! 

The only way we can see the kingdom of heaven 

is to accept the Gift of Righteousness

 offered to us by Jesus Christ who proves the Love of God 

by sacrificing Himself for our sins. 

The only way to have the Righteousness of Christ 

is to have Christ Himself 

and the change that He imparts with His Holy Spirit

 which will dwell in us “eternally”.

 Only through Jesus can we have True Eternal Security

 and that seems like a pretty good thing to take 

and present to God at the Final Judgment

 don’t you think?!?!?