JULY 22 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#22 “Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things?” (Matthew 20:15)

 

JULY 22  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#22  

“Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things?” 

(Matthew 20:15)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer   

JESUS, Praise, Glory, and Honor to the Only Begotten Son of the Living God

 that Sacrificed Himself willingly on a cruel cross, who Died on my behalf, 

was Buried by men but was 

Resurrected by our heavenly Father on the Third Day. 

Jesus now sits at the right hand of God making intercession for all 

who believe that the Son of God came to save lost souls from 

an eternal burning hell and indeed all who call upon 

the Name of Jesus for Salvation receives

 Forgiveness from our Father in Heaven. 

Lord Jesus, there has never been nor is there any reason or need for

 another like You, for Your life, death, and Sacrifice was Perfect and Sufficient.

 Jesus I acknowledge on a daily basis my unworthiness and surrender

 my soul to You, and pray as humbly as I can to be showered

 with Your Mercy and Grace, 

LORD JESUS lead me in paths of righteousness for Your Name’s sake.   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has just spent a large amount of effort in Teaching His disciples 

about sin and now Jesus moves on to addressing more details 

about our daily lives as Matthew writes, 

“Now it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these sayings [on sin], 

that He departed from Galilee and came to the region of Judea 

beyond the Jordan.” (Matthew 19:1) 

As we move from one area in our lives to another, we usually 

encounter new circumstances and when we do, we will find Jesus there

 and Jesus will already have a Lesson planned for us to cover every 

circumstance we will encounter. Matthew documents that 

“…great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them there.” 

(Matthew 19:20)

 but everywhere Jesus performed miracles there was opposition 

to His generosity of His Spirit to those who followed Him and it always 

came from the “authority” figures who seek to have “control” 

over the populace. Matthew writes: 

“The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him…”

 (Matthew 19:3a) 

and so once again as Jesus does the work of God and heals 

the multitudes that He comes under attack from the Pharisees

 who were the “traditionalists” of their time in Jewish history. 

Jesus repeatedly turned their attacks on His doing the work of God

 to exposing their problem with their “traditions” based on their

 wrong interpretation of God’s Laws.

 In this particular case, in this passage in Matthew, 

this group of Pharisees asked Jesus 

“…saying to Him, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce 

his wife for just any reason?’” (Matthew 19:3b) 

Jesus took the question the Pharisees had used to try and trick Him 

with and Jesus used their own question to actually expose 

a major problem with both the common Jewish practices as well as

 the Pharisee’s teaching of “traditional” Jewish laws which the 

Pharisees followed, even at the expense of God’s original intent 

for giving them His Laws in the first place! 

Earlier in Matthew, another group of Pharisees had attacked Jesus 

regarding picking grain to eat on the Sabbath and 

Jesus had responded by asking them: 

“Why do you break the command of God 

for the sake of your tradition?” (Matthew 15:3) 

and then Jesus called the Pharisees 

“hypocrites” then He quoted Isaiah: 

“But their heart is far from Me, and in vain they worship Me, 

teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.” 

(Isaiah 29:13/Matthew 15:3-9)  

Jesus therefore has used every attack from the “traditionalists” 

to expose a problem with the way we “sin” against God by turning 

our hearts from following God’s Laws 

and instead follow the doctrines of “men”. 

Following the “doctrines of men” instead of “following God” is a problem

 with every generation, and the generations living now are 

no exception and each generation stands in need of learning the Lesson

 that Jesus is about to Teach in this circumstance.

 The fact that Jesus could Teach a Lesson to correct a problem 

exposed by Isaiah 800 years before Jesus was even born 

makes one realize that Jesus must be God, 

for only God could Teach a Lesson that could be applied 

to every generation, every creed, nation, and race — 

and a Universal Lesson like that can only be explained 

by the fact that God and His Truth is Unchanging and Eternal 

— therefore if something is Unchanging and Eternal it must be of God! 

If you read the answer Jesus gave the Pharisees as recorded in 

Matthew 19:4-12 and your heart is  “hardened” by His answer 

then it is safe to assume that you are part of the problem and 

need the Teachings of Jesus to free you from the slavery 

of being in bondage to the “commandments of men”!  

Don’t you “think” that it would be better to

 “please God” who made the commandments 

than to “please men” that have manipulated God’s commandments 

so that the populace will succumb to the power of “men” and ignore “God”?!?!?!?

 Or do you believe that we as a society should be ruled 

by a court of nine judges that call themselves the “Supreme Court”

 or should everyone be under the

 Supreme Rule of Law established by the True Supreme Judge, 

God Almighty Himself?!?!?