SEPTEMBER 21 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#29
“What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?”
(Matthew 22:42)
LIVING FOR JESUS Daily Prayer
JESUS, the Holy Spirit brought to my mind this morning during
my devotional prayer that I was to stop in mid-prayer and consider
very seriously this question that the Holy Spirit directed to me
personally this morning —
“What do YOU (personally) think about the Christ?
Whose Son is He?”
My spirit within me was stilled as I was consciously aware
that I personally and confidently KNEW that
the Word of God is TRUTH and that Jesus is the Son of God,
that the Messiah is the Chosen One
sent by the FATHER GOD to bring Salvation
to this lost and dying world —
so my personal answer to the Holy Spirit is that I believe
with all that is in me that
“God so loved the world that He gave
His only begotten Son {{JESUS}},
that whoever believes in Him shall not perish
but have everlasting life”
— and only the True, Living, Loving God would devise
and execute such a Divine Plan!!!
LORD, I am confident that EVERY WORD that You have spoken
and has been written in the Holy Scriptures is TRUTH —
Thank You LORD for Your Salvation and my prayer is that I will be
a good steward of all the spiritual and physical blessings
that You shower down upon us daily!
AMEN
THE JESUS QUESTIONS
Jesus in His final week on earth is finalizing His Final Passover
Lesson on Power and Authority and He initiated the Lesson
with this Question posed to those that had been questioning Him ———
“What do you think about the Christ?”
and then Jesus tacks on a clue to the answer
riding on His closing Question,
“Whose Son is He?” (Matthew 22:42)
Jesus, being both Christ and the Son of God therefore is the
Master Teacher and we should look not only at “what” Jesus
has asked in this Question but we should seriously consider
“who” Jesus directed the Question to and also “how” Jesus
phrased this two part Question. The “what” that Jesus is asking is
the pivotal Question in each individual’s search for Truth
and that pivotal Question is
“What do you [personally] think about the Christ?”
— the Question is not what have you heard others say that their
opinion of Christ is but Jesus makes this very personal —
for once again Jesus takes a very serious Question and looks you
straight in the eye and asks
“What do YOU think?”
and when you look around you see that it is only you and Jesus
in the room and that Jesus is waiting on your personal reply,
then the pressure to be honest with Jesus becomes very
real and intimate!?!? The “what” of His Question then is
“What is [YOUR PERSONAL] belief about the Christ?”
Next we must look at “who” Jesus addressed this Question to —
this Question was addressed to all those that were trying to seek
personal power and are actively denying that Jesus IS the Christ!!!
Therefore the Question is double directed at YOU if you don’t
accept Jesus as the Messiah!
But then it is important to look at “how” Jesus asked the Question:
First He introduced the “subject” of the Question to get our attention
focused on the “Christ” and then Jesus asked the Question
in such a way that each individual is compelled to answer
the Question personally. Then when Jesus gets us to
“think about” the “Christ”,
Jesus Masterfully gives us a Divine Clue
to the RIGHT ANSWER when He “hints”
that the correct answer must contain a Father/Son relationship
— How does one get from God/Christ to Father/Son
without considering all these admonitions and actions
that Jesus uses to Teach the Truth of God
and continually tells us to pray to “our Father in heaven”?
— surely it is way off base to consider any answer that does not include the
“Fatherhood of Almighty God”
and the “Sonship of Jesus Christ” !?!?
As we look at what Jesus is Teaching with this Question,
we can better understand the object Lesson if we actually stop
at this point and honestly answer this very personal Question —
“What do YOU think about the Christ?”
(and equally important —)
“Whose SON is He?” (Matthew 22:42)
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