SEPTEMBER 27 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#29 “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?” (Matthew 22:42)

 

SEPTEMBER 27  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, Precious Jesus, Lord it is so wonderful a Privilege to be

 able to call on Your Holy Name. Our God is so Gracious that He says 

to call Him “ABBA Father” (Romans 8:15)  and then He sent 

His Only Begotten Son so that we might call the Son “friend” 

and “Brother”! Our Lord gives us the Rights and Privileges of Heirs 

therefore we are also called “children of God”! (Romans 8:14) 

Oh Precious Jesus, how great a Love that God, very God, 

can do these marvelous things for a lost and dying world of 

sinners living in rebellion against this Holy God! 

Praise be to God Most High and His Only Begotten Son 

that was Obedient unto a cruel death on the cross 

in order that sinners through “Repentance” 

shall inherit the Kingdom of God!!! 

Lord, we exalt Thee above all names for You ARE the 

ONE TRUE LIVING GOD — The HOLY TRINITY: 

The FATHER, the SON, and the HOLY SPIRIT!!!   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus is sending more than just one message when He pronounces

 these “Seven Woes” on the “scribes and Pharisees” addressing

 the major problem of their “hypocrisy”. Besides the obvious 

message that defiling a “Holy office” is not acceptable behavior 

for one called by God to represent Him and His Commands to 

the nation of Israel, the scribes and Pharisees were also familiar

 with the prophesy of Ezekiel 34 where God states clearly 

“And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, 

prophesy and say to them”, ‘Thus says the LORD God 

to the shepherds: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel 

who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds 

feed the flocks?”’…and “For thus says the LORD God: 

‘Indeed I Myself will search for My sheep 

and seek them out…I will establish a shepherd over them…’” 

(Ezekiel 34:1-2,11,23). 

Jesus also makes it clear that God is still active and paying attention

 to His world and that in His Sovereignty and Immutability 

that God will “reward obedience” and “punish disobedience”!

 A.W. Tozer in his book “Knowledge of the Holy” devoted a whole 

chapter on “The Immutability of God” to help us understand that God

 never changes nor does God after fourteen hundred years 

or so (the time between Moses and Jesus) decide that His 

Commandments are no longer viable. Tozer writes: 

“To say that God is immutable is to say that He never 

differs from Himself.” 

(Page 49, Knowledge of the Holy paperback Copyright 1961) 

and then Tozer elaborates as he quotes Anselm ({ref…}):

 “‘All that God is, He has always been, and all that He 

has been and is, He will ever be.’ 

Nothing that God has ever said about Himself will be modified; 

nothing the inspired prophets and apostles have said about Him 

will be rescinded. His immutability guarantees this.” 

(Page 50, Knowledge of the Holy paperback Copyright 1961) 

So Jesus is Teaching the nation Israel that God meant what He 

said 1400 years ago when He gave Moses the Commandments 

and Jesus is Teaching us that God is Eternal and He is Unchanging 

and that His commands will be applicable for ALL of time 

therefore everyone, regardless of the “time” or “generation” in which

 they are born, all souls are born into God’s creation and are 

subject to His Will, which as Tozer explains, God’s Will is “Immutable”!

 God was Sovereign BEFORE the creation existed 

and God will remain Sovereign AFTER the creation 

and time itself comes to an end 

(From Genesis to Revelation) — 

however; there is NO END to the ETERNAL GOD

 and HIS SUPREME AUTHORITY!!! 

Jesus makes a point of the “Consequence” of “hypocrisy” 

and “disobedience” as He pronounces “Woe #3”:

 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel 

land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, 

you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.” 

(Matthew 23:15) Jesus reminds us that “He who is not with Me

 is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me

 scatters abroad.” (Matthew 12:30)  

The scribes and Pharisees (the “shepherds of Israel”) were using 

their “Holy office” to make converts to “doctrines and traditions” 

that did not bring Israel to the Holy God that gave Moses the 

Commandments but instead of leading the converts to God, they 

placed the “burden” of the “Law” on Israel’s backs and enslaved 

them to following the “doctrines of men” which was exactly what Ezekiel 

had said about the “shepherds feeding themselves”! Jesus is clear 

that this kind of “hypocrisy” makes those participating in keeping 

others away from God are “sons of hell” — and it doesn’t take much

 explanation to understand that “sons of hell” are NOT “sons of God”

 — my advice is to consider how serious God is about “hypocrisy” 

and to pay attention to these “Seven Woes” 

and use them to evaluate  your answer to:

 “What do you think about the Christ?

 Whose Son is He?” (Matthew 22:42)