NOVEMBER 16 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#32
“What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?” (Matthew 26:40)
LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer
JESUS, Lord and Redeemer, let every word from my lips be filled
with praise and thanksgiving for the One who suffered and died for me!
Lord I thank You that even when I was lost so deep in my sin that I could
not find my way through the darkness that Your Light and Your Love
brought me back to Your Way! Lord forgive me of my many
shortcomings and keep my heart focused on Your Will and not my will
which so often goes the way of the world and worldly desires. Praise,
Glory, and Honor, Truth, and Life are Yours and I can only be thankful
that You are Gracious to us in spite of our many iniquities and I am also
thankful that because of Your Great Compassion You shower Your Mercy
on a faithless and perverse generation, help me Lord with my unbelief.
AMEN
THE JESUS QUESTIONS
Jesus has announced that He was to be “delivered up to be crucified”
(Matthew 26:2) and now He has only two days left before the prophecy
of the Great Sacrifice of the Passover Lamb of God is fulfilled.
Jesus throughout His Ministry has Taught the way of life we are to live
in order that we may “inherit the kingdom of Heaven”! Jesus has
painted a very clear picture of what the future of the unbeliever is as
well as warning that “all the nations” will be judged — either we
have chosen to “believe” and follow the Great Shepherd to the
Kingdom of Heaven where the believer will find
“green pastures and still waters”
or we will be separated out as “goats” during the Final Judgement
when God “divides the sheep [believers] from the goats [unbelievers]”
(Matthew 25:32)
Jesus illustrated the punishment very graphically as He said that
at the Final Judgement the “King” will declare to the unbelievers,
“Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared
for the devil and his angels…and the [unbeliever] will go away
into everlasting punishment, but the righteous [believers]
into eternal life.” (Matthew 25:41,46)
The Lesson to be learned from the “sequence” of Jesus Teaching
about the Final Judgement where the “righteous” inherit the Kingdom
of Heaven and eternal life and the unrighteous are cursed to a
“everlasting punishment” that immediately Jesus announces He will
“be crucified” which is the same as when at the beginning of creation
God recognized the problem of darkness and lack of purpose in the world
in Genesis 1:2 “the earth was without form, and void and darkness
was on the face of the deep…and the Spirit of God was hovering
over the face of the waters. Then God said , ‘Let there be Light’”
(Genesis 1:2-3).
Jesus, The Son of God, has recognized the problem that “darkness”
and sin have blinded the unrighteous and He is fulfilling God’s command
to “let there be Light” as Jesus knows that He must execute
God’s Plan of Salvation and must suffer and die for the sins of the world as
Jesus Sheds His Precious Blood
when He is “crucified” though He is Innocent!!!
Jesus knows that His Death is The Plan of Salvation for all mankind
for He has repeatedly announced that God will
“raise Him” on “the third day”!
As we look at these last “two days” before that
Most Blessed Event of the Sacrifice of God’s Passover Lamb
that we should study carefully these last
Words and Lessons of the Chosen One.
Therefore let us look at the sequence of events leading up to when on
the Cross that Jesus “yielded up His Spirit” (Matthew 27:50) for if
we study “how and why” Jesus died, we will declare as did those who
watched Him die,
“Truly this [IS] the Son of God!” (Matthew 27:54)
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