NOVEMBER 19 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?” (Matthew 26:40)

 

NOVEMBER 19  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#32 

“What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?” 

 (Matthew 26:40)

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Lord as I start another day in Your Word I praise you for 

being Obedient to the Father and for willingly facing death on the cross

 for my sake, for shedding Your Precious Blood for the remission 

of my sin ——— You ARE the Son of God and lived the Perfect Sinless

 Life but exchanged that Divine Perfection for my pardon!?! 

Lord Jesus teach me to be a willing servant of the Most High God

 and to be a good steward of the blessings that He pours out daily

 along with the greatest of all blessings — GRACE. 

Lord I deserve death for my many iniquities and shortcomings 

so as I start this day I give Thanks for Grace with one breath and 

plead for Mercy with the next!   AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has made His Purpose clear with His announcement that

 He was to “be delivered up to be crucified” and when next He was

 anointed with oil, He explained the oil was for “My burial”!  It should

 have been clear to the disciples that Jesus was to be the Passover Lamb

 and fulfill the prophecies of the Messiah but they were blinded by the

 world as each generation is blinded by the deceitful world in which we live. 

Matthew records that Judas Iscariot had conspired with the chief

 priests to betray Jesus and “from that time [Judas] sought opportunity

 to betray Him.” (Matthew 26:17) None of His disciples had yet 

understood that Jesus was to be the Passover Lamb even though Jesus

 had plainly told them He was to die in Jerusalem at the Passover. 

Jesus however was being obedient to God’s Plan and He continued

 to Teach His disciples by living the perfect example. “Now on the

 first day of the Feast of the Unleavened Bread the disciples 

came to Jesus, saying to Him, ‘Where do You want us to prepare 

for You to eat the Passover?’” (Matthew 26:17) 

Jesus continues Teaching as He instructs His disciples on the preparation

 of His Last Passover and He tells them to “go to a certain man” and

 tell the man, “The Teacher says, ‘My time is at hand; I will keep 

the Passover at your house with My disciples’” (Matthew 26:18) 

So again Jesus is telling His disciples that the Event that Jesus

 became flesh for was about to occur and Jesus makes it clear 

that it is the Passover that is His Purpose. 

The “disciples did as Jesus had directed them” and as Jesus sat

 down with the twelve and began eating the Passover, Jesus again

 made a statement that the disciples and Judas Iscariot especially

 should have understood that Jesus was saying that He knew 

everything that was going to happen when Jesus made this statement

 while sitting at His Last Passover Supper with His disciples,

 “Assuredly, I say to you, one of you will betray Me.” (Matthew 26:21) 

Jesus demonstrates with this statement that He has knowledge of the

 future events for He listed this sequence of Divine Events when Jesus

said (T1) that He will be delivered up by the chief priests, 

(T2) that He would be crucified, 

(T3) that He would be buried, and now He is revealing

 (T4) that it is one of His own disciples that is going to betray Him. 

Instead of marveling at the fact that Jesus knows everything that is

 going to happen and give God the Glory for using His Only Begotten Son

 for the Plan of Salvation, the disciples did exactly what we all do in

 our worldly selfishness as they each asked, “Lord, is it I?” (Matthew 26:22). 

Jesus answered as He always answered by referring to the Scriptures

 as He answered His disciples,

 “The Son of Man indeed goes just as it is written of Him,

 but woe to the man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed.” 

(Matthew 26:24) 

Jesus is being sacrificed on the cross because 

it is the Father’s Plan of Salvation 

and not because of one man’s betrayal of the Truth of Jesus 

nor is Jesus being crucified because Satan had convinced Judas to sell

 his soul for 30 pieces of silver! Jesus demonstrates by His every action that

 GOD HAS A PLAN 

and that 

SALVATION WILL COME THROUGH THE SACRIFICE 

OF THE LAMB THAT GOD HIMSELF HAS PROVIDED!!! 

Every action of the world is the other side of that coin in that everything

 that the world has done to persecute Jesus has all contributed to the

 completion of GOD’S PLAN even though they had acted 

“unintentionally” and with evil intent! 

The world gives Satan much more credit than deserved and we fail to see

 in our daily lives that we are guilty of betraying Jesus in our own way

 because we do not see God’s Plan in our lives — Jesus expressed the

 importance of believing in God’s Plan as He said,

 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word 

and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life,

 and shall not come into judgement, 

but has passed from death into life.” (John 5:24) 

Therefore as we study the events that unfold at this Historic Passover,

 let us PRAISE GOD that He has provided GRACE for a lost and dying

 world and each generation “betrays” God’s Only Begotten Son 

but receives MERCY instead of JUDGEMENT because we believe that

 “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, 

that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life.”

 (John 3:16)