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

 

NOVEMBER 26  THE JESUS QUESTIONS   Conclusion: JQ#32

 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?”  (Matthew 26:40)

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer    

JESUS, each day I wake to thoughts of You and each day my spirit

 has HOPE for I know You are the LIGHT and that after every night

 full of darkness there comes morning and the drying of tears and 

the setting aside of my fears as Your Light drives out the darkness

 and the Son warms the inner parts of my soul. 

Jesus, forgive me for I fall victim so easily to self and am 

dissuaded by the world because I let the world’s darkness start to 

take hold but You Lord Jesus are as Faithful as the sunrise and 

each morning Your Mercies are renewed and as soon as I call 

Your Name Jesus, Your LIGHT rises in my soul and I can walk with HOPE

 into the new day You have created and graciously bestowed 

on this a sinner seeking the LIGHT! 

Praise God from whom ALL blessings flow!!!    

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has drawn us personally into His Final Passover and His Betrayal

 by first telling the disciples that in “two days is the Passover, 

and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.” (Matthew 26:2)

 Then Jesus is anointed with oil as Jesus explained:

 “For in pouring this fragrant oil on My body,

 she did it for My burial” (Matthew 26 12) 

which again drew serious attention to His Imminent Death

 on the cross at the Passover.  The Passover arrives and Jesus proclaims:

 “My time is at hand, I will keep the Passover 

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

and they gathered in the Upper Room where Jesus again makes it 

personal when at the beginning of the Passover Jesus announces: 

“Assuredly, I say to you, one of you will betray Me.” 

(Matthew 26:21)

 Jesus always uses Scripture and He declares to His disciples 

as He begins sharing what was to be His Last Passover Supper with

 them before He was crucified: 

“The Son of Man indeed goes as it is written of Him…” 

(Matthew 26:24) 

Everything Jesus has done in His Ministry has pointed to “His Hour” 

and even as Jesus eats this Final Passover He continues to Teach

 and show by His Example how we are to live — for 

“Jesus took the bread, blessed and broke it,

 and gave it to the disciples and said, 

‘Take eat, this is My body.’” (Matthew 26:26) 

Jesus then took the wine and summarized in detail the Purpose 

of why He being the VERY Son of God and Son of Man had come down

 from heaven and had  taken on flesh: 

“For this is My blood of the new covenant, 

which is shed for many for the remission of sins.” 

(Matthew 26:28) 

At this point the disciples should have recalled at the start of 

His Ministry that Jesus went to John the Baptist who was preaching 

“repentance and the remission of sin” and who when he saw Jesus

 coming to be baptized in the Jordan proclaimed: 

“Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world!”

 (John 1:29) 

Now here at the Passover Jesus had been showing that He was 

the Passover Lamb and that just as God had instructed Moses 

at the first Passover that the Passover Lamb must be slain 

and the blood applied as instructed for deliverance from their slavery

 and now here at this Passover Jesus is giving instructions what to do

 with the shed blood of the Passover Lamb 

to be delivered from the slavery of sin! 

Jesus then goes from the Passover to pray in Gethsemane and there

 He asks the final, very personal question 

 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?”  (Matthew 26:40)

   that  makes it clear that Jesus intends for us to “enter into His labors” 

as He commands us to “Watch and Pray” (Matthew 26:41) 

Peter had boldly proclaimed his loyalty and Jesus made it personal for Peter

 and said that even the most loyal followers would betray Jesus and Peter

 would do it three times “before the cock crows”! Judas then betrays

 Jesus with a kiss and as Jesus is seized He tells Peter who has 

drawn his sword to put his sword “in its place” 

(which could be a “Render unto Cesar” scenario 

with the sword instead of money?) and then Jesus explained 

everything that was happening was part of the

 Master Plan of Salvation! 

Jesus explained about the betrayal and why Jesus 

had allowed this to happen to Him: 

“How then could the Scriptures be fulfilled, 

that it must happen thus?” (Matthew 26:54) 

and then Jesus summarizes His entire Ministry:

 “But all this was done that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” (Matthew 26:56)

 

As followers we should listen to Jesus and trust that everything 

that happens is controlled and allowed by God 

and will be used for our good and His Glory!  

Jesus is being led away to begin His final hours and to face the cross

 and the final Question He asks in the Gospel of Matthew

 is the most personal  Question of all 

and is also the most revealing of all the Questions

 into the very Heart of God!