DECEMBER 15 THE JESUS QUESTIONS SUMMARY 01: JQ#1-33 The Gospel of Matthew: A Study of the Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ

 

DECEMBER 15  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  SUMMARY 01: JQ#1-33

  The Gospel of Matthew: A Study of the Life, Death, Burial, 

and Resurrection of Jesus Christ 

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer   

JESUS, my LORD and my REDEEMER — that You would be Obedient

 to the Father’s Will to be Sacrificed as the Lamb of God,

 Innocent of All Sin yet bearing the Burden of All Sin, 

ONCE-for-ALL, YOU SHED EVERY DROP OF YOUR INNOCENT BLOOD

 for the REMISSION OF SIN, and that You and the Father

 HAD PLANNED OUR SALVATION while we were yet sinners —

 that is the greatest MIRACLE of all. Lord You KNEW that man’s heart

 was deceitful and evil yet You and the Father KNEW that through

 the Great LOVE OF GOD that man’s heart that was hardened by sin

 could be softened by GRACE and we could then be sanctified by MERCY —

 Praise God from whom all blessings flow!!!    

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has been present with us from BEFORE the CREATION 

and will be with BELIEVERS throughout all ETERNITY! Eternity itself

 is a concept that stretches our limited intellect for we are still bound

 by our physical limitations which God established with our mortality. 

But, God continually stretches our understanding with Spiritual Concepts

 that point us to Knowing God and it is through Knowing God that we

 will be able to move from this limited physical realm we call mortal life

 to the unlimited spiritual realm wherein lies Everlasting Life which is

 only possible through BELIEVING IN GOD! God summed up this 

ETERNAL TRUTH OF GOD 

as He spoke to the prophet Isaiah: 

“Seek the Lord while He may be found, 

call upon Him while He is near. 

Let the wicked forsake his way, 

and the evil man his thoughts; 

let him return to the LORD, 

and He will have mercy on him; 

and to our God for He will freely pardon. 

‘For My thoughts are not your thoughts, 

Nor are your ways My ways,’ 

says the LORD.

 ‘For as the heavens are higher than the earth, 

so are My ways higher than your ways, 

and My thoughts than your thoughts. 

For as the rain and snow comes down from heaven,

 and does not return to it without watering the earth,

 causing it to bud and flourish, 

that it may give seed to the sower,

 and bread for the eater, 

so shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;

 it will not return to me void, 

but will accomplish My desire,

 and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.’” 

(Isaiah 55:6-11) 

For the complete TRUTH OF GOD that explains

 GOD from CREATION to REVELATION one need only read Isaiah 55

 in full and then meditate on John 3:16 

“For 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) 

These Isaiah and John passages explain what and why 

and then starting in Genesis and going through every book and chapter,

 Jesus and God’s Mercy and Grace are written in great detail. 

A good argument can be made from John 1 that Jesus

 “was with God in the beginning” (John 1:5) 

and that to resolve the problem of “darkness” in the world 

that God’s solution was recorded in Genesis 1:3 

“Then God said,’Let there be light’…” 

The Bible teaches us that Jesus is the Light of the World 

and we should understand the importance of us being like Jesus 

when He teaches the Sermon on the Mount and then asked His first question:

 <JQ#1> “You are the salt of the earth; but if salt loses its flavor, 

how shall it be seasoned?” (Matthew 5:13) 

Jesus then immediately states also

 “You are the light of the world…Let your light so shine

 before men, that they may see your good works

 and glorify your Father in heaven.” (Matthew 5:14-16) 

——— Jesus IS the LIGHT of the World 

and by JQ#1 we know that Jesus wants us to be like Him ——— 

and Jesus with JQ#1 foreshadows that He will TEACH us how

 to be like Him and by the way we live our life we should be a “Light” 

to others and thereby we will “glorify [our] Father in Heaven”. 

This first Lesson then is that Jesus is going to Teach us how to live like Him

 and in the Gospel of Matthew Jesus uses His Divine Teaching Method

  to get our attention and focus us on different aspects that give us

 Knowledge of God and His Eternal Kingdom  

and then once we KNOW THE TRUTH we are to SHARE THE GOSPEL

 with those that are in “darkness” and by doing so

 we will fulfill the command of Jesus 

“So let your light shine before men…” 

with the single purpose of glorifying God!!