DECEMBER 19 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#1-33 SUMMARY-05 The Gospel of Matthew: A Study of the Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ

 

DECEMBER 19  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#1-33 SUMMARY-05

   The Gospel of Matthew: A Study of the Life, 

Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ 

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer   

JESUS, my prayer is to be totally dependent on Your Mercy and Grace

 to lead me where You will. Lord, I pray not to be free of worldly 

influences but rather my prayer is to have the discernment to see past

 the world and the deceit of this world to Your Truth and to Trust Your Holy Spirit

 to take whatever worldly circumstance that I find myself in and use it 

to witness to Your Great Love — for there is nothing nor no one that 

cannot benefit from Grace which You have provided so abundantly. 

Keep our hearts and eyes open to Your Grace and Mercy

 for in every situation we can take the circumstances of the world 

and use them to witness to the Glory of God and His Son Jesus Christ!    

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has already in the first two chapters of the Gospel of Matthew

 fulfilled more prophecies than any one before Him 

and certainly anyone after Him and since 

“His Birth, Life, Death by Crucifixion, Burial in a “borrowed” Tomb,

 and then His Glorious Resurrection on the Third Day were 

first prophesied and then documented by so many sources

 and written down and confirmed that there will NEVER be 

anyone but JESUS that can have the facts of His Life and Death

 be the PROOF that He is the SON OF GOD!!!” 

It is seldom stated some of the most obvious things that must have 

fallen in place for all the prophecies in the Old Testament to be fulfilled

 concerning the “Chosen One, God’s Messiah” and the odds of

 one man fulfilling even half a dozen of the prophecies has been proven

 mathematically impossible — therefore, if we look at just the “odds”

 from a numerical standpoint, if one man fulfilling more than 6 prophecies

 is “impossible” then what is the phrase that would have to be invented

 for a second person to fulfill more prophesies than the first person?!?!? 

The “odds” are so great that even one man could fulfill ALL of the prophecies

 that many find it hard to believe it to be possible at all and choose

 themselves to be counted among the doubters that believe all 

of this “prophecy” stuff and “the Jesus story” is a “fairy tale” —

 which is still one of the major arguments in our modern world

 against Jesus, God, and the Holy Spirit and prevents many people

 from believing ——— and many of these same “unbelievers” are

 the very ones that seek “proof” that Jesus is the Son of God 

and that God Himself exists — yet these are the very ones that refuse

 to look at “eyewitness” accounts such as each of the individual Gospels!?!?!? 

If we think of simple things like “facts that must be true” of the Messiah

 such as the Messiah must be a Jewish male born in Judea 

and that He would have to be “Sacrificed as the Lamb of God” 

to make “atonement for the sins of His people” 

and not just any “sacrifice” but a 

“unique sacrificial death at the hands of a foreign government!?!” 

 When we look at the simple facts and discover ancient records of one unique

 Jewish male born in Bethlehem 

who started teaching 

“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand”

 then how can our eyes not be opened?!? 

Matthew did not know Jesus until after Jesus had started His Ministry

 and was called by Jesus to be an Apostle — Jesus called each

 of His Apostles individually and because Jesus IS the Son of God 

 He knew the “purpose” that each of the Apostles were called for;

 therefore, it is easy to imagine that Jesus “knew” that Matthew 

would naturally learn everything he could about Jesus and His life 

and Matthew would eventually write the Gospel that would be an 

eyewitness account to the fulfilling of Jewish prophecy by Jesus. 

Matthew was a studied and educated Jew himself and as such he 

would see the significance of the simple facts of the life of Jesus. 

I can just imagine what Matthew felt like when he started following Jesus

 and then hearing from the other apostles stories about the parents

 of Jesus and when from natural curiosity Matthew traced the genealogy

 of Jesus back to King David that Matthew knew that there was

 something special about this “first born Jewish male” that could

 trace His genealogy back to King David!  

But can you imagine how Matthew felt when he learned the story 

that the mother of Jesus stated under penalty of death 

that her “firstborn Son Jesus” was “conceived by the Holy Spirt” 

and that she was a “virgin” when she gave birth to Jesus!?! 

Add to the miracle the stories that both Mary and Joseph told

 of their visits from Gabriel and Gabriel telling them to 

“call Him Jesus for He will save His people from their sins”!!! 

I can also imagine that Matthew started taking notes and studying

 the prophecies of the MESSIAH even more fervently because already

 Jesus had fulfilled the three most basic but difficult prophecies;

 for no one can choose (P1) where they are born nor

 (P2) whom their parents are much less 

(P3) who the parents of the parents are — and these

 3 prophesies alone make Jesus, the Messiah unique : 

(P1) the“virgin birth” and 

(P2) being “born into the family of David “and 

(P3) being “born in Bethlehem”!!!!   

It is IMPOSSIBLE for one to “choose” that their mother would be a “virgin” 

and give birth to a Son!!!

 Those ARE IMPOSSIBLE things for man, but it makes the

 HOLY SCRIPTURE valid when it clearly states, 

“with man it is impossible but with God, all things are possible.” 

I am sure that Matthew started writing furiously when he heard Mary and Joseph

 tell the story of the “virgin birth” and I am sure that God fully intended

 for Matthew to be the one to write the Gospel and document this 

“impossibility” of Jesus — for the TRUTH is that it indeed is “impossible”

 for man to fulfill prophecy, 

only GOD can fulfill prophecy

 and 

only the Son of God could be “virgin born”!!! 

The first four chapters of Matthew then documents through eyewitness accounts

 all the simple facts that the 

Life of Jesus points to the Divine Truth 

that Jesus is the Son of God!!!