DECEMBER 21 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#1-33 SUMMARY-07 The Gospel of Matthew: A Study of the Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ

 

DECEMBER 21  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#1-33 SUMMARY-07

  The Gospel of Matthew: A Study of the Life, 

Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ 

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer    

JESUS, today I pray, “I am Yours, save me” as was prayed by Martin Luther,

 a prayer that must have been a great glory to Your Name and a great time

 of “coming out of darkness” into the LIGHT of YOUR WORD! O Lord, 

there is a new ‘Spiritual Dark Ages’ for our nation as America continues

 down this disastrous course of “separation of church and state” 

and if America continues to drift from our faith in God, we will lose

 the religious freedom established by our Creator 

and acknowledged by our Christian forefathers. 

Lord we simply cannot allow Christ to be taken out of Christmas

 and let “Happy-Holidays-Gift-Buying” replace “Merry-Christmas-Gift-Giving”

 in our lives, especially in our schools and public places. 

Lord, I pray for the Holy Spirit to lead “believers in Christ” to do 

something about this evil and vile situation that is removing Your Name 

from so many things that have made our nation great.” 

 Like many Americans who have felt the the need for unity in Christ,

 my prayer is that Christ will be allowed back into our schools and public

 places and that as a nation that we will once again proclaim 

“IN GOD WE TRUST” and from a Joyous heart proclaim, “Peace on Earth —

 Merry Christmas to ALL”!!!!    AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has now been connected to 4 prophecies that point to Him as

 the Messiah and yet it is our “faith” that will actually seat Him on

 the “throne” of our heart!!! It is a simple TRUTH of this world that all

 the evidence in the world will not be sufficient to enlighten those worldly

 ones that want to trust in the “doctrines and traditions of man” and not

 the “commands of God”! Jesus adamantly demonstrated against the

 hypocrisy of abandoning God’s Light for man’s darkness throughout 

His earthly ministry and especially after making His “Triumphal Entry”

 into Jerusalem. During the Passover Week Jesus was very specific 

as He is quoted as saying:

 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!

 For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, 

and when he is won, 

you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.” 

(Matthew 23:15) 

With statements like that from Jesus which attacked power hungry 

religious leaders of Israel and called them out with such great 

condemnation (and especially being called out like that in Jerusalem

 during the Passover Week) that they as “national leaders” would

 certainly not want Jesus to be confirmed as the Messiah for that 

would expose their greed for control of the people and would be 

Divine confirmation of them being “sons of hell”! 

That particular problem still exists today among people greedy for power 

that still refute the claim that Jesus is not the “Messiah” and they still today

 go so far as to say that the word “Messiah” has been defiled by translation ———

 those believing that the “mashiach” (“the anointed one”) has not yet come

 to this earth even today argue that the “mashiach” (according to the

 traditions of men) is not “God” but that the “mashiach” is a “human” 

that will be a warrior king like David. 

Those dedicated to this “Messianic Idea in Judaism” base their

 arguments on arguments put forth in such writings as 

“Rambam’s 13 Principals of Faith” which are in their own words

 “the minimum requirements of Jewish belief” and when they refer

 to God’s Holy Scriptures these that are so dedicated to “Judaism”

 use the same prophets that declared the coming of the “Messiah” 

and “signs” of His Coming through their interpretation of the Scriptures,

 use those same prophets and Scriptures to claim that the Scriptures

 “prove” that Jesus is not the “mashiach”. It was this claim of their side

  that the Scriptures prove Jesus who was standing before them 

fulfilling prophecy was not the Messiah, was the basis therefore

 for Jesus rightfully called them “hypocrites” for these misguided 

leaders claim to know the Scriptures better than God Himself!  

This is the exact same problem that Jesus questioned the scribes 

and Pharisees from Jerusalem who had sought out Jesus because of

 His “Works” (the “Works” that Jesus had done were “miraculous” by

 any definition) and when Jesus answered their question 

with a Question of His own, 

“Why do you transgress the commandment of God 

because of your tradition?” (Matthew 15:3) 

and called them “hypocrites” by referring to the prophet Isaiah: 

“Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying, 

‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me

 with their lips, but their heart is far from Me, and in vain they worship Me,

 teaching as doctrines the commandments of men’” 

(Matthew 15:7-9) 

So if those that claim Jesus is not the Messiah do so by quoting 

“commandments of men” such as “Rambam’s 13 Principals of Faith” 

then I will let each of you make your own decision and review 

the “evidence” yourself, but each individual must still come

 to the same point of decision put forth by Joshua — 

“Choose this day whom you will serve!” 

(Joshua 24:15)