DECEMBER 23 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#1-33 SUMMARY-09 The Gospel of Matthew: A Study of the Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ

 

DECEMBER 23  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#1-33 SUMMARY-09

  The Gospel of Matthew: A Study of the Life, 

Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ 

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer    

JESUS, oh how blessed are we among men that we can call on

 the Name of Jesus so openly and so freely. Praise You Lord for the

 freedom that exists in our lifetime and our generation that we have 

a country founded on the belief in The One True Living God,

 the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob 

and His Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ.  

Lord, I pray for the strength and courage to help preserve for the 

next generation the privilege of having our churches and Bibles in

 which we have the freedom to come to know the God of Creation. 

Forgive me Lord when I take this “Great Blessing” for granted and as

 just “another freedom” that abounds in plenty in our “Great Nation”—

 forgive us that in our abundance we have become lazy and in our

 laziness we are taking our abundance for granted thereby losing our

 freedoms bit-by-bit, so let me Lord daily recognize the Peace and Joy

 of starting my day with the Name of Jesus.               

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus, by those circumstances surrounding Him through the first

 4 chapters of Matthew — and not of His own volition — has already

 fulfilled enough prophecy BY CIRCUMSTANCE OF RECORDED

 HISTORY ALONE that were He to do nothing else, Jesus could be

 shown to be the Messiah. Jesus could be “proven” to be the Messiah

 with just the single event of His being a first born Jewish male in

 the town of Bethlehem from the lineage of King David —

 but His Messiahship was completely sealed by the fact 

that His mother was a “virgin”!  When  “the Virgin gave Birth”, 

the "virgin birth" gave proof that her “Seed was Pure”,

 (for the Pure Seed comes only from God Himself) 

thereby making Jesus the Son of God!!!   

Without argument or debate, common logic demonstrates that if a bird

 gives birth, the offspring of that bird will be a bird ——— 

and as that bird grows to maturity it will grow feathers like its parents

 and will eventually exhibit all characteristics of a bird and will someday

 take off and fly like a bird ——— and anyone observing that bird in flight

 will not have to ask, I wonder if that bird’s parents are birds? 

This simple common logic that everyone can understand is

 God’s way of Teaching us HIS TRUTH!!!  

In His Creation Account found in Genesis, God made it clear that

 every living thing would “reproduce after its kind” 

and “whose seed is in itself” so it is simple common logic to assume

 that God would put “His Seed” into a “virgin womb” in order

 that “His Seed” would reproduce “after its Kind”!  

 With the “Virgin Birth” event it can be “logically understood” that the

 “virgin’s womb” was “undefiled” and her “Seed was Holy”,

 therefore the “Offspring” of the “Virgin Birth” would grow in 

“Grace and Truth” and exhibit every characteristic of “HIS HOLY FATHER”,

 thereby confirming that the The Child JESUS born to a “Virgin” 

indeed IS THE MESSIAH, the SON of the LIVING GOD 

(dead men and dead gods do not have offspring), and being the 

offspring of an undefiled woman, Jesus is the SON of MAN!!!   

Also, coming from the Holy Seed of the Father, 

Jesus is the Only Begotten Son of God 

and just like the offspring of a bird will grow feathers and fly, so likewise the

 Offspring of the Holy God would grow in “Grace” and speak “Truth”. 

If Jesus were not the Son of God, then He would not be able to “fly” 

with such natural ease that everyone who observed or studies 

His Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection will say as did the Roman

 centurion who saw how Jesus died at His Crucifixion,

 “Truly this Man [JESUS IS] the Son of God!” (Mark 15:39) 

So the object of the Gospels are to demonstrate that

 Jesus proves Himself to be the Messiah both by His Life and His Death,

 and the Resurrection of JESUS ON THE THIRD DAY fulfills God’s Promise 

to His Only Begotten Son! Jesus is shown to be the Son of God 

because of fulfilled prophecy, His Virgin Birth, His Holy Life, 

and His Perfect Sacrificial Death as the Passover Lamb of God, 

and His Glorious Resurrection by the Father on the 3rd Day!   

We cannot but exhibit the nature of our parents 

and that was true of Baby JESUS,

 born to a virgin in Bethlehem from the 

HOLY SEED OF GOD HIMSELF — 

and we still today call out the

 NAME OF JESUS!!!!!!!!