DECEMBER 24 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#1-33 SUMMARY-10 The Gospel of Matthew: A Study of the Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ

 

DECEMBER 24  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#1-33 SUMMARY-10

   The Gospel of Matthew: A Study of the Life, 

Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ 

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer    

JESUS, today my first thoughts towards You are thoughts of “Thankfulness”

 that You were OBEDIENT TO THE FATHER and have done those things

 the Father asked You to do so that sinners such as I would have a way

 to fellowship with God through the Miracle of Grace — a Miracle that 

was bought with a Heavenly Price and yet given UNCONDITIONALLY 

with a LOVE that can never be reproduced by man but is freely poured 

out by God on everyone that calls on the Precious Name of Jesus. 

Lord, there is no way for us with our limited intellect to understand

 the Heavenly Dynamics that provides Grace to wretched souls 

because of the Holy Blood You Shed on the Cross, nor why a

 Sacrificial Lamb could be slain before the foundation of the world 

and how the Blood of the Lamb of God that is applied to our hearts 

today brings about the Miracle of Salvation — or why God Almighty 

would even consider the possibility of Forgiveness of the guilty at such

 GREAT SACRIFICE AND SUCH GREAT COST to

 THE FATHER AND HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON!?!?!?!? 

Lord Jesus, Heavenly Father, Holy Spirit our hearts overflow with one

 word “THANKS” for being the Great God You ARE — AND GIVING

 SO TOTALLY OF YOUR HOLY SELF FOR OUR SAKES!!!    

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus comes on the scene in the 3rd Chapter of the Gospel according

 to Matthew after He is announced by the Star Witness of God, 

John the Baptist, but it is interesting to note that Matthew documents

 the fact that before Jesus came to be baptized by John, 

that John the Baptist was already “preaching in the wilderness 

of Judea and saying, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!’” 

(Matthew 3:1)  

Matthew was Jewish and was a well educated Jewish scholar and very 

familiar with the Jewish Holy Scriptures and there had been 400 years

 of silence since Malachi the last prophet wrote God’s declaration in the 

Old Testament that spoke of the coming of the forerunner of the Messiah, 

“BEHOLD, I send My messenger, 

and He will prepare the way before Me.” (Malachi 3:1a) 

Matthew sensed through that same Holy Spirit that the LORD was again

 speaking to Israel through His latest prophet, John the Baptist, who like

 the Messiah was also foretold by the prophet Isaiah as the forerunner 

of the Messiah. Matthew wrote about John the Baptist, 

“For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying, 

‘The voice of one crying in the wilderness: 

Prepare the way of the LORD…’” 

(Matthew 3:3 and Isaiah 40:3)  

The impact of John on the nation Israel can be seen by the simple

 statement of Matthew: 

“Then Jerusalem, all Judea, and all the region around the Jordan 

went out to [John the Baptist]” (Matthew 3:5) 

and the reason they were going out in droves into the wilderness was 

to hear John preaching “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” 

is further described by Matthew when he finishes his report on 

John the Baptist by documenting that those going out to the wilderness 

to hear John preach about the kingdom of heaven 

“were baptized by him in the Jordan, 

confessing their sins.” (Matthew 3:6) 

Matthew with these statements makes it clear that John the Baptist is not

 trying to build a church or establish a congregation because no one 

would build a church in the desert wilderness where John the Baptist 

was preaching — therefore one must concentrate not on their surroundings

 but on the message and that message was clearly “Repent” and the results

 of the Spirit-Filled-Message was that people were “Confessing their sins”! 

The success of John’s message to Israel was also noted by Matthew 

for John became so well known in the wilderness that he caught the

 attention of even the Pharisees and Sadducees who were “coming to”

 John to be baptized in the Jordan. (Matthew 3:7a) 

John’s reaction to the Pharisees and Sadducees must be viewed from the 

context that the Holy Spirit was leading John and when John calls

 the Pharisees and Sadducees a “Brood of Vipers” (Matthew 3:7b) 

we can anticipate that when the Messiah comes upon the scene 

that the Messiah, being led also by the Holy Spirit, will address the problem

 of having a “Brood of Vipers” ruling the temple

 {{Does this sound a little familiar to the global dominance of those in power

 and their connection to satanic temples??}}, all temple worship

 in Jerusalem, and additionally this “Brood of Vipers” was responsible

 for the religious doctrines of the entire nation of Israel and 

Israel’s worship of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that had brought 

them out of their bondage in Egypt and into the Promised Land! 

So Matthew has now established that Jesus has fulfilled prophecy 

by His Birth, and now John who has fulfilled the prophecy that there 

would be a “forerunner” to the Messiah is about to see Jesus face to face

 for the first time! 

Did you ever stop in your Spiritual Journey and consider 

that even though you believe and know who Jesus is, 

that there will come that moment 

when you will stand in His Presence for the first time!?!?!?!?      

Now is a good time to stop and think about that “moment” for it is a “moment” 

in your “future” and your reaction will uncover the 

TRUTH of what you believe about Jesus 

in the secret parts of your heart and soul, and “now” is the only time 

available to get that “moment” settled between you and your “future!”!! 

The TRUTH of GOD is that one day “your moment in His Presence”

 will arrive and what you truly believe will be revealed — 

and after the “moment” arrives it is already to late —— 

you must be prepared “BEFORE the Moment arrives”—— 

and the time to think about 

“who Jesus really IS — 

IS NOW”!!!