JANUARY 13 THE JESUS QUESTIONS Introduction-13: Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus: JQ#1-JQ#33 (Matthew 1:1 thru 3:17)
LIVING FOR JESUS Daily Prayer
JESUS, each sunrise starts a new day in our spiritual journey through life and I pray that You through the Holy Spirit will make my life in each of my new days of walking with the Holy Spirit to be a great witness unto God. Lord, I pray for forgiveness of all my sin, sins known and those that are unknown to me, but known or not, if they grieve the Holy Spirit they dishonor the Father and the Son, so I beg forgiveness for the sake of Holiness.
Lord, I desire in my heart to dedicate this temple to the Holy Spirit, to You, and Father God — O Lord Jesus, I am so close to being separated from the world that if it be Thy will, Lord lead me to be totally dependent on You and that I live only to serve You. Take now this prayer as a sacrifice and an offering to You, use my life for the glory of Your Kingdom. Lord I yield to Your will, You are my Lord, my God, my Savior, my Redeemer, and the Prince of Peace. AMEN
THE JESUS QUESTIONS
Jesus has been shown by Matthew’s Gospel to be in the line of David and is the One in prophecy known as the Messiah, the Son of David! Matthew drew the lineage from the traditional Jewish doctrine of tracing the family line through the father and listing the birth mother of the offspring. It is Jewish tradition because of the teachings of God found written in Deuteronomy 21:15-17 that the first born male that was also the first issue of his mother’s womb would be granted a special portion of the father’s estate, therefore when Matthew, being a well educated Jew and knowing the prophecies of the Messiah contained in the Holy Scriptures, learned that Jesus was the first born from His mother’s womb and that she swore by the Holy Scriptures that the Child was conceived by the Holy Spirit, thereby making God Himself the Father, then Matthew immediately recognized the prophecy of the “virgin birth” found in Isaiah —
“Therefore the LORD Himself will give you a sign; Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.” (Isaiah 7:14)
Matthew put the “virgin birth” prophecy along with the fact that
the mother of Jesus gave birth to Him in “Bethlehem”
which also fulfilled the prophecy by the prophet Micah:
“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, Yet out of you shall come forth to Me the One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth are from old, from everlasting” (Micah 5:2)
and Matthew had two prophecies that pointed to Jesus being the “Chosen One” that was written by God’s prophets about God’s Messiah! Granted, there had been a lot of Jewish males in the line of Judah that had been the “first born” of their mother’s womb and had received the special inheritance from their earthly father but Jesus was the first Jewish male that could claim that His Father was God Himself and He had been “born of a virgin” and that His birth occurred in the “City of David, Bethlehem Ephrathah” !!! — and least we forget, the story of the “virgin birth” of Mary began before she had given birth and in those days she could not have known that she was carrying a male child; therefore her claim that she was told by an angel that she would conceive a child in her virgin womb and give birth to the “Son of God” could have been easily disproved if she had given birth to a daughter!?!? So from a “Spiritual Truth” standpoint, the only way that Mary could “know” that she was giving “virgin birth” to a “Son” was that it had been revealed to her by God Himself!!!
Since Matthew was well versed on prophecy he could see the significance of Joseph having to return to Bethlehem to pay his taxes and Mary actually giving birth to her first born in the town of Bethlehem and those two facts alone were enough to raise expectations of the Messiah in the Jewish community but when the story that during her pregnancy Mary rightfully claimed (at the risk of being stoned to death) that God had chosen her to be the mother of the “Son of God” became known to Matthew he connected the two prophecies (1) the “virgin birth” and (2) the location being “Bethlehem” to the simple fact that Jesus was a firstborn male from Mary’s womb ——— Matthew then simply stated the documented facts surrounding the “birth” of Jesus thereby documenting for everyone that knew prophecy that Jesus had fulfilled two Major Prophecies of the Messiah!!! Matthew then writes first in his Gospel of Jesus Christ that Jesus is the “Son of David” (Matthew 1:1) and follows that historic fact with the “virgin birth” prophecy, thereby the combination of these two longstanding and well-known prophecies establish beyond any doubt that
Jesus IS the MESSIAH!!!
The first claims made by Matthew in his Gospel of Jesus Christ should be enough “evidence” for all of us to recognize Jesus as the Messiah but God still wants each individual to search the Scriptures so that we too can through “Faith in God” know the “Joy” of discovering God’s “Messiah” for ourselves!!! There is NO “Evidence” without “Faith in God” that is “proof of God” — however “Faith in God” is all the “proof” a “Believer” needs to know God personally and once we “Believe” then worldly “evidence” is simply used to confirm what the “Believer” through “Faith in God” already KNOWS about Him!!! Once you “Believe” you may claim this Truth of God for yourself: “And [you having] believed in [Me] the LORD, [I WILL] account it [unto you] for righteousness.” (Genesis 15:6) The Scofield Study Bible says: “ God must reckon His own righteousness to man’s account through man’s trust [FAITH] in Him — for mankind is without righteousness of his own.” {{Scofield Study Bible notes on Genesis 15:6}} The “Good News” keeps getting Better and Better!!!
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THE PATRIOTS PULPIT
Comment 1/13/24 Saturday 5:19A - Things came about a little different today. I am memorizing Genesis 1 and John 1 for my morning devotionals and as I was committing John 1:6-10 to memory the Holy Spirit who was sent to give us comfort and teach us God’s Truth, led me to write this paraphrase about the TRUTH OF GOD.
I will add a personal caution to Patriots to not allow the “anti-TRUTH programming” to kick in when you see the word “Anon” and here is why: everyone that knows me KNOWs that I am “seeking first the kingdom of God and His Righteousness” and I KNOW that GOD IS TRUTH AND JESUS IS THE LIGHT and in my Journey to TRUTH there was an unusual path I took to discover the TRUTH OF GOD about BAAL Worship and biblical TRUTH about God commanding us not to let our children “go through the fire” and that is when I Googled “The Goddard Tunnel Opening Ceremony” and it took me to an “anonymous Youtube contributor that had made an observation that the opening ceremony looked a lot like Satanic Rituals and worship of Molech. I watched the video and could see the TRUTH that satanic worship was happening right before our eyes and was happening large scale and it led straight to 911 Ground Zero and much more.
This was in the fall of 2017 and was my first digital exposure/contact with an “Anon” which in TRUTH is not a “CULT” as the “anti-TRUTH” propagandist want you to believe but is simply a group of anonymous contributors wanting to get the TRUTH, the WHOLE TRUTH, and NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH to expose the evil that is running rampant in the world and I was attracted to this group because the ones that were making those first videos in 2017 started like me investigating from the perspective that everything is “BIBLICAL” and that “GOD IS IN CONTROL” !
I started paying attention to the first ANON when his videos started and ended with PRAYER to the GOD of ABRAHAM, ISAAC, and JACOB to “open our eyes to GOD’S TRUTH”! Please use a “biblical” perspective to view the paraphrase below and KNOW that in my heart and mind that ANON is a synonym for GOD’S MESSAGE OF TRUTH to follow GOD’S PLAN of exposing evil by simple common men telling the TRUTH — that is what the “ANON movement” is all about for me and has been a part of God’s Plan for me from that first time I opened my Bible and read:
“in the beginning God created” and it was God who said, “Let there be LIGHT!”
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John 1:6-14
John’s Witness: The True Light
>>>God’s Plan to Spread the TRUTH and Overcome Evil<<<
6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.
>>>6P There was a TRUTH movement sent from God, whose name was Anon<<<
7 This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might believe.
>>>7P This movement came for a witness, to bear witness of the TRUTH OF GOD, that all through the TRUTH OF GOD might believe. <<<
8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.
>>>8P The movement was not that TRUTH OF GOD, but was sent to bear witness of that TRUTH OF GOD.<<<
9 That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world.
>>>9P The movement of Grace and Truth is the TRUTH OF GOD which gives LIGHT to every man coming into the world.
10 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.
>>>10P Jesus is the Light and the TRUTH OF GOD and He was in the world, and the world was made through LIGHT and TRUTH, and the world has rejected Grace, Light and the TRUTH OF GOD.
11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.
>>>11P The TRUTH OF GOD came to His world, and most in His world has not received the TRUTH OF GOD.
12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in Him:
>>>12P But as many as received the TRUTH OF GOD, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe GOD’S TRUTH that JESUS IS THE TRUTH OF GOD and GOD’S PLAN TO SAVE THE WORLD:
13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
>>>13P who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but by believing in the TRUTH AND SPIRIT OF GOD.
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.
>>>14P JESUS IS THE WORD and the TRUTH OF GOD, And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory and the TRUTH OF GOD, the glory and the TRUTH OF GOD as of the only begotten SON of the Father, full of GRACE AND TRUTH.
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MORE TRUTH OF GOD
1 John 1:6-10
6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.
