MAY 04 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#14 “ Jesus said to them, ‘Have you understood all these things?’” (Matthew 13:51)

 

MAY 04  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#14 “ Jesus said to them, ‘Have you understood all these things?’”

  (Matthew 13:51)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer   

JESUS, Jesus, Jesus ——— All Praise, All Glory, and All Honor to the Only Begotten and to the Father and the Holy Spirit for the Divine Plan of Salvation! Our limited intellect cannot fully “understand” the “motivation” of God when He addressed the problem of “darkness” as God spoke His first Words

 “Let there be Light!” (Genesis 1:3)  

The Truth of God is that the only “motivation” of the Blessed Trinity was Godly Love and the Divine Desire of God for the “Good” of His Creation. It certainly is a mystery yet to be revealed why the All Powerful God of All things would want a Personal and Intimate Relationship with man —?—?— our best clue to solving this mystery is the fact that God created man in His Own Image — 

O Blessed Thought, that God Loves Me and went to such 

Great Lengths to PROVE HIS LOVE FOR ME 

 that the Father would Sacrifice the Son 

so that the Holy Spirit could mend the “broken fellowship” 

and we could through 

UNITY OF THE SPIRIT

know the Father!  

Therefore let us worship in

“Spirit and in Truth”!!          

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus asked “Have you understood…?” and makes it clear that He is not asking “random Questions” just to be talking but that we should stop and consider why Jesus would stop at this point in His teaching and ask if we “understand”? 

When we consider the dynamics of answering questions and the motivation of asking them, we can glimpse a deep “Truth of God” —!—!— simply that

 God “Loves us” enough to go the extra mile in His Teaching to make sure that we truly “understand” the Truth of God. 

The necessity of “understanding” is really simple logic, if we are given directions on a map but do not “understand” those directions, we will get “lost” and most likely miss the destination, even though we were given detailed instructions, if we don’t listen and truly “understand”, then the directions are basically useless. 

So in our example, let’s say that it is God giving directions to the mansion that He promised to prepare for us and as He is giving directions to our Heavenly Home but just at the time that He is telling us where we need to “turn” to avoid disaster, we are distracted by the “cares of this world” and we miss the detail of “God’s” directions of where and when to turn! 

Then while on our journey we arrive at that certain point in our journey and we take the “obvious” worldly path as we see in Genesis 13:5-18 the story describing Abraham giving Lot the choice of directions to chose. Lot made the “obvious” choice and ended up in Sodom while Abraham depended on God’s guidance — God blessed Abraham because Abraham followed God’s directions instead of choosing the “obvious” according to the standards of the world. Following God’s directions, Abraham ended up in the Promised Land.  

So it is easy to see that choosing the “obvious way of the world” instead of the “way” God instructed us we will find ourselves “lost” and on the “wrong path” because we did not “understand” the directions of God! 

We need to consider in JQ#14 that Jesus is asking us if we “understand” because He does not want us to get “lost” and it is because He is drawing us a “map” and giving us detailed instructions to keep us going the “right way” because He desires greatly for us to arrive safely in the “Promised Land” 

so that we can enter into fellowship with Him!  

We fail to fully “understand” that God is not in Sodom - God is in the Promised Land! Therefore when we truly “understand” that God cares for us and desires good for us, and that He wants to give us a 

“hope and a future” (See Jeremiah 29:11)

 then we will listen carefully and study the map because God cares enough to make sure not only that we have a map, and good instructions, but that we truly “understand” the directions being given. 

Put simply,

 

God is going to great lengths 

to “Teach the Truth of God” 

so we therefore should exert equal effort 

to “learn GOD’S TRUTH” for the “kingdom’s sake” 

— we should use all of our God-given faculties to 

“understand” 

all the Lessons and directions (statutes), 

because a map (Bible) is useless if we don’t use it. 

That we take the “right turn” is important enough to God that He spoke through the prophet Isaiah that “they should understand with their hearts and turn, so that I should heal them.” (Matthew 13:15b) 

Now that Jesus has made it clear that it is our 

“understanding” 

that will lead us to 

“belief”

 in the 

Truth of God,

 we can better 

“understand”

 why we should listen to His detailed instructions 

or are you confident enough in “knowing” how to take care of yourself

 that you can find your own way to a place you have never been 

without a guide or a map? 

<<Good luck on “going it alone”!?!?>>

MAY 03 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#14 “ Jesus said to them, ‘Have you understood all these things?’” (Matthew 13:51)

 

MAY 03  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#14 “ Jesus said to them, ‘Have you understood all these things?’” 

 (Matthew 13:51)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, another day to praise You and to seek Your face, Lord to do Your Will and to  share Your Love with those that You put in our path. Lord I thank You for those that You have put into my life that have drawn me closer to You and to the Kingdom of God, I thank You that these souls have shared “Jesus” with me that I could walk in the light.

 So LORD, let me now share with the world Your Grace and Your Mercy which You have so abundantly bestowed on me and may I be a Light as You are Light, may I Love as You are Love, and may others see only You when they look at me. Lord Jesus help me to be a good steward of Your “Gifts”, especially the Gift of Free Will which I now “dedicate” to Your “Way”.     

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus started this particular section/Lesson by addressing those unbelievers that were “seeking a sign” insisting that Jesus “prove” Himself to them. Instead of trying to prove Himself, Jesus lives the proof and lets His Life speak for Itself 

— and here Jesus Teaches that the

 Truth of God 

is eternal and unchanging and regardless of what we “believe”, the

 Truth of God will remain true to the Will of God the Creator. The Father has “Willed” that His Only Begotten Son would become “flesh” and dwell among us, live the Perfect Life thereby becoming the perfect “Acceptable Sacrifice” for the sins of the world, that Jesus would be “innocent” yet He would willingly shed His Precious “Blood” for our iniquities and die for our sins — the “Will of the Father” is that the Son will be raised in Victory over death after Three Days in the Grave, the “Resurrection of Jesus” is the Truth of God!!! 

Jesus said in Matthew 12:39 that the “only sign an evil and adulterous generation” would get would be the “Resurrection”. 

Jesus has been teaching that our “physical” lives will bear the fruit of our worldly lusts and sins but Jesus demonstrated that He came to

 “seek and to save that which is lost” and to “heal” 

us of our infirmities and 

everything Jesus did He did in the Name and in the Power of God which manifests Itself in the Power of the Holy Spirit. 

In the beginning we read that

 “The earth was without form, and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.” 

(Genesis 1:2) 

Then in the next verse God “heals” the “void” by speaking the solution —

“Then God said, ‘Let there be light’ and there was light.” (Genesis 1:3) 

So by the first 3 verses in God’s Bible we learn that before the creation there was the

 Truth of God, 

and the greatest problem the world had was emptiness, no purpose, and darkness and

 it was the “Spirit of God” that “spoke” the solution and the “solution” was to send a great “Spiritual Light” to give “Understanding” to fill the emptiness and to give purpose to our lives. 

The “physical” lights were created on the fourth day:

 

“Then God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also…so the evening and the morning were the fourth day. (Genesis 1:14-19) 

but the first solution to the world’s problem was to address the 

“Spiritual” 

nature of our world and therefore the solution itself was 

“Spiritual Light” 

——— as we are learning in Matthew,

 Jesus IS the “Spiritual Light of the world” 

——— He is healing “physical” problems but is pointing us to the

 “Spiritual” solution! 

Here Jesus first introduces the 

“Resurrection” 

which is the ultimate transition from a “physical death” to an

 “eternal Spiritual life” with God, 

and then Jesus introduces the 

“Spiritual Family of God” 

as He points to His disciples who have been following Him and answers

 

JQ#14A “Who is My mother and who are My brothers?” (Matthew 12:48) 

and says, 

“Here are My mother and My brothers! 

For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven 

is My brother, and sister and mother.” 

(Matthew 12:49-50) 

There is a great 

Truth of God

 in this answer and that is 

when we Trust God as our “Father” 

and know that Jesus is the “Son” 

then we through our “Spiritual Belief”

 in the Kingdom of God 

become ”mothers, sisters, and brothers” 

of Jesus Christ Himself! 

God is our “Father” 

and we know that “God so loved the world” 

so it should be no surprise that 

JESUS CAME TO SAVE HIS FAMILY, 

or would you prefer to remain an orphan OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD?