OCTOBER 26 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#31 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?” (Matthew 24:45)

 

OCTOBER 26  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#31 

“Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master 

made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?” 

 (Matthew 24:45)

LIVING FOR JESUS -Daily Prayer   

JESUS, Savior, Redeemer, Creator of all things, Blessed Son

 of the Living God, King of kings and LORD of lords, Name after

 Glorious Name and to think that the ONE to whom ALL PRAISE

 is due would HUMBLE HIMSELF, take on the form of man to 

be tempted in the flesh in all ways that man is tempted, and yet, 

being PERFECTLY INNOCENT AND WITHOUT SIN, 

would WILLINGLY suffer and die for the sins of the world in

 OBEDIENCE to the FATHER’S WILL, because of HIS GREAT LOVE

 for mankind and the FATHER, and Who after suffering as no man

 ever has nor ever will suffer, endured death and the grave??? 

O Great Mystery of God that the FATHER GAVE THE SON TO SUFFER, 

and in seeing the SON SUFFER, one cannot imagine

 the AGONIZING SUFFERING OF THE FATHER HAVING TO 

WATCH THE SON WHOM THE FATHER WILLED TO SUFFER!?!?!?!?! —

 and all this for the sake of each and every unloveable sinner 

and all their hateful sins???? Lord forgive me when I fail to see

 how much “agony” my redemption cost You, how much Your Son

 “suffered”, and how much it must have “grieved” the Holy Spirit!?!?!?!?   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has now made it clear that “heaven and earth will pass away” 

and invoking “the days of Noah” it is obvious that “the coming [again] 

of the Son of Man” at the end of the age will be to execute the 

“Consequence” of mankind’s “Choice” to reject God, who had

 demonstrated with Noah and the flood that 

God is patient but there is a limit to how far God will let 

mankind stray into darkness before GOD is Faithful to HIS PLAN

 and TRUE TO HIS WORD!!! 

Jesus also made it clear that the “JUDGEMENT” event “will happen

 but only God knows when” so Jesus warns us to “be ready, 

for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect” 

(Matthew 24:44) and Jesus followed that warning with His Question:

 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, 

whom his master made ruler over his household, 

to give them food in due season?”  (Matthew 24:45) 

We should all then “listen” to Jesus and consider that we are made

 “rulers” on this earth and in this lifetime which is passing away by the 

ETERNAL GOD and HIS WORD which “will by no means pass away”!!!! 

In His question Jesus draws our attention to the concept of “servitude” 

but let us not miss that though God makes us “rulers” that He also holds

 us responsible for being “faithful and wise [servants]” to the MASTER.

  Jesus then gives us the assurance of a great reward for our 

“faithfulness” and our “service” to GOD THE FATHER 

when He immediately states this TRUTH OF GOD after His Question

 on being “servants”: 

“Blessed is that servant  whom his master, 

when he comes, will find so doing.  Assuredly, I say to you

 that [the master] will make the [servant] ruler over 

all [the master’s] goods.” (Matthew 24:46-47) 

Being the “servant” of God we will be “blessed” by having access

 to all that God has — sounds like a good deal to me and all I have

 to do is “Love God” and “Love Others”??? — sign me up!!!!  

Jesus does remain “True” to His “mission” as He assures us also that 

although there is great reward for the “faithful and wise servant” that

 there is severe “judgement and penalty” for the “evil servant” that 

is not prepared for the return of the MASTER as Jesus describes the penalty:

 “…the [MASTER] of [the unprepared] servant will come on a day

 when [the evil servant] is not looking and [the MASTER] will 

cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. 

There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

 (Matthew 24:48-51) 

Jesus had pronounced earlier after cleansing the temple that

 the “unfaithful and unwise” leaders of the house of God, whom

 God had made “rulers” over His temple, had been judged because they

 had chosen to follow “traditions and doctrines” of man’s evil desires 

instead of being led by God! The “judgement and penalty” of those

 “hypocrites” were “Seven Woes” (Matthew 23:1-33) and the 

kingdom of God was taken from them! (Matthew 21:43)

 Therefore if God judged everything that breathed on the earth in the 

days of Noah, and if God will remove His kingdom from His

 “Chosen” people and destroy His temple in His “chosen city Jerusalem”

 that has been defiled by man, then it is obvious that God will judge the

 “evil servant” that is not prepared for the “the coming [again] 

of the Son of Man” and I can only imagine how much “agony” 

the “evil servant” will have to suffer to cause the 

“weeping and gnashing of teeth”!?!?!? 

God is consistent in both HIS REWARDS (behind DOOR #1)

 and in HIS JUDGEMENTS (behind DOOR #2) and GOD IS FAIR 

because HE GIVES US A CHOICE ——— 

the GOOD NEWS: God GIVES us a CHOICE but 

the BAD NEWS: We have to make our own CHOICE ——— 

my prayer is that YOUR CHOICE will be to be a “faithful and 

wise servant” of the MASTER OF ALL CREATION and realize 

that being an “evil servant” is a personal “CHOICE” 

[the Free Will gift of God] and not your personal destiny 

as taught by the traditions of men seeking personal power 

at the expense of the people!?!?!?!? 

OCTOBER 25 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#31 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?” (Matthew 24:45)

 

OCTOBER 25  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#31 

“Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master 

made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?”  

(Matthew 24:45)

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer    

JESUS, the Name that gives Hope to the hopeless, Rest to the weary,

 and Peace to the troubled. Jesus is the only Name that can bring

 us into fellowship with God the Father and bring us Forgiveness

 of our worldly sins, thereby giving LIGHT to our darkness, 

Sight to our spiritual blindness, and Salvation to our lostness! 

Praise God who GAVE His Only Begotten to Suffer and Die 

for a lost and dying world. Lord Jesus, I thank You that You have

 heard the prayers of Your servants and have granted to us Your 

Protection and Your Provisions through Mercy and Grace. May 

Your Name be lifted up and Glorified with the Father

 and the Holy Spirit throughout all Eternity!   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus Teaches us many Lessons within each Lesson therefore 

we should stop and look at ALL that Jesus is both Teaching and 

“confirming” with His Lessons least we take God 

and His Great Plan for granted.  Jesus has been giving us signs 

of the “end of the age” and His “coming again” therefore we 

should immediately learn that (1) this age IS coming to an “end” and 

(2) Jesus, the Son of God Will Return to earth from heaven

 at a later date. Jesus turned and asked this question to the disciples

 who had just asked Jesus to give them a “sign” of the the end 

of the age and His Return, 

“Do you not see all these things?” (Matthew 24:2) 

The obvious questions for us to ask now is (1) “Why” is this “Age” 

going to “end”, (2) “What” is the purpose of Jesus having to come 

down to earth from heaven “again” and (3) “Where” do we look to 

“see all these things”???  Jesus gives us the answer if we will but

 look at His Lesson a little closer — Jesus had just said that

 “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words 

will by no means pass away.” (Matthew 24:35)

 and He immediately continues speaking, 

“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels

 of heaven, but My Father only. But as the days of Noah were,

 so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.” (Matthew 24:36:37) 

There is a wealth of knowledge and confirmation in these

 “words” from the Master Teacher and even as slow as I am, 

I can come up with a quick list: 

(L1) Heaven and earth both “will pass away” 

(L2) Only the “Power” great enough to “Create” 

heaven and earth is sufficient enough to make it “pass away” 

(L3) when Jesus Speaks, His Words are TRUTH and 

TRUTH is Eternal 

for even though the heaven and earth “will pass” that the

 Words of Jesus “will by no means pass away” 

(L4) “These things” are part of God’s Plan:

God’s Plan includes: 

(P1a)the creation of the original heaven and earth,

(P2b) the living of this age, 

(P3c) God leading His “Chosen People”, 

(P4d) His “Chosen People” rejecting Him, 

(P5e) God judging His “Chosen People”, 

(P6f) God sending His Son to Redeem the world, 

(P7g) Resurrecting His Son on “the third day” and then 

(P8h) there will be an “end of the age” when the Son returns

 from Heaven and brings the “end of the age” to a “close” —

 “but of that day and hour no one knows…”

 but there is a Plan that has a specific “day and hour” 

already designated by God. 

(L5) The Plan includes a “Final Judgement” indicated by the mention

 of “the days of Noah” which was God’s original Judgement on the 

whole earth which is documented in the earliest of writings as God

 plainly gives His reason and justification for destroying every breathing 

thing on earth: “And the Lord said, 

‘My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh…’

 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, 

and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually…

So the Lord said, 

‘I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, 

both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air…’” 

(Genesis 6:3-7) 

(L6) God judged the earth in Noah’s day, which confirms that (a) Noah and 

the flood are real (b) and God will destroy the earth and all living things 

because of the “wickedness” of mankind. This one reference to Noah

 by Jesus proves the consistency of God and the fairness of God 

because if God judged the earth once because of “wickedness" then 

He must make a “Final Judgment” and if the reason God destroyed

 the earth the first time was because man’s thoughts were continuously

 evil, then the main reason for “Final Judgement” and the complete 

destruction of “heaven and the earth” will be because man has rejected 

God in his heart and that mankind’s “thoughts are continuously evil” and 

(L7) Jesus will be sent to close out the end of the age 

and execute the judgement of the Father!!! 

We read an important explanation of this in the Gospel of John:

 “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, 

and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. 

All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was

 made that was made.” (John 1:1-3) 

It seems reasonable that the Father would say to the Son — 

“Go down and wrap this thing up and create a completely new heaven

 and earth, they have completely rejected Us and therefore We will

 be completely justified in executing judgement on all mankind 

for the world has once again condemned themselves 

with their selfishness and wickedness.” 

“These things” will happen when the Father decides it will happen 

and my reasoning tells me that after the 

“TRUMPET BLOWS” to announce the “coming again” 

of Jesus the King that Jesus will “SPEAK THE WORD” 

and “IT WILL BE DONE!” ——— 

Just like God had it PLANNED all along!!!!!!!