NOVEMBER 16 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?” (Matthew 26:40)

 

NOVEMBER 16  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#32 

“What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?”  (Matthew 26:40)

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Lord and Redeemer, let every word from my lips be filled 

with praise and thanksgiving for the One who suffered and died for me!

 Lord I thank You that even when I was lost so deep in my sin that I could

 not find my way through the darkness that Your Light and Your Love

 brought me back to Your Way!  Lord forgive me of my many 

shortcomings and keep my heart focused on Your Will and not my will

 which so often goes the way of the world and worldly desires. Praise,

 Glory, and Honor, Truth, and Life are Yours and I can only be thankful

 that You are Gracious to us in spite of our many iniquities and I am also

 thankful that because of Your Great Compassion You shower Your Mercy

 on a faithless and perverse generation, help me Lord with my unbelief.     

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has announced that He was to be “delivered up to be crucified” 

(Matthew 26:2) and now He has only two days left before the prophecy

 of the Great Sacrifice of the Passover Lamb of God is fulfilled. 

Jesus throughout His Ministry has Taught the way of life we are to live

 in order that we may “inherit the kingdom of Heaven”!   Jesus has 

painted a very clear picture of what the future of the unbeliever is as 

well as warning that “all the nations” will be judged — either we 

have chosen to “believe” and follow the Great Shepherd to the

 Kingdom of Heaven where the believer will find 

“green pastures and still waters” 

or we will be separated out as “goats” during the Final Judgement 

when God “divides the sheep [believers] from the goats [unbelievers]” 

(Matthew 25:32)  

Jesus illustrated the punishment very graphically as He said that

 at the Final Judgement the “King” will declare to the unbelievers, 

“Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared

 for the devil and his angels…and the [unbeliever] will go away

 into everlasting punishment, but the righteous [believers] 

into eternal life.” (Matthew 25:41,46) 

The Lesson to be learned from the “sequence” of Jesus Teaching 

about the Final Judgement where the “righteous” inherit the Kingdom

 of Heaven and eternal life and the unrighteous are cursed to a

 “everlasting punishment” that immediately Jesus announces He will

 “be crucified” which is the same as when at the beginning of creation

 God recognized the problem of darkness and lack of purpose in the world

 in Genesis 1:2 “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. Then God said , ‘Let there be Light’” 

(Genesis 1:2-3).  

Jesus, The Son of God, has recognized the problem that “darkness” 

and sin have blinded the unrighteous and He is fulfilling God’s command

 to “let there be Light” as Jesus knows that He must execute

 God’s Plan of Salvation and must suffer and die for the sins of the world as

 Jesus Sheds His Precious Blood 

when He is “crucified” though He is Innocent!!! 

Jesus knows that His Death is The Plan of Salvation for all mankind

 for He has repeatedly announced that God will 

“raise Him” on “the third day”! 

As we look at these last “two days” before that 

Most Blessed Event of the Sacrifice of God’s Passover Lamb 

that we should study carefully these last 

Words and Lessons of the Chosen One. 

Therefore let us look at the sequence of events leading up to when on

 the Cross that Jesus “yielded up His Spirit” (Matthew 27:50) for if 

we study “how and why” Jesus died, we will declare as did those who

 watched Him die, 

“Truly this [IS] the Son of God!” (Matthew 27:54)  

NOVEMBER 15 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?” (Matthew 26:40)

 

NOVEMBER 15  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#32 

“What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?”  (Matthew 26:40)

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer   

JESUS, Lord You have taken our lost souls out of the darkness 

and have shown us the Light of Truth through Your Holy Words 

and those Words from You have dispelled the worldly demons that 

have possessed us. Lord as I continue my walk with You I pray now

 for the growth of my Faith and Witness that I may share Your Light

 with those that are themselves walking in the darkness and the 

demonic lies that the world calls “the new truth?”. 

Lord Jesus, Your Word is Life, and only Your Word can take our hearts

 that have been hardened by the lies of this world and clean and renew

 our deceitful hearts as King David prayed

 “Create in me a clean heart O God 

and renew a right spirit within me” (Psalm 51:10)       

AMEN

NOVEMBER 15  THE JESUS QUESTIONS

    Jesus has just announced, “You know that after two days

 is the Passover, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.”

 (Matthew 26:2)

 which sets the scene very well for us. Jesus and His disciples are in 

Jerusalem for the Passover which for the Jews is the Holiest of Feasts

 as they remember God delivering Israel from their bondage in Egypt

 through the prophet Moses.  The Passover centers around the 

killing of the Passover lamb in memory and remembrance of 

the Death Angel “Passing Over” all who had obeyed God’s instructions

 and had killed the {Passover} lamb and put the blood of the lamb 

on their doorposts and all who were inside the house covered by the blood

 were saved, and all who had not followed God’s instructions perished that night. 

Now Jesus has announced that there are only “two days” remaining

 before He is “delivered up to be crucified” and even with all the 

prophecies pointing to this Most Historic Event in the entire course 

of human history, in Jerusalem, at Passover, and Jesus having 

demonstrated Himself to be the Son of God, those that had been with Him

 failed to see that Jesus Himself was the Lamb of God as 

John the Baptist had declared. Everyone that had been with Jesus

 and had heard Jesus say that He would be killed in Jerusalem 

and on the “Third Day” that He would be “resurrected from the dead” 

should have understood that 

Jesus IS the Passover Lamb 

and that it was through the Shedding of His Innocent Blood

 that the sins of a fallen world could be forgiven. 

God was giving the Ultimate Gift of His Only Begotten Son 

and in just “two days” that Historic Event would take place and 

Jesus would proclaim with His last breath on the cross, 

“IT IS FINISHED”.

 Once and for all, the Blood of the Lamb will be shed 

for the remission of sin and God’s Plan of Salvation will be in place for all

 mankind, God having done His Part and now all we have to do 

is take the Shed Blood of Jesus and apply it to our hearts 

so that we can “pass from death unto life” (John 5:24) 

If the disciples who had been walking with Jesus had missed it 

at the Passover in Jerusalem it is understandable that 2000 years later 

we who have been walking in darkness have missed it also, 

but it doesn’t change the Historic Fact that Jesus Christ died for our sins! 

God’s Plan of Salvation is firmly in place so we should follow His 

instructions and apply the Blood of the Lamb of God to our lives

 and the Death Angel will PASSOVER us and we can claim the Abundant Life

 promised to the Believer! 

 “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, 

that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, 

but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16) … 

and the Good News: “IT IS FINISHED”!!!!!!

NOVEMBER 14 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#32 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?” (Matthew 26:40)

 

NOVEMBER 14  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  JQ#32

 “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?”  (Matthew 26:40)

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer   

JESUS, Lord and my Savior, all my praise is Yours for You alone 

are Worthy of praise. Lord You have showered more blessings 

on me than I deserve for I know that I have nothing with which

 I can repay my “sin-debt” to God so my prayer is

 “Have Mercy on me a sinner”. 

Lord I can only place myself at Your Mercy and pray that when

 I am judged before God that He will look upon the Blood Bought

 Righteousness of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, sacrificed for 

all my sins and all the sins of the world! Lord I believe You GAVE

 Your Life for mine and in Your Death Only is Life Eternal 

for all who do BELIEVE!    AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has been Teaching His disciples all things that they should know

 in order that they could in turn teach His Truth to a lost and dying world

 and now Jesus is in Jerusalem for His Final Passover where  the 

prophecy of “The Suffering Servant” will be fulfilled and the

 Lamb of God will be sacrificed and fulfill what Abraham had stated

 to his son Isaac, “And Abraham said, ‘My son, God will provide

 for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.’” (Genesis 22:8) 

It is significant as we study the last two Jesus Questions (JQ#32 & JQ#33)

 that we keep in perspective that Jesus culminates His public

 ministry during the Passover in Jerusalem as the Lamb of God 

and that as His last drop of 

Innocent Blood 

was shed at Calvary that His final Words were 

“IT IS FINISHED.” (John 19:30)! 

So let us look at the last two days leading up to the culmination

 of all prophecy of the Messiah, God’s Chosen One,

 and His Purpose on earth as we read, 

“Now it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all

 these sayings, that He said to His disciples,

 ‘You know that after two days is the Passover, 

and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.’” 

(Matthew 26:1-2) 

Jesus had just wrapped up His Teaching about the Kingdom of Heaven

 and the Final Judgement when Jesus had stated clearly that

 at the “Final Judgement” that “All nations will be gathered 

before Him, and He will separate them one from another, 

as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats…

then the King will say to those on His right hand,

 ’Come you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared 

for you from the foundation of the world.’” (Matthew 25:31-34) 

Jesus then lists those things that the “King” is pleased with and 

 the disciples asked Jesus when they were given the opportunity 

to do those things for Him and Jesus answered them, 

“Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do [these things]

 to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.” (Matthew 25:45)

 therefore Jesus is Teaching His disciples that they are to do for others

 all the things Jesus had showed by His Example as the way to live

 our lives giving sacrificially to others, especially to “the least of these”! 

Jesus has just announced how we should treat others and then Jesus

 moves on to fulfilling His Purpose on Earth as He announces that in

 “two days is the Passover” and brings the disciples attention to 

His Final Act of Obedience to His Father as Jesus says, 

“…the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified.” (Matthew 26:2)

 The reaction to this announcement by Jesus is prophetic to America’s

 response over 2000 years later as Matthew records, 

“Then the chief priest, the scribes, and the elders of the people …

plotted …[against] Jesus by trickery [to] kill Him.” (Matthew 26:3-5) 

Can you not see that the main issue in America today is that our government

 and the majority of our leaders and lawmakers are offended by the crucifixion

 of Jesus and His Resurrection and they have

 “plotted” to “kill Him [and His Teachings]” 

by removing prayer from our schools, by forbidding God in the government

 (Separation of Church and State), and by passing laws (Abortion) 

that make taking life from the unborn “legal”!?!  

After all, Jesus had just Taught that what we do to the “least of these”

 that we are doing it “to Him” and 

if we kill the unborn then by God’s definition 

we are killing Jesus His Only Begotten Son!!! 

Jesus had mentioned the reward of protecting the innocent as inheriting

 the kingdom but He ended that Lesson by listing the punishment 

of those that harm the innocent when He said,

 “And these [that harm the innocent] will go away 

into everlasting punishment…” and the rewards of those that protect them are,

 “…but the righteous [enter] into eternal life.” (Matthew 25:46)

 It goes beyond all logic to conceive that God would reward with

 “eternal life {in heaven with God}” those that choose to end the life

 of the unborn, for surely the unborn qualify as the “least of these”!?!?!?!?!?! 

 As always, Jesus gives us the choice 

and He has provided the Perfect Example 

so you must ask yourself, 

“How have I been treating “the least of these”????