Saturday, January 4, 2025

JANUARY 04 THE JESUS QUESTIONS Introduction-04: Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus: JQ#1-JQ#33 (Matthew 1:1 thru 3:17)

 


JANUARY  04  THE JESUS QUESTIONS   Introduction-04: 

Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus: JQ#1-JQ#33 

 (Matthew 1:1 thru 3:17)


LIVING FOR JESUS   Daily Prayer    

JESUS, I awoke this morning with the need to pray first in my mind 

but when I started to pray there was some sort of “spiritual” distraction

 of unknown origin that seemed to prevent me from praying in 

“Spirit and in Truth” — and I was disturbed!?!?  I lay in bed and struggled

 to “commune” with God but the “perceived separation” caused me great

 uneasiness! After meditating on “cause” and coming up empty, I then

 thought about the “effect” and almost immediately I was confident that 

I was being given a “taste” of going on my journey alone. 

Jesus, I am also confident that I no longer want to walk by myself 

and be alone as I traverse this “valley of the shadow of death” and I praise

 You for the glimpse of where I could end up if I had not started following You.

  Lord Jesus, You simply told Your disciples “Come follow Me” 

and You still today invite those that do not wish to travel this journey

 of life alone to “walk” with You.  Lord Jesus, in going before us and 

walking the extra mile with us, You add the promise that You will never

 leave us nor forsake us! The “glimpse” today was a reminder to me

 that if we get separated it will be my fault — Lord Jesus, I pray with all

 my heart, keep me focused on following Your “LIGHT” and always 

staying on Your “paths of righteousness”!     AMEN


THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus and who Jesus “really is” was a topic of debate from the time

 of His virgin-born arrival on earth and who Jesus “really is” continues

 to be debated today. It is very interesting to note that there is a great

 “double standard” being applied to the debate on the “person and purpose” 

of Jesus Christ and whether or not He should 

even be given the title of “Christ”

Today in our highly “legal” society here in America, our government

 is dominated by “lawyers” and it is a fact that our government now has

 more “control” over our personal lives than at anytime in the past — 

and in the debate on the “TRUTH of JESUS”, our society is  being 

forced to accept as “truth” what “elected” lawyers, “party-appointed”

 judges, and “self-serving legislation” passed by our “elected law makers”

 decide is “truth-for-the-common-good”????  These “anti-God” 

laws imposed by “progressive” legislators on our modern society today

 include the “legal-right” to kill unborn children, which should give us a clue

 as to what the main problem with our society “really is”!  

For example; in our “double-standard” society today there are “laws”

 addressing “slander” (the action or crime of making a false spoken

 statement damaging to a person’s reputation) and “libel” (a published 

false statement that is damaging to a person’s reputation; a written defamation

which directly apply to the debate on “who Jesus really is” and the 

“double standard” (a rule or principle that is unfairly applied in different 

ways to different people or groups) that is prevalent in this ongoing debate

 is that the government that has passed the laws on “slander and libel”

 are themselves the most guilty of both since they have legislated

 God out of government and will not allow God Himself, through 

His Holy Bible, to declare “who Jesus really is”!!!!!  

The “irony” in this “double standard” is that the legal system today

 will make witnesses who appear in court to give their “eye-witness” 

account must first put one hand on the Bible and the court makes them

 “swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help

 you God” and yet the same legal system has legislated God and the

 Bible out of the legal system and will not allow the Bible as a “witness” 

in the same courtroom that the Bible must be sworn upon to make

 a testimony valid!?!?!?!?   I am sure that in the highly legalist 

religious theocratic system of the Pharisees and Sadducees that there

 were many of the same such “double-standard legalistic self-serving laws”

 existing in Israel to protect the “power” of the “legalist elite” and

 therefore the New Testament writers would have been held 

accountable in the Jewish legal system in place at the time of Jesus.

 All the writers of the New Testament were not only “evangelists” that

 were clearly stating Jesus had addressed problems with the

 “legal authority” of the Pharisees and Sadducees but the New Testament 

writers wrote these claims as a matter of public record! 

Jesus Himself by today’s standards would be labeled a “terrorist” 

because He made “direct threats” against their “legal system” and said

 the temple itself would be destroyed — just imagine if someone today

 said that the U.S. Government, the White House and our legal system 

was going to be “destroyed” and this person was also directly claiming 

that the U. S. Government's “rule” would be “taken from them” and 

further, if that person was publishing public documents and writing letters

 (or emails) stating how the government would be overthrown, that

 person would be arrested and their statements and writings would be used

 to convict them of “crimes” against the government and these “crimes” 

would carry the severest penalty!  However, in today’s society the very

 evidence that would be used to convict Jesus of being a “terrorist” 

would not be allowed in the same courtroom to prove that 

Jesus was and IS who the Bible documents Him TO BE!!!  

So as we begin our Journey to discover “TRUTH” then we must agree

 we need a “reasonable unbiased Moral Standard” to be be used to 

determine the final verdict as to the validity of “TRUTH” itself!>!>!>! 

Because the Moral Standard itself is in the hands of biased “progressive”

 legalist who control both the Moral Standard and the legal system we

 can rightly assume that a government of “legalists” find it to their

 advantage to impose their will on “we the people” ———and we

 can readily see the problem of letting a “special interest” group 

decide on the Moral Standard to be applied to an entire society

 (by government force and legal action)!?! 

St. Matthew wrote a document dated C. A.D. 50 which puts his

 “eyewitness” account very close to the actual event of which he 

wrote about “who Jesus really was” and the “facts” that St. Matthew

 wrote down would have to have been highly scrutinized by the “legalist”

 of that era and all the claims of Jesus that St. Matthew put in his

 document would have been “judged” as to it being “libel” based on

 “slander” which was directed against the “reputation” of those that were

 in “power” at the time Matthew wrote of Jesus! 

To be fair we must read Matthew”s document and ask ourselves,


 “If St. Matthew did not write what is true then why has there 

been so many printed copies of his testimony and why was Matthew

 been made a ‘Saint’ instead of being punished for his ‘crime’?”

Friday, January 3, 2025

JANUARY 03 THE JESUS QUESTIONS Introduction-03: Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus: JQ#1-JQ#33

 


JANUARY  03  THE JESUS QUESTIONS   Introduction-03: 

Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus: JQ#1-JQ#33 

 (Matthew 1:1 thru 3:17)


LIVING FOR JESUS   Daily Prayer    

JESUS, I pray for Your Mercy and Grace with each new day that You 

present to me as Your Gift of Life! Lord Jesus, I know that if I follow You 

as You commanded that Your blessings will be upon my life and I can 

experience Your Rest which You have promised. 

Lord I have made many wrong turns and foolish mistakes in my life

 by going out on my own and each wrong turn ends up proving that

 I truly need “Guidance” and You have “led me safe thus far”. Lord Jesus,

 daily I look to You for my “daily bread”, both physical and spiritual

 and I thank You Jesus for providing both “spiritual bread” and “physical bread” 

to me in such abundance even though I am so undeserving! Lord Jesus,

 my goal still is that one day I will stand in Your Presence and hear You say,

 “Well done thy good and faithful servant.” (Matthew 25:21)    

AMEN


THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus led a “Lifestyle” that has never been approached by any

 other person throughout all of history and the “Lessons” that He Taught as 

part of His Lifestyle are still being successfully applied to every person’s life

 that is willing to “learn” from the “Master”

On my spiritual journey to “TRUTH” I have been introduced to several

 sources that claim to know who Jesus really was but then the thought 

struck me that if a person claims to be an “authority” on someone that 

lived over 2000 years ago, then how could any person so far removed

 from the “factual Jesus” proclaim 2000 years later that they know the

 “TRUTH” about Jesus? It does not make sense for someone to take

 a document like the Holy Bible that has been unchanged and 

undefiled and “divinely” preserved for thousands and thousands of 

years and 2000 years later arrogantly proclaim that all those “eyewitness”

 accounts of the Life of Jesus are not accurate accounts of the “real” Jesus!?!? 

I want to ask those making those arrogant claims by what “authority” 

do they claim to be the “source” of this newfound ?Truth? and I am 

guessing that they will reply with some vague statement that puffs up

 their own personal intellect which is obviously a greater intellect than

 anyone before them and also greater than God’s own Supreme Intellect

 because now 2000 years later, the world is now obviously being blessed 

by someone smart enough to point out God’s “mistakes”! Believers 

should now abandon thousands of years of commentary and eyewitness

 accounts and personal testimonies because after all these misguided 

people writing and reading the Bible could not possibly know what this new “intelligence” 

has had revealed to them therefore believers should abandon

 their old faith and accept a new faith in the word from someone that lived 

2000 years after Jesus died on a cross for our sins (surely this new 

intelligence has more authority than this “Son of God” who got himself

 killed by His own people!) — yes, believers indeed should ignore everything

 the Holy Bible attests to as the “TRUTH” (as per the very 

WORD OF GOD HIMSELF ) and listen instead to this

 new “superior intellect”!?!?!?  I have learned to distrust those who claim 

to “know what God really meant to say” {{see Genesis 3:1-7 that gives

 a description of one such “superior intellect” who claims to know 

“what God really meant”}} — the purpose of this blog is to encourage

 you to read the Holy Bible FOR YOURSELF and to let the Spirit of God 

reveal the “TRUTH” to YOU PERSONALLY from the TRUTH OF GOD 

contained within those Sacred Pages and BELIEVE 

that God Himself has Promised that the “TRUTH” 

is waiting to reveal itself to you personally. There is no claim from the 

writer of this blog as to being a superior intellect that wishes to 

share with the less intellectually endowed the “TRUTH” according

 to some “new revelation” as if “TRUTH” has been hidden from even 

God for all these years!?!? The purpose of this blog is to go through

 the “eyewitness” account of the writer of the first book in the 

New Testament, St. Matthew, and to listen to what this person who

 lived with JESUS and observed the Lifestyle of JESUS had to say

 about the most well known person in history. 

The Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus has had more 

positive influence on more lives than any person or event in the past,

 including Mohammed Ali who claimed himself to be “The Greatest”

 (and boy was he good!) or the nuclear bombs dropped on 

Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended the 2nd World War!  

If Jesus has accomplished all these things that are now historical facts

 witnessed by literally billions of people in their personal lives then surely

 we can learn from those who wrote down for future generations what

 Jesus had personally Taught them and what their FIRST HAND BELIEF 

in Jesus has accomplished in their lives — they wrote because they

 recognized the “TRUTH” when they saw it and heard it! Remember that

 none of the writers of the 66 books in the Bible received any financial 

compensation and on several occasions the things they wrote resulted in their death so

 we know they were not “profit driven” and we must assume they were inspired

 to write by a “Source” greater than their fear of starvation and death!!!  

The Holy Bible begins with the only “TRUTH” we will ever really need 

to know as Genesis 1:1 starts with the five most powerful words ever 

written, “In the beginning, God created…” and if you can get past

 those first five words then you have moved past the greatest 

roadblock on your personal journey to “TRUTH”. So the purpose of this blog

 then is to encourage you to read the Holy Scriptures and to let them

 “Teach” you “TRUTH” ! This blog will also point out that on this 

spiritual journey on earth that you must travel your path alone with your

 chosen guide and you will do so in your life on earth until you find and

 “believe” the “TRUTH” when it is revealed to you

Welcome to The Journey, let’s see what St. Matthew wrote about Jesus

 as we will start our “spiritual journey” with the assumption that the

 Holy Bible is TRUTH and GOD HIMSELF is the SOURCE 

and then when we read the Holy Scriptures we know that we are

 reading the “DIVINE RECORD” of God’s Instructions on Life — 


If you cannot begin your reading with 

GOD IS TRUTH 

then there is no need for you to bother to read either the

 Holy Bible 

or this puny blog!