APRIL 16 THE JESUS QUESTIONS (Day 3) Summary Review of JESUS Questions JQ#1-13 (Matthew 5:1 thru Matthew 12:34)

 

APRIL 16  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

(Day 3) Summary Review of JESUS Questions JQ#1-13 

(Matthew 5:1 thru Matthew 12:34)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Lord, may Thanksgiving and Praise always be on my lips for You Lord

 have blessed me beyond anything I could have imagined and certainly more

 than I deserve. Jesus, thank You for showing me that True Blessings are

 so much more valuable than anything money can buy! 

Lord, to know that we are held safe in the hands of the Father and that

 His Perfect Will is only directed towards “good” for us is the most comforting

 assurance life can provide, and we know that You, Lord Jesus 

are THE WAY, THE TRUTH, and THE LIFE

 

— Praise God from Whom ALL BLESSINGS flow.           

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus as The Master Teacher has asked each of

 “The JESUS Questions JQ#1-13” not to gain information from anyone

 but to impart wisdom to His listeners.

 Those that take the time to “listen” to Jesus and honestly “answer” 

His Questions will learn very valuable Spiritual Lessons 

— below is a Summary Review of the individual JESUS Questions JQ#1-13 

that have been studied so far in Matthew, starting with 

Lesson 1  JQ#01    “Are you salt and light?”      Matthew 5:1-16

JQ#01 started after Matthew had documented in Chapters 1-4 that

 

Jesus had compassion on the multitudes and out of His Great Compassion 

for us Jesus had taught His famous “Sermon on the Mount” in Matthew 5:1-13

 and then after encouraging the multitudes with

 

His Beatitudes which Teaches us what must be done with our earthly 

lives in order to obtain our inheritance in “the kingdom of heaven”, 

Jesus then asks His first personal JESUS Question JQ#01 by making us 

think about ourselves and to consider the 

Truth of God that what we are actually “doing” with our lives 

has a direct impact on our inheritance in the kingdom of heaven!!!  

Jesus states emphatically: 

“You are the salt of the earth;…” (Matthew 5:12a) 

and then He promotes the concept of the necessity to get personally involved. 

Jesus introduces 

God’s  Divine Law of Choice and Consequence 

which illustrates our personal responsibility to exercise our 

“God-Given Free Will” 

to promote the kingdom of God. Jesus declares that we 

“are the salt of the earth” and “the light of the world” 

then immediately Jesus asks us to consider the “consequence” 

of not using our personal talents and abilities to promote the kingdom

 when He asks us to consider the “Consequence” resulting if

 “salt… loses its flavor” or if a “light” is “put under a basket”? 

Jesus then tells us very clearly that if we “lose [our] flavor” then we are

 “good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men”

 (Matthew 5:13) 

and it is obvious that if a light is put under a basket it is useless! 

Thus with JQ#01 Jesus demonstrates that 

if we follow Him and take on the name Christian that our responsibility

 is to be “salt and light” 

for the kingdom’s sake but if we fail in that responsibility then we will have to suffer

 the “consequence” that is the “Truth of God” which states:

 “We are free to choose our actions but we are not free to choose 

the consequence of that action for God in His Supreme Sovereignty 

has already determined the consequence of our choices!” 

<<A. W. Tozer “Knowledge of The Holy”>> 

which implies personal responsibility to “listen and obey” all that God has

 prepared as “Spiritual Lessons” for our lives which are to be “lived” for 

“His Glory” and the Kingdom’s Sake! 

There is no denying that if we look at this first JESUS Question that we will 

learn several Lessons about our personal responsibility to the kingdom of God —

 but the greatest Lesson is that

 God has provided for us everything we need in order to personally 

know Him and He expects our personal involvement in accomplishing

 His Kingdom Work here on earth!   

Our first Spiritual Lesson to learn is that God wants us to understand that 

He has chosen to use His “followers” to “lead” others to the 

Kingdom of God by the way we “live” our lives 

and not by who we “say” we are! 

We “are” the “salt of the earth” and the “light of the world” 

and our responsibility to the kingdom is laid out plain and clear

 as Jesus ends Lesson  1 with:

 “Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works

 and glorify your Father in heaven.” (Matthew 5:16)

 If Jesus starts His Lessons by Teaching us that we have a personal responsibility

 to the Kingdom of God, don’t you think that He will continue with His

 subsequent Lessons and lay out the “Way” 

and make it clear what He requires of us as 

“followers of JESUS”?

APRIL 15 THE JESUS QUESTIONS (Day 2) Summary Review of JESUS Questions JQ#1.1—JQ#13.7 (Matthew 5:1 thru Matthew 12:34)

 

APRIL 15  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

(Day 2)  Summary Review of JESUS Questions JQ#1.1—JQ#13.7 

(Matthew 5:1 thru Matthew 12:34)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, another day that You have “graced” us with and another day of praises

 for the King of kings and Lord of lords. Jesus, my prayer on this day is that 

Your Spirit will be upon all believers so powerfully that we will unite in 

one voice and one “Hope” as we pray for Your Kingdom 

to come on earth as it is in heaven! 

Lord Jesus, each day I pray for my eyes to be opened but today I pray for 

our hearts to be united in Your Love, the only True Love, given 

unconditionally to all that would believe that it was Love that put 

You on the Cross, Love that put You in a Grave, 

and Love that Conquered Death, 

and it was in Perfect Love that You were Resurrected — 

grant it Lord that we may share in 

Your Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection 

that we may KNOW LOVE!       

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has been Teaching us through His Question/Lessons the Truth of God

 and by Jesus revealing these “TRUTHS OF GOD” to us through these 

Questions that we Learn to better see ourselves — not through the eyes of 

the world but through the eyes of God who is revealed to us

 “Precept-Upon-Precept” and “Line-Upon-Line”. 

Jesus proclaimed that He came to reveal the Father,

 “All things have been delivered to Me by My Father,

 and no one knows the Son except the Father. 

Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, 

and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.” 

(Matthew 11:27)   

However, before we Review the “JESUS Questions” themselves

 we should note the obvious that 

these are Questions being asked by Jesus, the Son of God, 

and before we consider answering His “LESSON” Questions 

we should answer the obvious “COMMON LOGIC” question

 — “Why would Jesus,

 who is The All Knowing Master Teacher 

and Son of the Living God, 

ask Questions of mere mortals?” —

 The only logical answer is that Jesus is not asking these Questions

 to gain knowledge for Himself but Jesus is asking “rhetorical” questions

 to impart knowledge to those He is trying to 

Teach and introduce the “learner” to God Himself! 

These are all introspective Questions and deeply personal but if we

 honestly answer each one we will learn about ourselves that which 

Jesus Himself desires us to know about the Kingdom of God

 and our “inheritance” in it! In order to fully understand the

 Divine Objective let us list a few of the Divine Circumstances 

and Divine Context

 in which these “JESUS Questions” are being asked. 

The Divine Circumstance: 

Isaiah (whose name means ‘salvation of the LORD”) wrote in the 8th Century B.C.

 many prophecies covering “Divine Events” from “The Creation” 

to the “New Heavens and New Earth” to be formed during the 

“Millennial Reign” of Jesus Christ

 but the writings of the Prophet Isaiah are mostly noted for 

“the great Messianic predictions in which are foretold 

Christ’s birth (Isaiah 7:14; 9:6), His Deity (9:6-7), 

His ministry (9:1-2; 42:1-7;61:1-2), His death (52:1-53:12), 

His future millennial reign (for example, chapters 2; 11; 65), etc.” 

{{pg. 910 The Scofield Study Bible Introduction to the Book of Isaiah,

 the 2002 Edition}}. 

So the Divine Circumstance had been prophesied over 800 years BEFORE 

Jesus was born in the town of Bethlehem and all prophecies 

point to Jesus as being the long awaited Messiah!

The Divine Context:

The Gospel According to MATTHEW was written C. A.D. 50

 and was written originally for the Jews and presents 

Jesus as the Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham,

 and the place of His birth was the City of David, Bethlehem 

— all of which point to the 

Divinity of Christ and to Jesus being God made flesh 

(John 1:14) 

and walking among us. 

Matthew starts his documentation of the Life of Christ with a genealogy 

that traces the lineage of Jesus back to Abraham then covers the 

Divine Event of the birth of Jesus to the virgin Mary. 

Matthew then introduces John the Baptist who was preaching in the wilderness, 

“Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” (Matthew 3:2) 

and proclaimed that John said that he was

 “The voice of one crying in the wilderness; ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; 

Make His paths straight.’” (Matthew 3:3) 

Matthew then records that Jesus was baptized by John, and then was led

“IMMEDIATELY”  into the wilderness where Jesus was 

“tempted by the devil.” (Matthew 4:1) 

and then Matthew writes:

 “From that time Jesus began to preach and to say 

‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand’” (Matthew 4:17)  

then later in Chapter 4 Matthew continues; 

“And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues,

 preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness 

and all kinds of disease among the people.” (Matthew 4:23)  

These miracles of God by the hand of Jesus became widely known 

and great multitudes started following Jesus which leads us into the first 

of the JESUS Questions which immediately followed the famous 

“Sermon on the Mount” (Matthew 5:1-12)

 This is where we start learning the Lessons of God’s TRUTH 

that Jesus Teaches by asking “The JESUS Questions”. 

Lesson 1: JQ#1    “Are you salt and light?”  

 Matthew 5:1-16 

OPEN YOUR BIBLE, READ THESE VERSES, 

AND GIVE JESUS YOUR ANSWER IN A PRAYER 

AND RECEIVE GOD'S BLESSINGS!!!!!!!!