JANUARY 22 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#01 “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned?” (Matthew 5:13)

 

JANUARY  22  THE JESUS QUESTIONS

    JQ#01  “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, 

how shall it be seasoned?” (Matthew 5:13) 

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer

JESUS, Lord and Savior, Redeemer, Lover of my soul, all praise and honor

 to You and Your Holy Name, the Only Name by which

 ALL SOULS are ETERNALLY SAVED - JESUS! 

Lord let us always be mindful that You are unchanging and as we rise to 

face each new day let us start with Your Name on our lips and Your Grace

 in our hearts. Lord Jesus, my prayer is that every day will be lived in a way

 that honors You and advances the Father’s Kingdom. 

Lord Jesus, open our hearts and our minds that we can see the Father God

 as You reveal Him through Your Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables as 

You “TEACH” us the TRUTH OF GOD through Your Questions — 

You have asked The JESUS Questions for our benefit that we might dwell

 on the TRUTH OF GOD and my prayer is that we will listen with our hearts 

and apply Your TRUTH OF GOD to our day-to-day lives so that we may

 accept Your Gifts of Mercy and Grace with which You WILL Bless us daily —

 so give us the Self-Discipline to HONESTLY answer Your “Questions” 

for YOU KNOW OUR HEARTS!      AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

JESUS has been introduced by St. Matthew as “Messiah” who was prophesied

 from the Jewish Holy Scriptures. St. Matthew started with the 

“genealogy of Jesus Christ” and established that Jesus is “the Son of David”

 and “the Son of Abraham” (Matthew 1:17) Matthew then moved to

 the “Virgin Birth” and demonstrated that Mary the mother of Jesus

 bore Him in a “Virgin Womb” for she had known NO man and the “Seed” 

she carried was the “Holy Seed of God Himself” which made Jesus

 both the “Son of Man”, born to a “virgin”, and the “Son of God” ,

 born from the “Holy Seed”!!! (Matthew 1:18-25) 

Matthew then documents the significance of where and when Jesus

 was born and establishes that John the Baptist had fulfilled the prophecy

 of the “forerunner” of Messiah by preaching in the wilderness, 

“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” and was baptizing by

 water in the Jordan River and those that were being baptized by John

 were “confessing their sins”. When John saw Jesus coming to be 

baptized in the Jordan, John, the prophesied forerunner of “Messiah”, 

acknowledged that Jesus was Messiah and at this point and felt unworthy

 to baptize “The Lamb of God”  but Jesus said to John,

 “Permit it to be so now, for it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.”

 (Matthew 3:1-15)

Matthew then documents God’s Recognition that Jesus was the Messiah

 for as “Jesus came up immediately from the [baptismal] water; 

… behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw 

the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. 

And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying,

 ‘This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.’” (Matthew 3:16-17) 

Matthew has now shown that Jesus fulfilled the Messianic prophecy

 through circumstances that Jesus had no control over such as (1) His

 parents (lineage), (2) His Birth from a “Virgin Womb”, and (3) the place

 of His Birth in the City of David — Bethlehem — and (4) His Baptism

 by God’s “forerunner” of the Messiah, John the Baptist was done to 

“fulfill all righteousness”. (5) Upon Jesus being “Obedient” to

 the Father’s Will by being baptized by God’s “forerunner”, God Himself 

spoke from heaven and called Jesus “My Son” which was heard by

 a crowd of many witnesses! (Matthew 1:1 thru Matthew 3:17) 

Starting with Matthew 4:1 Jesus Himself is going to show He is the Messiah

 by His Lessons, His Lifestyle, and His “Teaching” the TRUTH OF GOD !!! 

Jesus used circumstances to get His followers to meditate on the 

TRUTH OF GOD. Jesus demonstrated His Messiahship as He 

addressed each circumstance and instead of His Messiahship being

 “compromised” by the circumstance, Jesus demonstrated that

 His Messiahship was from God as He turned each circumstance into

 a “Lesson” and “Taught” the “Truth of the Lesson” which “Confirmed”

 Jesus Messiah, the Christ! 

Jesus included in His “Lessons” a Method to get our attention and to focus

 us on the “issue” at hand, and that “Method” was to ASK a QUESTION for us

 to “think about” and then He would wait for the TRUTH OF GOD to soak

 in as we thought about His Question.  Sometimes Jesus would immediately

 tell us the TRUTH OF GOD so that there would be no mistake or 

misunderstanding of the TRUTH OF GOD that Jesus Taught with every

 Lesson.  It is this Method of Jesus “asking” us “Questions” to make us focus

 on the TRUTH OF GOD that is the basis for this blog “The JESUS Questions”.  

JANUARY 1 introduced “how and why” The JESUS Questions  came about 

by the Holy Spirit who issued a Question/Answer challenge  to read 

the Gospel of Jesus Christ as written by St. Matthew ——— 

here is that “JESUS Question/Answer Challenge”: 

“Read through the complete Gospel of Jesus Christ written by 

St. Matthew (the first book in the New Testament) starting with

 Matthew 1:1 read through the entire Gospel of Matthew and every

 time you come to a ‘Question’ that Jesus asks, 

your challenge is to give Jesus a ‘Truthful answer’.” 

Think about that “challenge” and your “mission” <<< should you choose

 to accept it >>> is to read the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Matthew

 and “each time you come to a JESUS Question, 

give Jesus a TRUTHFUL answer” 

and I personally will give you a double-your-money back lifetime guarantee

 that it will change you from the inside out and that you will see 

that person in the mirror in a different “Light” — remember that TRUTH is FREE

 so what have you got to lose??? The Holy Spirit left me with these words of wisdom:

“No one but GOD OWNS the TRUTH 

and GOD gives it FREELY to all who search for TRUTH, 

so if someone tries to charge you for TRUTH, 

don’t buy The Lie   -   

no matter how pretty the package!!!

Once you accept the challenge to let Jesus show you the TRUTH OF GOD 

then continue in the Gospel of Jesus Christ written by Matthew starting

 with Chapter 4:1 and read for yourself and observe how Jesus lived His

 day-to-day life to witness to the TRUTH OF GOD!!! Just like Matthew

 used Chapters 1-3 to introduce Jesus as the Messiah by circumstances

 controlled by God then Matthew uses Chapter 4 through the end of 

Matthew’s Gospel of Jesus Christ to let Jesus introduce Himself by how

 Jesus reacted to the “circumstances” that confronted Him in His day-to-day

 life on this earth. Matthew begins his account of the

 Ministry of Jesus Christ as follows:

 “Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness 

to be tempted by the devil.” 

(Matthew 4:1) 

It “is fitting for us” then to know that Jesus started His ministry with 

a most difficult circumstance and the “Divine Example” that Jesus gives

 us with His response to being confronted by the devil should be a “Lesson” 

that we apply to our daily lives to make it through our living in the flesh 

day-to-day life on earth and having to face difficult circumstances! 

After all, Jesus has changed the course of History 

for ALL ETERNITY so He certainly can do the same for our lives —

 

FOREVER FOR ALL!!!