FEBRUARY 18 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#05 “Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?” (Matthew 7:8)

 

FEBRUARY 18  THE JESUS QUESTIONS

   JQ#05  “Or what man is there among you who, 

if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?” 

(Matthew 7:8)

LIVING FOR JESUS Daily Prayer   

JESUS, Praise You Lord for Your Great Love. Lord, as we seek to be more

 like You in every thing we do or try to accomplish with our lives that have

 been “crucified with Christ”, may all our actions reflect the Love for mankind

 by which You both Lived the Perfect Life and Died the Perfect 

Sacrificial Death, and then the Glory by which You were Risen from the Grave!

 Lord, please let us be aware that death is nothing but a gateway to eternity

 because You Lord defeated both death and the grave, and Your Victory

 came through Love and Obedience, which is my prayer today, that I may Love

 as You loved The Father and be Obedient to the Father’s Will as You were

 Obedient to The Father, that The Father’s Mercy 

and Grace will flow freely in my life!     

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

JESUS warned us at the end of His Lesson on JQ#04

 “Do not give what is holy to the dogs; 

nor cast your pearls before swine…” (Matthew 7:6)

 as He concluded His Lesson on “do not judge”. I mentioned that this

 verse always makes me uncomfortable — I also mentioned that this “do not judge”

 Lesson Jesus Taught has been “hijacked” by those seeking political power

 to advance their personal agenda, a humanistic agenda that has “re-defined” 

certain commandments of God by re-defining the meaning of words

 associated with those commandments and one of those words is “tolerance”. 

I grew up understanding the meaning of “tolerance” as adults “putting up” 

with some unacceptable childish behavior publicly until it could be “corrected”

 privately so that the unacceptable behavior would not be repeated 

in public again! That was how the “community” viewed “tolerance” and it

 was based on a common acceptance of God’s Moral Standard taken from

 God’s Holy Word and with the acceptance of God’s definition of “tolerance”

 there was “unity” throughout the community. 

No one had to “judge” others because they clearly understood behaviors

 that were “Right” and behaviors that were “Wrong” 

because those behaviors were already established by 

God’s Moral Standard given to us by a Holy Eternal God who 

does not change, nor will He ever change therefore 

the “Right” and “Wrong” behaviors according to 

God’s Moral Standard will eternally be “Right and Wrong”!  

Only when all citizens are living under the same Eternal Moral Standard 

given to society for the “Good” or “Right Thing” by The Holy Eternal God

 for society to use as social guidelines will our society truly “not judge others”

 by any standard other than that

 Eternal Moral Standard given to society by God Himself 

and has already proven itself to be beneficial to society 

when incorporated into our culture. 

The Holy Scriptures states emphatically that God Himself has 

“put eternity in our heart” and we will forever know “Right” and “Wrong” 

and it is this Eternal Moral Standard within each heart that tells us that 

bashing babies against a wall is “morally” wrong, regardless of any “law”

 passed by “human” government!!! Our legal system no longer recognizes

 The Holy God as the Moral Standard Giver — therefore the “modern

 contemporary” legal system defines through “human legislation”  a

 “moral standard” that the Power & Control Mongers think is “best” for

 “the common good” — standards not based on an Immortal Holy Eternal God 

but by mortal men seeking to be like God!  

These “self-absorbed” seekers of “control of the masses”  establish

 through “human” government an “un-holy legal system of doctrines

 of men” that redefine terms like “tolerance” and legislates (from the bench)

 a woman’s “?right?” to take the life of an unborn child. 

The problem is that these doctrines are determined by the “ruling” 

political party which is in a continual state of flux as each party seeks

 to remain in power! “Abortion” used to be considered to be illegal because

 it did not align with God’s Moral Standard and abortion involved taking

 the “life” of a “human fetus” that had not reached the stage of development

 where it could survive outside the womb — in this un-holy humanistic 

re-definition of words, today’s definition of the term  “fetus” has be 

changed to the “products of conception” because it is easier to discard

 “products” than it is to discard a “human fetus” ———

But regardless of the definition of “legal” terms associated with “abortion”,

 it is still a “human mother” that with the contribution of a “human father” 

has conceived a “human fetus” in her “human womb” and if God’s

 “miracle of life” is left unaltered, the “human fetus” (which from

 the moment of conception has its “God-given life” in it) will continue its

 journey as an individual “human being” to the point where it will exit 

the womb and exist on its own. This “human fetus” does not become a

 “human baby” at the point of birth, it is always, from the moment of conception,

 a “human baby” AND HAS “HUMAN DNA” AT THAT 

UNIQUE POINT OF CONCEPTION! 

At the instant the SPARK OF GOD’S MIRACLE OF LIFE ENTERS

 THE EMBRYO, 

the UNION OF THE HUMAN MALE SPERM WITH THE HUMAN

 FEMALE EGG PRODUCES A UNIQUE LIVING HUMAN OFFSPRING

 WITHIN THE HUMAN MOTHER’S WOMB!!! 

In fact, the moment that the “human” sperm fertilizes the “human” egg 

and God has blessed that union with “GOD’S MIRACLE OF LIFE” it is “human” — 

The “product” of “human conception” is a “human” fetus — end of story!

 Consider that when the “human baby” is born, if it is left on its own,

 it will die without the help of other “humans” until it reaches an age that it can

 provide for itself, which is several years old — so if “abortion” is “OK/Legal”

 because the “human mother” that is providing protection and assistance

 to the “human fetus” in her “human womb” decides she is “inconvenienced

 by her pregnancy”, then why can’t the court declare it “OK/Legal” for 

“human adults” to decide that it is inconvenient for society to take care

 of “human children” who can’t take care of themselves?

 If it is legal for the “human mother” to determine that the “human child” 

in her “human womb” is “unwanted” and can “legally” take the life of this

 “inconvenient truth”, then why shouldn’t it not also be “legal” for her to

 decide that once the “human fetus” has exited her womb AND is STILL

 “inconvenient” that she can kill the baby outside the womb?!?!?

 GOD FORBID!!! 

This “legal murder of the unborn” is what happens when a society lets

 corrupt politicians seeking political power over society “re-define” 

certain terms and justify by those “re-defined terms” what is “legal” without

 using God’s Holy Moral Standard to make their decisions — 

when you use “legal terms” a “human fetus” becomes a “product of conception” 

and “killing a baby” becomes a “legal abortion” but the

 TRUTH is that GOD IMPARTED LIFE TO THE UNION OF THE

 HUMAN EGG AND THE HUMAN SPERM AND THE RESULTING

 HUMAN EMBRYO POSSESSED LIFE UNTIL THAT LIFE 

WAS TERMINATED — “LEGAL ABORTION” BY ANY DEFINITION

 USING ANY LEGAL TERMS IS THE “LEGAL TERMINATION OF LIFE”!!! 

 Abortion is only accepted in our society today because God and 

His Holy Moral Standards have been removed from the decision making process

 of our highest courts in our “legal systems” and our idea of “Right” and “Wrong”

 are determined not by a Holy Eternal Unchanging Set of Moral Standards

 established by an Eternal True God  but by the vacillating “opinion” 

of 4 or 5 people that have been “appointed” by a political administration

 with the “advancement” of that particular parties platform and their 

“political agenda” in mind — in other words the Holy Moral Standard establish

 by The ETERNAL Creator God has been “thrown to the dogs”; and the

 Holy Sanctity of Life is a “pearl of great worth” that has been consumed

 by political swine and the results of this unholy consumption of usurped 

powers for our society is a new “legal” definition of a “woman’s right” 

to “legally take the life” of her unborn child???

 Jesus moves us straight into the solution by His next statement leading up

 to His next Question by introducing some “success” principals: 

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find;

 knock and it will be opened to you.” (Matthew 7:7) 

Jesus made a simple plain statement of “Spiritual Truth”  

and He immediately adds: 

“For everyone who asks receives and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” (Matthew 7:8) 

This is clearly an inclusive statement Jesus makes: “For everyone…”. 

Please note that Jesus is not telling us to take our requests to the 

Supreme Court of the United States but Jesus is telling us to refer our case

 to The Supreme Judge of the Universe — God in Heaven!!! 

The whole intent of the Gospel is that “all” will be included into the kingdom.

 But, in order to be “included in this heavenly ALL” we must learn the simple

 rules which God has chosen and God always makes it perfectly clear 

that if we perform the actions God asks of us, we will get the predetermined

 results that He has established in His Eternal Moral Law through His 

Holy Eternal Word. This is called the Law of Choice and Consequence 

established by the Creator and all of God’s Laws apply to everyone, just like

 we all experience “gravity”… & “…the rain falls on the just and the unjust…”.

 We all can enjoy and depend on the sun coming up each morning,

 all because God has said that is the way He has determined that it will be.

 God in His Mercy has been Gracious in letting us know that He has given

 us Freewill in our lives and we are free to make our own “choices” but we

 are not free to determine the “consequence” of our actions because the

 result of our choices has already been determined by God so that “everyone”

 can have the confidence that God has determined “consequences” for

 the “True Good” of ALL mankind and we should use His Consistency

 of results to make an “informed decision” based upon on

 “constant” and “irrevocable consequence”. 

The Law of Choice and Consequence is simple and applies to “everyone”

 and God makes it perfectly clear that we are free to “chose” our actions

 by exercising our “God-given Free Will” but He reserves the right to dictate

 the Consistent Eternal Moral Standard Consequence of the action we 

chose to perform by 

exercising our God-given FREEWILL. 

This section is a simple set of 

“Actions=> => => Results” 

as we read “Seek=>Find, Ask=>Given, & Knock=>Open”. 

God shows His Goodness by telling us the “Eternal Consistent Consequence”

 of our choice “before” we make our “Free Will” decision  and then He gives

 us some “Blessed Assurance” of “TRUSTING GOD’S MORAL STANDARD”

 when He asks

 

JQ#05: “Or what man is there among you who, 

if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?” 

(Matthew 7:9)  

Apply the Law of Choice and Consequence to this section in Matthew 7:7-14

 and you’ll easily answer the LORD’s Teaching Questions. 

God is the “Giver of Life” and has established the Moral Laws

 governing the entire universe, should we not listen to how the 

Holy God whom Jesus calls “our heavenly Father” defines 

such terms as “Life”, “Death”, “Abortion”, 

“Right”, “Wrong” and “Tolerance”?!?!?!?