FEBRUARY 20 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 20  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, Jesus, Jesus, the only Name by which man can enter the

 narrow gate to heaven. Jesus is the Name that all generations call out to

 for salvation. Jesus, we bow humbly before You because You so richly

 deserve all praise and honor. There is no Name other than Jesus that man

 can call upon for Hope, there is no other Name but Jesus that brings so 

much Hope to our hurting hearts. 

Lord, I realize that there is no good in me but only through Your Name

 can I give anything good to my generation. Jesus, Holy Spirit of God, 

I yield to Your Will, I will “wait for the Lord” to see how You would have

 me serve You and Your kingdom. Forgive me of all sins, even the hidden

 sins, that I will be made Holy.    

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

JESUS starts this passage in Matthew 7:7-14 out pretty simple with

 “ASK-SEEK-KNOCK” but Jesus has a way of reaching deep into us with 

these simple questions and revealing some of the deeper 

Mysteries of God. 

Let’s examine the 2 simple Questions Jesus asks in this section, keeping 

in mind that Jesus came to Teach us about the Father:

 (L1) “Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread,

 will give him a stone?” (Matthew 7:9) 

(L2) “Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent?” (Matthew 7:10) 

When you answer these two identical Questions from the viewpoint

 of the Truth that Jesus came to reveal the Father to us, we can immediately

 see that if we “ask” of “our Father in heaven” that He will give us only “good”

 things. Jesus is saying that if we will stop and look at the things the Father

 has already given us that we should have supreme confidence that He

 has only “good” intentions for our future. Isaiah quotes God Himself:

 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, 

Nor are your ways My ways,

 says the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, 

so are My ways higher than your ways, 

and My thoughts than your thoughts.” 

(Isaiah 55:8-9) 

There is another great Truth of God that is contained in these simple 

Questions in Matthew 7:9-10 that is often overlooked ——— simply,

 Jesus, being the Son of God, is the most reliable source of 

Truth about the Father that we could possibly have!  

We could read the entire New Testament with the single thought that

 Jesus is the Son of God 

and we would see all the characteristics of the Father whom we seek

 to know being revealed by the Son! The fact that God chose to

 have a Son should thrill our hearts and souls because if God had chosen

 not to have a Son then how could we think of God as the “Father”? 

And if God really chose to be “childless” then we would not have any

 confidence that we could possibly be considered for “adoption”! 

To think of God as merely a Supremely Powerful Being gives no “Hope” 

that an inferior being such as man could ever aspire to inherit the kingdom —

 however, our HOPE comes from the Biblical Fact that 

The Supreme Being in all His Superiority has reached down

 as a “Loving Father” and says to us, “You are not inferior, 

I created You in My image and I have chosen YOU 

to be part of MY Family! 

I love you so much that I sent My Beloved Son to walk among you 

 TO SHOW YOU THE WAY and to bring you HOME —

 if you will only believe in THE SON, THEN THE FATHER 

will make you joint heirs OF THE FATHER’S KINGDOM” 

These Questions in Matthew 7:9-10 were answered when God sent His Son

 and made Him the Bread of Life for us and “our Father in heaven” has

 provided for us with great abundance, if we will but only

 look to the Son to see the Father. We will see further glimpses of our

 LOVING GOD and HEAVENLY FATHER  standing with open arms 

in the narrow gate as we finish Matthew 7:10-14!