MARCH 10 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#08 “Why do you think evil in your hearts?” (Matthew 9:4)

 

MARCH 10  THE JESUS QUESTIONS

  JQ#08 “Why do you think evil in your hearts?” 

(Matthew 9:4)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, no other name is like the Name of Jesus, there is no name

 under heaven or on the earth that man can call on for Salvation but Jesus,

 there is none but You, Lord Jesus that loves us even though 

we are continually sinning against Your Holiness. 

Yet instead of Your arms folded in rejection when we repent and return,

 You Lord Jesus, just like the Father welcoming the prodigal son,

 You run to greet us with open arms,

 You receive us unto Yourself as Your own. 

Lord Jesus, eternity will not be enough time to praise Your Holy Name!    

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

JESUS not only Teaches “individual” and “personal” Lessons as He 

reveals the Truth of God with each Question, Jesus also Teaches us 

a “universal” Lesson with the “order” with which Jesus weaves

 the Truth of God contained within each Lesson/Question. 

This “universal” Lesson comes from not only “what” Jesus Taught but

 the “order” in which Jesus Teaches each Lesson. Yesterday the Holy Spirit

 turned my thoughts to looking at this “universal” Lesson already Taught

 by The JESUS Questions JQ#1-8 before moving on to JQ#09 and as

 I started to move on to JQ#09 today the Spirit has made it clear that He

 wants me to present the outline that has been formed by JQ#1 - JQ#8 in

 Matthew Chapters 1-9 before moving to the next JESUS Question. 

The Holy Spirit directed me to initiate “The JESUS Questions” daily project

 and directs my writing of these morning devotionals and He also guides me

 to keep notes in a separate folder which now has developed into an 

“Introduction Outline to Discipleship” 

which sets forth the mindset for being a “Follower of Christ” that builds upon

 itself step by step the “Spiritual” importance of placing our “Faith” in

 the only “One” who is “Worthy” of our “Faith”. Jesus begins proving He

 is “Worthy” and is called for the Purpose of doing the work of God. 

Matthew Chapter 5 records Jesus giving us His 

“Sermon on the Mount” 

in which Jesus listed in the:

“The Beatitudes” 

(1st) that to inherit the kingdom of heaven 

we must enter through the “Spirit” 

(2nd) that if we care for and comfort others 

that we ourselves will be cared for and comforted, 

(3rd) that strength to inherit the earth

 will come from our weakness, 

(4th) to be filled with righteousness 

we should hunger for it, 

(5th) to be merciful 

in order to gain mercy, 

(6th) our ability to see God 

will come through our purity, 

(7th) and if we strive to make peace 

we will be called sons of God!  

Jesus concludes the “Beatitudes” with “not to worry” about the persecution

 on earth of our “Faith in God” because our righteousness

 will be rewarded in heaven. 

Jesus concludes with JQ#01 that those that “Follow Jesus” will be

 “salt and light” to the world.  JQ#02 Teaches us that 

Jesus did not come to destroy the Law of God but to fulfill the Law 

and then Jesus proceeds to instruct us how to “love others”, 

(both our enemies and our friends) as Jesus proclaims that 

“LOVE” is the Greatest Law.

 Jesus builds on these Lessons with a new command on how to be

 “salt and light” and how to “love others” which is an “imperative concept”

 to a Follower of Christ 

when we as a Followers of Christ encounter opposition

 to our “Faith in God”.

  When Jesus Teaches in JQ#03 “Not to worry” and then builds on

 the concept of “Do not worry” by Teaching us that to be successful

 in “not worrying” that we must practice what He Teaches in 

JQ#04 “Do not Judge”. Jesus then Teaches where to obtain the

 “Power of His Truth” as He tells us in JQ#05 that we are to 

“Ask-Seek-Knock” and we will “Find”. Jesus then calls us to 

“live” the principles He is Teaching and says that we will know if we are

 living by His Principles if we start “bearing the fruit of the spirit” 

as Taught in JQ#06. Jesus then makes it evident in JQ#07 that by going

 through these steps that we will be growing the basic elements 

of discipleship and that we must continually work to “build our faith”. 

We build our Faith in God by focusing on Jesus Christ, 

the Only Begotten Son who came to earth to reveal 

“our Father in heaven”! 

Jesus then starts instructing us in JQ#07 that 

there comes a point in our “faith” that we must “exercise” our “FAITH” 

by putting  “Action” to our “Belief” and at that point in our “Faith”, 

we as a Follower of Christ will “Arise & Walk” as Jesus details in JQ#8. 

Jesus concludes the “Introduction Outline to Discipleship” with this

 “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick.

 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’ 

For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” 

(Matthew 9:12-13) 

This command from Jesus to “go and learn” points us to what will be required

 of each individual once we commit to being “Followers of Christ” 

and for starters Jesus said to 

“learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice’” —

I see that I have have some studying to do because I know I am a sinner

 and that He has called me to “repentance” and has also commanded 

 “Follow Me”!