APRIL 24 THE JESUS QUESTIONS (Day 10) Summary Review of JESUS Questions JQ#01-01—JQ#13-07 (Matthew 5:1 thru Matthew 12:34)

 

APRIL 24  THE JESUS QUESTIONS 

(Day 10) Summary Review of JESUS Questions 

JQ#01-01—JQ#13-07 (Matthew 5:1 thru Matthew 12:34) 

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Thank You Lord for being our Savior, we never stop to think that You

 are our Savior because You chose to be that Perfect Sacrifice and not

 because You were forced by some circumstance or to repay an 

obligation of some great work done by mankind! 

You LORD can choose to do literally ANYTHING, You are the Creator 

of ALL THINGS and yet in Your Plan for mankind You made us in Your Image

 and then You planned that You would get intimately involved in our Salvation

 which meant You volunteered to give up Your Divinity, be born of flesh as 

we are born of flesh and then live a Perfect Life on earth 

while being greatly persecuted by Your own people! 

Then Your Plan called for the worst death imaginable on a Cross at Calvary

 so that all who believe in Your Plan can have the Best Life possible and

 to have that Best Life for all Eternity! Thank You just isn’t enough to repay

 You for Your Grace so my prayer is that every breath I take, every thought

 that I have will be used to LIVE the Life You have Planned for me.      

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus is not only “Asking Questions” He is Teaching in a Specific Spiritual

 Sequence and if you have not been reading these posts in the order 

that they are written, you will be missing one of the 

“blessings” that the Holy Spirit has intended for

 “The JESUS Questions” Project. 

The Holy Spirit has presented all these Lessons in sequence 

(or as Holy Scripture says “precept upon precept”) 

with each new Lesson tying into the previous Lesson and then leading 

into the next Lesson in such a Divine Way 

that the “sequence”  is a Divine Lesson in itself. 

This Divine Sequence of Lessons and Revelations of the Truth of God

 by the Holy Spirit is a logical sequence of Teaching us about our

 responsibility to the kingdom and how to live a life 

of “Love”, “Faith”, and “Obedience” which then leads us to

 “Trust in God” 

and to “Walk-the-Walk”!!! 

Logically, as a result of those Kingdom Tools and Attributes, 

we are logically led to “Sharing-with-Others” the LOVE OF GOD 

— and then the Holy Spirit seems at first glance to inject a “deviation” from

 the logical sequence of Lessons with a Question about being

 “a friend of the Bridegroom?”. 

Lesson  9  JQ#09    “Are you a friend of the ‘Bridegroom’?”     Matthew 9:14-26

The Holy Spirit, just after Teaching us to “put Feet to our Faith”, 

then throws in a Question that on the surface

 seems like a light-hearted Question in 

JQ#09 “Are you a friend of the ‘Bridegroom’?”. 

This Question by itself can be taken light-heartedly but taken in context 

of the previous Questions which are themselves unified by their 

Revelation of the Plan of God for the Salvation of mankind

 through the Life of the Father’s Only Begotten and 

Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, 

we must stop and seriously consider what the term “Bridegroom” means 

in terms of God’s Divine Plan for mankind? 

On face value, the term “Bridegroom” can be understood by all peoples, 

all languages, all cultures, every nation, all races … et. al. 

and therefore the Holy Spirit has introduced a “universal” concept that

 exceeds all national, social, economic, and racial boundaries! 

The term “Bridegroom” implies that there is certainly a “Bride” 

and also a “Marriage” and therefore is the most logically all-inclusive

 concept that could be introduced!!! 

Let us stop and consider that the

 God of the Universe, the Creator of All Things who is 

the only  Eternal “uncreated and self sustaining” being, who 

certainly does not need His Creation to survive, why would this 

self-supported, self-sustaining Being choose to be bonded in “marriage” 

by a convention He Himself established as “Holy Matrimony”??? 

Further, consider that God called everything “Good” in His Creation except 

for His statement about the new man He had just 

created that was without a mate:

 “And the Lord God said, ‘It is not good that man should be alone;

 I will make him a helper comparable to him.” (Genesis 2:18) 

and then “… the LORD GOD … put the man in a deep sleep … 

and made…a woman (from a rib taken from the man’s side), and He 

brought her to the man.” 

(Genesis 2:22) 

and that became the first marriage. 

“And Adam said: 

‘This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh…” 

(Genesis 2:23) 

I personally get goose bumps when I think that Jesus Himself who is

 referred to as the Second Adam has been “put into a deep sleep” 

(called death) and from that sleep of death God the Father took part 

of the very “Spirit” of the Son and used that “Spirit” to create 

the Church just like He used Adam’s rib to create the first wife, Eve! 

To think about God giving His Son in Marriage is mind-bending at least —

 there could be volume upon volume written of the symbolism this 

“Marriage” of God’s only Son, Jesus!  ——— The Holy Spirit then 

introduces a Divine Concept with this “Marriage” concept and we

 are left to consider the next JESUS Question: “Who is the ‘bride’ 

and ‘Are you a friend of the ‘Bridegroom?’”!!!???