MAY 02 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#14 “Jesus said to them, ‘Have you understood all these things?’” (Matthew 13:51)

 

MAY 02  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#14 “Jesus said to them, 

‘Have you understood all these things?’”  

(Matthew 13:51)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, indeed Lord we seek to know You and the Father as we seek

 to know the will of the Father for our lives. We can see from Your Life 

that we are to “live” the “Truth of God” in our lives so that those who

 observe our “Gospel” will have the Father revealed to them as You

 revealed the Father by both the Way You Lived 

and the Way You Died.

 Lord Jesus, may the Holy Spirit indwell us so extensively that all that 

others can see in us is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, 

that we are all One. 

Lord Jesus I beg again for mercy and grace and my daily bread and pray

 that each day I again die to my old worldly self so that I may be 

resurrected with the newness of spirit in Christ and declare boldly

 that  my life is not mine but Thine!     

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus starts Teaching JQ#14 with a lead in Question to get us thinking about the

 Truth of God 

then he asks the 

“Kingdom Question” — “Who is My mother and who are My brothers?”

 (Matthew 12:48) 

The context for this Question begins with Matthew 12:38 and runs 

through Matthew 13:52. In the previous verses 

Jesus had just asked us to consider our

 “Spiritual Expectations” of the Kingdom of God 

and had pointedly asked us if our lives are making a contribution to the uplifting

 of God and His Kingdom 

or are we tearing down the Kingdom by our unbelief. 

Jesus has been Teaching us that 

it is how we live that is going to be the “Truth of God” in our lives 

and Jesus has been Living the Perfect Example of what He has been 

Teaching about “The Father”. Here in this section of scripture running 

from Matthew 12:38 through Matthew 12:51 Jesus ties several concepts 

together for us using parables and using the “precept upon precept” 

method through which we are given insights on the Kingdom of God

 that can only come from a special understanding that can only be

 revealed by the 

Power of the Holy Spirit. 

By looking at the Lessons Jesus has already Taught we can glimpse

 where Jesus is taking us next by realizing that He has established

 the foundation for the next big 

Truth of God 

which Jesus introduces with His next Question 

JQ#14A “Who is My mother and who are My brothers?”

 (Matthew 12:48). 

All along Jesus has been referring to 

God as “the Father” 

and 

Jesus has proven Himself to be the “Son of God” 

and Jesus has been Teaching that we are born into a physical life but 

by the Desire and Design of the Creator 

we have been given an “eternal spiritual soul” 

which will ascend to God upon the death of the “physical” body. 

Now Jesus continues Teaching us on this “spiritual” plane as He transitions

 to the next revelation of the Kingdom by Teaching about

 “the sign of the prophet Jonah” (Matthew 12:39) 

where Jesus introduces 

His Resurrection 

to the Pharisees who had demanded Jesus give them a “sign”. 

Jesus answers that the only 

“sign” the “evil and adulterous generation” 

will get is the 

“sign of the prophet Jonah” 

as Jesus tells them point blank, 

“For as Jonah was three days and three nights 

in the belly of the great fish, 

so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights 

in the heart of the earth.” (Matthew 12:40) 

The “sign of the prophet Jonah” taken literally can only mean that

 God’s plan for the Kingdom is that Jesus will have to die 

and be in the “grave” for three days 

but then God Himself will Resurrect Jesus as He did Jonah 

for only the Power of God can accomplish such things! 

Jesus then says that the fruit of Jonah’s resurrection was 

that the men of Nineveh “repented” and now Jesus is saying that this 

“evil and adulterous generation” 

will be given a chance to repent when

 God Resurrects Jesus on the Third Day. 

Jesus then adds that the sign of the queen of the South was to

 “understand” 

the wisdom of Solomon and now

 “indeed a greater than Solomon is here” (Matthew 12:42) 

Then Jesus ties these “Spiritual signs” together as He confirms

 the spiritual connection as He Teaches about the 

“unclean spirit” that gets “seven other spirits” and they “enter and dwell”

 in those that do not accept the 

Truth of God

 and therefore are known as “this wicked generation” which is a generation 

that does not believe in God, they reject God, and they refuse to accept

 the gift of God which is His Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ.

 God is Teaching that in order for us to enter the kingdom of God 

we must realize it is a “spiritual realm” 

and we must align ourselves “spiritually” with the “Father”.

 Jesus now introduces the concept of the 

“Family of God” 

as He asks 

JQ#14A “Who is My mother and who are My brothers?” 

We all know that our “physical life” begins 

with our biological mother and father

 so aren’t you curious now to 

“understand these things”

 and to know how our 

“spiritual life” 

will begin and how exactly do we become a member of this

 “spiritual family” ?