MAY 17 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#16 “Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?” (Matthew 15:3)

 

MAY 17  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#16 “Why do you also transgress the commandment of God

 because of your tradition?”  (Matthew 15:3)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer   

JESUS, there are so many things to thank You for and to praise You 

for just from the good hard days work You gave me yesterday. 

When I think of “work” from a “physical” viewpoint it doesn’t make sense 

how to get a blessing from being in the hot sun sweating and fighting off

 yellow jackets that sting and hurt so bad but when I think of the “physical” 

from a “spiritual” viewpoint I see that my blessings are overflowing as I

 was able to have the physical strength to do the physical labor 

and that I get to do it in Your beautiful Creation! 

Lord, I come before You again today seeking Your guidance in all that You

 lay before me and Trust You to give me the “physical” strength to

 accomplish Your tasks and the “spiritual” strength to 

give You Praise for Your Provisions!     

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has just walked on the water and demonstrated to His disciples 

that He will transfer His Power to those willing to get out of the boat 

and walk on the water with Him and He also Taught them the

 Truth of God that indeed we “can do all things through Christ Jesus” 

but without Him we will drown in the world! 

That great Lesson was summarized by the writer Matthew as he wrote

 about the Jesus/Peter encounter where both were walking on the water

 and Matthew documented that when Peter took note of the world 

around him instead of keeping his focus on Jesus

 that Peter began to sink beneath the waves, 

Matthew records how Jesus reacted: 

“and [Peter] beginning to sink … cried out, saying, ‘Lord save me!’ 

and immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and caught Peter

…and when they got back into the boat, the wind ceased.” 

(Matthew 14:30-32) 

Matthew then recorded what our response should be when Jesus stretches out

 His Hand of Salvation from Heaven to all of us that are drowning in a world of sin:

 “Then those who were in the boat came and worshipped Him, saying,

 ‘Truly You {Jesus} are the Son of God’” 

(Matthew 14:33) 

Matthew continues his summary as he concludes this section 

“When they had crossed over… [and] the men of that place 

recognized Him, they sent out …[and] brought to [Jesus] 

all who were sick…[and all who were brought to Him] 

were made perfectly well.” 

(Matthew 14:34-36) 

So here is Jesus healing the multitudes, demonstrating that by His actions

 and the “Fruit of His Kingdom Labors” that 

Jesus IS “Truly…the Son of God” 

and yet there are those with a different agenda that refuse to believe the 

“Witness” of the “Good Works of Jesus”. 

Those that believed that Jesus IS the “Son of God”

 were all “made perfectly well” 

and we know that all those people could not have been 

in the boat with Jesus so their

 healing “Faith” 

had to come from “hearing” about the Mighty Works, 

“Works” that could only be accomplished 

by the Very Son of God Himself 

and the cloud of witnesses was so great that the multitudes 

“believed” and by their 

“Faith in Jesus” they were “healed”! 

So why do we see another group of people who have heard 

the same thing about Jesus want to attack Him? 

We read in Matthew 15:1-2 that once again it is the 

“scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem” that came to Jesus

 but instead of walking on water they were stirring up waves 

as they questioned Jesus: 

“Why do Your  disciples transgress the tradition of the elders?” 

(Matthew 15:2)

 which set the scene for another great 

“Truth of God”

 and demonstrates why

 Jesus is “Truly…the Son of God”

 

——— or do you believe that just because you don’t believe 

that somehow your non-belief will have any affect on the Power of God? 

Jesus answered the challenge to His Lordship from the Pharisees just like He

 addressed the challenge from Peter but with completely different results ———

 as soon as His Lordship was challenged with a question from the Pharisees,

 Jesus immediately answered their question with a Question of His own 

that made the Pharisees look at the 

Truth of God 

that Jesus Teaches 

and not the “lie” that men try to convince each other 

is “best for the common good?” 

——— once again Jesus is making us answer that most important Question

 that every individual must answer in their individual lives:

 “Are you going to Trust God and His Truth 

or are you going to listen to men 

that tell you a “lie”  that they 

mistakenly believe is the truth?”