MAY 03 THE JESUS QUESTIONS
JQ#14 “ Jesus said to them,
‘Have you understood all these things?’”
(Matthew 13:51)
LIVING FOR JESUS Daily Prayer
JESUS, another day to praise You and to seek Your face, Lord to do Your Will
and to share Your Love with those that You put in our path. Lord I thank You
for those that You have put into my life that have drawn me closer to You
and to the Kingdom of God, I thank You that these souls have shared “Jesus”
with me that I could walk in the light.
So LORD, let me now share with the world Your Grace and Your Mercy
which You have so abundantly bestowed on me and may I be a Light as You
are Light, may I Love as You are Love, and may others see only You when
they look at me. Lord Jesus help me to be a good steward of Your “Gifts”,
especially the Gift of Free Will which I now “dedicate” to Your “Way”.
AMEN
THE JESUS QUESTIONS
Jesus started this particular section/Lesson by addressing those unbelievers
that were “seeking a sign” insisting that Jesus “prove” Himself to them.
Instead of trying to prove Himself,
Jesus lives the proof and lets His Life speak for Itself
— and here Jesus Teaches that the
Truth of God
is eternal and unchanging and regardless of what we “believe”, the
Truth of God will remain true to the Will of God the Creator.
The Father has “Willed” that His Only Begotten Son would become “flesh”
and dwell among us, live the Perfect Life thereby becoming the perfect
“Acceptable Sacrifice” for the sins of the world,
that Jesus would be “innocent” yet He would willingly shed
His Precious “Blood” for our iniquities and die for our sins —
the “Will of the Father” is that the Son will be raised
in Victory over death after Three Days in the Grave,
the “Resurrection of Jesus” is the Truth of God!!!
Jesus said in Matthew 12:39 that the
“only sign an evil and adulterous generation”
would get would be the “Resurrection”.
Jesus has been teaching that our “physical” lives will bear the fruit
of our worldly lusts and sins but Jesus demonstrated that He came to
“seek and to save that which is lost” and to “heal”
us of our infirmities and
everything Jesus did He did in the Name and in the Power of God
which manifests Itself in the Power of the Holy Spirit.
In the beginning we read that
“The earth was without form, and void,
and darkness was on the face of the deep.
And the Spirit of God
was hovering over the face of the waters.”
(Genesis 1:2)
Then in the next verse God “heals” the “void” by speaking the solution —
“Then God said, ‘Let there be light’ and there was light.” (Genesis 1:3)
So by the first 3 verses in God’s Bible we learn
that before the creation there was the
Truth of God,
and the greatest problem the world had was emptiness,
no purpose, and darkness and
it was the “Spirit of God” that “spoke” the solution
and the “solution” was to send a great
“Spiritual Light” to give “Understanding”
to fill the emptiness and to give purpose to our lives.
The “physical” lights were created on the fourth day:
“Then God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day,
and the lesser light to rule the night.
He made the stars also…
so the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
(Genesis 1:14-19)
but the first solution to the world’s problems was to address the
“Spiritual”
nature of our world and therefore the solution itself was
“Spiritual Light”
——— as we are learning in Matthew,
Jesus IS the “Spiritual Light of the world”
——— He is healing “physical” problems but is pointing us to the
“Spiritual” solution!
Here Jesus first introduces the
“Resurrection”
which is the ultimate transition from a “physical death” to an
“eternal Spiritual life” with God,
and then Jesus introduces the
“Spiritual Family of God”
as He points to His disciples who have been following Him and answers
JQ#14A “Who is My mother and who are My brothers?” (Matthew 12:48)
and says,
“Here are My mother and My brothers!
For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven
is My brother, and sister and mother.”
(Matthew 12:49-50)
There is a great
Truth of God
in this answer and that is
when we Trust God as our “Father”
and know that Jesus is the “Son”
then we through our “Spiritual Belief”
in the Kingdom of God
become ”mothers, sisters, and brothers”
of Jesus Christ Himself!
God is our “Father”
and we know that “God so loved the world”
so it should be no surprise that
JESUS CAME TO SAVE HIS FAMILY,
or would you prefer to remain an orphan OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD?
