AUGUST 30 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#27 “Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?” (Matthew 22:12)

 

AUGUST 30  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#27

  “Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?”  

(Matthew 22:12)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Lord, Giver of all things good in my life, I can only give 

You praise for the change that Your Love has made in my life and 

I pray that because of Your Love that others will see the “change” 

and that Your Love will change them as well. Lord I know it was 

a small thing but I felt Your Grace so full with the opportunity 

You gave us with the McKenzie Acre boys and girls — Lord I pray

 for Your Love to be poured out on them and last night showed

 me that it will be through being obedient to Your command to

 “love one another” that we are indeed sharing You and Your Love

 with our world — Lord what a gift it is for “giving” and “forgiving” and 

to just see others through Your eyes, may I in the future let Your Love

 pour out of me into these kids and see that “change” that only Your Love

 can bring about in our lives.   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus has placed this 3rd Parable at the end of 3 Parables on the

 “Authority of God” for a specific reason and it could be argued 

from the Book of Revelation that there is great significance in Jesus

 being the Lamb of God and in the End Time that all heaven will rejoice 

“…for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride 

has made herself ready…” (Revelation 19:6-9) 

Jesus has been Teaching about the problem of how “Israel” has 

treated “her God” ——— the prophet Isaiah after writing about 

the “Suffering Servant” in Isaiah 53 and continues in Isaiah 54 

writing about Israel: 

“For your Maker is your husband, the LORD of hosts 

is His name; and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel; 

He is called the God of the whole earth.” (Isaiah 54:5)  

Therefore all Israel understood Jesus Teaching about a “marriage”

 and soon they will see with their own eyes what John the Baptist had 

declared about Jesus, “Behold the Lamb of God” (John 1:29)

 and all the pieces will fit as during this Special Passover when 

God will “provide Himself the lamb” as Abraham promised Isaac

 on Mount Moriah before Israel became a nation. Jesus Teaching this

 3rd Parable about 

{Phrase 1} “The kingdom of heaven is like…”

 {Phrase 2} “…a certain king…” who 

{Phrase 3} “…arranged a marriage…” fits into the traditions and the 

Holy Scriptures that Israel has been living with since Abraham arranged

 a marriage for his “Promised Son” Isaac and the fulfilling of God’s

 covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob pertaining to the nation

 of God’s chosen people, Israel. However, Israel had become so 

entrenched in her “traditions” and “doctrines of men” that they as a

 Holy Nation had been led away from the “command of God” which is

 the main problem Jesus introduces starting with 

{Phrase 4} “…for his son…” (which Jesus had already Taught

 about the chief cornerstone being “rejected by the builders”

 and had become the great “stumbling block” for God’s chosen nation)

 — Jesus never introduces a “problem” without immediately 

pointing to the solution which 

Jesus in His Divine Role as the Master Teacher,

 details the problem which illuminates the solution

 to the problem He details with 

{Phrase 5} “…[the certain king] sent out servants to call

 those who were invited to the wedding…”. 

Israel knows as a nation that God has been sending out His servants

 in the form of prophets, judges, kings, and even His enemies as

 servants to fulfill His covenant with the nation Israel whom God 

has called to be a “chosen people”. It is obvious that at this Passover

 that Jesus will fulfill His Divine Task of being the Passover Lamb and 

this is necessary because 

{Phrase 6} “…the invited were not willing to come…” 

This is a problem with our spiritual journey that each pilgrim takes

 to find our God and the Land of Promise that He has prepared for us. 

If we do not reach our destination it is not because of a shortcoming

 of God but because we have not followed His Path for our life —

 God has prepared and God has provided 

but we have strayed from His Plan and are 

“not willing to come” even though we have been “invited”

 by the King Himself —

 how long will you “make excuses” not to attend this

 Marriage Feast and the Wedding of the King’s Son? 

AUGUST 29 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#27 “Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?” (Matthew 22:12)

 

AUGUST 29  THE JESUS QUESTIONS    

JQ#27  

“Friend, how did you come in here without a wedding garment?”  

(Matthew 22:12)

LIVING FOR JESUS Daily Prayer    

JESUS, my Lord and my Redeemer, my Rock and my Salvation,

 You are the Calm in my storms ——— Lord Jesus I can only give

 You Praise for You are Worthy!  Lord I wake each morning and my

 thoughts are again turned to Your Grace and Mercy because each 

day as I rise I know I am rising because You have been Gracious 

and Merciful to this sinner and were it not for Grace and Mercy 

to carry me through my guilt and shame, I simply would not make

 it through my days. Jesus I come and bow my heart, my head 

and my soul to You and place my worthless self at the foot of 

Your Cross and ask that You lead me down Your Paths of 

Righteousness through this Valley of the Shadow of Death

 just one more day, I know that I am lost without You. 

Lord Jesus, this I KNOW — 

You ARE MY LIGHT, MY HOPE, and MY JOY  

which are my “Way”, my “Truth” and my “Life” on my “Journey to You”!!!   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus as the Master Teacher, Teaches using very specific 

“words” and “word order”. Jesus started this series of Lessons in 

the temple of God in this specific week leading up to 

the Passover where Jesus is going to fulfill the prophecy

 of the “Suffering Servant” written by the prophet Isaiah 800 years

 earlier about the Coming Messiah.

 The first thing Jesus did after entering Jerusalem was go to the

 temple and put God’s temple in order when He drove out all who

 were making it a “den of thieves” instead of “a house of prayer”.  

Once in the temple, Jesus demonstrated the Power of God 

by doing the work of God as Jesus performed miracle 

after miracle for everyone that came to Him in the temple and 

made their requests and prayers known to the “Son of David”. 

Jesus left Jerusalem that evening to stay in Bethany but returned

 the next day and continued “driving out” all that was against 

the “commands of God” and had been defiled by the “doctrines of men”!

 These actions of Jesus

 had caused the “ruling authorities” in Jerusalem

 who had not been consulted by Jesus, to confront Jesus 

and since they could not deny the “works” that Jesus had been doing, 

the ruling authorities questioned Jesus as to His “authority”!? 

(Side note: It is this author’s opinion that these “ruling authorities”

 were proving Jesus right in exposing their “inadequacies” 

— I was taught at a very early age that you do not question 

the man doing the work, especially if he has a big stick in his 

hand and the work he is accomplishing is going to benefit 

everyone concerned.) Once Jesus had His “authority” questioned, 

He began a series of Lessons to not only prove His “authority”, 

He was Teaching in a way that He proved that those questioning 

His “authority” already knew where His “Authority” was coming 

from but simply refused to admit the Truth of God. Jesus 

accomplished this by first cursing the fig tree, then when first 

questioned about His “authority” Jesus asked about the “baptism of John” 

which had been a “hot topic” for the ruling authorities since the

 multitudes had been seeking out John the Baptist in the wilderness

 around the Jordan and were 

“Repenting” of their sins against God 

and were being baptized by John 

who witnessed that his calling was to be 

“…the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 

make straight the way of the Lord…” (John 1:23).

 Once Jesus had everyone’s attention on the baptism of John,

 Jesus asked, “The baptism of John 

(which was now an accepted FACT by all Israel) —

 where was it from? From heaven or from men?” (Matthew 21:25)

 The answer was obvious so Jesus moved to the first of three parables

 to teach details of God’s Authority, Parable #1 (Matthew 21:28-32)

JESUS  Taught that God has called us to “obey” 

and we either choose to “obey” His commands 

or we choose to “disobey” God, 

and it is not what we say we do that God acknowledges, 

it is what our actions prove about us 

that God is going to fairly judge us by, therefore we learn the

 Truth of God 

that we condemn ourselves and God only passes judgement

 on our actions, we are either guilty of disobeying God and will 

be punished according to our choice or we will be rewarded for

 obeying God. Jesus then moved to Parable #2 (Matthew 21:33-46) 

where Jesus taught that God has a plan for mankind and God 

will provide all the tools and circumstances we need to accomplish

 the task God places before us, but if we take the “provisions” of God

 and try to take “possession” of God’s Authority for “personal gain”, 

once again our actions will determine our final judgement, 

God’s Authority is Supreme 

and we cannot alter or change in any way God’s commands 

or His Plan for mankind, even if we refuse God’s constant attempts

 at correcting our misguided course and poor life-choices, up to

 and including denying that He has no “authority” in our lives

 or even if we crucify His Son! Now Jesus is completing this 

series of Lessons on “authority” by Teaching the 3rd Parable 

(Matthew 22:1-14) about a “certain king” who

 “arranged a marriage for his son” and just like Jesus 

Taught these Lessons in a specific order to get us “on point”, 

Jesus is now Teaching the 

Truth of God 

in this 3rd Parable by a specific word order and selection of 15 phrases

 that we must look at each individually in the order in which Jesus

 gave them in order for us to see God Almighty. 

Jesus told Thomas, one of His disciples (also known as “doubting Thomas”)

 “…if you have seen Me, you have seen the Father…” (John 14:9) 

This would be a good time to look again at the 15 Phrases 

in this passage in Matthew 22:2-4 and then look at how Jesus reveals

 the “Father” to us through this passage in this 3rd Parable, 

unless of course you are not interested in knowing the answer 

to the Question that will determine 

where you will spend your “eternity”!?!?!?!