SEPTEMBER 27 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#29 “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?” (Matthew 22:42)

 

SEPTEMBER 27  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#29  

“What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?”  

(Matthew 22:42)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Precious Jesus, Lord it is so wonderful a Privilege to be

 able to call on Your Holy Name. Our God is so Gracious that He says 

to call Him “ABBA Father” (Romans 8:15)  and then He sent 

His Only Begotten Son so that we might call the Son “friend” 

and “Brother”! Our Lord gives us the Rights and Privileges of Heirs 

therefore we are also called “children of God”! (Romans 8:14) 

Oh Precious Jesus, how great a Love that God, very God, 

can do these marvelous things for a lost and dying world of 

sinners living in rebellion against this Holy God! 

Praise be to God Most High and His Only Begotten Son 

that was Obedient unto a cruel death on the cross 

in order that sinners through “Repentance” 

shall inherit the Kingdom of God!!! 

Lord, we exalt Thee above all names for You ARE the 

ONE TRUE LIVING GOD — The HOLY TRINITY: 

The FATHER, the SON, and the HOLY SPIRIT!!!   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus is sending more than just one message when He pronounces

 these “Seven Woes” on the “scribes and Pharisees” addressing

 the major problem of their “hypocrisy”. Besides the obvious 

message that defiling a “Holy office” is not acceptable behavior 

for one called by God to represent Him and His Commands to 

the nation of Israel, the scribes and Pharisees were also familiar

 with the prophesy of Ezekiel 34 where God states clearly

 

“And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, 

prophesy and say to them”, ‘Thus says the LORD God 

to the shepherds: “Woe to the shepherds of Israel 

who feed themselves! Should not the shepherds 

feed the flocks?”’…and “For thus says the LORD God: 

‘Indeed I Myself will search for My sheep 

and seek them out…I will establish a shepherd over them…’” 

(Ezekiel 34:1-2,11,23). 

Jesus also makes it clear that God is still active and paying attention

 to His world and that in His Sovereignty and Immutability 

that God will “reward obedience” and “punish disobedience”!

 A.W. Tozer in his book “Knowledge of the Holy” devoted a whole 

chapter on “The Immutability of God” to help us understand that God

 never changes nor does God after fourteen hundred years 

or so (the time between Moses and Jesus) decide that His 

Commandments are no longer viable. Tozer writes: 

“To say that God is immutable is to say that He never 

differs from Himself.” 

(Page 49, Knowledge of the Holy paperback Copyright 1961) 

and then Tozer elaborates as he quotes Anselm ({ref…}):

 “‘All that God is, He has always been, and all that He 

has been and is, He will ever be.’ 

Nothing that God has ever said about Himself will be modified; 

nothing the inspired prophets and apostles have said about Him 

will be rescinded. His immutability guarantees this.” 

(Page 50, Knowledge of the Holy paperback Copyright 1961)

 

So Jesus is Teaching the nation Israel that God meant what He 

said 1400 years ago when He gave Moses the Commandments 

and Jesus is Teaching us that God is Eternal and He is Unchanging 

and that His commands will be applicable for ALL of time 

therefore everyone, regardless of the “time” or “generation” in which

 they are born, all souls are born into God’s creation and are 

subject to His Will, which as Tozer explains, God’s Will is “Immutable”!

 God was Sovereign BEFORE the creation existed 

and God will remain Sovereign AFTER 

the creation 

and time itself 

comes to an end 

(From Genesis to Revelation) — 

however; there is NO END to the ETERNAL GOD

 and HIS SUPREME AUTHORITY!!! 

WOE #3

Jesus makes a point of the “Consequence” of “hypocrisy” 

and “disobedience” as He pronounces “Woe #3”:

 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel 

land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, 

you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.” 

(Matthew 23:15) 

Jesus reminds us that “He who is not with Me 

 is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me

 scatters abroad.” (Matthew 12:30)

  

The scribes and Pharisees (the “shepherds of Israel”) were using 

their “Holy office” to make converts to “doctrines and traditions” 

that did not bring Israel to the Holy God that gave Moses the 

Commandments but instead of leading the converts to God, they 

placed the “burden” of the “Law” on Israel’s backs and enslaved 

them to following the “doctrines of men” which was exactly what Ezekiel 

had said about the “shepherds feeding themselves”! Jesus is clear 

that this kind of “hypocrisy” makes those participating in keeping 

others away from God are “sons of hell” — and it doesn’t take much

 explanation to understand that “sons of hell” are NOT “sons of God”

 — my advice is to consider how serious God is about “hypocrisy” 

and to pay attention to these “Seven Woes” 

and use them to evaluate  your answer to:

 “What do you think about the Christ?

 Whose Son is He?” (Matthew 22:42)

SEPTEMBER 26 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#29 “What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?” (Matthew 22:42)

SEPTEMBER 26  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#29  

“What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?”  

(Matthew 22:42)

LIVING FOR JESUS  Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Blessed be the Name of the Lord, the Holy and

 Righteous Son of our God Most High, Praise and Honor 

are Yours and Yours alone. 

Lord, through all the ages You alone have been the Way 

for all to come to the Father, You are the Lamb of God, 

Perfect and without spot, Sacrificed for ALL sin to be Forgiven 

through belief in the Father’s Plan of Salvation. Yes! 

God, very God sent His Only Begotten Son to become Man very man,

 to live without sin so that He might give that Perfect Life 

as the Atonement for ALL sin, 

and through His Death and Resurrection, ALL men can be FREE from sin! 

 For ALL sin and come short of the Glory of God,

 but whosoever BELIEVES on the Son and His Perfect Sacrifice,

 shall not perish but have everlasting life!!!   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus is completing His final Lesson on True Power and Authority

 which addresses the problem of “hypocrisy” in those that have

 defiled their “God-given wisdom” and “authority” and have led the

 nation Israel away from the commands of God and used their 

“usurped authority” to develop “doctrines of men” that give those

 in “great authority” over Israel “power” over the nation using the 

Law of Moses — their “power” was supposed to be reserved for the 

Supreme Power — God Almighty —that gave Moses the Law 

to give to the nation but now the scribes and Pharisees were using

 the “Law” to enslave the nation Israel! 

Jesus concludes by announcing “Seven Woes”

 which clearly expose the “Guilty” and “Justify” the “Woes” 

that they had brought upon themselves! 

WOE #1

“Woe #1” addressed the problem of “hypocrisy” because the rulers

 were keeping themselves and others out of the kingdom

 with their “doctrines of men” and then Jesus presents Woe #2.

WOE #2

 

“Woe #2” : “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! 

For you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.” (Matthew 23:14)

 This second “Woe” is a reminder that just a few days earlier as Jesus

 had made His Triumphal Entry into  Jerusalem that He went immediately

 to the temple and “…drove out all those who 

bought and sold in the temple…” and then Jesus pronounced: 

“It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer, 

but you have made it a den of thieves.” (Matthew 21:1-13) 

So when Jesus says “you devour widows’ houses” He is referring 

to the “abuse of office” that would let the scribes and Pharisees 

steal widows’ houses and then to make matters worse, after

 “stealing” the widows’ property, the scribes and Pharisees would then

 go into the temple they had defiled and would pretend to “make long prayers” 

— and the “Consequence” of breaking the Command of God 

not to “steal” or “covet” and to do this while defiling their “office”, 

was not just condemnation by God — 

but the scribes and Pharisees because of their 

“hypocrisy” [they] “will receive greater condemnation”. 

This condemnation is similar to “Woe #1” where Jesus says that we

 will have to accept responsibility for those you have caused to turn

 from the kingdom because of your unbelief, with "Woe #2" Jesus 

is saying that because you defile your “God-given wisdom” 

and use it to cheat others, you will suffer “greater condemnation”!

 

So a theme is surfacing from these “7 Woes” and it re-enforces previous

 Lessons that Jesus has Taught that everyone is 

subject to the “True Power and Authority” 

of the “Supreme and Sovereign God” 

who established His Commands for ALL to live by,

 

and all that do not live by God’s Law

 will still be “judged” by God’s Law!!!

 Jesus pronounces the “Seven Woes” to clearly define the problem

 and to make it clear that

 if you “do the crime” you WILL “do the time” — 

Believe it or Not!?!?!?!?