OCTOBER 24 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#31 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?” (Matthew 24:45)

 

OCTOBER 24  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#31 

“Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master

 made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?”  

(Matthew 24:45)

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Lord sometimes Your Blessings are poured out 

on our Family Night in such a marvelous way

 that it is hard to imagine greater blessings, 

yet You have promised us Heaven 

and that is even beyond what we can imagine! 

Lord You are GOOD and I praise You that You have

 opened my eyes that I can see that You are 

GOOD ALL THE TIME!!! 

Lord, I thank You for the answered prayers for our family and the 

marvelous work You have accomplished in each of our lives and 

my prayer is that You continue to draw each and every family 

member to You for You have proven that there is no family unity 

outside of God but that if we all come to You 

then we will all be ONE WITH THE FATHER 

and Lord we saw that this week at our 

Family Night as the Fellowship with the entire family was so 

extraordinarily sweet that we knew that You were Present and 

everyone was aware that God was in our home and in our hearts — 

there is nothing better to be THANKFUL for 

than than being in the Will of the Father!   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus started His details of the “signs” of the “end of the age” to 

be marked by His “Second Coming” with the parable of the fig

 tree putting forth leaves so that we would know that the 

“season of His coming” was at hand and then He gives us

 some facts about the “end of the age” as He first states:

 “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words 

will by no means pass away.” (Matthew 24:35) 

It is hard to imagine someone reading that

 “Heaven and earth will pass away” and not be a little concerned

 about the “POWER” that could make both “Heaven and earth” 

and everything contained in them go “COMPLETELY AWAY”!!!  

There is a clue to the “source” of the power to destroy both heaven

 and earth when you read the Words of Jesus that say,

 “heaven and earth” can be destroyed but that 

“My Words” cannot be destroyed — 

which in my simple mind is like the “AXE” telling the log about to be split, 

“This is going to hurt you more than it will me!” 

I know that my mind cannot comprehend the 

“POWER” to “CREATE SOMETHING FROM NOTHING” 

(which GOD DID by “SPEAKING EVERYTHING INTO EXISTENCE” ) 

so when I read this statement by Jesus that 

“Heaven and earth will pass away” that I believe that 

JESUS IS THE SON OF GOD therefore it is easy for me to believe: 

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” 

(Genesis 1:1) 

It is not hard for me then to hear God saying,

 “I brought you into this world and I can take you out!”   

In other words, some day we will see it written about the closing 

out of the history of mankind as we know it: 

“At the end of the age God destroyed the old creation 

that He had made in the beginning then God decided to 

demolish the originals and create a new heaven and a new earth!” 

It was the POWER of GOD’S WORDS that brought everything

 into existence and when Jesus says 

“My words will by no means pass away” (Matthew 24:35) 

that He is giving us the “TRUE SOURCE OF POWER” 

that has the ability to 

“destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matthew 10:28) 

and compared to destroying the “Heaven and the earth”, 

destroying “soul and body” should be easy don’t you think? 

Or are you one of those that still believe there is no God,

 therefore there is no sin and no heaven or earth so you don’t have

 to worry about these “fairy tales and fables”?!?!?!?  

Personally I am convinced that the body of evidence 

and the great number of eye-witnesses is sufficient enough 

for me to make an “informed decision” ——— and I take solace

 in the fact that Jesus said earlier,

 “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, 

that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent 

and have revealed them to babes. 

Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight. 

All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, 

and no one knows the Son except the Father. 

Nor does anyone

 know the Father except the Son 

and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.” 

(Matthew 11:25-27) 

And now Jesus is revealing God the Father and God’s Plan

 to all “believers” for in the end times it has been revealed that indeed

 there will be a “Final Judgement” by the Father in which

 “Heaven and earth will pass away” but the GOOD NEWS 

is that “[the WORDS OF JESUS HIS SON] 

will by NO MEANS pass away.” 

And as all good fairy tales end --

 “And they lived happily FOREVER after!!!” 

(Sounds like John 3:16 to me!)

OCTOBER 23 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#31 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?” (Matthew 24:45)

 

OCTOBER 23  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#31 

“Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master 

made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season?”  

(Matthew 24:45)

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Lord each day I wake up and read Your Word and I pray for

 “daily bread” and then at the end of the day I find my heart overflowing

 with gratitude for the marvelous things you have done during that day. 

After giving me a great day, You also grant me a good night’s sleep 

after which I awake to a new morning and again realize there is yet

 another day in which I can observe Your Glory and marvel at Your 

Provisions for our daily lives!!!  Provisions such as the air we

 breath and the circumstances You lay out daily before us as 

opportunities to “serve” the kingdom — Lord, thank You for revealing 

the enormous blessing of “serving” You and for giving us the 

privilege of “serving others” in Your Holy Name. Lord I praise You

 for the daily “infilling” (to overflowing) of Your Holy Spirit, and my 

prayer is simply to be a good steward of Your Abundant Provisions, 

both physical and Spiritual!!!     

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus admonished us to “learn this parable from the fig tree” 

and we miss on our first reading that Jesus is telling us that there will

 be “signs” from our daily day-to-day existence that God will use to 

communicate to those that will “listen”.  All Israel saw fig trees everyday

 in their day-to-day existence and we today can use our own eyes to 

see fig trees and know if they are bearing fruit or not. When Jesus

 was baptized by John the Baptist who had come to be a “witness” 

of the coming Messiah and to “make straight the way of the Lord”, 

John the Baptist explained about “signs” when he said: 

“I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize 

with water said to me, ‘Upon whom you see the Spirit descending,

 and remaining on Him, this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit’. 

And I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.” 

 (John 1:33-34)

 John proved that he was the “Witness” sent by God and his

 testimony was simple and to the point. John had “seen” what 

the Holy Spirit had told him to observe and then John told the 

“TRUTH” of his observation and gave this “testimony” of Jesus,

 the One that John had just baptized —

 “this is the Son of God.”

  (John 1:34)

 John had been told to look for a “sign” and when John saw the

 “sign” with his own eyes while doing what John had been doing 

on a daily basis, the fact that the Holy Spirit had told John to 

watch for a “sign” BEFORE it happened, that when it did happen

 and John could see with his own eyes and recognize it as a “sign”

 from God Himself, John was able to say confidently about Jesus

 “this IS the Son of God.”!!!  

So we also, if we “learn the parable from the fig tree” like Jesus

 has told us BEFORE it happens, that when it does come to pass

 that we can “see” with our own eyes the “sign” and we also can

 proclaim as John did, “this IS the Son of God.”!!! God has

 always told us BEFOREHAND what HIS PLAN is and our 

advantage today in our modern age is that it is all written down for 

us in the Holy Bible to use as a list of “signs” that have been 

fulfilled already and then there are those “signs” that are yet to 

be completed. God has made it simple and has given us the ability 

to “see” Him in our daily day-to-day existence - that’s why Jesus 

tells us the parables about “watching” for the “signs” 

and then Jesus says,

 “Therefore you also be ready for the Son of Man

 is coming at an hour you do not expect.” 

(Matthew 24:44) 

and to really make us focus on what God expects of us Jesus asks,

 “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, 

whom his master made ruler over his household, 

to give them food in due season?”  

(Matthew 24:45)

After all, let us not forget Jesus did not come to receive tribute,

 He came to receive thorns, to suffer and to die for others, and was

 rewarded with victory over the world, death, and the grave ———

 what more could we ask for? We cannot be greater than

 our “Master” and it was Jesus who said, 

“…just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, 

but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many…” 

(Matthew 20:28) 

then we should understand that to be “great” in the kingdom of God

 that we are not on this earth to be “served” but to be a

 “faithful and wise servant… to serve and to give [to others]” 

and in our selflessly giving as Jesus did to others, we thereby will 

Glorify our Father in Heaven and we will hear God proclaim,

 “These are My [children] in whom I am well pleased.”!!! 

(Matthew 17:5)