JANUARY 03 THE JESUS QUESTIONS Introduction-03: Lessons, Lifestyle, and Parables of Jesus: JQ#1-JQ#33 (Matthew 1:1 thru 3:17)
LIVING FOR JESUS Daily Prayer
JESUS, I pray for Your Mercy and Grace with each new day that you present to me as Your Gift of Life! Lord Jesus, I know that if I follow You as You commanded that Your blessings will be upon my life and I can experience Your Rest which You have promised.
Lord I have made many wrong turns and foolish mistakes in my life by going out on my own and each wrong turn ends up proving that I truly need “Guidance” and You have “led me safe thus far”. Lord Jesus, daily I look to You for my “daily bread”, both physical and spiritual and I thank You Jesus for providing both “spiritual bread” and “physical bread” to me in such abundance even though I am so undeserving! Lord Jesus, my goal still is that one day I will stand in Your Presence and hear You say, “Well done thy good and faithful servant.” (Matthew 25:21) AMEN
THE JESUS QUESTIONS
Jesus led a “Lifestyle” that has never been approached by any other person throughout all of history and the “Lessons” that He Taught as part of His Lifestyle are still being successfully applied to every person’s life that is willing to “learn” from the “Master”.
On my spiritual journey to “TRUTH” I have been introduced to several sources that claim to know who Jesus really was but then the thought struck me that if a person claims to be an “authority” on someone that lived over 2000 years ago, then how could any person so far removed from the “factual Jesus” proclaim 2000 years later that they know the “TRUTH” about Jesus? It does not make sense for someone to take a document like the Holy Bible that has been unchanged and undefiled and “divinely” preserved for thousands and thousands of years and 2000 years later arrogantly proclaim that all those “eyewitness” accounts of the Life of Jesus are not accurate accounts of the “real” Jesus!?!?
I want to ask those making those arrogant claims by what “authority” do they claim to be the “source” of this newfound ?Truth? and I am guessing that they will reply with some vague statement that puffs up their own personal intellect which is obviously a greater intellect than anyone before them and also greater than God’s own Supreme Intellect because now 2000 years later, the world is now obviously being blessed by someone smart enough to point out God’s “mistakes”! Believers should now abandon thousands of years of commentary and eyewitness accounts and personal testimonies because after all these misguided people writing and reading the Bible could not possibly know what this new “intelligence” has had revealed to them therefore believers should abandon their old faith and accept a new faith in the word from someone that lived 2000 years after Jesus died on a cross for our sins (surely this new intelligence has more authority than this “Son of God” who got himself killed by His own people!) — yes, believers indeed should ignore everything the Holy Bible attests to as the “TRUTH” (as per the very WORD OF GOD HIMSELF ) and listen instead to this new “superior intellect”!?!?!?
I have learned to distrust those who claim to “know what God really meant to say” {{see Genesis 3:1-7 that gives a description of one such “superior intellect” who claims to know “what God really meant”}} — the purpose of this blog is to encourage you to read the Holy Bible FOR YOURSELF and to let the Spirit of God reveal the “TRUTH” to YOU PERSONALLY from the TRUTH OF GOD contained within those Sacred Pages and BELIEVE that God Himself has Promised that the “TRUTH” is waiting to reveal itself to you personally. There is no claim from the writer of this blog as to being a superior intellect that wishes to share with the less intellectually endowed the “TRUTH” according to some “new revelation” as if “TRUTH” has been hidden from even God for all these years!?!?
The purpose of this blog is to go through the “eyewitness” account of the writer of the first book in the New Testament, St. Matthew, and to listen to what this person who lived with JESUS and observed the Lifestyle of JESUS had to say about the most well known person in history. The Life, Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus has had more positive influence on more lives than any person or event in the past, including Mohammed Ali who claimed himself to be “The Greatest” (and boy was he good!) or the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that ended the 2nd World War!
If Jesus has accomplished all these things that are now historical facts witnessed by literally billions of people in their personal lives then surely we can learn from those who wrote down for future generations what Jesus had personally Taught them and what their FIRST HAND BELIEF in Jesus has accomplished in their lives — they wrote because they recognized the “TRUTH” when they saw it and heard it! Remember that none of the writers of the 66 books in the Bible received any financial compensation and on several occasions the things they wrote resulted in their death so we know they were not “profit driven” and we must assume they were inspired to write by a “Source” greater than their fear of starvation and death!!!
The Holy Bible begins with the only “TRUTH” we will ever really need to know as Genesis 1:1 starts with the five most powerful words ever written, “In the beginning, God created…” and if you can get past those first five words then you have moved past the greatest roadblock on your personal journey to “TRUTH”. So the purpose of this blog then is to encourage you to read the Holy Scriptures and to let them “Teach” you “TRUTH” ! This blog will also point out that on this spiritual journey on earth that you must travel your path alone with your chosen guide and you will do so in your life on earth until you find and “believe” the “TRUTH” when it is revealed to you!
Welcome to The Journey, let’s see what St. Matthew wrote about Jesus as we will start our “spiritual journey” with the assumption that the Holy Bible is TRUTH and GOD HIMSELF is the SOURCE and then when we read the Holy Scriptures we know that we are reading the “DIVINE RECORD” of God’s Instructions on Life — If you cannot begin your reading with GOD IS TRUTH then there is no need for you to bother to read either the Bible or this puny blog!
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THE PATRIOTS PULPIT
1/3/2024
Comment: 1/3/2024 Tuesday 4:50a - Good morning Patriots. We are three days into the Year of our LORD 2024 and it is surely shaping up to be THE YEAR OF THE TRUTH OF GOD!
When you read “legacy” or “main stream media” today, every article about local, national, and global events are all centered around controlling or regulating our daily lives! Never before has there been this amount of social upheaval around the world and never has so many countries said “ENOUGH ALREADY” to their respective governments!
What the world is finally learning is the TRUTH that INDIVIDUAL FREEDOMS are ultimately more important to THE COMMON GOOD than living off government welfare programs designed to control every aspect of our daily lives in the name of “national security”. It is coming to the surface of our collective consciousness that you are not “free” if your actions are mandated and regulated by a government official. To add insult to injury these officials raise your taxes as they reach into your wallet and tell you “it’s for the common good” and then these “officials” tell you that you are going to have to live with “a smaller piece of the pie”. Later, you then read that the government has given themselves a big raise and by the way, the part of the pie that they took from you ends up in some government cupboard or sent as “foreign aid” and has nothing to do with making us or our families safe.
When you look at all the “blowback” from the “commoners” you must realize that it is TRUTH that is driving the “commoners” discontent and that explains why so much attention from these “government officials” is being given to controlling the “commoners” access to information. The digital age which the “controllers” have tried to hijack for their own nefarious purposes of bending the will of the common folk to the demands of the controllers is actually a silver lining around the storm clouds because the devices the elites are using to program us are actually being used to disseminate the TRUTH of what is really behind their agenda to control the world.
Before the advent of “smart phones” and public access to the “internet” all information had to pass through mass media outlets which for many years have all been on the same payroll of these “elites” who have literally gained control of 95% of all media outlets and all “news” disseminated to the “commoners” must be “approved” (filtered by the elites) for “public consumption”. The reality of that mass programming is that for the most part the TRUTH in the “news world” has been supplanted by the BIG LIE. When one reads the “approved narrative” and later sees that the “approved narrative” is not TRUE then the commoner begins to question the “approved” narrative.
It is all about TRUTH and it has been asked, “What is TRUTH?” and that my friends is where we must go to be free!
If someone tells you they are telling you the TRUTH, can you TRUST them?
In the Garden of Eden a completely innocent couple was faced with that same question and had to decide if they were going to believe what God had told them or were they going to believe someone who was tempting them with a new narrative basically based on promoting doubt about God’s motivation. God had created them and breathed life into them, planted a perfectly safe garden in which they could eat abundantly, and was providing everything they needed to live an prosperous life and had only given them one restriction regarding a single tree of forbidden fruit. So there they were with freedom of choice given them by a Life-giving God who had given them everything and had to choose between Him and a “deliverer of doubt” who had given them nothing at all. The new influencer deceptively “programmed” them to believe that if they didn’t choose to “disobey” that one command of God then they were not free?!?!? Really?!?!
They of course they chose to disobey and had they stopped and simply asked “Who can I TRUST to tell me the TRUTH?” then they would have realized that if God gave them life and the garden and had fully disclosed the danger of partaking of the forbidden fruit plus God gave them FREEWILL to choose then why in the world should they listen to someone that instilled doubt about the compassionate and caring Creator of all things and this “deceiver” who sowed the seeds of distrust that proved out in TRUTH to result in their spiritual death?
So that is where the world finds ourself today, WHO is telling the TRUTH and WHO can we TRUST? WHO promotes LIFE and PROSPERITY and WHO promotes DEATH and Scarcity? Life and Prosperity promotes FREEDOM but Death and Scarcity promotes DISTRUST. Take a personal inventory of all those in your life that you TRUST to tell you the TRUTH and make a list of all those that have been proven to be “liars” and that will be a good place to start.
My personal testimony is that I have both believed God and I have doubted God, I have both walked in darkness and chased after what I thought I desired for personal pleasure, and the results of my Journey to TRUTH is this … I believe with ALL MY HEART that GOD IS TRUTH. I have never caught God in a Lie, the darkness and shadowy corners had promised pleasure but only delivered despair and I count myself fortunate that I was not consumed by the fire…and I have come to know that God’s WORD has set me FREE, and when the SON sets you FREE, you are free indeed.
Today’s Scriptures speak to the “source of TRUTH” and should be considered in making your life choices of WHO can you TRUST:
Genesis 1:11
11 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so.
John 1:3
3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
These verses tell me that God made good things for the good of mankind and He gave them freely without charge. I can go out my door and see grass, herbs, and fruit trees on the earth, growing without politics and then I see the government trying to tell me that I need to “regulate” their growth for my “common good”?!?!? And don’t get me started on “according to its kind” which I KNOW TO BE TRUE!
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