NOVEMBER 04 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)

 

NOVEMBER 04  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 help me to surrender myself completely to You. 

I have no particular desire except to serve You honorably and faithfully,

 it is the Best and Only choice in my life and I would not want to go back

 and change anything for today I am here with You 

and that is all that truly matters!  

Lord, I feel the Spirit telling me that I am almost in the right spiritual

 frame of mind about “self” and “service” so Lord complete the good

 work You have started and then teach me how to “pour out” myself

 each and every day as a “drink offering” unto the LORD, that I may

 be a blessing to You by being a blessing to those that You place

 around me, by sharing Your Spirit with their “needs” 

that only the Christ can meet!   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus is using the Parable of the Ten Virgins to show us the 

Truth of God that there is a “PLAN” 

and this parable Teaches us there will be a time when God, the 

KING OF HEAVEN who has “arranged a marriage” (Matthew 22:2)

 for His Son, has sent His “servants” to invite the guests to the

 wedding feast (Matthew 22:3), will declare that all preparations 

for the wedding has been made and “the wedding is ready” (Matthew 22:8)

 and God will send Jesus to get His Bride. 

Jesus declared “In My Father’s house are many mansions…

I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place

 for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself…” (John 14:2-3)

 <<That sounds a lot like the “groom” coming to get his “bride” and 

take her to the “home” that he has prepared for her!>> There are 

several arguments about who the “Bride of Christ” is but let us not 

be distracted by names nor over semantics — God clearly has 

“arranged a marriage” and when all the preparations are complete,

 God will commence with the ceremony!!!

Remember that the ceremony will occur when God decides the 

“preparations are complete” —— and with His Word, God is giving

 everyone a chance to “prepare” themselves with the proper 

“wedding garments” (Matthew 22:12) and to keep oil in our lamps

 to watch expectantly as Jesus Himself announced,

 “Therefore you also be [ready], for the [Bridegroom] is coming 

at an hour you do not expect…”  (Matthew 24:44) 

How often in your own lifetime have you heard the phrase —

 “A word to the wise!” — well, God has provided an entire book filled

 with “Words” inspired by His Holy Spirit and in addition 

God sent His Only Begotten Son Jesus to fulfill God’s Plan

 for mankind and to “prepare” us for the Victory of God’s Plan 

over the world filled with evil, sin, and death and we should use these 

“Words” to “gain wisdom” of the “knowledge of God” and accept 

His Invitation to the Wedding Feast!  God has provided you with a lamp 

and He has provided “oil” for that lamp, but God requires that we use 

His Provisions “Wisely” for there are literally “heavenly rewards” 

for those that have prepared their lives for His Return — 

however you should “count the cost” of being “unprepared” for the

 penalty for not being ready for GOD is “eternally” disastrous!!!

 “And at midnight a cry was heard: ‘Behold, the bridegroom

 is coming…” and the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some

 of your oil…’ but the wise answered ‘No, lest there not be

 enough for us…’ and while the foolish went to buy more oil,

 the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in 

with him to the wedding; and the door was shut. Afterwards

 the [foolish unprepared] virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, 

open to us!’ But [the Lord] answered the [unprepared virgins]

 and said, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.’ Watch 

therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which

 the Son of Man is coming.”  (Matthew 25:6-13) 

Jesus is the Son of God and the Son of Man and God the Father 

has arranged a marriage for His Son Jesus which will bring mankind

 to a full and complete circle through marriage and family for

 “In the beginning” (Genesis 1:1) on the 6th day after speaking

 everything else into existence, God formed man with His own hands

 and breathed life into the man 

“and man became a human being” (Genesis 2:7) 

and then God made a woman from the rib of man and God gave

 the woman to the man and started the family of mankind with

 Holy Matrimony (Genesis 2:18-24) — and now at the “end of the age” 

the Plan of God will be culminated with a

 Heavenly Marriage joining Christ and His Bride! 

A word to the wise —

 PREPARE FOR HIS RETURN AND MAKE SURE YOU 

ARE DRESSED FOR THE OCCASION!!!

NOVEMBER 03 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)

 

NOVEMBER 03  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, guide me in Thy Way, keep me filled with Thy Holy Spirit, 

that I may truly serve others as You Served the world, even unto the

 Sacrifice of Your Perfect Life that was Spotless before the Father,

 the Lamb of God, whom it pleased Almighty God to be offered up 

on the Cross at Calvary as the Perfect Sacrifice for the sins of all

 mankind— one death to cover all sin — Lord, You took nothing for

 Yourself and all that You did possess You gave freely that others

 would be served by Your Suffering for our sakes. 

Thank You Lord Jesus. It is a mystery and a miracle that God Himself

 became flesh, lived a perfect life in this “valley of the shadow of death”,

 was tempted in all things as we are tempted, yet remained without sin,

 and allowed Himself to be nailed to cross, Divine Innocence

 hanging in Sacrificial Agony for the guilty, shedding His last drop 

of Divine Blood and cried out in VICTORY OVER ALL SIN 

(AND DEATH ITSELF) —— “IT IS FINISHED” !!! 

Praise God for the Gift of His Son that we may be FORGIVEN —

 Teach me O Holy Spirit to live my life in honor of the

 ONE WHO DIED FOR ME!!!   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus Taught us a multitude of Lessons within the Parable of the

 Ten Virgins but probably the main Lesson was for all who seek to

 know God that they look upon Him as  “Our Heavenly Father” for

 even though the parable is about “Ten Virgins” (which I admit was 

a bit distracting from a worldly viewpoint which is in my opinion a 

plague of the “flesh”) the parable Teaches us first about the “wisdom

 of preparedness” — for Jesus immediately showed us via 

the preparedness or the lack thereof of these ten virgins what

 will ultimately be considered as “wise” or “foolish” kingdom behavior. 

Jesus continued His parable: “…heaven shall be likened to ten virgins

 who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 

Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish. Those who 

were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them,

 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.” 

(Matthew 25:1-4) 

Aside from the historical setting in which Jesus Taught this Lesson, 

surely one can see the universal Truth of the necessity of having fuel 

for the lamp - for if a lamp is to produce light, it must have fuel! 

Also on the surface we can make the assumption that a lamp that 

does not have fuel will not burn therefore the ones with the lamps

 with no “oil” will be in “darkness”!  Let us stop and mull on this Truth 

for there is no Truth of God that is not worthy of us meditating on GOD’S Truth

 itself and give serious consideration to what God intends for us to learn

 about living our day-to-day lives if we will but apply His Truth to our lives. 

The obvious advantage to having “oil” for our “lamps” is that when

 “darkness” comes into our lives that we will be able to dispel the “darkness” 

with the “light” from our lamp. However the major Truth of God can

 be found “in the beginning” of the world as we read the first words of creation —

 Gen 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth”

 but the earth and heaven were under construction for we read,

 Gen 1:2 “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.” 

So what did the Spirit of God do to correct the earth not having “form”

 or purpose and to address the problem of “darkness” that

 covered the formless earth? 

Gen 1:3 “Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light. 

 Gen 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided 

the light from the darkness.” (Genesis 1:1-4) 

The fact that five of the virgins were considered “foolish” because even 

though they had a lamp and were going out to meet the bridegroom,

 they were called “foolish” because they were not prepared to produce

 any “light” with their lamps, therefore the “foolish” are those that do

 not know the simple TRUTH that a lamp without oil cannot produce

 “light” and those “foolish” enough to not bring “oil” for their lamps

 will remain in “darkness”.  This Truth of God about “light” was also

 taught by King David himself and all Israel had read King David’s 

writings in the Book of Psalms therefore it is appropriate that Jesus 

is the Son of David and is writing about “light” as King David had written

 these words inspired by the same “Spirit of God” that called forth

 the first “light” as we read, 

“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” (Psalm 119:105) 

The Parable of the Ten Virgins then is more about having “oil” for our lamps

 than about remaining pure before the world. “Lamps” without “oil” 

will not produce “light” so the question for all of us simply is, 

“What are you using for “oil”  in YOUR lamp?”  

Without “oil” to give you “light” for your “path” you will stumble 

and without 

“Light”

 you will surely even lose your way in the  “darkness”  of life!!! 

Food for thought: “What good is a flashlight without batteries?”