APRIL 24 THE JESUS QUESTIONS
(Day 10) Summary Review of JESUS Questions
JQ#01-01—JQ#13-07 (Matthew 5:1 thru Matthew 12:34)
LIVING FOR JESUS Daily Prayer
JESUS, Thank You Lord for being our Savior, we never stop to think that You
are our Savior because You chose to be that Perfect Sacrifice and not
because You were forced by some circumstance or to repay an
obligation of some great work done by mankind!
You LORD can choose to do literally ANYTHING, You are the Creator
of ALL THINGS and yet in Your Plan for mankind You made us in Your Image
and then You planned that You would get intimately involved in our Salvation
which meant You volunteered to give up Your Divinity, be born of flesh as
we are born of flesh and then live a Perfect Life on earth
while being greatly persecuted by Your own people!
Then Your Plan called for the worst death imaginable on a Cross at Calvary
so that all who believe in Your Plan can have the Best Life possible and
to have that Best Life for all Eternity! Thank You just isn’t enough to repay
You for Your Grace so my prayer is that every breath I take, every thought
that I have will be used to LIVE the Life You have Planned for me.
AMEN
THE JESUS QUESTIONS
Jesus is not only “Asking Questions” He is Teaching in a Specific Spiritual
Sequence and if you have not been reading these posts in the order
that they are written, you will be missing one of the
“blessings” that the Holy Spirit has intended for
“The JESUS Questions” Project.
The Holy Spirit has presented all these Lessons in sequence
(or as Holy Scripture says “precept upon precept”)
with each new Lesson tying into the previous Lesson and then leading
into the next Lesson in such a Divine Way
that the “sequence” is a Divine Lesson in itself.
This Divine Sequence of Lessons
and Revelations of the Truth of God
by the Holy Spirit is a logical sequence
of Teaching us about our responsibility to the kingdom
and how to live a life
of “Love”, “Faith”, and “Obedience”
which then leads us to
“Trust in God”
and to “Walk-the-Walk”!!!
Logically, as a result of those Kingdom Tools and Attributes,
we are logically led to “Sharing-with-Others”
the LOVE OF GOD
— and then the Holy Spirit seems at first glance to inject a “deviation” from
the logical sequence of Lessons with a Question about being
“a friend of the Bridegroom?”.
Lesson 9 JQ#09 “Are you a friend of the ‘Bridegroom’?”
Matthew 9:14-26
The Holy Spirit, just after Teaching us to “put Feet to our Faith”,
then throws in a Question that on the surface
seems like a light-hearted Question in
JQ#09 “Are you a friend of the ‘Bridegroom’?”.
This Question by itself can be taken light-heartedly but taken in context
of the previous Questions which are themselves unified by their
Revelation of the Plan of God for the Salvation of mankind
through the Life of the Father’s Only Begotten and
Beloved Son, Jesus Christ,
we must stop and seriously consider what the term
“Bridegroom”
means in terms of God’s Divine Plan for mankind?
On face value, the term “Bridegroom” can be understood by all peoples,
all languages, all cultures, every nation, all races … et. al.
and therefore the Holy Spirit has introduced a “universal” concept that
exceeds all national, social, economic, and racial boundaries!
The term “Bridegroom” implies that there is certainly
a “Bride” and also a “Marriage” and therefore
is the most logically all-inclusive
concept that could be introduced!!!
Let us stop and consider that the
God of the Universe, the Creator of All Things who is
the only Eternal “uncreated and self sustaining” being, who
certainly does not need His Creation to survive, why would this
self-supported, self-sustaining Being
choose to be bonded in “marriage”
by a convention He Himself established as “Holy Matrimony”???
Further, consider that God called everything “Good” in His Creation except
for His statement about the new man He had just
created that was without a mate:
“And the Lord God said, ‘It is not good
that man should be alone;
I will make him a helper comparable to him.”
(Genesis 2:18)
and then “… the LORD GOD … put the man in a deep sleep …
and made…a woman (from a rib taken from the man’s side),
and He brought her to the man.”
(Genesis 2:22)
and that became the first marriage.
“And Adam said:
‘This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh…”
(Genesis 2:23)
I personally get goose bumps when I think that Jesus Himself who is
referred to as the Second Adam has been “put into a deep sleep”
(called death) and from that sleep of death God the Father took part
of the very “Spirit” of the Son and used that “Spirit” to create
the Church just like He used Adam’s rib to create the first wife, Eve!
To think about God giving His Son in Marriage is mind-bending at least —
there could be volume upon volume written of the symbolism this
“Marriage” of God’s only Son, Jesus! ———
The Holy Spirit then introduces a Divine Concept
with this “Marriage” concept and we
are left to consider the next JESUS Question:
“Who is the ‘bride’ OF CHRIST
and
‘Are you a friend of the ‘Bridegroom?’”!!!???
