DECEMBER 29 THE JESUS QUESTIONS
JQ#1-33 SUMMARY-15 The Gospel of Matthew: A Study of the Life,
Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ
LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer to JESUS
JESUS, Your Grace has been sufficient for my every need, You have
kept Your promise to lead us through the valley of the shadow of death
and to lavish upon us the abundant life! Lord, I started the year praying
that each day You would fill us with Your Spirit and guide us through
every situation and You have! Lord Jesus, today I simply lift my voice
and my heart to You in Praise - giving You all the Glory - for You alone
are Worthy - for You are my Passover that has delivered me from this
body of death - Your Blood is Victorious over the world and all its lusts
that rob us of Your Joy and Peace - Lord, Savior, Redeemer,
Praise to Your Holy Name JESUS!!! AMEN
THE JESUS QUESTIONS
Jesus was shown to be the Messiah by a series of prophecies that
were fulfilled with the events surrounding His “virgin birth” and each one
is unique in that each event came about as simple undisputed facts
that could not have been controlled or manipulated by someone after
the event itself occurred such as the lineage of His parents and
subsequently because of His parents lineage Jesus was born in Bethlehem,
none of us get to choose our parents or where we are born!
Then when Jesus began His earthly Ministry He was baptized in the
Jordan River by John the Baptist who was the prophetic fulfillment of the
forerunner of the Messiah and it was at this occasion that John declared
about Jesus: “Behold [JESUS], the Lamb of God
that takes away the sins of the world!”.
John, the Messiah’s forerunner, had been foretold thousands of years
earlier and John’s declaration and message of
“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” and his claiming
that Jesus was the “Lamb of God” are Biblical facts that point to Jesus
as being the long awaited Messiah —
all of which are historical facts that could not be made up by followers of Jesus
after His death! These “FACTS” pointing to Jesus being the Messiah
could not have been “manufactured as part of some conspiracy”
after Jesus was crucified because the Jewish leaders who had Jesus
crucified by the Romans simply would have disputed any “made up”
events because the Jewish traditions are built entirely on the
preservation of their lineage and in addition the Jewish leaders were
well versed in the Jewish Holy Scriptures which are filled with the
prophecies of the Jewish Messiah and would have corrected any
false claims immediately. Add to those facts about John the Baptist
fulfilling the prophecy of the forerunner of the MESSIAH and the
Jewish leaders protecting their Jewish heritage, these same Jewish
leaders were the ones that condemned Jesus to death in the first place
because of His claim to be the Son of the God of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob,
these same Jewish leaders would not have allowed any sect of
“blasphemers” to fabricate a story using the Holy Scriptures to put the
religious leaders in such a bad light! Then to add insult to injury,
the Jewish leaders had to stand by and let all these “false fables” become
The New Testament and become the most printed and most widely read
book in the history of the world! If Jesus had not existed and had not
the “facts” surrounding Him not been true, then those “fabricating blasphemy”
would have been punished because history itself proves that the Jewish
leaders had the “power” to put someone to death if they were guilty
of blasphemy — indeed this claim that He was the Chosen One is
the very reason they used to put Jesus Himself to death! The odds are
absolutely astronomical that these many facts could be fabricated
for one man especially when the facts bring so much “shame” on a group
of Jewish leaders that were so “all-powerful” and had dedicated centuries
to preserving their heritage and control over the Jewish traditions!
Matthew, who was a Jew himself and an eyewitness to the life Jesus lived
and knew full well the Jewish heritage that had been handed down to him
through his Jewish family plus Matthew was a well-educated Jew who was
taught the Jewish Holy Scriptures and prophecies of the Coming Messiah
making Matthew indeed the best qualified person to recognize that
JESUS FULFILLED PROPHECY and was indeed
JESUS CHRIST, THE MESSIAH!!!
Matthew had written his Gospel of Jesus account C. A.D. 50 and that
would have been contemporary with many of the powerful Jewish leaders
that had been responsible for Jesus being executed for “blasphemy”
against the Jewish traditions and Holy Scriptures and had Matthew
simply fabricated these “facts about the life of Jesus” then Matthew himself
would have been stoned to death and his writings would have been
utterly destroyed. The simple fact that Matthew’s Gospel still exists
is proof that the Gospel is the
TRUTH OF GOD and JESUS IS GOD’S SON!!!
The body of evidence is so great that one must fabricate reasons
NOT TO BELIEVE — it is not a lack of FACTS that prevents one from
BELIEVING IN JESUS — no, as with all things relating to faith in anything,
it is our own “BELIEF” in the “FACTS” that establishes our “FAITH” —
even atheists have “faith” but God cannot be “dis-proved”!!
Hence, everyone is left with the individual responsibility of determining where
we will spend our “eternity” — and that final determination will be based on
what you “BELIEVE” to be “TRUE” about “JESUS” because the
FACT of ETERNITY does not exist outside the FACT OF GOD!
It was God Himself that declared when the Spirit descended on Jesus
like a dove after Jesus was Baptized in the Jordan,
“You are My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
(Mark 1:11)
There is no other man in all of history that can show from prophecy
past to prophecy future that He is the Son of God for we know from
these God Protected and God Preserved Holy Scriptures
that JESUS IS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD —
the facts prove it,
but will you believe it to be true?
