SEPTEMBER 23 THE JESUS QUESTIONS
JQ#29
“What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?”
(Matthew 22:42)
LIVING FOR JESUS Daily Prayer
JESUS — Praise, Glory, and Honor to the Only Begotten
Son of God that was Obedient to the Father’s Will and Sacrificed
Himself for our sins! Lord, there is truly none good among us
and yet You became one of us to show us the Way to the
Righteousness of God. Jesus, the Father has a reason for “why?”
the DIVINE PLAN of SALVATION required Your BLOOD, Your
Innocent Guilt-Free BLOOD to be shed for our sins —
In the beginning, God decreed that the PENALTY FOR SIN IS DEATH
and You shed Your Precious BLOOD as the Propitiation
for our iniquities in OBEDIENCE to the Father’s Will —
forever will all men receive the Father’s GIFT OF GRACE
because HIS SON was OBEDIENT —
Praise, Glory, and Honor to the SON!
AMEN
THE JESUS QUESTIONS
Jesus answered all the scribes and Pharisees questions and then Jesus
in turn asked them a Question from the Holy Scripture that the scribes
and Pharisees could not answer. This inability to give Jesus an
answer from the Holy Scriptures which they were supposed to
be the “authority” on was such a great embarrassment to them that
“…from that day on did anyone dare question Him anymore…”
(Matthew 22:46)
Jesus, being the Master Teacher, then
“spoke to the multitudes and to His disciples”
(Matthew 23:1)
and explained to them “why” that He had spent the majority of
His Last Week on earth dealing with the scribes and
Pharisees who had been continually attacking Jesus and
questioning His Authority. Jesus does this because the main problem
with the scribes and Pharisees was the fact that they were
supposed to be representatives of God and God’s Commands
but because of their desire for personal power they had usurped
God’s rightful Authority and imposed a defiled doctrine on the nation
Israel and the people had no one to turn to except the priests
and elders who were now getting their instructions from the
“doctrines of men” instead of the “commands of God”.
Jesus was sent by God like Moses was sent by God to free God’s
chosen people from the oppression of the ruling class —
Moses had to deal with Pharaoh and the Egyptian army and Jesus
came to deal with the chief priests, scribes, Pharisees, Sadducees,
Herodians, and all those that had “great authority” over God’s people;
however, the “rulers” had forgotten that it was
God that gave the Law to Moses and also it was God that
commanded the prophet Ezra (who was a “skilled scribe”):
“And you Ezra, according to your God-given wisdom,
set magistrates and judges who may judge all the people…”
so now Jesus has come to remind all those in “authority”
that they are only
“in power” because God had earlier commanded it so
and that they were supposed to use their “God-given wisdom”
to judge and rule according to the “Laws of God”.
(Ezra 7:1-6)
Jesus had come because those in “power and authority”
were no longer “teaching God’s Ways” using God’s commands
but had defiled their “authority”
and were teaching instead the “doctrines of men”!
Jesus was now making His Judgement against
men of “great authority” that had succumbed
to their “selfish desires” for “personal power”!
Jesus knew that this was a major problem because the doctrine of
the Pharisees and Sadducees was like leaven and like leaven
in bread affects the whole loaf, the leaven of the doctrine of
the Pharisees and Sadducees was affecting the whole nation.
It is also fitting that Jesus Teaching
“the removal of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees”
from the nation Israel came during the Passover Week.
Moses had been instructed by God Himself on the Passover night
“Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day
you shall remove leaven from your houses. For whoever
eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day,
that person shall be cut off from Israel.”
(Exodus 12:15)
And again God stated,
“You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings
you shall eat unleavened bread.”
(Exodus 12:20)
So it is very easy in this Passover Week to draw a parallel between
the Exodus led by Moses at the direction of God and Jesus coming
at the direction of His Father and Teaching:
“Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, nor hidden
that will not be known.”
(Luke 12:1-2)
and
“Take heed and beware of the leaven
of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.”
(Matthew 16:6)
So Jesus is doing the will of the Father and He is Teaching those
that do not know “The Law of God” that He has come to reveal the
hidden agenda of those in “great authority” that are “lording” it over
the nation of Israel, God’s Chosen People! Jesus is going to pronounce
“Seven Woes” on the “hypocrites!”
thereby Jesus is addressing the problem of
“leaven” in the “doctrines of men”
and demonstrating that
even the most “powerful people” on earth are subject to
the Supreme Power and Authority of the Father God
in heaven and are ruled by
“The Divine Law of Choice and Consequence”
established by God at the dawn of creation itself —
God is Eternal therefore what God established is also Eternal
and everyone in the creation must abide by the
Commands of the Creator.
It’s really quite simple, God has revealed the
TRUTH
so now the burden is on you to “Choose” to believe
God’s TRUTH
or decide for “yourself” what you “think” is true —
but beware, you may have consumed
“leaven” that was hidden in the “doctrines of men”
and will come under the judgement that is the
“Consequence”
of those that remain in rebellion against God!
