What Question Would Jesus Ask You?

​Matt 22:41 - Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question: NASU 

• People Are The Same Today 

A few verses earlier the Sadducees were trying to trick Jesus with their made up hypothetical story of seven brothers all being married to the same woman and not producing any children so who would she be married to in the resurrection. You must remember the Sadducees didn't even believe in the resurrection. Yet, the very thing they don't believe in they are trying to use against Jesus.
 
Their trick question backfires on them when Jesus says, "You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures nor the power of God.  30 "For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven…."
 
The Bible says, Acts 2:37-38 - Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, "Brethren, what shall we do?" 38 Peter said to them, "Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
 
When they heard this what is this? It is the gospel that Jesus had died for them. Once they believed that Jesus died for them what were they to do? They were to "repent and be baptized".
 
Guess what? There are Sadducees still around today. I have had people come up to me and say a person doesn't have to be baptized. They generally want to give me some hypothetical situation (like the Sadducees above with their seven brother's scenario).
 
In their story they have a person who starts to believe in Jesus but there is no water around and he dies. They state God is an all loving God and this person is a believer but there wasn't any water near for him to be baptized. So is God going to send him to hell? 

• Do You Know The Power Of God? 

I would say the same thing Jesus said, "You are mistaken, not understanding the Scriptures nor the power of God."
 
God through the prophet Ezekiel informed us of God's love for sinners. When in Ezek. 33:11 - "Say to them, 'As I live!' declares the Lord GOD, 'I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that the wicked turn from his way and live.
 
I believe if a man truly wanted to repent and be baptized God would see to it that it happened. Some would say but there is no water and I would say have you ever read Nehemiah 9:14-15 - Through Your servant Moses. 15 "You provided bread from heaven for them for their hunger, You brought forth water from a rock for them for their thirst,…"
 
God is able to make bread fall down from heaven and water to come from a rock. I don't think we should short change His power and what He can do when a man is trying to obey His commands.
What question would God ask you? Would He ask you why you haven't obeyed His commands? Or would He ask you what made you want to obey His commands?
 
I believe it would be great to quote this passage of scripture to God: Acts 5:32 - "And we are witnesses of these things; and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him."
 
We all need the Holy Spirit in this life and God gives the Holy Spirit to those who obey Him. As it says in Acts 2 repent and be baptized and God will forgive you of your sins and give you the gift of the Holy Spirit.
 
I hope you won't argue with God or try to make up hypothetical questions where you try and place God in a corner for when you do that you are displaying you really don't know the power of God.
 
Think About These:
 
God isn't asking you to figure it out. He's asking you to trust that He already has.  
 
Faith is trusting God even when you don't understand His plan.

Stay Pumped,
 
Gary A. Serago

​Minister of God's Word