The Family Of God

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The Gospels What Failure, Why? The Gospel According To Matthew Introduction The Baptisms, The Temptation Of Christ, New Wine Raca, Thou Fool Children In The Marketplace, Blasphemy And Casting Out Devils One Wiser Than Solomon Logic In The Gospels Kingdoms Divided The Line Is Drawn The Line Is Crossed The Family Of God Empty The Man, The Man Won't Rest, The Rest Won't Fail The Mustard Plant, Leaven In The Meal No Wedding Garment, Whose Resurrection? 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Samaritan Woman – We Know What We Worship – Contrasts The Son Is Revealed As God – and Glorified In The Father Bread From Heaven, Flesh And Blood: Consumed Whole The Identity Of The Son Of God – Appearances Not Deceptive Those That See, Sheep Hear The Shepherd’s Voice Cryptic; Any Connection With Anselm? – the Holy Trinity Was Paul Truly A Christian? Introduction The Mystery Religions In the Days Of These Kings Why Christianity Won Saul, Part Of The Problem? Were Paul Not In Christ, Why Would He Risk It All? Conclusion New Testament In Christ Introduction Doctrinal Fundamentals The Sealing – Hit The Ceiling! The Right Hand Of Power Coming On The Clouds Of Heaven You've Got It Totally Upside Down! The Dumbest Thing I Ever Heard Introduction Many Paths To God - What Utter Bullshit Blood Of Christ Man, That’s Dumb! Should Have Been More Careful Paying For Yourself There? These Three Agree In One The Head Of The Corner No Marriage In Heaven Ye Do Therefore Greatly Err Strength In Numbers, Ha! Jesus Paid The Price, (And Gave Me Credit) My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? Shortcomings And Stumbling Blocks Introduction Gay Marriage A Stumbling-Block Trouble Dividing The Sexes Is There Freedom Of Religion? The Power Of The Cross Introduction Christ Obedient To The Cross Grace The Gift Of God Shadows And Substance Propitiation For Sins The Suffering Servant The Urim And Thummim Acts and Epistles I Introduction The Book Of Acts I The Book Of Acts II Moving On To Romans	The Family Of God Just as Jesus is busy with this justification of His ministry Jesus' family turns up and a man points this out to Jesus, whom states that those that do the will of God (listen to Christ in faith that He is the Son of God) are His family. This is not a rejection of His family, but rather that those gathered by also greatly desire to speak with Him - they being also concerned about their salvation, more so than Jesus' own family most likely were. Jesus in effect states that He has His priorities straight! -- Click To Expand/Collapse Bible Verses -- Mat ch12:v46-50 Mat 12:46 While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him. Mat 12:47 Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee. Mat 12:48 But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? Mat 12:49 And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! Mat 12:50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother. (KJV) Talk about bad timing! This passage somewhat indicates that the will of the Father was for His disciples to listen to Jesus and to do the same work as Jesus rather than to strengthen the view that Jesus' bloodline was blessed. Jesus was teaching on the basis that Israel was not justified by its lineage, and that the kingdom of God was not rooted in genetics but only justified by faith. In this manner we indeed see that there is no difference between circumcision and uncircumcision - In Jesus the gentiles may place their trust, fulfilling the passage with which this scene opened. So to wrap up, is there some axiomatic way to draw all these threads together? Clearly the root of the problem is the rejection of Christ and blasphemy of the redemptive work of God; The teaching is that the pharisees reject Christ because of their hearts, being filled with hypocrisy and the murmuring against the consistency of the commandments of God; that they and the prophets could not be fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ because He was not doing it "in their way". i) If Israel is approved by God, It will not be spoiled and divided by another ii) If another comes and divides Israel by doing miracles as if by God then He is A) doing the work of an enemy B) doing the work of God. if (A) or (B) are true then one part of Israel divided is at fault. iii) God will not be seen to be weak if He is at work. Thus, if (B) is true then God is strong and the "another" of (ii) gathers Israel toward Him (God) and the other former Israel is corrupt. but if (A) is true then God will be shown to be strong because Israel is already approved by (i) and able to stand firm united in their religion by His previous works. iv) Israel is still divided between Christ and antichrist. which implies (B) because one part of Israel is at fault and corrupt. This has the result that; Only the first and former Israel may be corrupt if Israel is still divided. Also, we may affirm that even in Jesus day the evidence of the man healed to his right mind was evidence of a similar sort, being a case where the demons that "infested" Israel were shown to be under the authority of Christ and were not under the authority of the Israel (the pharisees' children) of the day. The corruption of the man's unclean spirit was equivocated to the corruption of Israel in an "acid-test". The healing of the man follows after a similar pattern as the religious health of the nation of Israel had. i) If Israel is approved by God they may ALL stand strong against the "enemy" of God. ii) If the enemy may spoil Israel of God's followers then Israel is; A) corrupt and without the proper God because the enemy is stronger, or... B) the spoil (the possessed man) is not approved by God if one of (A) or (B) is true then either the man or Israel as a whole is at fault (we dont consider both yet) iii) God will not be seen to be weak when He is at work. Thus if (B) is true God is not strong as the man is corrupted, He is a member of "physical"* Israel which must therefore be corrupted also. If any such man may therefore be spoiled, all Israel is spoiled by a greater one than God. but if (A) is true then not even all Israel can cast out the man's unclean spirit. God is shown to be weak because Israel is not approved at all. But how can God be shown to be weak? We have a contradiction! Clearly in the second case the god of Israel is no god at all - it is the enemy in the guise of God - the armour of salvation has escaped the people of god in that case. The god the second time is the "god of this world". However, Christ has come and certainly redeemed His people. There is one in Israel with the approval of God - Jesus Christ Himself! Therefore the rejection of Christ as the perfect fulfillment of the work of the Holy Ghost promised through the prophets is in view here as was explained earlier. Blaspheming the Holy Ghost blasphemes God in all His works. *there is the case the second time that both A and B are true, but as the man is also in Israel this is simply case (A). Continue To Next Page Return To Section Start Return To Previous Page