Significance of family (2)

God created the family

Psalm 68:6 CJB

God gives homes to those who are alone and leads prisoners out into prosperity. But rebels must live in a parched wasteland.

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God cares for the families of those who honour him

Genesis 7:1 CJB

Adonai said to Noach, “Come into the ark, you and all your household; for I have seen that you alone in this generation are righteous before me.

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God judges families who disobey him

Exodus 20:4–5 CJB

You are not to make for yourselves a carved image or any kind of representation of anything in heaven above, on the earth beneath or in the water below the shoreline. You are not to bow down to them or serve them; for I, Adonai your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sins of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

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Families in Israel

The extended family was the basic social unit

Nehemiah 7:5 CJB

My God put it in my heart to assemble the nobles, the leaders and the people, so that they could be registered according to their genealogies. I located the record of the genealogies of those who had come up at the beginning and found written in it:

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Family heads were community leaders

Numbers 36:1 CJB

The leaders of the clans of the family of the descendants of Gil‘ad, the son of Machir, the son of M’nasheh, of the families of the descendants of Yosef, approached and addressed Moshe and the leaders, the heads of the clans of the people of Isra’el.

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Families had religious obligations

Deuteronomy 12:7 CJB

There you will eat in the presence of Adonai your God; and you will rejoice over everything you set out to do, you and your households, in which Adonai your God has blessed you.

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Families were to teach their children God’s law

Psalm 78:5–7 CJB

He raised up a testimony in Ya‘akov and established a Torah in Isra’el. He commanded our ancestors to make this known to their children, so that the next generation would know it, the children not yet born, who would themselves arise and tell their own children, who could then put their confidence in God, not forgetting God’s deeds, but obeying his mitzvot.

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The relationship between God and his people described in family metaphors

They are his family

Galatians 6:10 CJB

Therefore, as the opportunity arises, let us do what is good to everyone, and especially to the family of those who are trustingly faithful.

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They are his children

John 1:12–13 CJB

But to as many as did receive him, to those who put their trust in his person and power, he gave the right to become children of God, not because of bloodline, physical impulse or human intention, but because of God.

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They are brothers and sisters in God’s family

Hebrews 2:11 CJB

For both Yeshua, who sets people apart for God, and the ones being set apart have a common origin—this is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers

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The salvation of families

Acts 16:34 CJB

After that, he brought them up to his house and set food in front of them; and he and his entire household celebrated their having come to trust in God.

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Good family management as a qualification for church office

1 Timothy 3:4–5 CJB

He must manage his own household well, having children who obey him with all proper respect; for if a man can’t manage his own household, how will he be able to care for God’s Messianic Community?

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Christians are to support their families

1 Timothy 5:8 CJB

Moreover, anyone who does not provide for his own people, especially for his family, has disowned the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

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The urgent demands of the kingdom of God should take priority over family responsibilities

Luke 9:59–60 CJB

To another he said, “Follow me!” but the man replied, “Sir, first let me go away and bury my father.” Yeshua said, “Let the dead bury their own dead; you, go and proclaim the Kingdom of God!”

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