Family requires obedience
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Introduction:
While family can be challenging, they can be such a blessing. As we get older, we have tendency of appreciating them more and more. Even those from families that may not have been the most dependable, loving, or encouraging, still have a desire to be part of a family. (Story of watching a documentary of gangs. Children and teens knowing the danger of not only being in the gang but just the danger of getting into the gang and they were sill willing to risk. The desired to be part of something. They desired of being part of a “family”, no matter how dysfunctional it may seem to the outside world.) They wanted to have a sense of belonging.
Scripture gives us countless examples of what a family should be. Even one of the Ten Commandments give by God to Moses for the Hebrew People and even us today is all about how we treat our parents. Even the kingdom of God is described as family of believers. So in our Text for today, we would think that Jesus would in more welcoming and positive way to his earthly mother, Mary, and his earthly siblings.
46 While he was still speaking to the people, behold, his mother and his brothers stood outside, asking to speak to him.
48 But he replied to the man who told him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?”
49 And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!
50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
(Some of the older manuscripts do not have verse 47. Explain. Also, reveal that it is basically a repeat of verse 46.)
(Explain what Jesus is doing here in Matthew 12:46-50)
In verse 46, Jesus mother and family asked to see him. (Explain the theory that some thought he was speaking out of his mind for what he was teaching) Shouldn’t Jesus obey His mom? Like we said earlier, obey our parents is one of the Ten Commandments.
We would think Jesus would show appreciation...
(Explain the home dynamics back then and the ultimate respect for parents, and older generations in the household. Compare to our view of older generations.)
What did Jesus say when he was told about his earthly family being present and wanted to see him?
48 But he replied to the man who told him, “Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?”
It would seem that Jesus didn’t care about His earthly family. But that is not the case. If we fast forward to Jesus dying on the cross. Listen to what Jesus says to his disciple John concerning His mother, Mary.
25 but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.
26 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!”
27 Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.
John
(explain why this was significant back then.)
So even when Jesus was dying for the sins of all of humanity past, present, and future, He showed his love, care, and compassion for His mother.
(Point back to . Explain that Jesus was challenging his disciples that were present that day and his earthly family concerning the difference between earthly families and spiritual families.)
49 And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, “Here are my mother and my brothers!
50 For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”
Matthew 12:
Jesus is stressing the importance of Spiritual Family over Earthly Family.
(Before going forward, give a warning against blind reckless treatment of family even our parents if they do not agree or understanding what it truly means to be a follower of God. Story of individuals being a christian in a family who believe in a false religion. Those family cast out family members who do not renounce their faith in Jesus.)
Jesus is speaking of spiritual family. Those who do the God’s will. Once party of God’s family we become royalty. We are grafted into the family of God. we are adopted as full heirs into God’s family with a full inheritance…not left overs or not at all.
God’s will:
Repent & Believe in the Gospel.
15 and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
Learn His Commands.
16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
16 Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
1 Timothy
Actively do His Commands.
20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
(Reveal the observe isn’t a sitting on the slide line word. It is an active participant.)
Benefit of Obedience:
Eternal Inheritance.
11 For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
2 Peter
(Story of taking a group on a trip via train and they had to keep up with their own ticket, luggage, and getting on the train. Reveal the relief when all were on the train.)
The same is true for ourselves for our selves and those that we know that have their ticket punched and their eternal inheritance is waiting for them.
There Could be a Cost:
17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
Romans 8:
The cost could be our own earthly family.
The cost could be our earthly possession and wealth.
The cost could even be our earthly life.
As we learn more of his will, we apply it.