In Mark 3, Jesus is teaching a large crowd and his physical family arrives. Picking up in verse 31 we read, “Then Jesus’ mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him. A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, “Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you.” “Who are my mother and my brothers?” he asked. Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does God's will is my brother and sister and mother.”
We are a family oriented society, as we should be, but as Christians we have a bond that is stronger than our blood, that is the blood of Christ. Romans 8:15 tells us that we are adopted into God’s family when we put on Christ in baptism. We become part of God’s household (Eph 2:19), and co-heirs with Jesus (Romans 8:17), and we will share in His glory. As brethren, we are to have a preferential relationship with each other over even our blood relatives (Gal 6:10).
As brethren we are to love one another. John 13:35 says, “By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
I think 1 John 4:7-11 says it best, “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”
Amen.
We are a family oriented society, as we should be, but as Christians we have a bond that is stronger than our blood, that is the blood of Christ. Romans 8:15 tells us that we are adopted into God’s family when we put on Christ in baptism. We become part of God’s household (Eph 2:19), and co-heirs with Jesus (Romans 8:17), and we will share in His glory. As brethren, we are to have a preferential relationship with each other over even our blood relatives (Gal 6:10).
As brethren we are to love one another. John 13:35 says, “By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
I think 1 John 4:7-11 says it best, “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”
Amen.
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