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"INDEED, A MAN'S ENEMIES WILL BE The Lord Jesus said: "Do not think I came to put peace upon the earth; I came to put, not peace, but a sword. For I came to cause division, with a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a young wife against her mother-in-law. Indeed, a man's enemies will be persons of his own household." (Matt 10:34-36).
Division arises among family
members when The Christ is present in the spirit of one of them, and causes
that one
to show more affection for
The
Christ
than for
one's
family members. (Matt 10:32).
The reason
for this affection in a human spirit is that one has come to know, and feel, the
very spirit nature of the Son of God. It gives one a genuine desire to follow
him, and to show one's love for him. By this means one becomes an obedient
spirit, allowing one to be subjected by the Spirit Law of The Christ,
progressing toward the new nature of God's creating: The spirit
"image" and "likeness" of God and His Son. (Gen 1:26). It
is a course that begins in earnest when one experiences the freedom of having
been forgiven for one's past sins. Baptism into the spirit nature of The Christ
then follows, and seals a future course of life that will never be regretted.
(2 Cor 5:17-19) (Rom 6:4 However, it is sad when members of one's own household express themselves as enemies of God and speak abusively of you, just as the apostle Paul warned: "Because you do not continue running with them in this course to the same low sink of debauchery, they are puzzled and go on speaking abusively of you. But these people will render an account to the One ready to judge those living and those dead. In fact, for this purpose the good news was declared also to the dead, that they might be judged as to the flesh from the standpoint of men but might live as to the spirit from the standpoint of God." (1 Peter 4:4-6).
The Lord said: "You
are not a better judge than God, nor wiser than the Most High. Better that many
now living should be lost, than that the Law God has set before them should be
despised! God
has given clear instructions for all men when they come into this world, telling
them how to attain life and how to escape punishment.
But the unGodly have refused to obey Him; they have set up their own empty
ideas, and planned deceit and wickedness; they have even denied the existence of
the Most High and have not acknowledged His ways. They have rejected His Law and
refused His promises, have neither put faith in His decrees nor done what He
commands. Therefore, Ezra, emptiness for the empty, fullness for the full!"
(2 Esdras 7:19
Faithful servants of God become
such because they have turned to Him and have had the "veil" that
caused their spirit blindness removed. (2 Cor 3:16-18). This "veil"
prevents unbelievers from seeing clearly the "Way" of The Christ
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