Our attitudes toward our parents, one or both parents, is a reflection or our attitude toward God.
We cannot honor God we cannot see when we practice dishonor toward our parents whom we can see.
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Christ's Love For Mankind
This is just how much Christ loved mankind and each and every person.
I understand this, because, even though our children may have rejected us as an authority and object of their love in their lives, we still love them, we still grieve over their rejection of us. Christ is like this too, He grieves over those He has to send to hell, those He knows would have a wonderful eternity if they would only trust in Him.
Christ removes His help and His love when someone rejects Him. He remains available until a person dies, but once the choice has been made against Him, it is over, their fate is sealed and they find themselves in the lake of fire one day.
Christ extended His love to all mankind, but many, even most, will reject His love in favor of following their own foolishness.
1 Timothy 2:3-5 "…3 This is good and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,…"
I am convinced that every person's name is in the book of life because Christ wanted all to be saved, but those who reject Christ have their names "blotted out." God does not say he writes the new names of believers, He says he blots out of the book of life those who reject Him. So...I believe all names are in there from the beginning and the ones who reject Christ are erased.
That's just how much Christ wanted everyone to be saved, His plan that all mankind would be, so He put their names in, until they extend the final rejection.
Psalm 69:28 "…27 Add iniquity to their iniquity, And may they not come into Your righteousness. 28 May they be blotted out of the book of life And may they not be recorded with the righteous."
Revelation 3:4-6 "…4 But you do have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments, and because they are worthy, they will walk with Me in white. 5 Like them, the one who is victorious will be clothed in white garments. And I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels. 6 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.…"
I understand this, because, even though our children may have rejected us as an authority and object of their love in their lives, we still love them, we still grieve over their rejection of us. Christ is like this too, He grieves over those He has to send to hell, those He knows would have a wonderful eternity if they would only trust in Him.
Christ removes His help and His love when someone rejects Him. He remains available until a person dies, but once the choice has been made against Him, it is over, their fate is sealed and they find themselves in the lake of fire one day.
Christ extended His love to all mankind, but many, even most, will reject His love in favor of following their own foolishness.
1 Timothy 2:3-5 "…3 This is good and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,…"
I am convinced that every person's name is in the book of life because Christ wanted all to be saved, but those who reject Christ have their names "blotted out." God does not say he writes the new names of believers, He says he blots out of the book of life those who reject Him. So...I believe all names are in there from the beginning and the ones who reject Christ are erased.
That's just how much Christ wanted everyone to be saved, His plan that all mankind would be, so He put their names in, until they extend the final rejection.
Psalm 69:28 "…27 Add iniquity to their iniquity, And may they not come into Your righteousness. 28 May they be blotted out of the book of life And may they not be recorded with the righteous."
Revelation 3:4-6 "…4 But you do have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments, and because they are worthy, they will walk with Me in white. 5 Like them, the one who is victorious will be clothed in white garments. And I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but I will confess his name before My Father and His angels. 6 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.…"
Contempt for Parents Shows Lack of Salvation
God shows us just how serious it is to dishonor parents on any level. When in law children dishonor their in law parents, it is the same as dishonoring their own parents, they will be judged for their rebellion.
To dishonor in law parents is refusing to acknowledge the love of a spouse for his/her own parents. To dishonor the parents of our spouse is to show an absence of love for that spouse.
Many in law children are turning their spouses away from their parents, simply out of spiteful drama, to dominate their spouse. This is evil and worthy of God's wrath.
When we marry we are expected by God to honor the parents of our spouse the same way we should honor our own parents. God told us to leave and cleave in forming our own families, but He never removed His command to continue to honor parents in their old age.
When children show contempt for their parents or the parents of their spouse, they are showing their contempt for God. It is strong if not conclusive evidence that the grown children do not belong to Christ, they are most likely have never been born again.
Leviticus 20:9
"For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him."
Colossians 3:20
"Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord."
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear."
Exodus 21:15
“Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death."
Ephesians 6:1
"Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right."
Proverbs 30:17
"The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures."
To dishonor in law parents is refusing to acknowledge the love of a spouse for his/her own parents. To dishonor the parents of our spouse is to show an absence of love for that spouse.
Many in law children are turning their spouses away from their parents, simply out of spiteful drama, to dominate their spouse. This is evil and worthy of God's wrath.
When we marry we are expected by God to honor the parents of our spouse the same way we should honor our own parents. God told us to leave and cleave in forming our own families, but He never removed His command to continue to honor parents in their old age.
When children show contempt for their parents or the parents of their spouse, they are showing their contempt for God. It is strong if not conclusive evidence that the grown children do not belong to Christ, they are most likely have never been born again.
Leviticus 20:9
"For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him."
Colossians 3:20
"Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord."
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear."
Exodus 21:15
“Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death."
Ephesians 6:1
"Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right."
Proverbs 30:17
"The eye that mocks a father and scorns to obey a mother will be picked out by the ravens of the valley and eaten by the vultures."
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