Sunday, August 4, 2013
Family Of God
Bible Questions Answered:
“How is it all together with no
distinctions, only one existence, that in heaven?..”
Milan/ Chennai, India (Tamill Nadu)
Bible Answer:
Praise The Lord, all as one, the one,
the family of God!
Deuteronomy 14:12 KJV (Israel-Jews)
For thou art an
holy people unto The Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee
to be a peculiar people unto Himself, above all the nations
that are upon the earth.
Isaiah 63:16 KJV (Israel-Jews)
"... thou, O Lord, art our
Father, our Redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
John 1:12 KJV (Gentiles)
But as many as received Him (The
Lord Jesus), to them gave He power to become the sons of God,
even to them that believe on His name:
Romans 8:15-18 KJV
15 For ye have not received the
spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received
The Spirit Of Adoption,
whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
16 The Spirit itself (Himself)
beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17 And if children, then heirs;
heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we
suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
18 For I reckon that the sufferings
of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory
which shall be revealed in us.
II Corinthians 6:16-18 KJV
16 And what agreement hath the
temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as
God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be
their God, and they shall be
My people.
17 Wherefore come out from among
them, and be ye separate, saith The Lord, and touch not the unclean
thing; and I will receive you.
18 And will be A Father unto you,
and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith The Lord Almighty.
Galatians 4:1-7 NLT
1 Think of it this way. If a father
dies and leaves an inheritance for his young children, those children
are not much better off than slaves until they grow up, even though
they actually own everything their father had.
2 They have to obey their guardians
until they reach whatever age their father set.
3 And that’s the way it was with
us before Christ came. We were like children; we were slaves to the
basic spiritual principles of this world.
4 But when the right time came, God
sent His Son, born of a woman, subject to the law.
5 God sent Him to buy freedom for us
who were slaves to the law, so that He could adopt us as His
very own children.
6 And because we are His
children, God has sent The Spirit of His Son into our hearts,
prompting us to call out, “Abba, Father.”
7 Now you are no longer a slave but
God’s own child. And since you are His child, God
has made you His heir.
Philippians 2:15 KJV
That ye may be blameless and
harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a
crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the
world;
Promises To Followers Of Christ:
Matthew 5:9 KJV
Blessed are the peacemakers: for
they shall be called the children of God.
Matthew 12:50 KJV (Jesus)
For whosoever shall do the will of
My Father which is in heaven, the same is My brother, and sister,
and mother.
Romans 8:32 KJV
He that spared not His own Son, but
delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely
give us all things?
Romans 9:26 KJV
"...there shall they be called
the children of The Living God.
Ephesians 2:18-22 NLT (God's
temple, is the hearts and lives of His people.)
18 Now all of us can come to the
Father through the same Holy Spirit because of what Christ has
done for us.
19 So now you Gentiles are no longer
strangers and foreigners. You are citizens along with all of God’s
holy people. You are members of God’s family.
20 Together, we are His house,
built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. And the
cornerstone is Christ Jesus Himself.
21 We are carefully joined
together in Him, becoming a holy temple for The Lord.
22 Through Him you Gentiles are
also being made part of this dwelling where God lives by His Spirit.
Ephesians 3:14-15 NLT
14 For this cause I bow my knees
unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15 Of whom the whole family in
heaven and earth is named,
Colossians
1:12-14 NLT
12 always thanking The Father. He
has enabled you to share in the inheritance that belongs to
His people, who live in The
Light.
13 For He has rescued us from the
kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the Kingdom of His dear
Son,
14 who purchased our freedom and
forgave our sins.
Titus 3:5-7 KJV
5 Not by works of righteousness
which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the
washing of regeneration, and renewing of The Holy Ghost;
6 Which He shed on us abundantly
through Jesus Christ our Savior;
7 That being justified by His grace,
we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Hebrews 1:14 KJV
Are they (Angels) not all
ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be
heirs of salvation?
Hebrews 2:11,12 NLT
11 So now Jesus and the ones He
makes holy have the same Father. That is why Jesus is not
ashamed to call them His brothers and sisters.
12 For He said to God,“I will
proclaim your name to My brothers and sisters. I will praise you
among your assembled people.”
Hebrews 6:16-18 KJV
16 For men verily swear by the
greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all
strife.
17 Wherein God, willing more
abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability
of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath:
18 That by two immutable things, in
which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong
consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set
before us:
I John 3:1-3,9,10 NLT
1 See how very much our Father loves
us, for He calls us His children, and that is what we are!
But the people who belong to this world don’t recognize that we
are God’s children because they don’t know Him.
2 Dear friends, we are already
God’s children, but He has not yet shown us what we will be
like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like Him,
for we will see Him as He really is.
3 And all who have this eager
expectation will keep themselves pure, just as He is pure.
9 Those who have been born into
God’s family do not make a practice of sinning, because God’s
life is in them. So they can’t keep on sinning, because they are
children of God.
10 So now we can tell who are
children of God and who are children of the devil. Anyone who
does not live righteously and does not love other believers does not
belong to God.
Dear friend, have you received The Lord
Jesus Christ, God's Son, into your heart and life as your Savior?
If you have not, do not delay!
If you have, remember well, the Apostle Paul's
words.....
Galatians
3:26-28 NLT
26 For
you are all children of God through faith in
Christ Jesus.
27 And all
who have been united with Christ in baptism have put on Christ, like
putting on new clothes.
28 There is
no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female.
For you
are all one in Christ Jesus.