THE BIBLE PRAYER LINE – Bible Questions Answered
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Bible Questions Answered:
“What is meant by the scripture “For I am come to set a man at variance against his father”?...
Henrietta/ Chicago, Illinois U.S.A.
Bible Answer:
Bible Texts:
Matthew 10:32-40 NLT
32 “Everyone who acknowledges Me publicly here on earth, I will also acknowledge before My Father in heaven.
33 But everyone who denies Me here on earth, I will also deny before My Father in heaven.
34 “Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace to the earth! I came not to bring peace, but a sword.
35 ‘I have come to set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
36 Your enemies will be right in your own household!’
37 “If you love your father or mother more than you love Me, you are not worthy of being Mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than Me, you are not worthy of being Mine.
38 If you refuse to take up your cross and follow Me, you are not worthy of being Mine.
39 If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for Me, you will find it.
40 “Anyone who receives you receives Me, and anyone who receives Me receives The Father who sent Me.
Our Lord was warning of the cost of discipleship.
When others hear that you have become a Christian, your friends may leave you, others may persecute you.
The Cost Of Discipleship:
Matthew 8:18-22 NLT
18 When Jesus saw the crowd around Him, He instructed His disciples to cross to the other side of the lake.
19 Then one of the teachers of religious law said to Him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”
20 But Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens to live in, and birds have nests, but The Son Of Man has no place even to lay His head.”
21 Another of His disciples said, “Lord, first let me return home and bury my father.”
22 But Jesus told him, “Follow Me now. Let the spiritually dead bury their own dead.”
Matthew 10:34-38 KJV
34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
37 He that loveth father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after Me, is not worthy of Me.
Matthew 16:24-27 KJV
24 Then said Jesus unto His disciples, If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.
25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for My sake shall find it.
26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
27 For The Son Of Man shall come in the glory of His Father with His angels; and then He shall reward every man according to His works.
Mark 4:34-38 NKJV (Take Up the Cross and Follow Him)
34 When He had called the people to Himself, with His disciples also, He said to them, “Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.
35 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.
36 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
37 Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
38 For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him The Son Of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”
Mark 10:29-31 NLT
29 “Yes,” Jesus replied, “and I assure you that everyone who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or property, for My sake and for The Good News,
30 will receive now in return a hundred times as many houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and property—along with persecution. And in the world to come that person will have eternal life.
31 But many who are the greatest now will be least important then, and those who seem least important now will be the greatest then.
Luke 9:23-26 KJV
23 And He said to them all, If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me.
24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for My sake, the same shall save it.
25 For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
26 For whosoever shall be ashamed of Me and of My Words, of him shall The Son Of Man be ashamed, when He shall come in His own glory, and in His Father's, and of the holy angels.
Luke 14:25-33 NLT (The Cost of Being a Disciple)
25 A large crowd was following Jesus. He turned around and said to them,
26 “If you want to be My disciple, you must, by comparison, hate everyone else—your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even your own life. Otherwise, you cannot be My disciple.
27 And if you do not carry your own cross and follow Me, you cannot be My disciple.
28 “But don’t begin until you count the cost. For who would begin construction of a building without first calculating the cost to see if there is enough money to finish it?
29 Otherwise, you might complete only the foundation before running out of money, and then everyone would laugh at you.
30 They would say, ‘There’s the person who started that building and couldn’t afford to finish it!’
31 “Or what king would go to war against another king without first sitting down with his counselors to discuss whether his army of 10,000 could defeat the 20,000 soldiers marching against him?
32 And if he can’t, he will send a delegation to discuss terms of peace while the enemy is still far away.
33 So you cannot become My disciple without giving up everything you own.
John 3:16-21 KJV
16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His Only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of The Only Begotten Son Of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that Light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than Light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth The Light, neither cometh to The Light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth Truth cometh to The Light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
John 8:31,32 KJV
31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on Him, If ye continue in my Word, then are ye My disciples indeed;
32 And ye shall know The Truth, and The Truth shall make you free.
John 12:25 KJV
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
John 13:15,35 KJV
15 For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
35 By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another.
John 16:33 KJV
These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
John 18:15-25 NLT (The World’s Hatred)
18 “If the world hates you, remember that it hated Me first.
19 The world would love you as one of its own if you belonged to it, but you are no longer part of the world. I chose you to come out of the world, so it hates you.
20 Do you remember what I told you? ‘A slave is not greater than the master.’ Since they persecuted Me, naturally they will persecute you. And if they had listened to Me, they would listen to you.
21 They will do all this to you because of Me, for they have rejected The One who sent Me.
22 They would not be guilty if I had not come and spoken to them. But now they have no excuse for their sin.
23 Anyone who hates Me also hates My Father.
24 If I hadn’t done such miraculous signs among them that no one else could do, they would not be guilty. But as it is, they have seen everything I did, yet they still hate Me and My Father.
25 This fulfills what is written in their Scriptures: ‘They hated Me without cause.’
Romans 8:34-39 NLT
35 Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean He no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death?
36 (As The Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”)
37 No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.
38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love.
39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 12:1,2,14 KJV
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
14 Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.
II Corinthians 5:15,17 NLT
15 He died for everyone so that those who receive His new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them.
17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
Galatians 2:20 NLT
My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in The Son Of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me
Galatians 5:24 NLT
Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to His cross and crucified them there.
Philippians 1:21,29 KJV
21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake;
Philippians 3:7,8 KJV
7 I once thought these things were valuable, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done.
8 Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For His sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ
I Peter 2:21 KJV
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow His steps:
Prayer:
Luke 6:40 NLT
Students are not greater than their teacher. But the student who is fully trained will become like the teacher.
