Family of God: Re: [Awake4HisReturn] Fw: "The Freedom of Christ Family Ties"

I know the scrip. On it i never put it where it would be breaking up marriages. I know im not perfect, i wanted to make things work before i started putting things together.

On Mon Feb 7th, 2011 1:10 PM CST Shelley Cartwright wrote:

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>From: Wanda Ward <angelina56p47@yahoo.com>
>To: awake4hisreturn@yahoogroups.com
>Sent: Mon, February 7, 2011 10:08:55 AM
>Subject: Re: [Awake4HisReturn] Fw: "The Freedom of Christ Family Ties"
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>Wow i wasnt thinking about the script about the enemies being those of your own
>household. Thanks
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>On Sun Feb 6th, 2011 6:58 PM CST drena brown wrote:
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>>----- Forwarded Message ----
>>From: "RedeemdThruJesus@aol.com" <RedeemdThruJesus@aol.com>
>>Sent: Sun, February 6, 2011 8:41:56 AM
>>Subject: "The Freedom of Christ Family Ties"
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>>____The Freedom of Christ Family Ties____
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>>Mark + 3:35
>>"Anyone who does the will of God, that person is my brother and sister and
>>mother." (Jesus Christ)
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>>Notice, there was no mention of one's 'father' in the second half of this verse.
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>>It had already appeared in the first half, giving us subtle insight unto the
>>kind of kinship recognition God expects from His children.
>>Matthew + 23:9
>>"You must call no one on earth your father, since you have only one Father, and
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>>he is in heaven." (Jesus Christ)
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>>The absolute power of our Father in heaven is second to none. Yet, in today's
>>Mosaic view, many would argue to water down this simple axiom of faith by
>>pointing to one of God's Ten Commandments- "Thou shalt honor thy father and thy
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>>mother."
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>>In the light of the two Bible quotes at the top of this page, the commandment
>>requires a more scripturally precise interpretation and frees us from the
>>bondage of having to honor ungodly or misguided flesh relations. This exhorts us
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>>to set an even higher standard when recognizing and identifying our true Father,
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>>mothers, sisters and brothers before God and man.
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>>Luke + 14:26
>>"If any man comes to me without hating his father, mother, wife, children,
>>brothers and sisters, yes and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple. Anyone
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>>who does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple." (Jesus
>>Christ)
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>>Of course, when Jesus established this condition, there were no Christian
>>families on the planet, since the crucifixion or Pentecost hadn't happened yet.
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>>He was certainly not referring to families who would soon become born-again
>>believers, those who followed and centered their faith in Lord Jesus.
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>>Then again, since he did follow up "If any man comes to me without hating his
>>father, mother, wife, children, brothers and sisters" with "yes and his own life
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>>too," it is reasonable to assume that, since His Word tells us to love our
>>enemies, He was not telling us to literally hate them, but to hate the lives
>>they led. For no life anyone leads before one begins the life he or she has
>>hidden with Christ can compare to the one God has in mind for us.
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>>He wants us to completely let go of our old lives and devote our undivided
>>attention and energy to the new, so hating the old makes perfect sense.
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>>What He was primarilyemphasizing here was that our true family ties as
>>born-again Christians have nothing to do with non-believing blood relatives and
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>>everything to do with others who have given their lives to Christ and been born
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>>again into God's Holy Spirit baptized family.
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>>Romans + 9:8
>>"…it is not physical descent that decides who are the children of God; it is
>>only the children of the promise who will count as the true descendents."
>>John + 3:6
>>"…what is born of the flesh is flesh; what is born of the Spirit is spirit."
>>(Jesus Christ)
>>John + 3:5
>>"I tell you solemnly, unless a man is born through water and the Spirit, he
>>cannot enter the kingdom of God ." (Jesus Christ)
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>>The Tug of War
>>Many unenlightened believers and nonbelievers suffer in a web of guilt and torn
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>>priorities because of flesh family allegiances, vacillating from knowing and
>>doing the truth of God to relenting to the pressures an ignorant, domineering
>>relative, wife or husband can oftentimes inflict upon their spiritual
>>sensibilities.
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>>Matthew + 10:24
>>"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth; it is not peace I
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>>have come to bring, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his
>>father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her
>>mother-in-law. A man's enemies will be those of his own household. Anyone who
>>prefers father or mother to me is not worthy of me." (Jesus Christ)
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>>In the above scripture, Jesus prepares us for just such a conflict of interest
>>and ideals, for He knew it would not be easy to break free from relatives,
>>relationships and 'churches' not centered or focused on the truth of the
>Gospel.
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>>The righteous suffering we endure for having said 'no' to a well-meaning parent
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>>when confronted by the choice of either doing the will of God or getting bogged
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>>down in the unholy flow of a self-righteous, misguided family can often prove to
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>>be an unpleasant-to-painful matter.
>>The Perfect Example
>>When Mary and Joseph tried to rebuke their twelve-year-old son Jesus for not
>>informing them of His whereabouts while He was teaching in the temple, our Lord
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>>did not succumb to their limited, albeit oblivious view of His ministry.
>>Instead, He used the confrontation as an opportunity to demonstrate His Father's
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>>point of view by turning the tables on His flesh parents' concerns. In doing so
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>>He challenged the established 'norms' of His time and place. "Did you not know,"
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>>He said, "that I must be busy with my Father's affairs?"
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>>By saying this to Joseph and Mary, Jesus gave us a way to overcome misguided
>>parental pressure and concern. In essence, it is as simple as discovering one's
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>>own ministry in Christ, and doing it to the max, no matter what, for no power on
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>>earth, parental or otherwise, can either stop or inhibit God's will from being
>>served.
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>>Matthew + 18:6
>>"…anyone who is an obstacle to bring down one of these little ones who have
>>faith in me would be better drowned in the depths of the sea with a great
>>millstone round his neck. Alas for the world that there should be such
>>obstacles!" (Jesus Christ)
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>>So, then, the unrighteous exertion of parental authority over the children of
>>God can be a dangerous-to-deadly occupation where faith is concerned. And never
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>>mind about who it was that inculcated a father or mother into denominational
>>mindsets that run contrary to the Mind of Christ.
>>Rude Awakenings
>>Of all the assemblies and churches with whom I have fellowshipped, and there
>>were many en route to the forming of my ministry, not one representative from
>>any of them ever asked "What spiritual gift is God operating through you?"
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>>And when I tried to tell them anyway, it was as if I'd committed blasphemy by
>>daring to give testimony concerning what I knew in my heart of hearts was and is
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>>the mission God had given me to perform. They were too busy trying to pigeonhole
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>>me into their infrastructure and agendas so as to control and manipulate my
>>energy and resources.
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>>2 Timothy + 3:5
>>"…having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with
>>them."
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>>This is what much of organized religion has degenerated to in the way of
>>demonstrating their faith. It is this indifference to one's true calling, handed
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>>down to parents who would prefer to play church rather than be the Church, that
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>>has caused many a young one in Christ to suffer so.
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>>"….I must be busy with my Fathers affairs (?)," said Jesus to His folks. How
>>simple were His words; how innocent; how telling. Who knows but that maybe He
>>was genuinely surprised at their lack of understanding. God knows that many of
>>His sons and daughters have gone through a similar experience with parents who
>>were too busy with their own, self-centered, denomination-driven concerns and
>>plans to recognize, let alone appreciate the home-grown ministries of God
>>operating right under their noses.
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>>I've written thousands of pages of finished testimony unto my now 34-year,
>>self-realized relationship with Christ. All, save a token few have not been read
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>>by 95% of my blood relatives. Why? The answer is a left-handed compliment and a
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>>powerful sign from God as to the credibility of my ministry, or anyone who's
>>suffered the same symbolic slap in the face for doing what our faith in God told
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>>us to do.
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>>Jesus put it this way when He Himself visited His old neighborhood and was
>>promptly rejected by His past. "A prophet is only despised in His own country
>>and in his own house." (Matthew + 13:58 )
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>>He then gave us a warning: "Once the hand is laid to the plow, no one who looks
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>>back is fit for the Kingdom of God ." (Luke + 9:62)
>>Suffering For Christ
>>Have you ever gotten stuck between a rock and a hard place? I have. The rock is
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>>my faith in Jesus Christ. Part of the hard place was the spirit of this
>>ego-driven world trying to control and manipulate and/or blackmail me with
>>guilt, natural-minded logic, money, physical pleasure, self-aggrandizement,
>>unloving sportsmanship and competitiveness and so forth. Another hard place part
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>>was an apathetic, if not outraged response to my ministry by the 'church' to
>>which my entire family had been giving its allegiance and money since before I
>>was born.
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>>Colossians + 2:6
>>"You must live your whole life according to the Christ you have received- Jesus
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>>the Lord; you must be rooted in him and built on him and held firm by the faith
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>>you have been taught, and full of thanksgiving."
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>>And, God forbid, if something or someone stands in the way of that heaven-sent
>>directive, simply say 'no,' and mean it, not only by word but by action, no
>>matter how much grief it brings into the lives of those still under the hard and
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>>heavy yoke of dogmatic religious and family tradition. Why (?) because, "From
>>one who loves, wounds are well-intentioned." (Proverbs + 27:6)
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>>And should someone call you ungrateful and cold, simply say, with love and an
>>intention to teach, "Did you not know that I must be busy with my Father's
>>affairs," and be blessed in the knowledge that God works all things for good
>>unto those who love Him.
>>John + 8:31
>>"If you make my Word your home you will indeed be my disciples, you will learn
>>the truth and the truth will make you free." (Jesus Christ)
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>>The freedom we enjoy from learning and doing the truth is what righteously
>>separates us from having to support and believe in wives' tales, religious
>>mythology and apostasy, and unwieldy parental influence. For to know the truth
>>is to know also who we truly and ultimately are within the body of Christ; our
>>purpose; our mission.
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>>While mothers and fathers and those who influence or control their thinking are
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>>begging us to give them grandchildren, the Holy Spirit may be telling us to stay
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>>single in order that we may be free to fully attend to the Lord's affairs.
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>>On the other hand, our parents may be pushing us to become priests, ministers
>>and so on in the denomination they have supported all their lives, while God is
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>>doing the exact opposite by telling us to marry the one to whom He has joined us
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>>in His love. He may even tell us to do both.
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>>1 Corinthians + 7:7
>>"…I should like everyone to be like me (single), but everybody has his own
>>particular gifts from God, one with a gift for one thing and another with a gift
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>>for the opposite."
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>>When Paul wrote these words he was on fire for the Lord and wanted all of us to
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>>be the same. But he also understood that each and every one of us has a
>>personally specific mission to perform within the body of Christ, which is the
>>life we have hidden with Christ. Discovering and living that life is what our
>>discipleship is all about.
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>>Letting go of anything or anyone who would seek to dissuade us from that
>>mission, whether deliberately or otherwise, is what Jesus meant when He said,
>>"Anyone who prefers father or mother to me is not worthy of me… Anyone who does
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>>not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple"
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>>Answering passively to the loving tug of the Holy Spirit is what true faith in
>>God is all about, regardless of what those who say they love us may do or say to
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>>dissuade us from accomplishing the will of God.
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>>What better way to honor our flesh fathers and mothers than by doing the will of
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>>God, whether they like it or not.
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>>Amen!
>>In the name of Jesus Christ
>>John Christopher
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