The truth which flows out of this passage, and which should be applied to each of our lives, is found in the words and the example of the Lord Jesus Christ in this passage. He was teaching His disciples then, and He is teaching everyone now who wants to follow Him, that when they have grown up enough to be living outside of their parent’s house, and old enough to be out from under their authority, that their one great priority will be to do the will of God. He is saying that as a true believer, over time, you will come to identify more with the family of God than even with your own natural family and relatives. This is what happened to Christ, and this is what will happen to each and every Christian who is attempting to do the will of God. This is glorifying to God, and it will also help our parents and siblings to see what is most important in life. In order to open up the truth of this proposition I would like to make 3 statements which I hope will convince you to become like Christ; the One who loved his spiritual brethren more than his natural kinsfolk, in terms of the attention that He gave to them to teach them the will of God. The 1st statement is this: The closest relatives of a Christian may seek to turn him away from doing God's will. 2nd – A Christian’s spiritual relatives are, and should be, his closest relations. And 3rd – Whoever does the will of God is spiritually related to Christ.
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Paul Rendall
Who is My Mother? Series in the Gospel of Mark Reformed Baptist Church
Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...
