The FaithOfJesus2 Daily Devotional

Focus:

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( FaithOfJesus thread begun by rRandyP )

Today's Verse:

kjv@Luke:8:19-21

kjv@Luke:8:19 @ Then came to him his mother and his brethren, and could not come at him for the press.

kjv@Luke:8:20 @ And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.

kjv@Luke:8:21 @ And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.

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Today's notes:

Context:

• Before - Luke:8:16-18 A Lamp on a Stand
  
• After - Luke:8:22-25 Jesus Calms the Storm
  

(also recounted kjv@Matthew:12:46-50 kjv@Mark:3:21-31-35 with context of testimony against this generation that had seen and the accusation that He had an unclean spirit)

Study Resources:

dict:easton Mary

dict:tcr Brethren

kjv@Mark:6:3 @ Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.

(see also Alphaeus)

filter:NONE word of God

Notes:

Brethren did not believe Him kjv@John:7:5 till time of resurrection and ascension (at least James and Jude). Debate among some whether brethren (adelphoi G80 ) means brother or brother like (cousin); at the very most they are half brothers and sisters. The brethren were called to join Him his final days kjv@Matthew:28:10 and again near to His ascension kjv@John:20:17.

kjv@Luke:11:27-28 mother is also connected to one who hears and does. This is not to suggest that Mary was not hearing and doing presently (or soon to) it is to place the importance on all mothers hearing and doing including her. It is also to place the reverence upon Jesus and not the mother of. Mary despite her natural role in the incarnation of God's Son was required to hear and do just as the rest of us. Nowhere in scripture is it suggested that Mary is the Mother God nor Intercessor for man, it does not specify directly that she remained a virgin nor that she was sinless or that her immense grief paid for our redemption. In fact it could be argued that she struggled with her Son's message just as much as His brethren did at least for a time or else was silent/ineffective in His defense among them.

There is a logistical oddity having one who has lived eternally without beginning or end framed in the verbiage of mother and brethren. In the framework others would know (and attempt to limit) Him in they would be right. In the framework that they need to know Him in they are not even close. He is son of Mary only in sense of the vehicle chosen to present His eternal self as a great atoning sacrifice sent of God in the human flesh. They are only mother and brethren in the grand scheme if to hear and do His word and thus become sons and daughters of the Almighty kjv@2Corinthians:6:18, which as of this time they likely were not.

Key Messages:

Declaring Certainty

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Further Resources:

Comment Board:Luke:8:19-21
index:FAITHOFJESUSDEVOTION - Devotional Index
strkjv@Luke:8:19-21 rwp@Luke:8:19-21 mhcc@Luke:8:19-21
FaithOfJesus2 - Devotion Index

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