Sunday, October 13, 2013

GOD'S PURPOSE FOR FAMILY

The family is the building block of society, and that is a given. But the new liberals of the world today are challenging the norm with 'alternative lifestyle' and the gay agenda. Little do people understand that the concept of the family with one man one woman and natural children born from the sanctity of marriage is God given and unchangeable for a specific divine purpose. That purpose has to do with God's Divine Royal Family which is His ultimate plan and purpose for mankind. Simply put, God is reproducing Himself through the human family!

When I was growing up in the sixties and seventies, divorce was virtually unheard of in my family, extended family, friends, relatives and even in the neighborhood. Today, family break-up is far too common, giving rise to all kinds of social problems and crimes. Marriage as a sacred institution is under threat and those holding on to the sanctity of marriage are lampooned and ridiculed as people living in the past, and very often being accused of being intolerant toward others who wish to exercise their 'freedom of choice'.

But they do not know better. God's purpose for human marriage and family is sacred because it is for the ultimate purpose of extending His Divine Family that will last for eternity. Implicit in the Gospel of Christ is the Family of God, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain (Jesus Christ) of their salvation perfect through sufferings (Hebrews 2:10). Every person born into this world is worth more than the treasures of this world, because it has the potential to be born again as a spirit god being in his or her own right (Psalms 82:6; John 10:34) with eternal significance. No other creation can even come close, for being born a little lower than the angels, man will eventually judge the angels when born again as eternal spirit god being (1 Cor 6:3) - for those who qualify!

Man was created by God in His image (the God kind) to have fellowship with Him and eventually to be "married" into His Family through Jesus Christ which even angelic beings are not offered the privilege (Hebrews 1:5) - and that makes Satan fuming mad - no wonder he is out to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10) to deceive man regarding the true Gospel of the kingdom of God! Man has descended into the depths of depravity by embracing the theory of evolution and thus behave more like beasts by committing brutality and inhumanity towards one another, often with little to no understanding or remorse. Man has lost his mind and lost his way, and like the first parents, have seek his own way apart from God. Much like the parable of the prodigal son spoken of by Christ.

God is holding earthly family accountable for the way the children are being brought up, especially the father who is the head of the family. Earthly fathers are to train and teach the children the right values and set good models for their children. If they failed to abide by God's commandments to love their wives and children, God's judgment is set to fall upon them - prophesied to come upon the whole earth during the Great Tribulation which is yet ahead! It is indeed a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a holy God. Hence, earthly father must not take his responsibilities lightly for the eternal destiny of his family, to a large extent falls squarely in his hands!

God has purposed to hand over the world to come (Hebrews 2:5) to born again human beings (saints) and not to angelic beings. Man will ultimately rule with Christ whom God the Father hast put all things in subjection under his (Christ) feet (Hebrews 2:8). God's plan to establish His Divine Royal Family is through the human family, where children born of human flesh and blood will have the potential to become spirit god beings when born again at the time of resurrection (First Resurrection - Heb 11:35; Rev 20:4-6), passing from mortal flesh to immortal spirit composed beings (1 Cor 15:42-52).

Christ taught that human eyes and those born of the flesh cannot see and enter the kingdom of God. He further gave the anology of the wind as man cannot see where the wind blows - John 3:3,6 &8. The Lord Jesus further explained, 'that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit' - verse 6. This is corroborated by the Apostle Paul where he wrote, 'flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, neither doth corruption inherit incorruption' - 1 Cor 15:50. Putting these together, it simply means that human being cannot see and enter the kingdom of God (let alone inherit it) but only those born again as immortal spirit composed being can - and this only occur at Resurrection!

Yet almost the whole Christendom teaches that one is born again 'just simply believing in Jesus and be baptised' on the presumption that the kingdom of God is the church - when these are two totally separate doctrine. Just think, any human being, whether a believer or unbeliever can see and enter a church. If the kingdom of God is the church, why then did the Lord Jesus replied His disciples when asked when is the kingdom to be restored to Israel, ' It is not for you to know the times and the season, which the Father hath put in his own power' - Acts 1:6-7. Such a reply simply makes no sense when the church, to be founded on Pentecost, is only ten days away! The kingdom of God cannot also be about the Person of Jesus Christ as clearly shown in the preaching of Philip to the Samaritans (Acts 8:12) and the Apostle Paul in his last days (Acts 28:31) where these are separated by the conjunction 'and' - see also Daniel 7:14,18,22 &27 to get a clearer picture of what the kingdom of God is.

 Jesus Christ is the firstborn from the dead (Col 1:18) with many more sons of God to come (Rom 8:19) who are called His brethren ( Heb 2:11-12; firstborn among many brethren - Romans 8:29) effectively making the Lord Jesus Christ the Elder Brother of them all. They will all be made perfect (Heb 12:23) and be like Christ (1 John 3:2) and cannot sin for they are born of God (the 'seed' of God - Greek word 'sperma', the same root word for the human sperm) - 1 Pet 1:23; 1 John 3:9. Hence, all those begettal but not yet begotten (heirs but not yet inheritors) can be aborted if they failed to overcome and remain faithful to the end - Matt 10:22. The Apostle Paul also had to strive towards this goal in his spiritual journey if he is to qualify - 1 Cor 9:19-27; Philippians 3:7-21.

Jesus Christ will be the King of kings (resurrected saints born again as immortal spirit composed  beings who will rule and reign with Him - Rev 2:26, 3:21, 5:10) and Lord of lords (resurrected saints born again as immortal spirit composed beings who will form the Royal priesthood teaching and leading others to salvation and righteousness under the reign of Christ - Rev 5:10; Isaiah 2:2-4; Micah 4:1-5). The true church is called and trained to undertake the task of bringing in the great harvest (the 'latter rain') in the millennium age (1 Peter 4:17). Ultimately, all true disciples of Jesus Christ are called to inherit His kingdom as inheritors (Matt 6:33; 1 Thess 2:12). Until born again, they are just heirs and joint-heirs with Christ, meaning not yet inheritors - Romans 8:17, 29; James 2:5.

That is why Christ told His hearers,' Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God ' (Mark 10:14). The future of children is immeasurably great because they have the potential to become members of God's Divine Family - spirit beings with great power and authority even to judge the angels (1 Cor 6:3)! If only human beings understand this, the abuse and mistreatment of children can be drastically reduced in every corner of the globe.

Satan and the demons are all out to destroy the human family in a desperate attempt to thwart God's plan and His love for mankind to be reproduced into His Divine Family. The devil is filled with jealousy that puny men and not the superior angelic beings like himself are given such privileged opportunity (Heb 1:5). His devious strategy include corrupting like-minded beings to pervert sex and distort the wholesome purpose of love and family relationships through the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and trans-sexual) agenda. Whatever man may say, it is contrary to God's will and against God's created nature and order. The Apostle Paul in three separate passage of the epistles warned that those who commit sexual sin, unless repented of, will not inherit the kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 6:9-10; Galatians 5:19-21; Ephesians 5:5-7).

As the timeline for Christ return becomes imminent, the drum beat inspired from the kingdom of darkness in its evil plan gets into overdrive and with greater media coverage across different spectrum of society. The devil is well aware that he has but a short time as god of this world (2 Cor 4:4; Revelation 12:12) and hence the push to extract more damage in their evil scheme of things before Christ return to set up the kingdom of God on earth as King of kings and Lord of lords (Rev 19:16)!

Jesus Christ was born to be King (Isaiah 9:6-7; Luke 1: 31-33) to sit on the throne of David - the Davidic covenant (2 Samuel 7: 12-16) and the ''Sceptre Promise" (Gen 49:10). He knew full well His reason for Being is to become King (John 18:37) and you need to know yours as Christ's disciple is to be king. Your immeasurable potential as an eternal and immortal spirit composed being is yet ahead. Those who refuse to abide in the words of Christ have one major problem plaguing mankind since the dawn of civilisation - they refuse to have God reigning over them (1 Samuel 8:7; Luke 19:27), whatever their charming and soothing rhetoric and cliché may say (Matt 15:8-9)!





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