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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Ordered by Verse | ||||||
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1 | HONOR THY FATHER AND MOTHER | Matt 22:37 | PYLE | 581 | ||
JESUS SAID IF YOU LOVE YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER MORE THAN ME, THEN YOU CANNOT BE MY DISCPILE IS THIS A CONTRADICTION TO THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD TO HONOR THY FATHER AND MOTHER? | ||||||
2 | HONOR THY FATHER AND MOTHER | Matt 22:37 | Brent Douglass | 589 | ||
Jesus said that "No one can serve two masters" and that any attempt to serve 2 masters would result in choosing 1 over the other at some point. The example he then gives is God vs. mammon (material wealth). However, material wealth is not the only competitor he is concerned with. He also says that unless one "hates" his or her mother, father, sister, brother, wife, children and even one's own life, that person can not be His disciple. The Lord must be our first love, thus the choice being made (by his grace) to love him with all our heart, soul, mind and strength. This is comparable to Wesley's doctrine of "Christian perfection" as a "perfect" love for God as exercised by a "complete" disciple; this is what the Christian should desire. | ||||||