Jesus tells to us that relation by blood don't nessisairly make a family. Mark 3:31-35 tells us what happend Jesus himself when Mary and his other siblings come to visit him. He says; "Who are my mother and my siblings?". Following he tells them that he is already surrounded by his own true family. Jesus sees us all as his brothers and sisters, and he gieves noone anny spesial rights before others.
He further underlines this in John 20:17 where he says "go to my brothers and sisters and tell them that I'm now going to my father and your father, my God and your God. This shows even stronger how Jesus views us all as his siblings. This makes evidence that the most important relation we will share is our relation by faith. Thereafter we all should call fellow members of faith brother or sister something wich also enhance the collective bonds that tie us together by God.
Jesus in the Romans 8:29 gets' spoken of as "the firstborn among manny siblings", wich shows us that Christianity started by Jesus and confirms to us that the road to God has been layed down only through Jesus. In Hebrews 2:11-12 we get told; So now Jesus and the ones he makes holy have the same father. That is why Jesus is not ashamed to call them his brothers and sisters". He says: "I will proclaim your name to my brothers and sisters. I will praise you among your assembled people.
Jesus again and again gets mentioned as our brother paralell to the fact that he is our saviour. He's the one who gives us true life and lives it with us. There are noone that could have done the deeds he have done for us, and even so we are allowed to call him brother!
In Mathew 10:32-39 he tells us about what hapends to the ones that puts blood relation in front of faith in Jesus. "I have come to make dividing lines: Son against father, daughter against mother, and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law. Your enemies will be right there in your own houcehold". "The ones that loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. The ones that find life shall loose it. And the ones who looses their life because of me shall find true life." Again he confirms that earthly bonds of relation is not worth much when it comes to the faith in Jesus, and that we should make sure we don't put these worldly bonds before the bonds of our Lord God and father and our Saviour Jesus Christ, our very own brother!
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