QUESTION #21 Who is my mother? Who are my brethren?

QUESTIONS JESUS ASKED BIBLE STUDY


 








Read Matthew 12:46-50 KJV: 

 

*  Who is my mother? Who are my brethren? (Matthew 12:48)

 

THE FAMILY OF GOD

Reference: Matthew 12:46-50; Mark 3:31-35; Luke 8:19-21

 

This question was asked to “fix the attention” of the hearers and prepare them for the answer (same goes for us today) … Are you listening?

 

Jesus did not put forth these questions, because he was ignorant of who were His mother and brothers; or suggesting He had none; or denying that they were not in relationship to Him; or casting any slight upon them; or intending any disrespect. When He asked these questions, he was looking for a spiritual answer - not a physical one.

 

Who is my mother? Who are my brothers? THE ANSWER (Luke 8:21): Those who do the will of the Heavenly Father!

 

The fact that He ask “who” implies that not everyone is His mother or brother. We do all belong to God by virtue of creation, but our human nature demonstrates that we are the children of another. In Scripture, the lost are never referred to as God’s children. Ephesians 2:1-3 tells us that before we were saved we were “by nature objects of wrath”. Romans 9:8 says that “it is not the natural children who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring.” Instead of being born as God’s children, we are born in sin, which separates us from God and aligns us with Satan as God’s enemy (James 4:4; 1 John 3:8).

 

Apart from being born again, regenerated, converted, grafted in, saved, etc… we are not the children of God. 1 John 3:1, “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore, the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not.” 

 

The family of God is based on a unique relationship. Not a physical one (flesh and blood), but a spiritual one. It’s not about your religion, religion will not save you. It’s about a relationship, your relationship with Jesus. John 1:12-13, “But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name. Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor the will of man, but of God.”

 

We become God’s children when we are saved because we are adopted into God’s family through our relationship with Jesus Christ (Galatians 4:5-6; Ephesians 1:5). This can be clearly seen in verses like Romans 8:14-17: “…because those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by Him we cry ‘Abba, Father.’ The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. 

Jesus said, “My mother and my brethren are those which hear the word of God, and do it” (Luke 8:21).

 

A few chapters later, while Jesus is teaching a woman in the crowd cried out, “Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked!” Jesus said, “Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it” (Luke 11:27-28).

 

As for Jesus’ mother and His brethren… according to scripture they too did the will of the Father (Acts 1:14).

 

Are you one of God’s children? Are you doing the will of the Father?

 

The Children of God (See 1 John 3)

 

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