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Family rules

Jesus gave us all some rules to live by, but I believe that they apply to our children as well as to adults.

He said in Matthew 19:18-20, “Thou shalt do not murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness. Honour thy father and thy mother and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”

Do not kill or abort your children by birth control or surgery, Do not commit adultery by bringing an unrelated stranger into the family home to sleep in their parent’s bed, Do not steal from the children of the first family to give to the children of the second family, Do not lie about your children from your first family and bear false witness. Even for children that have experienced some or all of the above, they still must call their mother their “mother” and their father their “father”. Some children will call a step-parent their “parent”, but this is not a true statement. We all must love our neighbor as ourselves and that includes our children and our whole family too!

Responsibility

Who does God hold responsible for the break-up of the first family? Here are some scriptures that answer this question.

First of all the first couple is no longer two, but one. Matthew 19:6, “Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.”

According to Matthew and Mark’s eye witness account of what Jesus said, the responsibility lies with the first one that leaves their first spouse and marries another.

Matthew 5:32, “For I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.”

Mark 10:11-12, “And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another committeth adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.”

Who is Satan? Satan can be anyone that tempts us to do wrong. Even Peter himself was called “Satan” by Jesus. Matthew 16:23, “Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offense unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.” Adultery is committed by men and women. Save the first family!

A woman must never have two husbands or children with two men

There are two very good examples in Genesis concerning the importance of a woman never having children with another man.

The first example is between Abram’s (Abraham) wife, Sarai (Sarah), and Pharaoh. Genesis 12:14-15, 17, 19, “And it came to pass, that, when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that was very fair. The princes also of Pharaoh saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house…And the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram’s wife…Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.”

The second example is between Isaac’s wife, Rebekah, and Abimelech, king of the Philistines. Genesis 26:7, 10-11, “And the men of the place asked him (Isaac) of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon…And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us?  one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us. And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”

A man must never marry a divorced woman

Matthew 14: 3-5, “For Herod had laid hold on John (the Baptist), and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias’ sake, his brother Phillip’s wife. For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her. And when he would have him put to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him (John the Baptist) as a prophet.”

As we can see from the scripture above, adultery (the act of marrying a divorced woman) has consequences. Herod wanted his own brother’s wife. Herodias wanted her husband’s brother. John the Baptist took a stand against the adultery and as a result, Herod had him put into prison with the intent to have him killed.

 

Matthew 14:8-9, “And she, being before instructed of her mother (Herodias), said, Give me here John Baptist’s head in a charger. And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath’s sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her.”

 

In the scripture above, we have two women, an adulteress and her daughter, working together to eliminate the man that spoke out against the adultery. Where there is divorce and remarriage, the adulteress and her daughter, will work against a man’s former wife and children, but most especially his son from his first marriage.

Matthew 10:36, “A man’s foes shall be they of his own household.”

Matthew 13:38, “The field is the world, thy good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one.”

 

Mothers,sons and daughters

Matthew 12:48-50, “Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

Luke 8:21, “My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.”

Men are never Fathers when matters concerning the soul are mentioned. Men are only sons because they play no part in the creation of the soul – only the body. God is the Father of our souls and our mothers are the mothers of our souls. An egg is huge when compared to a little sperm. Men that do God’s will are sons of God; daughters that do the will of God are daughters of God, and mothers that do the will of God are the mothers of God’s children. For those that choose not to do the will of Jesus’ Father who is in heaven, we have men, women, daughters, and sons of men.