Those With The Right To Become Yahweh's Children
John 1:10-13 reads,
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He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world didn’t recognize him. 1:11He came to his own, and those who were his own didn’t receive him. 1:12But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name: 1:13who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.Have you received Yah'shuah, believing in his name, thereby being born of Yahweh and having the right to become his child?
Imitate Your Parents' Good Works
John 5:19-23 reads,
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Jesus therefore answered them, "Most assuredly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, the Son also does likewise. 5:20For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel. 5:21For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires. 5:22For neither does the Father judge any man, but he has given all judgment to the Son, 5:23that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who doesn’t honor the Son doesn’t honor the Father who sent him.Doesn't the relationship between Father Yahweh and Son Yah'shuah shows that the Son imitates the works of the Father? And doesn't the Father love the Son for the Son does the works of the Father?
Shouldn't children undertake the works of their parents when these are in Yahweh? Shouldn't parents show their righteous works to their children that their children might indeed imitate these?
Seek To Do The Father's Will And Not Your Own Will
John 5:24-30 reads,
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"Most assuredly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. 5:25Most assuredly, I tell you, the hour comes, and now is, when the dead will hear the Son of God’s voice; and those who hear will live. 5:26For as the Father has life in himself, even so he gave to the Son also to have life in himself. 5:27He also gave him authority to execute judgment, because he is a son of man. 5:28Don’t marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice, 5:29and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment. 5:30I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don’t seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.Don't Yah'shuah's words imply that the reason the Father gives him power and authority to undertake various things is that he does not seek his own will but that of the Father? Shouldn't we emulate Yah'shuah's example in his relationship with the Father? Shouldn't we subjugate our own wills and not seek them, but seek instead that of the Father? Will not the Father give us appropriate power and authority to do various things when we indeed seek to do his will and not our own?
Shouldn't children learn this lesson? Shouldn't children seek to do their parents' will that their parents may indeed give them power and authority within their households? Shouldn't parents follow the Father's example and give their children who seek to do their will due power and authority to undertake various acts?
Hear And Learn From The Father
John 6:43-46 reads,
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Therefore Jesus answered them, "Don’t murmur among yourselves. 6:44No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day. 6:45It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father, and has learned, comes to me. 6:46Not that any man has seen the Father, except he who is from God. He has seen the Father.Doesn't the Father teach the humans that he draws to Yah'shuah? Aren't these humans to learn of the Father and go to Yah'shuah?
Teach Your Children What They Ought To Learn
Shouldn't parents follow the Father's example and teach their children what they ought to learn? Shouldn't children learn of their parents and behave in an appropriate manner?
Do Only What Is Pleasing To The Father
John 8:27-29 reads,
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They didn’t perceive that he spoke to them about the Father. 8:28Jesus therefore said to them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself, but as my Father taught me, I say these things. 8:29He who sent me is with me. The Father hasn’t left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him."Shouldn't we follow Yah'shuah's example in our dealings with the Father? Shouldn't we speak only what the Father has taught us? Shouldn't we do only those things that are pleasing to him? Will not the Father be with us when we do the things that are pleasing to him?
John 8:31-47 reads,
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Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. 8:32You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."8:33
They answered him, "We are Abraham’s seed, and have never yet been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, ‘You will be made free?’"8:34
Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin. 8:35A bondservant doesn’t live in the house forever. A son remains forever. 8:36If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed. 8:37I know that you are Abraham’s seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you. 8:38I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father."8:39
They answered him, "Our father is Abraham."Jesus said to them, "If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. 8:40But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn’t do this. 8:41You do the works of your father."
They said to him, "We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God."
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Therefore Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came out and have come from God. For neither have I come of myself, but he sent me. 8:43Why don’t you understand my speech? Because you can’t hear my word. 8:44You are of your Father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of it. 8:45But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me. 8:46Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? 8:47He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God."Doesn't Yah'shuah make clear that even though the Jews were physically the children of Abraham they were not spiritually his children? Didn't Yah'shuah show that to be Abraham's spiritual child one has to do the works that Abraham did - righteousness? Doesn't Yah'shuah show that we are spiritually the children of the originators of the works that we do, whether of Yahweh or of Satan?
Why Some Adverse Circumstances Befall Some People
John 9:1-7 reads,
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As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 9:2His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"9:3
Jesus answered, "Neither did this man sin, nor his parents. But, that the works of God might be revealed in him, 9:4I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work. 9:5When I am in the world, I am the light of the world." 9:6When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud, 9:7and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means "Sent"). So he went away, washed, and came seeing.Shouldn't it be clear that some adverse circumstances befall people not because either they or their parents have sinned, but because Yahweh has appointed them to reveal his works in them? Isn't this the likely scenario in the case of Elizabeth's barrenness?
When Does A Son Become Of Age?
John 9:18-23 reads,
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The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight, 9:19and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?"9:20
His parents answered them, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; 9:21but how he now sees, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself." 9:22His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue. 9:23Therefore his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him."When does a son become of age and is able to take responsibility for his own actions?
Do The Father's Will Willingly
John 10:14-18 reads,
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I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own; 10:15even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. 10:16I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd. 10:17Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. 10:18No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.Isn't it clear that Yah'shuah was not forced to lay down his life for the sheep, but did so willingly? Doesn't the Father love him because of this voluntary deed Yah'shuah did?
Shouldn't we learn from Yah'shuah and do the Father's will even when the Father does not insist that we abide by his will, giving us the freedom to choose to abide by it or not?
Didn't Yah'shuah say that he had two folds of sheep? Didn't he also say that he was sent to no one apart from the lost sheep of the house of Israel? Doesn't this imply that the first fold that was known was made up of the house of Judah, with the other fold being the house of Israel?
The Father Protects What He Has Given His Son
John 10:25-30 reads,
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Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me. 10:26But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. 10:27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 10:28I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 10:29My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand. 10:30I and the Father are one."Doesn't Yah'shuah show that the Father facilitates the protection of what the Father has given Yah'shuah? Shouldn't parents help their children in preserving what they give to their children?
Yah'shuah To Live In His Father's House With Those He Is To Receive To Himself
John 14:1-4 reads,
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"Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me. 14:2In my Father’s house are many mansions. If it weren’t so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. 14:3If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also. 14:4Where I go, you know, and you know the way."Doesn't Yah'shuah show that he is to live in his Father's house with those who are to be with him, those he receives to himself? Aren't these he receives to himself his disciples among the children of Israel? Aren't these he receives to himself those he will marry at his marriage, and thereafter live with them in the mansions he has prepared for them in his Father's house? Doesn't Yah'shuah show that it is in order for a married son to live in the same house with his wife or wives, a house belonging to his father?
Doesn't Yah'shuah also show that a bridegroom betrothed to a bride should prepare a place for that bride that he may receive her to himself once he has so prepared the place, and that she may be with him? Is not a married wife the companion of her husband? Therefore, aren't Yah'shuah's disciples of the children of Israel his wife/wives - his companions?
John 14:21 reads,
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One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.John 14:23-24 reads,
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Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him. 14:24He who doesn’t love me doesn’t keep my words. The word which you hear isn’t mine, but the Father’s who sent me.Shouldn't we love Yah'shuah that the Father may love us? Shouldn't we have Yah'shuah's commandments and keep them, for those who so do indeed love him? Shouldn't we love Yah'shuah that both the Father and Yah'shuah may come to us and make their home with us?
Ask The Father In Yah'shuah's Name
John 16:23-24, 26-28 reads,
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"In that day you will ask me nothing. Most assuredly I tell you, whatever you may ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. 16:24Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.16:26
In that day you will ask in my name; and I don’t say to you, that I will pray to the Father for you, 16:27for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God. 16:28I came out from the Father, and have come into the world. Again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.Doesn't Yah'shuah make clear that the things that the Father will give to us when we ask him are those we ask in Yah'shuah's name?
How does one ask in Yah'shuah's name?
Doesn't asking in Yah'shuah's name mean asking according to the manner Yah'shuah has guided one to ask? Did not Yah'shuah do his works in the Father's name? Did not Yah'shuah say that he spoke only as the Father commanded him to speak? Didn't Yah'shuah say that he did only what he saw his Father doing? Doesn't working in the Father's name mean saying and doing things only as the Father has authorised one to do? Doesn't this therefore mean that working in Yah'shuah's name is saying and doing things only as Yah'shuah has authorised one to do? Doesn't this mean that one who asks in Yah'shuah's name will only ask as Yah'shuah has authorised him, and will not ask according to his own will outside Yah'shuah's will?
John 16:31-32 reads,
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Jesus answered them, "Do you now believe? 16:32Behold, the time comes, yes, has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.Didn't Yah'shuah show that the Father would not abandon him even when all of his human companions would abandon him? Doesn't this show that the Father is One we can all depend on, for he never abandons his children when they are in need?
Do Not Abandon Your Children When They Are In Need
Shouldn't parents follow the Father's example, and never abandon them when they are in need, even when the close companions of their children abandon them?
Yah'shuah Provided For His Widowed Mother Before His Death
John 19:25-27 reads,
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But there were standing by the cross of Jesus his mother, and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 19:26Therefore when Jesus saw his mother, and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold your son!" 19:27Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.Isn't it the indication that Mary, Yah'shuah's mother, who was able to go to John's home at the time of Yah'shuah's death was at that time a widow? Isn't it also the indication that it was Yah'shuah who was providing for her right up to the time of his death? Didn't he therefore transfer care for her from himself to his disciple John, making John her adopted son and making her John's adopted mother? Is not this consistent with what he said would happen to those who left all and followed him, that they would have mothers and children greater than those they left?
Provide For Needy Widows And Receive Them As Mothers
Shouldn't Yah'shuah's disciples take care of needy widows without a person to properly take care of them? Shouldn't they receive these as their mothers, receiving them into their own homes and providing for them?
Isn't this also an example of how adult children should provide for their needy parents, receiving them into their homes and providing for them?
Yah'shuah Called His Disciples "Children"
John 21:5 reads,
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Jesus therefore said to them, "Children, have you anything to eat?"They answered him, "No."
Why did Yah'shuah call his disciples "children"? Doesn't this imply that he was in a sense their father, even as the prophecy in Isaiah 9:6 shows that one of his names is Everlasting Father?
Revelation 21:5-8 reads,
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He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I make all things new." He said, "Write, for these words are faithful and true." 21:6He said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life. 21:7He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son. 21:8But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."
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