Family Matters

Speaker: Pastor Raleigh Sims


Scripture Focus: Mark 3:20-35


Description: “Whoever does the will of God, He
is My brother and sister and mother,” said Jesus. What is the
will of the God? That all people would come to the knowledge of
the truth in Christ and be saved by His mercy. Faith is the will
of God and family is the fruit of this faith—a people united in
Christ’s death and resurrection by Baptism. A house divided
cannot stand. We know this to be true in an earthly sense, but it
is an eternal truth. We belong to the Lord, not just in part but
in whole. God was even willing to own our sins to restore us from
Satan and his dominion. What keeps us from this wonderful
identity and this future is only this: our refusal of God’s mercy
and our rejection of His work to save us. The goal of God in all
that He is doing is faith, for by this faith we are made one with
Him and are united together as His family, the Church.