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Kat:

Hi Randy,

I believe only a few are considered our brother (or sister) at this time.  Those who have Christ in them, we are His brothers/sisters and one anothers brothers/sisters.
Here is what Christ said to His disciples.

John 14:15  "If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
v. 19  "A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also.
v. 20  At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you.
v. 21  He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him."

To have Christ 'in you,' you will keep the spirit of the commandments that He gave.  There is only a few who keep Christ's commands now, and Satan certainly is not one of them.
Actually Satan the devil is our advasary, just like he is the Father's.

1Peter 5:8  Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
v. 9  Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.

Our brothers are those of like-mind.  Satan will first have to go through judgment and then be purged of his sins. 
One day we will be all in all, then Satan can be considered our brother.

1Cor 15:28  When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all.

mercy, peace, and love
Kat

rk12201960:
Thanks to all for your answers.

Yes it is not satans time yet.
We must know right from wrong in order to judge the world.
There is no good in satan other than the reason he was made, until he is purged and cleaned.

If we can even consider that satan will be our brother after all the hurt and evil he has caused (because he was allowed by God) how much more can we not only forgive but have no anger to our brothers now.

It seems somewhat easier to understand why we are to not be angry at one another and even love our enemy who are in the mind of satan (the world) at this. time.

God is teaching us a deep leason in forgiveness and love. I can't wait to what God will teach us in Rays next letter

A cut from Rays last letter....

And furthermore, being angry (wroth, enraged, hate) with a brother is worse than accidentally killing a brother. In an accidental killing under Moses, God did not hold the offender guilty if he never hated the victim, (Deut. 19:5).

These sins are all virtually the same: "Angry with a brother, calling a brother Raca, calling a brother fool, or not being rectified with a brother" are for all practicality all the same. They are all sins against our brothers and they must ALL be repented of or they will all be brought into appropriate judgments. They assuredly do not represent higher degrees of seriousness' as stated in the American Bible footnotes, which would warrant insane differences in judgment. This is one of the great lessons we are going to learn when we understand the meaning of Christ's Gehenne of fire.' Gehenna fire is a vital ingredient in the process of: "sanctifying us WHOLLY" (I Thes. 5:23), so that "our WHOLE body should be CAST into Gehenna" (Matt. 5:30).

Coming:

THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT IS FOR CHRIST'S DISCIPLES
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT IS FOR YOU, NOW

We are about to really learn the mind of God in the deep end of the pool and if we look beyond that we see the sea of humanity and the beast in us.

It is a good thing to learn the deep things of God and his reason for all things It is not a punishment from God for us to learn but an understanding that has to brought about in his wisdom, not ours.
Trust in the LORD GOD with all of your heart soul and MIND. He can not lie.

Peace and love to all.
your brother
Randy

Nelson:
Hi folks,

Interesting points. Here's some scriptural thoughts to add,


* "And he answering said to him who spake to him, `Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?' And having stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, he said, `Lo, my mother and my brethren! for whoever may do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother" (Matt 12:48-50)

"and he answering said unto them, `My mother and my brethren! they are those who the word of God are hearing, and doing" (Lu 8:21)

"because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren" (Ro 8:29)

"or it was becoming to Him, because of whom are the all things, and through whom are the all things, many sons to glory bringing, the author of their salvation through sufferings to make perfect, for both he who is sanctifying and those sanctified are all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, `I will declare Thy name to my brethren, in the midst of an assembly I will sing praise to Thee;' and again, `I will be trusting on Him;' and again, `Behold I and the children that God did give to me.'" (Heb 2:10-13)

Ultimately, ALL shall be our brothers, but not all are right now. While we should love our enemies this does not make them our brothers,


* "therefore, then, as we have opportunity, may we work the good to all, and especially unto those of the household of the faith" (Gal 6:10)

"But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil" (Lu 6:35)

"Beloved, be not thou following that which is evil, but that which is good; he who is doing good, of God he is, and he who is doing evil hath not seen God" (3Jo 1:11)

"we--we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death. Every one who is hating his brother--a man-killer [Gk:anthropoktonos] he is ['Ye are of a father--the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer [Gk:anthropoktonos] from the beginning' (Jo 8:44)], and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining, in this we have known the love, because he for us his life did lay down, and we ought for the brethren the lives to lay down; and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him--how doth the love of God remain in him? My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!" (1Jo 3:14-18)
While the devil is a creation of God for a purpose, the scriptures do tell us that God has made vessels of honour and dishonour, and that light has no fellowship with darkness,


* "Become not yoked with others--unbelievers, for what partaking is there to righteousness and lawlessness? and what fellowship to light with darkness? and what concord to Christ with Belial? or what part to a believer with an unbeliever? and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said--`I will dwell in them, and will walk among them , and I will be their God, and they shall be My people, wherefore, come ye forth out of the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and an unclean thing do not touch, and I--I will receive you" (2 Cor 6:14-17)

"or ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye, for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, and righteousness, and truth, proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord, and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness and rather even convict" (Eph 5:8-11)
Satan is our adversary. While we are to love our enemies we do not have any sharing in their wicked works. Those IN Christ and who have Christ IN them are our brothers at this time. Eventually God will be All in all and we shall have a multitude of brothers then who now are not. Many called but few chosen, chosen to be in Christ before the foundation of the world.

I find it totally awesome that God knew me, and you, before the universe was created. We were in His heart as His beloved and we have been placed in Christ at this point in time according to His good pleasure and counsel of His will so that the Son of His love is the Firstborn among 'many brothers'.

Working what is good towards all is the work of God who is kind to the evil and unthankful, but those ones are not our brothers, they are the children of the devil as was Cain, by virtue of their wicked works.

Light and darkness, good and evil, Christ and Belial. We KNOW where we belong, and how richly blessed are we in this age, despite the suffering we endure. When the great harvest comes then we shall see the number of brothers increased to include the whole creation that groans at present. What can I say?


* "O depth of riches, and wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable His judgments, and untraceable His ways! for who did know the mind of the Lord? or who did become His counsellor? or who did first give to Him, and it shall be given back to him again? because of Him, and through Him, and to Him are the all things; to Him is the glory--to the ages. Amen" (Ro 11:33-36)
Love, grace and peace to you all

Nelson

YellowStone:
Hey Nelson,

I liked your post a lot!  :)   But something hit me rather odd from a Scripture you quoted.

nteresting points. Here's some scriptural thoughts to add,

Jesus spoke:

"And he answering said to him who spake to him, `Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?' And having stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, he said, `Lo, my mother and my brethren! for whoever may do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother" (Matt 12:48-50)

Here's one for you :)   Who IS NOT doing the will of the Father, and who IS NOT our brother, sister and mother.

I am thinking that there is something very deep here. I have always believed all mankind to be sons and daughters of God; Christ seems to support this.

Comments very welcome..... :)

Your brother in Christ,
Darren

Deborah-Leigh:


We know that God will be All in all eventually and that all will one day be saved but right now, today, and not until Jesus Christ returns, all mankind is not as sons or daughters of God.

Luke 18 : 8... when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?

Isaiah 60 : 2 For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and dense darkness all peoples, but the Lord shall arise upon you O Jerusalem, and His glory shall be seen on you.

One can speak from the vantage point of All in all after Christ submits all to God.

1 Cor 15 : 28 However, when EVERYTHING is subjected to Him, THEN  the Son Himself will also subject Himself to the Father Who put all things under Him, so that God may be all in all be everything to everyone, supreme, the indwelling and controlling factor of life.

Our points of view are perhaps relative to where we are standing. I am standing in the present. To look from the future point of view, then yes, all are sons and daughters of God but not today. Gods work in us conforming us into the image of His Son is not yet accomplished.

Peace to you

Arcturus :)

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