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Carry the Cross
Sunday Night Bible Study on March 7, 2010
at Christian Missionary Alliance in Aurora, Indiana
In order to be His disciple, we must carry a cross (Luke 9:23-27; 14:27; Matthew 10:38-39; c.f. I Corinthians 15:31), love all less than Christ (Matthew 10:37), hate all (Luke 14:25-27), and abandon all (Luke 14:33).
1. How do other passages relate to "hate... father and mother" (Matthew 14:26)?
a. Do not murder parents (I Timothy 1:9; c.f. Exodus 21:15).
b. Do not disobey parents (Romans 1:30; II Timothy 3:2); instead, obey parents (Ephesians 6:1; Colossians 3:20; I Timothy 3:4)
c. Honor parents (Matthew 15:4; Matthew 19:19; Luke 18:20; Ephesians 6:2-3).
i. Support your family's widows as a religious expression (I Timothy 5:3-8).
ii. Obligation to parents’ needs (John 19:25-27) supercede obligations to religious customs (Mark 7:8-13).
2. How do other passages relate to "forsake...
This teaching about hating parents, etc., helps provide balance to the other one from Ecclesiastes, which ends with a call for radical abandoned of all for Christ.
