Bible Study What Does Jesus mean?

[HeIsRisen2018]

In Luke 14:26 Jesus says; "If any man come to me, and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot by my disciple.




Now, I really don't think that Jesus means literally hating all of these things, otherwise He would be contradicting Himself. So what does it mean? I am only making a guess on this one but I believe that it means by putting Him first in front of all those things and by knowing that although this life that we have here on earth is a gift from God, it isn't all there is and where we spend our eternal life is what we should be more focused on.

 

[for_his_glory]

You answered your own question as that is what it means is to put Jesus first above all. We are to honor our mother and father, but even they come second after Christ being first.

 

[HeIsRisen2018]

You answered your own question as that is what it means is to put Jesus first above all. We are to honor our mother and father, but even they come second after Christ being first.

Oh. Lol, that's a first. I'm going to be completely one hundred percent honest with you. I'm pretty ashamed of it, but I don't always do that even though I know I should. But hey, I don't really think that comes as any surprise to God. After all, I think that we all are guilty of that from time to time. Jesus knew that we were sinners, and that's the whole entire reason that He died on the cross for us in the first place.

 

[Jim Parker]

I really don't think that Jesus means literally hating all of these things

Right. He's using hyperbole.
But the point is that following Him has to take priority over everything else, even family.
For example; if a Jehovah's Witness gets born again and leaves the JWs, no one in the organization is allowed to ever speak to him again including his family.
To leave, he has to love Jesus more than family.
I have a friend who was a total pagan but marries to a beautiful Mormon woman and they had two children.
He got saved.
She immediately divorced him; left and took the children with her.
He chose Jesus over his wife and family.
It happens all the time.

iakov the fool

 

[Corn Pop]

The one verse you never hear quoted that people stay away from. Lol.

 

[Edward]

In Luke 14:26 Jesus says; "If any man come to me, and does not hate his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot by my disciple.




Now, I really don't think that Jesus means literally hating all of these things, otherwise He would be contradicting Himself. So what does it mean? I am only making a guess on this one but I believe that it means by putting Him first in front of all those things and by knowing that although this life that we have here on earth is a gift from God, it isn't all there is and where we spend our eternal life is what we should be more focused on.

For His Glory is exactly right. It's about a turning away spiritually away from your family here, to your real family who is Him. Those aren't your kids, their His kids...your Brothers and Sisters. We were put into a situational predicament so that we could suffer, (even as Jesus Himself did), so that we can learn what God wants to teach us. We may love our family here, but that's just where we landed in the drop zone.

Since Jesus knew us before we were in the womb...we already existed and our memory is being restrained from us while we train here. We may have and probably did agree to come be born into the family that were born into, before we were born.

Now we are expected to be able to turn to Him first and foremost even before Mom and Grandma! When we do, that is when we find out that He sticks closer than any of our family ever did. He's done way more for me than any of my family ever has. My family is always pretty good to me too. So we gotta give Him more attention than we do to our family. This is what pleases Him. He also told us, be good to your Brothers and Sisters...walk in love.

 

[HeIsRisen2018]

Well this might sound stupid but I had to look that thing about Mormons up because I just assumed that they were Christians. Anyway, hypothetically speaking I would never leave my Christian beliefs just because somebody wanted me to, but I would never force them upon friends and or family that didn't agree with me either. Luckily I have never had that problem before though. And I'm sorry Edward but I must disagree with you. I don't believe we had any say of the types of families that we were born (or in my case adopted) into. I believe that was part of God's plan not ours.