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Mateus 10
William MacDonald - Denial of Christ on earth will be repaid with denial before God in heaven. To deny Christ in this sense means to refuse to recognize His claims over one's life. Those whose lives say, in effect, "I never knew You" will hear Him say at last, "I never knew you." The Lord is not referring to a temporary denial of Him under pressure, as in Peter's case, but to that kind of denial that is habitual and final. (Borrow Believer's Bible Commentary) A T
Mateus 10
William MacDonald - It is a curious mark of man's perverted nature that ungodly relatives would often rather have their son a drunkard and dissolute person than have him take a public stand as a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ! This paragraph disproves the theory that Jesus came to unite all humanity (godly and ungodly) into a single "universal brotherhood of man." Rather, He divided them as they have never been divided before! (Believer's Bible Commentary - borrow) Matthew 10:36 and A MAN’S ENEMIES WILL BE THE MEMBERS OF HIS HOUSEHOLD. Ge 3:15 Ge 4:8-10 37:17-28 1Sa 17:28 2Sa 16:11 Job 19:13-19 Ps 41:9 55:13 Jer 12:6 20:10 Mic 7:6 Joh 13:8 Related Passages: Micah 7:6+ For (Mic 7:7) son treats father contemptuously, Daughter rises up against her mother, Daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; A man’s enemies are the men of his own household. WHEN HOME BECOMES HOSTILE and A MAN’S ENEMIES (echthros) WILL BE THE MEMBERS OF HIS HOUSEHOLD - Jesus is preparing His disciples for the reality that following Him will bring division, even among those closest to them. He declares that He did not come to bring peace in the superficial sense, “but a sword,” meaning that the truth of the gospel cuts through human loyalties and exposes the heart’s true allegiance. Jesus' message will divide families because of the radical choice it demands. When one person follows Christ and another rejects Him, even family bonds can become strained or broken, fulfilling the reality that “a man’s enemies will be the members of his household” (cf. Micah 7:6+). In Micah’s time, this described a society so corrupt that even family bonds were broken by sin and rebellion against God. Jesus applies this same truth to the spiritual conflict that arises when people respond differently to Him—some accepting Him as Lord, others rejecting Him. The division Jesus describes is not the goal of the gospel but a consequence of that truth confronting a fallen world. The sword in this context is not a call to violence but a symbol of division, for Jesus causes an unavoidable separation between those who belong to Christ and those who do not. Thus, the sword (Mt 10:34) represents relational division caused by a decisive commitment to Christ. Loyalty to Him must take precedence over all earthly ties (cf. Luke 14:26+), and this often results in conflict where the gospel is opposed. The point is not that Jesus desires division, but that truth demands a response, and that response inevitably separates those who believe from those who do not (cf. John 3:19–21+). This truth is painful, but it reveals the cost of discipleship. Jesus calls His followers to love Him above all else, even above family ties as He will explain in the following passage. MacArthur rightly warns that "The offense of the gospel often causes those who reject and hate it to make outcasts of even family members who believe it. In Matthew 10:21+ Jesus revealed how far family division over Him could go: “Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.” But He made the following comforting promise to those who lose their earthly families because of the gospel: “Everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name’s sake, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life” (Matt. 19:29)." (See Luke Commentary) Matthew 10:37 “He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. NLT - If you love your father or mother more than you love me, you are not worthy of being mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine. MIT Matthew 10:37 The one affectionately attached to father or mother more than to me is not worthy of me. Also one so attached to a son or daughter more than to me is not worthy of me. GWN "The person who loves his father or mother more than me does not deserve to be my disciple. The person who loves a son or daughter more than me does not deserve to be my disciple. loves: Mt 22:37 De 33:9 Lu 14:26 Joh 5:23 Jn 21:15-17 2Co 5:14,15 Php 3:7-9 not: Mt 22:8 Lu 20:35 21:36 2Th 1:5-7 Rev 3:4 Related Passages: Matthew 22:37+ And He said to him, “ ‘YOU SHALL LOVE (agapao) THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.’ LOVE FOR CHRIST TO BE ABOVE ALL OTHERS He who loves (phileo - present tense - continually) father or mother more than Me is not (ou, ouk, ouch = absolute negation) worthy (áxios) of Me; and he who loves (phileo - present tense - continually) son or daughter more than Me is not (ou, ouk, ouch = absolute negation) worthy (áxios) of Me - Lk 14:26+ says “If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple." Matthew's version helps understand Luke's "hate." When we compare Luke and Matthew, we can understand that Jesus is not using hate in an absolute sense, but in a relative sense. In other words, Jesus calls for such love and devotion of Himself, that by comparison all other relationships appear to be hatred. Jesus does not prohibit love of those close to us, but calls for our greatest love to be toward Himself. 🙏 THOUGHT - How does your loyalty to Jesus compare to your loyalty to others? When we evaluate our devotion to every earthly tie, they must all be given a lesser place with Jesus alone receiving preeminence. Jesus is calling for complete commitment. Jesus is calling us to love Him above every person and every thing! Are you convicted? John MacArthur on not worthy - The phrase is not worthy of Me identifies the person who will not come to Christ because of other intimate and meaningful relationships that might be affected.....Because the intervention in history by the Son of God was going to split and fracture human relationships, Jesus determined that His disciples be prepared for that experience. Martin Luther said, "If our gospel were received in peace, it would not be the true gospel." Luther's preaching and teaching produced the greatest rift in the history of religion, challenging the unbiblical teachings and practices of the Catholic Church and shattering its millennium of complacency and political power....John Bunyan was told to quit preaching or be thrown in prison. He knew that if he went to prison his wife and children would be left destitute. They had little enough to eat and wear when he was free; but if he were imprisoned they would be totally impoverished. Yet he knew he must preach the gospel God had called him to preach. Because he refused to stop preaching, he was imprisoned; and from his cell he wrote, The parting with my wife and poor children hath often been to me in this place as the pulling of the flesh from my bones; and that not only because I am somewhat too fond of these great mercies, but also because I would have often brought to my mind the many hardships, miseries, and wants that my poor family was like to meet with, should I be taken from them, especially my poor blind child, who lay nearer my heart than all I have besides. Oh, the thought of the hardship I thought my blind one might go under would break my heart to pieces.... But yet, recalling myself, thought I, I must venture all with God, though it goeth to the quick to leave you. Oh, I saw in this condition, I was a man who was pulling down his house upon the bead of his wife and children; yet thought I, I must do it. I must do it (See Matthew Commentary - Page 231) Christ must be first. He herein claims the highest place in every human breast. Spurgeon Commentary Christ must be first. He herein claims the highest place in every human breast. Could he have done so had he not been divine? No mere prophet would talk in this fashion. Yet we are not sensible of the slightest egotism in his speech, neither does it occur to us that he goes beyond his line. We are conscious that the Son of God has a right to speak thus, and only he. We must earnestly beware of making idols of our dearest ones, by loving them more than Jesus. We must never set them near the throne of our King. We are not worthy to dwell with Christ above, nor even to be associated with him here, if any earthly object is judged by us to be worthy to rival the Lord Jesus. Father and mother, son and daughter — we would do anything to please them; but, as opposed to Jesus, they stand nowhere, and cannot for an instant be allowed to come in the way of our supreme loyalty to our Lord. Love (5368) phileo from phílos = loved, dear, friend) means to be a friend to another, to be fond of (have a liking for) an individual or an object, to have or show affection for. In some contexts it means to kiss another as a mark of tenderness for that person. Phileo denotes personal attachment and is more a matter of sentiment or feeling. It is devotion based in the emotions distinguished from agapao which represents devotion based in the will. Stated another way phileo is chiefly of the heart whereas agape is chiefly of the head. Phileo is a love which is the response of the human spirit to what appeals to it as pleasurable. Phileo is a love which consists of the glow of the heart kindled by the perception of that in the object which affords us pleasure. Phileo is the response of the human spirit to what appeals to it as pleasurable. The Greeks made much of friendship. Phileo was used to speak of a friendly affection. Phileo is a love called out of one in response to a feeling of pleasure or delight which one experiences from an apprehension of qualities in another that furnish such pleasure or delight. Phileo is friendship love, this "friendship factor" sadly often missing in marriages. In Scripture phileo is used to describe the love of God the Father and the Son, of Jesus and Peter, and of Jonathan and David. Click here for an in depth 4 PAGE discussion of PHILEO in the New International Dictionary of the New Testament PHILEO - 21V - Matt. 6:5; Matt. 10:37; Matt. 23:6; Matt. 26:48; Mk. 14:44; Lk. 20:46; Lk. 22:47; Jn. 5:20; Jn. 11:3; Jn. 11:36; Jn. 12:25; Jn. 15:19; Jn. 16:27; Jn. 20:2; Jn. 21:15; Jn. 21:16; Jn. 21:17; 1 Co. 16:22; Tit. 3:15; Rev. 3:19; Rev. 22:15 Matthew 10:38 “And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. Mt 16:24 27:32 Mk 8:34 10:21 Lu 9:23,24 14:27 Joh 19:17 Related Passages: Matthew 16:24+ Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. Mark 8:34+ And He summoned the crowd with His disciples, and said to them, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. Luke 9:23-24+ And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. 24 “For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it. THE COST IS TAKING ONE'S CROSS And he who does not take (present tense - lifestyle) his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. - Note Luke 9:23 calls for us to daily take up our cross! This reference to a cross needed no explanation, for the Jews had seen thousands of their countrymen crucified by the Romans. Allegiance even to death is demanded of Christ's followers. This is not a popular teaching in an affluent culture like America. The cross Jesus refers to is not difficult circumstances we all encounter, but is a willingness to sacrifice everything to Christ, even if that means one's life. Leon Morris on taking up one's cross: "Jesus was speaking about a death to a whole way of life; he was talking about the utmost in self-sacrifice, a very death to selfishness and all forms of self-seeking" (Borrow The Gospel According to Matthew) NET Note on Mt 10:38 - It was customary practice in a Roman crucifixion for the prisoner to be made to carry his own cross. Jesus is speaking figuratively here in the context of rejection. If the priority is not one's allegiance to Jesus, then one will not follow him in the face of possible rejection. A T