Why Did Jesus Tell His Disciples to Hate Their Families? 

Happy that TikTok brought to your channel here. Obvi much more in depth ❤️✝️❤️

Wonderful illustration.Very grateful for the correlation between salt,sun water and turning back from being a disciple to a non disciple. God Bless and may He continue to guide you in illustrations. Was great sermon. Thanks

Some solid scripture based logic.

Insightful Chad. We live the promise as we mourn our sons. Prayers always for you and your family. Sam

Excellent teaching! God bless you!

Great lesson with careful Old testament exegesis

I appreciate your analysis here, especially regarding the OT. You're helping me to think about this in different ways. But I also think you're leaving out some important stuff and coming to some faulty conclusions. While obviously the Gospels were written in Greek, I agree with you that looking at the Hebrew conception of things can help us to clarify how Jesus and his fellow Jews would've understood "hate" as it is used in Luke 14:26: _"Hate, Hatred (from De Gruyter's Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, 2015)_ _"The English term reflects an extreme negative emotion associated with hostility and aversion. There is no directly equivalent word in biblical Hebrew. The root most often translated as "hate" is -n-, though it has a much broader range of meanings. These words emphasize being against someone or something but do not necessarily include negative emotions. The actions resulting from this range broadly from simple separation to active verbal or destructive hostility."_ Jesus's teachings elsewhere throughout the Gospels fall on the far end of that spectrum, as "simple separation." When one of his disciples asks for some time to bury his father (Matthew 8:21; Luke 9:59), Jesus replies, _let the dead bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God._ Or when Jesus's mother and brothers come wanting to speak with him as he preaches to a crowd (Matthew 12:46-50; Luke 19:21), he replies: _"Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?" And pointing to his disciples, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother."_ Or Matthew 19:29 when he states bluntly, _"And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields, for my name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold, and will inherit eternal life."_ Here's a more complete list of Jesus's anti-familial teachings: _Matthew 8:20-22, Matthew 10:34-36, Matthew 12:46-50, Matthew 19:29, Matthew 23:9, Matthew 19:10-12, Matthew 22:30, Mark 3:32-34, Mark 10:29-30, Mark 12:25, Luke 2:48-50, Luke 9:59-62, Luke 14:26, Luke 20:34-36, John 19:25-27._ The spirit/flesh distinction is an important bit of context I think you're leaving out as well. Being "born again" is about being born into a new family where God is the Father. It's an adoptive, _spiritual_ family of choice, as opposed to the involuntary family of the _flesh._ This is why Jesus dissociates from his own biological kin and urges his followers to do the same. He is attempting to dismantle that smaller circle, and to replace it with a much larger circle of love and inclusion, which could potentially include all of humanity. It's much more radical and straightforward than you portray it, in that he is challenging what is widely regarded as a fundamental unit of society, because for him it is an impediment or obstruction for expanding the circles of love. _"But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God."_ - John 1:12-13 I think the pattern is clear enough. Jesus is not expressing anger, hostility or aggression when he calls for his followers to separate from their biological kin. It's not how many modern apologists like to spin it, when they claim that a follower should merely be prepared to leave their family if they get in the way of their faith. No, it was more radical than that. He brought a "sword"! (Matthew 10:34-39) However, it's important to emphasize that none of this implies that one's biological kin cannot also join the new, adoptive family of spirit. This point is made explicit in John 19:26-27: _When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her, he said to his mother, “Woman, here is your son.” Then he said to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home._

I feel super grateful that my family makes it so easy for me to hate them. Thus, not detracting from God. Essentially, aiding me in keeping the 1st commandment. Thanks Mom and Dad. 😃

These verses were of course before the cross and the coming of the Holy Spirit. When we receive the Holy Spirit, He *is* our Center. So it is next to impossible to have anyone else in that place- whether family, work or even self. Because when He is there, you realize that no one else could ever be there. No one else is worthy. That saying "We all have a God-shaped hole that only He can fill" comes to mind.

Thanks for your great insight! Then Rev. Chad, did you find any Hebrew meaning of "sitting down first"? Coincidently both parables show the same sentence structure like "sit down first and do something"

I am having such a hard time with Luke 14:26 against so many scriptures, especially the following: Leviticus 19:17 (NLT), “Do not nurse hatred in your heart for any of your relatives....." Luke 14:26 (NLT), “If you want to be my disciple, you must, by comparison, hate everyone else-your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters-yes, even your own life. Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple. Deuteronomy 30:7, The Lord your God will inflict all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate and persecute you. Psalm 34:21, Calamity will surely destroy the wicked, and those who hate the righteous will be punished. 1 Timothy 5:8 (NLT) "But those who won’t care for their relatives, especially those in their own household, have denied the true faith. Such people are worse than unbelievers." 1 Timothy 5:8 (NLT) "Take care of[b] any widow who has no one else to care for her. 4 But if she has children or grandchildren, their FIRST RESPONSIBILITY is to show godliness at home and repay their parents by taking care of them. This is something that pleases God." If anyone has an uplifting word of advice for me, I'd sure appreciate it!

He didn't,He said He was going to cause division between believing,and unbelieving family members,And that we should place God and His Son above worldly family members.

This is about the condition of your heart. You MUST give EVERYTHING to Him and He MUST see what you WILL DO for Him. I have left everyone for him. Mother, Father and brothers all of whom reject Jesus. If this is your situation also, LEAVE.

All disciples of the kingdom of God are christians, yes. But are all christians also disciples? Just curious. And I'm asking a question, not questioning.

Christ never said that