God's Family Values

By Carolyn W. Mitchell

This book uses Scriptures to help families understand the kind of relationships that God values. It describes each family member's responsibility in the positions they hold: husband, wife, parent, child. It discusses relationships from the very first family to the church family and reveals that the common thread to successful, godly relationships is mutual respect and love for God. Indeed it is a family affair!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Carolyn W. Mitchell
• Release date: May 31, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393768784

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Introduction

The word family applies to all the free moral offspring’s of God—whether by direct creation, begetting or adoption—past, present, or future, and includes all principalities—human and angelic, flesh, and spirit.

Webster’s New World dictionary gives four distinct definitions of the word, family:

A group of persons of common ancestry.

The basic unit in society having as its nucleus two or more adults living together and cooperating in the care and rearing of their own or adopted children.

A group of individuals living under one roof and usually under one head, i.e., household.

A group of people united by certain convictions or a common affiliation, i.e., fellowship.

The Hebrew word for family in the Old Testament is Mishpachah (mish-paw-khaw) and means a circle of relatives; a tribe or people.

The Greek word for family in the New Testament is Patria (pa-tri-ah) and means paternal descent; a group of families; a whole race or nation.

In the spirit world are cherubim, seraphim, archangels, and common angels. In the flesh world, there are Gentiles and Jews, who with spirit beings, make up the whole family of God in heaven and in earth.

Whether through divorce, adultery, rebellion, or indifference, Satan is out to destroy families—your family—and he will if given a chance, and if Jesus is not in control. By being obedient to the standards set forth in the Word of God, your family can be what God, wants it to be.

Christians must accept the fact that their standards are different from the world’s standards. Christians are the salt of the earth and the light of the world Matthew 5:13-16, and God calls them to a higher standard.

Living different from the world is never easy—even when God’s Word speaks very clearly on certain issues. Christians have been so conditioned by society that they sometimes have a hard time hearing, understanding, and applying what He said.

The Bible calls for Christians to think, speak, and act in a new and unique way. They are to set their minds on things above rather than on things of the world (Colossians 3:2), to put in the new self (Ephesians 4:24 and Colossians 3:10); walk in their calling (Ephesians 4:1), and to no longer walk as unbelievers (Ephesians 4:17). Christians have been transferred from the dominion of darkness to the kingdom of God’s beloved Son (Colossians 1:13).

The objective of the Christian is to be unique, different, and set apart. In other words, they are to be distinct from the world—to be filled with the Spirit of God. When a believer is filled with the things of the world instead, there is no