The most blessed family in the Bible.
The most blessed family in the Bible is a unified family!
What does is show? If a family of 6 people on Sunday go 4 different kinds of churches?
Yes, you can say, it is a wonderful, unselfish family, most liberal family…
In reality, it also displays these short comings in the family!
1. Lack of respect for the father!
2. Lack of leadership quality on the oldest member of the family!
3. This family accepted different teachings from different churches!
4. Display the most destructive and most ancient rebellious characters!
5. Yes, this fits well with the trend of this world!
6. All the above plus more are results of disobeying what is in the Bible and the result is obvious!
What does the Bible says about family unity?
A. The Cornelius family!
1. He and all his family were devout and God-fearing. Acts 10:2
2. Peter was invited to preach to this family. Acts 10:33
3. Cornelius, the father of the family, said: So I sent for you immediately, and it was good of you to come.
Now we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has commanded you to tell us.
4. As we can see, this father has the respect of all members in the family.
5. This father has the most important wisdom on earth!
We are here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has commanded you to tell us!
6. May the world forever learned! This is one most blessed family!
B. Lydia and the members of her household! Acts 16:13-15
1. On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer.
We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there. Acts 16:13
2. One of those listening was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira,
who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul's message. Acts.16:14
3. When she and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home.
‘If you consider me a believer in the Lord," she said, "come and stay at my house."
And she persuaded us. Acts 16:15
C. The Philippians jailer family. Acts 16:30-34
1. He then brought them out and asked: Sirs, what must I do to be saved? Acts 16:30
2. They replied: Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved-- you and your household. Acts 16:31
3. Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all the others in his house. Acts 16:32
4. At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all
his family were baptized. Acts 16:33
5. And he brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his
house, having believed in God. Acts 16:34
D. I believe this apply to a family too! 1 Cor.1:10, Acts 2:1, John 17:20-23
1. I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another
so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought.
2. And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. Acts 2:1
3. Jesus prayer for complete unity of all believers! John 17:20-23
My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message,
that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so
that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that
they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let
the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
Conclusion: This may well be the way for faith in the Lord to pass on to generations to come! 2 Tim.1:5
I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your
mother Eunice and, I am persuaded, now lives in you also.
May the Lord bless you and keep you always! Preach this on November 1, 2015