6.1-Why would Jesus say to be His disciple you must "hate" (love less?) others in your life?

6.1

Have compassion for your children and grandchildren and notice when they need first aid type help and be ready to deliver it to them.  God used Abraham to help Lot when he needed a rescue.  This is the responsibility of having the power to help someone in a crisis.

Take a humble position and trust God for wisdom and strength and guidance.  Arrogant leaders who exalt themselves will be broken by God.

Proverbs 28.

¹⁵ Like a roaring lion or a charging bear
    is a wicked ruler over a helpless people.

¹⁶ A tyrannical ruler practices extortion,
    but one who hates ill-gotten gain will enjoy a long reign.

As a leader we will make mistakes and mess up.  We need to be humble, apologize and ask forgiveness and move forward.  Great men and women of God in the Bible did so.  David was a leader and known as a man after God’s heart.  He lusted for a woman who was not his wife, he slept with her, got her pregnant, had her husband killed.  He had many bad consequences to come out of this rebellion, but he was willing to admit his sin and get forgiveness from God and continued to walk with God.  He moved forward.

Keep inviting people to the banquet of God to the best of your ability.  The banquet is forgiveness and grace from God and many other good things.  When God’s family meets together in the church it has a number of different blessings built into it. 

Do not be discouraged when they make excuses.  That is their freedom of will and of choice. Going to worship God with the church must be a decision from the heart for the leader of the home and hopefully all the members of the home and family will follow also.  It was a rule in our home that if you lived with us you went to church somewhere, not necessarily the congregation we attended.

Love Jesus with 100% of heart, soul, mind and strength.  Jesus is the giver of all our blessing.  The Bible teaches that everything that we have was created by Jesus.  Then the people who are having a good life with the family have been redeemed and ransomed from rebellion and independence by Him.

John 1.

³ Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. ⁴ In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.

Colossians 1.

¹⁵ The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. ¹⁶ For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. ¹⁷ He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. ¹⁸ And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. ¹⁹ For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, ²⁰ and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

These beloved gifts came from Jesus.  He must be number one.  We must seek His kingdom first.  We must please Him before we please each other.

Love your family as yourself.

Love your neighbor as yourself.

Pay the cost of love with all your heart and soul.

Be salty.

Luke 14.
²⁵ Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: ²⁶ “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple. ²⁷ And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.

Listen to God.

Love,

Jesus