NOT WITHOUT HONOR BUT....... WELL......
"IS NOT THIS THE CARPENTER, THE SON OF MARY, THE BROTHER OF JAMES, JOSES, AND OF JUDAH, AND SIMON? AND ARE NOT HIS SISTERS HERE WITH US; AND THEY WERE OFFENDED AT HIM!
BUT JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, A PROPHET IS NOT WITHOUT HONOR, BUT IN HIS OWN COUNTRY, AND AMONG HIS OWN KIN, AND IN HIS OWN HOUSE...... AND HE COULD THERE DO NO MIGHTY WORK SAVE THAT HE LAID HANDS UPON A FEW SICK FOLK, AND HEALED THEM.
AND HE MARVELLED BECAUSE OF THEIR UNBELIEF......" (Mark 6:3-5)
FIRST: YES JESUS HAD PHYSICAL BROTHERS AND SISTERS!
TO THINK THAT JOSEPH AND MARY DID NOT HAVE A REGULAR TYPE MARRIAGE, WITH MANY CHILDREN AS WAS THE CUSTOM BACK THEN [JUST AS IT WAS FOR MOST IN THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES] IS A FALSE DOCTRINE OF SILLY MINDED THEOLOGY, FROM STRANGE AND FALSE CHRISTIANITY GROUPS.
DURING JESUS' MINISTRY THE GOSPELS SAY NOTHING ABOUT JESUS' HALF BROTHERS AND SISTERS BELIEVING IN HIM! DURING THAT 3 AND 1/2 YEARS THEY COULD NOT ACCEPT HIM AS THE PROMISED MESSIAH, THE SON OF GOD.
BUT EVEN MORE; THE PEOPLE WHO KNEW JESUS IN A SOMEWHAT PERSONAL WAY, AS THE CHILD THEY SAW GROWING UP IN THEIR AREA OF THE PROMISED LAND, THEY JUST COULD ALSO NOT ACCEPT HIM AS THE PROMISED MESSIAH, THE SON OF GOD.
WHAT "PERSONAL INTERACTION" CAN DO AT TIMES TO BEFUDDLE THE MIND OF PEOPLE; THEY JUST CAN'T ACCEPT THAT SOMEONE THEY HAVE KNOWN IN A PERSONAL WAY, CAN BE SO HIGHLY USED OF GOD,
IT IS THE PROVERBIAL "FAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTEMPT" - AND IT HAPPENED TO JESUS!
NOW JESUS THEY NO DOUBT HAD HEARD, HAD BEEN DOING GREAT MIRACLES, SUCH AS NO ONE ELSE HAD EVER DONE. YET EVEN KNOWING THAT MIGHTY MIRACLES HAD COME FORTH FROM HIM, THEY WERE SO ENTRENCHED WITH FAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTEMPT, IT CLOUDED AND TWISTED THEIR MIND, SO THEY COULD NOT BELIEVE IN HIM.
INDEED IT SURELY WAS A STUNNING REALITY MARVEL, EVEN TO JESUS, THAT THEY HAD SUCH UNBELIEF. AND IT WAS OF SUCH POWER JESUS COULD DO NO MIGHTY WORK AMONG THEM!
SO IT IS WITH HUMAN NATURE.
SOME HAVE KNOWN ME 50, 40, 30 YEARS AGO; MANY CAME THROUGH THE SAME "CHURCH" AND THEOLOGICAL WORLD I WAS IN. MANY, MAYBE MOST, HAVE LEFT AND GONE BACK INTO THE WORLD, AND UNBELIEF IN GOD AND CHRIST. BUT SOME HAVE STAYED THE COURSE, WELL TO AN EXTENT. SURELY SOME OF THEM HAVE COME ACROSS MY WEBSITE...... LOADED WITH TRUTH AFTER TRUTH.....LOADED WITH CORRECTING ERROR AND PROCLAIMING THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER.
HAVE THEY CONTACTED ME?
VERY VERY, AND VERY AGAIN, FEW, HAVE DONE SO OVER THE LAST 36 YEARS.
HOW TRUE IT IS THAT FAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTEMPT!
THEY MAY SAY, WELL WE KNEW KEITH HUNT WHEN HE WAS A SHOE MAKER; THEY MAY SAY WE KNEW KEITH HUNT WHEN HE WAS A MUSIC TEACHER; SOME MAY SAY WELL KEITH HUNT....HE'S JUST A COWBOY OUT THERE IN THE COWBOY CAPITAL OF CANADA - CALGARY. YA WE KNOW HE'S A MAN WITH SINS LIKE THE REST OF US, WHY SHOULD WE BELIEVE GOD HAS AND IS USING HIM TO BRING THE TRUTHS OF GOD'S WORD TO US AND THE WORLD..... AH YES HUMBUG TO KEITH HUNT.
SO IF THEY KNOW OF MY WEBSITE THEY WILL NOT GO THERE TO PROVE ALL THINGS, TO HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS, TO GROW IN GRACE AND KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS CHRIST.
BUT OTHERS WHO DO NOT HAVE FAMILIARITY BREEDING CONTEMPT, WHO HAVE NOT BEEN A PART OF MY "PERSONAL" LIFE SO TO SPEAK..... WELL AS JESUS SAID ..... THERE THEN CAN BE SOME HONOR AND RESPECT, WHICH WILL LEAD TO BELIEVING IN THE TRUTHS OF GOD'S WORD AND THE SALVATION OF LIVES.
I SHOULD NOT FEEL DISAPPOINTED IN MY WORK FOR GOD..... EVEN JESUS HAD THOSE WHO JUST COULD NOT BELIEVE HIM.
SUCH CAN BE THE DEPTHS OF SATANIC WORKINGS IN THE MINDS OF PEOPLE.
BUT IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE SO WITH YOU, YOU CAN CHOOSE TO STUDY FROM MY WEBSITE, TO PROVE ALL THINGS AND TO HOLD FAST TO THAT WHICH IS GOOD.
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