1. O Brother, Where Art Thou? Sibling Relationships in God’s Family March 2, 2014

3. “I need God’s family and God’s family needs me”

4. John 13:12-17 “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them. 13 “You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. 14 Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.

5. John 13:15-17 15 I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. 16 Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 17 Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

6. 1. You Are Brothers (and Sisters)

7. Mark 3:34-35 Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! 35 Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.”

8. Mark 10:29-30 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel 30 will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age:

9. Mark 10:30...homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields— along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life.

10. Romans 8:15-17 The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”

11. Romans 8:16-17 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. 17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

13. Decisions: 1) Make God Your Father 2) Meet Spiritually Needs in God’s Family - pray, fast, share 3) Meet Physical Needs in God’s Family - sick, meals, $