“For whoever will do the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.”

The new household of God is made up of all who do the will of His Father, that is those who have heard His own words and are responding to His teaching because they have repented and entered under the Kingly Rule of Heaven (Matthew 7:21). It is they who are now His new relations, under their Father in Heaven Who is Father of them all. They are the community spoken to in the Sermon on the Mount where God's Fatherhood of them was stressed. This is the basis of the new congregation of Israel under the Kingly Rule of God (Matthew 18:18; Matthew 21:43) The Messianic family prepared for in Matthew 11:1 is being established. The Kingly Rule of Heaven is forcefully advancing (Matthew 11:12), and its advance will now be openly portrayed in chapter 13.

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