My Brothers - Luke 8:19-21

Luke 8:19-21 NASB
And His mother and brothers came to Him, and they were unable to get to Him because of the crowd. And it was reported to Him, “Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, wishing to see You.” But He answered and said to them, “My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.”

Understanding the word means doing the word. It is in embracing the word, making it ours, that we become one with the word, we enter into the brotherhood of the sons of God.

The Greek word for "do" includes the idea of construction, creating. In effect, we are co-creators
with God in the new creation. The creation story includes what follows after Genesis. God makes no mistakes. We are part of the creation story. We are the body of Christ through Whom creation came to be, for Whom creation was made.

We individually perform the charge that God gave Adam, to subdue the earth, to be fruitful and multiply.

It is the second Adam, Jesus, that makes this possible. Through Him we receive the Spirit, the breath of life. The the dust of the earth becomes a living being, a suitable companion for the Creator of the universe.


Hebrews 2:11-12
For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying,
“I will tell of your name to my brothers;
in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise.”

2 Corinthians 5:16-19
From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

John 15:15-17
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. These things I command you, so that you will love one another.

James 1:22-25
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

Do
ποιεω [Skt. assoc.] – 1. ‘produce someth. material’ – a. of divine productivity make, create Mt 19:4; Lk 11:40; Ac 4:24; 7:50; 17:24; Hb 1:2; 12:27; Rv 14:7. – b. of human manufacture or construction make, construct