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Isaiah 54:13 - A United Family.

Isaiah 54:13 (NKJV) All your children shall 
be taught by the LORD, And great shall be the 
peace of your children.  

Isaiah 54:13 (ESV) All your children shall 
be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the 
peace of your children.  

COMMENTARY PEARL

   The family is the basic unit of society. 
But from the very beginning, since man sinned 
against God, the family has been in trouble. The 
first crime we read about in the Bible occurred 
when Cain killed his brother Abel. Instead of 
love, family life all too often became marked by 
conflict and tension. 
   For best results in marriage and building 
a stable home, follow the instructions of the 
One who performed the first wedding in the 
Garden of Eden. Those instructions are in the 
Bible. The reason the family is in critical 
condition today is that we have neglected His rules 
for a successful home. We have put self in place 
of sacrifice. We have valued things more than 
we have valued people. 
   You can have the right kind of home. Your 
home can be united if it is now divided. The 
place to begin is on your knees, asking Christ for 
forgiveness and then asking God to give you a new love 
for each other - and for Him. Don't let your 
family drift apart, but with God's help resist the 
pressures and come together around the Cross. 
   The greatest commandments apply to the 
family as a whole just as they do an individual 
believer.  Love the Lord with all your might and your 
neighbor (spouse / child) as yourself.  Families 
could be healed if we went back to the basics. 
[Hope for Each Day by Billy Graham] 

COMMENTARY

   And He answered and said to them, "Have 
you not read that He who made them at the 
beginning 'made them male and female,' and said, 'For 
this reason a man shall leave his father and 
mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall 
become one flesh'? So then, they are no longer two 
but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined 
together, let not man separate." Matthew 19:4-6 
(NKJV) 
   When the Pharisees afterward questioned 
Him concerning the lawfulness of divorce, Jesus 
pointed His hearers back to the marriage institution 
as ordained at creation. "Because of the 
hardness of your hearts," He said, Moses "suffered 
you to put away your wives: but from the 
beginning it was not so." Matthew 19:8. He referred 
them to the blessed days of Eden, when God 
pronounced all things "very good." Then marriage and 
the Sabbath had their origin, twin institutions 
for the glory of God in the benefit of humanity. 
Then, as the Creator joined the hands of the holy 
pair in wedlock, saying, A man shall "leave his 
father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his 
wife: and they shall be one" (Genesis 2:24), He 
enunciated the law of marriage for all the children of 
Adam to the close of time. That which the Eternal 
Father Himself had pronounced good was the law of 
highest blessing and development for man.  
   Like every other one of God's good gifts 
entrusted to the keeping of humanity, marriage has 
been perverted by sin; but it is the purpose of 
the gospel to restore its purity and beauty. In 
both the Old and the New Testament the marriage 
relation is employed to represent the tender and 
sacred union that exists between Christ and His 
people, the redeemed ones whom He has purchased at 
the cost of Calvary. "Fear not," He says; "thy 
Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is His 
name; and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel." 
"Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for 
I am married unto you." Isaiah 54:4, 5; 
Jeremiah 3:14. In the "Song of Songs" we hear the 
bride's voice saying, "My Beloved is mine, and I am 
His." And He who is to her "the chiefest among ten 
thousand," speaks to His chosen one, "Thou art all 
fair, My love; there is no spot in thee." Song of 
Solomon 2:16; 5:10; 4:7.  
   In later times Paul the apostle, writing 
to the Ephesian Christians, declares that the 
Lord has constituted the husband the head of the 
wife, to be her protector, the house-band, binding 
the members of the family together, even as 
Christ is the head of the church and the Saviour of 
the mystical body. Therefore he says, "As the 
church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be 
to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, 
love your wives, even as Christ also loved the 
church, and gave Himself for it; that He might 
sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by 
the word, that He might present it to Himself a 
glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any 
such thing; but that it should be holy and 
without blemish. So ought men to love their wives." 
Ephesians 5:24-28.  
   The grace of Christ, and this alone, can 
make this institution what God designed it should 
be--an agent for the blessing and uplifting of 
humanity. And thus the families of earth, in their 
unity and peace and love, may represent the family 
of heaven.  
   Now, as in Christ's day, the condition of 
society presents a sad comment upon heaven's ideal 
of this sacred relation. Yet even for those who 
have found bitterness and disappointment where 
they had hoped for companionship and joy, the 
gospel of Christ offers a solace. The patience and 
gentleness which His Spirit can impart will sweeten the 
bitter lot. The heart in which Christ dwells will 
be so filled, so satisfied, with His love that 
it will not be consumed with longing to attract 
sympathy and attention to itself. And through the 
surrender of the soul to God, His wisdom can 
accomplish what human wisdom fails to do. Through the 
revelation of His grace, hearts that were once 
indifferent or estranged may be united in bonds that are 
firmer and more enduring than those of earth--the 
golden bonds of a love that will bear the test of 
trial. MB63-5 

EXCELLENT PRESENTATION THAT RELATES TO THIS 
TOPIC 

When Inches Become Miles by Randy Roberts 
10-08-2022 | Loma Linda University Church 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkoNMmglSxM&t=2107s 

PASSAGES FOR FURTHER STUDY: 

Genesis 2:18 (NIV) The Lord God said, "It is 
not good for the man to be alone. I will make a 
helper suitable for him."  

Ecclesiastes 4:9, 10 (NLT) Two people are 
better off than one, for they can help each other 
succeed. If one person falls, the other can reach out 
and help. But someone who falls alone is in real 
trouble.  

YOUR COMMENTS

If anyone has a paraphrase, commentary or 
testimony on this passage of Scripture, either 
personal or otherwise, I would be interested in 
hearing from you.  Thanks in advance and let's keep 
uplifting Jesus that all might be drawn to Him. Fred 
Gibbs  

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