Page 19 - Enemies Within Our Household

daughter against her mother, and the daughter

in law against her mother in law.” So there's

going to be hostility and opposition sometimes

in the immediate family. But if a family is

walking as Aquila and Priscilla who were both

saved and loved God and were on the same

page, then there will not be hostility in that

family.

But in many families there's hostility, and it's

not God's fault. When the Lord Jesus speaks of

sending a sword, I want you to look at the

context and see what He is talking about. He's

talking about opposition from the outside. He

says in verse 23, “But when they persecute you

in this city…,” and as we come to verse 24,

Jesus says, “The disciple is not

above his master, nor the servant above his

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