House of God
Today’s Topic: The Oath and The Choice
Scripture: Hebrews 6:17,18
Greetings Kingdom Citizens:
God made an oath with Himself that He would have sons in the earth ruling. Let’s look at the scripture.
Hebrews 6:17,18: “Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability (unchangeability) of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath: That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which enereth into that within the veil.”
So no matter what the reality is God would have sons in the earth ruling because for all those who choose Christ they have refuge in the Body of Christ. Now the key word in the last statement is choose. When Jesus chose not to save His own life but give Himself fully to the purposes of God, choice was now available to mankind. Mankind now had the choice to be restored, to receive the vision from Heaven for the Earth, to experience the culture of the Kingdom. More importantly, because of the work done on the cross through Jesus, the natural now gives way to the spiritual. No longer does God have to talk to you through types, shadows and representations, but He can speak plainly to those who accept His Son, Jesus as Lord and believe God raised Him from the dead.
Now when we speak of the natural giving way to the spiritual we are speaking of the resurrection following birth. Birth is the natural process by which you come into the earth and your flesh is the emphasis of your birth. Now resurrection becomes the way of the new birth of the Father and now the spirit becomes the emphasis of your life. In turn we can also say the soul dominance is given way to the Spirit dominance in the life of the believer. So the process of “born again” is about the soul rulership giving way to the Spirit ruling. However this can only happen if the person truly repent and make a choice. So all of us who live in Christ have been born of the flesh and born of the Spirit. Those who allow the Spirit of God to lead can see things the way God sees them and the way they receive that revelation is Spirit to spirit, Holy Spirit to the spirit man.
At the Father’s Service,
Elder Calvin Calhoun Jr.
