House of God
Today’s Topic: Representation Rule: Representation and Reality
Scripture: Matthew 5:16; Romans 12:1,2
Greetings Kingdom Citizens:
When we view life through the prism of the soul then the most important thing to you is your survival. You tend to live in a comfort realm only desiring to see what you want to see that view is the curtain at intermission of the play and all you can see are shadows. When you live by the Spirit then you see life the way God sees it and that is the true reality of life.
The unique thing about God is that God does not veer away from His plan, Will and purpose. His purpose for us is to bring His rulership to the Earth. However you cannot effectively do this by ruling by the soul because that rulership is a darkened view of what God clearly wants to show you. Now that brings me to today’s topic of representation and reality.
One of the huge problems in the church is understanding that what is representational is not the actual reality but something to show you a reality about the invisible God. As sons of God we have a challenge to see both things the representation and the reality. Yes we need to see the representation but our perception should not stop there because we desire to see the substance or reality of God based upon the representation god has given us. Let me give you a great example and it is from the words of the Lord.
Matthew 5:16:”Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in Heaven”
Now we have taken that scripture and said this: “let the world see your benevolence and your charity and let them give glory to God whom they have not seen, by reason of your charity. The problem with this view point is it makes a point of our works DONE ON BEHALF OF GOD. Now you may say well what is the difference? This is the difference. When the scripture speaks of they may see your good works and glorify the Father, this points to the fact that WE DO THE WORKS OF THE FATHER. The Father is doing the work through us.
That may seem small but the difference is huge because one points to the self and you doing the work on behalf. Now the problem is you cannot do the the work of the Father by yourself within your own strength. So when you say you do something on behalf of means you do it within your own strength but to do the works of the Father, they can only be done in His strength and submission to His Will by presenting your body as a living sacrifice (Romans 12:1,2). Hence you have Jesus saying “I do nothing of myself”. Hmm. Now representational rule now has a concept in that when we do the works of the Father, we do them not in our own strength but in His strength and power He gives to us through Holy Spirit. The works we do are of those of the Father and He gets the glory not us.
In the next message we will look at an example of representation and reality in the aspect of marriage.
At the Father’s Service,
Elder Calvin Calhoun Jr.
