House of God
Today’s Topic: Culture of the Son: Reflection of the Glory of God
Scripture: Matthew 26:42; Matthew 5:14,16; Matthew 26:38-42; John 17:22; Romans 12:1,2
Greetings Kingdom Citizens:
We left off our previous message revealing that the glory of God given to the sons of God is the sons being in Christ and Christ in the sons. Now how can the world know or see this? This is obviously an eternal and invisible reality but God tells us how. Let’s look at Matthew 5:14,16: “Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. 16-Let your light so shine before men, that they may see YOUR GOOD WORKS, AND GLORIFY YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN.” So the reflection of God’s glory is seen in your good works. Do not think for one second that it is about you! Jesus said in John 5:19:”…The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He seeth the Father do.” So it is the spirit of Counsel (Isaiah 11:2) that orders our steps to do what the Father instructs us to do. But let’s go back to these “good works”. What are they?
The good works is the result of the rulership demonstrated by the son of God in the Earth. Remember the mandate God gave to man in Genesis 1:26. He gave man the mandate to rule as His son in the Earth. How man ruled would be the reflection of the glory of God. What a beautiful picture. See the key is for the Will of God to be done, not our will. The rulership God gives us is restricted to accomplish the Will of God. Our rulership which we have seen unrestricted has lead to abuse and oppression. Jesus is our perfect example of the glory of God being reflected in the rulership He brought to the earth. Now one of the most unique but most important displays of rulership is the dominion over His own body. Please, I urge you to pay attention to why this particular situation was so important for Jesus to be perfectly submitted to the Father.
In Matthew 26:38-42 we see Jesus praying before he is arrested and taken away in the Garden of Gethsemane. Now in verse 38, Jesus says that His soul is sorrowful. Now we have discussed that the soul is the emotional and self-rational center of man. So in Jesus soul he was sorrowful. Why? It says he was sorrowful unto death. Now we know the soul can act independent of God and in many cases will rebel against God. Jesus being sad was an opportunity for the enemy to creep in and try to sway Jesus from making it to the cross. Now Jesus goes in prayer and in verse 39, He prays “IF IT IS POSSIBLE, LET THIS CUP PASS FROM ME:. Do we see this, Jesus is asking the Father if it is possible not to go through what He was about to endure but watch what Jesus says: “NEVERTHELESS, NOT AS I WILL BUT AS THOU WILT.” Jesus understood even though his soul was sorrowful, he understood whose hands His life was in and His purpose for being on Earth. Jesus repeats this in Matthew 26:42. Now, if you missed it, Jesus showed that even the body needs to be brought under the rulership of God so that His Will be done and the glory of the Father will be seen in the earth through the rulership of the son. This is exactly what God says is our reasonable service.
Romans 12:1: “I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, WHICH IS YOUR REASONABLE SERVICE”
See God does not accept dead sacrifices, that is what Satan requires. God wants you to be a living sacrifice because by doing that and submitting to the Will of the Father you can prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect, will of God. The proof is in the way the son of God rules in the earth. So the culture of the son is the reflection of the glory of God in the Earth. The key to this is what Jesus said in John 17:22: “And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them that they may be one, even as we are one:” The only way you can bring the rulership of God to the Earth is you must first be in Christ and Christ in you.
At the Father’s Service,
Elder Calvin Calhoun Jr.
