The Holy Nation
Today’s Focus: Order of Spiritual Households
Scripture: Galatians 3:26-29; Romans 8:16
Greetings Kingdom Citizens
Spiritual households are households made up of families that are not related by blood but by spirit. This is a greater arrangement than of the natural order. It is a more peaceful arrangement because the father receives the sons not on the basis of duty but on the basis of love. There is no impulse that arranges this house. It is done because you recognize God has given you a son because the son is a spirit. Hence there is nothing about his or her humanity that is a determining factor to the spiritual household. Galatians in its proper context says this:
Galatians 3:26-29: For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed and heirs according to the promise.
So it is not about ethnicity, social status or gender. Spirits have none of these characteristics. God is the Father of our spirits and not our flesh. Hence spiritual households is not built on fleshly lineage but on spiritual arrangement by Holy Spirit. Because it is love that unites the father and the son, How is the love of God shown? It is by His affinity with us, Spirit to spirit (Romans 8:16). God has given us His estate which are the gifts of the Spirit. The gifts of the Spirit are endowments of His authority to act in the earth. Now we will act in the earth under His authority until all of who God is, is in all of us. Jesus giving us Holy Spirit is God’s guarantee of what is to come because it will be Holy Spirit that will lead us and guide us through the age of man until it is fulfilled of God being all in all.
Holy Spirit is a taste of this reality because He will do such things as He would do, through you. He lives in us to do His pleasure in the form of gifts of the Spirit. So the spiritual household is arranged going from the concept that we are spiritual sons to a father to being arranged into spiritual families to be further assembled into spiritual houses. These spiritual houses will be further arranged into clans, to tribes and into a Holy Nation. In the next message we will look at the assembling of the Body of Christ.
At Our Father’s Service,
Elder Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
