The Everlasting Father
Today’s Focus: Concept and Principal of Spiritual Father: Father vs. Father
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 4:14-21; Hebrews 2:11
Greetings Kingdom Citizens
Jesus said call no man father because one is your Father who is in Heaven. Paul turns around and calls the church at Corinth his sons and he is the father who has begotten them in Christ Jesus through the gospel. The answer to this is in the way the word father is being used. The word father has nine different meanings. We know that we have one Father who is in Heaven. This word father that Jesus used is interpreted as the Progenitor. The progenitor is the one who you directly come from. So our origin of birth is from God the Father. Now the word father that is speaking about refers to him as the father of their faith, not the one whom they originate from. Paul was making it clear that the fathering that he was, was due to the fact that he was instructed and sent to them as being the father of their faith. Listen this is where people mess it up.
The people had faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Paul introduced the Lord to them but God the Father was the one from who they were from. Now let’s look at this next scripture for understanding.
Hebrews 2:11: For both He that sanctifieth (Christ) and they who are sanctified (sons) are all of one: for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren.
So here we see it is Christ that sanctifies us and we are all one with the Father, hence Jesus is not ashamed to call us brothers (adelphos) because we all originated from the same womb. But God assigns us fathers who are mature in presenting the ways and nature of the Father because they themselves have been discipled in the things of God so now they are able to say, just like Jesus: “If you have seen me, you have seen the Father”. Much like Paul would say in 1 Corinthians 11:1: be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
With this said, in the next message we will look at some issues to why this concept and principal of spiritual fathers is so hard for the religious culture to even put on display.
Peace, Love and Grace from the Father,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
