Role of the Spiritual Father
Today’s Focus: Generational Blessings
Scripture: Isaiah 9:6; Matthew 28:18-20; Genesis 25:5; 28:1; Genesis 49; 1 Timothy 5:8
Greetings Kingdom Citizens
One of the unique attributes and concepts we see in the Bible, in particular the Old Testament is what is called the generational blessing. It is and always has been God’s intentions to pass along the blessings from a father to the son. Let’s look at some of these:
Genesis 25:5: Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac
Genesis 28:1: And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
Genesis 49 (Entire Chapter): Jacob blesses His twelve sons.
So the blessings of a father are to be handed down to the sons. As those sons grow and mature, then they hand down the blessings to their sons and so on. This way the purposes of God will increase and mature. A spiritual father, John Metcalfe gave this wonderful example and I would like to use it here:
The ancient builders of cathedrals in Europe would begin the work by planting acorns first. They knew their grandsons would need to harvest the oak trees to complete the roofing on the great buildings.
This means these fathers were looking ahead and planting blessings for the generations to come. This is why the scripture says:
1 Timothy 5:8: But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel
The concept of the generational blessing is that the son takes from the father and builds. Are we generationally blessing the sons of God today? Sadly we are doing it on a very minimal scale and let me explain. The church, who are the believers, not the building is supposed to be a family. We are the House of God. Now, what God designed and what we are doing for the most part are two separate things producing two completely different results. In denominational religion we have children who are born into it and all they know is the denomination and so whatever the denomination teaches, that is all they know. If the denomination has been doing conferences for 50 plus years and does it the same way, as that child grows “in the denomination” they become a part of the machine and simply continue what the fathers have already ordained. For a great example, let’s go back to the builders of the cathedrals. That is like my father, planting the acorns and then when I grow up, I plant acorns but nobody is building the building. So it is a circle of ways established by the denomination and many may not want to admit it but they themselves are not maturing the sons. Their goal is to bring in as many members as they can. So the denomination simply reproduces itself and not mature the son, they mature the denomination. Now let’s look at God’s way of doing it and look at it’s results.
God sends His Son and gives Him 12 sons to start the Holy Nation. In turn His Son, Jesus is also a Father (Everlasting Father, Isaiah 9:6). After discipling and maturing those sons, He hands the ministry over to them and tell them to continue the ministry by making disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:18-20). What this does is grow the House of God but not just in numbers. As those 12 (Mathias in place of Judas) distributed bread and wine and matured their sons, those sons come to maturity and father other sons. Now what God does is He reveals more and more of Himself to every generation so the maturation does not stick with a 500 year old revelation but there are eternal truths being revealed to continue to prepare the Body of Christ for the return of the Lord. Hence God is bringing His fractured Body to order. To walk in the ways of the Lord, it requires a believer to fast and pray. The reason I say this is because, if you have grown up denominationally then the denomination is in you hard and it requires God to separate the traditions of men from His ways.
To be honest, I do not know how you put God’s way of maturing the Body in an institutional church when it is predicated on fathers and sons. Are we willing to give up the machine and do it God’s way? There is grace in doing it God’s way. Are we willing to give up the titles and allow God to manifest His gifts through us as we mature? Are we willing to be fathered and discipled in the ways and nature of the Father?
In the next message we will look at how do we migrate from the institutional mindset to the household mindset.
Peace, Love and Grace from the Father,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
