Role of the Spiritual Father
Today’s Focus: Turning the Hearts
Scripture: Malachi 4:5,6; Luke 15; 1 John 4:18; Romans 8:15
Greetings Kingdom Citizens
The spiritual father has been given the grace of God which turns the hearts of the sons to the fathers. This is the prophecy that ends the Old Testament and is picked up and spoken to Zacharias in Luke 1 concerning the John, his son. You can find the prophecy in Malachi 4:5,6 and Luke 1:17. Now this is what the Lord is currently doing. He is turning the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. We know the disobedient refers to the orphan and the wisdom represents the fathers who will put on display the ways and character of the Father.
When we look at the institutional church, it is not working like it used to, in all honesty. What has happened is the focus of the much of the church is about the sinner coming to the building and not the children of God putting the ways and character of God on display. We have churches that scare people into salvation by preaching hell and damnation, even though it is truth. God does not want to scare you into salvation because if it is fear that brought you in, it will be fear that you will live in and fear torments. Let me show you:
1 John 4:18: There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear; because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
God does not want to torment you. God SO LOVED THE WORLD that He gave His only Begotten Son. So it is love that should draw you in and it will be love that sustains you. Romans 8:15 speaks that we have not been given the spirit of bondage to fear. So preaching hell all the time and trying to scare people into salvation is the wrong way. Fear torments and our Father does not torment His children. Even though the result of not choosing Jesus is hell, Jesus Himself displayed the culture of the Heaven and the Kingdom and through its power and the Spirit of the Father, people were drawn in. Another issue that is on the rise for the institutional church is finances and this one is a killer. The reason I call it killer is because when the focus is on maintaining the building, then it cannot be about reconciliation and hence you will find preachers always preaching about giving and tithing in order to help maintain the building. Do not get me wrong we should cheerfully give to God’s work but we should not give out of force and guilt. When you understand the truth of the tithe you are made free and when you understand how to give, biblically, you will really see the hand of God move in your favor. So the focus is always on building bigger buildings and congregations and not on discipleship and maturity in the House of God.
The prophecy of Malachi is re-instituting the original order of the Kingdom and House of God to the Earth. The reason I say, re-institute is these orders were in the Earth before the fall until sin separated the son from the Father. This is where we get the parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15). The Order of the House of God is a patriarchal order. This order is about the relationship between father and sons. The order of the Kingdom is the government by which the sons live under in order to bring righteous rule into the earth. One is about maturing and growing up and the other is about responsibility and rulership. Now how many of us have ever heard about these cultures, let alone seen them manifest in the Earth. Well it is extremely hard, not impossible, to see these cultures from an institutional model because it is predicated on the pastor and the flock, or the bishop and the parishioners, or the priest and the congregations. Are these concepts of the House of God? Of course because there is oversight in the House of God but there is much more to maturity than just oversight and in the next message we will look at the relationship between the son and the father.
Peace, Love and Grace from the Father,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
