New Teaching Series: Households of Faith

Households of Faith
Today’s Focus: Introduction
Scripture:

Greetings Kingdom Citizens
What is the households of faith? Simply put they are the micro-levels or units that collectively make up the Body of Christ. To explain this further, let’s use the type and shadow of who we are which is the Spiritual Israel of God, and use physical Israel. Physical Israel is a natural bloodline family in the earth. The nation is divided into 12 tribes. Those twelve tribes are divided into clans. The clans are divided into households and then the households are divided into individual families. So the foundation level of building the nation of Israel is the family. That should make sense since God began the creation of man in the Earth with a family. We had Adam and Eve who had multiple children but it would be Seth that would be in the image and likeness of his father and carry the seed of Christ to the next generation. Now in Israel, households are a collective grouping of families headed by a patriarch, or father or elder. If there was to arise a problem within any of the families of that household, the issue would be brought to the elder or father and the father would solve the issue. Now that we have the natural, let’s transfer to the reality.

We are the Spiritual Israel of God. We are individual families by which the Holy Spirit arranges us into households governed by a spiritual father because the House of God is not a natural bloodline family, it is spiritual. Of course these spiritual fathers are sons of God, but they have matured and the Father has given them the grace of father to mature and disciple the Body of Christ. Now these “spiritual fathers” are not your go-to point for God. They are simply there to teach you the ways of Christ, watch over your soul, and mature you so you can be commissioned in the Lord’s time to do His Will. Now this is a radical picture because of what we see today. We see churches built upon hierarchies and institutional models. Sadly we see a lot of Roman Catholicism in protestant churches. We have churches built on the Pastor-Deacon-Congregational Model. We have some built on the Apostle-Bishop-Congregational Model. Now the reason we make this distinction is because in all of these models there is a culture of entitlement. These people must be referred to by their title. But if we look at Natural Israel there was no “titles” because they understood they were families headed by fathers led by the Father. Is this not what Spiritual Israel should be? This will not be a religious series but it will destroy religious walls that prevent the building of the Holy Nation and the Temple within the cities.

Throughout this series we will make this distinction. When we speak of the House of God, we are talking about the Body of Christ. When we talk about the Household of Faith we are talking about the various households that make up the Body of Christ. This series is a very radical series and will challenge you and the place where you may worship. The New Season is upon us and much of what we have today is of the former season and God’s grace is not in that thing. It may look good and sound good but the grace of God is not there. Everything that will be said will and must be scripturally sound. Please keep in mind that the Bible is not primarily written in English. It is written in Hebrew and Greek so we will be looking up words and defining them because for a long time we have been trying to put a English meaning on something that means something totally different in the original language.

Peace, Love and Grace from the Father,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.