The Blessing of Sons

The Institution vs. The Apostolic Today’s Focus: The Blessing of Sons Scripture: Psalm 127 Greetings Sons of God: I personally love this Psalm because it declares that the Lord must build the house and we did and entire teaching series on Psalm 127 but for this message we will use what we need to show the blessing of having sons. Psalm 127:3: Lo children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is His reward. It is an absolute blessing to have sons born into the family. Now this can apply naturally but moreover we know that this is an eternal reality. For those sons that have matured and the Father has found favor with them, He gives them sons to bring them to maturity. The reward of the Lord comes from his womb and that is sons. God does not say that members or lay-people are his reward. He said sons. Now watch what happens with these sons. Psalm 127:4: As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. When we examine this, it says that the children are arrows. So if they are the arrows then the fathers are the warriors that are there to craft them and mold them so that they maybe used. This crafting and molding is fathering and maturing. It involves some pain, suffering, smoothing but it is all in love so that the arrows are sharp and when they are used they will hit the intended target and have an immediate impact. Keep in mind the Lord is still talking about sons. Psalm 127:5: Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate. Now it says happy is the man that hath a quiver full of them. Now we know a quiver is the case that holds the arrows. It is a blessing to have sons within the household. With proper fathering and maturity when these sons are matured and deployed, the father will not be ashamed because they will, the sons, speak with the enemy in the gate. So it is the sons that should speak with the enemy at the gate. The Institutional church has no sons. Fathers must leave their posts to tend at the gate because there are no sons. This is why proper modeling is so crucial in this season. It has to be fathers and sons. Malachi 4:5,6 says that by the spirit of Elijah, the hearts of the fathers are turned to the sons and the sons to the fathers. In addition when the Lord was riding on the donkey and colt into Jerusalem, He was riding on both of them. The donkey and the colt represent two generations working together to bring the Lord into the city. Those two generations are father and son. In the next message we will look at the Goliath of this season. Peace, Love and Grace from the Father, Calvin Calhoun, Jr.