Institutional Church: Failure to Recognize Sons Part 2

The Institution vs. The Apostolic Today’s Focus: Institutional Church: Failure to Recognize Sons Part 2 Scripture: 1 Samuel 17:38,39 Greetings Sons of God: 1 Samuel 17:38-39: And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail. And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said to Saul, I cannot go with these; for I have not proved them and David put them off him We are continuing our message on the failure for the institutional church to recognize the sons within the house. One of the things the institutional church does is it puts its armour on you. In this situation we see Saul trying to arm David for the battle with Goliath. Now David puts on Saul’s armour and realizes that this has not been proven and he cannot wear it. The institutional church seeks to put their armour on the sons of God. The institutional church cannot recognize anything outside of those garments or trappings they put on you. In other words, instead of being a disciple of Christ, you become a disciple of the institution and all the institution can do is produce photocopies of themselves. We as the sons of God are not photocopies of any institution. Sonship is not the manisfestation of an old order but it is of the patent son, Jesus Christ. The institution produces clones, not sons. It has a distressing spirit. Many within the institution are merely playing the harp of Saul. God is adjusting the structure and dismantling altars. In the institutional church you are viewed as Pharaoh’s daughter’s son and the Father is saying to the institutional church: “Let my people go”! Now remember when Pharaoh did not let God’s people go, He sent the plagues against Egypt and Pharoah. He sent, frogs, lice and remember the water was turned to blood. Water is a picture of the Word of God and by the water being turned to blood, it is a picture of the word that is being preached not being palatable or able to be eaten. God will kill the firstborn. This is a picture of firstborn being separated from God by the children being turned over to drugs, many foreign gods, grow up hating the church and will mix with the occult. The institution cannot produce sons. Their best product is Jonathon (Saul’s son) who does a few things but ends up dying with the old order. The institution has issues with sonship. In the next message we will look at features of Institutional Christianity. You do not want to miss this because many of us are sitting in Saul’s house playing the harp for him and wearing his armour. Peace, Love and Grace from the Father, Calvin Calhoun, Jr.