God's Covenant With Himself

Understanding Sonship Today’s Focus: God’s Covenant with Himself Scripture: Matthew 24:35; Hebrews 6:16-18; Greetings Kingdom Citizens In order to understand sonship, we have to know where it comes from and what is the foundation of sonship. In this message we will look at the foundation and understand where our sonship comes from. The first thing we must establish is that God’s words are true. They are absolute and not relative. You can count on everything God is saying to be true and will come to past. Let’s look at how sure we can be about God’s words. Read Matthew 24:35. Now here are some sure facts that we know: 1. The Lamb was slain before the foundation of the World (Revelation 13:8) 2. Jesus is the only begotten Son of the Father (John 3:16) So based on those two facts we see a Father-Son relationship and we know that our salvation was secured before the world was even formed. But how sure are we of this? How can we be sure that we are the sons of God and we are saved? This is secured in the Words of God Himself. God knew that the being He was making was going to sin. No doubt. So, he secured His salvation and his ability to be saved through the sacrifice of the Lamb in Heaven. But what tends to be left out, is God wants man to make a choice and freely come into the family of God. God gave Him free will. It is one of the great aspects of God to show the demonic that He can love His children despite their short-falls and they will freely come to Him seeking to be a son and worship Him freely. But In order to do all of this, God made a covenant with Himself. To prove, let’s go Hebrews 6:16-18. If God makes a promise to Himself, you know it is kept because God does not lie. The hope that we have secures us and anchors our soul to that covenant of being the sons of God (Hebrews 6:19). So God enacted the covenant, the Father with the Son, before he created mankind. Can you believe that, before Adam all of this was happening just so that when you were born into this world, you would have the opportunity freely to come back home and be adopted into the family of God (Romans 8:15). What a mighty God we serve. God knows the end from the beginning because He is the Alpha and Omega. He knows what your spirit desires and longs for. Here is a true revelation about the lost: Every person who is not a citizen of the Kingdom or son of God is looking for the Kingdom of God. They are searching for power and the ability to control their lives. This is exactly what the Kingdom of God does for the unbeliever. This is why you should not preach nothing else to a unconverted soul but the Kingdom of God. God being all powerful knows your spirit and what their spirit is looking for power. It is natural inside every human being. They are also looking for control. The Kingdom gives them the authority and power to control their circumstances. This is why the Kingdom of God is so important and needed today in the world, because the lost is looking for the power in government and it has lead to wars, death and destruction. We as Kingdom citizens have to trust God’s word and stay anchored to the hope of knowing we as Kingdom citizens, are sons of God and we know we are saved because our salvation was secured before we were even placed here. It was secured by a covenant that God made with Himself and because we know God is no lie that we can rest assure that we are who God says we are. At Our Father’s Service, Elder Calvin Calhoun, Jr.