Aspects of Raising the Sons of God

Understanding Sonship Today’s Focus: Aspects of Raising the Sons of God Scripture: Colossians 3:1-3; Genesis 1:26; John 15:1-9 Greetings Kingdom Citizens The raising of the sons of God is one of the most neglected topics much like Making Disciples. These are topics and issues that will empower you to look a little deeper and spend more time with God to have a better relationship but moreover to come more mature as a son of God. There are two aspects to raising sons of God on Earth. There is the internal and the external. The internal aspect works on your personal character. Why is your personal character important to sonship? It is your character that shows you have a relationship with God. Your character also shows your desire to be like God. You desire the dominion and authority a son of God should have. Adam’s character of being a son of God is laid out in Genesis 1:26 in the statement of man being in the image (spirit) and likeness (character) of God. Now once the Holy Spirit works on your internal aspect, the Holy Spirit then works on the external aspect of the son of God. The external aspect of the son of God is meant to show you how to handle your inheritance (sonship). In other words it is the manifestation of the internal aspect. Remember rulership works from the unseen Holy Spirit living in the spirit of man and manifesting on the Earth through the physical body of man. So, the external aspect of your rearing is for you to take more responsibility in the Kingdom and mature you as a son of God. Now for some of you this may sound confusing but let’s look to the scripture for clarification. In John 15:1-9, Jesus is telling a parable about He being the vine and we being the branches. Now if you know agriculture this should make sense but if not it try to follow along. When a grape seed, represented by God the Father, for example, is planted and grown, the first thing that come up is the vine, this is represented by Christ. Now while this vine starts to grow, where are the branches and the fruit? In the vine, makes sense. Now from this vine we have branches that extend out from the main vine, these are the sons of God (they are IN CHRIST). The branches as well as the fruit are in the vine first and the vine came from the seed. Now as long as the branch stays connected to the vine, it receives nourishment and growth. This is the internal aspect of our growth as sons of God. But when one branch is not receiving proper nutrients, it dies and is cut off from the vine. There are people who are in the Kingdom doing nothing and they die doing nothing, please do not be one of them. But for those that receive proper nutrients those branches bring forth fruit showing that they are grapes (fruit of Spirit, which is Christ expressed from the branches). This is the external aspect of our growth and the original seed they came from was a grape seed (God, the Father). The internal working is developing our relationship with Christ and our external is the manifestation of that relationship, in the handling of various aspects of the Kingdom that shows who we are sons of God. But all of this according to Jesus hinges on our relationship with Christ (John15:5). Without Him we can do nothing. Fruit does not just come out of nowhere. It comes from the branches of the tree that is planted. So the fruit that should be expressed are those of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22,23). Now with all of this said, show me where the Law does this? The Law, once again DOES NOT MAKE YOU A SON. It is sad but the children of Israel, even today, do not consider themselves sons of God because they live by the Law. I am glad to know some of my Israeli brothers and sisters that have been freed by Christ and realize the freedom in Christ and try to go back home to Israel and spread the Gospel. The Bible speaks of how the veil is still over the faces of Israel to this day (2 Corinthians 3:15,16). We should continue to pray for Israel for their spiritual freedom in Christ as well as all of those who have not come into the Kingdom. The only way they will know the Kingdom is real is that the branches (sons of God) show some fruit (Fruits of the Spirit), which is the evidence on Earth of the eternal Kingdom of God. At Our Father’s Service, Elder Calvin Calhoun, Jr.