Principle of Adoption

Restoring Spirit of Father to the Church Today’s Focus: Principle of Adoption Scripture: Luke 3:23; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Galatians 4:4,5 Greetings Sons of God: Galatians 4:4,5: But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father In making sure that we are modeling the Father’s model of His House in the earth we must not put people in the wrong place of our lives. To understand the principle of adoption is crucial especially to the father over the household that God has set. Well let’s start with understanding adoption in the natural and bring it to the spiritual. When we adopt a child, they become a son or daughter of our household even though “biologically” they are not ours. Meaning, when we adopt a child that child was not birthed from our very loins but the loins of someone else. We are then entrusted to stand in the stead of the biological parents and raise that child like one of our very own biological children that were born of our loins. Now going back to the Scripture and watch the careful use of words by our brother Paul, he says that because God sent forth His Son made of a woman under the law to redeem us who were under the law, THAT WE MIGHT RECEIVE THE ADOPTION OF SONS. This does not say that the Lord will adopt. That can’t be right because if we are born again we are born of the Father and He does not adopt us but gives life or birth to us. Adoption points one who is already born being placed in a household under the care of someone else who stands in the place of the one who biologically births them. Hence the we points to the sons of God receiving the adoption of sons of God. Sounds weird huh? Let’s break it down and understand everything in this teaching series is to bring us up to this point so that we can understand the arrangement of God’s House: God is our Father and Lord of all. 1 Corinthians 8:6: But to us (sons) there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things and we by Him No one else can have that place in your life. If you are a son of God then you were born of God and He is your Father and Source. Now as we studied in the previous message of the Antipas principal, God matures sons then graces them with the Spirit of Father and then stand in the Father’s stead, a representational son who is carrying the grace of Father, to watch over, defend, protect and help mature the sons of God. Spiritual fathers are mature sons who is carrying the grace and Spirit of Father and is set over a household of faith to put on display the nature and character of the Father. They bring the grace of God to you and dispense it as the Father directs them. They are not the Father, this is why the Pope is out of place because people call him his holiness and the heavenly father. That is not correct and nobody on earth is worthy of that title but God. Hence the household of faith and the holy nation is a collection of households of faith with spiritual fathers set over them by the Father combined to make tribes and ultimately the entire holy nation. Now let me leave you with the greatest picture of this Adoption Principal Luke 3:23: And Jesus Himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph which was the son of Heli Question how did Jesus come to Earth? God the Father placed Jesus in the womb of a virgin named Mary. Of course we know God united Mary and Joseph but understand Joseph was NOT the biological father of Jesus, BUT YET the Father gave His Son to them and told them to watch over Him and bring Him to maturity. The Father would direct them in protecting Him until He came of age. Joseph was not Jesus biological father but Jesus grew up receiving him as a father and would come to learn of His biological father, God the Father. Joseph and Mary both knew this and loved him as their son even though He was not biologically theirs. The sons of God belong to the Father but the Father places them in household of faith and matures son to carry the Spirit of Father to watch over, protect and mature the sons of God. These mature sons or spiritual fathers carry the Antipas principle and by that order of fathers and sons the households are protected from the enemy and prevents Satan from establishing his throne amongst the sons. It is time for us to get back to the Heavenly model and receive the Spirit of Father over households of faith. Satan has established his throne in a lot of churches but it is in households of faith governed and protected by the Spirit of Father that prevent this from happening. If we remove Antipas or the spiritual father that carries the Spirit of Father we have just given Satan the legal right to establish his throne amongst the believers to rule over them. When Antipas was killed, Satan established his throne. It is time to receive the one who comes in the name of the Lord and is carrying the Spirit of Father. God Bless you. Peace, Love and Grace, Calvin Calhoun, Jr.