Patterns of the Soul Part 1

Patterns of the Soul Part 1

Greetings Sons of God:

In this household we talk a lot about the soul and the need to submit it to the will of the Spirit but today, I want to break this meal down that was given by Papa Leon this past weekend.  It is crucial for us to understand how the soul operates and why we need to submit it to the will of the Spirit. 

When it comes to determining how God is planning to do something there is a very simple indicator of how we know whether the words we are hearing are from the soul or the spirit.  This is:

If your mind can conceive it, it will not happen that way

This is the indicator that the soul is speaking.  When we think about the prophecies throughout the Bible, if you read the prophecy and thought about how it will come to pass, when you actually read the story and the fulfillment of the prophecy it never turns out the way you think it will.  Why?

Isaiah 55:8,9: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

If we are sons of God then we need for our thought to be his thoughts because they are higher than ours (soulish).  Now when our thoughts become his thoughts we make room for miracles.  Trusting God completely makes room for miracles because no longer are we concerned about how but we wait upon the manifestation. 

In the next message we will talk about the instruction, experience and the soul.

Peace, Love and Grace,

Calvin Calhoun, Jr.

Eternal Judgment Part 3: Understanding Judging

Focus: Eternal Judgment Part 3:  Understanding Judging

Greetings Sons of God:

Matthew 7:1,2: Judge not, that ye be not judged for with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 

1 Corinthians 6:1-8: Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to the law before the unjust, and not before the saints?  Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?  Know ye not that we shall judge angels? How much more things that pertain to this life? If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.  I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? No, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?  But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.  Now therefore there is utterly a fault  among you, because ye go to the law one with another.  Why do ye not rather take wrong?  Why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded? Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren

Let’s take these two scriptures and get an understanding.  So many people so “do not judge”, “you should not judge”.  Now I wonder have they read 1 Corinthians 6 before?  In Matthew 7 when Jesus speaks of judge not lest you be judged, he is speaking of judging from your personal opinion and perspective.  If God tells you something is wrong and you repeat His Words then the judgment is righteous because it comes from God.  Now we as the saints can judge matters, within the church.  1 Corinthians 6 speaks of how we as the saints make the mistake of taking issues within the church to the unjust law system when it should be handled by the church. When two sons of God have an issue then it is the Word of God that should render judgment to reconcile the situation and if need be reconcile and/or restore the relationship between the sons. Issues that happen within the church should stay within the church.  God has a way of dealing with conflict within His House and we should yield to his way and not our systems.  Why would we send the righteous to be judged by the unrighteous?  Sounds crazy.

Let me go back to this illustration:  When two sons of God have an issue, the point to resolving the issue is to reconcile and restore the relationship.  Now, the issue should be brought before their spiritual father and the spiritual father, through the Word of God will judge the matter.  The spiritual father do not see two males, two females, husband and wife or man and woman because we regard no one by the flesh.  The spiritual father sees two sons of God, like the Father does. 

We need to get out of using the whole “judge not lest ye be judge” in every case scenario because that is wrong in the majority cases, especially the cases within the church according to 1 Corinthians 6.  Eternal judgment is not just reserved for the day to come, it can be for the present day.  God can render judgment whenever He pleases. 

Peace, Love and Grace,

Calvin Calhoun, Jr.

Doctrine of Eternal Judgment Part 2

Focus: Doctrine of Eternal Judgment Part 2

Greetings Sons of God:

Now for someone this may touch home, but I have to visit this to prove the point.  I had a friend years ago whose brother was murdered 2 weeks before Christmas and I can never get the image of a crying mother saying “My son is dead” out of my head.  But when it came time for the trial and the verdict, it was a hung jury.  In other words the 12 jurors could not come to a conclusion to whether the accused committed murder.  After the first verdict to see the anger and disbelief on their faces hurt even more.  And all the family wanted was JUSTICE for their lost family member.  So after a second trial the verdict was guilty and the man was sentenced to 25 to life in prison.  Now the judgment in the family’s favor provided some relief and some closure.  However there are many trials where innocent people are imprisoned and even executed. And when something is not right in the justice system we make laws and rules to make judgments for those situations. Now of course this is a faulty system of judgment but it is what we have today. But let me give you an illustration of how it is faulty.

In our world and our worldly governments judgments and laws are made based on yesterday’s actions for today to prevent further actions for the future.  So there is a linear thought process to judgments.  But where the flaw is, it is ever changing and hardly consistent in an ever-changing world.  Take for example the fight for gay marriage in the United States.  Marriage is an institution between a man and woman and now the gay rights activist believe they should receive the same rights as a married couple (man and woman).  Now of course we as Kingdom citizens are totally opposed to this because it is anti-Christ behavior. But based on the past and where we are today, judges are making judgments based on the change in times but the Kingdom Judgment is eternal and is not linear. Let me give you a great example.

When we look at movies, we are the audience and all we want to know is the end of the story.  But then there is the director (God) who knows the beginning to end and the end from the beginning and His judgments are just because He knows whether you are guilty or not and do not have to consult anybody else. 

This is what makes eternal judgment just and perfect.  Before we think about retaliating because of injustice in man’s system, think that you have an advocate and a judge who will judge every man according to their deeds and what they have done in their body. 

Just because someone has wronged you, do not worry because there is a judge in Heaven who will deliver true justice and no wrong deed will go unpunished.

In the last message on eternal judgment I want to look in the Scriptures and clear up some myths.

Peace, Love and Grace,

Calvin Calhoun, Jr.

Doctrine of Eternal Judgment

Focus: Doctrine of Eternal Judgment

Greetings Sons of God:

Now eternal judgment, in my opinion, is one of the least talk about topics and should be explored more extensively in the body of Christ.  Now why should we explore eternal judgment? First, Christ said we should and second eternal judgment should be the factor that we think about when we look to respond to various situations in our life.  But we have to ask ourselves these questions:

1.   Is there eternal judgment?

2.   Do we believe that God really is in control?

3.   Does He call all things into judgment?

4.   Are we to rely on eternal judgment as opposed to taking things into our own hands?

If we believe in eternal judgment then many of the brutal and destructive things that are done in the name of Jesus would not have been done because we know that there is eternal judgment for those actions in the day to come.  Now what has taken root and has been for over 1,000 years is the growth of Christian activism.

People who do destructive and harmful things in the name of Jesus are the Christian Activist. They are not peacemakers but always keep up confusion and many times they do it through false doctrine.  We need not worry ourselves with the injustices of this world knowing we have a righteous judge in Christ who will avenge and repay all wrong doers. 

His judgment on the Earth is coming and if you have not read Revelation it is not pretty.  God’s judgment is just and fair and we should put our trust in Him because it is His judgment that decides our eternal destination. 

In the next message we will look at the flaws in our government’s judgments versus the Kingdom Judgment

Peace, Love and Grace,

Calvin Calhoun, Jr.