The Institution vs.
The Apostolic
Today’s Focus: Institutional
Church: Failure to Recognize Sons Part 1
Scripture: 1 Samuel
17:55-58; 1 Samuel 16:17-23
Greetings Sons of
God:
1 Samuel 17:55-58:
And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner,
the captain on the host, Abner, whose son is this youth? And Abner said, As thy
soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell. And the king said, Enquire thou whose so the
stripling is. And as David returned from
the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul
with the head of the Philistine in his hand.
And Saul said unto him, Whose son art thou, thou young man? And David
answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.
Now we will be
using this scripture a lot to draw these next set of messages. Now after David came back from the slaughter
of Goliath, Saul enquires about him through Abner and when David approached
Saul, he did not recognize him because he said “Whose son is this youth?” Now something is very weird about this story
because earlier David was introduced to Saul and Abner gave him a detailed
resume.
1 Samuel 16:17,18:
And Saul said unto his servants, provide me now a man that can play well, and
bring him to me. Then answered one of
the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite,
that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and
prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the Lord is with him. Wherefore
Saul sent messengers unto Jesse and said Send me David thy son, which is with
the sheep.
Now if you read
this properly you would think, now wait, Saul asked for a musician and when
David was suggested Saul sent for him.
However, when the same David slew Goliath and brought his head back to
Saul, Saul and Abner did not know David.
The spirit within the Institutional church does not recognize sons. Saul employed David because of his
qualifications. What was his
qualifications? He is cunning in playing
(musician), mighty valiant man, man of war, prudent in matters (speech), comely
person and MOST OF ALL, THE LORD IS WITH HIM!
Now who would not want someone around them like this? Saul loved David and made David his
armourbearer(1 Sam. 17:21). David found
favor in Saul’s sight (1 Sam. 17:22) but watch this: Saul had an evil spirit and it was a
distressing spirit. Now when that
distressing spirit would arise, David would play a harp with his hand and Saul would
be refreshed and the evil spirit would depart from Saul (1 Sam. 17:23). Please pay attention because for many of us
we are in this position and the spirit of Saul (Institutional church) portrays
this concept:
The
distressing spirit with Saul opened his ears to David’s harp but closed his
eyes to the son in the house.
Saul can accept the ministry of deliverance
but not the ministry of sonship. We will
continue this message for the sake of time in the next message.
Peace, Love and
Grace from the Father,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
