The Institution vs.
The Apostolic
Today’s Focus: Institutional
Church: Failure to Recognize Sons Part 2
Scripture: 1 Samuel
17:38,39
Greetings Sons of
God:
1 Samuel 17:38-39:
And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his
head; also he armed him with a coat of mail. And David girded his sword upon
his armour, and he assayed to go; for he had not proved it. And David said to Saul, I cannot go with
these; for I have not proved them and David put them off him
We are continuing
our message on the failure for the institutional church to recognize the sons
within the house. One of the things the
institutional church does is it puts its armour on you. In this situation we see Saul trying to arm
David for the battle with Goliath. Now
David puts on Saul’s armour and realizes that this has not been proven and he
cannot wear it.
The institutional church
seeks to put their armour on the sons of God.
The institutional church cannot recognize anything outside of those
garments or trappings they put on you.
In other words, instead of being a disciple of Christ, you become a
disciple of the institution and all the institution can do is produce
photocopies of themselves.
We as the sons of
God are not photocopies of any institution.
Sonship is not the manisfestation of an old order but it is of the
patent son, Jesus Christ.
The institution
produces clones, not sons. It has a
distressing spirit. Many within the
institution are merely playing the harp of Saul. God is adjusting the structure
and dismantling altars. In the
institutional church you are viewed as Pharaoh’s daughter’s son and the Father
is saying to the institutional church:
“Let
my people go”!
Now remember when Pharaoh did not let God’s people
go, He sent the plagues against Egypt and Pharoah. He sent, frogs, lice and remember the water
was turned to blood. Water is a picture of the Word of God and by the water
being turned to blood, it is a picture of the word that is being preached not being
palatable or able to be eaten. God will
kill the firstborn. This is a picture of
firstborn being separated from God by the children being turned over to drugs,
many foreign gods, grow up hating the church and will mix with the occult.
The institution cannot produce sons. Their best product is Jonathon (Saul’s son)
who does a few things but ends up dying with the old order. The institution has issues with sonship. In the next message we will look at features
of Institutional Christianity. You do
not want to miss this because many of us are sitting in Saul’s house playing
the harp for him and wearing his armour.
Peace, Love and
Grace from the Father,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
