Voice of a Father
Today’s Focus:
Father/Son Model Part 2: One Voice
Scripture: Matthew
3:1,3; Romans 7:22,23
Greetings Sons of
God:
Now in the
beginning as we have said earlier in this series God spoke to Adam Spirit to
spirit. So Adam heard one clear distinct
voice. The reason why was because the
soul of Adam would blindly follow and submit itself to the spirit. Now after the fall we know that things
changed and now the soul became the dominant viewpoint to reality instead of
the spirit. Mankind would now reason
within themselves how they would meet their provision and protection. The voice of the soul was very dominant and
the only way God would speak to His people would be through a prophet. Now Jesus came and restored the connection to
all those call Him Lord. Now we have a problem and the Lord has a
solution. When one is born again of the
Spirit we still have a problem. The problem is a voice-recognition
problem. This voice recognition problem
causes many problems to believers and depending on the voice that the person
yields to, the flesh manifests that decision.
Romans 7:22,23: For
I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring
against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin
which is in my members.
Let me state this
for the record, the soul is not evil, but can be influenced by evil
forces. Even within itself the soul can
act independent of God and yields to protect itself and figure things out
within itself. Now this is the problem, you have your soul wanting to do what
it wants to do and you have the spirit wanting to do the Will of God. This is the war within your members. Jesus
Himself had to overcome this war in the garden of Gethsemane when He said my
SOUL is sorrowful, my FLESH is weak, BUT THE SPIRIT IS WILLING.
How does God deal
with this problem? He sends mature sons,
spiritual fathers, to watch over your soul.
Spiritual fathers do not father or watch over your spirit for God is the
Father of your spirit. Your biological
father is the father of your flesh. The
role of the spiritual father is to watch over your soul and help you to silence
and submit your soul so that you can hear one clear voice, the voice of the
Father. Through their maturity they teach and show the character of the Father
in teaching you how you can hear God through submission of the will of self and
self-ambition. Let me show you this
powerful picture that we read but many miss.
Matthew 3:1-3: In
those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, and
saying repent ye: for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. For this is he that is spoken of by the
prophet Isaiah saying, THE VOICE OF ONE crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye
the way of the Lord, make His paths straight.
Notice it says the
voice of ONE! One voice, the voice of
the Father was crying in the wilderness.
So let’s take another step back and understand the importance of the
voice of the Father and the wilderness experience in the next message.
Peace, Love and
Grace from the Father,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
