The Institution vs.
The Apostolic
Today’s Focus: The
Blessing of Sons
Scripture: Psalm
127
Greetings Sons of
God:
I personally love
this Psalm because it declares that the Lord must build the house and we did
and entire teaching series on Psalm 127 but for this message we will use what
we need to show the blessing of having sons.
Psalm 127:3: Lo
children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is His
reward.
It is an absolute
blessing to have sons born into the family.
Now this can apply naturally but moreover we know that this is an
eternal reality. For those sons that
have matured and the Father has found favor with them, He gives them sons to
bring them to maturity. The reward of
the Lord comes from his womb and that is sons.
God does not say that members or lay-people are his reward. He said sons.
Now watch what happens with these sons.
Psalm 127:4: As
arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
When we examine
this, it says that the children are arrows.
So if they are the arrows then the fathers are the warriors that are
there to craft them and mold them so that they maybe used. This crafting and molding is fathering and
maturing. It involves some pain,
suffering, smoothing but it is all in love so that the arrows are sharp and when
they are used they will hit the intended target and have an immediate impact. Keep in mind the Lord is still talking about
sons.
Psalm 127:5: Happy
is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but
they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Now it says happy
is the man that hath a quiver full of them.
Now we know a quiver is the case that holds the arrows. It is a blessing to have sons within the
household. With proper fathering and
maturity when these sons are matured and deployed, the father will not be
ashamed because they will, the sons, speak with the enemy in the gate. So it is the sons that should speak with the enemy
at the gate.
The Institutional
church has no sons. Fathers must leave
their posts to tend at the gate because there are no sons. This is why proper modeling is so crucial in
this season. It has to be fathers and
sons.
Malachi 4:5,6 says
that by the spirit of Elijah, the hearts of the fathers are turned to the sons
and the sons to the fathers. In addition
when the Lord was riding on the donkey and colt into Jerusalem, He was riding
on both of them. The donkey and the colt
represent two generations working together to bring the Lord into the
city. Those two generations are father
and son.
In the next message
we will look at the Goliath of this season.
Peace, Love and
Grace from the Father,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
