The Institution vs.
The Apostolic
Today’s Focus: The
Goliath of this Season
Scripture: Malachi
4:5,6; Ephesians 6; Matthew 21
Greetings Sons of
God:
We know that the
way the sons of God will be restored to the House of God and back in dominion
in the earth is by the spirit of Elijah by the restoration of the father/son
model (Malachi 4:5,6) and of course upon the father/son model, Jesus will be
carried into the city (Matthew 21). Now
for the second part of that, in Matthew 21 remember the colt and ass that was
loosed to carry the Lord into Jerusalem?
Jesus was riding on both the colt and ass and they represent the
father/son model, two generations working together to carry the Lord into the
city. Now, anything that prevents this
model from going forth is the Goliath of this season. That Goliath is the institutional
church. Please pay attention and do not
misinterpret what is about to be said:
We have not been
put on this earth to fight flesh and blood.
In other words we do not war with the people of the institution but what
we do war against is the institutional altars that have been built that
suppress the maturity of the saints. The
Scriptures (Ephesians 6) say, we wrestle not against flesh and blood but Deuteronomy
7:5 says we should destroy their altars and break down their images, cut down
their groves and burn their graven images.
Now we do this through repentance and the Word of God, not just in
speech but in the word becoming flesh.
Now let me lay this out so that in the subsequent messages we will be
able to show you the difference between the apostolic and the institution.
Institutional
Altars are:
1.
Human Inventions
2.
Sons of traditions
3.
Declare superiority over the Word of
God by their rules and regulations
The Institutional
church cannot produce sons. Let me
repeat! The institutional church cannot
produce sons. A great example of this is
people, in particular when leadership switch churches. When they leave they almost leave with no
conscience. They do not see you as sons
but as members and so to move from church to church is fine. There is not a spiritual connection between
the leader and the church that would hold that leader in place to mature the
sons. Ultimately people’s allegiance to
the church depends upon the pastor because when the pastor leaves, they leave
also or when a new pastor comes, they leave because they do not like the
“choice”. In the next message we will
look at David and Saul and begin to show you this picture in scripture.
Peace, Love and
Grace from the Father,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
