Voice of a Father
Today’s Focus:
Father/Son Model Part 3: The Wilderness Experience
Scripture: Matthew
3:3; Matthew 3:17-4:1
Greetings Sons of
God:
Matthew 3:3: For
this is he that was 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.
Matthew 3:17-4:1:
And lo A VOICE from heaven saying, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well
pleased. Then was Jesus led up of the spirit INTO THE WILDERNESS to be tempted
of the devil.
Now I also want to
show you after the children of Israel were delivered from the land of Egypt
they were led into the wilderness of Sinai.
Now this is not a coincidence. It
is in the wilderness that God matures the sons.
Funny, if you examine our past 2 teaching series you will see most of
the teaching and maturing comes from the wilderness. Many of the scriptures in Deuteronomy say
this: “If you obey my voice”. John the Baptist is matured by the Spirit in
the wilderness because He is preaching out from the wilderness. Then we look at Jesus Christ. After the Son is given at the baptism, Jesus,
Spiritual Israel is lead in the wilderness.
Notice also in Matthew 4, Jesus is fasting! Why?
To sacrifice the desires of the flesh to hear the Father. In the wilderness, Jesus being tempted was so
that He overcame all the temptations of the enemy and pass all the trials that
physical Israel failed. Notice in all of
the temptations Jesus speaks what He hears the Father says and in obeying the
Father, He overcomes every situation and temptation.
It is in the
wilderness and through the Baptism of fire that the Father transitions you
dependence from soul to spirit. It is in
the wilderness that the child becomes strong in the spirit. The voice of the Father produces wisdom and
turns children from disobedience. Now as
the Lord speaks to the fathers, the fathers are to instruct the sons and in
training the sons they develop a personal relationship with the voice of the
Father. This all happens and begins in
the wilderness. Before God will present
His people or leaders before the people they must ALL go through the
wilderness. The wilderness is not
necessarily a physical place but a place in your life where it is you are
learning, not only the word of God but also the voice of the Father.
In the next message
we will examine Elijah the prophet and show you the power of the Voice.
Peace, Love and
Grace from the Father,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
