Restoring Spirit of
Father to the Church
Today’s Focus: Principle
of Adoption
Scripture: Luke
3:23; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Galatians 4:4,5
Greetings Sons of
God:
Galatians
4:4,5: But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made
of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we
might receive the adoption of sons. And
because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your
hearts, crying, Abba, Father
In making sure that we are modeling the
Father’s model of His House in the earth we must not put people in the wrong
place of our lives. To understand the
principle of adoption is crucial especially to the father over the household
that God has set. Well let’s start with understanding adoption in the natural
and bring it to the spiritual.
When we adopt a child, they become a son or
daughter of our household even though “biologically” they are not ours. Meaning, when we adopt a child that child was
not birthed from our very loins but the loins of someone else. We are then
entrusted to stand in the stead of the biological parents and raise that child
like one of our very own biological children that were born of our loins. Now going back to the Scripture and watch the
careful use of words by our brother Paul, he says that because God sent forth
His Son made of a woman under the law to redeem us who were under the law, THAT
WE MIGHT RECEIVE THE ADOPTION OF SONS.
This does not say that the Lord will adopt. That can’t be right because if we are born
again we are born of the Father and He does not adopt us but gives life or
birth to us. Adoption points one who is
already born being placed in a household under the care of someone else who
stands in the place of the one who biologically births them. Hence the we points to the sons of God
receiving the adoption of sons of God.
Sounds weird huh? Let’s break it down and understand everything in this
teaching series is to bring us up to this point so that we can understand the
arrangement of God’s House:
God is our Father and Lord of all.
1
Corinthians 8:6: But to us (sons) there is but one God, the Father, of whom are
all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things
and we by Him
No one else can have that place in your life. If you are a son of God then you were born of
God and He is your Father and Source.
Now as we studied in the previous message of the Antipas principal, God
matures sons then graces them with the Spirit of Father and then stand in the
Father’s stead, a representational son who is carrying the grace of Father, to
watch over, defend, protect and help mature the sons of God. Spiritual fathers are mature sons who is
carrying the grace and Spirit of Father and is set over a household of faith to
put on display the nature and character of the Father. They bring the grace of God to you and
dispense it as the Father directs them.
They are not the Father, this is why the Pope is out of place because
people call him his holiness and the heavenly father. That is not correct and nobody on earth is
worthy of that title but God. Hence the
household of faith and the holy nation is a collection of households of faith
with spiritual fathers set over them by the Father combined to make tribes and
ultimately the entire holy nation. Now
let me leave you with the greatest picture of this Adoption Principal
Luke
3:23: And Jesus Himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was
supposed) the son of Joseph which was the son of Heli
Question how did Jesus come to Earth? God the Father placed Jesus in the womb of a
virgin named Mary. Of course we know God
united Mary and Joseph but understand Joseph was NOT the biological father of
Jesus, BUT YET the Father gave His Son to them and told them to watch over Him
and bring Him to maturity. The Father
would direct them in protecting Him until He came of age. Joseph was not Jesus biological father but
Jesus grew up receiving him as a father and would come to learn of His
biological father, God the Father.
Joseph and Mary both knew this and loved him as their son even though He
was not biologically theirs. The sons of
God belong to the Father but the Father places them in household of faith and
matures son to carry the Spirit of Father to watch over, protect and mature the
sons of God. These mature sons or
spiritual fathers carry the Antipas principle and by that order of fathers and
sons the households are protected from the enemy and prevents Satan from
establishing his throne amongst the sons.
It is time for us to get back to the Heavenly
model and receive the Spirit of Father over households of faith. Satan has established his throne in a lot of
churches but it is in households of faith governed and protected by the Spirit
of Father that prevent this from happening.
If we remove Antipas or the spiritual father that carries the Spirit of
Father we have just given Satan the legal right to establish his throne amongst
the believers to rule over them. When
Antipas was killed, Satan established his throne. It is time to receive the one who comes in
the name of the Lord and is carrying the Spirit of Father. God Bless you.
Peace, Love and
Grace,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
