The Hebron Concept
Today’s Focus: Spirit
of Absalom Part 2: False Alliances and Monuments
Scripture: 2 Samuel
18:18
Greetings Sons of
God:
The way Absalom
tried to usurp the authority of his father David was the building of
alliances. Now these were not true
alliances because they were alliances built on manipulation. Now from the
previous message we see that the spirit of Absalom is all about self and does
not seek to build the nation but seize control of power to control people. For many people, especially in the church the
spirit is in clear operation. You have
that one deacon, or minister that believes they can do a better job than the pastor
and they began to spread that virus throughout the flock and turn the hearts of
the people from the grace of God which is resident in the father of the
household to themselves. When the hearts
of the people have turned they will turn on the true alliance that connects
them with grace for the false alliance that promises them earthly pleasures and
promises.
Now Absalom had three
sons and a daughter born to him but let me show you this scripture:
2 Samuel 18:18: Now
Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is
in the king’s dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance:
and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day
Absalom’s place.
Even though Absalom
had sons and daughters, when he tried to usurp the authority of the sitting
father of the house and king of the nation, David, then end result of his
“reign” was a monument because when you build false alliances you cannot father
a nation, you are too consumed with trying to maintain what you took through
manipulation that your focus is not on maturing sons and seeing them advance
and grow. Your focus is on yourself and
maintaining power. A true father desires for his children to do better than
them. The spirit of Absalom fights
against this because it is consumed with self.
In the end the only thing left for Absalom because he was consumed with
self all he could do is leave a monument for himself so that people would
remember him. Had he followed the grace
of God he would have had sons that would have showed the legacy that he left
through their life that they are living.
So many religious people and unfortunately people within the church who
have this spirit seek to build monuments and building in their honor because
they are the only ones who can do what they are doing and after they are dead
and gone, that is it. So many people
follow this spirit and when the person deserts them or passes away, they are
left without a shepherd and wandering because they put all their trust in the
man and not the grace of God within the man.
We as the sons of
God are not called to build or be monuments, but we are called to be a movement
and ever building trans-genrationally through the model of fathers and sons.
Peace, Love and
Grace from the Father,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
