Role of the Spiritual Father
Today’s Focus: Generational Blessings
Scripture: Isaiah 9:6; Matthew 28:18-20;
Genesis 25:5; 28:1; Genesis 49; 1 Timothy 5:8
Greetings Kingdom Citizens
One of the unique attributes and concepts we
see in the Bible, in particular the Old Testament is what is called the
generational blessing. It is and always
has been God’s intentions to pass along the blessings from a father to the
son. Let’s look at some of these:
Genesis 25:5: Abraham gave all that he had
unto Isaac
Genesis 28:1: And Isaac called Jacob, and
blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of
the daughters of Canaan.
Genesis 49 (Entire Chapter): Jacob blesses
His twelve sons.
So the blessings of a father are to be handed
down to the sons. As those sons grow and
mature, then they hand down the blessings to their sons and so on. This way the purposes of God will increase
and mature. A spiritual father, John
Metcalfe gave this wonderful example and I would like to use it here:
The ancient builders of cathedrals in Europe
would begin the work by planting acorns first.
They knew their grandsons would need to harvest the oak trees to
complete the roofing on the great buildings.
This means these fathers were looking ahead
and planting blessings for the generations to come. This is why the scripture says:
1 Timothy 5:8: But if
any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath
denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel
The concept of the generational blessing is
that the son takes from the father and builds.
Are we generationally blessing the sons of God today? Sadly we are doing it on a very minimal scale
and let me explain. The church, who are
the believers, not the building is supposed to be a family. We are the House of God. Now, what God designed and what we are doing
for the most part are two separate things producing two completely different
results. In denominational religion we
have children who are born into it and all they know is the denomination and so
whatever the denomination teaches, that is all they know. If the denomination has been doing
conferences for 50 plus years and does it the same way, as that child grows “in
the denomination” they become a part of the machine and simply continue what
the fathers have already ordained. For a
great example, let’s go back to the builders of the cathedrals. That is like my father, planting the acorns
and then when I grow up, I plant acorns but nobody is building the
building. So it is a circle of ways
established by the denomination and many may not want to admit it but they
themselves are not maturing the sons.
Their goal is to bring in as many members as they can. So the
denomination simply reproduces itself and not mature the son, they mature the
denomination. Now let’s look at God’s
way of doing it and look at it’s results.
God sends His Son and gives Him 12 sons to
start the Holy Nation. In turn His Son,
Jesus is also a Father (Everlasting Father, Isaiah 9:6). After discipling and maturing those sons, He
hands the ministry over to them and tell them to continue the ministry by
making disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:18-20). What this does is grow the House of God but not
just in numbers. As those 12 (Mathias in
place of Judas) distributed bread and wine and matured their sons, those sons
come to maturity and father other sons.
Now what God does is He reveals more and more of Himself to every
generation so the maturation does not stick with a 500 year old revelation but
there are eternal truths being revealed to continue to prepare the Body of
Christ for the return of the Lord. Hence
God is bringing His fractured Body to order.
To walk in the ways of the Lord, it requires a believer to fast and
pray. The reason I say this is because, if you have grown up denominationally
then the denomination is in you hard and it requires God to separate the traditions
of men from His ways.
To be honest, I do not know how you put God’s
way of maturing the Body in an institutional church when it is predicated on fathers
and sons. Are we willing to give up the
machine and do it God’s way? There is
grace in doing it God’s way. Are we
willing to give up the titles and allow God to manifest His gifts through us as
we mature? Are we willing to be fathered
and discipled in the ways and nature of the Father?
In the next message we will look at how do we
migrate from the institutional mindset to the household mindset.
Peace, Love and Grace,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
