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Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Understanding Migration
Topic: Understanding Migration
Greetings Sons of God:
When we think of the word migration many times we think to
the Great Migrations of Africa with the animals as they move from place to
place during particular seasons. Many
times they are moving from a place where what is necessary to sustain life at
the time becomes depleted and they migrate to a place where those resources are
available. I bring up the Great
Migration as a backdrop for this entire discussion because so many of us do not
realize that our maturity in Christ is a journey that requires us to
migrate. Our migration is not all
necessarily physical though at times it can be but most of our migration
happens in the mind. The Scriptures
speak of renewing your mind daily that you may be “transformed”. What are we being transformed into? We are being transformed into the likeness of
Christ. Now for this to be a reality you must view salvation as a journey and
simply a one-step process where you get saved and simply wait around for the
return of the Lord. No…. the Scriptures
say this:
Philippians 2:12,13: Wherefore my beloved as ye have always
obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out
your own salvation with fear and trembling .
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good
pleasure.
So Paul emphasizes to the church at Philippi to “work out”
their own salvation. What are we working
out? We are working out to restore the
order of rule within ourselves where the soul comes under the rule of the
spirit where your spirit and the Holy Spirit are one. Second that you are maturing to the likeness
and image of your Heavenly Father that you may represent Him to do His will and
advance His Kingdom. Unfortunately in
the church instead of working out our salvation we tend to relax in our belief
that “we are saved” but yet our actions
and mindset have not changed and we still live according to the ways of the
world. This is extremely dangerous
because Jesus warns of those who call him Lord:
Matthew 7:21-23: Not
every one that saith unto me, Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven;
but he that doeth the will of my Father which is heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord,
have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? And in
thy name done many wonderful works? And
then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work
iniquity
So when we speak of migration in the spiritual we speak of
growing accurately and progressively and building the House (family) of God
trans-generationally. This the journey
not just individually but also corporately.
In the next message we will take a testimony within the
Scripture and explain the principles required for us to migrate to the fullness
of Christ.
Peace, Love and Grace,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Embracing Inevitable and Progressive Change
Topic:
Embracing Inevitable and Progressive Change
Greetings:
Repentance
is the first step to embracing the change to access the grace for the current
time or kairos of God. What we do know
is that we are being changed glory to glory and if we are changing and maturing
then change is a mandatory process and as change comes we must embrace it
knowing the change is moving us closer to the fullness of Christ.
1
John 3:2: Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what
we SHALL BE: but we KNOW that, when He
shall appear WE SHALL BE LIKE HIM; for
we shall see Him as He is.
Remember
the creation is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God to be set free
into the liberty of the sons. The
Kingdom of God is consistently advancing and it is imperative that if you want
to continue in this flow of grace you must change and move with His grace. The advancing of the Kingdom is the
spreading of the rule of God. The
Kingdom of God is not about taking over physical geographical areas as we know
the advancing of kingdoms in the earth.
The kingdoms of men seek to subdue physical territory. The Kingdom of God first seeks to rule over
the hearts of men and by the hearts of men the rulership of God is spread
person to person. By consequence as more
sons embrace their identity and rule as their Father desires the entire earth
we come under the rule of God and the kingdoms of men will be shaken and made
null and void because they fall short to fulfilling the true hearts and desires
of mankind.
Salvation
is a progressive reality! The Scriptures
say that we should work out our salvation with fear and trembling. By working out our salvation, Christ appears
so the words we speak are made manifest before mankind to confirm who we are
and who we belong to. Salvation is not
just a one-step process. Think about
this: After confessing your salvation
and being baptized how will someone know or even you know that you are saved if
your character and behavior does not change?
This is why God tells the believer not to dabble or serve sin because it
separates you from God but it also conforms you to the way of the world and you
cannot help someone from that position because then you would be living a double-standard. The Scriptures say a double-minded individual
is unstable in all their ways. But we as
sons have a single-mind, the mind of Christ.
So we are called to press to towards the mark of the prize. Our pressing requires us to constantly change
as grace moves and matures us and if we press to that mark we will achieve our
prize which is Christ-likeness and the Scripture 1 John 3:2 tells us that we
will shall be like Him!.. Embrace the
journey, embrace the change to press to the perfect will of God!
Grace
and Peace,
Calvin
Calhoun
Monday, January 2, 2017
Beginning Restitution
Topic:
Beginning Restitution
Greetings:
Very
simply put restitution begins with one word found throughout the Scriptures and
it is always preceded by this call whenever God is about to do anything and
that word is “Repent”. It was a change
of mindset that caused the fall in the Garden of Eden and it will require a
change of mindset to bring the restitution of all things for the return of
Christ. The Father understands that we
tend to adjust to the climates we are put in.
He will give us instruction to a thing and me carry that out but it is
not until God decides in His time or kairos, that we need to change our mind
from the thing we were doing to the thing He is now doing. When Israel would fall into sin there was a
consistent cry of repentance to the nation.
God in a particular time would accept the sacrifice of a lamb and its
blood shed for the atonement of sin for the nation, but now, no longer will the
blood of a lamb do because the lamb changed from a four-footed animal to
two-legged man in Jesus Christ and now we have access to the Father through
Christ for our sins to be forgiven no longer needing the shedding of blood from
a lamb. In times past it was the Temple
at Jerusalem where the presence of God resided on Earth in the inner court of
the Holiest of All but no longer does God’s presence dwell within a temple made
by the hands of man but within a Corporate Man, the Body of Christ.
In
one of the most important notes when we discuss the 6 elementary doctrines of
Hebrews 6, the very first elementary doctrine is Repentance from Dead
Works. When John the Baptist, full of
the Holy Spirit cries from the wilderness, He cries “Repent for the Kingdom of
Heaven is at Hand (Matthew 3:2). When
Jesus began to preach the message to the world was “Repent”. It was not hell…it was Repent. Even today that is still the message that
brings about change. We are being
changed glory to glory and as we mature to the measure of the fullness of
Christ it will require us to repent on every level as we shift from the rule of
the soul to the fullness of the rule of the Spirit that we obey Christ with all
our heart, soul and mind.
Romans
12:2: And be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing
of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable, and perfect,
will of God.
2
Corinthians 7:9-10: Now I rejoice not
that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made
sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to
salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the worketh death.
To
experience godly sorrow is good because it shows a true conviction and
contrition within the believer for the need to change their mind from a current
behavior to one that makes them like their Heavenly Father. We who have submitted to grace knows this
feeling and at first it is sad but it also lifts the burden and oppression of
the wrong mindset knowing that you are being “transformed” into the image and
likeness of the Father.
Psalm
51:17: The sacrifices of God are a
broken spirit: a broken and contrite heart, O God , thou wilt not despise.
Repentance
is the first step to every stage of restitution that brings us to the fullness
of the measure of Christ. Let us not
harden our hearts but embrace the necessary changes that bring about the
manifestation of the sons of God.
Peace
and Grace,
Calvin
Calhoun, Jr.
Thursday, December 29, 2016
Restoration of the Church - A Progressive Reality
Topic: Restoration of the Church – A Progressive
Reality
Greetings Sons of God:
When we speak of the restoration of the church we
tend to deal with the surface of the meaning but lack understanding to the
process by which God is actively, today, restoring the church. Becoming one with Christ through the
redemptive work of Jesus Christ through the cross is the beginning but once we
are one with Him there is a process to bring full restoration. Currently in 2016 we see the decline in moral
and the continuing rise in the orphan spirit in our world. However, God is working in restoring the
church. Now for many who have not
entered into the grace of the Apostolic Reformation there is a feverish prayer
for the Lord to return quickly and rescue us from the torment of this
time. The Bible tells us that fear has
torment but perfect love casts out fear.
The church must make a mindset shift into the grace for today and build
the House of God upon the order that the Father has established by His Son,
Jesus Christ. So in this teaching series
we will look at how God is restoring the church and we will look at some
biblical history to help show. I promise
you will not be disappointed and it will help clear up some blurry vision we
maybe suffering from that may hinder us from moving with proceeding Word of God
which is full of grace and truth.
Lets lead off with a definition of restitution and
then I will give you the foundational scripture and we will proceed from
there.
Restitution: the restoration of something lost or
stolen to its proper owner.
Acts 3:19-21: Repent ye therefore, and be
converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing
shall come from the presence of the Lord; and he shall send Jesus Christ, which
before was preached unto you: Whom the heaven must receive until the times of
restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy
prophets since the world began.
So it is clear by the Scriptures that Jesus will be
received, held and retained until the restitution of all things. Now when we talk about restitution we tend to
only talk about one of the seven characteristics of God that we as believers
are to all possess and that is Lordship or dominion. We always talk about restoring our dominion and
yes that is part of it but there is so much more before we get to that that
this series will address. Let us start
with the fact that the purpose of Jesus coming, His ministry, death and
resurrection is to show us who we are, what we are called to be doing. But we cannot just arbitrarily start doing
what we want? There is process and order
and the order begins with the restoration of the church to her proper order,
place and most of all condition. All
three must be satisfied before Christ returns.
The Scriptures declare the importance of the restoration of the church,
the Sons of God:
Romans 8:19-21:
For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the
manifestation of the sons of God. For
the creature was not made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of
him who hath subjected the same in hope, Because the creature itself also shall
be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the
children of God.
Psalm 82:5,6:
They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness:
all the foundations of the earth are out of course. I have said, ye are gods and all of you are
children of the Most High.
So while we are waiting for God to do something,
God has equipped us through his grace and by spiritual fathers to mature us to
the stature of the fullness of Christ that these Scriptures may be
fulfilled. This is about our
faithfulness and obedience to His order and His culture to bring about the
restitution of all things for the return of the Lord.
In the next message we will discuss the very first
step in restitution
Peace and Grace,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
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