WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:12.120 Good morning everyone. It is day five and today is simply titled Sonship. I call 2 00:00:12.120 --> 00:00:16.400 your spirit to attention. Listen with your spirit to the Word of God for you. 3 00:00:16.400 --> 00:00:21.960 Those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive 4 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:26.160 a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you receive the Spirit of 5 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:33.840 Sonship. And by him we cry, Abba, Abba. The Spirit himself testifies with our 6 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:40.360 spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs. Heirs 7 00:00:40.360 --> 00:00:44.680 of God and co-heirs with Christ. If indeed we share in his suffering, in 8 00:00:44.680 --> 00:00:49.840 order that we may also share in his glory. I consider that our present 9 00:00:49.840 --> 00:00:54.520 sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be 10 00:00:54.520 --> 00:01:02.320 revealed in us. Romans 8 14 through 18. Restful one, the Spirit of your father 11 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:08.200 gives witness that you are his son and are led by his Spirit. I bless you, 12 00:01:08.200 --> 00:01:15.280 restful one, with the Spirit of Sonship and the mindset of Sonship. I 13 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:22.760 bless you with embracing problems with the confidence that God is in them to 14 00:01:22.760 --> 00:01:29.240 give you grace to solve them and to overcome. I bless you with deep heart 15 00:01:29.240 --> 00:01:35.560 identity as God's very own child, securely loved in his family, calling him 16 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:43.040 Abba, dear father. I bless you with the Spirit of Sonship that does not make you 17 00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:50.880 a slave to fear because you know Abba is with you. I bless you with 18 00:01:50.880 --> 00:01:56.800 the settled assurance that he has a future and a hope for you, that he has 19 00:01:56.800 --> 00:02:02.680 written your days in his book with love for your best interests and his ultimate 20 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:08.960 glory. I bless you with being filled with the deep knowledge that your Abba knows 21 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:16.520 what you need and has all the resources of the universe to meet that need. Listen 22 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:21.720 again, restful one, with your spirit to the Word of God for you. The Spirit 23 00:02:21.720 --> 00:02:27.760 himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. I bless you with 24 00:02:27.760 --> 00:02:32.240 the ears to hear the testimony of the Spirit of the Lord, the Spirit of wisdom 25 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:36.200 and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and power, the Spirit of knowledge and 26 00:02:36.200 --> 00:02:42.440 the fear of the Lord. I bless you with delighting and obedience in the fear of 27 00:02:42.440 --> 00:02:50.000 the Lord. I bless you with the Spirit of God at home in you so that you will 28 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:56.000 not judge by what you see with your eyes, mere appearance or false evidence, or 29 00:02:56.000 --> 00:03:03.320 decide by what you hear with your ears or by deceptive conclusions. I bless you 30 00:03:03.320 --> 00:03:09.560 with being tuned into God with eyes for seeing and ears for listening according 31 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:14.760 to his Spirit. I bless you with being led by the fullness of the Spirit of 32 00:03:14.760 --> 00:03:20.080 truth to call forth God's truth, spiritual discernment to see things as 33 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:26.080 he sees them in the spirit realm. Listen again with your with your spirit to the 34 00:03:26.080 --> 00:03:32.280 Word of God for you. Now if we are children, then we are heirs, heirs of God 35 00:03:32.280 --> 00:03:37.320 and co-heirs with Christ. If indeed we shared in his sufferings, in order that 36 00:03:37.320 --> 00:03:42.800 we may also share in his glory. I bless you with deep knowledge that you are an 37 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:50.080 heir with your brother Jesus to all the treasuries of your father. I bless you 38 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:56.160 with confidence that you have the riches of your father and that you lack nothing 39 00:03:56.160 --> 00:04:01.760 that you need emotionally, physically, practically, mentally, spiritually, in any 40 00:04:01.760 --> 00:04:06.960 way. I bless you with embracing the fellowship of the suffering of Jesus so 41 00:04:06.960 --> 00:04:13.280 that you will be blessed with sharing his glory. I bless you with realizing the 42 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:20.320 glory that you have and embracing the glory that you are. Listen again, rest 43 00:04:20.320 --> 00:04:26.720 for one, with your spirit to the Word of God for you. I consider that our present 44 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:32.480 sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. I 45 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:38.600 bless you with the sure understanding that his ways are not our ways and he 46 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:45.140 wants to have his way for your good and his glory. I bless you with pressing 47 00:04:45.140 --> 00:04:50.320 forward to see the glory that he is revealing. I bless you as you 48 00:04:50.320 --> 00:04:56.360 listen every day as the Lord gives you the tongue of one being taught, an 49 00:04:56.360 --> 00:05:02.080 instructed tongue to know the Word, the sustained 50 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:08.040 the weary, Isaiah 54. I bless you with the beauty, satisfaction, and fulfillment of 51 00:05:08.040 --> 00:05:13.140 your Father, wakening your ears morning by morning, opening your 52 00:05:13.140 --> 00:05:18.680 ears to be taught by Him. And I bless you with presenting to Him a 53 00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:24.400 heart that does not rebel or shrink away from what He puts before you day by day. 54 00:05:24.400 --> 00:05:31.760 I bless you with hunger for His glory every day as you search Him out in His 55 00:05:31.760 --> 00:05:37.680 word and watch and listen every day at the doorpost of the counsel of His 56 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:43.880 wisdom. I bless you with the glimpses of His glory revealed to you. I bless you in 57 00:05:44.360 --> 00:05:48.080 the name of Jesus of Nazareth. 58 00:05:52.720 --> 00:06:01.920 Lord, there are some things in Scripture that as a historical note and especially 59 00:06:01.920 --> 00:06:08.400 in Western culture and in a modern age, even culturally speaking, that we have no 60 00:06:08.400 --> 00:06:16.800 context for. There was an inherent understanding of what sonship meant, 61 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:23.240 especially when it came to the very strict rules of how power and wealth 62 00:06:23.240 --> 00:06:29.840 was to be distributed to the firstborn. There was an understanding of lordship 63 00:06:29.840 --> 00:06:36.560 and having lords and hierarchies or what a king meant. To be a lord of lord and a 64 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:43.320 king of kings. Lord, I pray that you would today help us to understand not 65 00:06:43.320 --> 00:06:54.160 with our ears and our mental assent of what it is to be a son. And not a son as 66 00:06:54.160 --> 00:07:03.040 a male specific term, but a son in the understanding of the writers, the Holy 67 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:09.880 Spirit, but the actual people that put the pen to paper of what it is to be a 68 00:07:09.880 --> 00:07:16.480 firstborn son in that time. All the rights and privileges. 69 00:07:21.200 --> 00:07:25.520 There's a, I'm going to butcher this, but there's another scripture that talks 70 00:07:25.520 --> 00:07:33.480 about that even the heir is put under the tutelage of a servant. And though he 71 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:40.600 is to be the heir, legitimate person, that at that time he is almost as a 72 00:07:40.600 --> 00:07:49.160 slave and put under the tutelage of slaves. And in that those times there was 73 00:07:49.160 --> 00:07:57.680 a place where they had servants that knew the father whose job was to raise 74 00:07:57.680 --> 00:08:05.880 these children up, this son, up into the place to be just like his father. And 75 00:08:05.880 --> 00:08:10.880 that at the time, I believe a 30 years old, there was a ceremony that came and I 76 00:08:10.880 --> 00:08:14.480 don't remember if there was a ring exchange or not, but this just culturally 77 00:08:14.480 --> 00:08:19.280 speaking. And then there was a time when the father would bring his son before 78 00:08:19.280 --> 00:08:23.520 all of his business partners and all the people that he knew. And he said, this is 79 00:08:23.520 --> 00:08:33.159 my son. And when he speaks, it is as if I spoke. Now there's different ideas about 80 00:08:33.159 --> 00:08:36.880 whether it's the Holy Spirit, the seven spirits of God or what have you, but 81 00:08:36.880 --> 00:08:46.440 there's an idea of us being brought up in that same fashion to be just like our 82 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:57.600 father. You know, this is my son in whom I'm well pleased. When he speaks, it's as 83 00:08:57.600 --> 00:09:05.920 if I speak. Lord, I pray that we could come to a place where we so embody your 84 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:16.680 son. We so embody our father, that it could be said of us. That would be about 85 00:09:16.680 --> 00:09:22.680 our father's business. That when we would speak, it'd be as if you yourself were 86 00:09:22.680 --> 00:09:28.200 speaking. That when we sign our signature, it is your signature, that the ring that 87 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:35.280 is on your hand to be the ring that is on ours. But as I believe it mentions in 88 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:44.080 here, Lord, there is a place within us that we in our own thinking about who 89 00:09:44.080 --> 00:09:51.320 you are, but even in this instance, who we see ourselves to be, that needs to 90 00:09:51.320 --> 00:09:51.960 change. 91 00:09:57.960 --> 00:09:59.960 Lord, I pray that you would expand. 92 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:11.640 capacity, our imaginings, to encapsulate more of the magnitude of all that's been 93 00:10:11.640 --> 00:10:16.760 done on our behalf and all that is available to us, all of whom you are and 94 00:10:16.760 --> 00:10:22.280 all of that in the mystery of which can be contained within us and that we are 95 00:10:22.280 --> 00:10:27.160 in you and you are in us and somehow together there is a mystery of a unity 96 00:10:27.160 --> 00:10:36.960 of one being. Just as you, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one person, so we are 97 00:10:36.960 --> 00:10:44.280 body, soul, and spirit one being and together with you we are another brand 98 00:10:44.280 --> 00:10:52.560 new thing, that we are a new creation, that we are aliens to this world and I was 99 00:10:52.560 --> 00:10:58.240 walking this morning and I kept hearing that phrase, to be in the world but not 100 00:10:58.240 --> 00:11:01.000 of the world. 101 00:11:05.680 --> 00:11:12.160 I pray Lord today that there be elevated ways of thinking, new ways of 102 00:11:12.160 --> 00:11:17.440 understanding, things to open up around people today that will cause them to 103 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:26.200 realize their position. In you, your position, your seated in heavenly places 104 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:33.880 and even Lord all that is going around them in the Spirit. One of my favorite 105 00:11:33.880 --> 00:11:41.560 scriptures Lord was when Elisha, some called Elisha, and his servant were 106 00:11:41.560 --> 00:11:48.560 surrounded by an army and his servant was freaking out and he said Lord open 107 00:11:48.560 --> 00:11:53.320 his eyes that he may see and he opened his eyes and the hills were full of 108 00:11:53.320 --> 00:12:01.320 chariots of fire and angels. There's a mystery that is hidden for us around us 109 00:12:01.320 --> 00:12:06.040 about all that is around and as somebody has rightly said that when Satan fell 110 00:12:06.120 --> 00:12:13.440 he took a third of his angels that meant there were two-thirds left and that 111 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:18.560 there are more with us than are against us. There's so much conspired in our 112 00:12:18.560 --> 00:12:23.480 favor Lord. Forgive us for any small mindedness and thinking that we may 113 00:12:23.480 --> 00:12:28.360 carry. Move away any obstacles and strongholds in our minds that may keep 114 00:12:28.360 --> 00:12:32.720 us from being able to really connect with the fullness of who you are, where 115 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:36.880 we are, and I firmly believe Lord that there are things that have been sealed 116 00:12:36.880 --> 00:12:47.360 up that are only just now being released in a way that will cause things and 117 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:52.440 truths in the Bible to be heard in a way that they have not been heard but also 118 00:12:52.440 --> 00:12:59.840 that have never been said and that Lord that most of all Lord that there be 119 00:12:59.840 --> 00:13:04.880 something spoken over each and every person here today that will cause them 120 00:13:04.880 --> 00:13:11.280 to turn and have a shift in their understanding of who they are and their 121 00:13:11.280 --> 00:13:18.280 paternity in eternity. We bless you and love you in Jesus name.