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And the reason why we call this life eternal is because it's a life that cannot end.
And this is not because you do something to earn it.
It's not a life that you earned by works, but it's a life that you earned by what Christ
has done.
Hallelujah.
Christ is the one that died, Christ is the one that was raised from the dead by the Holy
Ghost, and Christ is the one that gave to you or has given you the gift of the Spirit.
And the gift of the Spirit in you is what guarantees that you are eternally secured
and preserved and protected.
Hallelujah.
That is your reality as a believer.
And that is what we've been trying to understand is spirit-led life.
So we understand the gifts that we have.
You and I have been given a special gift.
Now it's quite very important for us to study what we have, to understand what we have,
not only to understand it, but to appropriate it in our lives.
Some of the happenings in our lives is as a result of our lack of understanding of who
we are, is a lack of understanding of what Christ has done for us, is a lack of understanding
of the things that we have in Christ.
Oftentimes we suffer unnecessarily because we are not aware of what we have.
We are not aware of the authority that we have in Christ Jesus.
We are not aware of the resources, the riches, and the wealth that we have embedded in our
identity as the children of God.
Imagine the God of the universe, the father of all creation, the one who created the heavens
and the earth.
It's your father.
He resides in you.
Hallelujah.
So we began looking at promises.
We say that this life that we have was promised.
Amen.
We say it was a promise that God made.
And in the story of this promise, or rather promises in scriptures, we came across a time,
a covenant, and we say that God went into a covenant to ensure the delivery of his promise
to us.
Amen.
God made a covenant to ensure what?
The delivery of his promise to us.
He put his integrity on the line to ensure the successful completion of what he has promised.
And we say that all the promises of God are accomplished in who?
Are accomplished in the person of Christ Jesus.
So when you have Christ, you have all that it takes.
You have all the promises of God.
Because all the promises of God are yes, they are amen in Christ Jesus.
Hallelujah.
So we came across the word covenant, and we began studying what covenant is.
Just briefly, then we move.
We came across in scriptures, as though there are three different covenants.
And the first one we saw in the Old Testament part, the part of scripture we call the Old
Testament especially, you know, when the Israelites were coming out of Egypt, and there was a
covenant that was instituted by Moses.
Covenant, and this covenant is what the scripture refer it to, what the first covenant.
And we agree with me that we saw that the word first does not mean timing, right?
It doesn't mean, oh, this is first, this is second, this is third, no.
So what the Israelites were given through Moses by angels is what we call the first
covenant, and it's also referred to as the Old Covenant.
It is the one given through Moses.
And there is a promise after that, that there will be a new covenant, the new covenant or
a second covenant that will come to be.
And in our story we discovered that this second or new covenant is actually not new per se
because it was a covenant that was already promised to Abraham even before what happened
in the Exodus, right?
After the Exodus in Egypt.
And what God gave to Abraham was a covenant of what?
Of salvation to mankind.
The promise was that man or humanity will be saved.
So actually what happened was that what we call the new covenant or the second covenant
is actually the previous covenant God made with Abraham even before, you know, the Exodus.
So why was the first, why was it, why was there a need for the statement of what God
has already done with Abraham?
Because the children of Israel were found in unbelief.
They were found in unbelief, therefore the enactment or the introduction, introduction
or the Old Covenant was added, meaning that it was introduced because they disbelieved
first and foremost the covenant of God through their fathers from Abraham to Isaac down to
Jacob and even to Moses.
So because of unbelief, there was an introduction of another.
Hallelujah.
So the expectation of God was for what, for them to exercise faith, for them to exercise
what?
Faith.
But they were found to be in unbelief.
Hallelujah.
And we concluded that Jesus Christ coming was a fulfillment of the covenant God made
with Abraham, the promise through Abraham.
And we say that Abraham was not expected to do anything.
It was God himself.
The covenant is not between two equals.
It was not between one that would do a particular, play a particular role and another will play
his own part.
No.
It's God all by himself, entering into a covenant by himself.
The Bible says that he's so by himself because there's no other name that he can sway by.
So God went into a covenant with himself and he ensured and we look through history that
no calculation of man, no orchestration of certain could sabotage the promise of Christ
coming to the world, dying, resurrecting and giving us a promise.
Hallelujah.
And we see Jesus in Luke chapter four, 24 verse 49, Luke chapter 24 verse 49.
We see when Jesus has resurrected, he told the disciples or rather the apostles, give
me Luke chapter 24 verse 49.
He says, and behold, I sent the promise of my father upon you.
Now, but tarry he in the city of Jerusalem until ye be endured power from on high.
So after Jesus have accomplished everything, he now deliver the promise that a father has
made and has accomplished in all that Christ has done.
Hallelujah.
Praise Jesus.
So today we'll continue in our study of the promises of God.
What has God promised?
Romans 8 verse 14, let's go on to Romans 8 verse 14.
Romans 8 verse 14, we'll read to verse 17.
For as many as are led by the spirit of God, as many as are directed, as many as are led
by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
For ye have not received a spirit of bondage again to fear, but ye have received a spirit
of adoption whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
The spirit himself, rather I will say himself, beareth witness with our spirit that we are
the children of God.
Verse 17.
And if children, then heirs, and heirs of God, and heirs with Christ.
If so be that we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified together.
Hallelujah.
Now the spirit of God only leads those who are what, who are sons, amen.
Say I am a son.
If you are not sure, don't say it.
If you are not born again, you are not a son.
How we came into sonship is by believing, amen.
Is by believing.
The moment you believe, you know, we're taught a doctrine some years ago, and we have actually
tried to teach that kind of doctrine.
That when you became born again, you are what?
You are a child of God.
And then you grow into sonship, and I found out that it may not necessarily be accurate.
Hallelujah.
The day you are born again, you are what?
You are a son.
Meaning that all of these gods is yours in Christ Jesus.
Now your mind, right, may be conflicting with your identity.
If God says you are a son, your mind should not say otherwise.
Oh, you know, I have sinned and I have fallen, I'm not worthy.
That is pride, amen.
That is seeing yourself beyond what God says you are.
Less or more is pride.
And it's walking in unbelief.
Hallelujah.
So he says, as many as are led, when were you led by the spirit of salvation?
Amen.
The first leading you receive is that you receive the word of God.
What is the word of God you receive?
Receive the message concerning the promise of God.
What is the promise?
The promise is that God is forgiving sins through the eternal sacrifice of Jesus.
And you believe you've been led by the spirit of God into believing in that promise, and
you've received the gift of the spirit of God.
Therefore you are a son of God.
And sonship means that all that is God is yours through Christ Jesus.
Hallelujah.
I was thinking somebody will rejoice for this.
Because we are born of the spirit, we are led by the spirit.
We are born of God.
God becomes our father.
Imagine God.
See, we sometimes see God in a way that God doesn't want us to see him.
Amen.
We see God in a way that God doesn't want us to see him.
We'll see it briefly.
That God's will for you is to see him as your father.
Amen.
And that was his intention right from the beginning, from the foundation of the world.
Because God was interested in a family.
God is a family God.
Amen.
And what he wants to reflect to us is his loving kindness as father.
So God becomes your father.
He becomes my father through the redemptive work of Christ.
When you believe.
Amen.
When you believe.
Now, father, the word father, listen, the word father was never used to God in the entire
Old Testament scriptures.
If you've studied the Old Testament, what we call, when I say Old Testament contextually,
what I'm meaning is where Genesis to Malachi.
I'm very intentional about specifying what I mean by Old Testament.
All right?
Because even what we call New Testament is part of Old Testament as well.
All right?
By the standard, what is old, what make old old is what?
The redemptive work, the resurrection of Christ.
Hallelujah.
So, God rather was never called a father in the Old Testament part of the scriptures,
from Genesis to Malachi.
He was never referred to as father by any man who will see it introduced only in the
part of scripture we call the New Testament.
And the first person they introduced this is Jesus, even before his resurrection.
But at this time, he was God, he was Jesus' father.
Amen?
Not any man's father.
Let's look at the reaction of the Jews to Jesus calling God his father.
He was in trouble with the Jewish people.
John chapter 15 verse, John chapter 5, rather, verse 16.
John chapter 5 verse 16.
For this reason, John 5, 16 to 18, for this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus and sought
to kill him because he had done these things on the Sabbath, verse 17.
But Jesus answered them, my father, look at Jesus here, my father has been working until
now and I have been working.
Therefore, the Jews sought all the more to kill him.
Why did they want to kill him?
Because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was what?
Was his father.
For them, for you to associate yourself with God and say God is your father is what is
blasphemy.
Because God cannot have a son, you are not worthy to be a son of God.
He is saying God is his father, do you know what he has done?
He has made himself equal, he has made himself divine.
Amen?
He has made himself divine, he has made himself of equal nature with God.
One of us because of our understanding of fatherhood, unfortunately, we have experienced
naturally in a sense, a bad example of a father, therefore when we are saying God is a father,
the first picture that comes to you is your biological father.
Oh, when the father comes to the house, everybody disappears and go into hiding.
You will be praying, when will this father travel so that we can play, so we can enjoy.
But if you are looking for a perfect example of fatherhood, you study God, hallelujah.
God is a perfect example of fatherhood.
So these men here wanted to kill him, Jesus, because what?
They understood what Jesus was saying.
For you to call God your father, it means that you are of the same nature with God and
that is blasphemy.
Again, John chapter 10 verse 30, 29, we see another circumstances where, you know, the
Jewish leaders accused Jesus of blasphemy because he claimed unity with the father.
John chapter 10 verse 30, I and my father are what?
Are one.
Then the Jews took stones.
These people love carrying stones.
Whenever they hear something they don't understand, what they go for quickly is a stone.
And actually, actually, that is the behavior of many of us.
The moment light want to shine in your dark heart, you pick up stones to terminate the
light.
Amen.
So we can change of mind.
So we can, that prayer, you see, we are the problem for that prayer.
That prayer we prayed, grow in what?
In knowledge.
Grow, want to grow.
But the problem is not with God.
The biggest problem is not even any safe.
The biggest problem is you.
So the Jews took up stones again to stun him.
Verse 32, quickly.
Jesus answered them, many good works I have shown you from my father for which those works
do you stun me?
The Jews answered him saying for a good work we do not stun you, but for blasphemy.
And because you, you, being what?
Being a man, make yourself God.
What he mean by saying he and God, he and the father are one, mean that he has equated
himself.
He has said I is equal to God.
Amen.
Now look at his continuation.
Jesus answered them, is it not written in your law?
I said ye are gods.
If ye call them gods, to whom the word of God came, who are those?
That is the men of old.
And the scripture cannot be broken.
Do you say of him whom the father sanctified and sent into the world, you are blaspheming?
Because I said I am the son of God.
So they want to stun him because he said he is the son of God.
Verse 37.
If I do not do the works of my father, do not believe me.
But if I do, though you do not believe me, believe the works that you may know and believe
the father is where, is in me and I in him.
So this is the same fact we lay claim of at salvation.
That the believer and God has come into what has come into oneness.
The believer and God has come into union.
The believer and God has come into this union that is eternal.
Into this union of a father and a son.
First Corinthians chapter 6 verse 17.
It says but he who is what, who is joined to the Lord in one is what?
Is one spirit with him.
Amen.
And what, who is joined, how do we become joined with the father?
When we believe the spirit of God and our spirit has come into union.
So we are what?
We are the sons of God.
We are one with God.
When are caught with God.
We are in union with God.
When agreement with God.
When eternal agreement with God.
We cannot be separated from this unity with God because you believe.
Not also that Jesus never refers to God as a father to any man.
I've said this earlier on, up until now Jesus has never said God is a father to any man
except himself.
Amen.
So except himself.
But at the resurrection we see a change.
It's a change in the fatherhood of God.
John chapter 20 verse 11.
Let's see how it was changed.
When Jesus resurrected there was a change in the fatherhood of God.
But Mary stood outside by the tomb when Jesus has resurrected and the context is that oh
they came to the tomb looking for the body and the body was missing and then there were
a lot of shenanigans that happened and then Mary was there but Mary stood outside by the
tomb weeping and as she wept she stood down and looked into the tomb and she saw two angels
white sitting one at the head and the other at the feet where the body of Jesus had laid
at land.
Then they said to her, woman why are you weeping?
She said to them because they have taken away my Lord and I do not know where they have
laid him.
Now when she had said this she turned around and saw Jesus standing there and did not know
that it was Jesus.
Jesus said to her, woman why are you weeping?
Whom are you seeking?
She said supposing him to be the gardener said to him, sir if you have carried him away
tell me where you have laid him and I will take him away.
Jesus said to her, Mary.
She turned and said to him, Rabboni, which is to say teacher.
Jesus said to her, do not cling to me for what?
For I have not yet ascended to the father.
To whose father here?
Look at this verse clearly.
I have not yet ascended to whose father?
To my father, right?
But go to where?
To my brethren.
Now this is family here.
To my brethren.
This is family here.
I say to them, I am ascended to my father and whose father?
And your father.
And my God and your God.
So at the resurrection God did not only become a father to Jesus on earth but he became father
to all who believed.
Amen.
This is the point where we came into, you know, the family at the resurrection.
Jesus is no longer the only begotten son of God.
He was the only begotten because he was the only son.
Because he came from God.
But at the resurrection Jesus is no longer the only begotten.
Jesus is the first begotten and we are many brethren.
Hallelujah.
We've come into the family of God.
We've come into fellowship with God.
We've come into union with God.
We've come into this family.
This oneness.
God becomes our source.
God becomes our provider.
And it's a comfort for you this morning that God is your source.
Amen.
God is your comfort.
God is your protection.
God is your father.
And if God is your father you have everything you need in Christ Jesus.
And all the promises of God are for you, a son.
The spirit of God is for you, a son.
To manifest the gifts is for you, the son.
To manifest the spirit life, the spirit life or rather the spirit of God that lives in
you is for you.
It is a right for you.
It is what defines our family.
What makes us family and brethren is the indwelling of the spirit of God.
And all the activities that is expected of a man full of the spirit of God is for every
member of the family.
It's not because you've done something good that warrants you exercising all the wealth
and the riches that are in the kingdom, in the family.
Hallelujah.
The disciples are now breaded together with Christ at resurrection.
Now let's go back to Romans 8 verse 14, particularly verse 15.
Romans chapter 8 verse 15.
It says for you, you did not receive the spirit of bondage.
So the spirit we have is not a spirit that keeps us in bondage to fear, but you receive
the spirit of adoption by whom we cry out Abba Father, Abba Father.
So the believer received that spirit that brings him into an intimate relationship with
God.
He therefore can refer to God as Abba, amen, as Abba, Abba Father.
Now the word Abba is an Aramaic word.
It's not completely Hebrew.
It is like a colloquial expression of the Hebrew language.
It's in what we call the Pidgin or day to day language.
It's not an official language.
And this Abba expresses a sense of tenderness and affection to another.
It expresses this sense of closeness and affection to another.
So we are to call God Abba because we've been brought into this union with him.
He is our Abba, Abba Father, amen.
Now, you know, when I was, I was told in, I came across a thought.
I said, there's a difference between having a father and having a daddy.
There's a difference between how anybody can be a father.
So long as you are matured biologically, you can be a father.
You know, I was watching a video of a kid, a baby, one of the shows, Steve Harvey, I'll
be very precise.
And the girl was brought to the show because she was smart, a little girl, you know, and
she was asked to identify a man from the crowd as this, you know, if he was her father.
And the young girl politely say he isn't, he isn't father, but he is daddy.
He know that he's not father, but he's daddy.
Some of you may have come across it.
And I was like, hmm, there's something intimate between this girl and this man.
He's not just a father to her, but he's a daddy.
Amen.
And then being daddy, it takes a special man.
Steve Harvey says you take a special man.
That any man can be a father, but it takes a special man.
They have done a special responsibility in the life of a child for the child to say you
are daddy, you are not just father, but you are daddy.
Daddy expresses this sense of closeness, expresses this sense of this sense of relationship that
is intimate, that is not just, it's not just official.
You know, some of us, our parents, we, we, before we, we ask our parents some things,
we have to write a letter.
It's a format.
We will write a letter and we don't give it to him directly.
We go to the mother and she will now prove, read the letter and ensure that the tune is
okay, that she can deliver to the father of the house.
No, no, no, no, no.
Abba is like saying daddy.
It's like saying in Nigeria we say pop see, pop man.
You know, it's not better English, right?
But it shows this sense of closeness, this sense of affection.
So because you are a son, you can say Abba.
So when you come to pray, you don't begin to say God of all nations, the ancients of
this, the I am that I am, the one who move mountains, the one who speak as smoke, come
out of the, say Abba, you know, in an attempt to sound spiritual.
We invent names that are used in the shrine in Africa to call God, especially the Southwest
Nigeria.
I didn't say Yoruba.
Amen.
And what God wants from you is to see him as Abba.
Father is even, is even official.
Say Abba, father, say Abba.
Say God is my Abba.
He's my pop man.
Amen.
The word Abba shows this sense of affection.
It was from Arabic, but in the scriptures, it was never translated to English.
It maintains because how will it even translate it?
It will lose its meaning.
They just leave it as Abba.
We can say example in Mark, Mark chapter 14 verse 36, where it is used, Mark chapter
14 verse 36, Mark 14, that's specifically.
Yes.
And he said Abba, father, this is Jesus.
Things, all things are possible for you.
So you see Jesus, when Jesus was praying, he was not using the metal we are using, you
know, when he asked people to pray in church, that's when you, you see how people will try
to manifest how spiritual and how, you know, don't complicate it.
Don't complicate it.
Call, learn how to call God father.
Thunder will not strike you.
Right?
Nothing will happen to you.
He's your father.
That is a kind of confidence you come into.
Prayer, if you want to pray, that should be your mindset because you are a son.
So you call him father.
You call him Abba father.
So Jesus here says what?
Abba father, all things are possible for you.
Take this call away from me, nevertheless, not what I will, but what you will.
You will see also in Galatians 4 verse 6, where the word Abba was used.
And because you are sons, what happened?
God has sent for the spirit of his son into your hearts.
What is the spirit crying?
Ancient of this, the I am that I am, the God of Elijah, he's not even your God.
What does the spirit cries out?
He cries Abba.
Amen.
Say God is my daddy.
You know what is funny about us?
We sing my daddy, my daddy, your bikinis.
But we'll go back and we'll be, we're saying with our lips, but our mind is not allowing
what we're saying with our mouths.
In this church, we'll sing it.
We'll teach it.
We'll edify you with it.
We'll enforce it in your spirit until you come to the point that you begin to act it
and you begin to manifest your right as a son in this kingdom.
Amen.
That is why our message will never change.
Until you come to this realization of who you are in Christ, until you come to the realization
of what Christ has done and has brought you into our message will never change.
We see Abba father.
We see the word father from the good word pather.
P A T E R.
What does it mean?
It means ancestor.
It means originator.
We originated from God.
Amen.
You originated from God because you believe you originate, you were born in the spirit
or rather by the spirit.
Because as I said, God intent was family.
God is a family God.
In creating Adam, God wanted a family.
That was his goal.
That was his purpose.
And God wants us to see him and know him as father.
Now we'll see Paul introduces God as father in Ephesians in the epistles now.
Going to the epistles to see where Paul begin to explain God as father.
Ephesians 31 verse 16.
Let's do this.
Ephesians 1, 16 to 18.
Do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers, that the God
of our Lord Jesus Christ, the word the father of glory, the word father, the father of glory
may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, the eyes of your
understanding.
The next verse.
Being enlightened that you may know what is the hope of his calling, what are the riches
of the glory of his inheritance in a sense.
And then chapter 2 verse 18.
Chapter 2 verse 18.
For to him we both have access by one spirit to the father.
Now we see consistently the usage of the word father because at this point God has become
father to us.
After the resurrection he has become father.
Chapter 3 verse 14.
Ephesians 3 verse 14.
For this reason I bow my knees to the father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Thing verse 15.
From whom what?
The whole family in heaven and on earth is named.
I'll leave that name there.
Let's leave it for people that know what named means.
Chapter 4 verse 1 to 6.
I therefore the prisoner of the Lord beseech you to work worthy of the calling with which
you were called.
What calling were you called?
With all lordliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love because we
are of this family together, enduring to keep the unity of the spirit in the bone of peace.
There is one word body, one spirit just as you were called into one hope of your calling.
One Lord, one faith, one baptism.
So we are calling to a family.
We are meant to keep the unity of this family.
Chapter 5 verse 1.
Therefore be imitators of God as what?
As what?
As children.
Not just children but as dear children.
Meaning affection, meaning intimacy, meaning just you are not a prodigal son, you are a
dear son, right?
So we are of the household of God.
It's a family business.
It's a family thing.
We belong to the family.
There is a truth in seeing and knowing God as a father.
As, not a father, as the father.
There's truth in what?
In knowing and seeing God as the father.
So let me ask a question.
How did the apostle came to the place of calling God father?
How did the early apostle go to the concept, you know, the concept of calling God father?
Was it something they just invented?
Was it something they just came, ah, if you call God father it will make sense.
It will bomb.
If God is now father it will be different from the Jewish people.
It will be nice.
You know, the Jews, the Pharisees, they didn't see God as father.
Now we know him.
He's close to us.
So let's just call him father.
Is that what happened?
Eh?
It is evident that nowhere in the Old Testament anyone called God father.
How did they come up with the concept of this concept?
Someone heard, I heard someone say it's from Jesus.
It's partly true.
But Jesus never invented anything when he came here.
He came to do, to fulfill.
He came to accomplish all that has been said.
So if God is referred to as father in the New Testament, there must be a promise of
him.
You know, all this movement is to come to a point where we see in the scriptures, there
must be a promise of him being a father in the Old Testament scriptures.
And when we say the Old Testament, we're meaning toward from Genesis to Malachi.
We've met in this conversation here in the gospels.
So Genesis to Malachi contains both promises and mysteries, we've said it earlier on, which
are progressively revealed and fulfilled in Christ.
And this promise of God being father was spoken by God through the prophets and our promises
wrapped up in shadows and figures of speech, what we call mysteries.
So in between Genesis and Malachi, there is a conversation of God being a father, but
it's wrapped up in mysteries.
It's wrapped up in what we call parables.
And a parable must be taught.
Now nobody gives meaning to a parable.
The one who speaks the parable is the one who gives meaning to it.
So you can now come and say, oh, I think what Pastor Victor was meaning by this parable
is no, no, no, he is the one that spoke the parable.
So he is the one you can go to for the meaning of what he said.
And in scriptures there is meaning for what has been concealed, rightly explained in mysteries.
Here it means something that requires explanation, right?
Do we have time to look at where it is?
Let's do this briefly and then we go.
Isaiah 53 verse 10.
You mean there is a place in the Old Testament that prophesied about God being the father,
yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him.
Who is it?
Who is the him here?
In the context, previous texts have confirmed who is speaking here.
Now let's look at Isaiah 7 verse 14 before we come back here.
Isaiah 7 verse 14, the same book, Isaiah 7 verse 14.
Isaiah 7 verse 14, therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign, behold, the virgin will
conceive and bear a son and shall call his name while Emmanuel.
Talking about Jesus.
Chapter 9 verse 17, also confirming that the conversation here is about Jesus.
Chapter 9 verse 17.
Therefore the Lord will have no joy in their young, nor have mercy on their fatherless
and widows.
For everyone, my reading is right, please.
I got this text wrong.
Is it what?
Chapter 6, 9 verse 6.
Okay, 9 verse 6.
Yes.
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon
his shoulders, and his name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting
Father, Prince of Peace, and we will see all along the previous scriptures pointing to
Jesus Christ.
Now let's move to chapter 53 verse 10.
It is, yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him.
He put him, he has put him to grief.
When you make his soul an offering for sin, does it talk about the death, the burial,
and resurrection of Jesus Christ?
Is it talking about the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ?
Yet it pleased the Lord to do what?
To bruise him, he has put him into grief, when you make his soul an offering for what?
Sin.
Means Jesus offered for sin, sacrificed for sin.
He shall be, he shall what?
He shall see what?
He shall see his what?
On the land that sit.
Who shall see his seat?
He shall see his seat.
He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand.
In Texas, he shall see his seat.
The word seat is translated from a Hebrew word, zera, seat.
And it's oftentimes used for descendants.
It's used for descendants.
So he shall see his sons.
He shall see his descendants, meaning that there will be sons, meaning that there will
be family, meaning that there will be a community.
He shall see his seat, and seat normally is used to refer to descendants.
Prolong his days mean a rock, and is a word that means to lengthen something.
His days have been prolonged at the word of resurrection, which means that it is eternal.
We'll explain that much more better next time.
So in the resurrection of Jesus, there shall be a family or a people.
It means there will be descendants or children or sons.
His days will prolong.
The text carries in it the promise of a resurrection, and what will come forth is a seat, right?
It carries a promise of the resurrection, the death, the burial, the resurrection of
Jesus Christ, and then the promise of a seat that will be bathed out of this that will
happen.
So when Christ died and he rose again, there was a bath.
Amen?
In Isaiah 53, verse 10, we see the promise of the new creation, the promise of sons in
Jesus Christ.
The promise of sons in Jesus Christ.
So we're going to double more into sonship next time, but I want you to know when you
leave this place that you're not a second-class son.
Amen?
It's a common salvation, common spirit, one body, one spirit.
So the spirit in you is not a counterfeit spirit.
The spirit in you is not the prototype of another.
It's not different from the spirit that is in your pastor.
The spirit in you is the same spirit that raised Jesus from the death, the same spirit
that men are healed of diseases, the same spirit that yokes are broken, the same spirit
by which we cast out devils, the same spirit by which we give revelational knowledge and
prophetic words, the same spirit by which we teach the world, the same spirit by which
we do every work in this kingdom, same quality, the same person, the same individual, the
same work he is doing in me, the same work he's doing in you.
Our result must be same.
We must allow him to be expressed through us and we see him manifested.
You see, all the things we see in the eyewitnesses in the book of Acts is for every son.
Hallelujah.
And you are a son.
You are a son.
So when Pastor says we heal the sick, I heal the sick, you heal the sick.
You appreciate the gospel.
You win souls for Christ by the spirit.
Amen.
You give a word by the spirit.
Amen.
You give a prophetic word by the spirit.
You teach the word by the spirit.
You heal by the spirit because you are a son.
The spirit lives in you.
He's your father.
And we will see next time that God giving to his children, there is no partiality.
There is no finding fault in his giving to his children.
Oh, I think Izzy was naughty this week.
So she will not manifest a gift of healing this week.
He gives without finding fault.
Your father can find fault in his giving to you, but God is not in that class of father.
There is no kind of father like Abba Father, the God that created you and regenerated you
in Christ.
So be confident to come to him in the most weakest, in the most rebellious, in the most
unlikely manner you can ever think of.
He wants to relate with you as a father and a son.
And speaking to somebody right here, God wants to reason with you as a loving father and
as a son.
We will see in the nature of this father that he does not, he does not, if I start, I will
not stop, but let me just say he does not find fault.
He does not punish the way our Adulterate Fathers punish.
Close your eyes and say, Father, thank you for being my father.
Help me to understand your fatherhood in the course of my life, in the course of my days,
in the course of my activities.
Let me understand and experience your fatherhood and let my life be governed by your fatherhood,
by my understanding of you being my father, my source, my originator, my provider, my
everything.
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