Transcript Spirit of Sonship Moving from being Orphans to being Sons

Spirit of Sonship
Moving from being Orphans to being Sons
Based on the teaching of James Jordan
We are meant to be sons, not orphans




A revelation of the Father will change everything in your
life.
If you allow the revelation of the Father to touch every
area of your life, He will deal with your fears, insecurities
and pain, because He will not leave you.
God is a Father by nature. He is Love by nature.
I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. John
14:18
Roots of Spiritual Orphans - I


Isaiah 14:12-16 – King of Babylon
Satan and the Five Ambitions of Sin
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
I will ascend to heaven
I will raise my throne above the stars of God
I will sit on the mount of assembly In the recesses of the
north
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds
I will make myself like the Most High - I will displace God
the Father and I will be the highest being in the universe.
Root of Sin


Satan wanted to make himself like God, or
above God, because of self-serving pride.
We still put our desires above His desires
for our life and go our way and not God’s
way.
Roots of Spiritual Orphans – II


Ezekiel 28:12b-19 – the King of Tyre
Satan’s ambition was to displace God – maybe even to kill
God. So, Satan was cast out of heaven – what was he cast
out of?





The Father’s presence
Heaven = love of God, love of Father
An eternity joy and glory. He was cast into an eternity of hell &
suffering
Satan was cast out of the Father’s love
Satan decided he did not want God as his Father and he
became the first and the ultimate spiritual orphan.
Values of orphan life

Orphans




No Home
No Inheritance
Fight for everything –
no presents
No name – belonging
to a family

Sons
 Knows how to be at
home
 Inheritance
 Gifts
 Bears the name of his
father
The Creation of Man






Genesis 2:7
God forms Adam from the dust. God breathed into
Adam – Father kissed his son and life came in.
In the first seconds of Adam’s life, he has
amazing love expressed to him:
Touched - Father leant over him and breathed
into Adam’s nostrils – the first heavenly kiss
Saw - Father’s eyes – looking into the face of love
Heard - Father’s voice (affirmation)
The Garden

What was the garden like? Bathed in Love, absolute confidence,
joy, peace. It was heaven on earth, with love oozing out of it.

The woman was also created. She did not have a name until after
the fall. They are both called Adam until Genesis 3:20-23. Adam
and Eve have total unity together and with their Father.

Then Satan’s Trap was set.
Eve loved God and wanted to be like him. Eve took from the tree &
ate it – then Adam ate and then their eyes were open.
The trap was sprung and sprung for life. Adam and Eve had no idea
of death. Life will never be the same. The consequences were
devastating but there was no going back on it.
The consequences are now set in place.



The Expulsion





Genesis 3:20-24
If they keep sinning everything that is good in them will rot. There will
never be an end to the path of destruction if they eat from the tree of life.
God in his love cannot bear to see them going down a spiral of sin upon
sin and so he has to make them leave the garden. It is the best of two
impossible decisions.
God the Father comes and in His love for Adam and Eve, banishes them
from the garden. They cannot see that He banished them because He
loves them. He drove them out. Adam and Eve had the greatest broken
heart that the world has ever seen. They had felt perfect love but now
they are pushed out, dragging their heels, trying to stay.
Adam blamed Eve for the sin. How would Eve have felt about this? They
were so one, that they couldn’t even sin individually. Adam was with her
– “at her elbow”, when she took of the fruit. From that point on the
relationship between man and women was broken. They walked out of
the garden as two individuals. They walked out into fear, struggle, pain,
and emptiness. They were walking out of Father’s love and became
Fatherless.
An Unholy Alliance





Ephesians 2:1-3
As they walked out, an unholy alliance was formed
between Adam & Eve and the ultimate orphan spirit –
Satan
All of us were in Adam & Eve as they walked out of the
garden. Through the generations we all have walked out
into orphan ways.
Now we fight for everything, do it yourself, looking after
yourself, get what you can get when you can get it. “I
want what I want, when I want, and I want it now!”
We live in an orphan world.
The Father’s Heart





How do you think God the Father felt as he watched them? His
Children are suffering. He would rather it was Him than us. God the
Father knows the future of the human race, this orphan life, the pain
and suffering, wars, starvation, broken marriages, poverty etc.
The Father wants to love them to life. There is a tornado of love for
his children building in Him and is was ready to burst.
So, He sent representation, prophets, kings, poets, men of God, but
no-one could represent who the Father was really like, until the
Father asked Jesus to come. When Jesus came, He only did and
said what the Father was doing and saying.
I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do
only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father
does the Son also does. John 5:19
For I did not speak of my own accord, but the Father who sent me
told me what to say and how to say it. John 12:49
The Father’s Heart

The gospel is not about us giving our life to Christ
and having a blessed life, it’s about a Father who
lost his kids and would do anything to get them
back. He wants to love the orphan spirit out of you
and introduce you to your true Father. Just look
into his eyes. Take yourself back into the garden
and imagine you are Adam waking up for the first
time. This is your inheritance.