God Don't Make No Junk!

Recently our church organized a yard sale to help fund a mission trip to Louisiana.

During the weeks leading up to the yard sale, I was reading a Joyce Meyer's devotional message titled “God Uses What Others Throw Away.” I thought of all the donated items – stuff that folks had found useless and ready to discard – and how yard sales miraculously change a person's junk to another buyer's treasure!

And that's how God operates in us.

God created “treasures” when He made every single one of us, and He created each of us as “designer originals” as stated by TD Jakes in his book, Woman, Thou Art Loosed Devotional. There has never been and never will be another person made just like you because God designed you uniquely for His purpose. Each one of us is valuable to Him and to the body of Christ.

However we don't always see others or treat others as Gods' “treasures”. How many times have we “looked down” at a co-worker or stranger on the street because they did not look like us or talk like us? Remember the saying “God don't make no junk”? It's true. He has made each of us for His purpose. This scripture explains the types of people whom God uses:

1 Corinthians 1:26-29 states “But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise. He chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. And he chose what the world thinks is not important. He chose what the world hates and thinks is nothing. He chose these to destroy what the world thinks is important. God did this so that no man can brag before him.”

In this scripture, Paul is telling the people of Corinth that they have received a “calling” or an invitation from God. THEY have received it – not others who are well-to-do, strong, good-looking, resourceful or have good connections with the right people. He chose those who appeared “foolish” (absurd, dull, thoughtless) and those who appeared “weak” (feeble, impotent, sick) to shame those who were considered “wise” and “mighty” in man's eyes.

In much the same way that buyers found treasures from others' discards, God CHOOSES His sons and daughters to bring His truth into the conformity and rigidity of the religious system. He has chosen the “least of these” to become great in His eyes by becoming “sons of God” and sharing the truth - the revelation of the scriptures with those who surround us.

- Mike and Rachel West

SONS OF GOD

This is a title indicating (pointing out, showing, serving as a sign, and signifying) the "deity" of Jesus Christ.

Psalms 2:7 states: I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, "Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee."

Son in Hebrew is ben (bane) meaning a son (as a builder of the family name). Also banah' meaning to build (establish, erect, construct), repair, set up, have children, obtain children. The word "begotten" is 'yalad' meaning to bear young: beget, bring forth. This was stated also in Hebrews 1:5 with the definition of "begotten" meaning to regenerate (reform, create anew, refresh, restore), begat, bear, bring forth.

In the natural we know that the "family name" is carried on through the "sons" or the male gender because he carries the sperm or the seed.

In Luke 8:11: "The SEED is the WORD of GOD." And Galatians 3:28: "There is neither Jew nor Greek (Gentile), there is neither bond nor free, there is neither MALE nor FEMALE: for we are all ONE in Christ Jesus."
This is letting us know that it doesn't matter what gender you are; you can carry the SEED which is the WORD of God!! According to gender, I am a female, but by God's Spirit, I am a SON OF GOD! Thank you, Jesus!

St.John 12:24:  "Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it BRINGETH FORTH much fruit". That is what God did with the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus, He "reproduced" himself in his people! For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren (Romans 8:29). The firstborn being the first-begotten, foremost (in time, place, order, or importance), before, the beginning, in front of, prior (superior) to, above, ago, ever; to produce (from seed); bring forth, bear!

When Jesus died, we died with him! When he go up, we got up with him! He's the "head", and we are his body! It was the "head" of the creation that went to the cross, the one that's first and foremost in time, place, order, or importance!  2 Corinthians 5:19:  "To know that God was IN CHRIST, reconciling the world unto himself"! This is speaking of Jesus, "who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:  For by him were ALL things created . . .  he is before all things . . . he is the head of the body, the church; who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in ALL things he might have the preeminence"! (Colossians 1:15-18). HALLELUJAH!!

So Psalms 2:7 was an official order or decision that Jesus would be the restorer, repairer, builder, of the creation that had fallen in Genesis due to Adam's transgression. And Adam was the "son of God" (Luke 3:38). Also Genesis 3:15 in relation to the "seed" of the woman that would bruise the head of the serpent (not a snake, but the works of the devil). Galatians 4:4-5: "when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of SONS".  St.John 1:12: "as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God"! Power meaning ability, privilege, capacity, mastery to become superhumans, potentates with authority, jurisdiction, rights, and strength to be "SONS" (builders and carriers of the name of God, both male and female)! Isn't that gooooood news!!

Just as the title "Son of God" points out, shows, serves as a sign, and signifies the deity of Jesus Christ, it does the same thing for us as "sons of God!" It signifies our DEITY!  St.John 10:34: "Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?"
Psalms 82:1 "God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods". Verse 6 ""I have said, Ye are gods, and all of you are children of the most High." This is gooood news people of God!!

1 John 3:1- "Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world (religious order) knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved NOW are we the sons of God, and it doth not appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear (not on a cloud, but in us in his fulness), we shall be like him: for we shall see (discern and know) him as he is.  Listen, I see him when I see you! All you have to do to see him is go and look in the mirror! Praise God!

He is the "head" and we are his body! "we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones". (Ephesians 5:30)! This makes us ONE with him! We are him in the earth! RIGHT NOW, not up yonder beyond the blue! This is the mystery of God that he is revealing to us NOW! We must come into the "unity of the faith, and of the KNOWLEDGE of the SON OF GOD unto a PERFECT man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of CHRIST". (Ephesians 4:13). This has to come to pass in order for the creation to get what it needs! For the earnest expectation of the creature (creation) WAITETH for the MANIFESTATION of THE SONS OF GOD. (Romans 8:19). It is waiting for US THE SONS OF GOD TO COME FORTH!!

At one time the sons of God were in charge of the creation but fell from that place of dominion, authority, and power. In Job 38:4-7, God asked Job, "Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare if thou hast understanding? Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the CORNER STONE thereof; when the MORNING STARS sang together, and ALL THE SONS OF GOD shouted for joy? These were the ones sounding the earsplitting message of dominion, authority and power they possessed as God! God hasn't changed! He's the same powerful God now as He was then!! He still wants and still has people that He is using for His glory all over the world who will accept and believe Him in His fulness! HE STILL HAS SONS! GLORY BE TO THE LIVING GOD!!

- Pastor Gracie Perry