“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!” (Ps.133:1).
We have entered into a time that we can’t ignore nor resist! The enemy has intensified his workings in the land on all levels: politically, economically, and ecclesiastically.
It is affecting the people in the land spiritually and naturally! Therefore God has intensified His power all the more!! So that makes us more than conquerors! "Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world"! (1 John 4:4) We can’t ignore nor resist this time because it is time for the SONS of GOD to come and go forth with the fullness of the Gospel of the Kingdom and lift up our voice as a trumpet to cry loud and spare not!! It’s time now!!
Galatians 4:1-7 speaks of the fullness of THE TIME for the SONS of GOD to come forth, and we must go forth for the glory of God! THE makes “THE TIME” definitive (conclusive; fixed; certain)! Now go ye into all the world, preach and teach the unadulterated WORD OF GOD!! It is time now!!
“The heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all." (Galatians 4:1)
The “heir”, or the kleronom’os, is the inheritor or possessor of all that the Father has put in place for him or her, which is power, dominion, and authority to name a few. But for the heir to possess and benefit from the inheritance, he must come to maturity! As long as he or she is a child or ne’pios, which is to be simple-minded, an infant, babe, or immature Christian, he is no different than a servant.
The church at Corinth at one point was in a stage of infancy, not able to yet understand spiritual things because of their carnal or flesh mindedness. Paul had to feed them milk because they couldn’t handle the meat of the WORD! (1 Corinthians 3:1-3).
Milk is good in the beginning stages of the growth of a child, but as the child matures, there is need for change in his diet!
Many in the church today are in a stage of infancy. They have eyes but see not. They have ears but hear not. Neither do they understand many of the spiritual things God is revealing in His Word! (Matthew 13:13).
"Hear" means akou’o, which is to hearken, obey, or “understand”. To "see" is blep’o, meaning to look at, beware, perceive, or to discern!
These definitions let us know that spiritually speaking, your hearing and your seeing are not just with your natural ears and natural eyes. One’s mind must have an eye to see or discern spiritual things! One’s mind must have an ear to hearken and understand the things of God!
In the embryonic stage of development, the eyes and ears develop at the same time. If it is like that in the natural development of an embryo, how much more with our spiritual development. Jesus spoke in relation to the eyes and ears in the same verse. (Matthew 13:13-15). We need our spiritual ear and eye developing together to move into the place God has ordained for the Sons of God to be.
To each Church in the Book of Revelation (3:22), Jesus said, “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.” In Matthew 6:22, “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.”
The eye (ophtalmos’ or your spiritual vision), which is your perception, inspection, and surveillance of things, is the light (photeinos’) that causes your body, or soma, to be whole or sound! When the body is sound, it is undamaged, healthy, strong, unbroken, and perfect!! This vision is not your natural vision but your spiritual vision!
What “point of view” are you looking from as you survey the landscape? Are you looking from the East? That’s God’s “view point”. That’s where the sun rises! That’s the beginning of the dawning of a new day! We’ve got to see as God sees! He sees only the good! What ever is going on around you, you have got to know that it is all working for your good! Then your whole body shall be full of light, leuka’ino, white light! You shall be made white with the “righteousness” of God!
“And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.” (Revelation 19:8)
When the “Alpha” ray of the light of Christ reaches your mind with the thoughts of God, all that you see or discern in relation to your “landscape” (which is your heart, soul, mind, and body) is seen as whole or sound! That which you see is joy, peace, health, and victory in the total man!
“For as he thinketh in his heart so is he.” Proverbs 23:7
This means that as a man thinks (sha ar’) or estimates (consider, appraise, evaluate, rate, assess, value, calculate, reckon) what is in his heart (leb, which is his feelings, his will, his understanding of whatever is going on in his life), he is looking at it as evil or good. If you’re looking at situations as evil, you’re looking from the wrong view point. But if you view the situations as good, you’re seeing from the right point of view!
“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” (Romans 8:28).
Allow your mind (phrone’o) to be in a certain place, guided and guarded by the “reins” of the Spirit of God so you can “think like Christ”! He was in the form (morphe’), or the nature of God, and thought (hege’omai or deemed, considered, judged, or supposed) it not robbery to be equal (I’sos meaning to agree together or be like) with God. Before Christ put on flesh or became incarnate, he possessed equality with God!
“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God.” (Philippians 2:5-6)
Now you can understand St. John 17:5, “And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.”
The word glory, or dox’a, means to be transparent (admit light so that images and objects can be clearly viewed, easily understood, or obvious).
The glory was veiled off by the flesh of Jesus! The flesh of Jesus was made to become sin for us! Can you handle this statement? This was the day God became a sinner - when he put on flesh to conquer sin and death for you and me!
“For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” (2 Corinthians 5:21)
He was never acquainted with sin until he put on that flesh body! The glory (dox’a), the excellence of God, was always present but veiled off because it had to go through the process of overcoming, prevailing and conquering to rent the veil of the flesh to show forth perfection of the total man! By doing this he also brought us into the place of being made the righteousness of God in him!
The ne’pios (babes, the child, the servant) can’t be in this place of “God-mindedness” until his mind has been renewed by way of metamorphosis or transformation! The only ones who can be in this place are the hui’os, or “sons”, who have Christ’s mind and become Him in and on the earth! The word hui’os represents matured sons! It denotes the very substance, being, the very nature of God, reality, heart, and life of God in flesh form to the point that God and you become one!
Jesus and God were one! God, Jesus, you and I are one in the Holy Ghost! People will be looking at you and not know that they are looking at God! Jesus proved that!
“If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from hence forth ye know him, and have seen him.” (St. John 14:7)
"Jesus said unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? He that hath seen me hath seen the Father: and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?” (St. John 14:9)
The sons (hui’os meaning can see, hear and know the revelation of who they are! The hearing of the voice will cause one to live and only the “sons” will make it to this place! It is a place of overcoming, victory, dominion, authority, power, knowledge, wisdom, understanding, divine health, eternal life, peace, joy, ruling and reigning with Christ right here and right now!!
“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.” (1 John 3:2)
We, the sons (tek’nons), are in the process of regeneration, and as we progress in this process, we will become the level of sons, or hui’os, and become Christ in the earth! When that verse says, “when he shall appear”, it doesn’t mean out in the sky, but it means when he is “manifested” or “seen” in us, the church!
“Because as he is, so are we in this world.” (1 John 4:17)
“And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.” (Revelation 5:10)
This is what the creation is waiting for - the “manifestation of the sons of God”! It is not Jesus they’re waiting for! He has come and finished the work the Father sent him to do!
“I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.” (St. John 17:4)
It’s our time now! It’s time for the sons of God to come forth!
“For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.” (Romans 8:19)
This creature is the ktis’is or the creation itself wanting to be brought back to its original formation it had with the Father in the beginning before it fell! What’s going to bring it back is the recovery of spiritual truth being fed to the ne’pios, or babes, and bring them into the stage of hui’os (matured sons)! They must be taken through the process of metamorphosis and into sonship, kingship, and eventually Godship authority!
It is the SONS time and season!
The father doesn’t turn his business over to the servant (dou’los). The servant doesn’t ask questions; he does what he is told. The father doesn’t turn his business over to the ne’pios (babes or immature Christians). Their minds aren’t developed to the place to handle such a task. But the hui’os (matured sons) are the ones the father gives the duty of handling his business!
“I must be about my Father’s business.” (Luke 2:49)
So must we, THE SONS OF GOD, be about our FATHER’S BUSINESS!!
~ Apostle Gracie Perry
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