The Sonship Realities
Scripture: Ephesians 1:13-17
In Ephesians 1:15-17 Paul declares his first priestly prayer by effectively saying, ‘I heard that you just put your faith in the Lord Jesus. When I heard you got saved, I began to pray that God would begin the process of revealing Who He is so that you, the church at Ephesus, could understand that He has a developmental path and calling with your name on it. And the only way that you can traverse that developmental path is if you see exactly what it is. May God reveal it to you so that you can allow the Holy Spirit to move you along that path because it is an avenue of growth and development leading to Christian maturity, wisdom, and spiritual vitality.’ This path Paul spoke of is relational because we have been adopted by God Himself! Accepting our new family status facilitates growth and development until we achieve the fullness of the purpose that God intended. We have a Friend in the Holy Spirit Who helps us develop spiritual maturity. In verses 13 and 14 God said that we have been sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise. Jesus had a lot to say about the Holy Spirit. Among many other benefits, the Spirit will lead us and guide us into all the truth. He will grow us up and will build our spiritual house within and cause us to stand in all the fullness of Christ. And as we learn to follow Him, He will show us things to come!
Three specific areas of development are highlighted: the hope of His calling, the riches of the glory of His inheritance for us and the exceeding greatness of His power. Just like God is triune, there is a triune process of growth and development that He has ordained.
1. The first area of development is the hope of His calling. In the hope of His calling we are going to discover that we can have the same relationship with the Father that Jesus had. I know that sounds nearly impossible and many of us may not feel worthy but that’s a lie from the enemy. We have to develop in these three areas and God has given us nine specific Sonship Gifts outlined in Ephesians that will make relationship a definite and unfolding growth process.
2. The second area of development is, as we get to know Christ and grow in our relationship with the Father, the riches of the glory of the inheritance begins to be revealed. As this happens, we learn to walk in the glory of God just like Moses as he walked in this dimension of His Presence. We cannot fully cultivate the Presence of God in our life without understanding the glory. The glory of God is the manifest Presence of God and as we begin to understand the glory, we participate in what is available and move into a deeper relationship with the King.
3. The third area of development is understanding the exceeding greatness of His power toward His believing family. The exceeding greatness of His power is evidenced by what Christ did in the process of coming up from the grave with the keys to death and hell and all authority in heaven and earth. The goal of Ephesians is to help us develop in the fullness of Christ! It is no wonder that all the Bible scholars agree that Ephesians is the pinnacle book of the revelation of the church in the New Testament.
- These three reasons are worth all the prayer in the spirit for revelation the secrets of God.
- Praise God for bringing us to the second Gregorian month of 2021 – February.
- Declare the Lordship of Jesus over every gate of this second month especially the lunar gate so the Lord will exercise His authority freely over the month. (Psalm 103:19)
- Cancel with the blood of Jesus all previous dedications of this month to strange mythological gods.
- Re-dedicate and devote this month to its owner the creator of Heaven and earth. (Col 2:14; Lev 27:28).
- Speak to the gates of this month; and command every gate of time in the month to give pleasure to the Creator by doing His bidding day by day; Proclaim Psalm 19:1-6, 24.
- Instruct all creation to give praise to the Lord who created each day of the month. (Ps 148:1-3)