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"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, self-control; against such there is no law." (Gal. 5:22-23) |
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"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, self-control; against such there is no law." (Gal. 5:22-23) |
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March 2007 Newsletter THE THE MESSAGE OF SONSHIP On a recent trip overseas I was preaching the gospel of the kingdom and teaching the word of God every day for fourteen days and then I returned home. The core messages were: the kingdom of God – entering into it and receiving the kingdom as the promised inheritance; the coming of the Lord – being prepared and ready for the coming as opposed to looking for an imminent rapture, and that means being perfected; and the message of sonship – coming to maturity, receiving the grace to walk in maturity, which is the way to be perfected. As the two weeks unfolded one thing became very clear to me! There is no doubt that the word for 2007 is ‘it is time to receive the kingdom’ Lu.12:32. However without the grace of sonship operating in our lives in Christ we will not be equipped to receive the kingdom nor be ready for the coming of the Lord, the ultimate fulfilment of the kingdom on the earth. The inheritance is the kingdom Pastor Peter
De Bressac returned from a teaching trip into East and The first word was ‘the weapons of our warfare are not carnal’ Peter has been sharing with us that so much of our personal ‘warfare’ is nothing more than a personal striving in the flesh, seeking to lay hold of the promises of God by strident confession etc. In this context Peter shared three keys to walking in victory: repentance, humility and holiness. Repentance is the key to
having our minds changed, leading to the renewal of the mind which
is the way of transformation, coming fully into the will of God
Rom.12:2. Repentance is also the way
of entering the kingdom. Jesus said “The time is fulfilled, and the Humility is the key to grace, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble” 1Pet.5:5b. It is as we humble ourselves that God is able to exalt us, showing forth His glory through us 1Pet.5:6. The key to walking in His glory is His grace and it is only as we come into the deeper and fuller grace that is poured out on us as we receive the spirit of sonship that we will be able to prepare for His coming. Grace came through our Lord Jesus Christ: “And
of His fullness we have all received and grace upon grace”
NASB Jn.1:16. The apostles who wrote the epistles always minister
grace to us at the beginning of their letters and Paul often concludes
his letters with another administration of grace. Paul is clear
that his revelation of the mystery came to him through a special
dispensation of grace Eph.3:2-3, and likewise for us to come
to know the mystery we need
a special dispensation of grace. This is the grace that is released
when we receive the spirit
of sonship, bringing us to a mature relationship with the Lord
as Father and being able to receive the deeper wisdom of God 1
Cor.2:6-8. Holiness means separation and we are to be separated fully unto
Him “looking unto Jesus the author and finisher
of our faith who has sat down at the right hand of the throne
of God” Heb.12:2. It was the LORD Himself who “separated the tribe of Levi to bear the ark
of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister
to Him and to bless in His name” Deut.10:8. If we will
but surrender to the Lord in all of our lives we will find that
He will supply an entrance to us “abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of
our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ” 2Pet.1:11. The wonderful
reality is that God does the work in us. It is not according to
our works or the works of the law, but it is “through faith in Christ”, it is “the
righteousness which is from God by faith” Phil. 3:9. God
is holy and as we come to Him, He will make us holy. The reward
of being separated unto God is that the inheritance is given to
us by God. This was so for the Levites Deut.10:9 and it is so for us today.
Corporate
calling to sonship The second word that Peter shared with us was the corporate
calling upon the church to come into maturity to receive the spirit
of sonship, to become that corporate son, spoken of in Revelation 21:7 “He who overcomes shall inherit all things,
and I will be his God and he shall be My son.” Up until
recently we had been calling the saints into sonship individually
and yes every experience in Christ is given to the individual,
but the change that has come in our understanding is that God is now calling His church corporately
into sonship. The time for sonship is “the
time appointed by the father” Gal.4:2. It is not the time
when we think we are mature enough because it is not according
to our works but it is according to grace. Even as we are saved
by grace through faith, so it is that now we can enter into sonship
by grace through faith and that faith comes by hearing the word
Rom.10:17. Up until
recently the church has not heard the word concerning the ‘adoption’
or more correctly ‘sonship’. As the word is preached, faith comes.
As faith comes the door to grace opens and we are enabled by grace
to walk in that which we have believed. To inherit the kingdom God’s goal is for His corporate ‘son’ to come forth in
the earth: this is the company of those whose lives “are
hidden with Christ in God. When Christ our life appears, then
we also will appear with Him in glory” Col.3:3-4. These
are the ones who have heard God’s call to come to maturity; these
are the ones who have received the The sons
of the kingdom Let us look briefly at the parable of the tares in Matt.13:24-30, 36-43. This parable gives us deep understanding
of what it means to inherit the kingdom and how that relates to
the coming of the Lord. Jesus tells us clearly that the sower
of the good
seed is the Son of man and He sows the good seed
in the world, the field. “The
good seeds are the sons of the kingdom”, so here we have
saints walking in the spirit of adoption as sons. Judgement takes the wicked out of
the earth “The tares are
the sons of the wicked one”
who are also in the world and they are the sons of the devil,
“The
enemy who sowed them is the devil”. Jesus then tells us
that “the
harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels”
At the end of the age the tares [those who offend and practice
lawlessness] will be “gathered out of His kingdom” by the
angels, being taken out of the world and “cast into the furnace of fire” v.42.
Please note that it is the ‘wicked ones’ who are gathered out
or taken away to judgement. This is confirmed in Matt.24:37-42 where Jesus compares the
day of His coming to the days of Noah, “the
flood came and took them all away” v39. The wicked were
taken away by the flood which was a judgement by water. Then Jesus
spoke of “two
in the field: one taken the other left. Two grinding at the mill:
one will be taken and the other left” v40-41. Many have
told us that the one taken here was the righteous being taken
to heaven. However Jesus said that it will be as in the days of Noah and clearly
it was the wicked who were taken away by the flood and the righteous
who were left, that is saved by water and preserved in the earth. The kingdom is inherited in the earth The end of Jesus explanation of the parable of the wheat
and the tares shows us that the It is the sons of the kingdom who inherit the kingdom
at the end of the age. The In summary, we need to receive the spirit of sonship [adoption]
to qualify for the inheritance which is the by Paul Galligan *************************************************** CALENDAR March: 9th -10th School & Youth outreach at Killarney 11th Community Sunday at 16th -17th Apostolic Seminar at
Venue: Motel 359, 18th – Kurri Kurri [west of 18th – Wondai meeting 4pm 24th TRAINING DAY at 29th – Paul, Janet & Robert Pitkin depart for 30th – Miriam & Rhoda Truss depart to join the team
in April: 1st – Wondai meeting 4pm 6th – Bruce & Jean Manning arrive home from April: 8th – Easter Sunday: Community Sunday at 15th – Wondai meeting 4pm 21st – Community outreach in Toowoomba OVERSEAS TRIPS
22nd
Mar – 3rd April – North East AFRICA: March 29th to May 8th
- Paul and team will be in East and
INDIA/PAKISTAN: May: Pastor Peter De-Bressac and team. The Lord has confirmed this trip with provision of finance. Will be setting dates soon. ******************************************* INTERNATIONAL TRAINING
2007 Two weeks school plus two weeks consultations
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