The Seven Pillars (Part 4) - NT Community & Love-Jesus Style - Rod Mills

This is a series on the 7 Pillars of the AeroNova spiritual family, the DNA markers of who God has called us to be as a people. 
In this teaching on the third pillar, New Testament community, we talk about the calling to be a deeply relational people, a spiritual family community. We see this type of close community and deep love exemplified in Jesus’ relationships with His disciples during His time on earth.

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​We are kick we're continuing our study on the seven pillars of the Aaronovitch spiritual family and the friends of Jesus or the Friends of Jesus movement talking about those seven pillars or DNA qualities of our calling, as people as a people, specifically, not just as a family as in briargate Mission House, but the the Aaronovitch ecosystem, what I call the order of the Friends of Jesus. We know and we've mentioned this before, different churches and different families have redemptive purposes. And you will notice that each family has the spiritual DNA markers that mark them. And I use some examples from my own family. And many of you begin to share after that examples of your family, what you notice is these redemptive callings in families the whole you see this lineage of God's purposes. And no, all churches are not called to be the same. All ministries are not called the same, be the same, and neither are families, families have unique qualities, have you noticed that? It's not when you have children, they don't just look like you. They don't just act like you. There's also certain qualities and gifts and, and abilities that are imparted to them both naturally, and spiritually, that God gives in family. And this is very powerful. So we see that when we looked at the 12 tribes of Israel, one of the main qualities, here's Judah, what was he the third born, our scholars was either third born in the 12 tribes, yet he was identified with the leadership calling. I mean, Jacob prophesied it before he died over Judah. And it some people think, oh, Jacob, just prophesying because the Messiah is going to come from Judah. No, no, no, read all the history of Judah. And there's a leadership anointing on the tribe of Judah. And it started with Judah, their father, and it went down through the the generations. And so this leadership, this kingly anointing is on that tribe. And we see that's where David came from. We see that that's the tribe that Jesus came from. And you can look at any of the tribes and see this this remarkable redemptive purpose and calling. This is one of the things I love about God. In our society, people are looking for significance, what makes them different, what makes them unique, because every one of us, we know that we there's something unique that we're called, we're supposed to be different, like something unique about each one of us. And that's the way God made us so that we're the only ones with the fingerprint we have. We're the only ones literally with the relationship we have with God, let me you might say, what, what are you talking about? Consider if you have children, consider your children. You it's hard to understand this as a child, it's easy to understand this as a parent once you start having kids. Because every one of your kids, you love them with all of your heart, you just love those kids. But each one of them you love them differently. It's totally different. And each one of my kids growing up at different times, I tried to emphasize this to them. Because in my own heart, each one of them is my favorite. You see what I'm saying? Now, you might say well, that, that kind of contradicts itself, you can't have five kids and every one of them be your favorite. But those kids are all different. So God made them that way. We have this unique relationship with God, you have the opportunity to have a relationship with God, that is different than everyone else in the universe. And there's this passage of Scripture that kind of goes unnoticed in Revelation that talks about a stone and Something's written on that stone that no one else knows. Do you recall that? I tend to think of this and I don't, I don't pretend to know all the meanings of that. But I do believe that there is an identity and a relationship that you personally can have with God, that no one else can have. That's the uniqueness of God and His power. And have any of you guys ever seen that old movie Aunt Anna, and he decides he doesn't want to be like everybody else. He wants to be different. And I thought, This is the story of the human race, you know, the powers that be or whatever are trying to make you just fit in and be like everybody else, and be a number and be a person in the crowd. And God goes, no, that's not the way I set things up. I've set it up so that you have a unique identity and a purpose. And this might seem small now, but in eternity, when we come into eternity, and people think about you, people think about me, I'm talking about people walk with God. And they say, Oh, do you know Doug, do you know Doug Dominguez and people? This I really believe this, and I don't have time, I'll have all the scriptures prepared to tell you why I believe this. But I believe people will go Oh, yes, I know, Doug Dominguez. He's the one who has this relationship with God, he's, it will be so unique that all of God will be upon people, when they hear your name, not because of you, but because of your relationship with the Almighty. And that translates to unique callings and purposes in eternity. This what what's going on here right now is is our preparation and outfitting period. We're being outfitted. We're going through crucibles. We're being trained. You ever been through training and it just seems like it never ends? That's life. You know, you go through training. Some of us know what that is more than others, where you just train and train and writes, he's like, Man, I'm gonna train. That's what life is. We are walking through this crucible in God is preparing us for the new creation. This is the womb of future realities. That uniqueness that we're talking about. I believe the scriptures are filled with that same redemptive calling and uniqueness upon families, especially spiritual families and natural families both. So we talked about this, and I wanted to mention it, because this third pillar, the first pillar we talked about in our, in our own spiritual family, and uniqueness is our call to prayer. This is number one. This defines us What is prayer, it's communion with God of every kind, it's, it's listening, it's speaking, it's praying, it's decreeing, it's receiving the counsel of God, it's fellowshipping. In his presence, together with his people in prayer and communion with Him, it's a lot of things. The second one was what we what I termed the spiritual disciplines. Now, for those of you that were on Zoom, or with us last week in person, I apologize. I know, I went long last week, but I was trying to do all the ones I wanted to cover in one week. And afterwards, I'm like, you know, this might have worked better. If I split this up into two weeks, we would have had more time to talk about each one. But that's not an exhaustive list of spiritual disciplines. But I the spiritual disciplines, at least the way I've seen them and experienced them is they're like the buffet lines of communion with God. They are the ways we come into communing with him, and fueling with strengthen him and nourishment and communion and dining with him. So if you, if you're, I would encourage you go back and listen to it a couple of times, once we get it published, and just really pray over those spiritual disciplines because they don't sound very appealing. But they really are when you get into them the cream of of God that life comes into them. But this week, we're going to start with our third pillar, we won't, I'm not going to try to cover the whole pillar, like I did last week, it was just too much. So we'll cover part of it today. And that's what I call New Testament community. And I believe that this is a call to New Testament community, or what I would call spiritual family community. But I talked about spiritual family before as an intro, but this is really about being deeply relational people. Part of the problem that we're having in the church right now is the church has become more and more and more and more and more organizational. And every time I said more, that means if we're not careful, less and less and less and less relational. That's part of the issue. I'm not against organization. I'm not for disorganization, but If we focus too heavily on organization, you can really, you can lose the relational component. You know, when we were raising our kids and they were growing up, we go on vacation, we would say, Yeah, let's do this. And let's do that. And let's do this. And we had a lot of things we wanted to do. But from time to time, we had friends, who would literally clock out every second of the day for their vacation. And so what happened was, they got a lot of things done. But what ended up happening was those moments and times when relationship would really grow, if you'd stick? Well, let's just stay here and kind of go with it, you know, where this is, where we're enjoying it. Whenever we do that. The it says something about putting an organization to the side for a moment, because we don't have to do everything we want to be relational. You see how those kind of work against each other. They don't always work together, they do work together sometimes, but not always, if we become so organized, that we don't have time for relationships. And that's really what I'm getting at today is we're called as a people, as as a family, as an ecosystem. And as the Friends of Jesus to be deeply relational people. That should be the only way we know how to operate in the kingdom always operates along relationships, how many of you ever came in? And before you started ministering and traveling with us? We said, well, we're going to do three interviews, and we're going to run you through the ropes. And we're going to win what your qualifications and bring your resume in. We didn't do that with anybody. And yeah, and well, you notice Jesus didn't either he didn't ask Peter, and James and John for the resume. But he just says, Follow me like this. And he didn't tell him what they were signing up for. Now, some of you probably feel like that with me. They're like you didn't tell us what we were signing up for. But he just said, Follow me. Let's do this. Let's do this together. And they began to do it together. So we have a strong sense and DNA of calling to be deeply relational people. In this pillar, we're going to explore some really fun and exciting areas. And I won't read them all to you right now. But the first one we introduced in at the beginning was spiritual family. I'm not going to reteach spiritual family. But I really wanted to talk about that first, because we talk about it so much in the context of all seven pillars. And it's really the foundation what we talked about that first week about spiritual family. It's really the the foundation for understanding deep relational lifestyle in God. So we give ourselves to a deeply relational lifestyle, as Jesus taught us to do, both through his teachings, his words and his deeds. We see living deeply relational lives and ministry as this core pillar of being friends of Jesus, I don't believe you could be walking in the Friends of Jesus tradition, without being deeply relational people. And this includes, but it's not limited to a lifestyle of spiritual community in the culture of God, that his holiness, according to the teachings of Jesus and Holy Scripture, this is a deep commitment to living in close spiritual familial ties and familiarity in family relationships. But not just regular meetings or ministry events on the calendar. Now, guys, we're glad that COVID is lifting. It is time to get together again. And I'll say this to our folks on Zoom to it's very important. Fellowship and breaking bread together is part of our worship. And we'll talk a probably talk about that next week in Acts 242. A little bit. It is part of our worship. And so, before COVID, we were immersed in this community, lifestyle, spiritual family community lifestyle, when we went to zoom, and we quit meeting together for a period of time, in a lot of ways, we reverted to some of the habits and rhythms of the traditional church, where oh, well, I got some worship, and I got a song. And and, uh, and I said hi to a few people. And, you know, I can't tell you how many people I've known who grew kids that I grew up with, whose parents watched preachers on TV, and when Sunday would come, they would watch them on TV and they would be blessed and may be encouraged and then they'd be you know, and then they go about their life. That's not church, right. I know some folks in this town that have told me yeah, they go to powerful church and they go Yeah, well, we just watch it on on online now. You know, and whatever once a while we go down there, but it feels like a concert. Somebody said that to me, but I'm not against that. But what I'm saying is that's not all church that's only part of that's a fraction, the community, the breaking bread together, and fellowship and friendship. And doing life together is part of this pillar, and the way God called us to be, you'll never be satisfied living that, that life without this, this greater fullness, because this is what Jesus taught us. And we'll dive into that a little bit. Jesus challenges are thinking about spiritual family. Now, I want to change gears a little bit here. I want to read a scripture you guys know, Matthew 12, verse 46, forward, while he was still talking to the multitudes, behold, his mother and brothers stood outside, seeking to speak with him. Then one said to him, Look, your mother and your brothers are standing outside, they're seeking to speak with you. Now, most of us would say, a kind response by Jesus would have been, oh, well, please tell him out. I'll be out there in a minute, I'll talk to him. He didn't do that. This is what he answers. He answered, said the one the one who told him this, who is my mother? He goes, and who are my brothers. And he stretched out his hand toward who? His disciples, and He said, here are my mother. And my brother's, for whoever does the will of my Father in heaven, is my mother. And my sister is my brother and sister, and mother. Jesus is not disrespecting his mother or sister or his brothers. What he's doing is he's redefining family, spiritual family. Love your natural family? Absolutely. We seek to bring our natural family into the spiritual family. But Jesus is very clear that his family, his genuine family, are those who are walking with God, those who are doing what God wants him to do. What happens is this brings us into kindred spirits. A lot of you don't know my family, but if you bet them you'd say, Man, I don't even think you're related to them. Because we're different. We're very different, in some ways, spiritually very different. God calls us to walk this way. Because this kindred spirit is in the kingdom that is not outside the kingdom. This is so important because the communion and the fellowship we have one with another in the spiritual richness, Jesus is really calling it out. Now, and I mentioned this, some of Jesus brothers became apostles and leaders in the church. You guys know that, right? James was one of them. Paul said, and he talks about talking to James, the brother of Jesus in Galatians, 119. And James was an Apostle Paul referred to him that way, as an apostle. But then we read in John chapter seven, verse five, that some of Jesus brothers did not believe. We don't think much about that Dewey, that Jesus family was like all the other families out there. Yeah. So we mentioned this, before, I'll just touch on it and keep moving. I want to talk about love, Jesus style, how Jesus defines love. And he, he commands all of his disciples to love one another, as he loved and the way he loved was in deep community was in close community and spiritual relationships. And he said, A new commandment I give to you that you love one another, as I have loved you that you also love one another. And I asked this question, How did Jesus love the disciples? He invested his life into them. He didn't work. He did life with them. You see what I'm saying? He didn't say, Hey, guys, I'll tell you what, you dudes meet me here on Sunday. And we'll have a service together. And then after it's over, I'll see you next Sunday. Right? Did Jesus do that? Or this? Did Jesus say, Well, I'll tell you what, guys, y'all meet me here twice a week, on Sunday and on Wednesday, and that's not the way loved. Jesus loved the disciples and the descended disciples, not just 12 people, but he loved them a spiritual family. And that's really the essence of it. By living in loving, genuine relationship. Now, this is the core today of what I believe God is speaking to us. And I know you guys have got to leave so I don't want to get distracted. So y'all go ahead and take off. Have a safe trip. We love you. We wish we could keep you another month. Yeah, maybe next time. Bye. We're planning on coming down to see us. So, yeah. And everybody said amen to that. Man, we've we've rescheduled that trip. I don't know how many times Marina, we're going to overcome this COVID plague. That's right. Turn with me to Genesis 18. You don't want to miss this, this core, what God is saying to us Genesis chapter 18. And after you turn there, I might call on you to read it. What version Do you have? I'll read the New King James Version to you. Verse number 17, Genesis 18, the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham, what I am doing? Since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him. If you want to highlight something in your Bible, highlight these words, for I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him. I'll say it again, the Lord is speaking. He says, For I have known him, in order that he may command His children, and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has spoken to him. It's interesting that God connects Abraham's destiny, and the promises of God, he connects directly to generational transfer, which he directs directly connects to relationship and intimacy with Him. So God directly connects his relationship with Abraham, number one, to Abraham's ability to impart the ways of God to future generations. Now, the power of generational transfer, is sourced in close relationship with God. Are you guys tracking that? I know we're a little distracted. But are you tracking that? This is very important, this is the core of what we're talking about today. I'll say it again, the power of generational transfer is sourced in close relationship with God. You can do everything right in your family, you can follow all the rules, you can make all the you can do all the right things. But if you get this part wrong, generational transfer, will be challenged at best, and will not happen at worst. The power of generational transfer is sourced in close relationship with God. And it's imparted through what family now it's imparted through both spiritual family and natural family. But he makes a point God makes a point that that generational transfer happens because of really Abraham's relationship with God, and God's relationship with Abraham. And I can get everything right in my life. But if I don't walk in that intimacy with Him, it's going to be severely challenged. I'm going to use an illustration illustrations helped me think more simplistically about it. To use electricity as an illustration, a close relationship with God is the generation plant, the plant that generates the electricity. Close familial relationships are the power lines are you tracking? So it's those relationships that are the power lines, and generational transfer of closeness with God is the electricity itself. So this is this is crucial. This is the core of today's teaching. This is the core of what I believe God is speaking to us today. And I'm going to read this passage one more time, I'm going to ask you just let it sink in for a moment. Because the the ramifications of what God is saying to Abraham right here are profound in your life, in my life, in our families, in our spiritual families in the ministry in our calling, and our destiny, I'm going to read it again. Genesis 18, the Lord said, Shall a hide from Abraham what I'm doing, since Abraham says surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed. Here it is, for I have known Him in order that he may command his children and his household after him. They may keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has spoken. Now, it's it's really extraordinary that a relationship with God can do this much. I'm not talking about being saved. I'm not talking about being baptized, we're talking about walking with God, as Abraham taught us to walk with God. So we see that here, this is all communicated in happens in family, both spiritual family and natural family, it happens in those realms, if you try to do this outside of familial close relationships, it's like having the power plant but removing the power lines. So if we have this relationship with God, we're walking with him. But we don't operate in this deep relationships God's called us to, I will tell you, I've had some very dear friends over the years, who've been successful in what I would call successful ministry, by the word by most standards. But so much of when they speak, it is only this deep. And the reason why it lacks depth is because of the lack of depth, both of the relationship with God, and the lack of depth in ministry of the actual familial relationships, that should be happening. So in effect, what it is, is it's kind of like you ever touched something that's on DC power and a little, um, a little bit of DC power, and you just feel a little sting. And you're like, Well, that's about the power level, right there, a little sting to the finger. And that's it. I remember one time I was taking care of these. We had, we were raising all these chickens. And I reached up because the lamp wasn't working and it had been raining and it was leaking. And I hit a 110 line with my left hand. And so much electricity went through me that it threw the breaker it grounded the breaker, and it went through my left side. And man, I'm it's amazing kill me because it went through my heart. And my left ribs were sore for three days, my left leg was sore, because the electricity went through me. That's a big difference than touching one of those little battery powered things that like you just feel like a little needle sticking. I want God's presence and power and the impact of his influence in my life. On the level of that electricity, not on that battery. You see what I'm saying? We want that. But it starts in that relationship with God. It starts in the Abrahamic intimacy with God. Now, how many of you would like God to visit you like you did Abraham man I would. I have invited God, I will tell you, I don't know how many times this started out when I was young. And I was pretty. I was I was a new believer, I was only a couple years old. And man, I wanted God to show up so bad. I just remember, literally, I was in the room. And I'm like, Lord, come and visit me like you did Abraham. And I sat there, I've just waited for him to knock on the door. I was just praying that God would knock on the door. Well, my whole life has been this pursuit of God asking Him to visit us. But I longed for this kind of intimacy with God like Abraham had. I just love it when Abraham is sitting in the door of his tent, and it's hot outside. And the Lord shows up, they call it the incarnate Yahweh, which we understand is Jesus. And he shows up with two men we believe are angels, the three of them just show up. In fact, this might be the passage I don't remember. But they just show up. I would love for the thing is, is I'd be checking if someone showed up and they had to, there's three of them. I'd be like, Okay, let's make sure this is the Lord you know, but I'm sure I wouldn't doubt once he starts speaking. But my point is just that desire for intimacy, the way Abraham had with God, we long for that. All right, little touch on one other I'm going to touch on spiritual fathers and mothers briefly, we're going to teach a lot more on this in another segment in the spiritual pillars. But spiritual fathers and mothers are a key ingredient to spiritual family, and deep relational community. I don't believe we can have biblical, spiritual family without spiritual fathers and mothers and this is part of the problem in the church is there's been an absence of spiritual fathers and mothers. This is related to what we just talked about. Because God did not tell Abraham this in the context Abraham, you're going to be a great teacher to many generations. He's like, you're going to be the father of many generations. He didn't say Abraham, you're going to be a very clever speaker or Any of that he's like, No, you're going to be a father, to many nations is what God's speaking to him are calling in this spiritual community, not just I'm not just talking about our calling to minister to this spiritual community, because we can minister to many communities. But our calling as we are in this community, is to be spiritual fathers and mothers, this is going to overlap. And I'm gonna give you a preview, there's another pillar coming, called the mantle of Elijah. Now, I know that's not a big surprise to anybody here. But one of the pillars I believe God's called us to, and the seven characteristics is the mantle of Elijah. So this is coming out both in this pillar in this this pillar, pillar three, and the mantle of Elijah, becoming spiritual fathers and mothers, is especially the fruit of these two pillars of the Friends of Jesus lifestyle, New Testament community, which is what we talk about spiritual family. Indeed, that's deeply relational, and the mantle of Elijah. Now, a sneak preview on the mantle of Elijah. One of the reasons why Elijah the power in Elijah's life, to turn the hearts of fathers to the children and children to the fathers, is rooted in his intimacy with God. It's not rooted in his skills. It's not even rooted in his knowledge or wisdom from many books or anything like that. It's rooted in his intimacy with God. So even when we get into that, that pillar and talk about it, we're going to see that the power of generational transfer is always rooted in intimacy with God and living in family as spiritual fathers and mothers is the example here. Paul said in First Corinthians 415, you've heard me quote this a few times, for though you might have 10,000 instructors or teachers in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers. For in Christ, Jesus, I have begotten you through the gospel, therefore, I urge you, Imitate me now this word imitate, we don't have time to talk a lot about it. But this is the same word Paul uses when he says, Follow me as I follow Christ. A lot of pastors today, and spiritual leaders are not confident enough in their relationship with God to say, Follow me. as I follow Christ, it is not humility, if they go well, I just don't want to rise to that. That's not humility, because it's not what God teaches, right? It's that, you know, think about it as a father, as a father, I need to be able to say, sons follow me as I follow Christ. Follow me follow. That means imitate, walk in the ways. And I have plenty of examples of this. But I just love how you watch children. And many times their mannerisms, when they're little, is just like their mom and their dad, their mom or dad will do something, and then they do it. Because that's what God made us. And so when we walk as spiritual fathers and mothers, people learn by doing it like we're doing it, they're not always going to do it like you did it. Right. Like the reason why we teach them someone said 50% of creativity is what imitation. So that's why Paul used the word imitate. So you start out by teaching them, okay, Imitate me walk this way. When we were with Chickies community yesterday, one of the big things for the pastor there, he's one now, did y'all leave us some notes? I said, Yeah, we we left, you know, because they like to teach from those notes. Now, they don't teach from those notes for the next 50 years. What they do is they start out teaching from them. And then they study all those scriptures we put in there, and then they cultivate that and it grows into more teaching and more ministry and more teaching and more ministry. But they start out you know, people start out in imitation, and this is God's calling, and how he operates for us. Teachers are common. Fathers are rare. And when I say fathers, you'll see what I mean a minute. There's plenty of biological fathers, but that's not really the way the Scripture defines fatherhood. Teachers are committed for the school year. Coaches are committed for the season. Mentors are committed during development. Fathers and mothers are committed for a lifetime. See the difference? Totally different. Some fathers and mothers mistakenly believe that they're only supposed to be committed to their children during their development. They mistake fathering her mothering, for mentoring. Now, yes, fathers and mothers are mentors. But how many fathers and mothers have you heard say this, son when you turn 18 You're on your own I've heard many parents say that many good parents just weren't thinking about it. You know, or this was one in my household, my dad told me, he says down when you turn 18, you're gonna start paying rent. If you're living here, you're gonna pay rent. And my dad loved me past 18. I'm not saying that. But my point is that a lot of times because of the laws of our land, parents, even Christian parents almost think like, well, when you turn 18, you're on your own. You got to make your own decisions. Yeah, that's good. That's good. You know, you do have to fly. You do have to jump out of the nest. But biblical fathering, and mothering is not helicopter father and a mother and it's, it's, Hey, I'm here for you. If you need to talk, or given advice or encouragement, or given the perspective of wisdom, or what have you, the nature of spiritual father and a mother and is the same way. So spiritual and spiritual fathering and mothering happens in institutions, right? No, it happens in families doesn't happen. Institutions. It doesn't happen in organizations. It happens in places where there is family. It rarely happens in organizations. I'm not saying never, but it rarely does. Most often think about this. Good organizations produce good administrators. But good families produce good fathers and mothers see the difference? This is why we call the church fathers fathers. Have you ever read something on church history and they refer to the church fathers as the church administrators? They don't do it. They talk about the Desert Fathers. They talk about the Eastern fathers talk about the Western fathers. They talk about the early church fathers, but they don't talk about the church administrators. Yet in the church today we have exalted administrator, how do you know a good administrator because they got a big church or they got a big ministry or they got a big this because they're effective as administrators. And yet the apostles when they start getting too much administration said, Acts chapter six, they go, Hey, this is not what God's called us to do. We're going to appoint somebody so we can give ourselves continually to the Word of God and to prayer. That's one of our callings. So I'm not saying we don't have any administrators in our midst. Now, I know some of you think we don't but but that's not our calling. This is not you know that we're not raising CEOs here. Right? That's just not our calling. I'm not saying it's not other ministries callings. But I'm saying it's not our calling. Our calling is to raise up people who are spiritual leaders, spiritual fathers and mothers, people who are given to a lifestyle of prayer in the Word. And like I said, last week, don't look at these and go, Well, I don't fit in. I can't do that. Don't think that way. The way we think is Lord, where are you calling me and when we're called? Then we look at it as Okay. God's gonna bring us into this way into this lifestyle. Amen. Well, that's probably a good place to stop. I have one more paragraph I'll mention here. Before we close, some people focus on Paul's statement that he had begotten them. This is the Baptist coming out in May for my bad this year. So I want to talk about this just for a moment. They're thinking that fathering is the simple act of leading someone in the Senator's prayer to accept Christ. Now for sure. Paul had led some of these folks to Christ when he said this to them. But certainly he had not led all of them. Would you agree? Paul cultivated, and he fathered them in the faith? That's fathering. fathering is much more than the initial reproductive experience, even though that's the way the world constantly looks at it. fathering is a relational experience. That's what God teaches us. Yes, it's yes, it's reproductive. But it's also it's mostly relational. Genuine fathering, and mothering is much more relational than it is biological. Why am I saying this? Because some people feel like well, to be their spiritual father, I have to be the one to lead them to this in the Senator's prayer. That's not true. Spiritual fathering, and mothering is really helping cultivate them into the fullness of God's calling in their lives. All right, well, that's we have more on this pillar. We won't talk about it today. But what I'll do is I'm going to pray. We'll close the recording for the broadcast. And then we'll have folks share, ask questions. Lord, we're so grateful to you that you've called us to this way of living. What an honor it is to know you to walk and to be Sons Daughters of Abraham. Lord, we want to live like Abraham. We want to walk with you in such a way that we can command our children after us and that generational transfer will occur in great power. Lord, we see that the power of generational transfer is rooted in you and our relationship with you. So, Lord, we pray, usher us into this in its fullness. We don't want one ounce out of it, we want to be completely in, in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you for joining us today. Aaron ova is raising up spiritual leaders in many nations through our spiritual enrichment events, syndicated NetCast international prayer Council network, and numerous international seminary scholarships. Together, we are lighting the fires of revival, fueling prayer movements and raising up friends of Jesus in the nations. We invite you to partner with us in this extraordinary movement. 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