The Mysteries & Privileges Of Divine Sonship (Part 2) - Lucy Cantrell

The Father desires to invite us into His perfect communion with Jesus, sharing His love and oneness. In these teachings we explore both the importance and the wonder of our position in heaven as sons and daughters of God.​
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​So again, let's just continue with where we left off last week, and we were talking about sonship. And about the book of Hosea here in chapter 11. And we read verse one, that he says, when Israel was a child, I love him, and out of Egypt, I called him my son. And how interesting in this very verse here, that he doesn't say that, you know, God called Israel, my son, after they've been delivered from the bondage of, of Egypt. He didn't call them my son when they were in the Promised Land. He, he actually called Egypt you called the Israel when they were still in Egypt, my son, and we in and we saw that, how God calls us, his sons, his daughter, in a place as sometimes of bondage is so interesting because in the places of bondage, when we are in bondage is the place that we feel like, we can come closer to the Lord feels so far we feel like no matter what they are these things in between us, how can I come near you. But to follow the and call them in this scripture, my nation, he didn't call them, my people. He didn't call them my workmanship. He called them my son. And I just when I was reading this, this verse, and this scripture, just even feeling the love of the Father, and feeling the love of the Father, that this is what his heart feels. For us, every time and in every stage that we are in lives, in our lives, he he comes and calls us he draw us in his love in CallSource, my child I love that in inverse. In verse three, it says, I taught, I always say this name wrong, a frame, a frame, to walk, taking them by their arms. But they did not know that I heal them. And we talked a little bit about this last week. And we, we saw how the Father is saying, I taught them how to walk. And we gave the example of like, you know, when we're, we see little children, you know, or when we had our own children if we, if we have children, and they were little and when they are just beginning how to walk, you know, the walk a wobbly, and then you know, that they want to run when they learning how to walk and you're like, oh, no, no, he's gonna fall you so near to them. But he tells me if when you see a baby, even if it's not yours, just learning how to walk, it just melts your heart. She's like, just so cute. So wobbly, so cute. But you also stay very near to your children, right? Because they're gonna, they're gonna fall you want to be there if they fall, so you can come for them, so you can pick them up. And we we said that, this is this is what like what we do as humans, how much more Father in heaven the love so so much. This is how he sees us. You know, and I feel like the enemy is Speak to our hearts the lies when we learn in specially when we learn in how to walk because I believe that we all are kind of like in that stage of learning how to walk with the Lord. And as as we learn how to walk, as we sometimes want to run in the Lord is that oh, okay. And we fall in the lower camps and pick us up ready to draw us unto himself the enemy most of the time comes and speaks to us. And I say, look, look, look how you fell. As I look, you not like that person over there because we tend to see others around us. Like they are marathon runners, and we're the baby in diapers, just learning how to walk. This is that that filter that the enemy comes in brings to us so we can see each other we can see ourself, not the way that God intended us, for us to see each other. So I just want to just encourage us this morning, that we are able to enter into this truth in this reality. That as the Lord just is teaching us how to walk is teaching us how to depend on him to realize that he's so near to us, he's so near to us all the time. But we all are learning how to walk we like this little infant. That is learning how to walk this is how we see so that you know that feeling we melt your heart. That's what he the father does. David goes Laurie, it was just melts his heart. When you see his walker, they have histories of walking, there was Mike walk in there, his dog walking in his chest, simply melt his heart, to see us walk to pick us up when when we felt so he can come for us. Because he says here in verse three, taking them by their arms. He takes us by our arms. But this is the interesting thing in this verse too. But they do not know that I heal them. And I believe that these this a lot of the reality. The the sun out, some of us go through most of the time, we don't realize the God is his healing is operating in our lives every day as we draw near to Him. We don't realize that the Lord is healing us, that the Lord is transforming us. Because we tend to compare ourselves with when we see the walk of somebody else. And we miss to be able to partner with that healing that the Lord is inviting us to have. I want to ask you this, and I wanted to Don't, don't share it, just in your head. But if I were to ask you right now, I said, even in this room or or in, in your circle of influence. Think about somebody that you say, man, they really have a walk with the Lord. And I just, I just really like to have the kind of communion or relationship that they have with. With them. It seems like the Lord is really, really interacts with them really just walk so near to them. Just think about that person right now. Because exactly what is available to them. Exactly how God feels about them is exactly how he sees you. Sometimes we are just believe in so many lives, that we are not seeing that that's what God is doing in our lives. Yes, and every walk is different. I'm not saying that your work is going to look like this walk, but the intensity of the love. The intensity of how God feels when he sees you is the same is the same that he sees that person because this is the heart of the Father. Something that Doug said as he shared just with us right now he said the Lord is drawing us in I just love that. That was just a confirmation for me because here in verse four, it says, The Lord is saying I drew them, we gentle quartz with bands of love. And I was to them as those who take the yoke from their neck and I stood and fed them. Now something that that has happened in the context of the Scripture, okay, is that the Lord is explaining what he did to them how he felt about them. But then if you actually read the whole other verses, we see that actually they were very unfaithful disobedient and their consequences for that. You know, he says that the Assyrians shall be their king, right? And then the Lord is explaining what is coming to them because of their heart rejecting Him, not realizing that this is what I'm Join here this is how available I am right now to you. But then we see in the in, in other verses starting in verse nine how the Lord begins to say, but even that, even that I will not again destroy Ephrem they shall walk afraid the Lord, they will roll like a lion, when he roars, then his son shall come trembling from the West, they shall come trembling like a bird from Egypt, like a dog from the land of Assyria. And I will let them dwell in their houses, says the Lord Efraim has encircled me with lies in the house of Israel with the seed. But Yoda still works with God, even with the Holy One who is faithful. So we see that we see the contrast here of the heart of the people and the heart of God. And I just really felt like the Lord and say, that he wants to speak to us more and more about what is his heart because most of the time, we so concentrating on one, we are not walking in the Lord, we see how much we have fail him, which is important for us to have a conviction of that. But also to realize that this is available to us, the heart of God is always open to us to come back to realize what he is doing in our lives. So again, this point where he says I drew them with gentle chords. And what this is saying, I was looking at this commentary, I think it was the Barnes commentary. And it says that what the this verse is trying to say when he says that I drew them with gentle chords with bands of love. It's an iron not drawing you like a beast. Like you draw an animal like you draw an ox. You know, one of the things that we do with our dog, Eddie, some of you know, Eddie, you know that she's so calm, right? And so peaceful. Yeah, right. Yeah. Oh, I wish Lord. So, you know, actually, that this something you know about that? Because they said that their dogs tend to have the personality of their owner. And I'm like, Laura, what that said about us. Wow, if that's true, so, Eddie. Oh, sweet Daddy, when we take Eddie for walks, you know, usually it's just pretty good. Right on. I mean, she pulls a little bit, she's curious, but most of the time she's okay. I mean, okay. But something happened. When Eddie sees a dog. Another dog. No, it doesn't matter big little while. She goes in like, we call it beast mode. Wild Animal, her instinct is just something like it clicks in you cannot take him from there. Like if she just saw, like, I'm gonna go and get that dog. But she wants to play with the dog. She doesn't want to hurt him. But she's big. And you know, sometimes other people get scared because she's not. And she pulls, I'm telling you, she pulls you have to actually drag her from that leash, you have to just like, you know, like really like, like if you had a cord around her neck and just like bowling, and sometimes you have to drag her literally drag her. So she can actually get out of that mode. Or like this. She's after. And I was just thinking about that. I'm like, Lord, you said that you're not dragging us like beast. Like animals. The Lord is not dragging us that way. It says he or the he actually draw us with gentle course and with bands of love. It's interesting that he doesn't say the he dragged us with course of love. Because that dragging us he doesn't even say that he's leading us, like leading us with bands of love. It says, The he draw us in this drawing the God does with love. It says in in in John 644. No man can come to me, unless the Father who sent Me draws him. He did not again he did not say the one that the father didn't he doesn't say that the father leads them or the father drags him both draw him. John 1232 He says And I am lifted up from the earth. This is Jesus speaking, I will draw all people to myself. Sometimes we see ourselves just like I was sharing during worship ourselves outside the house. But according to the words of Jesus, he says, when I lifted up, is Jesus already lifted up, yes, right. So he says, I will draw all people to myself. So Jesus is actually doing the drawing, is drawing the same way that the Father is drawing us to himself, because he says again, in John, six or less, the Father who sent Me draws him. No man can come to him. So we see Jesus and the Father, and the Holy Spirit, just drawing us into this relationship. And remember, the last week we said that into what God is drawing us, he's dragging us into this context of the relationship that the Father has with Jesus, Jesus has with the Father and the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit has with the Father in Jesus, and the three in one, leaving this perfect communion relationship of love. And let's just go to John 17. John 17, when Jesus is praying, and I'm not going to read the whole chapter, because it's longer just going to read a few verses, and he says, in John 17, in verse one, Father, the hour has come more for your son, that your son also may glorify You. Then in verse six, it says, I have manifested your name, to man whom You have given me, out of the world, they were yours, you gave them to me, in they have kept your word. And then in verse 20, he said, I do not pray for this alone. He is referring to us in this verses, I do not pray for this alone bore, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in you, that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And and this is the part that is just as much as I want to say that I believe this, because I do but it's just like my mind cannot comprehend this part, and the glory, which you gave me, I have given them that this is the reason they may be one, just as we are one. Then in verse 23, says, I in them, Christ in us, and you in Me, that they may be perfect in one, and that the world may know that you have sent me and have loved them, as you have loved me. So Jesus is saying in this point is like, you know, like we can take this part. And we can go back to Hosea, when he says, when Israel was a child, I love him. And out of Egypt, I call him my son. The father is saying, I, when I called Israel, the place of bondage, I call him with the same love that I had for Jesus, so they can be one with us, because this is the heart of the Father. He called us out of our places of bondage. He calls us every day. So he we can enter into the context of this relationship of this perfect communion, this perfect love of the Father of Jesus and the Holy Spirit. Sometimes we don't think about the communion that the Trinity has is a perfect communion. You want to say a perfect friendship, the perfect parent in some relationship, the perfect family. That that's it. And we spend so little engaging in that, in that communion. We spend, sometimes so little because we are unaware that we have access that God is actually drawing us from where we are every day into this perfect place of community of communion with Him so we can be one as Jesus is one with Him. That is just mind blowing. The hero I would love to show mercy say, I want you to be in this communion. And we see this drawing. And actually, let me see my notes because I notice here, okay, Genesis two, seven. And it says, And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils, the breath of the breath, the breath, the breath of life, and man became a living, being. So man, when from the dust of the ground, God, draw the dust, the one who was going to become a man, he draws that man, that future man, into his hands, into his hand and into his heart, because he's creating men with this love, this love that is in his heart, as a father, for his sons and his daughter, so he forms them. It's a man goes from the ground, into the hands and the heart of God, to then be read. From the mouth of God, the breath of life, his spirit, some men will be made in the image of God, in the love that God has in the love that the Father has for Jesus, in this breath of life, it was not just like, so we will be awakened living in this earth, but he's like, so we can receive this love the Jesus and the Father has for one another, the communion that they had with the Holy Spirit, and the father has with them, and in this love shoe, they can commune with us this way. And then we see in the next chapter in the next verses, that then, you know, when God puts Adam to sleep, right? He takes one of his ribs, and he forms Eve, something really interesting that I was thinking about this, when God draws on him and forms him. And then he says, The Scriptures that then God takes the man out of his hand and place him in the garden, we tend to see scriptures and I'm guilty of this. As like, have you seen those? What do you call this this term, specifically, when a camera, this video and they goes really fast time elapsed, right time elapse. And we we see sometimes just videos like that we actually just saw a documentary, the community of the water, and there was a part when there was just desert. So they explained that they put a time lapse camera. So you say we want to show you what happens with land that is completely dry. And then water pumps, and in the desert, right? And then you start seeing with a time lapse camera, you start seeing almost like a shadow moving like from just desert and then you start like green, colorful with flowers, trees. It's just beautiful. And you start seeing this, but that happening like what 30 seconds, something that took like a very long time to captured. And I believe that sometimes we read the scriptures like this, like everything happened in time lapse moments, we tend to see it like that. But really the Scripture doesn't tell us how long Adam remain in the hands of God. Before he placed him in the land, the God Himself have prepared for him. God Himself prepared the garden to have communion with Adam. But God knows it's like, Yeah, but I'm gonna give you the responsibility here. You're gonna have to subdue and lead this land. How long was that? God, keeping Adam so close to his heart and in his hands before he placed him in the place that He has given him authority to rule into communion with Him because that, that leadership there is going to be in the context of communion with God. Perfect communion he says that Adam and Eve had in the garden. I wonder, I wonder how long the Scripture doesn't tell us this either. It just tells us that the Lord God to derive out of it and put him to sleep. We didn't know how long Adam was sleeping. What's the seconds? What's the years? Again, God takes Eve first he's like, I'm gonna put you to sleep. This is a part even in me now. Firstly, it was about you and me. Now it's about even me. So he forms even if we take you know in consideration So how he formed Adam Ryan, she probably formed Eve the same way. But how long did Eve spend near the heart of God in His hands, before God Himself, introduces Eve to Adam, is God who introduces Eve to Adam. He was not Adam to pursue Eve, it is not at the pursue Adam. Eve is God Himself, I introduced them. And I was thinking about this concept. I'm like, Lord, how many times even even in just in the context of marriage, even just in the context of our own family, we don't allow the Lord to draw us in. You imagine if we allow God to draw us in every single day, all the time. So when we go and meet her husband, every day, I'm talking about the everyday we see each other is from this place of where Bran has been with the Father, and the heart of the Father, in the hands of the Father, and I have been in this place of intimacy with the Father. And then we just like meet him, coming from this place. What about we teach our children to do the same, and when we meet as a family, we all come in from the same place so we can communion with each other, as we have seen that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit communion with one another. Because we have allowed God to draw us into himself as beloved sons and daughters. When we don't want from this place of sonship, from this place of sons and daughters, most of the time we relate to each other from the flesh. Anyone how many times I have not woken up, and I just like, felt like, just warfare is all over me. I feel my flesh like. And I go and try my best to going to, you know, the living room from the bedroom is okay, you're gonna do this, and then something happened and wall. We React, React. And I'm not talking about just when we wake up, but I'm talking about when we walk in our every day life. This is available to us all the time, all the time, this drawing, God that is drawn, allowing God to draw us on to himself, us beloved sons, and daughter. And again, we we tend to not to be able to wait in this place. I know that I have not learned to wait in the presence of the Lord, when he has drawn me in into himself. Right? Have you noticed that even when we are in times of trials and difficulties, that we tend to pray in a way that we want God to deliver us from that place of maybe anxiety, and we say, Lord of pain, and we say, Laura, I just Just delete or move from that into into this place of peace. I just want the peace father, I just want your peace. And that's good. I mean, that's available to us. But it was just, it was just this realization when I was preparing for this measure that the Lord is like, Yeah, but you tend to one tend to go from this place of anxiety of pain of you name it into this other place of peace, to just want what I can do for you. But did you realize that what I want is actually what I'm talking about here in Genesis one while we sit here in Hosea is like, I want to deliver you from the place of anxiety from that place of pain into my heart. And stay here. As much as I know that you need to be here. know as much as you think that you need to be here. But we impatient. I know that I'm impatient. I know. But when glory hurts I say yes. And I want to heal it. Yes, and I want to strengthen you so you can continue this walk. Like I want you here I want to draw you onto myself and not just take you from one place to the other. Because if we don't learn this, this place of drawing close to the heart of the Father is the place of sonship if we don't learn this place off sonship it happens to us while we see that happen in the protocols. Son parable. Okay, and it is I think it's somewhere in here, I think I've done this Luke, Luke 15. From verse 11, to 32, most of us are familiar with the with the parable, I'm not gonna read it. And something interesting here, because we see. And I think that this is shows us a really good pictures of what it is not to live from a place of sonship. There's a great picture here how we can live this way. And that lead from a place of sonship. And why this is important as well, we talked about last week, our many reasons. But I believe that one of the main reasons is because when we leave from this place of sonship, in the heart of God, when He we allow him to draw us onto himself, we are fulfilling one, fulfilling, in a way the great commandment. Matthew 2236 40 says, Love the Lord your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul. And with all your mind, this is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it, love your neighbor, as yourself all he says, All the law, and the prophets Hang On these two commandments. From this place of sonship, we learn to love more and more the Lord with all of our hearts in this place to hit draw us closer to himself. This is the place where we actually are able to learn to love our neighbors, as ourselves. So we see that this is not the case of Luke 1511 32. Most of them, even my Bible, you know, has the title in those verses like the prodigal son. We all heard hear this parable all the time, right, the prodigal son. I think that a better title for this parable will be the protocol sons. Because we see that there's not one protocol. So we tend to think about the protocols on the one who is not Kohana come to Jesus or left the faith, which is part of it, yes. But we tend to focus so much on the younger brother. In his, you know, the he's a prodigal son away from the father. But both brother were so far from the Father, the older brother, and the younger brother. The younger brother was far away physically from the fall, he's like I'm leaving this I'm leaving the father's house, I'm gonna take my inheritance and I'm leaving the yard, that's the younger brother, but the older brother decided to stay physically he was in the father's house, he has decided that he was work himself so much to be able to earn what the Father had. But in reality, in relationship, they were both as far as it could be. The older was far, the younger ones far physically, physically, the younger one, they're the older one was far in his heart as well. If you were able to see, in that moment how far their hearts were from the Father, we will see the probably were in the same distance, actually, probably was an invitation for both both brothers to come back to the Father. The older brother thought that he could earn the things of the Father do the younger brother, just one other thing. So the father, but both of them have missed the point of that. The point of being with the father wishes to be in relationship with the Father in which is what the father can give them, not just what the Father can deliver them into, or from to. And we see that this is this is a great example. They both of them have missed the gift of sonship. But I want to take us to this place on the scriptures that we actually can see, I believe that he said, a place a good example of someone they have learned about sonship although we don't see them, we're sonship but we see the fruit of what sonship does. I want to take us to Exodus 28. Some of you have heard me share about this already. Exodus 20. Okay, here's most here's the Lord saying to Moses, right there the key wants him to actually want to read it. It says now take Aaron your brother and his sons with him. From among the children of a Israel, that he may minister to me, as a priest, Aaron, and Aaron, son Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. I probably say in all those names wrong, and you shall make, this is what the Lord is telling Moses right? In you shall make holy, holy garments for Aaron, your brother, for glory, and for beauty. Okay. So at this point, the whole book of Exodus has been about Moses, and about Moses and God, and this relationship that they have. In everything we see Moses and the Lord told Moses and the Lord darn near Moses and Moses, and everything has been about Moses in the Lord. But in chapter 28, the narrative changes here in this in this book in Exodus, because it's the actually the first chapter with the name of Moses, it's not even named. It says, Now, this is the first the verse and verse 20. In chapter 28, starts, now take your brother, Aaron, your brother, and he changes the narrative where the the center right now in this chapter is Aaron, and his sons. And the Lord is telling Moses, the side now, Moses, this has been about you and me. This has been about a relationship, but I believe that Moses did learn displays of sonship. I do believe why, because of his answer. With we don't see here that the scripture is telling us the Moses said, Oh, well, you know, why am I going to make holy garments for Aaron? He's not the one who delivered the people from Egypt. I mean, well, why are we going to do all this? All these things were Airmon ng his songs What about me? What about my descendants. We don't see any of these things. We see actually the contrast. In the in the protocols son parable, we see that there's a point there in the parable, when the father that the younger brother comes, and what the Father comes, he runs reruns with so much joy in happy to welcome back his son. And he says, Bring the best rope for my son. And he tells them that, you know, they just killed a calf and the best calf for for the younger son, all of these things to throw a big party. And we see the response of the older brothers. The best robe, the best calf, have an eye being with you all the time. You're paraphrasing, hey, not be working so much for you in what have you done that for me. And the final sets on everything that I have is yours. And we see that this place where the brother brother was leaving was a place of religion. This is what religious or religious spirit does in us. This is what this place of now living in sonship does in us think that we need to earn it. And when we see that somebody else got what I have been working so much to get, then there's a problem. Somebody's going to get the rope that I'm supposed to get. I'd be working for that. But they got it because he was not leaving from that place of sonship. He was not in this relationship with the Father. He was not in this relay in the context of this relationship that it was available to him all the time. But we see here that Moses understood something I believe it. I believe that this works in verse two in Exodus 28 And verse two when he says, The Lord tells Moses and you shall make holy, Carmen's for Aaron, your brother. I believe that Moses knew and understood that when the Lord calls us to dress our brothers, garments that he has given them, is wholly is wholly holy unto him. It says in verse three, you shall speak to all who are gifted artisans, whom I have filled, Okay, listen to this, whom whom I have filled with a spirit of wisdom. What from the Why do you need People they are filled with a spirit of wisdom to make clothes, just talking about making garments for Aaron. And he says that they make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may Minister me as a priest. And these are the garments which they shall make a breastplate, an effort or robe, a skillful ly woven tunic, a turban as such. So they shall make holy garments for Aaron, your brother and his sons, that he may minister to me, as a priests. How important and how holy, it is for the Lord, that we can dress one another in honor. That is that part of the great commandment in love, you're in love your neighbor as yourself. But that can only be learned in this place of sonship in this place with God is drawing us draw within us, not dragging us but drawing us onto himself. It's in this place of sonship that we learn to walk in the great commandment of loving God, in love in our brothers, in this honor to our brothers is holy. On to the Lord. Remember that when we talked last week about this, this was part sonship. It was part of what the Lord was telling me that he wanted it to begin to teach me about what it means. That part in the prayer of Jesus in Matthew six on earth as it is in heaven. We talk about that in heaven. If we will see that people in heaven, they when they are worshiping and saying Holy, holy, holy, because they're just have seen a new aspect of the glory of God. And they have no other option, but to just drop the whole band. It's just like, oh, we need to, we just worship His Holiness. None of them feel when they wake when they get up from that place is like, man, but I didn't just worship like that, like my sister over here. Or like that angel over there is so filled with sonship is so filled with the love of the Father, that his shots about this love that he has in that moment. For them that they don't feel insecure, they don't feel like like competing, they don't, they just are so in awe of receiving the glory of this wonderful father of this wonderful king of this wonderful God, they are so overwhelmed by that. So if that is that's the reality of heaven. I think that one of the fun ditional things that we want to learn as people that we say that we are carriers of the kingdom of heaven, releasers of the kingdom of heaven, they we are going to walk on earth as it is in heaven. We need to learn so much to abide in this place of sonship. And become into these beloved sons and daughters of God as it is in heaven. If we're going to fulfill the great commandment, if we're going to fulfill the Great Commission, that is be from this place, of allowing God to draw us onto himself. The greater manifestation of this statement of on earth, as it is in heaven, will be your walk in sonship I do believe with all my heart, or walk as beloved sons and daughters of God. This is the foundation where we build everything else. Most of us think on earth or citizen heaven, Miracle signs and wonders wishes which are part of it. I do believe in the the gospel of salvation many coming to the Lord. I believe that being delivered from their prisons, I believe that but I think that that is built from this foundation. We have learned to abide as beloved sons and daughters of God. So I'm out of time I there's just so much more I think that the Lord wants to speak to us about this. But I want to do something I want to ask Colin to sing a song to us. And I want that as you hear the song. I want you to you just close your eyes. You can worship is fine, but I still worship I just allow the even the lyrics to minister to you. That you allow the Holy Spirit to show us to show you the splays where he sees you, as this little child, learning how to walk, how the father, I want you to you go in this so you hear this song to the place and you say, I'm in the presence of the Father. I love the Holy Spirit right now, to operate in your mind and your soul and your spirit. And let the father show you that and allow the love of the Father not just to show you something that you're going to see in your mind, but you're going to receive it in your heart and in your spirit. Thank you for joining us today. 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