Christians vs Sons - Chad Wilt

 

When I think of Jesus I don’t think of Christians and when I think of Christians I really don’t think much about Jesus. The two don’t really strike the same chord in my heart, they never have. I could argue that this should be different, that there should be a connection, that there should be a similarity, but I cant and won’t. There are a lot of people out there already preaching that message. Let them have it. Personally, I think that we have it all wrong. The world knows we do, but we are not really convinced. 

Beyond word searches and Strong’s numbers there lies a truth right out in the open, a fact so raw and real that it begs my attention, in fact this revelation stands in such plain sight that I wonder why I missed it before. Maybe I was to busy trying to be spiritual.

The truth I am referring to is the revelation of son-ship.

Titles never really impressed me. Flesh and bone, no matter how you dress it up, is still nothing more than a corpse waiting to die.  What we call ourselves is never greater than who we really are. I believe it is who we really are that God cares about. 

Act 11:26 … And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch. 

 

Titles are important to us, maybe it makes me feel important, maybe scratches the itch of pride that continually hides in the creases of my flesh, or maybe it finally helps me feel like I am finally accepted. No matter the reason, even if I get to the point where I am no longer looking for titles and themes to go with my life, people still seem to give them to me. Were obsessed with them. 

The disciples were rocking the world. Someone had to notice. There were ripping the head off of religion and birthing sons of God left and right. Culture began to change. Lives were transformed and the church was flexing its muscles. As man is always so inclined to do, they had to name it. It was man who first called us Christians. It was God who first called us sons. There is power in a name, but not a title. Sons are named, Christianity is a category. You and I were not born to be a category.

Normally I would not get so caught up in the formalities, but I began to look at the scriptures and found that I can really miss the point of the coming of Christ if I view my life from a Christian standpoint instead of viewing my life as a son of God. The worlds response to son-ship was to name it, Gods response to son-ship was to empower it. If I look at the lack of power in the church I find a lot of things categorized and very few things empowered.

John 1:12  But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 

I am saved by the name of Jesus, not the category of Christianity. Correcting my view on this is not just a religious pet peeve. Its not another theological argument. I believe it is important for the purpose of viewing not only myself, but God, correctly. Jesus was and is a Son. God did not come here in the form of Jesus Christ to redeem us from Adams fall and our sin to create a  new name for us, He came here to create new sons for Himself. If I read the Word through the eyes of Christianity I don’t see what God sees. I end up seeing something I never can quite get, something I always fall short of, something that I long for, yet always eludes me. Christianity has morphed into a religion, a set of morals, and rules for me to learn and adhere to. If I can just learn enough, and be good enough, maybe I will finally feel accepted, maybe the pain of Christianity will finally cease.

 

 

Son-ship is organic, its natural, it flows as effortlessly as the DNA of a human. When I start to see myself as a son, I then also see that the law is already written in my heart. I don’t need to learn more rules, I need to learn how to hang out with my Father. Sons begin to realize that they have need of nothing, they are heirs of God, they have the Holy Spirit as a down payment of the riches of heaven. Son’s don’t need to pray for patience, they learn that they need to access it. Son’s don’t need to pray for the things of God to come, they realize that they are already hidden in their heart. Son’s aren’t afraid of offense, they embrace the cross, and they are a different breed of “christian”. The only thing that stops natural son-ship is un-crucified flesh. Where love in me is not strong enough to submit to my Father I find something of me that I love more than Him. This does not stop son-ship but it stops relationship, and relationship is the heartbeat of son-ship.

Christianity is always changed by the culture but sons are the same yesterday, today, and forever. They are the image of God for their generation as Jesus was for His. Each generation of Christianity has gotten farther and farther from the original intent. Those who have changed culture for God are usually more son-like than Christian. Ideals and moral laws carry you only as far as your next failure. Son-ship carries you to the arms of an understanding and loving God. 

If I can believe that the DNA of God lives in me, then I can rest, that no matter how little I know, how frail I am, how messed up I am, I am still a son. Son’s are lords over the sabbath. In other words in every situation they rest, they trust, they rejuvenate. 

Everything I pray for, I can pray for as a Christian or as a son. As a Christian I will be waiting for something I already possess, as a son I will apprehend that which I have already been given. Son-ship is the hinge upon which faith lives, moves, has its being in my life. 

The word Christian in reference to us is only used three times in the New Testament and never by Jesus. But the word “sons” is far more applied and even applied by Jesus.

In Romans chapter eight, the famous verse that sums up what the world is waiting for, states that the world is not groaning and waiting for the revealing of more Christians, or a neo version of it, its waiting for the revealing of sons.

As a son I know that I need to grow, to mature, to learn, to be humble, and to love, but I no longer approach God cowering in fear waiting for Him to tell me everything I’m not. As a son I now know that when I approach God, He is going to tell me what I am. So, why am I no longer called a Christian?  Because I refuse the titles of men in order to embrace the title God has given to me. His title over me rights the wrongs of religion, it clarifies the word of God, it frees the heart of man to realize that I am a son…and so are you.

-Chad Wilt

 

 

LEGENDARY SEASON by Marsha Burns

Identifying the Season (2015)

On a recent road trip two words came to me: legendary and epic.

Those two words came just before arriving at our destination where I saw a sign that read, "Legends of the West."

 

So, the season we have just entered will be epic, legendary, and marked as supernatural.

 

Upheaval in the Nations:

 

In a vision I saw utter, heart-breaking devastation in cities and towns in the Middle East. And, I asked the Lord, "When will this end?" He answered, "It will end when everything that is destined to be destroyed is destroyed." And, I heard Him say that it would end when the indignation is past.

Then, I was reminded of Psalm 137:1-4 "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. We hung our harps upon the willows in the midst of it. For there those who carried us away captive asked of us a song, and those who plundered us requested mirth, saying, "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!" How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a foreign land?"

 

Isaiah 26:20 Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, until the indignation is past.

 

Jeremiah 15:2-3 "And it shall be, if they say to you, 'Where should we go?' then you shall tell them, 'Thus says the LORD: "Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity. And I will appoint over them four forms of destruction," says the LORD: "the sword to slay, the dogs to drag, the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy."

 

Then, I asked, "What will follow this destruction?" He said, "An awakening beyond the scope of anything that has ever been seen."

 

I am reminded of the very first time that I entered the presence of the Lord. I had heard someone mention the end of the world in the days prior to my encounter with Him, and I was troubled by that concept. So, I asked, "Is the world coming to and end?" He said that the world as we know it would come to an end. I asked if there would be a World War III. Again, the answer was affirmative. Then, I asked my final question-where would the war begin, and He answered that it would begin in the Middle East.

 

In the history that is being written in these times this could very well be the beginning of the end.

 

Matthew 24:

3 Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?"

4 And Jesus answered and said to them: "Take heed that no one deceives you.

5 "For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many.

6 "And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

7 "For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.

8 "All these are the beginning of sorrows.

9 "Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name's sake.

10 "And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another.

11 "Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many.

12 "And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.

13 "But he who endures to the end shall be saved.

 

Instruction for the season:

1 Thessalonians 5:

6 Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober.

7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night.

8 But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation.

9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

10 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.

 

This season will present opportunities to interact with History supernaturally.  It's going to be big-the stuff that legends are made of. But, we individually must stay focused and not be distracted with temporary and trivial pursuits.

 

Small Straws: 

I am doing a supernatural work in you, My people. If you will get up to the highest point of your own desire and ability to seek My face, I will take you higher spiritually and give you greater freedom of movement. You will see and discern with unprecedented clarity and become one with Me in purpose--moving with power and precision, says the Lord.

 

Keep yourself in righteousness and honor. I have provided for you sanctification and have set you apart for Myself, says the Lord. Protect your commitment. Be established in My kingdom through dedication to My purposes. Refuse to allow the enemy to steal your peace or undermine your spiritual position. Set a watch for his shenanigans. 

 

Stand strong in the face of adversity, for I say to you that challenges will come as devastation seems to rule the world. It is up to each of you, My people, to establish righteousness and kingdom principles where you are--in your life and circumstances. You will do this through choosing good over evil, says the Lord. Set yourself apart to reflect My character and nature. 

 

Consider where you have been, where you are now and where you are headed. If your life seems to be on a path that has departed from spiritual commitment and consecration, you will need to make a course correction before it leads to destruction. Let Me direct you in the way of righteousness and peace so that I can bless you, says the Lord.

 

The next phase of your spiritual progression is beginning to unfold. Position yourself for the greatest benefit of the season by getting your priorities in order and developing righteous values. Move away from self-absorption to consider and esteem one another. Be honest and righteous in every area of life--relationships, finances, goals and desires. I am the light that will guide you through the darkness that covers the earth, says the Lord. 

 

Don't expect justice, but we never cease to give it.

 

 

Uncompromising

I was sitting and waiting upon Abba when I suddenly felt heat on my ears. My ears burned as if coals touched it. Inside of my ears it felt as though the heat of the fire went right into my brain and my eyes also started to burn. As my eyes experienced this heat it was as if my sight became much clearer and what I saw before me was an army of trumpeters. The army of people all had Shofar’s in their hands and they were gathered together in preparation. There was an expectancy. They had a golden seal upon them. The people were almost scattered and there was no order amongst them. Everyone was standing around looking in their own direction. 

 

The next moment I saw the Lion and the Lamb. The Lion of Judah was standing with so much authority and the people feared Him. The Lamb was lying between the Lions feet and the blood of the Lamb created a mantle of red blood around the Lion. The Lion roared and as the Lion roared the trumpet sounded and all the people where turned towards Him because they feared Him. People were selected from the group of people. They were very specific people called the David’s. They had another mark on them within their identities. They had to give their willingness when they were chosen but most of them couldn’t understand why they were chosen because they were seen as insignificant, small and even uneducated. The lion placed a seal of authority on them when He took them through the desert and then He crowned them to be kings and He put priestly garments on the priests and the prophets were given shofar’s. These people were given a mandate to create order in the army because they needed to be prepared for a war and a wedding feast. 

 

The whole time while I was seeing this vision the people were preparing. I became aware of this intense fire again and it was really uncomfortable. I started crying out to Abba in the fire but He answered me from the fire in a gentle, loving yet firm voice: “My daughter the nations are in the time of great fire. It is My fire, I AM burning what can be burned so that the pure can become gold and that which is not of My nature can be burned away in the fire of My holiness. My bridal army allows My fire, it is uncomfortable and stripping but it is what prepares you. I will take the willing deeper in the furnace so My people who are called by My name can be in alignment with My order. You are in a great transition time where the harlot can become bride, the weak an army that defeat giants… 

 

It is a matter of the time as you are drawing closer and closer to the end of the age. This transition will bring forth a time of which none is like it. I want My fire to awaken your ears to hear, to transform your mind from being conformed to the things of this world and your eyes to look with discernment so that you may not fall into the serpents deception. In this year there will be a battle against the anointed, against the bride. The enemy tries to tip the lukewarm that are standing on the edge into the passivity that blocks preparation. Be careful My people of becoming mixed by the things of this world. Even now as My eyes are going across the earth, I see wickedness, lawlessness, drunkenness because people are drinking from the cup of the world and are intoxicated by fleshliness and worldliness. 

 

In this time My people are called to seek Me like never before. I tell you this, many think people are crying wolf, wolf. Many do not believe because it has all been said before but I tell you this. You will not be able to say that you were not warned because the hour is coming and it will come unexpectedly for many. I want to draw My bride closer to Me through her walk of listening and obeying. In this season I AM calling My bride deeper into deeper intimacy with Me, deeper levels of obedience. I AM calling you to lay down your life and the ways of the world in a deeper way to be uncompromising. Will you ask Me to reveal to you in your life where compromise is operating. Compromise comes from the paralyzing fear of a broken identity. It will keep you from listening and obeying if you allow it. Do you know who you are, do you know that you are royalty? Why then do you walk as if you are a nobody? Why do you order your lives according to Babylon and the lusts of the flesh because of a fear driven system if you where called as kings and priest to live according to a Royal order of blessing and life? I tell you, you will be challenged because even as the people are awakening, there are also people who are drifting further and further away and they will not understand your radical obedience. 

 

This will even be a test for you. Warn the people to buy their own oil. You cannot get another’s oil, you need your own oil. Remember that these messages are grace, in My grace I AM warning you, in My grace I AM teaching you to prepare but the warnings will not just go on and on. A time will come that you will see what has been said and My judgment will come upon this earth like a flood because I have warned you. Do not be misled because of what you do not see but heed to My warnings so that you can listen and obey. I do not want you to compromise because of fear because your mind is woven by worldly patterns. I want you to walk in faith through listening and obeying because My instructions are in your mind and the patterns of Who I AM and what I say is the order of your inner being and therefore you fear Me above any other. Fearing Me makes the compromise flee. I am calling an uncompromising people who are like Gideon’s army- fearless. My children, you cannot afford to walk around without vision because you will become distracted, confused and you will go in the wrong direction. You need vision about what I AM leading you into so that you may walk in radical obedience because of fearless faith. You need to stand your ground because if you give the enemy only a little gap he will try to derail you because the serpent is desperate. Do you trust Me? Do you trust that I will do as I said I will do? Do you deeply and wholeheartedly trust Me that I will fulfill My promises because if you do not trust Me, your obedience will be broken. You may have many battle scars from past seasons. You may carry disappointments and memory that brings forth discouragement. Maybe deep inside of you, you feel hopeless because you do not know what My promises is for you or you still struggle to hear My voice or you are still not walking in the promise. 

 

 

I tell you My children that you are in the time of completion. Completion needs to come because before fulfillment comes completion and before completion comes rest and before rest comes faith and before faith comes hope and before hope comes trust and before trust comes love and before love comes listening and obeying. I want to bring completion as you journey with Me because I will not return when completion of preparation is not fulfilled. I want to complete in you what I have started but I need you to cooperate. I want to build and complete the purpose of My tabernacle within you so that you may dwell with Me and I therefore dwell with you. Abide in Me because without Me you are nothing. Allow My fire, allow My conviction, allow Me to judge you in a time of grace so that you may repent and be restored. 

 

The John the Baptists are rising up with the cry of the Bridegroom calling His people to repentance because repentance is a DNA thing and is therefore what will prepare the bride for her Almighty Messiah. I AM bringing preparation for the veil to be lifted in a much deeper dimension. I AM removing layers of falsehood and deception through the truth revealed to the bride that listen and obey. My bride is a light to the unbelieving, the lawless and religious. Put on your armour for the time is shifting, stand in the battle that your mind may be transformed by pure patterns. Meditate on My Word on My truth day and night that you may not depart from it but do according to all that I have instructed. Wait upon Me so that I can give you vision, not just about what is coming or about the purposed promised land that I have called you to but I want to give you vision to see what I see regarding what is going on in your heart, the depths of what is hidden in the wells of your soul.

 

I AM the Lion and the Lamb. My people are saved by the blood of the Lamb because I AM grace but many people do not know the face of the Lion, they do not know the Judge and therefore they are lukewarm because without My fire you will not see My face. I want you to look into the eyes of the Lion, see the fire in My eyes, hear Me roar the truth of I AM so that you may behold Me, so that you might know Me and therefore become like Me. I AM looking for sheep that know My voice and follow Me humbly and obedient. My heart is longing for lions who take up their authority fearlessly to run after My purposes and pursue it. Lions who are strong and courageous. Are you in the likeness of My image? Are you part of the tribe of the Lion of Judah, are you a sheep of the Good Shepherd that I AM? Can you roar in mercy? Devour in love? Can you overtake in submission? Stand in authority in humility? Can you obey Me because you love Me and not because My instructions is a law? Can you search after My heart even when you don’t feel like it, when there is nothing you need? Will you still trust Me even when you don’t understand? Will you be still and know when the storm is raging and you don’t know which way is home? Will you draw the battle line and face your enemies with bold determination when what you face seems bigger than you? Will you desire Me above anything else? Will you still pursue intimacy with Me even when you are blessed or just when you find yourself in a desert? Will you obey Me when others are looking because you are accountable or is My unseen Spirit your accountability and the place where no one is watching your platform for obedience? Will you press on and push towards the mark, the finish line of the race of faith even when you have people on all sides of you saying that you are taking it too far, that you are deceived, misled and too spiritual? Will you focus on obedience instead of the promise? Will you love Me above the gift? Will you give Me back what I first gave to you? Will you lay down your false identity to walk in your destiny? Will what I say be more important to you than people’s opinions? Will My Spirit be the understanding, revelation and interpretation of My living Word or will a religious mindset define who I AM? Will you go beyond borders, jumping off the edge of fear into the unknown by faith in Me alone?

 

Will you die with Me so that you can walk in the power of My resurrection? Will you realize that your victory rests upon the foundations of obedience and your authority upon the tested fruit of intimacy with Me, to abide. Will you stop making idols of people and just gaze upon Me? Will you pursue Me instead of a feeling, sensation, vision, word, promise? Will you be like Abraham that leaves everything to do what I ask? Will you stop comparing yourself with others because you fear missing the mark? Will you stop measuring yourself according to standards that I did not set?

 

Hear My words, I can give you revelation of coming events, I can give you promises of prosperity and sweet words of grace. It can enlighten and encourage you but it will not change you. I desire change in your hearts and lifestyles. I AM asking you if you are going into a season of willingness to change or are you staying on the shores? Change will bring forth restoration because it comes from the fruit of repentance which will transform you into the desire of My heart. There are many things coming, many promises that I give, many things that I want to do, there are warnings, judgments but the thing is that if you do not journey with your Bridegroom you can hear all those things and even believe it but still not be a wise virgin with extra oil in your lamp. I want to bring you to the place where you are in a passionate relationship with Me, Your Messiah, your Bridegroom because it is out of that place that you are truly My children. Without knowing Me as your Bridegroom you are only a friend, a friend of the Bridegroom and a friend of the bride, all because of a lack of change, compromises and passivity from the religious mindset. I have many friends that believe in Me but there are not many whom I call bride because there are not many who knows the Lion and the Lamb. My bride knows My judgment because she loves My righteousness and justice therefore it is embraced. My friends do not know Me intimately and therefore they see judgment as a curse, something unlike a God of love. They think I will not, they think a God of love will not… I tell you, I will, I can because I AM! I AM not to be mocked, I AM not a respecter of persons, I AM holy and I AM righteous and I AM uncompromising. I will not compromise on Who I AM and what I have said even though many think grace changed the picture. None of My words has passed away because I AM the Word. I AM what I say because My Word is coded and filled with the pattern of My Spirit. You cannot separate My Word from Me and you cannot discard My instructions in any way because when you touch My righteousness and justice with falseness you provoke anger in My heart because you say that I AM not Who I AM. I AM a fire and I will burn because I AM love. 

 

Remember your covenant Maker, do not depart from Me, do not live far from Me. Abide in Me, draw close to Me and seek Me more. I AM more important than anything and your lives needs to testify to it otherwise how will the unbelieving recognize that I AM? Remember that you are the light in the world. How do you present Me in the nations? Do the atheists not believe because what they see is a hypocritical church? Do the Hebrew people not believe that I AM the Messiah because Christians have dressed Me in roman catholic garments? Do they not see because you are keeping pagan feasts and not My feasts, My instructions? If you are the ones who are suppose to be walking in truth why are you the ones causing veils over people’s eyes from seeing Me for Who I AM. There are many Christians who are not obeying I AM, they are obeying tradition and therefore they are deceived. Do not think that I will not judge Christianity for being mixed. Do not think that all believing gentiles are saved from coming judgment for it is through My bride that I will lift the veil because she is purified from the serpents nature and she walks according to My pattern of covenant. I will protect My bride in My ark but those who are mixed with the serpents counterfeit seed that is conformed to friendship instead of relationship as a pure bride will face My judgment so that they might be saved