Eben Roux - Wat is 'n Huishouding van Geloof.
God is doing a new thing, in this time He is revealing His will.. He is busy taking traditions, religion and false prophets out of His church, since these things resist the growth of His church. Because the church is His habitat.
Everything that began with the fall and ended with the Deliverers redemption is related to the concept of the Jubilee; of returning the possession to the slaves. The cycle of redemption was completed with Jesus' resurrection.
Jesus has set us free, His body was broken so we can be His body.
The ministry of re conciliation is to re-unite believers to the father and reinstate their inheritance – JUBILEE; to reign as God's stewards over all He has made.
God made that promise to Adam and Jesus restores. “In your seed all the nations will be blessed”
In the OT it was only the Jews, after Jesus all the nations have the potential to be the fruit of the seed (Jesus), the fruit of His seed that died when it was buried.
Most believers have always behaved like the spies. 12 spies, 1 for each tribe, for a reconnaissance view of the promised inheritance. They preferred to survive in the wilderness that to take up the challenge of overcoming the promise land – making a comfort zone of the wilderness. They are happy where they are, in their comfort zone, and with their stubborn, negative attitude they can't inherit.
Believers are citizens of another kingdom and not meant to submit to the norms of secular society, like an ambassador, isn't dependent of the economy in which they reside.
The new wine has the specific purpose of enabling us to inherit the promised land. Joel 28
Numbers 14 : 31
31 'But your little ones, whom you said would be victims, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised.
32 'But as for you, your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness.
33 'And your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and bear the brunt of your infidelity, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness.
34 'According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for each day you shall bear your guilt one year, namely forty years, and you shall know My rejection.
35 'I the LORD have spoken this; I will surely do so to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against Me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.'"
Whereas those who were positive were allowed in.
We don't want to hear the things that disturb us.
If Egypt is still in us we will be stubborn to receive anything that disturbs our comfort zones. We don't want to be left behind, but be ready for the reformations.
We no longer submit to the law of Moses
Galatians 5:18
We are under the law of Christ, the OT is for learning only, so we don't make the same faults as the early believers.
Now today believers settle for the wilderness because they're unaware, ignorant or stubborn to acknowledge they're in the wrong place or should move on.
The law of Moses was all about how the families should live in the wilderness, when the law was given a second time it had to do with how the promised land should be managed.
John 14:2-11
2 "In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
4 "And where I go you know, and the way you know."
5 Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?"
6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
7 "If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him."
8 Philip said to Him, "Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us."
9 Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, 'Show us the Father'?
10 "Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.
11 "Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.
The Father's house is the church on earth. How does God build His house on the earth?
He builds it around the culture of households or families of faith. All the families together a corporate household. It's not just one massive household, it's many families or households within a corporate household. There are various different fathers.
We stand under faith that Jesus Christ is the son of God. The ministry of reconciliation is not just to make us part of the corporate family but to make us a part of a family/house hold of faith.
Where does the enemy attack? Normally in families by disturbing the foundation – the fathers.
A house hold of faith where there are parent to feed the children.
Malachi 3
1 "Behold, I send My messenger, And he will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, Will suddenly come to His temple, Even the Messenger of the covenant, In whom you delight. Behold, He is coming," Says the LORD of hosts.
2 "But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire And like launderer's soap.
Malachi 4
1 "For behold, the day is coming, Burning like an oven, And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up," Says the LORD of hosts, "That will leave them neither root nor branch.
2 But to you who fear My name The Sun of Righteousness shall arise With healing in His wings; And you shall go out And grow fat like stall-fed calves.
3 You shall trample the wicked, For they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet On the day that I do this," Says the LORD of hosts.
4 "Remember the Law of Moses, My servant, Which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, With the statutes and judgments.
5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.
6 And he will turn The hearts of the fathers to the children, And the hearts of the children to their fathers, Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse."
After He speaks about what He would do with the wicked and righteous, He tells us to think/remember the law of Moses. How the groups must be divided into small groups, so that everyone can get what they need. Rule to regulate slave that couldn't manage themselves.
Why does He first talk about Moses before saying He will again send His messenger in the spirit of Elijah to return the fathers to sons and sons to fathers? That is the annointing to reconcile fathers and sons.
The OT was the single annointing (just priests) the NT is the double annointing; priests and kings. We are a kingly priesthood, or a priesthood of kings. This is the foundation of the church Christ builds.
God is saying; I will re-establish the principle of how you can become a part of the household of God. IE; I will establish it on the fundamental core of fathers and son. The son can be equal to the father, the father wants to be invisible but be visible in the son and also the son wants to be invisible and make the father visible.
That's what Jesus was doing and said. He came to represent the Father.
When you can understand this dynamic, you'll see it's not a dictatorship but a culture, but how can I be represented in my sons and the sons want to honour the father by wanting to demonstrate and example of the father “How can I be like my father”
Attaining sonship means you represent your father.
It's a government principle, but you need to be connected to a mentor. Not academics that make religion out of faith. That make a dead religion, intelligent but dead, theologising the word. Matthew 23
God is in the Sabbath rest, when God wants to reveal His will, He does it through people.
The only way to build the church is through relationships in family, hence why Jesus said, when there's 2 or 3 there I am, lone rangers can't understand that.
When you're reborn you must participate in a spiritual family. There are too many secular believers who just want spiritual experiences. The feeding of the 5000 indicates how the word and church must be administered. Jesus divided himself in 12 baskets and the last days wants to raise up these baskets
John 6
39 "This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day.
The 12 baskets represent the 12 disciples.
God wants to restore in the last days, what He was doing while He was on earth amongst the 12 disciples.; this is what He is doing now. Jesus is busy preparing everything for His return, we must abandon the traditions and rituals and look forward.
