The First Commandment With Promise

Posted on October 22, 2024 by LovingLikeGod.com

Please note that this is not a promise made to parents in exchange for honoring their children. No! This is a promise made to children for honoring their parents. The promise is that, “it may go well with you, and your days long upon the land.”

The reason is because the parents are a generation ahead of their children where the art/business of living is concerned. While the reason should be clear to everyone, it isn’t clear today. Today’s children know more about computers and cell phones, but no longer seem to know there is more to life than Facebook and computer games – things like authentic face to face relationships, for instance.

This generational head start applies over the course of an entire lifetime. It’s even better than GPS. :-)

In fairness to the children, it seems that they get wounded by parental dysfunction at an earlier and earlier age, and so are predisposed to avoid real relationships, because that’s where they have been wounded time and time again. To enter the kingdom of God we must enter as a child prior to their wounding, prior to their knowledge of good and evil.

Love!

P.S. I want to encourage you I connection with the most important book on this subject of parenting that I have ever read – “Hold On To Your Kids: Why Parents Need To Matter More Than Peers.”

http://www.amazon.com/Hold-On-Your-Kids-Parents/dp/0375760288/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335996483&sr=1-1 – Hold On To Your Kids

  • By Jay Ferris, originally posted May, 2012.

For continued reading on this subject, see Kingdom Authority Works By Honor

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Fathers and Fatherhoods

Posted on October 15, 2024 by LovingLikeGod.com


Jesus has said, “Call no man father.” Some time later the Apostle Paul bowed his knee to the “… Father from whom every fatherhood in heaven and on earth derives it’s name.” Apparently there are some legitimate fatherhoods, both in heaven and on earth. If we cannot call them fathers, then what are we to make of them?

First of all we need to note that they derive their names from one Father, even The Heavenly Father. They are hoods of the Heavenly Father. They are not fathers, but they are hoods.

A father in the first instance is a seed planter. Fathers plant their own seeds. Fatherhoods may or may not plant the Seed of another Father, even the Seed of Christ. Beyond being seed planters, fathers are first of all validators. They provide or confirm validation that is if they are functional. They also provide discipline, guidance, love, wisdom, and a host of other supplies for the living of a fruitful life.

Where planting there own seed is concerned, all that ends at the border of the kingdom of God. In the kingdom of God we are to call no man father, because here we have only one Father, and it is the DNA of this one Father that we now have in Christ. All other fathers have been done away for us in Him. It is in Him that our new identity derives!

That said, there are those who are fatherhoods to us, and they function as fatherly ambassadors – authoritative  messengers of God the Father. They serve in their “hood“capacity at God’s pleasure, and for the duration of our need. They are ours forever including how much they ever meant to us.

Finally, when Paul wrote of his relationship with Timothy, “But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel,“ (Philippians 2:22 KJV) he was well aware that the authentic original was/is God the Father, and His Son Jesus. Paul and Timothy were the hooded proof of that first begotten Father Son relationship. They were the confirming witness!

Love!

  • By Jay Ferris, originally posted May, 2012
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The Silence of Kings and Lambs

Posted on October 8, 2024 by LovingLikeGod.com

Lamb with Crown and Flag
Have you noticed, that kings tend to be way too loud, even kings by any other name?

It can only be that we are supposed to have a part in what it takes to shut them down and make them understand:

“See, my servant will act wisely; he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted. Just as there were many who were appalled at you, (my people) his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any man and his form marred beyond human likeness—so will he sprinkle many nations, and kings will shut their mouths because of Him. For what they were not told, they will see, and what they have not heard, they will understand.” – Isaiah 52:13-15

This is the power of the revelation of the cross. This is how we know what love is, and this is how The King of Kings establishes His kingdom in, but not of the earth. The subjects of His kingdom are supposed to be part of the ongoing revelation of this love that silences earthly kings, ie. the ones who commit adultery with Babylon the Great.

Lambs need to be much quieter than what has been calling itself “church.”

“They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.” Revelation 12:11

“Word of their testimony” is not lambs talking, but rather the word of how they are for, and with each other.

God Help us!!

Love!

  • By Jay Ferris, originally posted May, 2012
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