I'm honored today to be attending a confnerence with 3 up and coming leaders from my church. I'm going to post things as we go along today that hopefully will speak into your life. The guest speaker today is my good friend, Russell Hylton - Pastor of Bethel Family Worship Center in Indianapolis, IN. Hope you enjoy the thoughts.
Psalm 127:1-5
Sons, Not Servants
If God doesn't build the house we are laboring in vain - our own natural efforts, no matter how great they may be will matter little in the big picture. A house represents a generational seed line that has come up out of our ancestry (ie - The house of David, the house of Abraham, etc...) God builds generations and what God builds, God guards. If he doesn't build it, he is not obligated to protect it.
There is a term for people who leave their father's house without a blessing and try to steal ministry rather than inherit it. Without submitting to the chastening (discipline) of the Lord - we are not sons - we become bastard ministry. Love that thought.
Three Ways God Builds
1. God Builds Revelationally
2. God Builds Relationally
3. God Builds Generationally
This next thought blew me away on relationships.
"Our destiny will rise out of the relationships that God puts into our lives."
I love that because sometimes we want to discard relationships when it just may be that God is strategically wrapping up a blessing in the relationships we have. We cannot have a disposable relationship mentality.
On Generational Building - God is a multi-generational God - the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
As a leader I am required to pass on vision and ministry and resources to my spiritual sons. God builds His corporate family by adding to the family.
Servanthood vs. Sonship
1. Moses was faithful in his house as a servant but Christ was faithful in his house as a son.
The difference lies between attitude and motive. Servants have an attitude to serve. Sons have a motive to serve.
2. God's answer to man's sin predicament was to send a son to the earth.
3. Are you behaving as a son or as a servant in the house of the Lord.
The true test of sonship is whether you will stand in the house when the house and the father of the house are under attack because they have a stake in the family business. Sons will never allow anyone to attack or criticize their father because (Psalm 127) sons are like arrows in the hands of the father.
Difference Between Sons and Servants
1. Sons build the house; servants simply serve in the house
2. Sons view the father's heart and the success of his work as their own
3. Sons are always family oriented; servants are issue oriented
4. Sons use the language of the family; servants or hirelings use individual terminology
5. Sons honor the headship and cover the nakedness of their fathers; servants or hirelings delight in exposing nakedness.
6. Sons naturally onor the chain of command; servants continually question the chain of command
7. Sons want to share their lives with their fathers down to the third generation
8. Sons bond new people to the family and the father; servants bond new people to themselves
9. Sons focus on the welfare of the people; servants and hirelings focus on appearance.
10. Sons share their inner conversations; servants and hirelings tell you only what they want you to know.
11. Sons are secure and can handle correction, discipline and change' servants place the blame on someone else
"Discipline is not something you do to somebody, it's something you do for somebody"
12. Sons have puppy feet, you can see their potential. Servants come into the house full grown. You cannot add to them; they think they are going to add to you.
Amazing first session. Can't wait until this afternoon.
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