Chapter 3: The Fathers Inheritance

Chapter 3: The Fathers Inheritance

I. Spiritual “genealogy” is important.

a. The Bible is recorded for the generations “this is shall be written for the generations to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord,” (; “one generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare the mighty acts” (Psalms 154:4). The very purpose of the written Bible is so that we would receive God. It’s not a single revelation, but through a written record of rich inheritance of a generational relationship.

b. And today we gingerly skip over all the lists of “B gads” in the Scriptures. All those details of generations of Adam, Noah, Shem, Terra, Jacob, and the 12 tribes of Israel, we sometimes feel are not essential. Although these genealogical lists they seem irrelevant to us, it is imperative that we understand that the very presence of these large lists, repeated over and over in our Bibles, indicate in enormous generational interest in the heart of God.

c. The New Testament begins at Matthew’s Gospel with the genealogy of Jesus. This demonstrates the foundation of the New Testament revelation is the generations that preceded Christ. In the Gospel of Luke the genealogy of Jesus’s place not in his birth, but at the inception of his ministry. Thus Matthew shows the life of Jesus based on previous generations, and Luke demonstrates that the genealogy of Jesus has direct bearing on his ministry. Just as Jesus cannot be born without family so Jesus cannot minister without a record of his ancestry (see ).

II. Blessings multiply as the generations multiply.

a. Abraham has one son of promise from a barren situation. He is wealthy by the standards of his day in the lives of full life. Yet even though Abraham was promised the land that you sojourn in, he himself would only own a small burial plot in a few wells. (See acts 7:5.)

b. His son Isaac would also have two sons from a barren situation. The birth of twins here is significant because it’s a sign of double portion of blessing by the process of spiritual generation. It is the increasing of the generation in God.

c. The next generational increases in life and of Jacob. He has two children from the barrenness of Rachel, and 10 other children from Leah and two concubines. From 1 to 2 to 12, the increase of God can expand from generation to generation (see ).

d. After Jacob, 12 sons become 12 tribes. A nation of millions returned to Canaan in power and strength.

e. Though their numerical increase is great, the blessing was greater. The seed of Abraham was rich beyond compare, instead of a little cave and a few springs, the nation of Israel received the entirety of the land. The children of a man who lived in an attempt now inhabited cities they did not build. They crops they did not cultivate and fruit from trees they did not plant, the great wine from vines they did not grow. They had cattle they did not raise in the great from wells they did not dig. They received all this because they were sons to a father.

f. They not only increased physically, financially, and socially, but also spiritually. Abraham, their father, waiting to hear the voice of God through lonely visuals and dark minutes. His seed have the written law of Moses. Abraham sacrificed his own man’s, but his children and establish priesthood. The father worshiped under the stars, not knowing exactly where God could be found. His sons had a house of God: “and there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory” ().

g. Abraham knows God by “else to die,” but his children call him “Yahweh.” And I have. Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name Jehovah was I not known to them ).

h. This is the progression of spiritual generation that begins in a single stream, but flows into a mighty ocean. This is the magnification of the blessing of God as it is transferred by spiritual inheritance from father to son.

i. The danger lies in that we were only one generation from losing everything we have in God: “and also all the generations were gathered under their fathers and their rose another generation after them, which do not the Lord, nor yet the words which you done for Israel” (). This is why we need fathers and sons in ministry: to pass the inheritance from one generation to another.

j. Each generation is supposed to glean from both the successes and failures of the men and women of God that preceded them. We are called to worship the God of our fathers. Our experience should be just one glorious layer of spiritual riches upon another been increased as its past from father to son.

k. God always meant there to be a magnification of revelation through spiritual inheritance of the father being passed to the son: “and the Lord thy God will bring the into the land fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do the good, and multiply the above my father’s” (). We can be multiplied above our fathers. Each generation should have a deeper relationship with God that their father did. It is the lack of generational understanding and concern that makes us unable to receive the impartation from the previous generation. This causes the decrease of magnification and the loss of inheritance in the children of God.

l. We have dammed up the flow of generational blessing by not understanding our need for generational relationship. Are myopic this focus upon a “rapture” has caused us to see little need for passing are impartational inheritance to the next generation. Failing to provide for the future that we think will never live, we lost our children and grandchildren to the world of mass numbers. Those children who do serve the Lord of them forced to seek after God without the benefit of a father’s blessing. We’ve forced each new age of understanding go through the Genesis of its own, instead of increasing it to the deposit of previous generations.

m. “And, you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord” (). We have provoked our children wrath because we remove the hope of the future generations from their hearts! Why should they honor their fathers and mothers? Why should the present generation seek to learn from the past so they can be a blessing to the future? They see the future. We’ve hammered the instantaneous “any second now” rapture mentality into their spirits that have extinguished any passion for generational pursuit in God.

n. I wholeheartedly believe in a literal, physical return of Christ upon the earth. I eagerly desire to see him come in the final return of Christ. It has distracted us from many comings and goings of Christ in our everyday life, the very manifestation of his presence that we desire. Buy sell narrowing our focus we have placed an indefinite hold of the spiritual progression through our generations.

III. The flow of spiritual progression and digression flows from generation to generation.

a. The following is a list of some things that are carried by this flow: (negative).

i. iniquity (; ; ).

ii. Righteousness ().

iii. Illegitimacy ().

iv. Impure heritage ().

b. Here is a list of the positive things that can flow from generation to generation:

i. revelation of the Lord ().

ii. Fellowship in the Lord ().

iii. Prayer (as incense: : ).

iv. Atonement ().

v. Anointing (; ).

vi. Offerings (: numbers 15:21).

vii. Requirements for service ().

viii. This qualification for service (; ).

ix. Comments (; numbers 15:38).

x. Service ().

c. All these and more flow from generation to generation failure to acknowledge or participate in the order of God is disconnected true spiritual impartation in ministry.

d. How much of a lost because we failed to honor our fathers? What spiritual treasure could now reside in our lives, if we obey proper position to receive it. What unnecessary barrenness will be experienced by the next generation of ministry if order and flow are not reestablished in the present?

e. The first generation of the church was awesome and mighty. The shadows of the apostles in the sick and offering-thieves got dead in the middle of meetings. Buildings literally shook with the power of God as believers prayed and God answered. Wayne leapt and did women were raised to life. Deacons held city-wide crusades, healed the sick, cast out unclean spirits. The church Gentiles spoke in tongues before the sermon ever finished. City driving, demons fled, and prison gates will open. Prophetic voices predicted famines future arrests,…ce. As sorcerers fumbled in blindness. Apostles preached and thousands upon thousands repented and were baptized in a single day. The world was turned upside down in a single generation.

f. First generation church who passed the inheritance of the saints to the next generation will of believers, gave us blessings we enjoy today. The present loss of power in the current delusion of apostolic anointing is due to the destruction and negligence of generational connection.

g. Jesus expects the generations following him to not only follow in his works, but even increase to the multiplication of spiritual inheritance through the generations. “Verily, verily I say unto you, he that believe on me, the words that I do he shall do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go on to my father” (). Isaiah prophesied, “of the increase of his government and peace shall there be no end… From henceforth even forever…” ().

h. The first few generation of believers literally change the world. The problem is somewhere between then and now, the flow of generational blessing was disconnected. For centuries, every new generation the church has been forced into a new Genesis of blessings that are rising higher in the flood of generational increase.

i. Well the way we ever receive an inheritance in God is to the connection of father and son. We need redemption because, as sons of Adam, we inherited his sinful inclination. The necessity of being born again in order to enter into the kingdom is based upon the spiritual fact that only members of a family can receive an inheritance. Buyer spiritual connection with the son of God, we become “children, that airs; heirs of God, joint heirs with Christ” (). Everything that comes from God to believer comes in the form of an inheritance.

IV. Our inheritance in God is to be treated with honor and respect. We are to never sell it at a price, as Esau did who “disrespected his birthright” (see ).

a. Esau’s birthright was his right to a double portion of his father’s house. Although many people feel that Jacob was deceitful it is not at Taylor treachery. Rather, it is the story of a sharp negotiator and a common customer. Esau was not tricked out of his birthright; he sold it. He’s Esau sold not only is natural, but also his spiritual inheritance because he will defeat his flash.

b. God hates the attitude of anyone who despises his birthright. This is why God says “I love Jacob and I hated Esau” (see ). Esau sold out his position of promise for a bowl of pottage.

c. Esau became a terrible type of New Testament believer who cares about his stomach more than his soul, and more about material things in spiritual things. “Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For you know how that afterword when he would have inherited the blessing he was rejected: for he found a place of repentance, though he saw it carefully with tears” ().

d. There is no place of repentance and Esau heart. There was no “turning toward the father.” In this single act, Esau gave away all his tomorrows for one today. Esau closed the door of his position of promise, severing the flow blessing from father to son, he could have been in the ancestry of Jesus, but Esau sold out old now never birth a Christ into the world. The Messiah would be the seed of Jacob.

e. Selling the inheritance of his father was the issue between them off and Ahab: and Ahab spoke McNabb off, saying, give me that vineyard, that I might have it for garden verbs because it is near on to my house: and I will give the for it a better vineyard than it; or if it seems good to the, I will give the the worth of it in money. And never said Ahab, of the Lord forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my father and of the” (one Kings 21:2-3).

f. They both refused to sell his vineyard for any price, even to serve the political machine of King Ahab. It could’ve gotten better lands, or perhaps lived in financial security the rest of his days, but this was no ordinary place of real estate. This was an inheritance of his father. This was a spiritual connection to the blessing of Abraham. God forbid that he sell out his inheritance in God for any price for any reason.

g. They bought cannot be bought, so he was killed, Jezebel had him murdered so her husband could enjoy a new piece of property. Of all the despicable acts of Ahab this one received special recognition from God. The wrath of God was kindled when Ahab crossed the line of generational blessing and stole that box inheritance in the Lord.

h. Elijah is sent to do I have, “in the place where dogs lick the blood of them off show dogs lick by blood, even mine.” (One Kings 21:19). Elijah prophesied the coming end of the location of Ahab staff; it would be the place of his offense against God’s inheritance. Yet the judgment of God was completed only by the death of the seed of Abraham’s house. The judgment for destroying an inheritance is that your inheritance is destroyed. Spiritual judgment is always released against those who violate inheritance (see ; ; ).

i. Many ministries today see no problem with removing boundaries tampering the spiritual inheritance. The world of ministry is full of spiritual punctures but the pastor of the story of the beginning of this chapter. These men trespassed proper boundaries and feed their congregations with sermons of stolen inspiration in meals of miserable gotten messages obtained through another man the labor, which they claim to be their own.

j. This violates spiritual inheritance! Yet most feel as if nothing is wrong. The Bible says, “therefore behold I am against the profit, save the Lord that steal my words everyone from his neighbor” ( son may use anything in his father’s house, but when a “neighbor” takes something without permission is called theft.

k. A spiritual father was then years of prayer and decades of digging out wellsprings of his life. This is where the Sweetwater is a revelation to us forth into Welch and Brooks of spiritual relationship. Any true son is mocking today been to the streams and any time. It is their right by inheritance.

l. Without relationship or right, however pastoral gophers and righteous robbers was sneaky in the night and siphon stolen waters in the cisterns of their own spirits that way no one will ever know that they do not have a source of living water within them.

m. No one has a copyright on Scripture, but revelation that was birthed through travail of prayer and labor of seeking should not be taken by another and claimed as his own. The notes on the piano along to every pianist, but the composition of notes and I’ll mail of the belongs to his composer. Stealing it would be a crime. In ministry, stealing the composition of the melody of scriptural proof the sin. It should not be taken and used outside the boundaries of relationship and inheritance.

n. The story of Elisha and Elijah strongly depicts spiritual inheritance of father and son in the ministry. Running from Jezebel, Elisha is despondent and laments “I am not better than my father’s” (one Kings 19:4). The Lord answered Elisha’s dilemma by instructing into a as a “profit in thy room” (one Kings 19:16). Elisha served the man of God for several years, “pouring water on his hands” and following his ministry (see two kings 3:11). Both of them knew that separation my fire was soon approaching:

o. and he came to pass them and they were gone over, and Elijah said to Elisha ask what I shall do for the, before I be taken away from the, and Elijah said, I pray the, W question of vice. Be upon me. And he said, thou hast a hard thing: nevertheless and thou sees me when I am taken from the, it shall be on June the, but if not it shall not be so (two kings 2:9-10).

p. What Elijah requested was a spiritual inheritance of a firstborn son. Among the sons of a father, bulbous brother, the firstborn, would receive a double portion. “But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all he half; for he is the beginning of the strength; the right of the firstborn is his” ( this means the inheritance was divided by the number of brothers and the family. Then according to the measure of each portion of firstborn would receive a double of what every other than the received. The firstborn became the leader of the family and receive double honor (see second Chronicles 21:3). Other men besides Elisha are also called “sons of the prophets.” Elijah does not slide them there do but he is hungry for all that God has for him. He is followed Elijah in faithful service, never leaving his site, knowing that he must be in proper position to receive a double portion.

q. Elisha knows the only way you will become a father in the house is still in the the firstborn son. The mark of the firstborn son is to “see the father when he goes.” The term in second Kings 2:10 is literally translated, “if you see me I’d I.” There must be a Sharon of common vision, and endurance of relationship and faithfulness to God into each other in both father and son for inheritance be transmitted. He solves are not welcome here. 10,000 tears do not qualify such a son in God’s sight. It is only turning of the heart that allows proper alignment with the vision of father.

r. With cascading mantles and cries of my father my father the connection between spiritual generation is complete.

s. Elijah performs his ministry in double portion power. The church of today must recover generational correction and spiritual inheritance. The church must return to God’s order in ministry the order of father and son.