Hope for the House Part 1
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Answering the Call
Answering the Call
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions,
always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
They say we are living in the Information Age, the age of Mass Communication. I could not disagree more. I say we are living in the Misinformation Age where Communication is a mess. Instead of accurate information we have generational confusion.
If you listen to the news of the day, you hear of racial division, political corruption, generational confusion, increasing crime, genocide, increased poverty and sexual perversion. In fact, you don’t even have to listen to the news to see the despair of people all around. It seems if entire generations, past, present, and future have lost hope. It seems that our society has completely lost any concept of kindness, compassion, selfless service, and benevolence. Self-centeredness seems to be the highest virtue. Selfie has taken on an entire new definition of egoism. The traditional family structure seems all but lost and the covenant of marriage has all but become nothing more than a tax evasion tool.
But there was hope in the Prophet Joel’s day, even in the midst of rampant paganism and idolatry of Israel. And that same hope is ours today.
“ ‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams;
Pastor Terry Nance states, There are three Biblical generations revealed to us here:
The Prophetic Generation - That generation that embraces the prophetic instruction of God and lives it out loud that the Word of God may be heard throughout the earth.
The Vision Generation - That generation that sees the hand of God and follows the Spirit of the Living God regardless of the cost.
The Dream Generation - That generation that does not sleep nor slumber. They have not retired to the realm of the spiritual snoozers. No, this generation spends their time listening to the voice of the Father. They are getting spiritual downloads from heaven to do generational upgrades in the earth. This is the generation of impartation. If future generations are to see the Father modeled, it will have to be in the church.
Just like King Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon (Daniel 1:7), tried to place pagan labels on the Hebrew sons, so the world has labeled it’s generations such as Generation X, Generation Y, Generation Z, and so on. But the Hebrew sons refused to accept those labels and the identities that came with them. Instead, they clung to what the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had said of them. They not only willingly and with great honor embraced the divine covenant of their fathers, but they were willing to let the covenant of Yahweh define them even unto their death.
Do not lose hope church. Because there is a generational remnant that loves the Lord God and is eager to walk out the Kingdom in their days. They are hungry for Generational Impartation.
And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. So the people of Israel obeyed him and did as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Joshua was full of the spirit of wisdom because Moses had imparted into him. As Pastor Rondall Simpson states, “We must impart before we depart.”
Abraham imparted into Isaac. Moses imparted into Joshua. Elijah imparted into Elisha. The Prophet Samuel imparted into David. Jesus imparted into the twelve disciples. Who are you imparting into and what are you imparting that will advance the Kingdom of God in the next generation long after you are gone? Who is imparting into you? If you are not giving impartation and receiving impartation you may find yourself in deportation from the purposes of God.
Each generation need make sure they are receiving impartation that is from God and not from men. “There are always people who know how to tell others how to do what they themselves have never done” (Dr. Rondall Simpson). Every day something is being imparted into you. If you do not have the spirit of wisdom to discern what is Biblical and sound ethical impartation, you will be deceived.
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
Today, we are living in a spiritual and moral war zone. God did not call us to be informers of religious commentary but transformers of the hearts and minds of men into the likeness of Christ.
Are you a part of the generation of hope givers in Christ Jesus? Are you a part of one of God’s defined generations? Are you among the prophetic team (declaring God’s truth), the vision team (fulfilling God’s truth), or the dream team (imparting God’s truth)? Regardless of how young or how old you are, it is never too late to “Answer the Call”.
But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.
And you shall tread down the wicked, for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet, on the day when I act, says the Lord of hosts.
“Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.
And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”
In Leviticus 12:1 it says, “The Lord spoke to Moses...” The word Leviticus in Hebrew is vaikra וַיִּקְרָא “meaning to call”. It’s root is qara’ קָרָא meaning “to encounter”. Anytime God wanted to impart His ways into Moses and God’s people of covenant He, Adonai, would vaikra or call to Moses. The Lord desired to speak to all of Israel but they would not hear it because of the hardness of their hearts. To them the voice of the Lord was so loud that it shook the mountains. But to Moses, the voice of God was a loving and tender call.
To those whose heart is hardened, the ways of the Lord are troublesome. But to those whose heart is set on His mercies, they hear and answer the call for their generation. Do you desire to hear God’s voice, willing to accept the cost, and let Him use you to impart into another to change a life? Will you answer the call of God today that Christ in you may be hope for someone who is lost among the generations? There is hope and that hope is in this house! It is Christ in you!