and how you begin to really gain
momentum in life have you ever met a
person listen to me have you ever met a
person who did all the right things for
all the wrong reasons
have you ever met someone like that have
you ever been a person that you did all
the right things for all the wrong
reasons I'm going to explain that in a
moment and it's going to really begin to
help you you know God is a heart God and
he's very interested in the heart and he
really wants you to know him on a heart
level and when you begin to know God on
the Heart level it changes the outcome
of your circumstances it changes how
things begin to function
you know there's a a strong
understanding today and people have been
taught in the culture to be rebellious
they've been taught in the culture to
stand against authority to not follow
orders to not do this now when
authorities wicked and evil yes amen you
should stand up for what is right but
I'm talking about basic healthy
Authority and healthy leadership this is
the most lacking thing in the modern
culture especially with young people
they don't have good understanding let
me give you a scripture very quickly
here and I want to show this to you
because it's vital you begin to
understand some of these principles that
we're getting into
because if you don't understand them
then what happens is you begin to have a
great difficulty people begin to go down
the wrong road they don't know who they
are in Christ and it's a very serious
scenario now let me let me show you
something very quickly in First
Corinthians chapter four in First
Corinthians chapter four I want you to
pay very close attention to this and
then I'm going to get into the nuts and
bolts of this because this is going to
really give you momentum if you will
hear what I'm saying today if you will
pay attention if you'll give your heart
and ears to what I'm saying you have
great potential
to save yourself years of torment and
slow going this can bypass years of pain
for you if you listen let's look at this
first Corinthians chapter 4 and verse 14
let's look
Paul is saying I do not write these
things to shame you as my beloved
children I warn you he's saying Paul's
warning
the church he helped plant that he
planted his kids right he called these
converts his kids his children
as my beloved children I warn you verse
15 and this is where it takes a pivot a
very strong turn pay attention to this
for though you might have 10 000
instructors in Christ
yet you do not have many fathers
fathers
for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you
through the gospel now I'm going to talk
about this and then we're going to go
forward on this verse this is really
important you begin to hear this
Paul's saying though you might have ten
thousand instructors first of all he
said I don't write this to shame you but
I am warning you I'm warning you he's
saying you need to know what I'm saying
I'm warning you something bad could
happen if you don't understand this I
warn you Paul's saying now this is a
warning for you me and the entire church
okay
he goes on to say and here's the warning
though you might have ten thousand
instructors in Christ you do not have
many fathers you do not have many
fathers what is the warning in that
what's the warning why is this a warning
well I'll tell you
in the Greek when it talks about though
you have 10 000 instructors the Greek
word here is boy instructors childlike
instructors in other words let me say it
a better way they're not Originators
they're people that regurgitate
something they heard from somewhere else
now thank God we have instructors and we
have boy instructors that can come
forward and begin to educate and tell
you what someone else told them there's
nothing wrong with that thank God that's
how disciples make disciples that's a
good thing it's a very good thing but
there comes a point when this the danger
in this is that boy instructors who only
repeat what they heard you know someone
else say they only repeat that over and
over and over again the danger in this
is it loses the Revelation the
revelation of the originator meaning
Jesus Christ or in this case Paul now
when you begin to only hear boy
instructors what begins to transpire
what transpires is a loss of Revelation
and therefore the teaching
becomes institutionalized and when a
teaching becomes institutionalized it
loses the life and it loses the power
that causes results to happen now you
just have information with no Revelation
Paul is saying I warn you though you
have and thank God for them ten thousand
boy instructors those that will teach
you something those that'll uh basically
for lack of a better word crude
terminology but they will regurgitate
something that they were taught but it
has no life-giving Revelation they don't
own it they're just telling you what
they've heard
that is a serious thing in the body of
Christ
and it reduces it down to entertainment
needing to pull people in through
entertainment to the church reduces
people down to needing Cheap Thrills to
be a part of the body of Christ instead
of having a revelation if you have a
revelation first of all a man or woman
of God with a revelation is never at the
mercy of someone with an argument ever
when you have a revelation you don't
need to be entertained you don't need
life easy you don't need things to be
comfortable you don't need it the way
everybody needs it and you certainly
don't need it the way the world needs it
now those things are appreciated and
they're wonderful and I'd rather be that
way comfortable and enjoying life than
having things difficult please hear what
I'm saying but a revelation means you
have staying power and you're never
gonna break Rank and Paul was warning
the church
his disciples he's saying though you
have ten thousand boy instructors that
can teach you the truth
but without a revelation
he goes on
he says though you have ten thousand boy
instructors you do not have many fathers
fathers fathers and I've heard people
say
over and over again at different places
and I think really well intending Godly
wonderful people in the body of Christ
they've said I've heard this that they
have said
when people say I'm looking for a
spiritual father they say oh no no
you're not to call anyone father
Jesus said call no man father
yet here's Paul saying
though you have not many ins you have
many boy instructors you have not many
fathers
why would Paul say
I'm a father to you and you have not
many fathers but Jesus had called no man
father well let me reconcile that Jesus
was saying call no man father on this
Earth as it relates to God
you call no one God you don't worship a
man as God that's what Jesus is saying
in other words when there's certain
religious organizations that say there's
certain religious leaders that have the
power to
um you know basically tell you you can
go to heaven or forgive your sins and
all this stuff that's nonsense they
cannot write scripture they're not above
scripture and they're certainly not
equal with God now let me tell you
something about that now Jesus did say
if you forgive people their sins yes in
the name of Jesus that's the job of
every believer when they are born again
you can say your sins are forgiven you
in the name of Jesus but only Christ
Jesus provides a way of forgiving sins
no human being can do that you can only
say with the authority of Jesus your
sins are forgiven because you've been
repented of them and redeemed now the
same is true in this process when Paul's
talking about this call no man father
that Jesus referenced he's saying
you have not many fathers and I've
become a father to you or I am a father
to you what is Paul saying compared to
what Jesus said again Jesus is
referencing call no man father according
to saying they are God where Paul is
saying
you have fathers or I'll say it A Better
Way Originators
let me show you
and then there's a process for how you
respond to an originator someone with a
revelation that you're attached to
and of course this can have abuses to it
it can have all kinds of stuff I've
heard so many goofy things taught in the
name of spiritual fathers and spiritual
mothers the truth is it's a very simple
understanding when you break it down but
a lot of people say a spiritual father
is something mystical and unique and
you've got to check with them before you
do anything no that's nonsense you have
the Holy Spirit you're in the body of
Christ and you're supposed to be in good
Fellowship submitted one to another but
there is a place for Spiritual fathers
I'm going to show you
and again people reference and say there
there are no spiritual fathers call no
man father they don't exist well that's
anti-bible it's saying right here that
Paul was a father now let's look here
first Corinthians 4
and verse
15 again
you do not have many fathers for in
Christ Jesus I've begotten you through
the gospel now verse 16 pay very close
attention
Paul shows us how we relate to fathers
and this is so vital to a culture right
now to a generation so vital
therefore I urge you
remember he warned him
he warned them saying be careful that
you don't only listen to boy instructors
it's so good to have that but don't just
listen to that he warned him he said
though you have all these boy
instructors you have not many fathers
pay attention when dad's talking maybe
you ought to listen more
and he goes on and says this therefore I
urge you now this is a strong statement
he says next I urge you
imitate me
boy that sounds arrogant Paul's saying
imitate me
for this reason I have sent Timothy to
you who is my beloved and faithful son
in the Lord who will remind you of my
ways in Christ as I teach everywhere in
every church and it goes on Paul begins
to talk about backing it up with power
and I'm going to come to you and some
are all puffed up saying I will not come
to you but he goes into this but here's
the point Timothy was a son who had a
father a spiritual father named Paul
Paul was not God to him Paul was a
representation of the Gospel to him as
someone he could imitate who had it
right
he had it right so what is a father a
father is someone with a revelation that
you've seen the pattern-based results
they have their heart under control
they've come up with results that you
realize lines up with the word of God
they are biblical they they really have
fruit in their life based on the word of
God they are someone you should imitate
they're someone you should imitate I
traveled the world for years with a
different father figures
one in particular in the prophetic was
very powerful in the prophetic I had a
spiritual father in Prophecy
specifically in that area that their
gift of Prophecy was so powerful and so
dramatic I've yet to see someone on the
scene today match that and I don't mean
it's all about gifting and you got to be
powerful but for me when God called me
into the office of the Prophet it was
very challenging for me to accept it
because I saw how that office gift truly
operated in front of global leaders in
front of sports figures in front of
dealing with people and calling them
into their calling and then speaking the
secrets of their heart with such
accuracy and then predicting things like
the the prophet I was trained under
predicted the stock market within within
uh for seven years in a row predicted
how it was going to go Point by point in
in quarters by the Numbers the actual
numbers it was going to hit to the point
many people joined our ministry at that
time it began to become millionaires by
watching the pro profit I was under
predict the stock market he was that
accurate people would come in and he'd
be able to prophesy to people their name
their location all of that and not even
looking at them
and I grew up under that I traveled with
that and we began to do it and the
mantle that was on that Ministry
when they went to heaven came on my life
and it's something God called me to do
and the Lord called me and said you know
what I've called you to do not do it and
stand up in boldness and I felt kind of
like
Elisha to Elijah I was very um you know
even to the even to the bald head
Hallelujah but it just became a strong
understanding to me but it was a
fathering picture it's something that
you look at and say wow
could I ever relate to that could I ever
get there they had a true Revelation now
that happened in the prophetic with me
it also happened in the area of
preaching and miracles and teaching the
word of God I I've been fathered from
afar and father near direct con contact
with fathers and also from a distance
there's some people you will be fathered
by that you may never fully meet you'll
never fully meet some people contact us
and they say Joseph you're our spiritual
father and I take that very serious and
very responsible when I get that
statement given to me the reason is is
because I look at this word and I have a
responsibility to be someone that people
can imitate in the area of their
fathering now this is important
so let me continue with this so what you
realize is lacking in the culture today
what's lacking in the culture is truly
real fathers real mothers standing up
and fathering a generation so many
people's Heroes today are sports figures
or people in society political voices
God help us with most of those out there
today and so much of what people emulate
and want to be like is nothing that the
Bible prescribes and even less people
living to that standard that are even
worthy of imitation
so what we've got to do is begin to
raise up a generation that when they are
older the Young Lions come forward and
they're able to Father a generation
because they had good input at their age
I'm telling you right now this is the
Crux this is the issue the
quintessential issue
of our time
it's it's a
it is a serious serious issue
and what the church has done by and
large is just create treated everybody
like a buddy you know oh they're just a
man don't worry about them well they're
just a lady don't worry about them and I
I do agree with that we all need to be
uh one uh equal one to another before
Jesus but there are office gifts and
there are areas of rank and file and
this is why it's so important and nobody
can line you out like a father nobody
can demand better nobody can say to you
uh you know hey that's wrong what you're
doing do it better than a father
it's true and there's been a lot of
abuses with this including movements
that was called I think the shepherding
movement where you had to you know step
and fetch and you couldn't even buy a
car without consulting your father or
the leader that is wrong but here's what
I want to say to you there there is a
point where the Revelation has been
turned into an institution and now we
just look at people like oh well there's
you know there's my buddy my pastor's my
buddy this person over here is my buddy
there's a reverence that's lost I used
to we used to actually have a culture in
our ministry years ago where we referred
to one another as sir yes ma'am yes sir
to the authorities and leaders of the
the ministry the reason was not out of
some hierarchy and you know fear and and
some weird Behavior but rather out of
respect because when you say the words
there's respect that comes with it not
only does it Empower that Authority it
empowers your life and that's something
we began to do and that's what's missing
in the body of Christ real fathers and
the problem is very few father figures
are worth worthy of being father figures
I can tell you this one of the things
God's put on us is when I see young
people I go up to them and I look at
them and say you're going to make it if
I see young men with a chip on their
shoulder I'll say you got a chip on your
shoulder you're better than this you can
rise to the occasion I believe in you
and God believes in you and when you do
that to a young person you begin to
craft their identity for righteousness
you begin to raise up Warriors it's not
enough to raise up Gladiators we need to
become Gladiator trainers themselves
you can either
man you can either become a gladiator or
learn to train Gladiators and raise up a
generation of Gladiators that's what I'm
called to do that's probably what you're
called to do or participate in it God's
marked you for this now listen
the lacking thing is fathers it's a lack
of fathers it's a great lack of fathers
and mothers authorities that people can
emulate and really just by definition
again a spiritual father is someone that
has a revelation they're an originator
there's someone who's spent time with
God and they have a fresh now word for
their generation nobody goes beyond what
is written but it's a fresh now word for
their generation a now word that's fresh
it's fresh Manna they have a now word an
anointing to say something that people
have not quite heard before even though
it's the same gospel there's just
something fresh about it that brings
people alive it's called revelation
and it happens in every generation you
see it in different movements that's
what we have denominations today is
because fathers rose up in faith
bringing a now word for their generation
I think of John and Charles Wesley they
did that and they began to rise up and
they had a now word for their generation
and they fathered a movement and they
were so methodical in the way they
functioned they were known by their
methods that they were labeled the
methodists maybe you've heard of the
Methodist Church that came from John and
Charles Wesley who stood up as a
fathering figures in their generation
they altered the scene they changed the
game but they were preaching the same
gospel we're preaching today they just
did it with different methods but they
fathered they began to be emulated they
began to be examples people could
imitate them to the point they started a
whole denomination now that can work out
for the good or the bad depending on the
father and the word and the foundation
it's built on
this is so important and today we're
looking for that and what we find is
institutional leaders today people that
are in the institution meaning those
that have just regurgitated the same old
tired thing they've heard a thousand
times now I'm not talking about the
gospel that's not what I'm referring to
that never gets old that never loses its
power the blood of Jesus and the gospel
will always be the foundation of what we
preach but listen
when you have leaders that continuously
are only rep repeating what they've
heard and and saying things they don't
have a revelation or a conviction about
what they're saying they're just
repeating what they've heard and they're
parroting someone else's Revelation
that's when you end up in an
Institutional setting and therefore
they're like a hireling and hirelings
are different than shepherds hirelings
are different than fathers
listen to me carefully
when the game is over the coach goes
home
when the lesson is done the teacher
closes the book but a father never
leaves
a father will never leave you
a father will walk with you through the
lesson through the game through the
fight through the wins and the losses
and they're not seasonal they remain in
your life as long as God requires it
and when you start to understand this
this breaks the institutional mindset up
you know Barna research group said it
this way that after about 20 years of a
revelation and a fresh move of God a now
word for a generation for about 20 years
the children's children take it over and
then what happens is it becomes
institutionalized and they lose the
original revelatory understanding that
made it what it was in the first place
so now you have information talking
about the good old days back in the days
when so and so did whatsoever instead of
talking about today if you hear his
voice do not Harden your hearts as they
did in the Rebellion today if you hear
God today the word is for today the word
is for now
now now today
I call you today God is calling you
today God is calling Sons and Daughters
to stand up today God is calling his
children to rise up be fathered be
mothered and be strengthened with
imitation towards those who've gone
before us as it says in Hebrews chapter
6 through faith and patience we inherit
the promises how by mimicking those who
went before us let me show you that
I got to show this to you man there's so
much I want to get into but this is
important
thank you Jesus
oh thank you Lord let me show you this
Hebrews chapter 6 verse 9. but beloved
we are confident of better things
concerning you
this is a fathering voice talking to a
generation that they've raised up now we
don't know if Paul wrote Hebrews we
don't know if Barnabas wrote Hebrews
some people think that maybe Priscilla
wrote Hebrews that's that's a discussion
Priscilla was a lady just for all the
religious out there now listen Hebrews
chapter 6 talking in verse 9 says but
beloved we are confident of better
things concerning you yes things that
accompany your salvation now institution
might get you saved the institution
might show you hey you're not going to
hell and you can go forward but fathers
and leaders and reformers they will
bring you forward and say hey there's
more things that accompany your
salvation here's how you understand it
yes things that accompany salvation
though we speak in this manner verse 10
for God is Not unjust to forget your
work and labor of love which you have
shown towards his name in that you have
ministered to the Saints and do Minister
and we desire that each one of you show
the same diligence to the full Assurance
of Hope Until the End staying power
listen here verse 12.
here it is that you do not become
sluggish
in other words lose your revelation
in other words get lazy drift in an
Institutional mindset sluggishness leads
to the institution
oh job security doing what I always do
institutional mindset look at this
though
but imitate oh
there's that word imitate that we see in
First Corinthians chapter 4
and verse 16 or 15 rather
he's saying for though you might have
ten thousand instructions in Christ yet
you do not have many fathers for in
Christ Jesus I've begotten you through
the gospel verse 16 therefore I urge you
imitate me Paul's using the word imitate
then we go over to Hebrews 6 and here we
are again
in verse 12 do not become sluggish but
imitate who people like Paul a father
and mother in the faith imitate those
and and what are the what are the
requirements those who through faith and
patience inherited the promises if you
don't have a spiritual father that's
leaning in laying hold and pulling
through their faith and their patience
faith means you're going after it you're
believing God you have the word of God
your heart's renewed to the word of God
faith and patience patience means no
matter what the circumstance looks like
you remain the same in your faith
patience doesn't mean well I guess I'm
just going to go through hardship and
that's just how it is patience that's
not what patience means patience means
regardless if you're winning if you're
losing whatever it looks like you remain
the same you remain true to the
Revelation patience is remaining true to
the revelation
but how do you do that you imitate those
who through faith and patience inherited
the promises they didn't lose they
inherited the promises
that's a requirement to be a spiritual
father
that you have faith and patience and you
show the children how to get her done
you show them how to take territory you
show them how to believe God until it
manifests and then you have the ability
to explain it to them here's how you do
it Young Lions here's how you do it
here's how you raise them up you know
every time we've had dogs and younger
dogs and older dogs you have an old dog
that you've trained and you've done
these things when we're kids on farms
and all this in my ranch when I was a
child and then even as our philosophy
remains if you have an older dog that
you've trained and they listen the best
time to get a puppy is when that dog is
broken in and older and they're on the
decline of their life and this time on
the Earth
you bring a puppy in and you train that
puppy but the older dog will make that
training faster and easier and quicker
because they imitate what the dog does
the older dog will bust the puppy's bad
behavior it'll cause it to fall in line
with it that is fathering right there
you know you could say the owner is in
the position of the Lord and the older
dog is like a father to that little
rogue rodent puppy right running around
chewing things up doing all that and you
train it but it's much easier to train
it if you have an example for it to
follow
and that's a good way to get a good dog
that emulates the dog that one day dies
and now that dog's older and you repeat
the cycle that's how you keep a
revelation alive
now what it's saying here is you've got
to imitate those who through faith and
patience inherit the promises and this
is talking about those who are reformers
those who are leaders those that have a
now word a revelatory word for their
generation they're not just based on
somebody else's institution somebody
else's idea they're not
um they're not going to fall apart if
they're not based on someone else's
stage Foundation platform whether it's
in the church the government Marketplace
maybe it's a speaker in the church and
if they don't have a person's approval
their their influence goes away that's
not a father that's a follower
I like people that do it from scratch
are called of God they're submitted to a
local church even as a father they're
surrendered they're part of the body of
Christ they're submitted one to another
but they do have a now word and they do
have inspiration from God and they walk
in Revelation that will set people free
that's a word for you today
that's how you do it though you have ten
thousand boy instructors
you have not many fathers and Paul's
warning is true today we've got to begin
to know the fathers the reformers for
their Generation The Inspired ones the
ones with the now word those walking in
a revelation that through faith and
patience inherit the promises and
through imitation you can be like them
and as I've said you can do that there's
people that you can listen to and if you
listen to this ministry I believe it'll
help you and I listen to many I'm very
teachable no matter what happens I also
want to remain teachable especially if
anyone from a child or an adult sends in
prophetic words or does things I listen
to that I pay attention because I never
want to be too high and mighty to not
hear what God's trying to say to me also
Jesus says Lord listen
boy instructors are good but you need to
be around Originators you need to be
around those with some horsepower that
through faith and Patience are getting
results and there's no perfect leaders
there's no perfect fathers but you have
good examples that you can imitate take
what is good abstain from that which is
not and continue to take territory I
want to say something to you right now
maybe you've had a bad picture of what
fathers look like and you hear the word
father and that jars you and it's a bad
bad picture for you in your heart and
mind well I just want to say to you
God's a perfect father he's not that
father that hurts you he's not the image
of a father that was negative or maybe
your father was never there maybe you
had a bad relationship maybe your father
picture is wonderful regardless Jesus is
Lord and what I'm saying to you is a
principle that works readjust your image
of a spiritual father begin to get a
healthy picture of someone you can
imitate but only through the word of God
as long as they do things rightly holy
upright before the Lord and that's the
way this works I have so much more I
want to get into talking about this
today but we're out of time for now and
I just want to say Jesus is Lord if no
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