SONship

summarized and simplified by Rayvin

Psalm 127:1
God wants to build your house, your family, your career.
God builds through people. Church is all about people rather than concrete building.

Psalm 127:3-5
God builds through the son of the house. God is a trans-generation God. God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
God also builds, most importantly, through mature son.
"Children" in Hebrew means Sons, Builder of family name.

Romans 8:14
A part of maturity is being led by the spirit of God.

Heb 3:1-6
Moses was faithful, but God built His church through Jesus.
Because Moses was a servant. Jesus Christ is a son.
God can't build through a faithful servant, but a son.
It's important to be a servant. And God was not taking anything away from Moses.
But you can serve with a mentality as a slave, you can serve in fear, you can serve for selfish reasons.
Or you can serve God with a mentality of loving and confidence son.

How do you know then if someone is a biological child of a parent?
In modern day, we use DNA test, because a son carries the same genetic code DNA of the parents.
It's the same in the house and church, e.g: in CHC, we have our own style, we have our X-factor, the CHC-factor in your soul.
We are not saying that we are better than others. Every person is unique, every person have its own genetic code.
Every church is unique. So we can tell easily tell if someone is from CHC.
Because we have our own way of doing things, for simple things like the way CHC worships, the people's attitude, or even by the tongues.
From the way we honor his parents, our Pastor, our CGL.

Some people think it's a bad thing that a member resembles the pastor in the church as if they are brain-washed.
Like father like son. What is true in the natural is also true in the spiritual.
If you're a son of CHC, then you have to resemble the culture of CHC.
If you're not holding the value that your church holds, you are at best just a visitor/guest.
You can be staying in Singapore for very long but never be a Singaporean.
Singapore Ambassador cannot fight for you if you get into trouble in Singapore.

Phil 2:19-22
Timothy was a son.
Like-minded = same spirit = same style = same attitude = same mindset
It's easy to find a staff/a worker but very hard to groom a son.
A servant needs to be told what to do before he serves. e.g: domestic helper.
But a son does it out of his own willingness and love.


Timothy became a son by choice, by adoption.
Adoption is a two-way street. The parents can adopt a child, but at the same time, the child must also adopt the parents.
Timothy was prepared to do anything to serve the vision of Paul.

Being a son is not just about signing a membership form of a church, being water-baptized in the church.
But having the same genetic code and having the same purpose of the church in your life.

The house of God:
1. Place of Vision and Dream (Gen 12:7-8)
2. The Gate of heaven (Gen 13:1-4)
3. The Altar of God on Earth (Gen 28:10-19)