Living in the Invisibles Part 4: Sons of God, Faith & Being Clothed in Christ

The law stands up and says, “I can’t justify you. Try next door. And if you’d like me to, I’ll take you there myself.” But now that faith has come, the revelation of faith has come…and faith has come. And we’ve got a time situation right there, don’t we? We are no longer under somebody who “takes us next door”. We are now next door. For you are sons of God. By going back to Abraham, who welcomes you, you have become his son and daughter. And in so doing, you have also become sons and daughters of God. And it all boils down to “faithing” Jesus Christ.

And yes, sisters and brothers, you’ve got another invisible. I don’t want one of you to look like God’s son. You, brothers, need to comb your hair, shave, put on some decent clothes, and stop sitting around on the floor here like a bunch of heathens. Get dressed up nice, and you might look a little better than you do. You still won’t look like a son of God. You might fool somebody. I really want you folks somewhere along here in this adventure you’re about to go out on…I don’t know how you’re going to do it…I’ll come back and join you in this thing…but somewhere along the line, you’ve got to start seeing one another a little lower than Jesus Christ’s relationship to the Father, but very little lower…sons of God. That makes you divine creatures, daughters of God. To see what cannot be seen.

Audience: Yes, here says you are all sons of God, addressing every one of us here. All of you who were baptized in Christ.

Okay. So, he says, “You all,” Oh brother, I really appreciate that. I missed that completely. For you are all sons of God. Here’s not only the invisible, but the corporate all in one nice, beautiful verse. Okay.

Well, saints, this is interesting. Holy ones, this is interesting. What lives in St. Cloud? Wow, that must be some place. I’m dead serious. Hey, listen. Listen. Go ahead and laugh, but listen, think of it that way. St. Cloud is where the sons of God live. And just…forget your geography. This is an honorable place. St. Cloud is where God’s sons live. You are all sons of God. That’s for this person that’s in this room that we also cannot see. What is this person? There is a son of God here. By the way, he is also a daughter of God. Sisters, I am very sorry for the language, but don’t feel left out of this. Just like the word mankind, you know, it’s not a good word. But you sure lose a lot when you say “man-womankind”. It just doesn’t quite fit. Yeah. And this son is a girl who is also invisible.

Boy, this is getting better and better and better. If we can find some handles to…you all need to…I don’t want to use the word pray, but y’all need to, in twos or fours or all the sisters…and I don’t want you to sit in a chair… get up close to one another and covenant these things again. Go back to the covenants and stand there with Abraham and accept that covenant and stand at the cross. By the way, the crucifixion took place very near here, remember? You might even want to designate a place, go out there, stand there, become part of that covenant, and take a place. Take a place where you are sons of God and remind Paul and the Lord that you’re not Jews. You’re heathen, but you’re still sons of God. And you’re not circumcised. You’re still sons of God. Don’t just do this lightly. And you could spend months, years, maybe the rest of your life, but make these things holy and real. Would you find a way to do this? Would you? Do more than just let this pass by.

Church…one human being… reenact these things together and then stand in them, live in them, declare them, and don’t back down from them. And don’t be ashamed or embarrassed if you talk like a bunch of idiots. The sons of God live here.

Audience: And all creation’s been waiting for it.

That’s right. We might as well let creation stop waiting, for creation’s sake. It groaned and yearned in childbirth that it might see the sons of God. Alright. Waiting for you, brother. If we drop space and time, we can speak this way. I know. Well, we don’t want to know the first century. No. Forget that. We stand in the invisibles, and we go back to whoever’s the first ones, and let’s stand there and say creation, you may stop groaning now. We have arrived. You don’t have to be in the 20th century. Go back…you’ve already been welcomed by Abraham. So if you show up at his doorstep and say, “Hey Abraham, you remember the day of this covenant?” “Yes.” “Well, do you remember welcoming us here?” “Yes.” “Well, let’s get this together, Abraham, with you.” If you want to go to the cross, to the resurrection, if you want to stand before creation and say, “Creation, something new has just happened. Jesus Christ has died and risen again, and look what came up: us – the sons of God.” You may stop your groaning. Will y’all do that? Will you allow yourselves to be liberated from the present? You were foreseen. So just go ahead and “back see”.

Audience: It’s a mind-blowing thing.

It is, sister. But you know, it just might do something to us if we do that. I think there’s a chance it might affect your life profoundly. Do you agree? Thank you, sister. I have one “amen”. Can’t y’all say amen? You got a mouth. If this will not affect you, forget it. Forget it. Go join the Muslims.

Audience: You know, Bernice and I have a little bit of a hard time saying that we are holy, but it’s really easy to see that Donna and Rebecca are holy. But if we say that Donna and Rebecca are holy, then we’re saying this corporate body is holy. And remember, Bernice and I are in there.