Apostolic FATHERS and SONS

By: randallmuse@hotmail.com

"POWER TO BECOME SONS"

Multiplied Blessings and Grace be to you from God the Father and the Lord

Jesus Christ.

Today I want to begin discussing with you more about my Apostleship and

my God-given desire to have more sons in the ministry, working along side

you, so that there will be no misunderstandings about what GOD is doing among

you through my Apostleship and Covenant father relationship toward you all.

I am going to use the Scriptures, which are the Final Authority, to show you why

I must continue to do what I am doing, and why the Spirit of God must continue

to do what He is doing through my spirit and my Apostleship, in Jesus' Name.

I have wanted to go on to other subjects in my writings to you to show you

that I am very able to teach you about many other deep things concerning

Salvation in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but the Holy Spirit keeps

impressing upon me to keep pouring understanding of the Apostle's ministry

deep into your spirits. The reason why the Holy Spirit keeps impressing upon

me to keep pouring these Truths into you is because God is making you into an

Apostolic People. While not all who listen to my message are chosen by God to

occupy the Office of an Apostle, it is equally true that God is calling the

entire Body of Christ to become an Apostolic People who will abide under the

Doctrine of the Apostles and will remain faithful to their Covenant fathers,

and will not leave them until God has completed sonship within them. Once

sonship is completed, the Apostle will still remain their Covenant father, but

the Spirit of God will allow access into greater arenas of the spirit realm to

rule over the powers and principalities of darkness, to those who remain in

submission to their Covenant fathers and do not go out into their own

ministries until the appointed time. An example would be like if someone among

you rises up with the Gift of a Pastor, you do not go out and start your own

ministry and start building your own congregation for the Lord, until you have

the full approval of your Covenant father. This is because God has equipped

Covenant fathers with the ability to fully train and equip the son, and to

know when is the proper time to send him or her out in ministry to fight the

Devil and the demons on their own, with the Apostle's FULL Covenant Blessing.

Those who go out and start their own ministries prematurely are like a child

who is born before pregnancy comes to the full nine-month term. The baby that is

born too prematurely will have a greater risk of losing its life. In the same

way, many who have gone out into ministry on their own too soon have caused

destruction to many people, because they were not strong enough to equip their

people to maintain constant victory, and after Satan's many attacks the

ministry eventually can fail.

1 Timothy 1:1 states that Paul was "an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the

commandment of God." If the Apostles are Apostles by commandment, to minister

to the Body of Christ, then it is equally true that the Body of Christ is

under commandment first of all to accept the Apostles' ministry, and secondly

to become an Apostolic People for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. An

Evangelist will give you equipment in the Spirit to evangelize the lost, a

Teacher will equip you in the Spirit to teach others, a Prophet will enable

"your sons and daughters" to "prophesy" (Acts 2:18), a Pastor will equip you

to shepherd your own soul first, and then to lead and protect others in a

deeper walk with their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but the Apostle will

equip you with the Greatest Grace of God and the Greatest Anointing of God the

Body of Christ could ever hope to receive through any other ministry Gift in

the Body of Christ on Earth today! An Apostle will equip the Body of Christ

with Apostolic abilities. The Apostle's Anointing will first of all enable you

to receive the depths of his or her knowledge deep within your own spirit

through his or her own spirit of understanding. So the Apostles will not only

teach great truths, but they will enable you to take those great truths and

make them your own, so that you can walk in Apostolic POWER, and wisdom, and

understanding.

1 Corinthians 1:23-24 states that the Apostles "preach Christ

crucified...Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God." When the Apostles

preach the Gospel, they preach and teach in a full demonstration of the power

and wisdom of God. This also means that the POWER and WISDOM of God come first

from the Apostle's ministry. On the Day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit had

first been poured out in this Pentecostal Demonstration of God's Apostolic

POWER after the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ, the first one to preach

and demonstrate God's wisdom and POWER was the Apostle Peter, who stood up

with the other 11 Apostles (Acts 2:14) and the result was that about 3,000

souls were added to the Kingdom. In this demonstration of POWER through the

Apostles' ministry on the Day of Pentecost, God was also teaching us that the

Apostle's ministry is also Anointed to be the strongest demonstration of POWER

to defend the True Gospel of our Precious Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. When

the Body of Christ is having its faith attacked, then the Apostles will rise

up in their greatest boldness, even risking their own lives, to protect God's

Sheep. The people were mocking the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the way

He was manifesting Himself on the Day of Pentecost. They began to say that the

Saints were drunk with wine. And just at that moment is when the Apostle

became very bold. The man who denied Jesus about a month and a half ago, was

now standing in the full demonstration of the POWER of the Gospel, as a True

Living Apostle.

It is very important for all of you to understand why the Apostle's wisdom and

power are so important to the Body of Christ. Apostles are Covenant fathers.

This means that God has equipped them with the ability to take Children of God

and babes in Christ, and turn them into sons and daughters. To be a son and

daughter means to outgrow childish things and to become full grown men and

women of God.

1 Corinthians 4:15 says that even "though you might have ten thousand

instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers." The Greek word used

in this verse that is translated "INSTRUCTORS" is "paidagogos". This means

that this type of instructor is a guardian and a guide of boys. He is not an

instructor of men, but of boys. That word in the Greek literally means "a boy

leader". This word was used to describe a servant whose office it was to take

the children to school. The Apostle Paul contrasts the difference between a boy

leader and a father, or an Apostle who has become your Covenant father.

Without the Apostles' ministry, the Body of Christ will never receive the

fullness of the wisdom and power of God necessary to become FULL GROWN sons

and daughters of God. I have heard some of you speak of my maturity of

teaching. This is because God has equipped me with the ability to be a

Covenant father who preaches father truths. There are many instructors in the

Body of Christ today who are teaching the Body of Christ vital truths, but

these truths do not have the Apostolic ability to cause Believers to inherit

the fullness of their Blessing. These are boy leaders teachings boy truths to

children. I am not putting down their ability to teach, and I am certainly not

putting down the Truths they have learned and teach others, but I want to tell

you that many are boy leaders or boy instructors in the Body of Christ, even

some Pastors are boy leaders teaching children of God truths that will never

enable them to fully know God and become full grown sons and daughters, and

many are in this condition today, not because they are not able to teach

father truths, but because they refuse to come into covenant relationship with

the Apostles. Many are boy leaders teaching boy truths because they don't even

believe in the ministry of a chief father in the Body of Christ, which is the

Apostle. So I do not speak to shame those who are boy leaders who don't

understand or know the Apostles' ministry, but I do speak to shame those who do

understand the Apostles' ministry who refuse to come into Covenant Relationship

with one. And there are some Pastors who will have congregations full of

children because they will simply refuse to believe in the Apostles' ministries

in these last days.

PART 2

POWER TO BECOME APOSTOLIC SONS

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I want to instruct you, brothers and sisters, and let you know that it takes

more than children working to destroy the works of the Devil! It takes more

than boy leader truths to resist the Devil and to make him flee or run away in

terror.

I want to tell you about a dream that a dear Brother in Christ had and told me

about today. In his dream, my wife and I were living with him and his wife in

a house together. In his dream he heard someone pounding very loudly on the

door. In his spirit he knew that this pounding meant that someone evil was

trying to get in to do some evil work. He told me to go see who it is, but in

the dream I told him to. He went to the door and saw that it was the Devil

himself pounding on the door. All of a sudden he started to rebuke the Devil

in Jesus' name, but fear stopped him. Then he saw me pleading the blood of

Jesus and quoting Scriptures to attack the Devil. All of a sudden the door was

blasted open against the Devil by the power in my words and the Devil

immediately ran away in terror. And then this precious Brother became very

bold, and he and I went chasing after the demons and looking for them, because

they were hiding in terror.

Even in my precious brother's dream, Satan is terrified of the character in my

spirit and my Anointing. My spirit and my anointing assisted that brother

during this demonic attack while he was sleeping. Satan is afraid of the

Apostolic father truths that are within me, but he is even more afraid of you

getting my father truths in your spirit, because he knows that your words will

have my spirit and my anointing in them and you will make him run away in

terror! You will chase after him and his demons, and he will hide from you!

So, as I am your Covenant father, you will not be boy instructors or

instructors of children teaching children truths, but as an Apostolic Anointed

People you will all possess my spirit and you will all be able to instruct

others with the power of father truths which are able to equip others with the

ability to become full grown sons and daughters of God who will inherit the

Fullness of the Apostolic Anointing, in Jesus' Mighty Name. Jesus is the Son

of God, not the Child of God! Jesus was a fully matured Son equipped with

father Truths. Hebrews 3:1 says that He is the Apostolic High Priest. The

Apostles are High Priests as Christ and Aaron in the Old Testament, but all

believers are Priests and Kings, and my Anointing is enabling you all to

become Apostolic Priests and Apostolic Kings who will gain their full

inheritance in Christ Jesus.

The word used in the Greek for father is "pater". One theological handbook

defines "pater" as the "generator (meaning source of power) or male ancestor:

the founder of a race or tribe". Blood of Jesus Ministries is a tribe in

spiritual terminology, progenitor of a people, a forefather: so Abraham is

called, Jacob and David; fathers, that is, ancestors, forefathers, founders of

a race; one advanced in years, a senior: the originator and transmitter of

anything --

1) the authors of a family or society of persons animated by the same spirit

as himself

2) one who has infused his own spirit into others, who actuates and governs

their minds

b) one who stands in a father's place and looks after another in a

paternal way (Jesus was the Covenant Father who sent Apostles or

other Covenant fathers to stand in His place to look after the Body of Christ

in a paternal way)

c) a title of honor

1) teachers, as those to whom pupils trace back the knowledge and training

they have received

2) the members of the Sanhedrin, whose prerogative it was by virtue of the

wisdom and experience in which they excelled, to take charge of the interests

of others

3) God is called the Father: by Jesus Christ Himself and by the apostles

John 1:12-13 states that "as many as received Him, to them gave He the right

to become children of God, (even) to them that believe on His name: who were

born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but

of God." I am sure now you can see why it is so vital for me to expand my

ministry and allow other sons into the Family of Blood of Jesus Ministries. My

sons are those who are chosen not by blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor

of the will of man, but of God, to become full grown sons and daughters, who

will in turn equip and train others to become full grown sons and daughters

who will have my spirit and will be able to teach these father truths, so that

Ephesians 4:11-16 can be fully realized and achieved by the Body of Christ,

through the spirit of all True Apostles in these last days. What John 1:12-13

means to the Body of Christ today and how it relates to the Apostles' ministry

is just this. That as many as receive me as their Apostle and Covenant father,

and agree to abide under my doctrines, as long as they will live peaceably and

assist with my sons in the ministry already, to them I give the right, the

authority, and the power of God to become my sons and daughters. The Scripture

says it is to them that believe on his name, meaning that this Covenant Right

is available to all who believe on the name of my Apostleship in Christ Jesus.

And the reason why I will accept them is explained in verse 13. Because these

sons and daughters are birthed into my Apostleship not by the will of flesh

(not by carnal or human natural desires), and not because men have chosen for

this Covenant Relationship to take place, but because their birthing into my

Apostleship is ordained and chosen by God.

"As many as received him, to them gave He the right to become children of God,

(even) to them that believe on His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of

the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."

You must all expand your spirits with me to receive AS MANY as will receive my

Apostleship, AS MANY as desire True and Peaceful Covenant Relationship, AS

MANY as will join hands with us and war against the powers of darkness in

America and all around the World. When you expand your spirits

with willingness to receive them, this makes room in the spirit realm for

God's purpose to birth them into my Anointing and Apostleship, and into

fellowship together with you, so that we can all combine our Anointings in one

accord and storm the Gates of Hell, destroying the works of the Devil

EVERYWHERE, in Jesus' Mighty Name.

"Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm (stay constantly focused on what God

is doing through my Apostleship toward you). Let nothing move you. Always give

yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in

the Lord is not in vain." [1 Cor 15:58]

PART 3

APOSTOLIC SONS

[I Jn 3:8]

8 "But when people keep on sinning, it shows they belong to the Devil, who has

been sinning (or has not stopped sinning) since the beginning. But the SON OF

GOD came to destroy these works of the Devil." [NLT]

To my Brothers and Sisters in Christ who are fellow soldiers, fighting the

Good Fight of Faith, who know their labor IS NOT IN VAIN.

I wasn't really sure what to call this message at first. On my notes I wrote

down the title: "Apostolic Saints: Ambassador's for Christ!" But to me it's

really the content that matters much more that what you label a thing. I

entitled this message "The Manifest Sons of God", because that's who we are in

Christ Jesus. The Greek word used to describe this spiritual "sonship" we

possess in Christ Jesus is "huios".

"Huios primarily signifies the relation of offspring to parent. It is often

used metaphorically of prominent moral characteristics. "It is used in the NT

of (a) male offspring, (b) legitimate, as opposed to illegitimate offspring,

(c) descendants, without reference to sex, (d) friends attending a wedding,

(e) those who enjoy certain privileges" (from Vine's Expository Dictionary

of Biblical Words)

(Copyright (C) 1985, Thomas Nelson Publishers)

As we are continually sanctified in Christ Jesus and increasing in holy

character and conduct, Romans 13:14 states that we are putting on the Lord

Jesus Christ, and making no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts (or

natural desires). The reason why sonship is being formed in us is ultimately

not so we can display marvelous works of power, but the purpose in having

sonship formed in us and putting on the character of the Lord Jesus Christ is

so that we may destroy "these works of the Devil" described in the beginning

of 1 John 3:8, which is the works of sin or the character of Satan. Even the

greatest power Jesus displayed was not merely for show, but to proclaim that

Jesus is the Supreme Authority so that trust can be placed in Him to redeem

them from the snares of sin and to take them off of the path of sin so that

they won't reach the destiny to which the life of sin leads. The wages of sin

to any man is still death, which ultimately leads to the death of eternal

separation from God and being tormented in the Lake of Fire, day and night,

forever and ever without end.

I believe that our destiny in this maturing process of having the completed

character of Jesus Christ continually formed in us is so that ultimately, the

works of sin will be eternally brought to an end. There is coming a closing of

this Age of the Mortal Church of Jesus Christ, and I believe that every act of

obedience, every newly understood truth, every true teaching and every true

proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ; whether a true teaching about

Apostles, Salvation, or any other known revelation of Scripture, is a step

closer to having the works of sin and the Devil eternally removed from this

Earth. This full removal will be completed at the end of the future millennial reign

of Christ, approximately one thousand years from now, give or take a generation.

God is going to close up the chapter of this Age of the Mortal Church with the

rapture of His Saints, and I believe every act of obedience brings us a step

closer to that Day. 2 Peter 3:12-13 says that we are not only LOOKING FOR, but

we are HASTENING (accelerating) THE COMING OF THE DAY OF GOD as each Saint

does their work in God's Kingdom, whatever the call may be.

In Ephesians 4:11-16, the Apostle Paul speaks about how we are arriving at

sonship when he says that, "HE IS THE ONE Who gave these Gifts to the Church:

the Apostles, the Prophets, the Evangelists, and the Pastors and Teachers.

Their responsibility is to EQUIP (arm) God's People TO DO His WORK and build

up the Church, the Body of Christ, until we become so united in our FAITH AND

KNOWLEDGE OF GOD'S SON (SONSHIP) that we will be mature (huios -- mature sons

conditionally & positionally, mature in the likeness and character of our

Father) and FULL GROWN in the Lord." Our Heavenly Father does not want us to

remain infants any more, He wants us to be "FULL GROWN in the Lord".

"MEASURING UP to the full stature of Christ."

The Greek word translated "stature" is "helikia" meaning "adult age". God

wants us to literally MEASURE UP TO THE FULL ADULT AGE OF CHRIST. Verse 14

goes on to say, "THEN we will no longer be like children." Sonship is being

produced and formed in us as we are being transformed into the image of His

Son. This process squeezes out immaturity in faith, character, knowledge and

conduct until we measure up to the full adult age of a Christlike man. Verse

15 goes on to say, that instead of being children, "we will hold to the truth

in Love, becoming more and more in every way like Christ...Under His

direction, the whole Body is fitted together perfectly. As each part does its

own SPECIAL WORK, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is

healthy and growing and full of Love."

The end result of sonship being formed in us is that the Body of Christ

becomes FULL OF LOVE!!!

PART 4

APOSTOLIC SONS (conclusion)

In Malachi 4:5-6 the Word of God says, "Behold, I will send you Elijah the

prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD. And he

will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the

children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse."

We know that the beginning of the fulfillment of Malachi 4:5-6 began in the

life of the Prophet, John the Baptist. Jesus said in Matthew 17:11-13, "Indeed,

Elijah is coming first and will restore all things. But I say to you that

Elijah has come already, and they did not know him but did to him whatever

they wished. Likewise, the Son of Man is also about to suffer at their hands.

Then the disciples understood that He spoke to them of John the Baptist." But

the process of the hearts of the fathers being turned to the children, and the

process of the hearts of the children being turned to their fathers, is an on-

going process as clearly revealed in the relationships that the Apostle Paul

had with other men of God.

In 1 Timothy 1:2 the Apostle Paul declares Timothy to be "a true son in the

faith".

In Philippians 2:22 Paul says concerning Timothy, "You know his proven

character, that as a son with his father he served with me in the gospel."

In 1 Corinthians 4:17 Timothy is Paul's "beloved and faithful son" who was

faithful in teaching the ways of his spiritual father as Paul had taught in

the Churches everywhere.

In 1 Timothy 1:18 Paul committed charges (gave orders) to Timothy as a father

to a son.

In Titus 1:4, Paul refers to Titus as "a true son" with "common faith". A

spiritual son is to share a common faith with their spiritual fathers.

In Philemon 1:10 Paul appeals to Philemon for his son Onesimus who was

begotten (won over to sonship) to the Apostle Paul while he was in chains

suffering for the Gospel. The word "begotten" comes from the Greek word

"gennao", which is a term used of a men who has fathered children. Onesimus

was not just made a believer in Jesus Christ, but Onesimus was literally won

over to the Apostle Paul's way of living. This process of fathering goes

beyond leading someone to and instructing them in Christ. A man can

biologically make a child and give the child instructions or advice (that may

not be followed), but Paul's begetting of Onesimus refers to a father who

lives as such an example before their children that the whole heart of the

individual has been won over to their way and example of living in Christ, so

much that he bonded himself to Paul in the faith as Timothy was to Paul,

becoming bonded servants together in the Gospel as a son with his father.

A father and son relationship in the Gospel goes far beyond what is meant by

the term "mentoring". To call my father my mentor would have little intimate

feelings for me. We don't cry out to God "Mentor, Mentor." We cry out to Him,

"Abba, Father." While a spiritual father is to never take the place of our

relationship with our Heavenly Father, our relationship to our spiritual

fathers should reflect the love of our relationship with Him.

A mentor in Webster's Dictionary is defined as "a trusted counselor or guide:

a tutor; a coach." Paul reveals the more intimate relationship that he had

with those who were considered his spiritual children in the following passage

of Scripture:

1 Cor 4:15

15 For though you might have ten thousand instructors (counselors, guides,

tutors, mentors) in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ

Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.

If we want curses to be removed off of this generation, we must get back, as a

Body, to the spiritual father to children relationships that God has ordained

through Scripture. We must press beyond mentoring to caring for our sons and

daughters in the faith as our very own children. We must consider those in

leadership not as political figures in the church structure, but rather as

spiritual mothers and fathers in Christ bound by love to instruct and lead us

by example in such a way so as to present us holy and safe in Christ Jesus.

"Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful

day of the LORD. And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts

of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse." [Mal. 4:5-6]

Sincerely yours in Christ,

Brother Randy Muse | randallmuse@hotmail.com

See also: Apostolic Fathering: "This Happened to Me!"

And "Apostolic Sons and Daughters in the Endtimes"


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