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God's Two Families
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| Pastor, in your book, you talk about God's two families. | |
| Will you explain that to us? | |
| Yes, yes, yes. | |
| First of all, I think of Ephesians chapter 1, verse 9, and I'm going to paraphrase, but I'm getting very close to it, where it says, And now the mystery of his will has been revealed to us. | |
| That is, he is bringing everything in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Jesus Christ. | |
| And then when we get to Ephesians chapter 3, we hear Paul, he's praying, and he's talking about our Father from which every family in heaven and on earth derives their name. | |
| So we speak of the divine realm. | |
| We speak of, see, because before the garden fall, that what we know as the angelic realm was living, cohabitating, fellowshipping with the earthly realm. | |
| As Adam and Eve had their divine nature, but they gave it up by following the lie of Satan. | |
| That's when the fall of humanity happened. | |
| But prior to that, there was no veil of separation. | |
| But God says, I'm in the process of restoring that. | |
| I'm in the process of bringing that back together. | |
| I'm going to bring my two families that I created and gave my name to. | |
| Again, Psalm 82, he looks at the Elohim, the little E, and he says, have I not called you Elohim? | |
| Have I not called you sons of God? | |
| Have I not given you my name? | |
| Have I not given you something of my image? | |
| Then he creates Adam and Eve. | |
| I'm going to create them in our image as well. | |
| I'm going to do this. | |
| I'm going to give them something of that. | |
| I'm going to give them my names. | |
| By the time you get to the New Testament, what do we hear? | |
| John chapter 1, verse 12. | |
| And to those who believe in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to them he gives the right to be called sons of God. | |
| So you see, so you see, we get our Creator's family name when we come under the blood of the Son. | |
| We're adopted into the family. | |
| How much is that? | |
| I mean, Paul talks about that a lot, about being adopted into the family. | |