SNT 1006 The Royal Household of God
God’s Dream Of The Ages: The Royal Household Of God Shows what Jesus Christ went through and accomplished in fulfilling God’s eternal purpose – the household of God. [February 24, 1980] SNT – 1006 Gen 3:23, 24; Mat 26:39; Joh 3:16; 2Co 5:21; Isa 52:14; Luk 23:44-46 Heb 9:7, 11-17, 23-26, 28; Mat 27:51; Joh 20:17 Joh 20:17; Heb 5:5, 6; Act 1:4, 5; Eph 4:8, 11-16; 1Jo 3:1, 2 Rom 12:3; 3:22; 8:1; Heb 9:14; Rom 8:37; Joh 10:10; 1Co 12:13, 14; Act 10:34; 2Co 5:19; Col 1:26, 27; Eph 3:19; Joh 14:12 Eph 2:3; 5:1, 6-10; 2Pe 1:3, 4; Eph 4:15, 23, 24; Joh 15:5; Col 3:2, 3 2Co 5:17, 18, 21; Rom 3:26; 1Co 1:30; 2Co 9:10; 1Co 2:7, 8; Col 1:27 1Co 2:8; 2Pe 1:4; 1Jo 3:2; Luk 10:17, 18; Act 4:1, 2, 15-20; 2:41-44 Act 9:31; 19:20 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- God’s Dream of the Ages: The Royal Household of God I have something burning in my heart tonight I’d like to share with you. It’s been in the process of jelling for some time, and it’s a piece of research that I’d like to open to you people here at this weekend. And the title that I’d like to put it under, the topic is: “God’s Dream of the Ages: The Royal Household of God.” The freedom of will to believe to receive is perhaps one of man’s greatest privileges. God started everything and gave man freedom of will. And He started everything with one individual – Adam – and, of course, his wife Eve. They, having freedom of will, chose not to follow. Then God, after an individual, got himself a nation: Israel. They, too, had freedom of will, and they did not succeed at carrying out the greatness that God had made available to them. And then, finally, God got a household: sons of God, men and women who have Christ in them, who have eternal life, that no matter how badly they blow it they still have eternal life because of their sonship. And it’s that household, as sons of God, that was God’s dream of the ages. In Genesis Chapter 3, we have a record of how God lost the first Adam in the G
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to God through His wonderful Son, Jesus Christ, who is the great high priest! Boy, what a record! That’s right! Look at the Gospel of John Chapter 20. John 20, verse 17 – a record that few people have understood, but you’ll understand it tonight. On the day of the resurrection appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ, Jesus said unto Mary, in verse 17; he said: John 20:17b …Touch me not; for [I’ve] not yet ascended to my [what?] {Father}:… And yet on that very same day he said to some of the apostles, “Look, here I am. Touch me. Put your finger into the prints in my hands, in the …thrust it into my side. Touch me. Then why did he say to Mary, “Touch me not”? Simply because he had to be the fulfillment of all law, and Jesus Christ’s appearance on what we refer to as Easter Sunday, the thing he had not yet done, he had not yet gone into the Temple to present himself, and that’s why Mary was not