Know Your Divine authority and Identity In Christ
Ezra 2: Divine Authority and Identity
59And these were the ones who came up from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer; but they could not identify their father’s house or their seed, whether they were of Israel: 60The children of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, and the sons of Nekoda, six hundred and fifty-two;
They did not know their tribe or their history, or whose they were. They lost the knowledge of their father’s house (identity) and their seed (genealogy).
Fathers – H1 – awb- Head, Founder, Creator, Originator, of Family or Clan
House – H1004 – bayith – Family in a house, descendants, Temple
Seed – H2233 – zehrah – offspring, male reproductive fluid, descendants, posterity
Moral Quality – practitioner of righteousness
Brothers and Sisters in Christ, know the creator of your family clan, of your temple. Know the origins of your righteousness!
Romans 8:29 –For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
2 Corinthians 5:21 – For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
61And of the sons of the priests: the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Koz, and the sons of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite (Gibeonite), and was called by their name.
Joshua 9 The story of the Gibeonites deceiving Joshua and the Princes of Israel at Gilgal
Know Your Divine Authority
62These sought their listing among those who were registered by genealogy, but they were not found; therefore they were excluded from the priesthood as defiled. And the governor said to them that they should not eat of the most holy things till a priest could consult with the Urim and Thummim.
Registry – H3791 – keh-hoon-naw – divine authority – They had no divine authority
Polluted – H1351 – gaw-al – defiled, stained, desecrated (as removed from the priesthood)
Ephesians 5:27 – that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
They had a stain and had no divine authority and no lineage amongst the creators chosen. They could not to be a part of the priesthood.
Jesus is coming for a Church without spot or wrinkle, pure and holy. We must know who we are in Him and that we are adopted (Ephesians 1:5) into his family. That he is the firstborn among many brethren (Romans 8:29). We are grafted into (Romans 11:11-31) the root of Jesse (Isaiah 11:1). The Church must know that our righteousness is of Him and Him alone and not of ourselves (2 Corinthians 5:21).
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