Response to “Hidden With Christ”
Ken McWilliams
Editorial Note: We suggest reading the article “Hidden With Christ” on the Books and Articles page of this website
to more fully appreciate this response.
I just finished reading your article “Hidden With
Christ” for the second time, and I have found a depth in it that I didn’t
realize through the first reading.
Yes, I think that many who are proclaiming the “sonship”
movement may have a misperception of it due to carnal thinking. I think
at this present time, we have to keep in mind that this is not an ego trip, but
a journey of servanthood. As Jesus said: "...But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and
whoever would be first among you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man
came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for
many.” (Mat. 20:26). Paul writes about a child growing up in a family,
and prior to his pronouncement of being a son, or adoption, known as huiothesia, he is no more than a slave/servant and governed
by the same – even though he is a son! As such, we, too, are to follow
this same path until God in His perfect timing proclaims us to be His
son. Through this process, we have come to know the true nature of our
creator/God, because Paul tells us that; “…all things are of
God…” (2 Cor. 5:18). When this becomes our
reality, it does not develop an arrogance within us,
but a humbling wherein where we cry out from our deepest being “Abba,” Father!
This is
the “bottom line” in our calling and election in Him. We shall be gods as
the Psalmist wrote, and as Jesus told the Pharisees, yet if we let this go to
our head (carnal mind) in the form of pride, it makes us unfit to rule with Him
as Kings and Priests. God in His infinite wisdom knew this and laid out
the plan for us to be Overcomers of carnality through GRACE and acquiring the
knowledge of Him through the “hard knocks” of this mortal/physical life. Ahhh! How true it is as Paul wrote: “We
have this treasure in earthen vessels…” Yes, most definitely, it
is truly wonderful about this treasure within our vessel, but He also, knew
that until our “gold” is refined in His purifying fires, we would not yet be
perfected. Thus, as we are exposed to and through the refining fires, we
come to the realization that this treasure must be refined so: “…that
the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.” (2
Cor. 4:7). Thus, we can see the power and excellency
of God, but without the “I” of our carnal ego, or the Adamic
nature.
For me, I long for the
revealing of the sons of God (G602 – apokalypsis), in
order to lay down mortality and to receive immortality through the Spirit.
Yet, I’m still learning that it won’t be on my terms, but the total
yielding up to His wonderful pre-ordained conditions.
“Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither
have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them
that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the
Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the
deep things of God. For what man knoweth the
things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even
so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit
of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit
which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of
God… we have the mind of Christ. (1 Cor.
2:9 – 12, 16B).
Isn’t He
wonderful!!
“Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.” (Psa.
139:6).
“For unto
us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon
his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The
mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”
(Isa. 9:6).
Be blessed,
Ken McWilliams