BIBLICAL BRIEFS 90
All people born of the first human being, Adam (1Cor. 15:45), in other words, everyone who has a belly button, has the devil as father (Rom. 5:12), and was born with the nature formed through the seed of the serpent (Gen. 3:15; Matt 3: 7; 13:38; Acts 13:10). It’s a horrible reality, but unfortunately, it’s true, even of new-born babies (Job 14: 4). Jesus describes this as follows in John. 8: 44: “Your father is the devil, and you do exactly what he wants. He has always been a murderer and a liar. There is nothing truthful about him. He speaks on his own, and everything he says is a lie. Not only is he a liar himself, but he is also the father of all lies.” In this light, it is clear why it is of such importance that a new priesthood of fathers are able to father us to understand God the Father. Satan managed to achieve something terrible with the fall of man – he removed us from the heart of the Father, and it has inflicted all people with a fatal father wound. It even happened to Jesus on the cross. Remember: Jesus IS God (John 10:30) – His Father cannot leave Him, but exactly this was Jesus’ experience: “At the ninth hour, Jesus cried out in a loud voice, ‘Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?’ which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” “(Mark 15:34). As a result, all of humanity has sustained a terrible wound due to the fall, especially by the expulsion from the Garden of Eden (Gen. 3:24). The word “expel” in the original language means “expatriate or divorce, to be tossed, to be thrust out”. Man’s original unification with God was now deprived of him, and he was torn away from the Father’s bosom by the power of sin, with consequences worse than that of an atomic bomb. This left man alone and caused a corporate wound of the orphan within him. Also take into account that the Hebrew word means “divorce,” which also causes man to be in the state of loneliness or widowhood. Thus, man inherited the spirit of the widow and the orphan. Job 4: 19-21 (accurately) spells out the desperation of man’s defencelessness aptly: “‘How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth! Between morning and evening they are broken in pieces; Unobserved, they perish forever. Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, yet without wisdom.” A handling of the spirit of the orphan and the widow WITHIN YOU is absolutely essential for access into the Body of Christ, where you can learn fatherhood and sonship. The history of Elijah, in particular, teaches us that the condition for receiving your spiritual authority and mantle is that you deal adequately with the spirit of the widow and the orphan. It is often also one of the most important spiritual roots causing depression.
Dr Tom Gouws
