Fall 1973
True Sonship
Wade Taylor

There is much being said today about spiritual maturity and sonship. Yet results and change in lives is often elusive and many feel they can go on only if some new doctrine or challenge is placed before them.

In the beginning God said, “Let here be” . . . and it was. The Word of God was creative and produced substance.

In Revelation 3, the Laodicean church was proud and satisfied with spiritual gifts and enablings—“Because thou sayest.” The Word of the Lord to them was “Buy Gold tried in the fire.” God is looking for characteristics of the divine nature to be produced in our lives. Words are of no value unless they become creative and produce the image and likeness of Jesus Christ in our lives.

We live today in the Laodicean age. Multitudes are being filled with the Spirit. Programs to entertain those in the charismatic movement abound. Here and there is the faint voice of those going through the dealings of God; stripping away all that is carnal, earthly, those with vision to ascend into higher realms in God . . . those who desire to purchase Gold tried in the fire. It is not what we do, but what we become that is important. This must be understood else we fail to stand in the press of life.

This is the day of the Lord. Listen to the cry of the Spirit. “Rise up my love and come away with me.” There is a way available to those who have an ear to hear