Copyright © 1997 Warren Litzman (Christ-Life Fellowship). From the booklet This Then is The Message Which We Have Heard of Him. Used by permission.
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This is The Message Which We Have Heard of Him Point One: The Eternal Plan
Unless you have a plan, you cannot have a purpose. So Almighty God, at some juncture, created a plan. It was in His mind -- and from His mind -- that He spoke the Word. He moved His hand and did the things that were necessary to bring about that plan.
The plan of God does not start with the creation of man in the Garden of Eden. It does not start with Adam. The plan of God starts sometime before that -- how long before that, we don't know. There was a time, in what we call the First Estate, when God had His house filled with children. However, every one of these children in His house was a created being.
Now, you must understand the difference between a created being and a child which is born into the family. Created beings were merely given a position or place in the Father's house. They were not birthed and did not have the Father's nature. In Isaiah 14:12, we see that God took one of these created beings and made a son out of him. The verse states that Lucifer was the "son of the morning." This was an awesome thing the Father did. He gave him authority, He gave him the inheritance, He gave him everything that He had and allowed him to operate His household. Because of this, the position he was given went to his head, and one day, he walked into the Father's house, told the Father that he was taking over the household, and told the Father to get out because he was going to rule.
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Well, of course, the Father was very upset. I don't know what He did, but the next thing we know, there was no Lucifer; one-third of all who were in the household, who followed Lucifer, were literally put out; and God had a house empty of true sons. Though He had angels, cherubims, and seraphims in His house, His house was empty of true sons.
It was at this point. that the plan of God came into motion for us, for at this point God said, "There must be a way that I can get sons who will be true sons to live in my house." We know this is so, because in John 14:2, Jesus said, "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you."
So the whole of God's plan centers around an empty house. If you don't see that, everything else you are seeing in Christianity may be incomplete, and you may be unable to put it all into focus. If you don't start where God starts in your understanding, you'll never end right. Most religion has started with our experience -- or its experience -- or some progenitor's experience and has failed to start with God's experience.
God's first experience with creatures was that they miserably failed Him. Because God is a Father-spirit and He wanted sons in His house, He placed, as a son, Lucifer, who could not and would not perform properly because he did not have the Father's spirit in him. Therefore, the Father had to put Lucifer out of His house. Deep down inside the Father is a desire to have sons just like Himself. And if you don't start at that point -- regardless of where you go to church, regardless of what your doctrine is, regardless of which Bible you use -- you're not going to end up right, because the whole plan of God starts with the fact that He has an empty house and with how He is going to fill it up. He's going to fill it up, not with sons who are created, not with those who come by religion, not with those who come by man's devices, but with sons who come by having been birthed by Him.
Copyright © 1997 Warren Litzman; used by permission. The Bible text in this publication, except where otherwise indicated, is from the King James Version. This article appears on the site: http://www.peterwade.com/.
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