The Way of Sonship: Anointed to Overcome

© Paul Mortimer 2020
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Dedicated to Melanie my best friend and greatest gift, heirs together of the grace of life

Revelation 21:7 (KJV) “He that overcomes shall
inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall
be my Son”

Contents

Foreword

I have had the privilege to know Paul for a number of years now and have seen how he has grown in his love for his Heavenly Father, friends, people and family around him. He like many of us has been on a faith journey that has taken perseverance mixed with the joy of the Lord and seen an incredible transformation in his life. I remember the testimony of his wife Melanie who remarked to me how much Paul has changed to become more like Jesus, a true reflection of the transforming power that is at work in us all.

This book, following on from “Inheriting Sonship” and “Revelation of Sonship” has incredible revelation and insight that has only come through spending hours in the presence of God whilst listening and following Holy Spirit. I believe that this book has amazing depth and rich insight into the culture and times into which Jesus was born, and an understanding of how relevant that is for us today. I know what it has cost Paul to write these books and the commitment and dedication taken to spend time before the Lord, sifting with the Holy Spirit what needs to be added and what needs to be taken away. The result is a book that will refresh you and through Paul’s writings help deliver your own personal revelation from God.

I highly recommend this book, and would recommend that when you read it you journey through it with the Holy Spirit as your guide, with an open heart and with an open mindset to understand more of what your Heavenly Father wants to release from within you.

Very Reverend Alan Dickinson OSL Senior Apostolic Leader: The Bay Church, Whitley Bay

Preface

In English, the word “educate” comes from the Latin “educere” which originally meant to bring up, rear or educate a child. Education is obviously a good thing, but it depends upon exactly who is doing the educating, where such teaching actually leads and what kind of child or son is raised or brought up. Because of the Fall, the natural fallen heart is under a veil. It can be educated but it cannot see, know or understand God unless of course God chooses to reveal himself. The word “revelation” comes from the Latin “revelare” which meant to uncover, disclose or unveil, “velare” being the Latin for veil. The teaching of natural man with natural words spoken with natural breath is education. Education is the head to head teaching of religion, it changes heads but cannot remove the veil that covers people’s hearts. The teaching of God with supernatural words spoken by the supernatural breath of God is revelation. Revelation is when God Himself does the teaching, heart to heart. He personally removes the veil and changes peoples hearts. John said in 1 John 2:27 (KJV) “But the anointing which ye have received of him abides in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, ye shall abide in him”. Inheriting Sonship is a series of three books that came by the revelation of relationship and not by the education of religion.

The Old Testament was written in Hebrew to those who were culturally Hebrews and ancient Hebrew culture was hugely different to our culture today. The Hebrews were a people for whom fatherhood and sonship were of primary importance. In Genesis, Abraham was described as a Hebrew and God chose Abraham out of his own father’s house for him and his heirs to receive from God a father’s blessing. It was this same blessing that was for all the families of the Earth, poured out on the Day of Pentecost. What was important to Abraham was important to God but with eternal significance of mind-boggling proportions. God chose, blessed and anointed men like Abraham and King David so that one day God Himself would be born as the man Jesus who would establish the blessing of God’s fatherhood for all – sons and daughters, the old and the young, the rich and the poor – indeed everyone. Just as wise miners prospecting for gold dig where gold can be found, an understanding of the cultural framework of the people about whom the Bible was originally written has a value of incalculable worth for those receiving within their hearts Jesus, the gold of God’s glory.

Within ancient Israel, Prophets, Priests and Kings were chosen by God to be anointed with fragrant anointing oil in the name of Yehovah God to give them overcoming power to accomplish His purposes not their own. The name of Yehovah was His behaviour, character or personality that was an expression of His eternal life’s breath or Holy Spirit. Prophets were anointed to speak the living word of God, priests were anointed to mediate and bring the blessing of God’s forgiveness and mercy, and Kings were anointed to bring the salvation of God’s overcoming victory. Those who were anointed did not have the power within themselves to accomplish God’s purpose. Unlike spoken words that die away in the ears of the listener, the fragrance of the anointing oil represented the authority of the blessing or grace of the continual presence and overcoming power of the sovereign word of the personality or almighty breath or Holy Spirit of Yehovah spoken over the anointed ones. The personality of God continually entered in to their own personality to enable them to achieve their sovereignly chosen purpose and destiny in God. In the same way, this book series “Inheriting Sonship” will enable you to receive the crown of anointing that reunites within your own life God’s Word with His Holy Spirit to empower you to overcome in life and to ultimately obtain the fulfilment of God’s amazing purpose for you. These books will show you that you can become a Son of God together with Jesus and through the presence of the life’s breath, or Holy Spirit of God’s fatherhood indwelling your heart, you can become the reflection and visible image of the invisible God just as His Is. Through that and together with Jesus, as a Son of God, you will be qualified to experience the First Resurrection and as such eternally inherit all things.

The first book in the series “Inheriting Sonship” is “Inheriting Sonship: The Blessing of Abraham and Anointing of Kings”. When Abraham the Hebrew told Terah his father that a god that Terah did not know told Abraham to leave his father’s house, to go to a far off land to be blessed and be a blessing, his father would have taken this as an unspeakable insult. It would have resulted in a cataclysmic eruption with a magnitude rivalling that of Krakatoa. It would have left his father in a state of bewildered frenzy and Abraham with ringing in his ears. This is because for the Hebrews, fatherhood and sonship were of primary importance and within their culture, a true son was the house of his father. This is because he was the image or reflection of his father, he bore witness or testimony to the blessing of his father’s name in the next generation of sons. This was that their hope of eternal life. They knew nothing of the relatively modern gospel of escaping hell and going to heaven when they died. The word sonship comes from the word “son” combined with the word forming element “-ship”. Sonship means the power, condition, action, quality, position, or mandate of a son that enables him to act as a representative and under the authority of his father. Someone bears the name the “Son of God” and occupies the office of “Sonship” when they become the visible image or reflection of the invisible God. This happens when they have a change of fathers, a change of heart, a change of life’s breath or spirit, and therefore a change of destiny. The personality of their life’s breathings or name is completely filled by a perfect knowledge of the indwelling presence and love of the eternal life’s breath, blessing or Holy Spirit of God’s fatherhood. This is the blessing of God as a Father upon Abraham, His adopted son. It was this blessing that was poured out upon the true Sons of God on the Day of Pentecost.

The second book in this series is “Revelation of Sonship: Judgement Day”. The biblical prophets spoke prophetically in Hebrew to those who were Hebrews. Their words were understood within the framework of their culture in which they spoke. The Book of Revelation was given prophetically by John and seen within the context of ancient Hebrew culture, the mysteries surrounding the eternal purposes of God and the Day of Judgement can be understood. Adam was the original Son of God. Although he was created from the dust of the Earth he held the glorious office of “Sonship” by his heart being personally filled by the life’s breath or Holy Spirit of God’s fatherhood. When Adam and Eve established the serpent’s lies as true within the breathings of their personality, they disobeyed God. They ate forbidden fruit and gasped out the life’s breath or Holy Spirit of God that indwelled their hearts. Being cast out of the paradise of Eden, they were no longer the “Sons of God”. They rejected a relationship with God and entered into a relationship with that which was good or evil, blessing or curse. They lost the title deeds of dominion upon the Earth and in the same way God lost the title deeds and His dominion within their hearts. They became “I am as god” puppet kings, subjects of the prince of the power of the air, the “I am as god” rebellious breath or evil spirit that is at work within the sons of disobedience.

The Book of Revelation describes in detail how the man who never sinned – Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Abraham, Son of David, and Son of God opens the seals of the title deed of dominion and Sonship originally given to but then lost by Adam. What has been sown must one day be reaped and the full extent of the catastrophic sowing of Satan’s words of lying breath or demons into their hearts, the loss of their dominion upon the Earth, and the loss of God’s dominion within their hearts and was not apparent. Before Jesus returns with his Bride or corporate Son or City of God to re-establish the paradise of God’s Kingdom upon the Earth, the Son of Destruction or ultimate sinner must first be revealed. Just as there were two trees in the centre of the garden of Eden, there are two different kingdoms, two different generational seed lines, two different hearts or personalities, two different sources of inspiration, two different ways of behaving, but three different destinies. Each kingdom has its own “Ultimate Son”, the Son of Destruction (or Antichrist) and Jesus, the Son of God (or Christ). It is the revelation of this Abomination of Desolation or Antichrist and his destructive kingdom, the opening of the seven seals, and the confrontation between these two Sons, Son of Destruction and the Son of God and their respective kingdoms that constitutes the Day of Judgement.

The Book of Revelation is an unsealed book that is meant to be understood. It was given by God to Jesus Christ, to show his servants that which must soon take place. To those who do understand it and take to heart what the Book of Revelation actually means there is great blessing because people live what they really believe. Death is temporary, resurrection is permanent. The heart that people die with they will rise with. Behaviour in life will become inheritance in resurrection and this is the basis of God’s Final Judgement. Those who live in relationship with what is good or evil, blessing or curse will be judged by that relationship and this will be the basis of God’s Judgement of the Great White Throne at the End of Days. God has a different destiny for those that He has sovereignly chosen to become the person of His Son. The Sons of God are the ones who are counted worthy to experience the First Resurrection, but in order for them to enter into that destiny and therefore inherit Sonship, they must first overcome.

The third book in this series is “The Way of Sonship: Anointed to Overcome”. In light of ancient Hebrew culture, this book explains what it means to walk with Jesus, to bear the name the “Son of God” and to truly overcome. It is commonly taught within the religion of tradition that what matters to God is beliefs or faith in what is traditionally taught: that because of the work of redemption, God is no longer interested in how people behave. It is clear from Jesus’ letters to the seven churches in the Book of Revelation that this is simply not true. As far as Jesus is concerned, the way people behave is what they really believe. People live from their hearts and not from their heads, the hearts that people die with they will rise with and there is no repentance in resurrection. In His letters, Jesus repeatedly used the words “repent” and “overcome”. Jesus said in Revelation 21:6-7 “It has been done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End; to him who is thirsting, I will give of the fountain of the water of the life freely; he who is overcoming shall inherit all things, and I will be to him—a God, and he shall be to me—the Son”. Within ancient Hebrew culture, the things people both said and did with the breath of their lives were their words. The collection of their words as they walked on the pathway of life were their ways, and the collection of their ways and everything else about them constituted their name. Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father except through Him. Those that are baptised or immersed into the name of Jesus will experience a change of Fathers and therefore a change of heart. They will bear the name the Sons of God by becoming the visible image or reflection of the invisible God just like Jesus Is. As the Father fills their hearts with His very own life’s breath or Holy Spirit, the Father will see His own image or reflection in the way the true Sons of God are inspired to behave.

The Sons of God will not be judged at the Judgement of the Great White Throne which follows the general resurrection at the End of Days. The wrong things that they do will not be openly declared at this Final Judgement for all the world to see but are a personal matter between Father and Son and dealt with by the corrective discipline of a loving Father, day by day as they walk through life together with Jesus. At the End of Days, the Sons of God will enter into the rest of God and experience the paradise of God’s fatherhood eternally dwelling within their hearts. Just as flames of fire have authority over anything flammable, the second death will have no authority over them because there will be nothing in their hearts worthy of God’s judgement fire. Their consciences will not condemn them because they did not live according to the flesh, but according to the life’s breath or Holy Spirit of God’s fatherhood. The outward sign or seal of their purity of heart was the worthy way in which the blessing of God had inspired them to live. Their behaviour in life will become their inheritance in resurrection. God was their behaviour in life, God will become their inheritance in resurrection. God will eternally reward these Sons of God with Himself. This is what it means to inherit Sonship.

These books came by inward revelation rather than outward observation. May the eyes of your heart be enlightened so that same revelation becomes yours and brings you blessings forever.
Paul Mortimer 2020

Prayer

Dear Jesus, you taught that behaviour in life will become inheritance in resurrection. I do not want to stand before the Great White Throne at the Final Judgement of Almighty God after the general resurrection at the End of Days and reap back from God the wrong things that I sowed during my lifetime. On that dreadful day I do not want to have all of my shame and secret sins exposed for everyone who ever knew me to see. Thank you that you embraced my identity as a self-centred sinner on the cross so that I do not have to reap such a bitter harvest. Please now change the nature of my heart and fill me with the life’s breath or Holy Spirit of the paradise of God’s fatherhood. Then, just like you, I will be able to overcome and inherit Almighty God dwelling within my heart forever. Amen.

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to Alan Dickinson for the Father’s anointing and crown of sonship upon his own life that changed my name and unsealed the scroll of my destiny. Thanks also to Ian Clayton for the gateways of encounter and opening my eyes to the glories hidden in the Hebrew scriptures. Thanks to Peter Wigglesworth for his help and advice, to all of my friends and family for their love and support and to The Bay Church, Whitley Bay for hosting the presence of God by establishing a culture of love and honour.

Please Note: Sons and Daughters

Within ancient Hebrew culture, daughters and sons were seen differently and had different roles within the community. The emphasis on sons was because a son established his father’s house, whereas a daughter was given away to establish the house of a different father. In our culture today we do not have that distinction and inheriting sonship applies to daughters just as much as sons. It is impossible to reconcile the cultural beliefs of the ancient Hebrews with modern culture and religious tradition but for those who are truly changed by the inspiring fatherhood of God from any age or culture, their behaviour will be the same. Scriptures are all from Young’s Literal Version unless otherwise indicated (KJV) from the King James Version. Scriptures in bold or text in [square brackets], the emphasis or comments are mine. Slight modifications to grammar have been made to make the text more readable, and the ending of some words such as “sayeth” have been changed to “says”.

1 John 2:27 (KJV) “But the anointing which ye have received of him abides in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teaches you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it has taught you, ye shall abide in him.

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