It might interest you to know
that various religious or civilized mindsets have robbed believers of coming
into stature (Eph. 4:1) much more than armed and unarmed robbers have robbed
men and nations of their earthly good till date.
What else can I say but that flesh and blood could not have revealed this but our father who art in heaven, who has resolved to end the prevailing grassy state of man (Isa. 40:6/1Pet. 1:24) and thereby reproduce many Christ-dominated believers (Heb. 2:10) in his church.
Like I once found grace to say, ‘THE TRUE CHRISTIAN FAITH IS GRADUALLY BEING UNMASKED’.
Graceful reading!
Non-Negotiable Counsels of God's Kingdom - Part 9
Often times when we hear the word
‘Kingdom’, what comes to our mind is rulership or dominion because of the way
natural kingdoms are arrayed and this beclouds our minds against God’s order of
kingdom. Of a truth, we will judge angels by reason of growth, but the kingdom
is a place of service. All who have entered the kingdom are servants in their
categories and the greatest servant is our Lord Jesus Christ.
When Apostle Paul said, ‘I being
less than the least of all saints (Eph. 3 vs 8)’; that is a pedigree in
the Spirit. It is not easy to become less than the least because it takes a lot
of stature. When you get to the foundation of the city in the world to come
(Rev. 21:14), you will see the name of the 12 apostles there and realize Peter
the Apostle is not his name. The operation he got from God will form part of the
foundation of the city, because of his height of meekness. Apostle Paul’s
letters were mighty but his appearance was weak.
When Apostle Paul made that statement in Eph. 3:8, he was probably the holiest man on earth. The least of us all is our Lord. Why? Because He did what no nobody could do. Though He was God, He thought it not robbery to be equal with God but He took upon Himself the form of a servant and humbled Himself (Phil. 2:5–8). Descending from the throne was humility but Jesus went further by humbling himself to the point of death, even the death of the cross therefore becoming the greatest servant amongst men.
It takes stature to be a servant because it is not common
among men. When you tell a servant to go and wash a car, it is nothing to him
because that is his job. But when you tell a king to go and wash a car and he
does so, that is something new.
The sower in Matt.13:24–30
sowed good seeds which is the seed of the kingdom and it is only God that has
good seeds. No man is good but God. These are the seeds He gave the Son and
grew the Son with. So he planted seeds in the field and when the servants went
to check, they saw another plant growing alongside the seed which the enemy
planted when men slept.
Our weakness is our slumbering, not physically sleeping because that is God’s provision. When the Bible says, ‘God neither sleeps nor slumbers’, it means there is no time He responds to death. Sleeping and slumbering are expressions of death. We still have places in us that we are asleep, places where we are not fully awake to the Lord and Satan takes advantage of us and plants his seed
The tare and the wheat look alike; you can never differentiate them. The tare can camouflage and bring something that look like the kingdom but it is not. The master later said, ‘leave them until the end of the age when we will know the difference’. When they are fully ripe, the wheat will bow because of weight (truth) but the tare will stand upright because it has no weight on it.
The kingdom of God is not a place
for exercising authority like the gentiles do but a call to responsibility and
service. Rev. 22 :3 therefore says “The throne of God and the Lamb will
be there and their servants shall serve them”. When throne comes, service has
come.
By the time the apostles’ began to write epistles, what
was foremost in their greetings was their servanthood not even their apostolic
office. So an Apostle Paul would declare himself as a bond servant/prisoner
and apostle of Christ (Eph. 3:1). An Apostle Peter would say ‘Simon Peter, a
servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ’ (2Pet. 1:1). The disciples of Jesus
started their ministry as apostles but after a while, they became servants.
What was sustaining their apostolic power and grace was their servitude.
No man can out-do Jesus in serving. Some people are saying, ‘Lord, I have been serving you for long, what is my reward?’ If God should show you a little of how much service He has rendered to you, you will be shocked. Can you go to the cross? That is why after we finish our service for God on earth, we should be willing to say ‘we only did what we are asked to do and are unprofitable servants’ (Lk. 17:10). The reason is because we did not manufacture service but were taught by him and so we have no boast.
What makes us want to exercise authority is that old man
– Satan. The kingdom emanates from the womb of the morning (Ps. 110:3); that is
where all of them dwell: The Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost and others whom
abundant entrance has been administered to (2Pet. 1:11)
In Jn. 3, Jesus began to speak to Nicodemus about another
womb of the Spirit how a man can gain entrance into that womb, which is the
womb of the morning. There are no old men there; all of them are children. The
greatest of them is the Father. His is the freshest baby! That is the secret of
immortality. It is in the womb of the Morning that you can get that dew.
The reason Jesus has the strength
to serve is because of the dew of His youth (Ps. 110:3). It took some unusual
strength to die on the cross. Such strength was because of the dew of His youth
so Jesus is telling us that we can access the womb of the Morning just as a
child accesses nutrition from his mother through an umbilical cord
The process of converting a man into a baby is beyond
man. The conversion is not in the physical body but in the soul, though your
body will also come into it subsequently. From eternity to eternity, Jesus will
still remain as young as He is right now and the reason for that is because of
the dew He gets from the womb.
Matt.
18:3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as
little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Lk. 22:32 But
I have prayed for thee (Simon Peter) that thy faith fail not: and when thou art
converted, strengthen thy brethren.
When you get to the gate of the kingdom, there is a
required size because is a very tiny gate. It is not that is tiny, it is just
that it does not give entrance to people that have the stature of flesh. Their
members will not be able to enter that is why He says, ‘If your hand causes you
to offend, cut it off’, because the path is narrow.’
What Jesus did was an impossibility to man’s thinking.
For the creator to stay in Mary’s womb for nine months, that was because they
(the Godhead) are used to wombs. Such is their dwelling place. Children don’t
refuse when asked to carry out a task. It is only when corruption has worked on
such a child that he would behave otherwise.
What kind of being is the trinity for the creator to be
serving creatures? We can understand when a creature is serving his creator but
it’s a mystery for the creator to serve the creature. At age twelve when Jesus’
parents came to look for Him, He said, ‘Do you not know I should be about my
Father’s business?’ He (the creator) followed them and submitted to them for
another eighteen years. He carried woods for them and washed clothes for His
younger ones and that was why they could despise Him. Jesus had to veil himself
to them.
After His resurrection, He would
have gone to Pilate and proved to him that He was the King of the Jews, but He
did not. Apart from His stature, another reason why angels worship Him is
because of what He did, which they cannot do it. THE KINGDOM IS A CRUCIFIED
LIFE.
Bless You!
Pastor Danladi Hassan
VGC Lively Stones Fellowship
27th April, 2014
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