Non-Negotiable Counsels of God's Kingdom - Part 16

Dearly Beloved,

The following transcribed message remains simple, religiously-unfriendly and fearful. I must confess that it takes Esther’s kind of resolve to manage the sophisticated distractions that abounds today and then fulfil the glorious destiny articulated in the New Testament

The Law of Truth remains perfect, sure, pure, clean and to be desired more than gold. A generation is being groomed by such law; their hearts are beginning to rejoice, their eyes are being enlightened and their souls are being made childlike.

I trust you would find grace to openly tarry with this weighty ministration that promises to hasten the pace at which believers would be redeemed from among men (Rev. 14:4)

Graceful reading!

Non-Negotiable Counsels of God's Kingdom - Part 16

Matt. 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:

Before a man can escape destruction and enter a dominion different from that of Babylon, he needs to gain the incorruptible life. Babylon is a custodian of destruction (i.e. corruption). Babylon is a harlot (Rev. 17) because she fornicates with powers to trap souls on earth so that people will do her will instead of doing God’s will. So carrying out Babylon’s commandment turns you into a corruptible fellow.

For you to enter the kingdom, you need to sight it first. Jesus needs to treat your eyes and raise your judgment through revelations of righteousness (Rom. 1:16). You cannot know a false person except the eyes of your understanding are enlightened.

When the eyes becomes single, the body (i.e. soul) will be full of light and that is when you will be enabled to locate the narrow and unpopular way. It doesn’t seem good to men but when your eyes are healed, you will be able to differentiate between the false and true way.

Jesus was simply saying that the gate to the kingdom is not something that a sheep can find on its own. The broad way and the narrow way represent two trees: tree of Life and the tree of death (i.e. knowledge of good and evil). These two trees also represents two kinds of prophets: the true prophet and the false prophet. What makes a prophet false is that he propagates a life that is apart from the fruit of the tree of life, which is Christ. Every man has the nature of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, therefore every man’s judgment is corruptible (Mat. 7:15).

These gates leads to a two destinations; unto life, and unto destruction. Gates can be men. The gates to destruction are human beings that have trapped corruption and would not let it go. What is responsible for corruption is the EVIL EYE (Matt. 6:21-23). This is the door to the soul and this is what has hindered many believers from entering the kingdom.

The evil eye is the eye that is turned away from God towards self through the cares of this life (Matt. 13:22/6:25-33). A man cannnot escape corruption that works lust (2Pet. 1:4) except His eyes are properly treated. 

A time is coming when the gate to destruction will be widened and made more popular, but thank God that Jesus also said that few will still find that unpopular way. One thing that is very prevalent here is that these gates (of life) are many. Jesus will send His men to His people, men who will be gates to the kingdom, not gates of hell. He would have purged them of corruption, and they will not preach this world, but they will preach Him. That is how you to know true prophets.

True prophets do not preach this world; they preach Christ. They are teachers of the kingdom and they open the gate for men to pass through them into life. True prophets will not hold people down; rather they stand as gates whom men will pass through to arrive at the dominion of the Father. Likewise, the gates of evil will not hold people down but lead people to Satan (i.e. destruction)

Mat. 7:16-20  Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.  A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

A good tree is a gate that is narrow (Christ). It is Christ in men; men embodied in Christ. An evil tree is a corrupt tree. A corrupt tree is a worldly tree; it has corruptible ingredients of the world in it. This tree will lead a man to destruction. Jesus admonishes, ‘do not enter the road that this tree propagates because it professes death.’

Jesus is saying here that in these last days, there will be many trees of life and there will be many trees of death (Mat. 7:20) and they’ll be known by their works. If their fruit is worldly, it reveals that they weren’t sent.

Matt. 7:22-23 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Every child of God will be faced with iniquity because iniquity is looking for those who will do her pleasure. Iniquity is that which stands against the father’s desire. Its not just the obvious sins people commit, its any desire, passion, idea, intention, plan, ambition that seems right according to human wisdom but is totally contrary to divine interest. Many cooperate with iniquity all their lives because deeper dimensions of iniquity has an appearance of good. Iniquity could be very logical and legitimate but harmful to the soul

For example, God’s intention for a man could be for that man to seek and know Him, but the man by his own human calculation would think that knowing God is not enough. He would begin to think of building a big cathedral for the Lord, or some other big project. Building a cathedral for the Lord is not a bad idea, but it may not be in the plan of God for such because it will not work out the salvation of God in his life. INIQUITY IS IN THE SIGHT OF GOD IS THE ACT OF TAKING THOUGHTS (Matt. 6:25) CONTRARY TO THE WILL OF THE FATHER

SUCH PROJECTS SOILED WITH INIQUITY ARE ALWAYS VERY MAGNIFICENT BECAUSE THE PURPOSE OF ITS EXPANSION IS TO STEAL THE PLACE OF THE WILL OF GOD. Iniquity is enlarged so that the Father would be denied of pleasure. There are things that appeal to the flesh and those are the things that iniquity magnifies before us.

What will make a soul hate the world is the opening of the eyes of his understanding. When your eyes have been flooded with light, you would receive the ability to discern the world. Fellowship with the world weakens us from running with God’s projects. The more a soul is seduced by the world, the more empowered he would be to SEEK THE WORLD and the weaker he becomes to SEEK GOD. God wants to blind the eyes with which we lust after the world so that we can carry out his will.

Many can see the world, its name and its elevations. They know the pride of life and they pursue it. Such men cannot go ahead to be good trees because of what they are beholding. They can see so much, and they would not want to give it up. God becomes little before them, and there is nothing in Christ that can be compared to the exaltation which they see in Babylon.

Satan steals might and strength from people by giving them a vision. He gave the Lord a vision on the mountain of temptation. He spoke to Eve and she began to see things about the forbidden tree. Such temptations are usually enticing. Jesus could have gone for it, but He called Himself back.

You cannot enter the kingdom except you are purged of the corruption that works through lust. What makes us lust after things is the corruptible seed we carry and it must be totally destroyed by the incorruptible seed programmed in God’s will. God’s will is called the meat of God (Jn. 4:34) and this is the instrument that would get our souls born again (1Pet. 1:23/Jn. 3:5-6)

The word of the kingdom is the incorruptible seed which the Lord referred to as the seed sown by the sower. The seed has two natures or commandments: It lives and then it abides. When you finish doing the word (walking), you will abide forever (rest).

1Pet. 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

1Jn. 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

1Jn. 2:17 describes the end of the nature of the word after it has been sown in a soul. If the word abides in you, you will abide. The reason for faith is so that we may have life and live thereby, but afterwards, we will not just live, we will also abide, which is a higher dimension.

Abraham LIVED by faith, but after his experience on Mount Moriah, he went on to ABIDE at Beersheba where he planted the groove. Abraham began to abide; he was not moving out of Beersheba. It was there he divided the inheritance because he learnt both to live and abide.

John 15:10 If ye keep my commandments (i.e. live), ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept (i.e. lived) my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

Love makes the soul to abide. By faith, you learn life, you acquire life, and by love, you abide.

From Eph. 1:3-6, we can see here that the blessings referenced in verse three will make you experience verse four (i.e. being made holy and without blame). It will take all the spiritual blessings in heavenly places to be made holy and blameless before Him in love. If there are heavenly places, it means each place has a purpose. All the blessings in heavenly places are supposed to be a download for complete holiness i.e. divine empowerment

The reason why they call God ‘Holy, holy, holy’, three dimensions of holiness, is because our Father is so blessed. You can call blessings virtues. The good news is that He is bringing us into the very thing that separated Him from creatures. God wants to give us the blessing of the character of His holiness.

The holiness of God is not rules and regulations, but a separation from the world. Holiness is a status above corruption and darkness. It is an immunity against corruption because to be holy is to be made whole and to be blessed as God is, and that must be in love. God’s holiness is in love. It is God’s obedience to the law of love (highest love) that keeps Him on the throne. The separations of God flows from His love nature. To say that God is love and to say that God is holy both mean the same thing.

Spiritual blessings in heavenly places include the total package of blessing, first of all in the wisdom of God. Anyone who is wise is holy because wisdom comes from that holy place and is a holy thing. We have been predestined before the foundation of the world unto the adoption of children and that means our destiny is to be adopted as children.

Adoption and glory are the same. The word ‘adoption’ means to receive; it speaks of a time when God will finally take responsibility over a man as father (Heb. 12:9). That is when according to Matt. 3:17, He will fully declare to the universe ‘this is my son’, but we must be set apart first. You need the dews from heavenly places to fall on you to make you as white as snow

God takes pleasure in beings that have come into that state of adoption of children; they are the givers of pleasure to the Father.  In Eph. 1:5, reference to adoption of children is made because one can’t please God except those who have attained this childlike state; they who can generate pleasure to Him, such are the sons of God.

One of the things that the will of God does is that it trims you down. It trims down your haughty height and makes you innocent, unable to do anything without the Father (Jn. 5:19). It will take a child to do what the Father wants. These are not just children, they are sons (Matt. 3:17) because they will have maturity to carry out the will of the Father, even to the minutest detail. They will also be innocent about the will; they will neither touch that blueprint nor add to it, because they are holy.

TO BE A CHILD IS TO BE HOLY, PURE AND WISE. The more a pleasurable being you become to God, the meeker you are, until you attain the stature of the least or meekest (Matt. 18:4). That is a place of power.

A who has become a little child is one who can arrive at His presence and touch His pleasure because in His presence is fullness of joy, and the things at His right hand are pleasures forevermore (Ps. 110:4/Heb. 7:17). When a man gives God pleasure, he too will enjoy pleasure (Ps.16:11).

No man who has not brought the Father pleasure will come into the kingdom of God. The kingdom is a world of God’s pleasure where both God and man are pleasured because in pleasing God, man comes into the pleasure zones of divinity. This pleasure is not just for a while but forevermore.

No wonder Jesus faced the cross with joy (Heb. 12:2). Can you endure many things (sufferings) when you know that pleasure is awaiting you? This pleasure is encapsulated in His will, and that is what births us into the world of God’s pleasure.

Bless You!

Rev. Kayode Oyegoke

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