Dearly Beloved,
- It
may interest you to know that when the Lord Jesus commenced his public
ministry, his message had one thrust, THE KINGDOM OF GOD. It may also challenge
you to know that during the 40 days after His resurrection, the thrust of the
Lord’s message remained THE KINGDOM OF GOD. This weighty subject therefore demands
much more attention than the Church has accorded it.
Act 1:3 To whom also he
shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of
them forty days, and SPEAKING OF THE THINGS PERTAINING TO THE
KINGDOM OF GOD:
- The
question the Church today needs to critically consider is ‘how much of our ministrations SPEAK OF THINGS PERTAINING THE KINGDOM?
God revealed himself to the Patriarchs, Prophets/Sons of men via various names,
but yet remained veiled! He could only fully unveil himself/his true
name/person/essence to the Son, Christ Jesus, who now yearns to unveil the
Father to the True Church! Heb. 1:3/
Exo. 6:3 And I appeared
unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, BY
THE NAME of God Almighty, but by
my name JEHOVAH was I not known to
them.
(i.e. these were two revelations of the
many names of God unto men that such faithful ones could embrace in their day,
but neither did unveil the actual person/name/identity of the Father)
Jn. 11:27 All things are
delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knows the Son, but the Father; NEITHER KNOWS ANY MAN THE FATHER, SAVE THE SON, and he to
whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
(i.e
to inherit the fullness of God/reign with him in the world to come, we must
KNOW THE FATHER/BEAR HIS NEWLY REVEALED NAME IN/THROUGH HIS SON = REST!)
The following
transcribed message attempts to pay homage to such.
Graceful reading!
Another
Look @ John Chapter 3 – Part 9
- Without
the encouragement of the Holy Ghost, you would drop the issue of seeking the kingdom,
because there is a barrage of discouragement packaged in THE WORLD that has
been designed against it
- From the day of John the Baptist, it
became tougher to seek or take the kingdom. It can only be done by a divine
force. You can only be violent in the Spirit if you are seeing something that
many other Christians are not seeing, by seeing a type of what John was seeing
but the entire priesthood of his day couldn’t!
- You may be physically present on earth
and also occupy heaven (i.e. the air/realm of authority over the earth, which Adam lost to the devil - Eph. 2:2/Lk. 19:13). Many believers have gone to HEAVEN to be with the Lord, but have not yet accessed THE KINGDOM and therefore
haven’t RESTED (Heb. 3:18/4:1). HEAVEN IS NOT A PLACE OF REST, even to God = Isa. 66:1. ONLY THE
KINGDOM OF GOD THAT RESIDES WITHIN GOD, SEATED ON THE THRONE IS – Jn. 3:13/Rev. 12:12/1Jn. 1:1
Lk 19:13 And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, OCCUPY TILL I COME. (The Apostles occupied the air, few in other generations did, the woman in Rev. 12:1 that would birth the MAN-CHILD/company of overcomers also would)
Jn. 3:13 And no man hath ascended up to
heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in
heaven (i.e. Jesus was the actual king over the earth by virtue of his spiritual stature)
Rev. 12:12 Therefore
rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them (i.e. including those on earth
then). Woe to the inhabiters (i.e. carnal/earthly souls) of the earth and of
the sea! for the devil is come down unto you
1Jn. 1:3 That which we have seen and heard
declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with
his Son Jesus Christ
(i.e. they were already experiencing
the life/fellowship of the Kingdom, which is eternally superior to the life
available in heaven where glorious angels are)
- The
ultimate thing in the heart of the Father is His Kingdom. If the father has
only given you abundance of earthly prosperity, He knows he hasn’t given you
anything that counts to him. New birth INTRODUCES YOU TO THE FATHER but doesn’t
grant you access to KNOW THE FATHER.
- Israel
were children of the kingdom being prepared for adoption (Sonship) but they
fell short of it.
- The
realm of the Spirit is vast and we need dosages of revelation knowledge to come
into it
- The
Jews had been fed to a place where they should have been able to sight the dimension
of Jesus casting out a demon. Rather they called him Beelzebub, just like some
believers today don’t know the difference btw true and false healing gift.
- Healing,
deliverance, financial prosperity e.t.c. are only carnal manifestations of the
power of God to make men believe and
prepare for something higher. Those are beginner courses of faith.
- When
you don’t know the Glory of God’s kingdom, you would keep the flock with lower
meals. God is empowering the church for a harvest unto eternal life.
- Jesus
was consumed by the zeal of the house of God, that house of Glory called the
Kingdom.
- When
we understand the weightier issues of the kingdom, we would keep crying, Lord,
Thy Kingdom Come.
- Jn. 1:12-13 But as many as
received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them
that believe on his name: Which were BORN,
not of BLOOD, nor of the WILL of the
FLESH, nor of the WILL of MAN, but of GOD. (these are three dimensions of WILL/BIRTHS)
- Thy
kingdom come, thy will be done in earth (flesh) as it is in heaven. There is
the will of the flesh through which a wrong will have prevailed for so long a
time. The highest of such will is the
will of men which is a developed edition of the will of flesh.
- Children
of disobedience go after The World,
while Sons of disobedience (Eph. 2:2) go for The Soul/The Will. They look for men that can drive their will, so
that their kingdom (agenda, dreams, vision) can be driven by other men.
Children can be under demonic influences, but sons are partners with fallen
spirits and they go for the desire/will of men. They can implant thoughts into
other men.
-
Someone
succeeded in planting wrong thoughts in the Life of Solomon, despite his
stature in God.
- Children (i.e. those in the realm of
blood – Jn. 1:13) tell lies. Satan prepares such to migrate from the realm of Blood to the realm of Flesh and ultimately the realm of Man where carnal Will can be fully expressed. These are things planted in the human
family and IT WOULD TAKE THE APPEARANCE
OF THE KINGDOM to undo them.
- Jesus knew what is of man, i.e. of The Will of Man. Earthly kingdoms are
perpetuated and made manifest through men, so also God’s kingdom would be made manifest
through men. Earth can carry and run the divine will.
Jn. 2:24 But Jesus did not commit himself
unto them, because HE KNEW ALL MEN
- The
wisdom of the gospel is how to get flesh be subdued by the cross and raised to
run that the divine will and cause the manifestation of the kingdom.
- There is nothing in man or of man that
can make him inherit the kingdom until A
New Will Is Received.
- TO GET TO A PLACE WHERE THERE IS NO
RESISTANCE TO THE KINGDOM IS TO CONFIRM THE APPEARANCE OF THE KINGDOM IS AT HAND.
- Humanity in Jesus, while pressing into
Divinity, had some resistance (imperfection), so he had to be led by the
Spirit. He later learnt the highest death called the death of the cross to become The Author of An Eternal Salvation. He possessed the kingdom so he
can engineer the process of us getting there also.
- A
soul journeying into the kingdom cannot hold the word of the Kingdom in a
decade. You need some decades to attain mastery of holding it – 1Jn. 1:1e
1Jn. 1:1 That which was from the beginning,
which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked
upon, and Our Hands Have Handled, of
the Word of life;
Matt. 13:12 For whosoever
hath(i.e. a keeper of
the word/seed/secrets of the kingdom), to him shall be given, and he shall have
more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that
he hath.
- There
is a class of word that enjoins us to Him. Our soul is meant to be begotten by
that class of word which Peter called The
Incorruptible Seed (1Pet.1:23). The Lord has to employ Many Words (Heb. 5:11a) to dispense the materials of this class of Word called The Word of Righteousness –
Heb. 1:3c/5:13a
Jn.
17:8 For I have
given unto them the words (i.e. composition
of seeds/words) which thou gave me; and they have received them…
- A key curriculum in the Keeping of the introductory aspect of
the SEEDS of the kingdom is a Continuity stated in it. Jn. 8:31 which would lead us to the SEED (Pearl) of The Kingdom
- If the soul is not treated with the
word of God, it would remain a servant of sin until death
- This
world is stronger than what you keep in your memory. It can employ what you
have in your memory to speak to you. You therefore need to Keep The Word in your HEART
not in your MIND
- The
degree to which your soul has Grasped
The Truth and Kept It is the
degree to which you are free from this world/from corruption. Then you can say “I am
no more of this world”!
- God wants to give unto us, that which would
make us ‘illegal occupants of this world’, strangers and pilgrims indeed (Heb.
11:13). Then would we become thorns in Satan’s flesh. Jesus therefore
prayed…”not that we should be taken out of this world, but be KEPT (i.e.
preserved from corruption) while in it.
Jn. 17:15
- You need to acquire an unseen Glory to
despise The Glories of This World. It’s an issue of GLORY Vs. Glories
- AS WE CHANGE THROUGH THE
MINISTRATIONS/REVELATIONS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS (ROM. 1:17/2COR.3:9B), WE KEEP
ESCAPING UNTIL WE GET TO A PLACE WHERE WE ARE NO LONGER OF THIS WORLD.
- A man who has been able to KEEP THE
WORD is a man who ENTRANCE into the kingdom would be administered unto
- What
he gives to us is meant to PROCESS US. We are not meant to come back to him with
the same thing (talent/measure of life) he gives us.
Matt. 25:20-21 And so he that
had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord,
thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five
talents more. His Lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful
servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over
many things: enter thou into the JOY of
thy Lord
(i.e.
Entrance not into Heaven but Into The Kingdom wherein is JOY –Rom. 14:17)
- TO DISCERN THE
COMING OF THE KINGDOM (Matt. 6:10), CHECK
HOW MUCH THE REVELATION OF GOD’S WORD IS COMING TO YOU. God’s word is his
air of operation. Stay on the word, and revelation would increase, the Spirit
would come and the kingdom would come
- The Gospel (i.e. not the
introductory aspect of the gospel – Heb. 6:1-2) must be preached because it is
the only avenue to receive the kingdom. The kingdom would come as it is being
preached.
- You
can’t bear the word of God, the word of the kingdom except you are meek (Isa.
61:1)
Isa. 61:1 The Spirit of the
Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings (i.e. the revelations later documented in the
Gospel/Epistles) unto the meek
- Heb. 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart
in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil
conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.
- The
above scripture confirms that the Heart
is not the Spirit! The spirit is a New man and needs not to be purged from
an evil conscience
- When
you interact purely and thoroughly with the word, everything would increasingly
become bare before you, because you would have received increasing measures of
righteous judgment
- You
need so much meekness to receive the engrafted word and thereby come into
knowledge of the truth
- The heart can behave like the
Spirit and also like the flesh, depend on which it leans on.
- Without
an unrenewed mind (Rom. 12:1), you would never get accurate leading in natural or spiritual
things
- The heart is the aspect of the soul
that is closer to the Spirit, so it can behave like the Spirit sometimes, while
the mind is the aspect of the Soul that is closer to the flesh and therefore
analysis/struggles with it. Heb. 4:12
- Don’t simply follow your heart, it can
shortchange you and you would think it’s your Spirit, wait for Your spirit which is in constant touch
with the Spirit and therefore
receives witness from it. Rom. 8:16
- Stay in the word enough and you would be able to discern the leading of
the Spirit.
- Angels
have their word, therefore their reign – Heb.
2:2/Col. 1:16. Their word right now is more steadfast and higher than what
man is handling. The word ordained for Man is that which is called The Word of God which the church hardly
know as they ought to
- Christ
is holding all things of God (i.e. things visible and invincible, things
present, THINGS TO COME and Things
invincible in the realm of invincibility) by the Word of His Power) Heb. 1:3
Bless
You!