Dearly Beloved,
The church was primarily instituted
as a pillar and ground where the souls of believers would be nurtured in truth,
not as a problem-solving machine.
The lack of a clear understanding of this purpose, amongst others, has
kept our souls infirm and limited us from journeying from Our Faith/Love (Eph. 1:15/1Thes. 1:3) to Their Faith/Love (1Jn. 2:5/1Tim. 1:14/Rom. 5:5), from OUR FELLOWSHIP (1Cor. 14:26) to THEIR FELLOWSHIP (1Jn. 1:3).
The Lord has been reiterating his
dire desire to adopt many believers in the years ahead into the soul state of a
CHILD, YOUNG MEN and ultimately that of a FATHER (1Jn. 2:12-14) through the syllabus of THOROUGH TRUTH
TUTORIALS wherein we would UNLEARN OWN WAYS (laden with sin) and LEARN HIS WAYS.
Such is the training that would
bring us into all meekness and all lowliness which we earnestly need to
overcome our arch-enemy and appear before the Lord.
The Lord is therefore reaching out to a generation of believers that has
been unknowingly stuck with a light of the “New Creation Realities”, which was
later taken to the extreme when 1Jn. 1:8/10 was not rightly divided.
1Jn. 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in
us. 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive (i.e. remit) our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
(i.e. remission/cleansing is the by-product of the path of
truth that would produce the least/30-fold fruit of kingdom complaint saints
who would be greater than John the Baptist, not just by new birth/calling, but by
their degree of separation/fellowship with truth - 1Jn. 1:7/Jn. 11:11)
1Jn. 1:10
If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in
us.
(i.e. written to believers with far less carnality than we
have today, who were yet to discern sin; not as an act but as a subtle angelic nature/problem)
Without the journeying into unknown terrains of grace and truth where we
would rightly divide and then obey such injunctions, Apostle John confirmed “we
make God a liar” by subtly saying “we have no sin” and indirectly claim “WE HAVE FINISHED LEARNING CHRIST AND COME
INTO ALL MEEKNESS, ALL LONGSUFFERING”. Ps. 25:8-9/Ephesians 4:2/20
Hitherto, the enemy
has mocked believers before God as they departed the flesh
without conquering SIN, after much bible professing and exploits (Mat.. 7:23) that
didn’t tamper with the reign of God’s enemies, but I see a generation of saints
that would BY THEIR WALK say “O DEATH, WHERE IS THY STING? O GRAVE,
WHERE IS THY VICTORY?”
The
following is one of the transcribed ongoing preparation for the forthcoming
Believers Convention 2013 titled The Father of Our Inheritance. It that
attempts to rend some veils governing such misconceptions and promises to
prepare us for the fellowship of the godhead. I hope you’ll find grace to
patiently read/print if necessary.
Graceful Reading!
2013 Believers Convention Prayer
Meeting Notes - Week 7/Day 2 (July 16, 2013)
Scriptural Texts: Psalm 25:4-9/1Jn.
1:5-10
Subject: The Father Of Our Inheritance (Contd)
James
1:21 Wherefore
lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and Receive With
Meekness The Engrafted Word, Which Is Able To SAVE YOUR SOULS.
- It's not every word of God that is the engrafted/implanted Word. It's
not every word in the bible that saves. The word that can bring healing to your
body cannot save your soul.
- THE BEGINNING OF YOUR FAITH saved your spirit, but it would take THE
END OF YOUR FAITH to bring about THE SALVATION TO YOUR SOUL. Your soul wasn't
saved when you first believed and got born again, so there are many many
believing/receiving (Jn. 1:12) that the soul must partake of before it can be
saved.
- Healing is for children. The
centurion was not saved, yet he had faith to receive his healing. Jesus
therefore said, "I've not found such great faith (a milk faith), not even
in Israel" (see Mathew 8:5-10).
- The woman who asked for the
crumbs had a kind of milk faith to receive her breakthrough.
- The gospel had been on a
journey and by the time it got to gentile churches/believers in Ephesus and
Collose, it was christened faith in the
Lord Jesus. Jesus had left them with a counsel to “now ask the father in his name (Jn. 16:24), which was what the apostles
started teaching the early church after the Holy Ghost had come (book of Acts).
- All those healed in response
to faith in the Name of Jesus were healed
by a childish faith. This faith was originally
preached to the Jews and communicated to the Gentile nation. Such faith can only get you THINGS FROM GOD but not the THINGS OF GOD which is needed to save
your soul.
- The spirit of man doesn’t
believe and is not a believer like the soul is. The soul was helped to BELIEVE in the son through HIS FAITH at new birth and later needs
to KNOW he whom he previously
believed in. It wasn't your faith that got you born again; it was his grace.
Your spirit was saved by grace through faith. Not of your own working
(Ephesians 2:8-10).
- You are called a believer because your soul was able to believe in
the Lord whom it hasn’t seen (1Pet. 1:8) and the soul was separated from those
in the world thereby.
Jn. 14:17
Jn. 14:17 Even
the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him
- The soul of someone that is
not born again is different from that which is born again. Such a soul has believed
in the Lord Jesus and is meant to come to the pillar and ground of truth (the church)
to access soul salvation having been called out of darkness.
- The human spirit of some
believers have been regenerated but their soul have a totally wrong concept of the
Christian Faith
- A minister of the gospel
needs a higher faith (the faith of the son) to communicate the salvation of the
soul
- The church/soul has been
divided hitherto because of infirmities of the soul which affects even the
saved spirit.
- In our spirits, all of us are
one; but in our souls, we have differences and that is why we doctrines,
denominations etc. Believers can't fellowship in unity (are not united in God’s
faith) because of the division/doctrines of the soul.
Eph. 4:13 Till
we all come in the unity of THE FAITH
(God’s faith not the FAITH IN THE LORD
JESUS found amongst the Ephesian church in Eph. 1:15), and of the knowledge
of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness
of Christ:
- God is coming to unite the soul and the spirit. Our souls must be one
as the Father and the Son are one, which was the greatest prayer of Jesus (John
17:11). All our doctrines must wither like the grass of the field.
- Before the enemy brought
divisions, the mind of believers in Jesus was one. We still have orthodox in
some continents that haven’t progressed despite increase in light till date.
- A soul that hasn’t been
raised in truth would cause divisions. It would take time for souls to be
taught truth
- The doors of churches are
gradually being opened and we would ultimately forget our individual identities
and see Christ. Leaves of religion would wither.
- Don’t create another
religion. Integrate; don’t let them know you, let them know Christ.
- God is in the business of
bringing all churches together until we get to be one in the unity of faith.
Then the leaves of religion will wither.
- The name Brotherhood
(brother) in heaven is higher than the title/name reverend which someone like myself use.
- When the Lord wanted to grant me entrance into the body, the lord spoke
to my heart and said don’t be overly righteous. I then understood that I couldn’t
go with the name ‘brother Kayode’ because some won’t be reached thereby. I also
realized I couldn’t use pastor or evangelist by my name, because I wasn’t. I
could neither use prophet or apostle, though by his grace I carry these
ministry gifts, but it has been carried with a notion that would be perceived
in an unreachable manner. I then realized that I had to be as wise as a serpent
and like Paul, I had to become all things to all men to reach some (1Cor.
9:21-23). I had to find a mid-range like Late Rev. Hagin of blessed memory once
counseled that we “find a mid-point, a point of moderation to reach people”.
- When Jesus came, the
acceptable word was rabbi, but he didn’t reject it. He was neither for nor
against it. That was a name that was held in esteem in his day. It’s wise to be
simple and not seek to be overly righteous. The Lord wants to reach his body
and we must be ready to die to what we humanly prefer
Psalm
25:8 Good and
upright is the Lord: therefore will He teach sinners in the way
- The spirit of a sinner might
be saved and make it to heaven, but such still needs his sins remitted and the
only way for such to be dealt with is by being lead in his way.
- Being ignorance of God’s path
is sin, is traceable to sin. When God shew Israel his acts, he hadn’t cleansed
them of their sins, unlike Moses whom God had cleansed is a good degree and
therefore became meek (Num. 12:3).
- The book of first John chapter
one wasn’t just taking about the sin you committed yesterday but a path you
inherited in the past.
- Many are ignorant of their path which is darkness. John the divine therefore
said in 1Jn. 1 that “if we say we have no sin, you are a liar” because you
haven’t learnt his path which are mercy and truth (Ps. 25:10)
- You can’t know truth except
you have been led. When God is dealing with the soul, he takes such through the
path of truth. David therefore said “Good and upright is the lord therefore
would he teach sinners the ways”
- Why would God want to teach/lead sinners in his path? Because The
Strength Of Sin Is The Way/Walk Of A Fallen Cherubim (Eze. 28:14c) and to knock
off sin, the soul would have to be cultured in the way of truth
- A sinner here (Ps. 25:8) is one that is meek (with a
contrite heart) and willing to be taught. Not all are believers are!
Psalm
25:9 The meek
will He guide in judgment; and the meek will He teach His ways
- If you don't know the
way/path/law of the Lord, you remain in sin. You can't be cleansed of sin (i.e.
ignorance of God's ways) except you're taught his laws, the law of the spirit
of life in Christ. Before heaven, you are not innocent if you are ignorant.
- The reason for darkness is not because you sinned yesterday, but
because of your walk/ignorance of the path of the Lord. Ignorance remains until
the Lord leads you in His ways, to take away sin from you. John therefore said
“if you say that you have no sin, you lie, and the truth is not in you” (1Jn.
1:8-10).
- Judgment means discernment.
When you are being taught the way, you are being taught how to discern or judge
like God judges
- Jesus was taught truth and
thereby received judgment and this is how we would not only receive divine stature
but get our faults remitted. David said “All have gone astray, there is none that
seeks God” (Ps. 14)
- When you think you are free
from an infirmity, another one would arise/show up.
- When you have finished learning Christ, you are no more a sinner. If
you continue in my word, then are ye my disciples and then the truth would set
you free from sin. This is the liberty we earnestly need.
- When God seeks to cleanse a soul,
there are always two kinds of responses from those who would seek truth fully
and those who would fall away (1Jn. 2:19)
- Some would not agree for the
soul to be led therefore those in 1Jn.2:19 who they left and became seducers
who preached Jesus is not come in the flesh. John called such a generation of Cain
who preach this world
- When the lord begins to teach
truth to a believer, he wants to adopt such as a child (Eph. 1:5)
Eph. 1:5
Having predestinated us unto the
adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself
- Knowledge of truth won’t be
valuable without the path/leading of the Spirit
- All are sinners, but some are meek and such is he who would be saved
from his ways/sins/darkness, taught righteous judgment and be guided into all
truth (Jn. 16:13)
- Truth is found on pedestals of
meekness. To graduate from one level of truth to another, all you need is to
gain energy levels of meekness.
- Eph. 4:1-2 admonishes us to “WALK
worthy of your vocation, not PREACH worthy
of your vocation”.
- It’s not easy to finish this school of ALL MEEKNESS and ALL LOWLINESS. The higher you go, the more
qualified you are for truth, then judgments would be committed unto you and you
can take steps of meekness
- You have to be terribly meek to overcome Satan. The nearer you are to
God, the meeker you should be.
- Attaining “All Meekness and All Lowliness” is an uphill task. For as you go higher in knowledge
of the truth, you'll become sharper and prone to judgment (2 Corinthians 12:7).
- The nearer you are to the
devil, the more you would be prompted with pride and so the more you need to be
meek
- It took a child to overcome Satan in Rev. 12. The company of the
man-child was in the belly of his mother. They were all meek. They remained in
the womb of the woman, though higher than the woman in spiritual stature, they
retained that disposition until they were caught up to the throne.
- Our sin is our path, our life
and it would take us accessing the fellowship of the blood (1Jn. 1:7) to take
away the darkness of our path so we can gradually press unto the end of faith.
- During the cleansing process
stipulated by John, a believer would first attain the soul state called “Little Children” which belongs to those
whose sins have been forgiven/remitted (1Jn. 2:12). As darkness continues to be
purged, such would get to a soul state called “Young Men” and ultimately that of “Fathers” (1Jn. 2:13)
- Jesus told Paul to firstly open
the eyes of his audience and then turn them (believers) from darkness to light
(Acts. 26:18)
- Such are those who would then
receive forgiveness/remission of sin after being taught of the Lord (Eph. 4:20)
and having their path cleansed by truth.
- Such would ultimately graduate
from Faith In The Lord Jesus to the Faith of The Son wherein they would receive the end of the faith (i.e. their inheritance/the
father)
- Rev. Kayode Oyegoke
