Non-Negotiable Counsels of God's Kingdom - Part 11

Dearly Beloved,       

We live in days when the pride of life is an instituted norm, when lust has become a better substitute for love, when being humble is equated with stupidity, when Christians rather learn everything from Jesus but lowliness and meekness. Self (me, myself & I) therefore continues to escape many halfhearted ministrations from the pulpit to the pew.

Contrary to sound counsels of the Lord in the book of Psalms and beyond, we have been taught from childhood to defend ourselves, be a go-getter, strive and raise our voices in the streets (Matt. 12:19) and we have thereby preserved the fallen nature. But blessed be God for new avenues to be reconciled unto childlikeness through ministrations of the engrafted word which only the meek (Ps. 25:9/ Jam. 1:21/Job 22:22) can receive.

Heaven is set to reap children of the kingdom who would be higher in soul state/stature than a John the Baptist (Matt. 11:11C), children who would be naïve in malice (1Cor. 14:20) amongst other various works of the flesh (Eph. 4:31/Gal. 5:20-21). A new conversation where believers would prefer one another (1Tim. 5:21) is emerging on earth and many would be adopted (Eph. 1:5) into CHRISTLIKE CHILDLIKENESS, with CHRIST being the MOST LITTLE CHILD (Matt. 18:2/Isa. 11:6D) amongst them

The following transcribed message attempts to pay homage to this truth as we prepare for Believers Convention 2014 and I trust that we would patiently read.

Graceful reading!

Non-Negotiable Counsels of God's Kingdom - Part 11

The nature of the Father is the nature of the Lamb who is the exact image of the Father (Jn. 14:7-9/Heb 1:3). Jesus is a Lamb, but the Father is a greater Lamb because the Father is greater than the Son (Jn. 14:28). GREATNESS IN THEIR REALM IS MEASURED BY HOW LOW ONE CAN GO. The more ‘lambish’ one is, the greater one becomes. The Father is the greatest because He is the meekest and the lowliest. This is the same order that God is unveiling to the body of Christ.

If you desire to be great in God’s sight, just go down. We have been called into the fellowship of Lambs and we cannot afford to be goats.

We are meant to be moving from one realm of fellowship of the Godhead to another, but there are things that our souls have married which has limited us but it’s high time for us to let them go! There are sins and weights that have beset us for a long time, issues of flesh that have hitherto limited our fellowship, but in this season, there is a need for a definite move and we must believe God to come into such.

God wants us to occupy a particular space in him right now and the demand or conversation for such is that of soberness (1Thes. 5:6/Tit. 2:6/12). We should not just learn or hear revelation but turn every revelation into a walk.

When you follow the Lamb and live with Him, the result is that He makes a lamb out of you. This followership is to beat down every other contrary nature inside.  We cannot walk the path of the Lambs and not become a lamb.  One who sets out on a journey with the Lamb looks foolish to a natural man, but as he keeps on walking and following, he is gradually being conformed into the image of the Lamb.

The Lamb has His way (path), which is very different from the way of the present man and except we find and walk in it, we cannot arrive at the image of the Lamb. Most of the time, our judgment seems right to us until the Lamb brings a higher judgment (Isa.55:9/Prov.16:2).

The end time move is actually a move of salvation (1Pet. 1:9), so God is raising men from every nation who would be saved and delivered from the constitution of man. The present man (old man) has been pronounced obsolete but we still have his ways intact in our souls after the new birth and this is what heaven seeks to erase (Rom. 7:18). Jesus WALKED in the REVELATION that the FATHER gave to Him and BECAME the LAMB and this is how real men are produced. A real man is he who is able to receive the teachings of the Father and turn it to walk. John the Baptist introduced Him as the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world (Jn. 1:29). JESUS WALKED AND OBEYED UNTIL HE BECAME THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN. HE WAS NOT JUST A LAMB, BUT WENT AHEAD TO BE SLAIN.

The demand of the Lord in this season is that we must become lambs and be slain because He is taking us to the realm where Lambs abide. This is the realm of great honour, glory and blessing for those who dare to become lambs and take a step further by allowing themselves to be slain. TO BE SLAIN IS TO YIELD TO THE DEMANDS OF THE NAME AND THE LIFE OF THE LAMB WHICH IS MEEKNESS AND LOWLINESS. As we yield to the demands of the Lamb, we lose our reputation and shed off the old life. As the old life is being shed off, a new glorious man emerges that is free from spiritual death.

The path of life demands that we count all our earthly advantages as dung, just as Apostle Paul did (Phil.3:8). This is not pleasant for the flesh but it is the only way to glory. Apostle Paul weighed the glory of his former achievements (that of a flower) with the glory that excels (2Cor. 3:10), and he had to let go of it and he could do so because God by revelation had turned him into a lamb. It takes a lamb to be able to discern the Lamb properly.

As we count all things but dung, we are changed into lambs, and the crucified life is exalted in us, giving us access into the knowledge of the Lamb. This is when the way of the Lamb will make sense to the soul. As long as dung (our achievements) still makes sense to us, the knowledge of the Lamb will not make sense us. The wisdom of God is a learning of an entirely different way which does not seem right to a man, but end of which is glory and honor. 

Obeying the life of the lamb that comes via revelation of the gospel is the only thing that is right and approved by God (Isa. 28:16), though rejected by men. This is the only lifestyle that can earn the glory and honour of the Father. Learning the Lamb is learning that which is approved of God, learning of Him (Matt.11:29/Eph. 4:20)

The fellowship of the triune God is a fellowship of lambs which they have had for ages and God has been able to contain the foolishness of man for long because of that nature. Our Father Himself is the greatest lamb, and our Lord Jesus Christ whose image we have been predestined to conform to (Rom 8:29) is also a Lamb. The reason why we are not enjoying the fellowship of our Father is because we have not yet come into His full image.  Our Father is large-hearted; He does not snap at our short comings. He would rather come down to our level to explain why He is giving us certain instructions when we are weary of His correction and why we need to bear it. It is just like trying to help someone that is fighting you. He can do this because He is saved and he is also a competent savior. As He brings us these lambish commandments, the right response of our hearts should be quick obedience which comes through tenderness.

Many of us do not like the nature of the Lamb and the reason is that we think people will take us for granted. Those that would attain unto the company of the Lamb, who stood with Him on Zion (Rev. 14:1) did every biding of the Lamb without questioning.

OUR JUDGMENT OF SPIRITUAL THINGS IS LOW AND IT IS BECAUSE OUR EARTHLY WAYS ARE STILL IN US. The Godhead had practiced their lifestyle from everlasting to everlasting and it has not failed or reduced them. Now, they are bringing it to us because our paths have been darkened and we have remained natural men for too long. We should hate the carnal life and all it infirmities so that we can willingly receive that which God is bringing to us.

The Lamb of God is harmless and gentle, but we are not; we are harmful and that is why we wrestle with his dealings. As long as we remain men, we will remain harmful. That state of harmlessness is a childlike state and one of the ways that the adversary fights us out of that state is by bringing to our memory, thoughts of past offences.  When we are treated unjustly, we are not to keep memory of it, for love keeps no record of wrongs. That is the way of a child; that is the way of love, and that is the way of victory, but the enemy does not want us to achieve that state and from time to time, he brings back those thoughts so that we can lose our childlikeness.

Our thoughts dictates our walk. Our walk is our thoughts in motion. The thought we fellowship with will eventually govern our walk and that is why we should be vigilant in the realm of thoughts. We should be quick to track down satanic thoughts and trash them immediately they come.

Instead of taking those thoughts, we should rather tell the devil, ‘I have forgiven my brother, I do not know what you are talking about’ and then you move on. Your brethren are also called into one salvation as you were called, so if Satan succeeds in stopping your brethren, you have also been stopped. There should be no more remembrance of sin. The way of life is that we forgive and forget. We are meant to take only God’s thought and that will enable us to walk in the way of the Lord

Through the wisdom of the epistles, we see the Lord urging us to ENDEAVOUR to keep the unity of the Spirit (Eph.4:3). This means, unity of the spirit does not come automatically; we have to consciously work at it. When we have true fellowship of love with one another, we have fellowship with the Godhead (1Jn. 1:3)

We have come to a time of being children in malice, having fervent love for one another. A time where we must prefer one another and love one other fervently, when we should delightfully lay down our life for others. As we come against circumstances and situations, the Lord will tell us how exactly to react and we should react that way.

When we respond the way lambs do, we die to self (1Cor. 15:31). God kills the life of self in us through dealings, leadings, through circumstances and situations that He brings our way. As we obey, we come into soberness, and remain in the light. The instruction may look foolish to man, but that is the right way to live. As we do these instructions, entrance into the fellowship of the Lamb is ministered to us.

The fellowship of lambs is a place of blessing and people that fellowship with the Godhead are people who have continued to obey instructions until they finally emerged as lambs, having inherited the conversation of the Lamb. God makes us lambs by speaking the incorruptible word of life to us. It is that word that has ability to reconfigure our nature so that we can stand on Zion with the Lamb of God and this is the actual redemption meant for the soul (Eph. 1:7/14).

Bless You!

Rev. (Mrs.) Helen Oyegoke

Fellowshipping With the Nature of the Lamb (Part b)

1^st May, 2014.

Non-Negotiable Counsels of God's Kingdom - Part 10

Dearly Beloved,

Once upon a time, I unconsciously related with inspired ministrations like a buffet, but now, I do so with fear and trembling, knowing that this is the only way I can unlock my destiny which has been hidden with Christ Jesus in God (Col. 3:3)

But now I realize that I don’t have the timing of eternity on my side and must fight the good fight of faith while the sun still rise and set. I find myself tarrying with that blessed blank question “WHAT MANNER OF MEN OUT WE TO BE IN ALL IN ALL HOLY CONVERSATION AND GODLINESS, LOOKING FOR AND HASTING UNTO THE COMING OF THE DAY OF GOD…” 2Pet. 3:11-12 

Receiving His instructions (commandments) is the only access to partaking of His life (Prov. 4:13/6:23/10:17 & Jn. 12:50). His life remains an unearthly conversation (Phil. 3:20) which we only have a shallow knowledge of, but thanks be unto God who has been multiplying grace and peace unto us by speaking plainly of his exalted son Jesus.

Phil. 3:20 For our conversation is in heaven (i.e. by sighting their lives, one can clearly see heaven and understand God’s will); from whence also we look for the Savior…

Graceful reading!

Non-Negotiable Counsels of God's Kingdom - Part 10

The Lord is at hand and the gospel that would redeem the souls of men is coming the way of nations. God is serious about sealing people with his name (nature) as we can also see the devil desperate about sealing people with his name (nature). There is an increase of the revelation of Christ (Gal. 1:16/Rom. 16:25) that is bringing about the sealing of men and women with His name. Who and what you end up being sealed with all depends on whose side you yield to.

God has not appointed us unto wrath but unto salvation (1 Thes. 5:9). The reason we got born again is so that we can be fully saved (1Pet. 1:5&9). We were appointed unto salvation; that is the ultimate of God’s plan for man. Some are children of wrath by nature (Eph. 2:3), but we are not children of wrath. Rather, we are vessels of mercy prepared unto glory (Romans 9:23).

Salvation starts as an EVENT (new birth), should continue in us as a PROCESS (1Pet. 1:23) and culminate in PERFECTION (Heb. 6:1b/Matt. 5:48) so that we obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ

1Thes. 5:2 … “ for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.”

The Lord is preparing us so that day will not come upon us as a thief, because those upon whom that day will come upon as a thief are believers who are in darkness. So much light is coming to us now and God is encouraging and enjoining us to walk in the light. If you are walking in the light, you will know about that day. The Lord is really at hand now.

This is how we show that we are of the day; by putting on the breastplate of faith and love which is the secret of being sober (1Thes. 5:6b). A sober person is someone who always walks in love and that is how to wait for the coming of the Lord. When you are not walking in the light (in the revelation of the name of the Lord), then you are asleep.

The End Time Move is about Salvation. It is about changing man (the soul) inside out. It is about redeeming you from the earth/humanity (Rev. 14:4) and adopting you into godhood (the Godhead). That is the salvation God has ordained for man which would guarantee that you be redeemed from man, kindred, tongues and tribes, and that redemption is in the Lord Jesus.

Rev. 14:4 …These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.

Jesus is revealing the way He lives to us, which is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT from our own lifestyle; He is completely different from the present man. We lives as a divine man and the only thing that can win us from the ways of man is the light of the Lord. If we know the extent to which we need salvation, we will weep.

The Lord needs to really show us who He is so we see the dire need for salvation. WE NEED SALVATION MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE! We need to be saved from the ways of man. We have been men all along, even though we have been speaking in tongues. We have been living like men and reacting like men with our conversation. THE ONLY THING THAT SAVES IS THAT LIFESTYLE AND THAT CONVERSATION THAT IS IN THE LORD JESUS.

WE MUST COME WITH A LOT OF REPENTANCE SO THAT WE CAN BE SAVED, BECAUSE WHAT HAS BEEN TATTOOED IN US ARE THE WAYS OF MAN, WHICH WOULD ULTIMATELY CALL FOR GOD’S  WRATH. After we got born again, we still carried earthly ways for years until the Lord unveils His ways to us. The Lord is bringing us to a place where we will look like fools (stupid people) just like Jesus once looked before men while on earth. People will take us for granted and despise us (1Cor. 1:28b). Anything short of the way the Lord lives falls short of salvation, is death and would ultimately incur wrath.
I recall when Jesus was in the garden was about to be arrested. Peter reacted the way natural man would by pulling out his sword and cutting one of the ears of the servant of the high priest. That is a natural man and such a man cannot stand where God is standing. Such a man cannot live with God. The philosophy of every man is to defend yourself like Peter did. Matt. 26:51–52

But the Lord is not like that. The Bible says, ‘The Lord is my Light and my Salvation’. In the midst of that opposition, war and threat to kill Him, Jesus was still able to pick the ear of one of His attackers and glue it back in place (Luke 22:51). JESUS REMEMBERED TO DO GOOD IN THE MIDST OF TROUBLE. He was so calm in the midst of opposition; He picked the ear, glued it and told Peter, ‘That is not how to live. Those who kill by the sword will die by the sword.’ (Matt. 26:52)

The nature of the Lamb is Love; Love suffers long and is kind. Many of us cannot remember to be kind in the midst of trouble, when people are looking for our head. As long as we are like this (merciless), we cannot be admitted into the realm of God. The realm of God is a realm where, in the face of opposition, you can still be kind and good. This is not just a revelation; it is a commandment: “But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you” (Matt. 5:44). We are commanded to come unto the place where God is.

YOU CANNOT LIVE WITH HIM EXCEPT YOU ARE LIVING IN THE LIGHT HE IS LIVING IN – 1Jn. 1:7

The Lord is calling us to something very high. I see God bringing us to a realm. He is not just giving us revelation; HE IS ACTUALLY COMMANDING US TO COME TO A REALM. The Lord is bringing us into a realm of love where there will be strong brotherly love. The Lord wants to make us children. He is calling us to the realm of children where we will be like children in malice. It is a beautiful realm. He wants us to relate with one another as though we never wronged each other. No matter what your brother or sister might have done to you, the offence must not be carried overnight because this realm of God does not permit that.
You can be angry but do not let the sun goes down on your anger (Eph. 4:26). That is how to be sober and that is how to live as children of the day. One thing about the knowledge of God is that it comes on the increase when you give a commensurate walk to previous ones brought to you. When light comes, you must take a step in the direction of that light.

PAUL WAS PRAYING FOR THE COLOSSIAN CHRISTIANS THAT THEY MAY BE FILLED WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF HIS WILL IN ALL WISDOM AND SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING SO THAT THEY MAY WALK WORTHY OF THE LORD (COL. 1:9–11). SO THE REASON FOR THE INFILLING OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD IS TO PRODUCE A WORTHY WALK THAT PLEASES HIM. YOU CANNOT FULLY PLEASE THE LORD EXCEPT LIGHT COMES. AS YOU PLEASE HIM, YOU INCREASE IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE LORD. WHEN YOU WALK IN THE LIGHT THAT HAS BEEN BROUGHT YOUR WAY, MORE LIGHT WOULD BE GIVEN

Christianity is like a dunghill where people dump various rubbish and yet you keep quiet (because of that inward tranquility). It was said concerning Jesus ‘His voice would not be heard on the street.’ Matt. 12:19

Henceforth, what we are going to be seeing in our midst is the manifestation of the love of God at its peak. IT IS A COMMANDMENT WHICH IS FOR OUR SALVATION AND GLORY. THE LORD IS NOT GOING TO TOLERATE SOME THINGS AGAIN. HE IS GOING TO REFUSE THEM VEHEMENTLY. You can never see children quarrel; it is the adults that teach children such malice. Children forget offences easily unlike adults and only learn how to keep malice from adults.

 Bless You!

Rev. (Mrs.) Helen Oyegoke

Non-Negotiable Counsels of God's Kingdom - Part 9

Dearly Beloved,
 

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

 

Scriptural reading Text: John 3:2-11

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

 You can see what happened to the church when the enemy fanned her into a deep sleep. As she slept, Satan was planting seeds. By the time she woke up, quite some damages had been done, but God said ‘I am very confident of this good seed which the evil seed cannot choke’.

 
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.

 Once you start carrying the fruits of the kingdom, it will make you to bow which is in different levels. Some of the fruits fell to the ground representing men of the kingdom who are servants.  Some of them are unknown to others because they don’t have anything external.

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.

 If there is anything like competition in the kingdom, it will be to prevail in servitude but you cannot find that among men. So the civilization of God’s kingdom is different from earthly kingdom.

 
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)

 What gave birth to this old man and the new man was two kind of womb. What birthed the old man was a womb of the flesh which is this world and Satan’s kingdom. Anyone that enters the world will come out wearied and old. So the process of conversion is to cut down the present man, to crack that building called man. In our Biology, they call it homo – erectors but God does not like that erectness and wants us to be as malleable as the wind; He wants us bowed at heart like servants are. Not bowed as in bondage but in delightful submission.

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.

 

 There is another kind of dew in the womb of the flesh (the world) that comes upon men and kills them by tampering with their ability to serve God.

 The process of reducing a man and converting him from one form to another can only be done by the good seed. So when a man is receiving the seed of the kingdom, he is being converted (Lk. 22:32). After a while, the receiving of the dealings of that seed will cause him to become a little baby because it is only babies that can enter the womb. The smaller you are, the more access you have to the kingdom, because narrow is the way and straight is the gate that leads to the kingdom.

 

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.’                

 You need to be small to enter the kingdom but men do not like to be small. When a man of God goes to the mountain to pray, most of the time, his prayer is ‘Lord increase me; let my ministry blossom, etc.’ but very few men go to mountain and pray that God will reduce them. Such a prayer is alien. What we are taught to pray is Lord increase me. Please understand my language, I am not saying God is against physical increase. I am just saying if it comes to the issue of entrance into the kingdom, it is small (meek) man that can find it.

 You need to be converted into a child to gain entrance into that gate so Jesus was described in Acts 4:30 as such, a little child. It is not easy to pray to become small; nobody likes it. Man likes to vaunt himself but such isn’t entertained in the kingdom. How did the creator become a servant? While Jesus was in the house of Joseph, he was sending Him (his creator) on errands and He never for one day said, ‘Joseph, I just want to say this that do you know I am your Lord and Creator’? Such is the mind of Christ and we need to have such mind.

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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Non-Negotiable Counsels of God's Kingdom - Part 8

Dearly beloved,

One of the most profound counsels declared at a meeting about a decade ago was that “we should acquire enough divine life for the days ahead by digging deep into New Testament Provisions of Truth” and you may agree with me today that this is the only guaranteed immunization that would keep our souls and bodies above the reach of evil one (1Jn. 5:18c).

Little wonder why the reign of spiritual death (Rom. 5:14) only depreciated when a man with a priestly stature (Moses) was raised, but today, a higher degree of the reign of sin and death has ravished souls with impunity, reduced life expectancy of nations and given birth to viruses like Ebola disease which has defied medicine and for now would only surrender to God’s immunization/prescription.

The lord has good news for discerning saints, and he is reiterating that “the diseases of the soul (Ps. 103:3b/Eze. 18:4/Rom. 8:13) should be addressed long before it begins to shut down the human body”.

Matt. 4:4 Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God

 
Graceful reading!
 

Non-Negotiable Counsels of God's Kingdom - Part 8

We can shout in church and engage in various activities but that does not necessarily translate to worship. To begin true worship, our bodies must be presented a living sacrifice (Rom. 12:1). Our bodies must cross the line of the natural and must be spiritual, meaning bodies must be prepared for spiritual engagement.

If you are making confessions but walking after the flesh, it won’t work. You must walk against the law in the flesh. Inside your body are unseen laws. A microscope can sight bacteria and all sorts in the body but you cannot see sin that way. Sin rules earthly kings and the only person sin does not rule is our Lord Jesus Christ.

The reason why Jesus came was to deal with sin (Rom. 8). When we were quickened (Eph. 2:1), we were brought into a pedestal of faith and had access to grace wherein we stand (Rom. 5:1). It is an invisible plane where you own nothing. Sin taught us to rely on physical evidences. Anyone who trusts in sin will trust in natural evidences. Anything that is not of faith is sin (Rom. 14:23)
 

When the Bible says; ‘If we continue in sin’ (Rom. 6:1), it is not just spiritual the acts of the works of flesh, but rather about our stand where our thoughts fall short of his righteousness. The righteousness we have held unto hitherto negates the true law that reveals righteousness and therefore is sinful. As long as the ground we stand is not that which is revealed by the Spirit, it is sinking sand.  Rom. 1:16–17

Sin took the Law of Moses and was playing with it. Sin played with the Pharisees, the doctors of the law. They became exceedingly sinful and killed the Prince of Life. That was sin but it was righteousness to them. God has to import into our universe a higher righteousness beyond the understanding of sin. Sin cannot understand the righteousness of God.

 

ANYTHING SIN CAN SEE IS IN TROUBLE. If sin can see it, it will capture it. That is why our life is not kept here, but kept far above all principalities and powers. So when you want to understand the interpretation of your life, it must come by revelation. If it is not by revelation, it is wrong and inferior to sin

 Some preachers have not been cultured with a mind that can pick things of the Spirit by revelation and therefore remain carnally minded. Sin will ride any form of religion because it created it. SIN IS A SOLUTION FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO BE RIGHTEOUS BY THEMSELVES. You need revelations to beat the devices of the enemy. YOU HAVE TO BE WISER THAN SATAN AND THE ONLY WAY IS BY REVELATION (Gal. 1:12). God needs to give you what Satan cannot know and show you what his wisdom can’t comprehend. 

When sin discovers that a preacher is becoming too tough, sin will strategize on how to handle him. You can be preaching against sin and yet serving sin unknowingly. When the woman was caught in very act of adultery, they brought her to Jesus with a plan to stone her to death. They had enjoyed stoning to the extent that they did it without mercy, but Jesus set that woman free by one righteous judgment.

We need to be equipped with the things of the Spirit and thereby walk in the Spirit by faith. Faith is the law of entrance into the spiritual. Believing God for money is not the primary essence of faith. You can receive things from God’s hands without a walk in the spirit, but God wants men to walk in the Spirit because Satan has stopped men from doing so.

 

Check the era of Adam and you would see that men could live nearly a thousand years after Adam died in Eden, but afterwards, men dropped because sin entered into their flesh.  The body was not meant for sin though men have acclimatized the body with sin. Sin has now dominated and cultured it, and you can’t get freedom by confessing sin out of your body out. It got there through a walk and it would take a walk to get it out

There were disobediences that men rendered unto sin, which gave sin a ground to hold the body captive. The work load of sin cannot be worked out except you undo it by another walk. Immediately you got born again, you become a candidate for freedom but this has been tied to walking in the Spirit.

Though the Holy Spirit resides in you, He is waiting for you to fulfill obedience before He will quicken your mortal body (Rom. 8:11). If the Holy Spirit goes ahead to quicken our bodies without a spiritual walk, sin will question Him. There are many children of God with no legs (in their soul) to walk in the Spirit. Many haven’t developed the feet for God’s path and have feeble knees while others have been hurt and cannot walk.

John the Baptist sent people to ask Jesus; ‘Are you the one to come or we should wait for another?’ Jesus said; ‘Go tell John the blind see, the lame walk and the deaf hear’ and he wasn’t referring to physical sight or healing of physical body because John was a preacher of the way/knowledge (Lk. 1:77) and did no miracles! He was simply trying to ask Jesus “are you doing the same job I have done”. So Jesus said “go tell him that the spiritual lame have started walking and spiritually blinds souls who sit in darkness for generations have seen a great light”. Now I am healing their legs and strengthening their feet for a walk. WALK HAS STARTED. John must have been happy that God’s agenda was being fulfilled.

The Lord God Almighty is rising great generation of great walkers, in their millions, such that the earth has never seen before. They will neither continue the order of just asking God for bread due to weakness and lameness nor would they remain in one position of making confessions but they would grow and make movement in the Spirit. THIS IS THE TIME TO WALK. If you want to confess when you are walking, that is allowed, but if you are not walking but only confessing, you are just wasting your time.            

To walk accurately in the Spirit, you need an adequate download of faith from a dimension of righteousness that is higher than sin, because sin has taught all men how to walk by sight. Anybody walking by sight is a sinner (Heb. 10:38a). A sinner who can be taught is the meek one (Ps. 25:8–9). A believer who hasn’t experienced the remission of sins = Mark 4:12/Acts 26:18) is a sinner (Jn. 1:8). A sinner who is meek is higher than someone who is born again but isn’t meek (teachable). Somebody can be born again but yet, isn’t meek and such a one can go to heaven with his soul still accustomed to committing sin.

Ps. 25:8-9 Good and upright is the LORD: therefore will he teach sinners in the way (of the Lord). The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.

As long as you are not operating by the principle of faith, you are walking by sight like unbelievers do. Such a one isn’t living in God’s sight. You can only have life when you live outside what you see with your natural sight. Righteous people are those who are blind and dead to the principles of death. They are blind to the use of natural sight but their inner eyes (Eph. 1:18) is at work. They no longer use neither the light of the sun nor the light of the moon to walk (i.e outer court) but rather, the light in the tabernacle (holy place illuminated with the seven golden candlesticks - Isa. 11:2). God has given to them the spirit of wisdom and revelation to knowledge Him (Eph. 1:17).

You cannot operate in the light of the faith of the Son of God or the righteousness of God without your eyes being opened. The day God opens your eyes and gives you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, you cease to walk like mere men do. You will see what unbelievers and many believers are not seeing. Your eyes will see another hope and the reason for living will be brought to you. Veils will be rent and you will walk in the path of safety and victory and as you do, He will begin to quicken and awaken your body back to life you because you are fulfilling obedience. As you do that, you are offering a reasonable service and presenting your body a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God. (Rom. 12:1–2)

Anybody who walks by faith does not conform to this world (Rom. 12:1). This world wants you to walk by the principle of death. The world is a killer and wicked entity. As you walk by faith, you push the world back and your body becomes alive.

We do not owe the flesh anything and we do not need to live after the flesh. The scripture here (Romans 8:13) is addressing brethren and it means a brother can die if he lives after the flesh. Without committing fornication you can spiritually die if you do not live by faith. The sin Christians know is the likes of fornication but that is one of the least sin. WALKING CARNALLY IS REAL SIN. If all your ambition is to walk in the natural, you are walking in death. You are dying because you do not see above this world. When the spirit of wisdom and revelation is given to you, you will see another reason for living which is the hope of His calling. Immediately there is hope, there is life, and if there is life, there is a future (destiny) and a new life has started.

 

What some people know as hope are plans, purposes and pursuits taught by the world. As a man, you are not designed to be an architect or a medical doctor. That is part of what we will do on earth but is not our real purpose. You are higher than architecture. You can be an architect but that is not your real profession. You have a profession and Jesus is the high priest of your profession (Heb. 3:1). You have a profession that needs to be unveiled and that profession is Christ. This profession is called ‘The profession of our faith’.

 

When you are walking by faith, you are actually working but man can’t see it. It is a work in the Spirit. Nobody will pay you on earth for it. In fact, they will slap you and tell you that you have not done anything.  Every labour that is void of faith remains unseen by God. Your natural profession cannot enter the Spirit.  God is aware of the natural work you are doing and He can connect you and use it but your primary profession is Christ. Do not shut down the profession in the Spirit and then elevate that which is low. As a professional in the realm of the spirit, you can also handle the natural, but that is not who you are. You can do many things but be a man of one thing like David (Ps. 27:4). In the face of many things, do one thing (Phil. 3:10). There is one thing that is ahead of you; CHRIST.

The supreme task is not evangelism or even preaching; but to be conformed to His image. It is not an ordinary thing to know Christ and only few come into Him. Apostle Paul said; ‘This is one thing I do’ (Phil. 3:13). He had preached but that was not the one thing that he did. There was something that he did; reaching forth unto the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. You need to reach forth. He said; ‘Not having my own righteousness but that which of faith, the faith of God’.

When you walk by the faith of God, you are reaching forth to the high calling of God in Christ.  Please do this one thing, because I know men do not like this job of conforming to His image. It is a job that seems not to accredit you in the natural. Some preachers have turned Christianity to philanthropy and don’t like talking about be conformed to Christ’s image.

Practicing your profession (i.e. Christ) would cause reactions from the enemy because he hates faith, so Jesus said ‘when I come, will I find faith on earth?  Faith is our profession. God wants you to do what men cannot do. Do not just be limited to what men can do; go beyond that. Tap into the realm of invisible and walk there. When you walk in the Spirit, you make yourself fruitful in every good work (Col. 1:9–10)

Bless You.

Rev. Kayode Oyegoke
Revelation Fellowship Hour

29th March, 2014 (2^nd Half)

 

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