Introduction To The Gospel That Belongs To Christ - Part 3

Dearly Beloved,

It may interest you to know that the first owner and the first being to preach the gospel was God (Rom. 1:1) and his first audience was Adam (Gen. 2:16-17). Unfortunately, the same disobedience that has become a norm today was what limited Adam from experiencing the divine life/eternal power of God’s Gospel which was packaged in the tree of life (Gen. 2:9c/Jn. 6:53/Rev. 22:2). Adam therefore couldn’t not morph into a higher order of spiritual life beyond that of The Living Soul (Gen. 2:71Cor. 15:45b).

Adam understood the tough demands of the Gospel much more than most believers/ministers today. He was not just a Believer in stature but like Angels, was created complete, had Knowledge and wasn’t deceived like Eve was (1Tim. 2:14a). Adam understood the demands of God’s love, light and life and knew that he had to fight the Good Fight of Faith All His Life to lay hold of eternal life, and like believers still do today, he opted for an Adventure With The World which was subtly promoted by the tree of knowledge (1 Tim. 2:14/6:12)

(a)  Through the disobedience of Adam:

1.     We have no testimony of the Faith of Adam in the book of Hebrews chapter 11, because Adam didn’t appreciate beyond the stature of the Faith of The Living Soul to the Faith of God which should have taken place by Obeying God’s Gracious Instruction.

2.     A kind of faith that would sustain men after the fall was later born, i.e. Faith Towards God, which carnal men could start and exercise while managing the natural with the carnal aspect of faith.

3.     A course was set for the reign of spiritual death and sin from Adam to Moses (Rom. 5:14) and it later took the dismantling and reconstructing of a vessel (i.e. Moses) and the ministry of his tabernacle/the ark for this reign of death to suffer loss while it ultimately took the death and resurrection of Jesus to totally abolish sin and death (2Tim. 1:10)

(b)  Through the obedience Abraham:

1.     We saw an inheritance and testimony of faith called The Faith of Abraham (Rom. 4:16), as he kept faith while journeying out of an idolatrous/faithless background and attained the measure of the stature of Faith Towards God, thereby opening up a lineage in the spirit wherein Christ would come and man could inherit/partake of God’s Own Faith/Life

(c)  Through the obedience Jesus (by the eternal Spirit):

1.     We saw the raw voltage of God’s life, power, nature and God’s express image in operation for the first time! The faith/power that ONLY belonged to and was only exercised by the Godhead was finally accessed by a man, a son of man, i.e. MAN EXPERIENCED GOD’S LIFE, OPERATED GOD’S FAITH FOR THE FIRST TIME AND GOD’S GOSPEL BECAME THE GOSPEL OF THE CHRIST AND COULD BECOME THE POSSESSION OF ANY SAINT THAT WOULD WALK LIKEWISE!

(d)  Through the obedience of another man (i.e. Apostle Paul) and other men (i.e. the apostles etc):

1.     We saw how the Gospel (i.e. God’s life/power) can become our personal possession and this gave the likes of Apostle Paul the audacity to say in Romans 2:16 “…. God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to MY GOSPEL” (i.e. God’s Gospel had become the Gospel of Jesus Christ and later Paul’s Gospel, Paul’s Life = Col. 3:4)

2.     We also saw how the divine life stored in the Gospel elevated saints into the fellowship of the beginning that was (i.e. John 1:1) before the beginning of Genesis 1:1, i.e. the fellowship of the Godhead which glorious angels and without sin cant partake of = 1Jn.1:1-3

You may therefore agree with me that what God preached to Adam, Jesus and what he declared as a promise through many prophets (Rom. 1:2) over centuries was NOT the earthly provisions that brings and keeps many believers in church i.e. healing, prosperity, deliverance e.t.c. None of these INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS OF THE GOSPEL was a need to Adam while God instructed him to settle for His Gospel and even afterwards!

Only God knows when believers, ministers, you and I plan to settle for the core Gospel of God, an operation that only starts when the he succeeds in weaning us (Isa. 28:9) from the preeminent church meals and delivering us from what we know/call PROMISES/BLESSINGS so we can partake of THE PROMISE/THE BLESSING (1Jn. 2:25/Ps. 24:5) of the New Testament before we drop our earth suit/mortal bodies.

With the eye of the Spirit and by the sure mercies of God, I can see a gradual migration of worthy seekers and loving enquirers from the Ephemeral Provisions of the introductory aspect of the Gospel (i.e. Heb. 6:1-2) which was simply designed to ADVERTISE THE GOSPEL to the Divine Provisions (Eph. 1:3) ordained to make us PARTAKERS OF GOD’S GOSPEL, i.e. the divine nature (2Pet. 1:4)

Bless You!

Tayo Fasan

Introduction To The Gospel That Belongs To Christ - Part 2

Dearly Beloved,

It may interest you to acknowledge that the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are accounts of some disciples, detailing the supernatural walk of how Jesus of Nazareth (Matt. 1:21) was processed into becoming Jesus the Christ (Acts 2:36)

Acts 2:36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the same Jesus (i.e. then/now), whom ye have crucified, both

(i.e. Many Christians have BELIEVED in Jesus of Nazareth because they can relate with his carnal provisions/additions,  but have hardly KNOWN Jesus whom has been made both Lord and Christ, because this can only take place after tarrying with the REVELATIONS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE GOSPEL, WHICH UNVEILS HIM– Rom. 1:16-17).

We later saw how God had to raise a John the Baptist whose earthly course (i.e. priesthood) was interrupted from his mother’s womb, how he was introduced to the wilderness where he acquired the needed spiritual stature to discern the person of Jesus. We also saw how he started his ministry as A Voice From The Wilderness and not as A Great Movement From Any Center Of A Civilization, in consonance with God wisdom to use the weak and base things of this world to confound the mighty - Mark. 1:3/1 Cor. 1:27

The heavenly/earthly walk of Jesus was therefore documented in:

1.        The book of Matthew where he was portrayed as THE KING SAVIOR with reference of his kingly generations;
2. -       The book of Mark where he was portrayed as THE SLAVE SAVIOR with no reference to his status or genealogy, but rather detailing His excellent deeds in serving the will of His father to the uttermost.
3.        The book of Luke where he was portrayed as THE MAN SAVIOR with reference to his genealogy from Adam and an emphasis on his humanity in divinity i.e. as Son of Man
4.        The book of John where he was portrayed as THE GOD SAVIOR with emphasizes on the savior’s deity in humanity as Son of God with profound revelations of Divine Truths meant to bring the Soul of saints into Perfection.

John the Baptist, like the initial disciples of Jesus were all limited in untying or unveiling the latchet of his shoes, i.e. UNVEILING THE MYSTERY/SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING THAT INFORMED HIS DIVINE WALK, BECAUSE THAT WAS SUBJECT TO THE MINISTRY OF THE SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD WHO WAS YET TO BE REVEALED (Jn. 16:13). When the Spirit of Truth was later revealed, it took his activities as the Spirit of Wisdom, of Revelation (Eph. 1:17-18), of Counsel, of Might (Eph. 3:16), of Knowledge and finally of the fear of God (Isa. 11:2) to unveil the fullness of Jesus walk on earth

Mark 1:7 … and preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes (i.e. spiritual walk =Eph. 6:15) I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose (i.e. because John didn’t fall under the dispensation of those that would receive the holy ghost needed to discern Christ’s Kingdom Walk while on earth).

It may interest you to know that the disciples made apostles were later processed by these seven Spirits of God and acquired a stature that enabled them Speak and Write to the Churches/Saints (Rev. 1:4/2:7), a divine standard that has been subtly fought by CEREBRAL TEACHINGS in churches today were ministers focus on polishing untransformed minds (Rom. 12:2) rather PREACHING CHRIST and HIS CROSS (1Cor. 2:2). The preeminence of this abnormally has limited the true Gospel of Christ from being taught.

Through the merciful passions of God to commit His Gospel to those that would journey back to him like his Son did through Obedience and Sufferings, we see:

1.    How God ended the race of the first Adam, planted the divine seed of an uncreated life in the last Adam (Jesus) and raised a tree of righteousness in him - (Isa. 61:3)

2.    How Jesus inherited the father and became The Only Begotten Son having brought God to mankind as The Word (God expressed), Life (God imparted), Light (God Revealed), Grace (God Enjoyed) and Truth (God Realized/Apprehended). Jn. 1:18/51

3.    How the introductory aspect of the Gospel introduces all new believers to the Foundation of Faith called Faith In God/Towards God (Mk. 11:22/Heb. 6:1-2), a beginner course where believers learn to relate develop their faith in God by trusting him for help in their natural/carnal life.

4.    How believers are later meant to journey into a more matured expression of Faith described in Eph. 1:14/Col. 1:4 as Faith in The Lord Jesus, where they find grace to add virtue, temperance and patience to their initial faith (2Pet. 1:5-6) while Continuing in His Word (Jn. 8:31) and preparing to be Disciples (Jn. 8:31/Eph. 1:17-18).

5.    How the gospel finally beckons to such maturing believers to settle for The Faith of The Son (Gal. 2:20/Acts 28:16), which is no longer their faith (Eph. 1:15) but God’s. This faith has the spiritual technology to END  THE EXISTENCE OF SELF AND BUILD US INTO A HOLY HABITATION FOR GOD (Eph. 2:22/Isa. 66:1-3).

6.    That the materials that can build The True Church (i.e. saints) are The Revelations Concerning Both Christ And His Church (Matt. 16:16-18) and New Testament ministers that speak of Christ must do so as oracles and only within The Perimeter of The Reveled Truths.

Christ inherited the gospel from God, Apostle Paul inherited it from Christ and Rom. 2:16 confirms that the secret of every man would be judged by which he preached/wrote. The judgment seat of Christ (2Cor. 5:10) would ultimately reveal whether our works/walk could be likable to WOOD/GRASS/STUBBLE (i.e. exploits from an unrenewed mind/untransformed soul) or GOLD/SILVER/PRECIOUS STONES (i.e. exploits from a soul that journeyed to the end of faith which carries the attributes of the triune God). 1 Cor. 3:12-13

This Gospel is the Most Excellent Profession and Knowledge On Earth (Heb. 3:1/10:23/Phil. 3:8). It documents how BELIEVERS can become DISCIPLES and how DISCIPLES should end up as SONS OF GOD, i.e. a Kingdom of Priests Unto God. (Jn. 8:31-32/Rev. 5:9-10)

The actual Gospel of Christ unveils God through revelational teachings (Rom. 16:25b) that helps believers journey back to The Father (Jn. 13:3)! When churches begin to open their doors to it, the present emphasis on biblical subjects would change and God’s Glorious/Eternal Power would be unlocked, amen. (Rom. 1:16/Col. 1:11/Rom. 1:20)

Bless You

Introduction To The Gospel That Belongs To Christ - Part 1

Dearly Beloved,

One of the reasons we have seen very few saints who compellingly look like or have attained unto the meek nature of a hardly known Lord and Christ Jesus is because God has hardly succeeded in committing His Gospel (personal life) to such, like he did to his Son, Apostle Paul, other apostles and very few in other generations!

How Was The Gospel of God Received by Christ and Then Revealed Unto Men?

·        The Gospel was initially the Gospel of God (Rom. 1:1). It was God’s Treasured Possession before heaven, earth or man was created. It was God’s order of life

·      Through the complete obedience and sufferings of Jesus (1Pet. 1:11/Heb. 5:8), He laid his life down for it (Jn. 10:17), fetched that gospel (God’s life) from God, and that Gospel then became the inherence of Jesus Christ and was then called the Gospel of Christ – Rom.1:16.

·      In turn, Apostle Paul through several encounters (Act 26:15-16) with the glorified Lord and via fellowshipping of sufferings (2Cor. 1:5/Col. 1:24), received the gospel (Gal. 1:16) and declared it to those who were apostles before him (Gal. 2:9/2Pet. 3:15) and to generations unborn via his writings (Eph. 3:2/Rom.2:16&16:25).

What Is the Introductory and Core aspects of The Gospel?

I.       The Gospel has an Introductory Aspect (like we have introduction to physics) that advertises the Core Aspect (like we have the core syllabus of physics). Miracles, breakthroughs are the introductory provisions that make up the elementary provisions (Heb. 6:1a) of the gospel. But the core Gospel of Christ contains Depth or God’s Secrets, which only comes by revelation and is meant to glory us with a superior glory than what Adam had. (Pls see Rom. 16:25/1Cor. 2:9/Jn.3:35/5:20).

II.      God’s secret remains very precious so heaven only communicates it to those who are dissatisfied with the blessings of God’s hand and desire the blessings that reside in his face (2Cor. 3:18).

III.     It takes the activities of the Seven Spirits of The Throne (Isa. 11:2) that has been sent forth into all the earth (Rev. 5:6) to gradually unveil the gospel of Christ, beginning with the first pair Spirit; the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation (Eph. 1:17-18).

IV.     Just like the curriculum of Introduction to Mathematics is different from Core Mathematics, so also is introduction to the gospel different from the actual gospel of Christ! Everything that men through FAITH IN/TOWARDS GOD (Mk. 11:22/Heb. 6:1) could relate with before and after the earthly ministry of Jesus are the introductory aspect of the gospel.

V.      What God exemplified through Father Abraham’s life was how he would ground a man carnal pursuit and give such His Gospel, His Life/Faith, which today should produce A NEW MAN IN CHRIST (2Cor. 5:17/Rev. 21:5) out of us, so we attain the glorified state which our human spirit came into through new birth (Eph. 2:1)

VI.     Many believers carnally relate with Abraham’s blessing which is neither the material blessings of Gen. 13:2 nor even Isaac! It was a spiritual inheritance typified by Canaan (Heb. 11:8), which was later unveiled in the New Testament as Christ, our Eternal Inheritance - (Eph. 1:14/Heb. 1:4/9:15).

VII.   The Gospel as God’s Life, is superior to that of angels, though they sin not! It’s the divine life God has been trying to give to man (Ps. 8:4/Heb. 2:6) as ordained before the world to bring us into Glory (1Cor. 2:7). It comprises the deep things hidden of God which only the Holy Ghost can search out (1Cor. 2:10) and reveal to our spirit in hope that our soul would decode it.

VIII.  The Gospel unveils God’s exceedingly great and precious promises (2Pet. 1:4) which we can only partake of after we have escaped and grown above the stature of corruption i.e. above Satan’s height/wiles (Eph. 6:11) and therefore would conform to Zion’s stones (Isa. 28:16/1Pet. 2:5-6/Rev. 14:1-4&21:18-19).

Bless You!

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AND SIN BECAME A PERSONAL HISTORY & TRUE HOLINESS A REALITY - Part 6

Dearly Beloved,

It would be forward on my part to claim I know one of God’s choicest servants, Moses. I am yet to fathom how painful it was after decades of being emptied of a high degree of self through God’s tough dealings in the wilderness, after interceding/laboring over a stiff necked Israel, after seeing God’s face (i.e. shadow), to later get to the junction where he was SHOWN THE LAND OF CANAAN FROM AFAR OFF BUT TOLD HE COULDN'T ENTER IT BECAUSE OF AN ACT OF UNBELIEF? Deu. 34:1-7.

But for this transgression, Moses would not have smelt death! If he had completed the syllabus of faithfulness like we are called to (i.e. give God the glory by speaking to the rock, which was Christ and thereby not sanctifying the Lord God before Israel – Num. 20:11-12) he would have:

1. Overcome such SIN OF THE HEART which the following transcribed message x-rays as UNBELIEF
2. Entered the Promised Land
3. Been translated to heaven without seeing death like Enoch and Elijah didn’t see death.

After spending some over 5 hrs going over and over and over the following message, I found the Lord calling his saints to REPENTANCE, like Moses definitely must have later repented of this one wrong, leaving no stain rested upon his character before heaven’s books.

GRACEFUL READING!

AND SIN BECAME A PERSONAL HISTORY & TRUE HOLINESS A REALITY - Part 6

(AN X-RAY OF UNBELIEF, THE ROOT OF ALL SINS)

TEXT: HEBREWS 3 :10-19

Heb. 3:10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. 3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you AN EVIL HEART OF UNBELIEF, in departing from the living God. 3:18 And to whom swear he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? 3:19 So we see that they could not enter in BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF.

·            Sin in this passage is that of unbelief, which is the root of all sin. The Bible therefore says the unbelieving and the fearful etc shall not have a part/inheritance in God – Rev. 21:8

·            Unbelief is not just when you say ‘I do not believe’. We need to see how deep and disastrous it is. Out of it springs every other things called unrighteousness which made God says concerning the children of Israel … they always err in their heart not knowing my ways – Heb. 3:10

·            The first place unbelief was found was in the heart. The Bible says whatever is not of faith is sin (Rom. 14:23), in other words, we can also say that whatever unbelief would bring forth would be sin before God.

·            When you begin to see unbelief as sin, you will really be able to understand sin when it changes form. THAT WHICH IS SIN TO SOMEONE WHO IS AN UNBELIEVER SHOULD BE AN ABOMINATION TO A BELIEVER.

·            THE OPERATION OF SIN IS HIGHER THAN ACTS. The Bible says ‘They always err in their heart, i.e.  It’s a HEART ISSUE, not just ACTS ISSUE. Sins that are not obvious to believers are that of an erring heart and such sins don’t seem great to us because it is unseen (i.e. not related to tangible actions) but it has a height and weight in the realm of the spirit

·            When someone who does not have a womb tries to hold the seed of truth, such would always cast her young (Exo. 23:26) like it is in the natural. When the seed (i.e. truth) comes, you are required to hold it steadfastly (Heb. 3:14) unto the end lest it gets aborted.

·            Maturation/fruit bearing is the end of what has been sown into our hearts, so WHAT UNBELIEF DOES IS THAT IT LIMITS THE HEART FROM HOLDING THE SEEDS OF TRUTH UNTO THE END AND CAUSES AN ABORTION IN THE SPIRIT. many believers therefore keep hearing but can’t come into knowledge of the truth – 2 Tim. 3:7

·            As light increases, there are certain things that God will want us to BELIEVE and then RECEIVE, which would enable us inherit him, and we can’t RECEIVE such SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS if we have unbelief in our hearts.

·            Zacharias by the virtue of the priesthood was meant to stand God’s presence like Gabriel did. Angel Gabriel therefore implied from experience that Zacharias who likewise came into the holy place to accomplish service for Isreal, had been exposed to God’s presence and had gotten to a realm where his doubt couldn’t be entertained in such court. He therefore became dumb for a season when he doubted

·            As simple as unbelief looks, it’s a sin that wouldn’t be entertained at such level. The holy place is where the seven golden candlesticks reside; signifying the seven Spirits of God (Isa. 11:2-3/Rev. 1:4) and heaven won’t entertain unbelief when you get there.

·            The more light/revelation comes, the more the responsibility of expressing faith and the more heaven would demand that you rely and absolutely trust on them. Moses’ unbelief was non-negotiable because heaven expected him to KNOW BETTER. Apostle Paul therefore said in 2Cor. 5:11 ... ”Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men”

·            It is in this sense that the Bible says ‘Let not many of you desire to be teachers’, because teachers will be judged more strictly (James. 3:1). The anointing makes teachers/preachers of the word to SEE and if you see and don’t walk in the light of what you are seeing and preaching, you would FALL SHORT of entering it.

·            Moses was told ‘this issue is non-negotiable’. We will not allow you go further because you erred.’ If the Bible did not mention it; you as a reader will not know that he erred in doing so. Greater light had come to Moses so he was told to SPEAK TO THE ROCK and not to STRIKE THE ROCK and heaven counted it as UNBELIEF when he did otherwise and Moses was called home.

·            This is the connection; speaking to the rock would have sanctified the Lord (Num. 27:14) before the people and God was denied of this honor! Moses had been used to hitting the rock. He did so the first and second time and water came out but the people drank and did not know what had gone wrong in the spirit….

·            When revelation is coming; the purpose is to both RAISE YOU and to SANCTIFY THE LORD BEFORE HIS PEOPLE. In other words, there are things you SHOULD NOT DO any longer when revelation has come to you

·            The children of Israel erred severally, and God forgave them on several occasions, but took note of ten key occasions (Num. 14:22) that later made them to fall short of entering into his rest.

·            The bible brands a heart that does not belief an EVIL HEART because out of it will flow things that are not consistent with God’s ways.  As revelations come, the ways of God are delivered to us which in turn would lead us into the path of salvation.

·            To be meek is to lack the ability to defend yourself because you truly believe in God. Lowliness is an expression of faith. Pride is as a result of unbelief in the heart. Haughtiness of heart is an expression of unbelief. Many haven’t subscribed to meekness because they don’t believe/trust in the invisible. Many rely on things that can be seen.

·            One who is meek is strong, though looks week before a worldly eye. One who is lowly is strong and would inherit the earth (i.e. judge the earth like Adam, Moses etc did) - Matt. 5:5. The proud will not inherit the earth because he cannot obey the spiritual laws that would enable man to govern the earth.

·            Jesus won spiritual battles strictly with meekness and lowliness which are the expressions of faith of the operation of God (Col. 2:12) , not that of faith towards God (Heb. 6:1). Anyone whom such faith is working in would come into meekness.

·            Isa. 66:2 says ‘but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit (i.e. meek), and trembleth at my word.

·            When God finds such soul, he would build such to be faithful house like Moses was found and built (Heb. 3:5). Moses did not look like a building when he was walking in the wilderness but that was where he was made a general with a military strategy that men knew not (i.e. the use of a staff before Pharaoh/parting of the Red Sea e.t.c). It takes meekness to learn and be built to exercise such authority. God brings His generals down/low, to a place where they are nothing so that He will be their all in all!

·            God will not come until man is finished. God was only able to raise Jesus because He had gone to the lowest part of hell. The more light you access, the more lowly you become and the more you are strengthened in God.

-    Pst. Emeka Egwuchukwu 

       (Snr. Pst. Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministries)

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