Another Look @ John Chapter 3 – Part 12

Dearly Beloved,

Have you ever discerned that the bible contains SEEDS governed by Ephemeral Milky Promises and a SEED governed by Eternal Meaty Promises? The following transcribed ministration attempts to gracefully pay homage to this understanding.

Pls note that some biblically deduced inferences based on previous instructions on such truths over the years has been has been personally referenced to by me in the following transcribed message, to further collaborate it

I trust the Lord that you would find grace to patiently read with an open heart.

-    Tayo

Another Look @ John Chapter 3 – Part 12

1Pet. 1:13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ

• From the above scripture, we can see that there is a peculiar aspect of grace that comes ONLY when Jesus Christ is unveiled, not when we have a sermon on Jesus of Nazareth and such are ministrations that unveil the kingdom of God.
• Christ is the first fruit of the kingdom and he wants to plant in us the seed of that kingdom.
• Before You Can Declare The Lord, You Must Have Been Taught Christ (Eph. 4:20-21), then you would be given the pen of a ready writer (Ps. 45:1), which is the tongue of the learned (Isa. 50:4)
• God is full of Grace. With each seed (i.e. word from God) comes a peculiar grace. There is a touch of divine life upon each seed which carries its own particular grace and brings forth after its kind.
• The Kingdom has SEEDS (i.e. plural tense) and also has its SEED (i.e. singular tense). The former (i.e. SEEDS) can take care of our natural needs but it would take the later (i.e. SEED) to take care of our spiritual or eternal needs.
• Amongst the SEEDS of the kingdom, each SEED has its peculiarity, its own promise, spiritual vocabulary, intelligence and bears a kind of fruit, but the SEED of the kingdom is not of this earthly dimension. The carnal/natural mind of a believer or unbeliever can relate with biblical SEEDS, because it has terrestrial expressions and we call such today PROOFS, RESULTS/SUCCESS.
• Angels were ascending and descending upon Jesus because he had become a tree of righteousness, a fully grown SEED. He was the personality of the kingdom amidst men.

Jn 17:20-21 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you (i.e. amidst them was the personality of the kingdom in the person of Jesus).

• When it comes to the SEED of the kingdom, you need an order of words or accelerated utterance, such which Apostle Paul prayed for (Eph. 6:19), to convey the expressions of the SEED of the kingdom and therefore make known the MYSTERY OF THE GOSPEL/CHRIST (Rom. 16:25)

• To find the SEEDS in the bible is easy, but to find the SEED is difficult. A minister or ministry can easily find biblical SEEDS, do great works with it but still be tossed to and from by wind of doctrines/teachings (Eph. 4:14). A motivational speaker can easily relate with the SEEDS in the bible and BUILD A MINISTRY (Matt. 7:22-23/Lk. 13:26/27) thereby, but it would take great mercies to locate the SEED of the Kingdom and BUILD MEN (Matt. 16:18) thereby.

Matt. 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? And in thy name done many wonderful works? 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

(i.e. you can do a lot of wonderful outward works/exploits in ministry, but with the iniquity program still present in such minister/ministry, men can’t be built in the Knowledge of God’s Will needed for an entrance into the kingdom = Matt. 7:21/2 Pet. 1:4-11)

• To find and stay with SEED of the kingdom is tough! You must be ready to be mocked by other friends, relatives and even ministers. You must be ready for the shame that comes with the gospel =Rom. 1:16a=.
•  The grain of Mustard Seed (Matt. 13:31-32) was likened to being the least of all Seeds and therefore is difficult to FIND or KEEP. Other words would come and tempt your heart. Blessed are you if your find and can keep it. Trials and tribulations would come as a result of such seed (Mark 4:17), because it's not of this terrain and many fail the test of such pressures.

Matt. 13:31 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard SEED (i.e. singular tense), which a man took, and sowed in his field: 13:32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds (i.e. plural tense): but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree

(i.e. That which would raise a believer into becoming a full blown fruit/tree of righteousness = Isa 61:3 = is the Gospel of Christ, the SEED of the kingdom, through it would the good tidings of THE GOSPEL BE REECIVE IN MEEKNESS – Isa. 61:1b)

• Satan used the letters of biblical SEEDS to tempt the Lord Jesus in various ways in Matthew chapter 4, but the Lord responses to each temptation came from the incorruptible SEED that liveth and abideth forever (1Pet. 1:23)

• The incorruptible SEED was what the Lord was making reference to when he said severally "heaven and earth shall pass away, but not a title of my word shall pass away". Earthly promises that biblical SEEDS produce would always pass away, be it a car, house, shelter, clothing, food etc.

• That which doesn't pass way is related to the kind of God’s love stated in 1Pet. 1Vs. 22 and such is the love that causes our outwards man to go through seasons of death while submitting to God’s dealings/trials. Love is the atmosphere the incubates the seed

1Pet 1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

• The SEED of the kingdom is that which deals with our boundaries, crack our walls and annul our mindsets, so we don’t welcome it like we would welcome biblical SEEDS with juicy promises.
•  His kingdom is not the present heavens. The kingdom has been ruling over the present heavens =Ps. 103:19= for time immemorial and has longed to rule over the earth, over man. When it concludes that agenda, the present heavens would be packed and done away with in fulfillment of 2 Pet. 3:10-13.
•  As you mature in the Spirit, your meal changes and some carnal messages would no more appeal to you. Others would cause you constipation when you fall back on such. Matured meals demand more patience and hardly have to do with what many believers would readily celebrate as the PROOFS or RESULTS of the Christian faith!
• When the SEED of the kingdom is found with you, angels would minister to you in fulfillment of Hebrews 1:14. Your night vigils and fasting would cease to attend to your natural needs then, because heaven has ordained that such would be brought forth as an addition =Matt. 6:33= as you wait on that seed.
• Heaven would teach you contentment when you get here and deal with us as a sojourner like they did to those faithful ones in Hebrews 11. This is where heaven would begin to exchange your strength with theirs =Isa. 40:31= and also regulate the supply of your natural needs while channeling more grace to ensure your continuity in the path of life 
• As you hold that SEED, you would partake of more grace, and if you continue to the end (Matt. 10:22/24:13), you would end in the father (Jn. 13:3), not just in heaven like the thief on the cross/many believers would do. 
• Lk. 8 vs. 11 describes the SEED as the WORD OF GOD and 1Pet. 1:23 describes it as THE INCORRUPTIBLE SEED designed to continually save the soul of believers
• The purpose of the SEED is COMPLETE SALVATION and SALVATION BELONGS UNTO TO OUR GOD WHO IS SEATED ON THE THRONE! Rev. 12:10
• Some abort the purpose of the seed and fall away when tempted, like Adam did, unlike Jesus did.
• The cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches/success (Mark 4:19) can't coexist with this SEED. 
• The lord wants us to be materially prosperous but hates covetousness which is yet to be dealt amongst many believers. Following the leading of the Spirit is the antidote to covetousness and then would the Lord comfortable bring us into a blame-free material riches.
• The hearts of many believers have so far held ephemeral things at the expense of holding that SEED. Things that perish while being used cause our hearts to perish when we hold unto them at the expense of holding the SEED of the kingdom.
• A good ground according to Lk. 8 Vs. 8/15 is a good heart is such that can keep the SEED of the kingdom. David Calls such heart a Pure Heart =Ps. 24:4. Jacob's heart could keep Gods things, it could keep faith so God called such heart GOOD,  though he was a surplanter and cunning upstairs.

Bless You!

-    Pst Emeka Egwuchukwu

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Glory Vs. The Glory - Part 2

Beloved of God,

There is a reason for a major emphasis in the New Testament on seeking things that are not subject to degradation or corruption, seeking goodly pearls that are real in the realm of reality/truth, seeking divine things that would determine our personality in the world age to come when time would have been swallowed up by eternity (Matt.13:45/6:33). This is because it is the only safe way to lavish the soul’s energy bank called our affection. (Col. 3:1)

2 Cor. 4:18  “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; BUT THE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT SEEN ARE ETERNAL.”

The need for clarity on this elusive emphasis was what prompted the Lord Jesus to counsel those who should make up the company called FEW (Matt. 7:14) to ‘labour not for the meat that perishes but for that meat which endures unto everlasting life. (Jn. 6:27)

We must be as concerned as God is about things that transcend time because it is eternally costlier for us to learn in heaven, what we were meant to learn while on earth? If God would not be ashamed to be called Our God, we must be prepared to live as strangers and pilgrims on earth (Heb. 11:13-16) while discountenancing the glories of this world as we fight the good fight of faith.

Heb.  11:13 -16 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. 11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city (i.e. a rest)

1 Pet. 1:24 “For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man (i.e natural/carnal man) as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower thereof falls away. BUT THE WORD OF THE LORD ENDURES FOREVER.”

The essence of Apostle Paul’s prayer in Eph. 1:17-18 was so that the Ephesian believers would journey from receiving Jesus as Savior wherein they carried out exploits of Faith Towards God and Love Unto All Brethren (Eph. 1:14) into an intimate relationship wherein they would Know Jesus as The Christ, for this is where the blindness of hearts can be dealt with and this is where they would rightly appraise what God calls GLORY. We unfortunately assume that the new birth takes care of our hearts blindness, but the provision for this is enumerated in Apostle Paul’s commission in Acts. 28:18 and takes place years; if not unfortunately decades after many come into the Christian faith.

Acts. 26:18 TO OPEN THEIR EYES and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness/remission of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me

The power managing man’s blindness is not an operation from demons but Satan, and it can only be destroyed when the eyes of our understanding is enlightened (Eph. 1:18) when we come into REVELATION KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST. By Believing Jesus, we can handle demons, but it takes Knowledge of The Christ for us to handle Satan, the prince of this world

Our inability to distinguish between Believing In Jesus and Knowing Jesus Christ leaves us giving a Religious Approach To The Christian Faith  

• By Religion, I mean that which I practiced for the 1^st 18 years of my life when I believed I was a Christian because I always went to Church!
• By religion, I mean that which is inferior to Satan’s Wisdom, born when Adam began to relate with God with his fallen understanding through which he therefore sewed fig leaves
• By religion, I mean the vast intellectually appealing thoughts lacking in divine revelation of ‘How To Please Or Serve God’, but present in the air and celebrated by man after the fall.
• By religion I mean a carnal unlawful knowledge of Jesus after the flesh (2Cor. 5:16), the very stumbling block of the Pharisees, Sadducees and even his disciples at various point in time.
• By religion, I mean that which despises the true essence of Faith that THE JUST SHOULD LIVE BY (Hab. 2:4/Gal. 3:11) and thereby settling for forms of godliness that never lacks the approval of men.
• By religion, I mean every earthly bound philosophy of Cain which cant thrive in God’s presence, though can result in the building of a city after departing God’s presence (Gen. 4:16).
• By religion, I mean that body of intellectual information traceable to ‘the letters in the bible’ that has invaded the church in the form of motivational teachings, e.t.c., which lacks the wisdom of comparing spiritual with spiritual by the aid of the Holy Ghost. (1Cor. 2:13)

The Lord’s desire is that his Church, you and I, would begin to passionately Seek Unseen Things like we once sought the world, for this is what can give us an edge over fallen spirits that rule this world. Such are The Secrets of The Lord that would enable us to Sight The Invincible like Moses did (Heb. 11:26-27) and Prosper in God’s Definition Of Prosperity. Then would we esteem and prepare to partake in Christ’s Greater Riches (Heb. 11.26), which is God’s ordained True Riches, Our Spiritual Inheritance and Glory. (Eph. 1:3/3:8/1 Tim. 6:17/Lk. 16:11)

Bless You!

Glory V. Glories - Part 1

Dear Beloved,

I realize that the earth holds custody of innumerable glories of different kind. Some lawful, but in view of the tiny portion of eternity called time where we live, others are expedient. Apostle Paul therefore said clarified thus ‘We can have the things of The World (earthly goods/glories) but shouldn't abnormally use it’. However, it takes Mercy to know that only the person of the Holy Spirit can reveal the boundary that governs the use of natural ‘blessings/glories’, outside which we would become captivated i.e. become lawful captives. (1 Cor. 15:41/Jn. 14:26/Lk. 4:18)

Isa. 49:24 “Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, or the lawful captive delivered? …

1 Cor. 6:12 “All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.”

-          There is a glory around clothing. Though legitimate, I once found myself as a passionate captive of a ‘pull’ that made me steal and covet the buying of ‘crested designer clothing’ in the early 90’s, a hype of that season. (1 Jn. 2:15-16)

-          There is a glory around beautiful automobiles. While it should be a tool to fulfill ‘purpose’, I recall those youthful days when I stood for days by a highway during festive seasons, watching travelers with different brands of cars while travelling home during festive seasons. That was one of my unknown ‘idols’ as an unbeliever. I lavished the affection that should be set ‘above’ on cars! No wonder some would go far beyond their means or do many things against their conscience just to get an automobile. (Col. 1:18/Col. 3:2/1 Jn. 5:21)

-          There is a glory around pleasures. No wonder I was responsible for organizing parties for youths from various secondary schools way back, sneaking out of boarding school to carry out various exciting works of the flesh. (Gal. 5:19-20)

This list is endless, the experience is that of The Soul but I’ll hereby witness to The Greatest Subtle Enemy To Obtaining God’s Glory which once existed before mankind ‘slept’ and ‘awoke’ to another reality labeled as Glory! (Matt. 13:25/28)

If we attempt to view the skeleton of the book of Genesis, we would find an awesome expectation, a divine burden borne by the Godhead, all to see man inherit the Glory of God.

·         When David had a clue of this yearning, he asked ‘What makes God’s mind full of man’, what makes such a great being to condescend to man in every generation. (Ps. 8:4)

·         When Paul comprehended the length and breadth of this Glory, he proclaimed ‘Great is the Mystery of Godliness…’ The Mystery that assures us that we can supernaturally experience God like Jesus did! (1 Tim. 3:16)

·          When Paul realized that the Jews would miss out in a visitation meant to engraft them back to that Glory, he cried, ‘Oh that I was accursed from Christ for my brethren, Israel’s sake’. (Rom. 9:3)

·         When he further visualized it, his will was strengthened not only to suffer in chains but to die Christ sake. (Acts. 21:13)

We are predestined for Glory (Rom. 8:30), but have an enemy who fell short of God’s Glory and vehemently fights man that attempts to seek God’s Glory! Satan arsenal is the world, and that was what he employed in tempting Christ (Matt. 4:1-13). The world is that which appeals to a natural mind, has brought down the small and mighty and fights our capacity to delay gratification.

Our arch-enemy, Satan, understood the priestly order of the most holy courts of heaven before his fall and as a fallen priest, he effortlessly invented the law called Sin.

He knew that men would have to operate by one law or another, either by the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus or according to the Laws that emanate from a fellowship with the fruits of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil that gave birth to LUSTS. So he stepped into action in Gen. 4 and found Cain who fellowshipped with the signals of that tree until ‘SIN was lurking at his door’.

Satan understood that God wanted mankind to live by Faith (i.e. transact with the realm of the unseen), so he went into the physical realm and employed his ‘usurped authority over the air’ to beam and build lusts around everything that man could relate with through the 5 physical senses (i.e. anything with a physical expression from the creature to things invented). (Eze. 28:14-16/Dan. 10:20/Eze. 28:2/Eph. 2:2/Rom. 7:22-23/8:2/Gal. 6:2/Jam. 1:25)

Through Cain’s inordinate desire for independence from the Faith of Life, he promoted this virus while the likes of Nimrod who had an ability to hunt souls later perfected this vision. Satan effectively used the ‘air advantage’ which he stole from Adam to beam lustful thoughts over succeeding generations and heavily corrupted the software of God’s Life in the souls of men. He perverted the course of the spiritual laws of Faith meant to drive man’s Soul to attain the fullness of God’s Person. By Gen. 6, that virus had grounded the life of Faith. Glories around the earthly/carnal life had swallowed up God’s plan. The Physical Became The Only Reality To Man Not The Spiritual!

Every civilization under the sun have employed this virus and profited with it. It finds expression in virtually any profession on earth that lacks an understanding of The Profession of Faith (Heb. 3:1). This virus restricts Christ from permeating the Souls of Christians after losing out in their Human Spirit at new birth. This virus understands and flourishes with any religion not founded by the Revelations of Christ. It knows the measure of liability that every Christian poses to its agenda, depending on their walk. It knows that Christians are only as strong as their weakest point. This virus is called The Lust of The Flesh/Eyes and The Pride of Life, THE CONSTITUTION CALLED THE WORLD! (Matt. 16:18/Acts 19:15/1 Jn. 2:16)

I’m not primarily talking of the physical world even though that has not been left out. I’m talking about that force that we can only contend with head long with via the Wisdom of the Epistles which reveals The True Color of the World. I’m talking about those daily thoughts that besiege our minds that seek to strengthen mindsets/strongholds built before and after we came to know Christ as Savior but only crucified after we truly know Christ as LORD! (Prov. 4:23/Matt. 7:21)

Through the initial salvation in the mid 90’s, I ‘woke up’ from some youthful exuberance earlier mentioned, but my sight/judgment had been reduced and accustomed to ‘that which passes away – The World’. I had adapted to a world that kept recycling itself through ephemeral glories. I had deceptively learnt of a sufficiency outside Christ. I had spent a wholesome 18 yrs running as one that beats the air, celebrated by the blind, living in a world perfected with deception, busy nurturing the world’s very ambition to rob me of seeking the knowledge called Eternal Life which should have been preparing me for God’s Glory. (Eph. 4:17/1 Jn. 2:17/2 Cor. 3:5-6/1 Jn. 17:3/Jn. 5:20)

I then had to begin the fight to enthrone Christ as Lord (over my Will, Mind & Emotions), a daily costly patient race to disown the images/philosophies of LUSTS which can only be conquered gradually.

But thanks Be Unto God that I’m steadily being set free from The World after discovering a particular kind of Word called ‘The Word of Righteousness’ which exposes, handles and skillfully pierces The World! One that illustrates a faith other than that which is readily embraced and employed in the initial phase of our walk with God, i.e. The Faith of The Son! (Heb. 5:14/Acts 26:18/Gal. 2:20/Rev. 14:12)

Selah!

AND SIN BECAME A PERSONAL HISTORY & TRUE HOLINESS A REALITY - Part 2

Dearly Beloved,

1.    It may interest you to know that Apostle Paul’s job description/commission as summarized in Acts 26:18 was to deal with the blindness that was created by man’s unknown enemy and God’s sole enemy. But the most puzzling response to this from the church (you and I) is the fact that we all assume we have been healed of this blindness because we have been believers for decades and have carried out various mighty works/exploits!

2.       Apostle Peter for example, once carried out great exploits without having the issue of blindness dealt with while he was a disciple (Lk. 10:17) and even during the early stage as an Apostle of the milk of the word as confirmed by his initial exploits of the book of Acts (Acts 3:6 etc). His shortcomings in Acts 10:11-16 and Rom. 2:11-12 for example were due to limited spiritual enlightenment. After that blindness had been healed, we saw an Apostle Paul that wrote epistles with spiritual contents that neither can ever be reviewed by man nor easily understood by the professors of this world.

3.       It may also interest you to know that the being we see behind the mirror, i.e. the outward man (1Pet. 3:3) was not the being that David called being fearfully and wonderfully made (Ps. 139:14a). David was describing the awesome being called the SOUL, whose singular calling is to Know God, full stop! The soul which was wisely described as the inward man (Ps. 139:14d/2Cor. 4:16) was later Caught In A Mysterious Thicket Called Sin, though called to attain the same glorious/thronic state of the regenerated human spirit, the inner man, which is the hidden man of the heart (Eph. 3:16/1Pet. 3:4a).

4.      While we have all manner of dreams, visions and pursuit in life and ministry today, David’s vision, passion and dream was to become like God (Ps. 17:15), to become like an unrevealed Christ! Today, we need the help of the seven spirits of the throne to rightly dissect what he declared in the Psalms. It was David, who while Making Reference To The Height From Which Sin Originated And Sin Was Beyond Him, cried in Ps. 25:11 ‘O Lord, Pardon Mine Iniquity; For It Is Great’!

Ps. 17:15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

5.  It was David who in great sincerity made reference to Presumption Sins, which are Shortcomings Higher Than Our Current Discernment of Sin as evident in our black and white bible prints and as discouraged through our level of preaching today. Unfortunately, the extremes of the new creation reality message has limited some believers from humbly acknowledging that there is a sin problem (1Jn. 1:8) which only the gracious spiritual provisions of the New Testament can deal with as we selfless journey to confront such with our very blood/life - Heb. 12:4.

1 Jn. 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Heb. 12:4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.

Ps. 19:13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me (Rom. 6:14): then shall I be upright…

Pls note that some biblically traceable inferences based on previous instructions on such truths over the years has been personally referenced by me in the following transcribed message to further collaborate it. 

Bless You!

AND SIN BECAME A PERSONAL HISTORY & TRUE HOLINESS A REALITY – Part 2

·        A believer can have a sinful nature but not express it as an act and such is simply yet to be set free by the truth (Jn. 8:32). We are still lacking in the experience that made the writer of Hebrews declare in Heb. 7:26 concerning the Lord that he was ‘SEPARATE FROM SINNERS’ (i.e. distinct from all men that hadn’t been perfected/come into what he came into). Others go ahead of the realm of having a sinful nature but not expressing it to working out sin, i.e. work iniquity (Matt. 7:23).

1Pet 4:1 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin

(i.e. Paul was a chief pattern of how suffering and salvation from unknown sin go hand in hand – 1Tim. 1:16. So, there is a suffering in the flesh that would address a believer’s sin problem. Christ epitomized it, Paul followed. We also must)

Heb. 2:10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.

Lk. 1:16 And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. 1:17 And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

Mal. 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: 4:6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

Lk. 1:76 And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways; 1:77 TO GIVE KNOWLEDGE OF SALVATION unto his people by the REMISSION OF THEIR SINS, 1:78 Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us

(i.e. the is a particular kind of knowledge that would solve the sin problem of a believer)

·         The ways of the Lord is meant to touch base with the geography of man’s heart

·        For John the Baptist to give knowledge that could bring about salvation, he was a blessed man. Therefore, Lk. 7:28 declared …’among those that are born of women (i.e. including Moses, Abraham, Elisha) there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist…

·         THE KNOWLEDGE OF SALVATION (i.e. KNOWLEDGE THAT SAVES THE SOUL) IS WHAT WOULD TURN THE HEARTS OF CHILDREN TO FATHER AND THE DISOBEDIENT TO THE WISDOM OF THE JUST

·         You need to make a man wise to know the ways of the Lord.

·         The church would not put off sin without a kind of knowledge that saves. Without a peculiar understanding, sin won’t drop.

·         The Lord remits people’s sin by a peculiar light that brings salvation. We can see from Jn. 1:77 that John the Baptist was a teacher of salvation.

Jn. 3:2 Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God (i.e. a knowledge and authority to teach that which would save them) came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. 3:3 And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins

·         John had a message. He was teaching about the remission of sins. The sins of the people were being remitted to prepare them to receive Jesus. What a ministry! Therefore, to a degree, those who were under John were cleansed.

·        By John’s teaching of the baptism of repentance, he was higher than Moses because he could move into the hearts of men and turn such (Lk. 1:16). John was a prophet of knowledge for remission of sins which was present in the hearts of men.

·         John didn't get people born again but taught people with light. He must have taught about some light about God’s ways

·         The power of Elias (Lk. 1:16) was an ability to turn heart from fathers to children and from children to father

·         The spirit of Elias is the power of the mantle/authority upon him i.e. everything Elias was doing was according to something upon him

·         JOHN USED KNOWLEDGE TO TURN HEARTS AND CREATE WAYS FOR THEM TO RESPOND TO THE LORD

·         Many hearts lack God’s ways. The putting into the heart of a particular kind of God’s Word, which is the two edged sword (Heb. 4:12) creates a way meant to ultimately make the Lord come

·      IT NOT EVERY KIND OF WORD IN THE BIBLE THAT CAN SAVE THE SOUL. ONLY THAT WHICH CAN SAVE GOES DIRECTLY TO THE HEART CAN SAVE IT FROM INIQUITY

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.

(The engrafted word here is different from what the church once knew as word of faith that brought about various earthly victories. It can only be received by a believer that appreciates meekness/soul salvation)

·         The book of proverbs was to introduce hearts to a kind of wisdom and enable it thereby to relate with the ways of God in a measure.

·         When a genuine preacher is unveiling Christ/teaching his ways (Eph. 4:20), he is removing the worldly ways from the soul and thereby remitting sins (Jn. 20:23) so that another way called the way of righteousness can be laid which would limit the passage/entrance of sin

Jn. 20:23 Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained

·         The Lord is therefore so dedicated to the learning his ways because that is the only way the antidote to sin can be dispensed

·         GOD KNEW THAT IF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL GETS TO THE LAND OF CANAAN WITHOUT KNOWING HIS WAYS, THEY WOULD BECOME LIKE THE INHABITANTS OF THAT LAND WHICH WERE HIS ENEMIES, SO HE DEMANDED THAT THEY LEARN HIS WAYS (1kings 3:14/11:28, Ps. 81:13/95:10)

Ps. 95:10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their HEART, and they have not known MY WAYS:

Lk. 1:77 To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins

(i.e. you need to come to a place where you would know how to be saved, know how to receive salvation)

·     The spirit of wisdom and revelation (Eph. 1:17-18) is to bring about an enlightenment that would help remove sin from you. That is the purpose of Ephesians chapter one, therefore reference of ‘...should be holy and blameless’ in Eph. 1:4 and ‘... forgiveness/remission of sins through his blood in Eph. 1:7. Though believers, they were lacking here)

·         What some call the third day knowledge is not for us to shine with but for us to KNOW HOW TO BE SAVED, KNOW HOW TO BE SAVED FROM CORRUPTION AND BE KEPT FROM THE EVIL ONE – 1Jn. 5:18

1Jn. 5:18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not (i.e. over destination); but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.

·         You can only learn the ways of God from the voice of the son which comes by revelation. He is the true speaker of the house (Heb. 1:2/3:6&15)

Lk. 1:78 Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us

(i.e. If God isn’t merciful, the day spring from on high needed to attend to our nature problem won’t come. The Lord’s outreach to us is coming from a place that discerns our shortcomings. The Lord knows that you know nothing about sin, so he responds to our ignorance through compassion and desires to teach us what is called wrong doing).

Lk. 1:79 To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

(i.e. when this kind of light comes, your feet would be positioned for the preparation of the gospel of peace – Eph.6:15)

·         JOHN WAS THE LORD’S PROPHET WHILE IN THE FLESH. WHAT WOULD BE THE STATURE OF THOSE THAT WOULD SPEAK OF THE LORD’S KNOWLEDGE IN THIS END TIME?

·       A lot of believers whose sins would have been remitted would get to heaven with their garments made white (rev. 3:5) i.e. they would have washed their robes in the blood of the lamb (Rev. 7:14). They would have completed their course in the leading of the spirit and thereby accept this cleansing provision.

Rev. 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and WASHED US FROM OUR SINS IN HIS OWN BLOOD

(The actual Kings of the earth are those who have overcome sin and all that sin represents, not those who just confess it)

·         Suffering with Christ (2Tim. 2:12) is a peculiar technology of the spirit that teaches us how to deny ungodliness and shun worldly lusts as taught by the Holy Spirit.

Titus 2:11 For the grace of God (via the spirit of grace – Heb. 10:29) that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, 2:12 teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world (i.e. Jn. 14:26 fulfilled!)

Jn. 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

·         Then would we understand what Apostle Paul meant in 1Pet 4:1 ….for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin

·       A whole lot are in the ministry today who haven’t discerned what sin is and therefore don’t live above sin while carrying out ministry. The commission of the New Testament is to teach men the ways of the Lord and actually remove sins from such within a short time

- -          Rev. Kayode Oyegoke

AND SIN BECAME HISTORY & TRUE HOLINESS A REALITY - Part 1

Dearly Beloved,

I found time and grace to painstakingly transcribe the following message after being sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo blessed by it and decided to share it!

IT’S SO COMFORTING TO SEE THE LORD FURTHER DEMYSTIFY SIN WHICH HAS CONTINUED TO REIGN DESPITE WHAT THE LORD HATH DONE ABOUT IT, OUR CONFESSIONS AND PERSONAL EFFORTS TO OVERCOME IT!

I call it THE OBITUARY OF SIN & PREPARATION FOR TRUE HOLINESS.

Pls note that some biblically deduced inferences based on previous instructions on such truths over the years has been has been personally referenced to by me in the following transcribed message, to further collaborate it.

Bless You!

THE OBITUARY OF SIN & PREPARATION FOR TRUE HOLINESS

·      There is a holiness imparted into our spirit at new birth but there is a holiness we need to come into that would enable us bear fruit unto holiness and this is the next level before the church, which would leave us blameless, without spot, wrinkles or blemish (Eph. 5:27)

Eph. 4:24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. (i.e. the quickened human spirit has attained this holiness but the soul hasn’t)

Heb. 12:7 If ye endure chastening (i.e. what is needed to bring the soul into true holiness), God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? 12:8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. 12:9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and LIVE? 12:10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness (i.e. the calling/destiny of the soul).

·      Many believers don’t have faith to believe that it’s possible to be blameless. They seem not to agree that Matthew 5:48 is a scripture that must be fulfilled in the days of their flesh

Phil. 2:15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

Matt. 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

·      Heb. 12:14 counsels us to ‘Follow peace with all men, without which no man can see God and seeing God has to do with God being unveiled, accessing God through a knowledge program. Man can’t get to God except he hath been made holy, because God is holy.

·      God has made provisions for reaching him (Heb. 7:25), provisions that would perfect those who would come to him (Heb. 10:1) and that provision is in the spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ (Eph. 1:3). God is saying he has done all that he needs to do for man to be holy and blameless. Like those who would mount on Zion in the book of Revelation chapter 14. Some started out with guile (Rev. 14:5) but later overcame such soul infirmities and came into a high level of strength which is the essence of the epistles

·      The holiness God is asking for is a must, without which God won’t accept us or RECEIVE us to himself as SONS/PRIESTS

Heb. 12:6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every SON whom he RECEIVETH.

·      What Christ has procured for us, God wants it to be real in us. Many CONFESS IT and REST THERE, but we must go beyond that and POSSESS IT by tarrying with the REVEALED KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST governing OUR INHERITANCE. God wants it to be our practice. He wants us to relate with what he has stored up for us so it would be translated from being a deposit into being a practice. This is what would deal with our nature deficiency

Rom .8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness

·      This Is How God Can Move From Our Spirit Into Your Soul And From Our Soul Into Our Flesh

Eph. 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that We Should Be Holy and Without Blame before him In Love:

(Without receiving those spiritual blessings, we have not yet attained this holiness/blamelessness. Anyone found in the bowels of this love is pure and holy)

·         The church is yet to get to a  blameless/holy state in their soul and what would make it possible are these endowments/spiritual blessings hidden from the princes of this world in Christ Jesus, the deep things of God that he hath prepared only for those that would come into a love communion with him (1 Cor. 2:9-10).

·         What makes Jesus Christ holy and separate from creatures (Heb. 7:26) are those blessing. These are the energies that positioned him on the throne.

Heb. 7:26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

·            The cry HOLY, HOLY, HOLY from glorious angels unto Him is because of the separations and dimensions of these spiritual blessings that he is made of.

·            WE KNOW NOT WHAT IS CALLED SIN, THAT WHICH ONCE RATTLED THE WHO ANGELIC SPHERES OF HEAVEN, BROUGHT DOWN COUNTS OF THEM FROM EACH REALM AND TURNED THEM FROM EPH. 1:21 GLORIOUS SPECIES INTO EPH. 6:12 CORRUPTED SPECIES. THAT IS WHY I DON’T DESIRE MINISTRY MORE THAN GOD, BECAUSE I CAN DO MINISTRY AND FALL SHORT OF OVERCOMING SIN. THOSE WHO DID MINISTRY BIBLICALLY, DID SO WHILE ACQUIRING GOD. THE MORE OF GOD YOU HAVE, THE MORE OF TRUE MINISTRY YOU WOULD DO ACCURATELY

Eph. 1:21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named (i.e. Seraphs of the second heaven and Cherubs of the first heaven, which are the only two classes of priestly angels that the Lord Jesus could be compared with after resurrection – Heb. 1:4), not only in this world, but also in that which is to come

Eph. 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers (i.e. once angels of the first heaven = Ps. 103:22b), against the rulers of the darkness of this world/spiritual wickedness in high places (i.e. Seraphs who were once angels of the second heaven = Ps. 103:21).

Lucifer, once an angel of the first heaven =Ps. 103:20, who later became the king over the prince of Tyrus, once had oversight over all these angels (Eze. 28:14) and was the Manufacturer Of Sin (Eze. 28:15-17). IMAGINE THE HEIGHT FROM WHERE SIN CAME FROM!

·            The will of love described in Ephesians 1:3 is what controls all things of God! that’s what makes God ‘God’. When you step into the will of God, you would step into the love of God

·            Lucifer (Satan) moved outside the confluence of love (Eze. 28:13-18) and can only teach men to walk likewise, i.e. outside love

·            There are standards of holiness acceptable by men/ministers, but any holiness that is not in this love (Eph. 1:4) is not acceptable to God

·            God hides and abides in love. Jesus knew the father as LOVE PERSONIFIED and came to show man what he should do to abide likewise

·            There are things that are right in the heights of right judgments which we know not as righteous judgments. When you arrive at such realms of judgment, you won’t drive your agenda and before then, you would drive your agenda

·            God has a selfless will within himself. He is so selfless that he doesn’t own himself.

·            Man was a doorway for sin to come into the world. Sin is spiritual, is faster than man, except God helps you from being taken like Jesus was taken/pulled (Matt. 4:5&8)  to a great high mountain, sin would exercise its dominion over you.

Eph. 1:5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, 1:6 To the PRAISE of the GLORY of his GRACE, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

·            We have been predestined to be children of these spiritual blessings and this is higher than being born again, it’s a divine pursuit that follows new birth experience

·            After Jesus was taught for 30 yrs (Jn. 4:34), his meat became DOING THE WILL OF GOD

·            The will of God is what drives God. It works all things according to the counsel of his will.

·            If you know God’s counsel, you would be wise. You would chose rightly

·            Many believers have not arrived at the place of PRAISE (Eph. 1:5) which is the first of our three fold destiny (1Pet. 1:7)

1 Peter 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto PRAISE and HONOUR and GLORY at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

·            The heavenly places in Christ Jesus are loaded with graces, because he is full of grace and truth and those graces are brought at his appearance/revelation/unveiling of Christ (1Pet. 13)

1Pet. 1:13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for The Grace That Is To Be Brought Unto You At The Revelation Of Jesus Christ

·            The richer you are in grace, the more your sins are remitted (Eph. 1:7)

Eph. 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness (i.e. REMISSION OF SINS), according to the riches of his GRACE

Acts. 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and  from the power of Satan unto God, that they (i.e. believers) may RECEIVE forgiveness (i.e. REMISSION) of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified (i.e. made holy) by faith that is in me.

Rev. 1:5 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first  begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood (i.e. through his sacrifice, all the provisions to make us as holy as he is guaranteed/in store but we need to RECEIVE it)

1Pet. 1:9 RECEIVING the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

Heb. 12:28 Wherefore we RECEIVING a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have Grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:

·            While Spirit was quickened at new birth (Eph. 2:1) but your soul was purchased with a token/down payment given in the person of the Holy Ghost. It was purchased with the blood so it could come into the fullness of redemption (Eph. 1:13-14)

Eph. 1:14 Which (i.e. the holy spirit) is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession (i.e. the soul), unto the PRAISE of his GLORY (i.e. the soul’s destination)

·            Our spirit belongs to the ageless body of Christ, so God didn't need to pay for it.

·            Every human spirit has a soul. Our  spirit existed in God from eternity and was baptized into the body of Christ at new birth, but our soul is the church which needs to be feed (Acts. 20:28). Your soul needs to find an entrance into where your spirit tabernacles. Because of the blood of Christ, the soul can fellowship with the spirit

Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church (i.e. feed the soul)

·           We are to take heed because  the church has been purchased with his blood. That was when a calling was placed on the soul to come out of darkness

1Pet.2:9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the PRAISES of him who hath called you (i.e. the soul) out of DARKNESS into his marvelous LIGHT;

·            The reason for the church is so that everything that the human spirit has become, the soul should likewise become. Jesus has obtained eternal redemption for us. He has received it but it needed to be downloaded to us

·            When his blood was shed, grace energies stored up in his blood was shed.

·            Redemption has been carried out from above (Eph. 1:3). GOD HAS FORGIVEN EVERYONE, BUT GOD IS SAYING YOU STILL HAVE SINS IN YOUR BODY (ROM. 8:10) BECAUSE YOU DON’T KNOW SOME THINGS HIDDEN IN CHRIST JESUS. When you know such things, sin would skip like the mountains once skipped at the presence of God (Ps. 114:6-7)

·            The purchased possession (Eph. 1:14) which is the soul has to be redeemed.

·            The name ‘redeemed’ is a name and calling for every church. You can’t come into his praise or glory except all these spiritual things/blessings are downloaded and received by you.

·            When you are praying Ephesians 1:17-18 prayers, you are praying a prayer for redemption. Without the riches of glories mentioned there, you can’t come into praise

·            To be holy is to come into praise (Eph. 1:14). Anything that is blamable can’t be praised

-         Rev. Kayode Oyegoke

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