Dearly Beloved,
We bless the name of the Lord
who in his sovereignty has chosen to restore New Testament patriarchal
blessings (Ps. 24:5/Heb. 11:39c-40/1Jn. 2:25) in his church, which has been
encompassed by much infirmities (Heb. 5:2/12:12/Ps. 103:3)
We also bless his holy name for
one of the unconventional mediums described by Apostle Paul as the foolishness
of preaching which he has chosen to employ in dispensing himself (i.e. his
kingdom pearls), as he populates the knowledge of his glory that would soon be
celebrated better than Silver and Gold (Heb. 8:11/Isa. 11:9b)
Graceful Reading!
Non-Negotiable Counsels of God's
Kingdom - Part 15
Scriptural
Reading: 1 John 5:1-2
Whosoever BELIEVES that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one
that LOVES him that begat, loves him also that is begotten of him. By this we know
that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
This passage is not just talking about the new
birth; it is actually about those who love God (Rom.
8:28/1Cor. 2:9). The first commandment in that passage begins with verse one – believe, and the second commandment is to love God. So Faith and love
are the two major commandments for to be born of God.
The first aspect of the birth is the birth
of faith and the second is the birth of love. Both commandments are
to initiate the birth process. After you have completed the birth of faith, you
will come into loving God and that will bring about the final birth.
Being
born again is beyond what we experienced when we first believed (the day we
gave our lives to Christ). It
is the program of God for the salvation of the total man, therefore that
passage is not speaking
of the salvation of the spirit man, but that of the soul.
That is the reason
for that epistle of John is written for the soul to be initiated into the birth process of God, and move
from one birth to another. There are commandments that are responsible for our
continuous birth. We need to be born again and again until we
have been fully born.
1
Jn. 3:22-23
And this
is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his
Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And
hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given
us.
The commandment of God is in two folds: to believe on
the name of Jesus Christ and to love on another . To believe on that
name is to align with the purpose of Christ. The whole essence of Christ is
His name. You need to be born again so that you can gain the capacity to allow the other commandment find its fulfillment.
Loving one another goes beyond what was mentioned in Ephesians 1:15. That kind of loving
is what you do before the eyes of your understanding are enlightened (Eph. 1:18), but the one in first John is what you
do after the eyes of your understanding have been enlightened.
There is a new birth that we experience
without doing anything but there is a birth that cannot occur except we have
done something (1 Jn. 2:29/Matt. 6:33). When righteousness is being sought for
and done, you are born. Righteousness gets you born.
Righteousness is an alien law. It is a
law higher than the angelic law, it is the law of the Father and it is a law at
His right hand. If you are able to carry it out, it will automatically result
into your birth – you are going to experience a birth that will open the door
into the kingdom.
Some people cannot do righteousness
because they are not born of Him. Anyone who is doing righteousness is born of
Him that is why He said; ‘Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for
righteousness, for they shall be filled. Mat 5:6 How much of righteousness
you have is how much of birth you have. It is not possible to do
righteousness and not be born of righteousness.
From 1John 3:9, The word ‘Born’ isn’t
the first birth we experienced the day we give our lives to Christ. John wrote
about a higher birth experience needed for entrance into the kingdom. The
introduction of his epistles was an introduction for the birthing of our souls.
The spirit of a believer is born of God but his soul needs to be born, and that soul cannot be
born in a day. The birth of the soul is the spiritual race of the believer (Heb12:2). This race is a lifetime experience of being born which will continue
until the soul
reaches the
end of the race, which
is the joy set
ahead of us. As the
soul races, he is being born. The race is our
faith is that which Jesus authored and finished (Heb. 12:2/1 Jn. 1:4). The
fullness of your joy takes place when you complete your birth process.
There are many births that a believer needs to
experience, and Jesus experienced all of the
births. When
He finished the faith,
it was said unto Him, Thou
art my Son today have I begotten you. God did
not say that
to every one
of us,
but to him who authored and finished
the faith. Jesus started the faith and finished it. At the end of His earthly walk, He was
fully born: spirit,
soul and body.
The new birth started with your spirit, then it will come up to your soul. The
birthing experience of the soul is what the church needs to come into so we can overcome the
wicked one. This is why Satan is fighting hard against the entrance of this
message into churches
When
you look at verse 22 of 1 Pet. 1:21-23, you will discover that the
punctuation mark used there was semi colon. It means verse 22 and 23 are
together. The word ‘Being’ in verse 23 is the same thing as ‘Obeying
The Truth’ in verse 22.
The birthing process begins with the purification of the soul through the
administration of the word of truth, which is the incorruptible word that is
able to save your soul (Jam. 1:21). The purpose of this birth is to escape the corruption of the world that works through
lust (2Pet. 1:4).
The
world also births souls
because she too is a mother of souls (Rev. 17:1-5). When you
look physically, you cannot see her, but she is around. She is a maternity ward where
souls are being formed and conformed (Rom. 12:2). That conforming is death and that is why God
will judge this
world.
The
reason why the
world is giving birth to souls
is to give the
reward of her birth to the beast that is carrying her, i.e. the anti-Christ (Rev. 17:7/1Jn.
2:18 & 4:3). After the anti-Christ is done with her, he will burn her with
fire, and then he will receive the souls in her (Rev. 17:16/18:8). People will
only accept him after
Babylon has finished with them – when their birth process have been completed. So
also God would only receive us (Heb. 12:6b/Jn. 1:12) after we have been born of
God (1Jn. 5:4).
No
wonder the Bible says, ‘come
out of her and be
ye separate’
(2Cor.
6:17).
The uncleanness there is this woman – Babylon. She is the mother of all
abomination. The
abominable is that which is corrupt. When something
is evil, bad and spoilt,
it is coming from a place of defilement and God abhors it. The reason why God abhors it
is because it
emits corruption which is anti-God’s nature.
We
need to be purged
of Babylon and it
will take the incorruptible word to deal with the corruptible seed. The
identity of the Babylonian
nation is corruption. Babylon catches her own by corruption. If you are
corrupt, you are an entity of Babylon.
Your spirit can be born again while
your soul remains corrupt. Your spirit can be in Christ (2 Cor. 5:17), while your soul is resides in the world (1Jn. 2:15-16).
God wants to take corruption out of the soul. The souls of men have a footing in Babylon, but when God came, he started by
saving the spirit man in order to get souls out of there. Many spirits that have been quickened
(Eph. 2:1), their souls are still in the world, but they have the privilege of being
redeemed out of her.
Babylon
corrupts by commandments (1Jn. 2:16), so also God heals corruption by
commandments.
When you disobey the
commandments of Babylon, you are disobeying
Satan. We
have been
ordained to disobey Babylon and we shall in
Jesus name,
Amen. (1John 2:14-17).
The
purpose of being born is to escape corruption. Only the incorruptible will
enter the kingdom. So if you are corruptible, there is no entrance into the
kingdom. Your spirit can be saved and your soul remains corruptible. As long as
you still have the identity of Babylon, your soul is still corrupt. And you
can’t enter the kingdom.
Babylon
is the very essence of the kingdom of this world. Actually, the
kingdom of this world is Babylon. The kingdom of God is the New Jerusalem (Rev.
21:2). Jerusalem is the sphere of the operation of God’s dominion; that is where the throne of
the King is. Babylon is where the throne of the king of darkness is. That is
why the Bible says
that the whole world lies in
wickedness (Gal. 1:4/1 Jn. 5:19)) and it is operated by the wicked one (Matt.
13:19). Babylon is corruption; it is of the world. To escape it, you need God to flush corruption
out of you.
Pls watch out shortly for part
two of this ministration which has been broken down for conciseness sake.
Blessings!
Rev. Kayode Oyegoke
Learning the Father’s Pleasure (Part
1)
VGC Bi-Monthly Outreach
6th
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