It
may interest you to acknowledge that as we selflessly press into the eternal counsel of the God’s will, he
would cause us to come into new definitions of inspired truths.
Our
generation has no excuse before heaven, not to live and bear fruits with the
surge of words (great lights) that keeps proceeding out of the mouth of the
father.
The following is a simple, yet elusive
counsel before the church today, and it attempts to route new definitions
surrounding ‘things to come’ (Jn. 16:13/Heb. 9:11) – a subject the Lord
has laid unusual emphasis on in the last 6 months plus in known and unknown
gatherings. The Lord be praised, because the New Testament order of Service
(Obedience/Worship) as stipulated in the book of Hebrews is about to infiltrate
the corporate church and the cry ‘Maranatha’ would soon be corporately
generated! Amen
Graceful reading!
Non-Negotiable
Counsels of God's Kingdom - Part 22
Scriptural
Text: 1John 5:20
Conversation is
a lifestyle; it is that which
defines how man ought to live.
There is a
conversation that we
inherited from our earthly
fathers (1Pet. 1:18), which is the
standard raised on earth
for men to
live by. That kind of
life is convenient for the flesh because
it is an earthly conversation. Although it looks
so real and we are at home with it, it is actually a lie. The
conversation of this present earth is too low; God
did not ordain man for that
kind of conversation
because He made man to be a very high being.
Your
conversation is what makes you. If you live by a low conversation, you will be
a low being. Man is meant to be a man of the heights. At the beginning, when
Satan deceived Adam, what he took from Adam was a conversation that kept him in
the heights.
Satan actually fell from heaven when he rebelled against God,
and was
cast down to hell (Eze.
28:15-16/Jude 1:6), but
he rose up from hell and came to the earth to deceive man. He saw that Adam was a living soul
and had his heaven where he operated in, then Satan deceived
Adam out of his state.
Having deceived Adam, Satan collected what made Adam able to
occupy
that heaven
and Adam dropped. That was how Satan
went up and replaced Adam’s
air advantage. Actually, he
got his wings from the disobedience of Adam and generations that followed. We
are fighting to bring him down from the air (Lk. 19:13/Rev. 12:9-10) where
he occupies at present because that place is a place of
advantage, and actually it belongs to Adam.
Adam was not meant to remain in the
air. It was only a
temporary abode that he was
to occupy until he would be
able to partake of the fruit of the tree of life. If He had
partaken
of that fruit from the tree of life, he would have moved from that
realm into
the realm of God (the heights of God – Isa. 14:14/Eze. 1:22/26). That is where
God has ordained man to operate in.
Eph 2: 4-6 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love
wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us
together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us
sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
By the death and resurrection of Jesus, we have
been quickened
from the dead in our spirits. The
Bible says that God
quickened us up together with Christ, and made us to sit together in heavenly
places in Christ Jesus. The place where we
are seated in our spirits is far beyond where the devil is seated right now.
It is a place of dominion, and authority.
It
is a place of honour and glory. That is the realm where
God has called man to operate in.
There is a conversation that pertains
to God’s realm, and we are meant to acquire it
here on earth. It is a supernatural conversation, a kind of
lifestyle that belongs to God Himself. His ways are not our ways and His
thoughts are not our thoughts (Isa.
55:8-9).
As high as those ways and thoughts
are, they are His commandments, and the Scripture
says in Isa. 2:5,
‘Oh house of Israel, come let us walk in the light of the Lord’.
We
cannot walk in the ways of the Lord except we have been TAUGHT HIS WAYS. God’s ways are so high, pure, holy
and they are so different from our ways. We have been used to the way of the earth
which includes the way of repaying
evil for evil,
but when God begins to introduce His ways, He tells you to overcome evil with good. Now that is like going
uphill, and it
is not easy for flesh at all, in fact it is impossible for flesh life
to go up; it would die.
From
1John 5:18-19, we can see that the whole world lies in wickedness and that is what forms the earthly
conversations.
If
we give ourselves to the conversation of the earth, then we are giving ourselves to
wickedness. That is why as believers, we must be in a hurry to come out of that
wicked conversation
and exchange it for a higher one. We are admonished
not to love
the world or
the things that are in the world. Any man who loves
the world, does not have the love of the Father in him because the
world is contrary (enmity) to
God (1John2:15-17/1John
5:20)
The
only way
of
escape out of the
wickedness that is in the world is by having an understanding of the true God and of
Jesus Christ His
Son. That is what
brings the true conversation
to us. It is not enough for people to get born again, they need to come to the knowledge of truth so as not to be bound by the wickedness that is
in the world (1Tim. 2:4). We
escape this wickedness only by
the knowledge of the truth.
Knowing truth is actually knowing God and knowing God is knowing that which man
is commanded to live by.
From 1John 2:25, we can see that
when we got saved, we received the
gift of Eternal Life which is the substance
of the true God (John
3:16). This Eternal Life is the
conversation of truth, and as many as have received it
in their spirits are commanded to
come to the
knowledge of truth, and live by it
in their souls. Truth
is a supernatural conversation and
any man who comes into it ceases to be an ordinary man because truth
is the conversation of immortality.
1Tim. 1:17, 1John 5:20
Immortality is God’s life, and that is the
overcoming life. God will have to take us to that height where He is, so that we might
be able to submit completely to His
ways, even though
they look so unnatural to a man. God is trying to push out the conversation
that has caked
in our souls. He wants to invade our planet with a new conversation
called truth.
The
opposite of wickedness is truth. God
is truth, Jesus
Christ is truth and the Holy
Ghost
is truth. Truth is
their conversation. This is what makes them exalted, far
above all creation, and they are calling us into their
fellowship. 1John 5:20. Truth is God’s commandment;
it’s not
a suggestion. It
is the
life of the saints in Christ, and that is the conversation that God has ordained
man to live by. When
you consider the high standard of truth, you will discover that most of us saints are
living far below
it.
For us to access the true conversation, we need the knowledge of Him that is
true. By that knowledge, we will be empowered to obey and submit to Him
that is true. That knowledge will also
enable us
to beat the wickedness that is in the world. Matt. 6:10
God
wants truth to dwell in our inward parts (2John:2). He would rather have that than sacrifices and
offerings. That is the only thing that pleases Him. When we leave
this earth, the only thing that we are leaving with is truth because it is the conversation
of the world-to-come. The life we are going to live forever is the life of that
truth. In the world to
come, we will be ranked
according to the amount of truth that we have acquired. If we fail to acquire
it here on earth, we will be low fellows in the world to come. 2John:2/Psalm 51:6
Jesus
Christ is the Son of the Father in truth and in love because He
pleased the Father in truth
(John
4:24). The kind of worship that God seeks is that which is accomplished in spirit and
in truth, and this cannot be done when a soul has not come into the knowledge of the truth. 2 John:3
The
spirit of a believer is truth because he has been
recreated in Christ Jesus, in righteousness and true holiness, but the
soul is engrafted in the world which lies in wickedness. (Jer. 17:9/Jn. 5:19). That is why the bible says that the heart of a man is desperately wicked. Why? Because
the tattoo of the world is upon the soul. He has learnt the ways of the world which is
wickedness therefore, God
wants
to train it to be a truth entity. The soul must be retrained and it will be
by the knowledge of the truth. 2John:4
We
are commanded to obey knowledge as it begins to come to us because in so doing, we will be purged of the
wickedness that is in our souls.
Wickedness is against truth. At times, it might not look wicked. In fact it is appealing to man because it is that which the soul loves. There are spirits called ‘spiritual wickedness in high places’ and their job is to
churn out principles of life, conversation contrary to the original intention
of the Maker, for man to live by. (Eph. 6:12/2:2). That
conversation is what the bible calls ‘the course of this world’.
Wickedness is not
just an evil act, it is the nature of fallen man that makes him independent of
God. This world has been crafted to be opposed to God, and that is the
wickedness we are talking of. Wickedness
is anything that is against God
and His
will. Anything that will stop man from
achieving the purpose of God is wickedness.
God
wants to change the direction of man’s walk (Eph.
2:10). The
reason why God
recreated us in Christ Jesus
is so that we might register a walk in righteousness and
truth
God
wants to invade the universe
with this
conversation called truth and His intention is to raise supernatural men. One who is exposed to truth
will break the natural limitations and come above men. Such will never pass away like mere
men.
Phil.
3:20 confirms that what will change our vile body so that
it may be fashioned like unto Christ’s
glorious body is truth. What made Him glorious is TRUTH. He received and obeyed
truth and He came into resurrection status with a glorious body. Truth gets you
into the Spirit because truth is spiritual. If you want to see someone who is
spiritual, look for someone who is submitting to truth.
Our
soul that is deceitful and desperately wicked needs the introduction of truth.
Truth will make change a soul from being deceitful
to being true just as God is true.
Truth is the will of God,
the lifestyle of heaven which must be brought to the earth, ‘Thy will be done on
earth... Truth aligns a man according to the will of God. That is why when truth is introduced to a man, his
love life becomes higher than when the knowledge of truth began to
visit him. At such time, a man’s
love is not based on natural conditions, but on the revelation of truth. When truth has
arrived, you no longer see your brethren
in the flesh. (2Cor. 5:16). Usually, we
know our brethren after the flesh,
and that makes us
struggle (2John:1-3), but those
who have known the truth love differently; their love is in the truth.
When a soul begins
to see truth, his relationship with the
brethren would
not be
based
on their actions,
but on the revelation of who they are in Christ.
He would begin to
see that the brethren have been joined to the Lord Jesus and
that they
are
one spirit with Him (1Cor.
6:17);
and because he
also is joined
to Christ Jesus, they are all
one spirit.
The only thing that can bring us to
this realm of loving one another fervently is truth (2Pet. 1:22), because such
is the
state of a soul that has been purged by truth. The brethren
need to come
to the knowledge of truth before they can
love one another in
a supernatural way. The way God loves
is so supernatural that you sometimes wonder
if He is
not seeing iniquity? Love does not see iniquity because love covers a
multitude of sin. Instead of pointing at
sin, love
covers it and
brings grace and strength to overcome it.
The
way we love now is not fervent. When you still walk in love based on
compulsion, your love walk will not be fervent. What will make it fervent is
truth. Truth will make you go above the natural. When God is giving you
commandment, you will begin to see what is behind His commandment. You will
know that He is commanding from the point of truth. God gives you commandment
from the realm of truth. This is what obtains in the realm of truth.
When truth
begins to visit a
man, the standards of God are revealed and that is very injurious to flesh.That
is why a believer can hate truth.
Truth was
revealed to Jesus, and He
chose to love it. Heb. 1:9/Psalm 51:5/ Isa. 55:8-9
Righteousness is truth, and that
is the only
power that can make a soul live. Man always wants to escape when God is revealing His ways because He comes
straight for
man’s neck to take
his life (Jn.
12:24-25/Phil. 2:13)
1John
5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given
us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that
is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is
the true God, and eternal life.
Not
every saint
has received the understanding
being spoken of here. Without this understanding, no man
can serve God, because that is required for a
soul to submit to truth. Obeying
truth is obeying God.
When Jesus was writing to the churches Rev. 2 and 3, He said that He knows
their works. Their works was
not referring to their career, ministry etc. Jesus was referring to the
extent to which these ones were submitting to truth
and how much of the revelation of Jesus they were
obeying. That is the work ordained for the soul. Eph. 2:10/Rev. 2:3/9/13/19/
3:1/8/15)
The
work God wants us to do is to submit to the revelation of truth – the
understanding of the
true God and His Son Jesus Christ. Anyone who has
received eternal life has
been absorbed into
the realm of truth. The reason why we must keep
on
hearing truth
is so that we might
walk in it
and become true worshippers of God in spirit and in truth.
Truth
must be learnt for us to come into the knowledge of it and this learning is a
supernatural learning, because truth is supernatural. Truth is God’s light
which a carnal mind cannot receive because it is foolishness to him
(1Cor. 2:14). Learned people are saints who have been enlightened by the true God. Just like we have different levels of learning on earth- grade six, O’Level, Bsc, HND, MSC or
MA, PHD
– so also
there are
different levels
in the learning of truth.
The
amount of truth you have will determine the amount of glory you carry. If you
fall short of learning truth on earth and all you are able to acquire is
standard six level of truth,
your
glory would be low in
the future world. Many of us have not learnt the culture of Eternal life
because we are unlearned. The same way the
Lord questioned the young man who came for a feast without a garment (Matt.
22:10-13) is how a man would
be a misfit if taken into the realm of truth when he has not received the
knowledge of it. That knowledge is like an adornment, without which a soul will
not be accepted among the fellows.
There are natural elites, when they talk, you will
know that they have been adorned with a kind of glory, but God wants to adorn us with a glory that passeth not away. He wants to make us spiritual
elites.
What enlightens the soul
is the knowledge of truth, and it
is not just about being
enlightened,
but what that knowledge turns a man into. This kind of knowledge
has power to
make a man
supernatural.
We
are living in a time when
the demand
of truth is higher, and there is so much need for us to
quicken our pace. Wickedness in increasing and for it not to take us, we
need to become supernatural via the learning and obedience of truth. 2cor 4:17
Bless
You!
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Submitting to Truth
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