Dearly Beloved,
We need to
constantly admonish ourselves (Heb. 3:13/Col. 3:16) on the unfailing truth of our real identity and citizenship and set our faces like a flint rock before this
great truth.
- Our
actual CONVERSION or CITIZENSHIP is neither earthly nor of
this present passing world (1Cor. 7:31/Phil.3:20). Rather, it’s HEAVENLY, HIDDEN WITH CHRIST, it’s that of a NEW CREATURE (2Cor. 5:17) and springs from THE WORLD TO COME (Mk
10:30/Heb. 2:5/6:5/Rev. 21:1-2).
- The primary aim of the rarely known Gospel of God is to Unhook Our Consciousness from The Present and Implant It where Righteousness
Indwells (2Pet. 3:13)
The world to come is not only an abode but also a
place of eternal reward which is based on what we do while on earth (Rom. 4:1/2 Cor. 5:10).
Unknown to many believers and not a few ministers, the actual exploit of the
New Testament is not according to WHAT WE DO FOR GOD
but rather, our OBEDIENCE TO
THE REVELATIONS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
made known to us whenever Jesus Christ is truly preached or unveiled (Rom. 1:16/16:25;
1Cor. 1:30; Gal. 1:16).
We are therefore pleased to henceforth dispense this new additional series on this glorious subject
which is both a thing of envy and beyond the reach or authority of faithful
angels till date (Heb. 2:5)
- Such faithful and true counsels (Rev. 22:6) are
superior to time, would remain the sole emphasis and force in the ages to come (Eph. 2:7) after the present earth and heaven would have “expired” and
been dissolved (2Pet. 3:10-11).
- In the world to come, those who previously completed
the syllabus of fellowshipping with faithful and true sayings (i.e believing
overcomers/citizens of the new heaven) would attain a GOVERNMENTAL CELESTIAL STATURE (Rev.
21:2/10/23), while those who don’t (believing non-overcomers/citizens of the new earth) would need to receive ministry from those who attained
the stature of righteousness, peace and Joy (i.e.– Rev. 21:24a/22:2f)
Graceful reading!
INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD TO COME – PART 1
The essence of our journey is to make
us eternally relevant.
The bible says if only in this world we have hope we are of all men most miserable.
God is looking (Isa. 66:2c), because men are actually eternal beings. Apostle
Peter said in 2 Pet. 3:13 “Nevertheless we, according to his promise,
look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness”. So the
essence of the revelation of righteousness is to prepare us for the new
heaven and the new earth.
Anybody who has not acquainted himself with the
conversation of the world to come will not be relevant there and will not be a
part of the city (the company of overcomers). The essence of light is to illuminate us on what is
accepted in eternity. The conversation of that world is godliness and
the bible says it is profitable in this world and in that which is to come (1Tim.
4:8). So while we are preparing to be relevant in the new-world-to-come through
godly conversations, the bible affirms that it is also profitable in this
present world. The will of
the Father is to make us eternally excellent (Isa. 60:15)
The book of Hebrews 6:5 stated that some
people received the good word of the Lord and tasted the power of the age to
come. So while they
were still in this present passing world, they imported the powers of the world
to come as they learnt that future conversation. Anyone who is
learning the conversation of the world to come and is importing that power into
this world will get profit while here on this earth. This shows that it is possible to use the power of the world to come in
this present world. So if we refuse to learn the conversation of the world to
come we will be limited to the carnal powers of this age, which is nothing.
The bible says Jesus Christ is both the wisdom
and the power of God as well as a being of the world to come. So the learning
of Christ is the learning of the power of the age to come. The power of God is
not the power of the present age. The essence of the spirit of God is to
illuminate Christ to us. This illumination of Christ is the power and the
wisdom of God, and it is also the revelation of the power of the world to come.
The pursuit of the revelation of Christ
is a major profession (Heb . 3:1).
There is a way we have been tutored to
take our earthly profession as the main reason why we are on earth, and the
Christian faith has been positioned as a mere religious practice. There is a
way we can handle the faith and it becomes secondary if we don’t give much
attention to it as we did to the learning of our earthly vocations. We are still ignorant of the faith
profession which is meant to run our life, including our earthly profession.
Imagine importing the power of the world
to come into our earthly vocation - we will stand out! We will be sought after!
The power of the world to come is
LIGHT (revelation), and the Lord is that light I am talking about (Rev 21:23).
Going deeper into this light is coming into deeper understanding of Christ. The work God wants us to do is Christ and it
is this deep revelation called Christ that will enable us to do the deep work
of God. This is the reason the book
of revelation was written to servants. The plume line of God’s judgement is
Christ. God is so particular of works (obedience) and that is why He repeatedly
affirmed “I know your works” in the
Book of Revelation chapters 2 to 3. He is coming to give everyman his
reward according to what they have DONE.
The work is not the charitable work but how much of the revelation of Christ we
have OBEYED. (Heb. 5:9)
So many things can distract us from focusing
on this work and the discipline the Lord requires is that we shun this
distraction. Anytime the Lord wants to demand works from us, He comes to give us
commandment at a particular time. He reveals Himself to you and says, “This is who I am
and this is the way I will handle things if I were in your shoes”. The seven
Spirits also come to illuminate us and show us Christ, therefore defining a
kind of work for us at that moment and showing us what we should engage in at
that particular time. When they have measured a work for us, we
need to zero in on that measurement so that we can do it very well.
There are some things
the Lord has measured to me that were revealed. So He will tell me, “I know
your works and I will judge you based on this work (revelation or instruction)
I have revealed to you”. Our meditation
should zero in to God’s instructions (laws) because on his law must we meditate
day and night. His laws are the instructions that are given to us at a
particular time. It is worth meditating on. We need to give attention to those
instructions, corrections, etc., so that we can thoroughly obey them. We can
then move on to the next level after we have obeyed them. God will give us
grace to focus on His revelation and more light will be thrown on us so that we
can be illuminated because we need to
know Him the more and generate works that will attract rewards.
Rev. 20:11-12 And I
saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and
the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the
dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another
book was opened, which is the book
of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in
the books, according to their works.
The
content of THE BOOK OF LIFE is Christ. Christ is the plume line of God‘s
judgement. Paul said the secret of men’s heart shall be judged according to the
gospel of Christ. The holy and undefiled one who is separated from sinners
and also made higher than the heavens is the plumb line/judgement of God. The
thought of every man is lower than the earth and that is why we should not
waste time playing religion but zero in on Christ. We should be thankful each
time the Lord corrects us.
The Lord will rather
make us priests who can walk according to the pattern of the world to come than
give us plenty money. Man is not good, he is not enhanced. What enhances man is
not plenty money but the knowledge of Christ. This knowledge is what turns man
around, changes and strengthens him and makes him profitable to man and unto
God. The Knowledge of God is strong and mighty and God brings it to us in a way
that demonstrates his love. When you are without knowledge of God you are
carnal. You are neither good, reliable nor trustworthy. Anyone who is not receiving
instructions can’t be trusted.
That
is why you should not marry a man or woman whose ears have not been opened (Ps.
40:6/Isa. 50:4c). If you do, you won’t enjoy your marriage. A man whose
ears have been opened can be instructed and yield to correction when it comes.
Such a man will be humble, meek and can easily be corrected. What revelation does to a man
is that it makes such a person humble and admit that he is not perfect. It
makes one accept his fault; and when it goes deeper, it make one accept wrong
even when he is right like Jesus did. The commandments are a reflection of God
and His character. God wants us to be thorough, fine, and excellent according
to the standard of eternity.
Spiritual judgement is
according to what is written in the volume of the book, so our works is
measured by what is written in the book (Heb. 10:7). You can do great and mighty works, but if it is not according to what
is written in the book, it will not attract reward. What the seven spirits of God is doing to us at this time is to
illuminate what is written in the book so that we can know the works that
attracts reward.
The commandment (Jn.
12:49/1Jn. 2:8/2Jn. 1:5) is what takes us deeper into the nature and the
character of Christ. The summary of God is that He is love! So what the spirit
is illuminating is the love of God. More
of God’s revelation ought to lead us into more of God. 1 Pet. 1:22 says “Seeing
that you have purified your soul in obeying the truth unto the unfeigned love
of the brethren“. This shows that the truth that is being revealed to us is
meant to lead us in to the fervent love of the brethren. The revelation of Jesus is strictly meant to take us
deeper into the love of God. The works they are coming to judge is how much of
your life are you able to lay down for the brethren because that is God’s love (1
Jn 3:16/Jn 15:13).
The
unveiling of truth is the dethroning of self. If truth is being unveiled to us and self is not dethroned, then we are
not getting truth. Truth ought to make us little as we enthrone
others. Deemphasizing self enables us to press
deeper into truth. The more you press into truth, the more
little you become because you are becoming Christ-like. The unveiling of Christ
is meant to reduce the emphasis on looking
on our own things but rather on the things of others – “Look not every man on his own things, but
every man also on the things of others”
(Phil 2:4). This is what truth
does and this is the kind of work heaven is requiring from us. The work God is
going to judge me according to how much of my own I have been able to
deemphasize at my expense and therefore exalt my brethren.
Self is the root of
all unholiness and ungodliness. It is self that makes us envious and jealous of
one another because the root of such emotions is, “why you and why not me?”, and
then we become angry when it is not in our favour. Competition springs out of self-centeredness. When it seems that
the other person is better than we are, we become unsettled because we feel it
must be us. Nothing can unveil all these things and make us see our state
except light (the revelation of Christ).
We
can be pre-occupied with ourselves and become blind to our true state if we are
taken by what we have. The unveiling of truth will purge self out
of you. Light will bring an end to
flesh because flesh must not stand. God is not looking for that fallen man (flesh)
because it cannot wear the glory of God. The revelation of what is in the
book of life is the weapon of God to “kill” that carnal nature in us, so that a new man that is approved of
God and that can serve God can rise from our inside. This new man serves God
according to the book of life. So the revelation of Christ unveils good works
so that we qualify us to receive reward.
Regardless of our
earthly achievements and acquisitions, as long as it does not meet up to the
standard of good works, it does not matter. In every circumstance, we must walk
in love - that is what will attract reward. Men shall be judged according to
what is written in the book, and what is written in the book is the love of
God. Judgement here is based on work done according to what is revealed,
according to the revelation of Christ.
What are the works God has defined for you? Am sure God is in the business of defining
works for us.
From Psalms 1:1-6, we can see that the
ungodly (sinners) are those who are not working according to the book. The law of the Lord is not the ten
commandment but the commandments or instructions of the Lord that comes to you
per time. In verse 1, this man’s meditation day and night is on the
instructions (revelations) of God. When Christ is revealed, the
law of God has just been given. The meditation is day and night, and this
is the work we ought to give our soul to do instead of those foolish things
people of this world do, which they call ‘exploits’. The secret of flourishing
is meditating on the revelation of Christ. The
reason for MEDITATING is so that we can DO righteousness.
From Joshua 1:8, we also see that the reason
for MEDITATION is so that we can DO, because our thought is what propels us. Before we implement anything, we
have already conceived it in our hearts and minds. So God brings His own
thoughts to us and says, “meditate on these”. The thought of the Lord are His
ways; they are His revelations that we ought to meditate on so that we can do
them and be like a tree planted by the rivers of water. Those instructions are
of eternal life and when we meditate upon and do them, we allow it to flood our
lives and we will flourish forever. As we give ourselves to these meditations
we are made alive, we flourish life is brought to our system and we will abide
forever!
When God wants you to
live, He brings commandments, because His commandment is life everlasting (Jn.
12:50/Rom. 7:10a).
In the light of this revelation we can see who the ungodly is. Rev 22:11 say “He
that is righteousness let him be righteous still and he that is unrighteous,
let him be unrighteousness still. The ungodly are those who are living contrary to the revelation of
righteousness. We feel righteous after we get born again because we don’t
commit fornication, don’t cheat etc., but that is just the beginning of
righteousness.
True righteousness
begins when revelation starts and that is when heaven determines who is
righteous. Someone
whose life is patterned according to what is revealed, according to that which
is in the book is regarded by heaven as a righteous person. So you can be the
righteousness of God in Christ Jesus (according to that which your recreated human
spirit has experienced) and yet live an ungodly life and give ungodly counsel. Many
believers do not have the revelation of righteousness and that is why many give
ungodly counsels, because they have another manual where they generate works.
The ungodly are like
the chaff, the godly are like tree planted by the river. Chaffs are very dry
and light, so the wind easily carries it away because it is cut away from the
supply of life. What supplies life are the instructions of God which are life
everlasting. God
gives illumination so that we can walk worthy of the Lord and by so doing, we flourish.
The end of yielding to instruction is eternal life.
Dying to self is
righteousness and causes us to generate good works. Dying to self is not what
you can do by yourself but the Holy Spirit will lead you against yourself. As long as instructions of God are not in a
man’s life such a man is as dry as the chaff that the wind blows away, but the
righteous is like a tree planted by the rivers of water. The water is supplied
from constant commandments which will make you live an ever-green life.
These
corrections or instructions are what improves us. The interruptions of the Lord
corrects us from acting in a particular manner and that is what makes us live.
The commandment does not come as, “Thou shall not”, but it comes in a simple
way. At times, we take some steps or decisions and we feel the Lord withdrawing.
At such times, we should do well to inquire to know what is happening. These
are the things we must be sensitive and as we inquire of these things, He gives
us instructions. This instruction comes
from the Lord through the inward witness, i.e. “If I were the one, I will not
do it that way”. At this point, the Lord has given you a commandment and that
is what He will judge you with.
The
standard of the Lord’s judgement is very high, “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher
than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:9). The Lord is
bringing us up to a place where we don’t justify or defend ourselves. 1 Peter
3:10-11 say “For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his
tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: Let him eschew evil,
and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it”. We are meant to eschew peace at
our expense as much as it lies within our power or as much as we can take wrong
from others (Romans 12:18). THE REASON WHY THERE’S NO PEACE ON EARTH IS BECAUSE
PEOPLE CANNOT TAKE WRONGS AND THAT IS THE REASON FOR WAR (James 4:1). But as we
learn Christ, we learn how to take wrongs. This is a measure of death and
anyone who takes wrong even when they are right has obeyed the Lord. Letting go
of your rights will not kill you, but it would rather make you better. Our
progress in life is taking a deeper walk into the instruction of God.
As we take a deeper
journey into the commandments of the Lord, a new people will emerge. Our obedience to the commandment of the
Lord is what conforms our nature to God’s and that is what attracts the glory
of the Lord to rest upon us.
Rev 21:9-11 And there came unto
me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last
plagues, and talked with me, saying, “Come hither, I will shew thee the bride,
the Lamb's wife”. And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high
mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of
heaven from God, Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone
most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.
When
John saw God seated on a throne he was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine
stone and then this bride also is having the glory of God and her light was the
light of God. Everything about divinity is the yard stick of judgement and that
is our light.
Rev 21:22-23 And
I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple
of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in
it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
The
Lamb is the light thereof: It is the light which the city (overcoming
believers) were exposed to, that lightened her. What prepares, adorns, and
prepare the bride for her husband is the light. She was introduced to the light
which she will walk in eternally.
Blessings!
Title: The Work in The Book of Revelation
Ministering: Rev (Mrs) Helen Oyegoke
Date: 23rd
Sept. 2014
