#True_Change_Is_Imminent – Part 3

... AN APPRAISAL ON WHY OUR DEFINITIONS MUST CHANGE SO WE CAN BECOME STAKEHOLDERS OF GOD'S PEACE

Dearly Beloved,

Over the years, I have come to agree with the Lord that A FREE MAN IS SOMEONE TO WHOM IT HAS BECOME CRYSTAL CLEAR THAT HIS LIFE AND PEACE SHOULD NOT BE DEFINED OR REGULATED BY EXCITING HAPPENINGS OR DISAPPOINTMENTS THAT RESIDES UNDER THE SUN. (Rom. 8:6/Mal. 2:5/Eccl. 1:8-9)

SO BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOSE CHIEF ASSET IS A FREEDOM THAT IS BORN FROM ABOVE BY TRUTH (Jn. 3:31/8:32), WHOSE DEFINITIONS OF GOD’S GOODNESS AND FAITHFULNESS RUNS CONTRARY TO THAT OF MANY OTHER BELIEVERS OR CARNAL MINDS. Such a believer would gradually experience the IVORY PALACES IN CHRIST JESUS (Ps. 45:7-8/Eph. 1:3) where he would naturally LIVE BY FAITH (1Pet. 1:23/Heb. 10:38). Ultimately, he would experience GOD’S ETERNAL DWELLING PLACE (Ps. 90:1) where he would naturally ABIDE IN LOVE (1Pet. 1:23/1Jn. 2:10/14/17/3:6)

1Pet. 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible (seed/word), by the word of God (two edged – Heb. 4:12), which liveth (faith) and abideth (love) forever.

True freedom has a synonym called the peace of God and it can become the inheritance of those who choose to despise (hate) the peace being offered by the world (Jn. 14:27/12:25). By default, our natural well educated mind is a friend of this world and at enmity with God (Job. 22:21-23/Rom. 8:7/Jam. 4:4), and as such it can’t understand the subtlety of the peace being offered by the world. So our judgement (ways/thoughts) has to be overhauled/changed.

God’s provision to address this enmity (obstacle) is the provision of His Faith - the faith of the new creature; the faith of the world to come. As we learn of him and walk in him (Matt. 11:29/Col. 2:6), we would come into many justifications of the Spirit like the Lord did (Matt. 3:17/17:5) and become SHAREHOLDERS OF GOD’S PEACE. We would unlearn sin and receive the prescription of change that Jesus gave in 2Cor. 3:18. Like it is with our recreated human spirit, our souls would also come to a place where it can witness to the fact that “WE ARE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD”. (2Cor. 5:21)

·         2Cor. 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

·         2Cor. 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made (a future tense/expectation) the righteousness of God in him

So, a very crucial activity that is currently going on is that of God raising men that would be made free enough to disobey Satan and all that he represents! Like our Lord Jesus and his apostles, these communities of saints would be empowered by the gospel of God (Rom. 1:1/1:16) to disown every pseudo peace that the world offers men at a hidden cost (Jn. 14:27/Matt. 16:26). Their material comfort (which can be a form of pseudo peace) would not be esteemed at the expense of walking in love toward the saints (Eph. 1:15c/Gal. 6:2/6:10/1Pet. 1:22/2Cor. 8:2)

Our first or second degrees (which doesn’t give us an edge over God’s enemies) cost us some discipline and qualitative investment of time and resources. So it is with the profession of faith (1Tim. 6:12/Heb. 3:1). Hearing the tutorials of God’s righteousness and mixing it with unfeigned faith in our hearts should cost us much more (Rom. 1:16/10:17/Heb. 4:2). Through this shortcut, the definition of the Christian faith as a religion would be expired in us and we would give this generation the right interpretation of the Christian faith as a lifestyle of adventuring truth.

Our generation must seek God for God, not just for things that perish with the use! We must not hold back from seeking the Lord with all our hearts, soul, strength and mind. As we do, Christ Jesus as the prince of peace would come and indwell our hearts by His Faith (Eph. 3:17/Jn. 14:21), and would tarry in us until he finds our hearts comfortable enough for him to beacon to the father to join him (i.e. “relocate” from heaven) so they can both indwell us together (2Cor. 6:16/Isa. 66:1-2/Jn. 14:23/Rev. 21:3).

This is how we would hasten the timeframe in which the enemies of the true church would be judged (Rev. 6:14/12:9/Ps. 110:1), so that this age can to be shut down and the world to come unveiled, Amen. (Heb. 1:10-12/2Pet. 3:13/Rev. 21:1-2)

Blessings!                         

Tayo Fasan

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#True_Change_Is_Imminent - Part 2

Beloved of God,

Man has been subject to the bondage of corruption (disobedience) and his greatest genuine need is to be free to serve God and give an interpretation to his will (Lk. 1:74/1Jn. 1:2)! The enemy knows this quite well so he has crafted ways of seeking freedom that seems right to men and to nations but would enable him accuse them before God and also limit them with an independent spirit. We are therefore at the mercy of seeking freedom in God’s way, with God’s resources, and at God’s time.

·         Lk. 1:74-75 That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies (Ps. 110:1/Eph. 6:12) might serve him without fear, In Holiness and Righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

·         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:

A lot has been done by man’s corporate enemy against the continuous coming of believers to the knowledge of truth (Heb. 11:6/Jn. 8:31-32/1Tim. 2:4), and it will take Ministers of God’s Righteousness and Preachers of the GOSPEL OF GOD (Rom. 1:1), which became the GOSPEL OF CHRIST (Rom. 1:16) and subsequently the GOSPEL OF PAUL (Rom. 2:16/16:25a); to destroy the works of the enemy in the hearts of carnal believers (1Jn. 3:8). LIKE NOAH KEPT PREACHING RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR OVER A CENTURY, THESE CROP OF MINISTERS OF THE SPIRIT (2Cor. 3:8) WILL CONSISTENTLY ADMINISTER GOD’S RIGHTEOUSNESS AND THEREBY UNVEIL GOD’S FAITH UNTIL THE FAITH (OF CHRIST) BECOMES THE FAITH THAT EACH BELIEVER LIVES BY (Gal. 2:20) AND THE FRUIT OF THIS EXPLOIT WOULD BE THE WORLD BEING OVERTHROWN IN THEM AND THROUGH THEM! (Isa. 61:6/Rom. 1:17/Phil. 3:8-9/1Jn. 5:4)

·         Rom. 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth (i.e. to save the souls of believers – 1Pet. 1:9/22-23); to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from (one lesson/dealing of) faith to (another lesson/dealing of) faith: as it is written, The just shall LIVE by (Christ’s) FAITH.

Men have submitted to the demands of earning a master’s degree for example, because they can see and calculate the reward for doing so, but many believers cannot discern the reward of seeking to be free enough to serve God acceptably. The first challenge that God seekers face is that of their inability to rightly appraise their true identity or their expected end (Col. 1:27b/Jer. 29:11). So preachers are meant to skillfully paint the picture of how God’s Grace (i.e. Christ/the wilderness) is meant to process and set them free so they can access their expected end – God’s Glory (i.e. the father/the promised land). Pls see Jn. 1:14/Ps. 84:11/Rom. 5:2/1Cor. 2:7c

Through the systems of this world, the enemy has embossed a philosophy in not a few men, that says, “MAN’S IDENTITY IS IN WHAT HE DOES, IN HIS STATUS OR IN HIS ABILITY TO ACQUIRE THINGS ABUNDANTLY” (Lk. 12:15), but God continues to say, that “MAN’S IDENTITY IS IN WHO HE HAS CALLED HIM TO BE, BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD! (Matt. 13:35/Eph. 1:4). The preaching the kind of faith that overcomes the world can therefore not be overemphasized!

The identity of our Lord Jesus, while he was a carpenter for over a decade was simply a part of process designed humble him and also “hide him” among men for years. God was simply using that profession as one of the weak arrangements of the earth so he would later confound the world. Abraham’s true identity for 25 years wasn’t in his being “fatherless”; neither was Sarah’s identity in being barren before the eyes of natural men. Joseph’s true identity wasn’t in being a prisoner. Those were the paths and processes they all had to take, to save themselves and those that were tied to their loins (1Tim. 4:16d); so they could all become whom God had called them to be and partake of God’s Holiness (Heb. 11:16c /12:9-10)

Going forward, a genuine wind of change that’s governed by the Gospel of Christ (God’s Power) would be visiting the church (saints) like never before. Men would be walking out of their graveyards (Egypt/worldliness) and from lawful captivities because the trumpet of the voice of the Son of God would give a distinct sound and would be received by willing hearts. We must not resist it because of our self-interest; so we won’t be left on the wrong side of the divide, this year and beyond, Amen.

Blessings!

Tayo Fasan

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