Dearly Beloved,
The following transcribed message remains simple,
religiously-unfriendly and fearful. I must
confess that it takes Esther’s kind of resolve to manage the sophisticated
distractions that abounds today and then fulfil the glorious destiny
articulated in the New Testament
The Law of Truth remains perfect, sure, pure, clean and to be desired more than gold. A generation is being groomed by such law; their hearts are beginning to rejoice, their eyes are
being enlightened and their souls are being made childlike.
I trust you
would find grace to openly tarry with this weighty ministration that promises
to hasten the pace at which believers would be redeemed from among
men (Rev. 14:4)
Graceful
reading!
Non-Negotiable Counsels of
God's Kingdom - Part 16
Matt. 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to
destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Before a
man can escape destruction and enter a dominion different from that of Babylon, he needs to gain the incorruptible
life. Babylon is a custodian of destruction (i.e.
corruption).
Babylon is a harlot (Rev. 17) because she fornicates with powers to trap souls
on earth so that people will do her will instead of doing God’s will. So
carrying out Babylon’s commandment turns you into a corruptible fellow.
For you to enter the kingdom, you need
to sight it first. Jesus needs to treat your eyes and raise your
judgment through revelations of righteousness (Rom. 1:16). You cannot know a
false person except the eyes of your understanding are enlightened.
When the
eyes becomes single, the body (i.e.
soul) will be full of light and that is when you
will be enabled to locate the narrow and unpopular way.
It doesn’t seem good to men but when your eyes are
healed, you will be able to differentiate
between the
false and true way.
Jesus was simply saying that the gate to the kingdom is not something that a sheep can find on its own.
The broad way and the narrow way represent two trees: tree
of Life and the tree of death (i.e. knowledge of good and evil). These two trees also represents
two kinds of prophets: the true prophet and the false prophet. What makes a
prophet false is that he propagates a life that is apart from the fruit of the
tree of life, which is Christ. Every man has the
nature of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, therefore every man’s
judgment is corruptible (Mat. 7:15).
These gates leads
to a two destinations; unto life, and
unto destruction. Gates can be men. The gates to destruction are
human beings that have trapped corruption and would not let it go. What is responsible for
corruption is the EVIL EYE (Matt. 6:21-23). This is the door to the soul and this is what has hindered many believers from entering the kingdom.
The evil eye is the eye that is turned away from God towards self through the cares of this life (Matt. 13:22/6:25-33). A man cannnot escape
corruption that works lust (2Pet. 1:4) except His eyes are properly treated.
A time is
coming when the gate to destruction will be widened and made
more popular, but
thank God that Jesus also said that few
will still find that unpopular way.
One thing that is very prevalent here is that these
gates (of life) are many. Jesus will send His men to His people, men who will be gates to the kingdom, not
gates of hell. He would have purged them of corruption, and they will not preach this world, but they will preach Him. That is how you to know
true prophets.
True prophets
do not preach this
world; they
preach Christ. They are teachers of the kingdom
and they open the gate for
men to
pass through them into life. True prophets will not hold people
down; rather they stand as gates whom men will pass through
to arrive at the dominion of the Father. Likewise, the gates
of evil will not hold people down but lead people to Satan (i.e. destruction)
Mat. 7:16-20 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a
corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring
forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree
bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is
hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know
them.
A good tree is a gate that is narrow
(Christ). It is Christ in men; men embodied in Christ. An evil tree is a
corrupt tree. A corrupt tree is a worldly tree; it has
corruptible ingredients of the world in it. This tree will lead a man
to destruction. Jesus admonishes, ‘do not enter
the road that this tree propagates because it professes
death.’
Jesus
is saying here that in these last
days, there will be many trees of life and there will be many trees of death (Mat. 7:20) and they’ll be known by their works. If
their fruit is worldly, it reveals that they weren’t sent.
Matt. 7:22-23 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter
into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in
heaven.And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye
that work iniquity.
Every child of God will be faced with iniquity because iniquity is looking for those who will do her pleasure. Iniquity is that which stands against the father’s
desire. Its not just the obvious sins people commit, its any
desire, passion, idea, intention, plan, ambition that seems right according
to human wisdom but is totally contrary
to divine interest. Many cooperate with iniquity all their
lives because deeper dimensions of iniquity has an appearance of good. Iniquity could be very logical and
legitimate but harmful to the soul
For
example, God’s intention for a
man could be for that man to seek and know Him, but the man by his own human
calculation would think that knowing God is not enough. He would begin to think
of building a big cathedral for the Lord, or some other big
project. Building a cathedral for the
Lord is not a bad idea, but it may not be in the plan of God for such because it will not work out the salvation of God in his life. INIQUITY IS IN THE SIGHT OF GOD IS THE ACT OF TAKING THOUGHTS (Matt. 6:25) CONTRARY TO THE WILL OF THE
FATHER
SUCH
PROJECTS SOILED WITH INIQUITY ARE ALWAYS VERY MAGNIFICENT BECAUSE THE PURPOSE
OF ITS EXPANSION IS TO STEAL THE PLACE OF THE WILL OF GOD. Iniquity is enlarged
so that the Father would be denied of pleasure. There are things that appeal to
the flesh and those are the things that iniquity
magnifies before us.
What will
make a soul hate
the world is the opening of the eyes of his
understanding. When
your eyes have been flooded with light, you
would receive the ability to discern the world.
Fellowship with the world weakens us from running with God’s
projects. The more a soul is seduced by
the world, the more empowered he would be to SEEK
THE WORLD and the weaker he becomes
to SEEK GOD. God wants to blind the eyes with which we lust after the world so
that we can carry out his will.
Many can see the world, its name and its elevations. They know the pride of
life and they pursue it. Such men cannot go
ahead to be good trees because of what they are beholding. They can see so much, and they would not want to give it up.
God becomes little before them, and there
is
nothing in Christ that can be compared
to the exaltation which they see in Babylon.
Satan
steals might and strength from people by giving them a vision.
He gave the Lord a vision
on the mountain of temptation. He spoke to Eve and she began to see things about the
forbidden tree. Such temptations are usually enticing. Jesus
could have gone for it, but He called Himself back.
You
cannot enter the kingdom except you are purged of the corruption that works
through lust. What makes us lust after things is the corruptible seed we carry and it must
be totally destroyed by the incorruptible seed programmed in God’s will. God’s will is called the meat of God (Jn. 4:34) and this is the instrument that would get our souls born again (1Pet. 1:23/Jn. 3:5-6)
The
word of the kingdom is the incorruptible seed which the Lord
referred to as the seed sown by the sower. The seed has two natures or
commandments: It lives and then it abides. When you finish doing
the word (walking), you will abide forever (rest).
1Pet. 1:23 Being born
again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which
liveth and abideth for ever.
1Jn. 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he
that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
1Jn. 2:17 describes
the end of the nature of the word after it has been sown in
a soul. If the word abides in you, you will abide. The reason for faith is so
that we may have life and live thereby, but afterwards,
we will not just live, we will also abide, which is a higher
dimension.
Abraham LIVED by faith, but
after his experience on Mount Moriah,
he went on to ABIDE at Beersheba
where he planted the groove. Abraham began to abide; he was not moving out of
Beersheba. It was there he divided the inheritance because he learnt both to
live and abide.
John 15:10 If ye keep my
commandments
(i.e. live), ye shall abide in my
love; even as I have kept (i.e. lived) my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
Love makes the soul to
abide. By faith, you learn life, you acquire life, and by love, you abide.
From
Eph. 1:3-6, we can see here that the blessings referenced in verse three will
make you experience verse four (i.e. being made holy and without blame). It
will take all the spiritual blessings in heavenly places to be made holy and
blameless before Him in love. If there are heavenly places, it means each
place has a purpose. All the blessings in heavenly places are supposed to be a
download for complete holiness i.e. divine empowerment
The reason why they call God ‘Holy,
holy, holy’, three dimensions of holiness, is because our Father is so blessed.
You can call blessings virtues. The good news is that He is bringing us into the very thing that separated Him from creatures. God wants to give us the blessing
of the character of His holiness.
The
holiness of God is not rules and regulations, but a separation from the world. Holiness is a
status above corruption and darkness. It is an immunity against corruption because to be
holy is to be made whole and to be
blessed as God is, and that
must be in love. God’s holiness is
in love. It
is God’s obedience to the law of love (highest
love) that keeps Him
on the throne. The separations of God flows from His love nature. To say that God is love and to say
that God is holy both mean the same thing.
Spiritual blessings in heavenly places
include the total package of blessing, first of all in
the wisdom of God. Anyone who is wise is holy because wisdom comes from that
holy place and is a holy thing. We have been
predestined before the foundation of the world unto
the adoption of children and that means our destiny is to be adopted as
children.
Adoption
and glory are the same. The word ‘adoption’ means to receive; it speaks of a
time when God will finally take
responsibility over a man as father (Heb. 12:9). That is when according to Matt. 3:17, He will fully declare to
the universe ‘this is my son’, but we must be set apart first. You need
the dews from heavenly places to fall on you to make you as white as
snow
God takes pleasure in beings that have
come into that state of adoption of children; they are the givers of pleasure
to the Father. In Eph. 1:5, reference to
adoption of children is made because one can’t please God
except those who have attained this childlike state;
they who can generate pleasure to Him, such are the
sons of God.
One of the things that the will of God does is that
it trims you down. It trims down your haughty height and makes you innocent, unable to do anything without the Father (Jn. 5:19). It will take a child to do
what the Father wants. These are not just
children, they
are sons (Matt. 3:17) because they will have maturity to carry out the will of
the Father, even to the minutest detail. They will also be
innocent about the will; they will neither touch that blueprint nor add to it,
because they are holy.
TO BE A CHILD IS TO BE HOLY, PURE
AND WISE. The more a pleasurable
being you become to God, the meeker you are, until you
attain the stature of the least or meekest (Matt. 18:4). That is a place of
power.
A who has
become a little child is one who can arrive at His presence and touch His pleasure because in His presence is fullness of joy, and the
things at His right hand are pleasures
forevermore (Ps. 110:4/Heb. 7:17). When a man gives God pleasure,
he too will enjoy pleasure (Ps.16:11).
No
man who has not
brought the Father pleasure will come into the kingdom of God. The kingdom is a world of God’s pleasure where both God and man
are pleasured because in pleasing God, man comes into the pleasure zones of
divinity. This pleasure is not just for a while
but forevermore.
No wonder Jesus faced the cross with
joy (Heb. 12:2). Can you endure many things (sufferings) when you
know that pleasure is awaiting you? This pleasure is encapsulated in His will, and that is what births us into the world of God’s pleasure.
Bless You!
Rev. Kayode Oyegoke
Learning the Father’s Pleasure (Part
2)
VGC Bi-Monthly Outreach
6th July, 2014.
