Being a Faithful Steward of Jesus
Tongues and Interpretation
“Open heavens, open heavens, thorough heavens, for there is a thorough even an open heaven between the Lord Jesus. Even weighty, even weighty, weight, weight, even weighty matters that weigh upon the heart of Jesus. Even matters of great importance even to ministers and ministries in the heart of the head of the church. Weighty thoughts, even thoughts that are of importance to the head of the church, even thoughts that are of importance for his ministry to prosper from the heaven to ministers, in ministers and through ministers, even to his people, even to his church. There is a open heaven, open heaven, open heaven, open heaven, open heaven, even touching the head of the church, touching the head of the church, touching Jesus, the Lord Jesus, the Lord Jesus, the Lord Jesus, for I am ministering from heaven, even upon you my servant and even through you. For I am ministering, I am ministering, I am ministering, I am ministering, I am ministering, for I will minister in you and through you, even from heavens, even from heavens, for you will belch my thoughts, you will spell my burden because I am putting my weight, even my burden upon you that you might cause my people, even my ministers to see my heart, to see my burden concerning things of the now, concerning ministry of the end, concerning ministry, the way I see it, the way I see it, the way I truly want it to be even as my father ordained it in the New Testament, So speak boldly because I am speaking through you saith the Lord”.
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One of the greatest job ministers have especially in the New Testament is primarily feeding the flock. One thing that happens in every assembly and ministry is that there is always a moment of teaching even when it is not called a teaching ministry; moment of teaching, exhortation, dispensing God’s words to God’s people, prayers. One core thing in the New Testament that God gave as trust to the church is the ministry of the word. There is primarily only one ministry in the scripture; the ministry of the word. Every other thing is attached to it (Acts 6:4). When we look at what God has for His church, the central is the ministry of the word. The ministry of the word is done at various capacities and levels.
Matthew 24:44-45
“Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. [45] Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season…”
God’s household is primarily set around the ministry of service that comes by the word. Every other thing we do in church is defined by the meat that is provided in the household.
The church belongs to Jesus, no pastor can claim ownership of the church (Math. 26:18). It is Jesus’ church and the people are His flock so they are members of His household and what God expects in the household is that food will be available (1 Tim. 5:8). What sustains a household is food. The first love you can show to a household is that you should provide for your household. God expects that there is provision for the household, there must be meat in the house.
When Jesus resurrected, the first thing He asked was if they had meat (John 21:5). They said no and He provided meat. Any house without meat has fallen below what is known as a household. There is nothing that can make a woman sad as when there is no food in the house. A woman’s joy is to see that meat is provided. One thing that will be pronounced and expected in the end of time is that there will be wise servants who are also faithful. Wise servant and faithful servant is expressed in what you provide. You cannot rate yourself in service outside provision.
1 Corinthians 4:2
“Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.”
Stewards are not owners, stewards are servants. They are not men who just provide, they are men who take from the master, who depend on the master for provision. They are not those who depend on themselves. Even if the master’s provision is not adequate, a steward will be unfaithful to add his own. In stewardship, you are not allowed to give your own, you give what the master provides.
When ministers define their ministry by themselves, they have not gotten it right. Ministers did not hire themselves, somebody hired them and gave them instructions that they are stewards. A servant or a minister is a steward (1 Pet. 4:10). One of the most difficult things to do on earth is to stand in the place of trust to feed the flock.
Acts 20:28
“Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.”
Somebody made ministers overseers. When we are children, we easily follow and depend but there is a time in our lives that we feel we have attained; even in the message of eternal life sometimes you can feel you have it all. Eternal life is not a minister’s business, message or work, the Lord is the owner of the business. If the Lord does not help us, natural supply can blind our eyes. Before we arrive here, we labor so much but when we get there we use it as status to define our progress and independence.
At the end of the day, we will not be asked what church we attended but what we have become (John 1:12). There is power to become, there is something He has within Himself to bring about a change; His own desired change and not our own desired change. People can have access to money and it is not God’s desired change. If he is going to do it by himself then it could be an agenda for another season.
1 Timothy 4:16
“Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.”
Salvation has to first of all happen to one who is given the thrust of stewardship because it is out of what you have that you can provide.
2 Corinthians 3:2
“Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men…”
The epistle is written first of all in the heart of the minister. The flock is the heart of the shepherd that is why the flock can hardly outgrow the shepherd’s heart because the flock is the product of the shepherd’s heart. Every one of us wants to be a faithful steward but the problem most times is our self. Self is strong, everyone has something that will affect their arrival.
Man’s strength is frail (1 Samuel 2:9). Jesus’ major thrust for serving at the end of time is meat. When we move towards the end of time the highest job is meat. Other assignments are subservient to the ministry of the word. If there is anywhere we have problem, this is where we have differences. The labor of the body will become easier when the place of meat is prioritized. What you look like now is a product of what you eat. If we solve that, we will discover that we are all God’s children though from different places.
At the time of Jesus and the apostles, the basic teaching of Christ was not difficult because it was handled by the apostles. Nobody attained status of a minister without the apostles. They did not have problems because the ministry of the word was centered around the apostles. That is why Luke could not call himself a minister of the word. But in today’s church, Luke would have called himself an arch bishop. Luke’s two books (Luke and Acts) were the longest gospel of the New Testament books.
Luke 1:2-3 KJVS
“Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word; [3] It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus…”
He was not a by learner, he was of the crop of the first. Luke was there in everything Paul went through. But they had no strength to say of themselves that they were ministers of the word. In the curriculum given to the apostles, being a minister of the word is a high placement because so much is hanging on the head of ministers. The reason for the church was to create a place for souls to be saved (Acts 2:47). The Church is the most delicate place on earth. God will restore the fear and regard of discerning the body. The body is a house of spiritual heritage; people whose eyes are opened and they are instructed in order. The reason for this is that the table is holy and sacred.
The saying of Jesus came because Jesus was responding to a question that was asked.
Matthew 24:1
“And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.”
Though they were following Jesus, the beauty of Jerusalem did not leave them.
Matthew 24:2
“And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”
What you behold is what you become; it becomes a driver of your intentions. Some people come around meetings and it is not the Spirit or the thoughts of God that attracts them but the fashion. Jesus had to respond in this manner because with the Judaic mind they had, it was not easy for them to look away from Jerusalem. The temple was their heritage. In the spirit, the temple is a heritage but not the physical temple. God will purchase us as a temple. Jesus said to them that everything would come to rumble so they asked Him questions.
Matthew 24:3
“And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?”
Of these three questions which they asked, only one had to do with them which is the signs of His coming. So Jesus spent time on the signs of His coming. One thing that defines His coming is meat provisions.
Matthew 24:45
Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
Each coming of the Lord represents a different season in the spirit, which is characterized by different levels of meats. “The signs of thy coming” is represented by Parousia which means that they are aware of the gradual coming or nearness of the Lord. When the issues of priesthood are being discussed, if basic things are not put in place amidst ministers, it can look like the message of a man or a group of people. Though we might not all preach it the same way, we must preach the same thing except we are not on the same journey or procession. Coming or nearness is journeying. Going towards Him is what determines His nearness; if you do not move towards Him, He will not change His position. It is you that will find the meat He is giving and by that, you will see the Lord coming nearer. There is always the meat of nearness. The meat is the strength to migrate, move, walk, run, and soar because the journey is far. Walking is not enough, you have to change to running and then change running to mounting with wings as eagles. You need the renewal of strength for that. You cannot be old in movement.
God is the One Who was, Who is and is to come meaning He will keep coming. God wants to always come to creation. That is why in eternity, there are still phases of God’s revelation. Now we are seeing the redemption revelation of God called salvation, but there are other things in God and they will keep unveiling phase by phase. This is why the angels keep crying holy, holy, holy. They are before the Lord and are beholding Him.
Revelation 4:8
“And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.”
What they asked was Parousia, and Jesus began to talk to them. Jesus did not emphasize the end to them. They knew the end would come but what they saw majorly was Parousia.
Matthew 24:26-28
“Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. [27] For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. [28] For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.”
That coming of the Son is still Parousia. Eagles eat flesh, they eat meat, so there will be a kind of meat at His coming. Before He spoke about His coming, He said there will be many teachings of false Christ in various places by false prophets. False prophets are those who say Christ but this is not the Christ that can trigger His coming. There is a teaching of Christ that is meant to trigger coming. It is not good for one to quickly declare himself as a prophet of the New Testament. The job of teachers and prophets in the last days is not mere. If you move in there and take that place, you can become a false preacher. If you are an exhorter, it is safer. Barnabas was an exhorter, Paul laid and he exhorted it. Though when they were called, the word was ‘separate to me Paul and Barnabas’, Barnabas was okay with being an exhorter. Jesus left a wisdom with the apostles that saved them from the rest. All through the Acts of the Apostles, Barnabas was an exhorter. The apostles would teach and then he would exhort. We need God’s help to attain the quality of the souls of these apostles.
At the coming of the Son of Man, there will be meat for eagles not for the whole church. The coming actually is designed for eagles.
Matthew 24:28-30
“For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together. [29] Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: [30] And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.”
Light has come to move people into the realm of His coming and they are assembling together. In that assembling will be the sign. So the assembling is to grow a sign in Heaven. It means a people will appear in heaven. These are the people that will handle the dragon and clear the space for salvation to reach all men. Any time something in us refuses these things, it is not you, it is a work done in your building.
Their work is clear: clear the heavens, remove the footstool of the stars of heaven and shake them before their time because they do not want to come down. These things will happen. He said it and the heaven and earth will pass away but not a jot of His word will not be fulfilled. We cannot afford not to be a part of this project. Then, Jesus said that that will lead to something.
Matthew 24:30
“And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.”
That coming is the finality of His comings. So Jesus began from Parousia and brought it to erchomai (finality). The comings are what will lead to the final appearance. The comings are described by meals/meats. The coming is His appearing, as used by Paul in his letters to Timothy. Jesus is in heaven but He is not appearing, He is not revealed. You will get to heaven and not see Jesus. If you see Him bodily, He is not appearing. Meaning He is not making Himself known or unveiled.
There is a Son in heaven. That Son cannot be seen by looking with these eyes. His coming is revelation – the making known of who He is because He is higher than the heavens. Anywhere you are, if you are not moving towards Him, He will not reveal Himself. There must be an activity of looking for Him and to look for Him is to look away from things. You cannot look at Him and look at something else. So one thing Christ does is to purify your eyes so that you can gain the stability to look. There is no alternative to the eyes being single.
Hebrews 12:14
“Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord…”
To see is to sight His revelation; to see Him unveil who He is as an heavenly being. There is who He is an earthly king. The instruction is not to follow quietness, peace is a way. It is not that no man shall enter heaven but no man shall see the Lord. You are meant to see the Lord on the earth. How do you see Christ? Reveal Him. It means that Paul has redemption, he can remit sin. Anyone who has seen Christ should be able to remit sin. Jesus was not just revealed to him, He was revealed in Him. He assimilated Christ, so he called it his gospel.
Colossians 1:14
“In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins…”
Not everyone has redemption; we are being redeemed but some people have redemption, they have forgiveness of sins. When you meet Paul, you either run away or become a changed man. This was the case with Onesimus, he robbed his master but by being with Paul, he became a brother and was profitable to Paul. They do not claim what they do not have and the things around them are fruits.
We have two comings: Parousia and Erchomai. The apostles, when they were teaching the imminent return of the Lord, retained Parousia. Jesus established the two. These two are found in I Thessalonians and II Thessalonians which the church uses as rapture.
Acts 1:7
“And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.”
Nobody knows the time, it is in the exclusive custody of the Father but everything that the Father has, the Son also has. Jesus did not enter the estate of the Son to say that. As the Son, Jesus can know the time because His coming can give the trigger of nearness. He was saying that as someone who is part of us. But in the Son, by reason of the meal changing, you will know that something is about to happen. It is true that we cannot stay away and know when He will come back. We cannot know ecomnia but Parousia is a signal – the right way to know. When Paul was writing I Thessalonians, there was a wave. When there is a wave of Parousia, the church will say the rapture is about to take place. It is only a steward that can learn waiting. Waiting is not doing nothing, it is to keep depending on supply from the master.
1 Thessalonians 1:3-9
“Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father; [4] Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God. [5] For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake. [6] And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost: [7] So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia. [8] For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing. [9] For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God…”
They had not begun that service but why they were turned from idols was to serve the Living and the True God. Turning from idols means you are going to wait for the Son. A man who is waiting for the Son is a man who has turned from idols with the heart of serving. The revelation of the Son is the revelation of the True and Living God. The Son has to teach you how to serve. The Son is a servant, a minister of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle. Serving there is not church work. There is a service the Son practices: how to serve God in righteousness and holiness that ends up with everlasting life. That is what he owns that makes Him the Lord. If you are going to serve, then you have to learn to wait for His Son from heaven. The revelation of the Son from heaven is not ecomnia, it begins with Parousia and ends with ecomnia.
At a point, the church misconstrued it as the Lord’s coming so Paul wrote to them again.
2 Thessalonians 2:1-2
“Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him, [2] That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.”
The day here is talking about the imminent return. Even when Paul talked about being caught up, he used Parousia.
1 Corinthians 15:52
“In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.”
This is talking about Jesus coming to give resurrected bodies. There is a trumpet or message that will be on at the time of giving bodies, at the last trump. Towards the end of the last trump, we will start seeing the power to change bodies which we cannot invoke by ourselves.
As they make the tides heavier, the appearing of the 4th man will also be heavier. Tribulation is not just a trigger for the ultimate appearing, it is a trigger for our entrance into the kingdom; it is a trigger to the appearance of the Lord. Tribulation is not to make us afraid but to make us know that the Lord wants to show up (Acts 14:23). There is a way the spirit life responds to pressure, it does not show up without pressure.
Tongues and Interpretation (2)
“To save, to save, to save, to save, to save, it is the meal, the meal, the meal, the mealz the meal. There is a meal, there is a meal, the meal, the meal, the food, the food, the food, the food of my household, the food of my household, the food of my household must be served, must be served. For the giving of the food is the sounding of a trumpet in the spirit, it is a sounding of a trumpet in the spirit, for the time when the food appears, trumpet will begin to sound. It is a sounding of trumpet, trumpet. Even as the last trumpet removed death and quickened the body, so shall the giving of my meal begin to deal with corruption, even diseases of the soul, diseases of the soul, diseases of the soul. There is a meal to heal the soul, there is a meal to remove the footstool of the adversary from the soul of man. For this meal will not come until the Son appears, He needs to appear and serve His church. He needs to appear and serve His church and there is an open door. There is an open door, there is an open door, there is an open door, there is an open door for corruption to be removed. There is an open door for wilderness to be removed. For there is an open door. I am coming saith the Lord Jesus, I am coming saith the Lord Jesus to remove those things, even those things that have hitherto prevented Me from appearing in your heavens. I am coming, I am coming, and the sign of My coming shall be My meal. For the meal will change, saith the Lord Jesus. For the table will be cleansed, for My meal will come and souls will be whole again. My coming, My coming, My coming, for I want you to desire this meal, I want you to desire this food. It is the secret, it is a secret, it is a secret meant for those who are looking for me, to remove death, to remove corruption, to cause men to overcome death, even to overcome death. I will come again and I am coming. The door of My coming is opened to you, it is open to you, and you will begin to see the sign of My coming is the meal, is the meal, is the meal, is the meal. Look for the meal, desire the meal, and there will
be change, even change, change, change.”
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Matthew 24:11-12
“And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. [12] And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.”
What can tamper with iniquity is when Christ is taught for men to wait for His coming. After charity, there is fervent charity. Love waxing cold is not just zeal, it is journeying in the learning of Christ to charity.
Matthew 24:13-14
“But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. [14] And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.”
Christ is meant to position men to wait for the coming or the revelation of the Son from heaven. That is what Jesus called this gospel of the kingdom – the gospel of enduring to the end or receiving the comings. It is called the gospel of the kingdom of the Father and the Son. Christ is the Son of God but He does not show all of the Father. He became the Son so that He can inherit all of the Father and fully represent the inheritance of the Father. The fight of the flame teachers is against Christ. To ensure that Christ is not preached or naming men with Christ or feeding men with the meat is not done..
1 Peter 1:21-23
“Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. [22] Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: [23] Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”
There is no way to cleanse us until we come into ‘one another’. Charity is maintained to fervent charity. Love of the brethren is love of cleansing. A pure soul is a sanctified/justified soul. There is a preservation of the spirit, soul and body (1 Thess. 5:23). They are all speaking the same thing telling us to be positioned for the revelation of the Son. Anytime the Son is revealed, it is to make manifest a life. Christ is a life. The moment of learning Christ life to become holy and be without blame is to place us in a position of receiving the promise of life. What the Son archives in Himself is the promise of life.
2 Corinthians 7:1
“Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.”
His revelation from heaven is to give us life. When you obey, the reward is life.
1 Timothy 4:1-2
“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron…”
The faith is for the promise of life. Somebody is fighting them from completing the learning of the faith. The faith is to grant life.
1 Timothy 4:7-8
“But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. [8] For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.”
The Son is archiving promises and the promise is to give life. When He is revealed, it is to give life. The life of Christ which is godliness positions you to receive the life of the Son. Before that time, all they knew was Christ, they were learning godliness.
Titus 2:11-13
“For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, [12] Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; [13] Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ…”
It is not just on the earth, there is a world of life revealed already through Christ gospel. We are supposed to learn to live righteously and soberly in this present world. What the Son archives is the blessed hope and glorious appearing of the great God. Christ is called the Son. The essence of the Son which is called the fellowship of the Father and the Son is meant for those who have received Christ message. You cannot learn the fellowship if you have not learned to deny ungodliness and worldly lust. That positions you to look for, as it is not at the point you complete the curriculum that He would show up. You have to wait for Him to appear to save to the uttermost. The Son archives promises of life that deals with death. You cannot inherit a life if death which opposes it is not dealt with. The building of a life is the cracking down of death. When the Son shows up, He shows us the law of His life that destroys the structure and fiber that death has raised in a man.
Life is to come (1 Tim. 4:8). If a life is and a life is to come, it is not the same thing. A life to come is a higher life. The Son piles lives in layers. He used the first life to own a higher life. The higher life is what He is to reveal from heaven. It is called everlasting life or the reason for the priesthood that is over the sanctuary. He is to ministry the sanctuary which is Christ, and to give the true tabernacle which is the true God and Eternal Life. We can say that the Son will show up to show us the One who is true and make us know we can journey to the One who is true and we can be in His Son. What John called ‘this’, was ‘that’ before (1 John 1:1, 1 John 5:20).
1 John 1:1
“That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life…”
1 John 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.”
This describes the journey of ascension to attain to a place where we can see Him who is true, and become the true building of God. That is the meat, it is what the meat is for. Milk, meat and strong meat are all meat. Milk is meat.
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