Believers’ Convention 2024 (Day 6 – Evening Session)
Date: Friday, 23rd August 2024
Minister: Reverend Kayode Oyegoke
Topic: The Ministry of the Word and the Spirit
Tongues and Interpretation (1)
“I am the Rock, I am the Rock, I am that Rock. I have come from Him who sent Me. He sent Me to you. Your Father sent Me to you tonight. That Rock! I have come to you, from Him to you. I am that light, I am that light. I come to you from Him. I come from God. I am from the God, your God. I am from your God. I am from the God, your God. From My own God, your God. Yea, come to you, come from God. I am in here from God. I came to see. I am in here to see you. I am here, I am in here to see you all. I can see you. I am seeing you all. I am seeing you. I am in here seeing you. I am seeing you all. Came from Jesus. Come from Him.
I am Jesus. I am that Jesus. I am Jesus, you waited for; Jesus you have been looking for. I am Jesus. Jesus! I am Jesus you are seeking. Come to you. You sought me, you looked for me, I am here to see you. See you. You are seeing, I am seeing you. I am seeing you all. I can see all of you. All of you. You all, I see you. I see all, I am seeing all. I am all, I see all. I am seeing you all. I am seeing you all, I am seeing you all. I am here for you all. I am in here for you all. I came from God for you all. Inside here for you all. I am in here for you all. I am come to you. I am for you all.
Breath, breath; giving you. I give you breath, I give you breath. New breath. Bring you breath. Breath. I am breathing, I am breathing. I am breathing into you. I have breath. Breath, breath. My breath.”
Tongues and Interpretation (2)
“My shewbread. You have brought Me. You made Me come, you have made Me come. I will make you see Me. I am here. I am here and you will see Me. Many are called and few are chosen, I have chosen. I chose you. Open your eyes and you will see Me. I am the Father. I am the Son.”
(Message Begins…)
Acts 3:20-21
“And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: [21] Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.”
This prophecy is being fulfilled in these days. This kind of ministry was lost but Mercy has helped us to connect to it, so that a bridge might be built, a way will be made and the Lord will come. The Father has ministered this way so that the Lord can come into our midst. The Lord brings things that accompany manifestation; one of the things He is bringing to us tonight is ‘breath’. The Lord is making us know that it takes an entirely different pedestal to minister breath.
Genesis 2:7
“And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
The Lord has brought something tonight that will make you become something. Therefore, it is important that we participate in receiving the Spirit. At the infilling of the Holy Ghost, we received the Spirit by yielding to Him.
At the age of seventeen (17), the Lord told me, “you are in the wilderness”, but I did not know what it meant. But the Lord allowed my knowledge of the word to grow quickly. When it comes to the things of the Spirit, you need to be desperate. ‘Breath’ does not come easily. When God gave Adam breath, He did not do so just by talking to him. Rather, breath came out of the Lord God to Adam.
Genesis 1:26-28
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. [27] So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. [28] And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”
The issue of image was concluded in Genesis 1, while likeness was concluded in Genesis 2. God spoke words of dominion to him then woke up the image in him. Before God could minister breath to Adam, He had to give him a body in order to define his functions as a man. The image God gave him had to take form (be awoken), and to revive the image, there was need for a place of expression. To be like God is higher than being an image of God. Without the body, the soul and spirit cannot handle image, and because of the function of likeness, we need to travel from the realm of the unseen to the seen.
Genesis 2:7
“And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
This is different. The name of our choir, “Cleft Music” was given by God because He wants us to sing songs of the cleft of the rock, just like Hillsong sings songs of the hill. Those songs come from the cleft, where God will cause you to see Him.
Exodus 33:21-23
“And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock: [22] And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: [23] And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.”
1 Corinthians 9:1
“Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?”
This scripture above refers to being set free by the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. After you have been made free, you will begin to see Jesus Christ our Lord. This “seeing” is different form the one Paul experienced on his way to Damascus. It rather refers to perfect deliverance. Paul was a man who saw Him.
We should relate with the Lord like He is near. He is seeing all of us and He knows where we are. He sees our configuration. The Lord does not impute trespasses; rather He comes to us to judge. He sees our inefficiencies with great love to bind us up completely and He will take us to the places where we are unable to cross. The Lord knows how to talk to His ministers.
Tongues and Interpretation (3)
“See Him. It is now time to begin to see Him. It is time to see Him. For yea it is another season, it is a new season. It is a new time; a new season of ministry in the Spirit. It is a new season of ministry of the Spirit. For you have known the ministry of the Spirit of the Lord but it is now time to be ministered to by the Lord to know Him.
You have known the Spirit, now you will know Him, even the Person. It is time for the Person, to know the Person of the Lord; even the Lord Himself, even Jesus Himself, and He will do so often. He will come into your midst just as He has done now, even as He is here now; present and walking amongst you. He will do so often and will come more and the presence of the Lord will be stronger and mightier among you. It is time to know Him. it is time to know Him. It is time to know the Lord.”
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Genesis 2:7
“And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
That is the ministry of likeness. The word ‘image’ in Hebrew is called “tselem” and it means a shape, illusion, or resemblance of a figure, especially something that is not showing life form or expression. The word likeness is from the Hebrew word “demuth”. It means resemblance; a complete model, shape, like, fashion, manner or similitude. Likeness is stronger than image. What God was doing with the ministry of breath was to give likeness to Adam. Thus, He breathed into his nostrils. Likeness is the express image of a person. It is the image that expresses (Heb. 1:2-3). The Father is actually the giver of breath, and when He gave breath to Adam, in the book of Genesis, he became a living soul. The work was finished here.
Genesis 5:1-3
“This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; [2] Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. [3] And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth…”
Adam already came into ‘likeness’ before he gave birth to Seth. Many ministers are not yet ministers of the Spirit. You can minister by the Spirit but you may not be ministering ‘spirit’.
2 Corinthians 3:5-6
“Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God; [6] Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.”
Paul got to a point where he could give spirit, but he didn’t start that way. Paul gave word before he gave spirit. He was first a minister of the word.
Acts 20:32
“And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.”
The word builds men up because it is a builder. Paul was a wise master builder because of God’s word. He got the word for building. The word is a material for building people. Jesus is actually a minister of the Spirit; He is a builder too (Heb. 3:4). He builds by the word of His power (Heb. 1:3). When Jesus said, “I will build My church”, He was going to use the word to build it (Math. 16:18). The word is not ‘letter’ (2 Cor. 3:6). Precept is not letter; it is knowledge.
Isaiah 28:9 – 10
“Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. [10] For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little…”
Knowledge is precept; it is knowing the things of God. Knowledge occurs when one’s understanding is enlightened (Eph. 1:17-18). Another name for ‘knowledge’ is ‘epignosis’. Knowledge is the spiritual theory of doctrine. You cannot come into doctrine without being enlightened. The tree which Adam and Eve ate of in Eden enlightened their eyes. Prior to that time, they were blind to that knowledge. That action began the initiation into that knowledge (of good and evil). When they had that knowledge, they moved into ‘knowing’. It was a quick succession. That knowledge came from Satan. Don’t play with Satan because he has power to kill souls.
If not well managed, academics is a strength for good and evil. It has swallowed many men and quenched them completely, such that they disdain God. Satan is also a kind of light; He is an angel of darkness or an angel of a kind of light. He was enlightening Cain, teaching him and opening his eyes. Either in good or evil, knowledge increases strength (Prov. 24:5). When you argue against God, it is because something is being ministered to you. Satan used the law to blind the Pharisees against God. Jesus called them ‘the blind who lead the blind’ (Matt 15:14), for they were not sincere in their hearts.
This blindness means they don’t have enough stature in God. They were babies of the law and also teachers of babes. But men like Isaiah and Jeremiah had more than knowledge. They moved into the doctrine of the Lord — they had spirit. John the Baptist was also not an ordinary man. He had knowledge, precepts, doctrines and lines. If he did not have lines, he would not know the way. God communicated lines to Moses and taught him ways. David was also a master of lines.
Old Testament saints did not have breakthroughs into all of the arrangements of God’s things. We are just going to begin to break through right now in Churches. The first century Christians had their breakthrough. The Pharisees were matured in the devil; they were serpents – a brood of vipers (Matt. 23:33). When John the Baptist saw them, he knew them. Immediately Jesus saw them, he also got angry because they were not children in God and they were not children in the devil. They were children in the area of God, but they were sons in the things of devil. Satan used the law to make them; they were trees. That is why they refused Jesus. The Pharisees stood against Jesus because they had become trees against Him.
Luke 3:7-9
“Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? [8] Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. [9] And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.”
The Pharisees were trees, they took the seat of Moses and were governing Israel. They had an advantage as trees. There are grasses and trees. The tree is a form of flesh; it is a matured flesh. Nebuchadnezzar was a tree, not a grass but he experienced withering because he still had the nomenclature of grass (Daniel 4:11). Grasses will wither; it just takes some time. The decree came upon Nebuchadnezzar for him to be cut down. It is not every man on earth that is a tree in the kingdom of the devil. In nthe same way, not everybody is a tree in God’s kingdom. God is campaigning for trees of righteousness, who are the planting of the Lord (Isa. 61:3) The trees in God’s kingdom are needed to break the wind of death. Therefore, God will plant trees in churches.
There is a difference between a minister who ministers the word and one who ministers the spirit, whuch is a lawgiver. The word of God builds. We have letter and knowledge. Everything in the hardcopy Bible is ‘letter’, but you cannot read it and get knowledge, until the spirit of wisdom and revelation comes to excavate knowledge to you. Understanding is trained or initiated through knowledge.
Knowledge is the gateway to things. One comes about knowledge through wisdom and understanding. Wisdom travels through letters and wisely selects scriptures for the purpose of discovery. When wisdom has found a scripture and you understand it, it will make you wise. Therefore, get wisdom and understanding. The Spirit of understanding will shine further and makes you get x-ray of the wisdom you have found. Then, you will become wise in the spirit. Having the knowledge of God alone is not enough to know Him. It only begins the journey of knowing Him. The Spirit of wisdom and revelation is a provision for the church.
Ephesians 1:15-17
“Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, [16] Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; [17] That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him…”
The Father is the one who opens eyes and gives permission for eyes to be opened. He doesn’t just give permission, He must agree with Jesus (Matt. 16:17). Jesus has become so full of the Father. When it comes to the issue of giving a soul access to light, it is the Father of lights that does this (James 1:17). God the Father is the Father of lights. If you give light to any man wrongly, you can bring him in but later on, he can become a devil. Many have come to this waters, but were not prepared. God will drive them away, so that when they are ripe for harvest, they will recover them back. The spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him is for the eyes of your understanding to be enlightened. Here, you don’t yet know God but you will begin to know what is the hope of your calling.
Ephesians 1:18
“The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints…”
Paul wrote the book of Ephesians, but he was later crying in Philippians 3:10, that He may know God. Knowing God is a different ballgame. Knowledge is precept. It is the wisdom of the Holy Ghost to arrange scripture for knowing. The Holy Ghost uses scriptures to make one wise. He can use some scriptures to explain light, and you can have an encounter from this.
Matthew 16:16
“And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
Peter did not know it was Christ because he heard a word of prophecy from someone. Something must have happened; the Father must have traveled through testaments and did something to Peter. He knew how to connect Peter, use scripture and then open up that revelation, “thou art Christ, the Son of the Living God”. Peter did not know him that day. If he had known Him, he would have had life. Peter had revelation knowledge; this is precepts and it is different from lines.
It is possible to minister knowledge and it can be called “word”, but it is actually “knowledge word”. I taught this “knowledge word” for a long time because it was a call to open eyes. Paul was sent to open the eyes of people (Acts 26:18). Sometimes we are not aware of when we move into doctrine, leaving precepts.
Ephesians 3:14-16
“For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, [15] of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, [16] that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man…”
Knowledge is the material for “word”. The riches of God’s glory are gathered by the enlightened eyes, causing one to know the hope of His calling. When hope is changed, ministry changes. A minister can minister the word, minister knowledge and minister the spirit. Knowledge is the first word, which is also known as precept.
Ephesians 3:17
“that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love…”
This is more than knowledge. This is the word.
John 3:5
“Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”
That water is word not spirit. There is a spirit called the word of God; it can also be referred to as water. At times it is the sword of the Spirit, which is “word”.
Hebrews 4:12
“For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
This is a spirit. God comes to us so we can see lines in their linear arrangement (Isa. 28:10). Grace is not “word”. For us not to make mistakes in the spirit, we need knowledge and then we need “word”; knowledge introduces us to “word”. At times, we speak “word”, but we are speaking the word of spirits which is also spirit.
The word is also spirit (John 6:63). Flesh is what Satan speaks. Flesh is a fallen spirit product; it is a word that has no life. Satan likes to speak his own word; instead of quickening, he steals, kills and destroys (John 10:10). If you want to move someone into the word, enlighten him — open his eyes of understanding; then the man has knowledge. You are enrolling him into the school of the spiritual. Knowledge is spiritual.
Colossians 1:9
“For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding…”
Spiritual wisdom and spiritual understanding is for spiritual knowledge. It means that our understanding should be rich; we should have light. Knowledge is the spiritual theory for spiritual practicals. It is not easy to tell when a minister is using knowledge and he is using “word”.
John 6:68
“Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.”
That word is called spirit. There is a spirit called “word”. The Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost are all spirit but They have different natures. There is an attribute, a nature, a character that makes the Holy Ghost spirit. There is what He is doing as spirit that the Father is not doing. There is something the Father cannot do — He cannot dwell in babies, but the Holy Ghost can enter a new born babe in Christ; even the Word cannot enter you.
The Holy Ghost can carry a church from infancy to the sanctuary.
Jesus needed to die and sit at the right hand of the Father, to pray to the Father for the Holy Ghost (John 14:16). There is something about the Father; you cannot just take a decision without Him. Even though They are one, They are not the same. In the Godhead, They are one, They are a family. The Godhead is not an office, They are persons.
There is a word that is spirit; then there is a spirit that is spirit; it is called word and spirit. It is actually for the salvation of the soul. While I was in the word of faith, the word “end time army” was so strong that we desired it. One day the Holy Ghost told me “end time” are work, not healing of the outward man. The Lord told me that He wants to make babies men. He now told me salvation of the soul is the message of the end. I then discovered that all the scripture is to perfect the saints. That is the program of the end.
1 Peter 1:9-13
“receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. [10] Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you: [11] searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. [12] Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into. [13] Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ…”
Grace is for the saving of the soul. The only exercise is the stretch of things. Precepts are more than letter; precept is knowledge. I can minister knowledge and still minister “word”. I can move from precept to word of lines. Lines are doctrines. That word opens you up to the things of Spirit.
Revelation 1:1
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John…”
John was carrying the record of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. This word of God is line, not knowledge. The testimony of Jesus Christ is the spirit of prophecy (Rev. 19:10), but there is the word of God. These two things are things Jesus is handling as the High Priest. Like Melchisedec, He came and brought bread and gave wine (Gen. 14:18). The word of God is what God uses to build one up. If you want an everlasting body, you need the word of God; it is the flesh of God.
Hebrews 10:19-20
“Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, [20] by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh…”
Veil is the word. Jesus’ flesh is the veil. It is the veil to the Holiest. Jesus’ flesh is not the veil to the temple in heaven but of the temple called God. The temple was there before man was made; before Jesus was made flesh. The temple was initially not designed to remit sin; it was purely a worship center, a means by which you give yourself to God. God is a temple but Angels do not enter into God. Angels have been entering into the temples; angels are temples of some sort. Temples dwell in heavens.
God is also a temple but angels do not enter into God; God does not allow them to enter into Him. They access a very high tabernacle by which they interface with Him. God gave them a shade of Himself, not Himself completely. Everything they have is directly the duplicate of what we have.
There is a veil of the temple in heaven but Jesus entered it and obtained eternal redemption. Jesus entering it was a means to enter the Father. Jesus did not enter the Father’s temple directly because the Father’s temple does not have sin; it has never been defecated. Lucifer and the angels were not entering into God.
The sin from the beginning is from the Most Holy. Jesus had to purge the Holy of Holies (the sanctuary in heaven) with His blood because it did not have enough quality to take the sacrifice of His blood. He had to upgrade the temple so that the temple could get the job of a high priest done. We must also enter that temple. Accessing that temple is a kind of model in heaven.
I can enter into the temple of God in heaven and enter a deeper temple. I am entering into that temple but I am entering into God. God cannot put that temple aside because it is still standing. To take away the ministry of that temple in heaven, heaven and earth must pass away. Jesus has to fulfill the demands that will make sure that temple is gone. The way to expire that temple is to raise temples for God here on earth. When men who can carry God here on earth have been raised, there is no need for that temple again.
Revelation 21:22
“And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.”
The Lord God Almighty and the Lamb have been the original temple since. The actual temple which is God is okay, but God needed Jesus to purge the other temple in heaven so it can be used to raise men. God raised that temple higher than the angel usage because from that temple, men will be raised. As Jesus is using the temple, He is bringing you to God. Coming inside that temple is coming to God. After sometime it will be discarded for the real temple, God and the Lamb, to appear.
Revelation 1:9
“I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.”
Revelation 19:10
“And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”
Angels have testament; that testament is a copy of the original.
Daniel 10:21
But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.
Revelation 1:9
“I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.”
This bible is valid. Stay on it. It is the word of God that is a tool for the High Priest to build the house of God.
Matthew 16:17
“And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar–jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.”
Ezekiel 36:26
“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.”
Jesus has both the bread and the blood. Satan stole the word flesh from God; he did not create the body. He quickly ran into a body to dominate it to make such a body a sin carrier. God will not stop until He has redeemed the body. Before rapture, bodies should be sinless. Adam did not have immortality but was sinless until sin came and traveled from the spirit to the soul.
Revelation 12:1
“And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars…”
Bodies can become living. People like Paul had living bodies (2 Cor. 11:25). We are getting to a place where there will be a removal of the things that make us sick. You cannot withhold the natural from someone who serves God. The word of God is flesh of God. You get the testimony from the blood of Jesus Christ. Hebrews 3 began to enumerate how Jesus will build His sanctuary. He will build them with the word.
Hebrews 2:17
“Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.”
Sins will be taken care of by the word of God. To begin this, the ministry of the High Priest is highlighted. An apostle is a builder – a sent one for to build. As He is doing the work of building, He is also remitting sins. What makes us remain on the earth is sin. This body is a case. A 6-foot man can be higher than the heavens. A quality body above the earth will be given to us. Jesus will give us His own flesh to build us up. Jesus’ flesh is His word (Rev. 19:10).
Jesus came into flesh, then God upgraded flesh to be an eternal body. The same Jesus, who was the form of God can now have the form of man in God capacity. I wonder how Jesus agreed to come in that form and remain like that, though Eternal and having immortality dwelling in light. The intention of God was to push man to the same state Jesus was.
Hebrews 3:2
“Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.”
The dispensation of faithfulness is for building. His faithfulness is mercy. To be merciful is to give you breath and supervise that law until it becomes a covenant. In terms of building, Jesus is faithful. In terms of removing law, He needs to be merciful.
Hebrews 8:6; 8-9
“But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: [9] Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.”
The Godhead do not make covenant except to make someone to be a father. You need to be a house to be a father. Fathers entail tents and coverings. You must have been built up before They can begin to make covenant with you.
Hebrews 8:10-12
“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: [11] And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. [12] For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.”
The law and the covenant is what will cause you to know Him. You can deal with sins and not deal with iniquities. They are not the same.
Ezekiel 28:14-16
“Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. [15] Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. [16] By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.”
Iniquity is something twisted and imbalanced. That is where sins generate from. Iniquity was actually the law of Satan. Satan twisted the testament in him. This is why you cannot handle iniquity without covenant. This is also why God does not give covenant to children. He allows you to develop into the stature of a father because you will be handling an everlasting thing that you cannot break nonchalantly.
Ezekiel 28:17
“Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.”
Beauty is excellence. Satan was flawless in manifestation and it got to him. He was bright: bright students are proud. One can have a bright head and a proud heart. Parents should develop a good heart in their children to manage their smart brains.
Sin is from the law. The strength of sin is the law (1 Cor. 15:56). That law is iniquity. Sin is a wearing; it is a covering. Sin is flesh. Iniquity is hiding inside sin. Sin is the word of the devil and iniquity is his law. Spirit is first of all law, then it makes you cut covenant.
For Jesus to give you spirit is to give you breath. God may put laws in you, like He gave laws to angels. God gave them the end of law, which is the promise. From law, life, testimony, covenant and the law; it is the law that becomes life. They will give us life like they gave to Jesus.
Jesus did not wear the word like Adam did. He took those things and He began to build them, turn them from law to covenant, then they became testament. From testament, they became testimony. Testament is potential, but covenant is already speaking. I cannot give life as I am right now, but I can give you spirit. When you go home, you need to turn the spirit to covenant, which in turn generates testimony.
Luke 22:20
“Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for you.”
When Jesus was moving on earth He was bearing the testimony of God that He had. The Ark of the testimony is more dangerous than the Ark of covenant. When a heart has become testimony, it means there are things He is saying that is more than covenant — a ministration of the spirit. This is how these angels look like. That is why you cannot overcome Satan just with the word of God; you need a testament to pull him down.
Revelation 12:11
“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.”
Where they are pushing us to is to have testament. When we have a testament and generate testimony, we become a prophet. Those who bear the record of God are servants. Brethren are testimony carriers. Prophets are testators. The prophet there is not talking about the likes of Prophet Jeremiah. It is talking about prophetic life that New Testament saints have in cutting covenant with God. When you cut covenant, you have to be patient. Doing that patience is when testament is forming. After a while, you have testimony. At that point, the testament is already speaking.
One who will be built up completely for God has to go through process. This is how the adversary was formed. When he became evil, he corrupted and stole everything given to him and made it his own. This is how he became a terrible, formidable opponent. Our Lord Jesus overcame him as a man, not as God. Jesus overcame him before he destroyed him. He needed to be overcome before being destroyed, if not, his testament will say he was only destroyed and not overcomed, therefore he cannot go. This is why he can press charge in heaven and come to earth because he has legal standing.
That testament is what he generated and used for accusation. Satan is a lawyer, that is why he can press charges against heaven without coming to earth. Make sure you overcome him. He will look you in the eye and he knows those who will overcome him. You will overcome him. To overcome him is for him to offer you all his life and you refuse it.
You can give the word and may not be able to give breath. God opened the nostrils of Adam to give him breath. When you have wrong breath, evil spirits will be around you. God will change your breath.
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