School of the Spirit (17th June 2021)
Topic (First Session): A Discourse on the Faith of the Son
Ministering: Reverend Kayode Oyegoke
Text: Ephesians 3:8-12
Tongues and Interpretation (1)
Living, living. For you are in the zone of the living. Even the zone of life, even the word of life. You are on the ground of the living, you are in the realm of the living. You are in the great realm of the living, with conversations of the living beaming out from that world of the living, even grace of the living, world of the living. High living! That you might hear things of the living. Even, come into the light of the living, even strength of the living, from life of the living to life of the living to life of the living; that you might draw close even into life, even that very life. Life! Life is calling. But yea, you are in the zone of the living, the world of the living. Living, living, living.
Tongues and Interpretation (2)
Show! Show you! I show you. I've come to show you, I've come to see you. I am here to show you. I’ve brought you things of the living. To make to live. I've come to make to live. I’ve come to make you to live. I’ve come to bring you into the realm of the living, into the world of the living. I’m come to cause you to see things of the living, to know the things of the living, to hold things of the living, to think thoughts of the living, even into the world of the living, the realm of the living. Come! I’ve come to show you. I’ve brought that realm. For that realm is manifested by the Spirit, the Holy Ghost upon you. Come walk in the woods. Come feel the ambience of the woods. Realm of the living, thoughts of the living, condition of the living. Condition of the living over you. The condition of the living is over you to hibernate upon you, to create thoughts of the living, to lay eggs of the living within you; that you might think thoughts, life thoughts, living thoughts, high living thoughts of the living God.
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The faith of Christ is what gives access and boldness with confidence. No one can come into all these sayings without the faith of Christ. The doctrine of the power of God is access and grants boldness with confidence. Without this faith, no one can access the impossible realm of God. Having access goes beyond being able to get answers to prayers, rather it speaks of an entrance into a door.
Most doors in the spirit are ‘by-doors’ and are accessed by faith. ‘By-doors’ are doors that do not give immediate transition into a place. They are long process doors or corridors. They are long doors of entrance. The thickness of this kind of door is a path. We need the lesson of the door for the entrance into that life.
“To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.” (Acts 26:18). The message of the faith of the Son will travel very far. Kenneth Hagin’s faith which is based on Mark 11:23-24 has got behind it that Hagin’s spirit; but there is a higher faith than that. We need Hagin’s attitude of faith to be able to do well in the higher faith. Hagin’s faith is a general attitude of faith - believing. This is what is encapsulated in the milk of the word, which entails being able to believe and trust God for anything. Believing in God, which is expressed as faith towards God, is sufficient to quicken the spirit of a man, give him the Ghost, and enjoy benefits like good health and the ability to heal the sick.
Jesus told his disciples that those who believe in Him would lay hands on the sick and they would recover (Mark 16:17-18). It is also possible for the believer (he who should lay hands on the sick) to be sick (James 5:14). Recall Epaphroditus was sick and nigh unto death, but God had mercy on him and on Paul too (Phil. 2:25-27). The privilege of believing in Jesus makes us able to impart healing to others (Mark 16:18).
Another sign of believers is that we can take up serpents and not be harmed. This does not mean that we should go ahead to tempt the Lord by taking up a serpent, for the purpose of making a spectacle; but that if we do so mistakingly, the Lord shields us from every harm. We have power over serpents and scorpions; these include demons. Demons are creeping forces in the spirit and we have overcome many demons - sometimes unknowingly. There are some other evil spirits called vipers but they cannot harm us because the word assures us that they shall by no means hurt us (Luke 10:19). Demons cannot break the codes spelt out in the word of God, lest they would be cast into the lake; this they dread greatly.
Spirits and demons can cry/wail. Jesus sent dread into the kingdom of darkness. We are coming to a time when they would cry. Jesus would raise men who would come in His order and make the evil spirits wail. Demons have to obey the name of Jesus. The name of Jesus is so effective in the realm of the Spirit. While Jesus was on earth, many people were delivered from unclean spirits; now, that order would be restored. Nowadays, many come with unclean spirits into the church and go back the same way; this would change. Demons have discernment - they recognize the Holy One of God; they confess and cannot deny Him, even though we see the priests and Pharisees denying Jesus (Mark 1:24).
The faith of Christ includes the forgiveness of sins and an inheritance by the faith that is in Jesus (Acts 26:18). The word ‘by' implies the method of receiving, indicating to the Church how to receive the inheritance. This faith is not the trusting and praying faith; it is the hearing and doing faith. It is curriculum faith; faith doctrine; faith life. One can have faith for healing and get immediate results - also known as faith towards God, but may not have faith for the inheritance. The latter kind of faith is not attained in one day. When a believer who is used to exercising faith and getting immediate results happens to experience a delay in receiving something of God, such a one becomes impatient. Such a one lacks the understanding that when they are going through challenges, they are actually receiving substances of God. It becomes difficult for such a believer to receive the new dealing that the Lord is bringing to him, in relation to a higher faith.
Forgiveness of sins is not the same as pardon. ‘Sins’ (plural) implies that there are many. God has pardoned us but wants to remit our sins; that is, to gradually delete them. He wants to heal us and this does not take place in one day. Healing here is gradual because sins at this level are not things we want to immediately relinquish. There are many 'sins' that we are so attached to; we have become fond of them and find it hard to relinquish.
The faith of the Son is a life that is alien to ours; it is a life in the Son that He wants to impart on us. There is already a life of sin in us; Satan has built this life gradually in men over time - from one level of sin unto another - until the level called ‘sins’ is reached. That life is a kind of power and wisdom of satan. A man may have experienced the new birth, be filled with the Holy Ghost and still possess the life of sin. The Holy Ghost cannot rid this life out from us immediately, lest we turn back. Hence, the need for the milk of the word which is to entice us and begin a reculturing. The milk of the word cannot remove the life of sin but it starts helping us.
The life of sin is the power of satan. It took time for Satan to build this power; that is what makes men live on earth outside the territory of faith. Anyone under that power can never please God (Heb. 11:6). Every life that is not pleasurable to God is a life that is not of faith; hence, anything that is not of faith is sin (Rom. 14:23). ‘Sins’ is an anti-life to faith that is propagated on earth, and men are at home with it. Satan is powerful, else Jesus would not have given Paul the commission to turn men from the power of Satan to God (Acts 26:18). To hack Satan down is to destroy the belief system he put in man. Satan created a comfortable life for flesh - sin.
We must make the decision to make faith movements instead of spending our lives on things that would pass away. As much as God is interested in our healing, He is more interested in our appreciation in Life. To receive forgiveness of sins, our eyes need to be opened. There must be a turning of the soul from the power of Satan to the power of God. This is the actual power-must-change-hands that should occur. We must turn from the life of sin to God. The power of Satan makes a man live all his vocation on earth, minding earthly things and never coming to a spiritual state. Satan figured out that man (in Eden) was not living life thinking of tomorrow, what to eat and what to wear. The purpose of God is that we should not think for tomorrow. We must not live our lives thinking of tomorrow. Thoughts can be stirred in the soul like soups.
Soups are prepared in the Tabernacle by priests; in fact, modern-day chefs are almost dressed like priests. Some evil spirits stir thoughts in many souls; that is why many men cannot resist the evil thoughts. These thoughts are after the order called the power of Satan. Satan processes thoughts and serves man, and persuades him till he is caught by his meat. There are all manner of thoughts people feed into. Thus, Jesus instructs us that there are thoughts we must not take; thoughts for our lives, clothing, shelter etc (Matt. 6:25). This does not mean that we should not think about our natural needs but it is referring to a manner in which the soul places that subject for thought as a fortress for it. We must not spend our lives pursuing earthly things.
Adam's thoughts were initially on God. Satan knew this, so he thought of how to bring Adam down by bringing him into a foul, legitimate thinking. His goal was to change how Adam thought by using the things in him. Satan started with their children, knowing he may not win with Adam and Eve’s generation. The war of Abel and Cain was a war of thoughts. Whatever a man starts thinking, he would start doing. Cain, a tiller of the ground, began taking thoughts of the harvest and the challenges he might encounter. That led him to sin by bringing an unworthy sacrifice unto God, and that made his sacrifice unacceptable. Abel did not take thoughts, he only did what his hands found to do. But Cain thought of the future. When he started thinking of the future, he started getting weak in faith. Cain and Abel were not dull; they knew the scriptures. The life outside the zone of faith was not the life they were called to. Cain invented another life for himself and afterwards went on to build a city. He did not get up to build the city out of the blues - he had always nursed the thought of building a city. The Scriptures says of Cain, when God refused his offering, that God had no respect for him.
“And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering” (Gen. 4:4). God did not respect Cain and his offering, nor did He give him a second chance to get it right because he was wrong and had broken the codes (of life). The person behind the offering he offered was of a different kind. He brought a wicked offering to God and became very wroth at God’s disproval of him. Some people have this same attitude in the church today. It takes high pastoral wisdom and walking in love to handle them and save others. A pastor requires wisdom to rule the church. Sometimes it appears as though the pastor is weak but the goal is to save many.
Cain invented a belief system that made life centre around earthly things; this is the anti-faith life. Man was not designed to live by Cain's invention. The life of faith is the life we should live by. The life of Christ transcends the code of conduct. One interesting thing is that the inability to live Christ's life on earth does not prevent a believer from going to heaven; such would learn it in the world to come when Christ is taught. However, we need not wait to be in heaven to learn the Christ-life, because the inheritance of Christ-life is not going to heaven. The life of Christ can be demonstrated in the flesh; it is to receive another power for living on earth. We would not be clean/pure if what our life is, is after the power of Satan.
Therefore, when the Lord Jesus instructs us not to take thoughts for our lives, what to eat, or what to put on (Matt. 6:31), this instruction is not to be taken literally, as what the Lord is actually referring to is the power of Satan. Wisdom and power are similar. Wisdom is what is employed in creating the power. To illustrate this, for instance, there is a kind of wisdom/intelligence that is employed in making a generator work. Wisdom puts power together; wisdom creates power. It is the wisdom of Satan that has made the quest for what to eat and what to wear become a life vocation for man. This is what man has exalted as life and most people feel inferior when they do not have it.
Tongues and Interpretation (3)
To free man, to free men. The life that has been sold to man from the fall is a life of bondage, a life of servitude - serving another master in bondage. When we begin to learn the life that is the faith of the Son, you are made free. You are made free from an anomalous life, a strange life. It is strange in the spirit, it is strange. Man ought not to live like this. You ought not to live for what to eat, for what to drink, for what to wear. You ought to live for a higher cause, even a higher cause. And as you learn Christ, as you learn the faith of the Son, you are set free. You are set free to begin to live. Men will begin to live again. For that is the gospel. The gospel is the gospel of life, to set men free, even for men to live a life of freedom - a life of freedom from the shackles of the enemy that weigh men down and cause men to continuously and consistently be in bondage. We have come to set you free. The Son of man came to set you free. And whoever the Son of man sets free is free indeed. Says the Spirit of God.
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“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit” (Rom. 8:1). To be free is to walk. The faith is to walk. We walk by faith; and since we have access by faith, it means our walk is our access in the spirit. Thus, the door is a long corridor. There are degrees of entrances one can have into the door and yet, one may not fully have had access through it. Jesus said, “I am the door of the sheep” (John 10:7).
Tongues and Interpretation (4)
It’s a long walk to freedom. A walk to freedom. A long walk to freedom. For as you begin to take steps daily even under the faith of the Son, You are taking steps and walking towards freedom. Ominira, Ominira. Freedom! Freedom! Take steps daily on the corridor of freedom. The corridor, even the door to the sheep is a corridor, door, corridor, door. A door to freedom. As you take steps, you are journeying on the path to ultimate freedom. For as you become more aware of the true life that you are to live, even the life that is Christ that will end you up in God, you are walking in freedom. For he who is completely free and sealed in freedom is God. And He is wooing you to walk that walk of freedom. Yea, walk that walk of freedom. Daily take steps, walking upward out of flesh, out of sin and death, out of carnality, through spirituality unto divinity. And see your God, see the free One. See the One who is the embodiment of freedom. He is freedom expressed. He is freedom in full manifestation. Walk the walk of freedom and arrive at God, who is free. He is freedom.
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