Programme: Anamnesis 2023 (Day 2 - Morning Session)
Date: Thursday, 7th December 2023
Anamnesis is a feast dedicated to the Lord, and we are here to behold Him again. We are remembering Him, not just things about Him. It is a feast where Jesus would be x-rayed. This meeting is also a feast of discerning the order of the Lord’s appearing.
The Lord said to me that we have come into the season of the Lord’s cup. The communion table is the table of appearing. The communion itself is not limited to the breaking of the bread and drinking of the cup. The physical activity is an interpretation of our journey in the spirit. Our churches should be tables of our Lord Jesus – His bread and of His cup. We ought to be having a consistent journey from the table of His bread to His cup.
“And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.” (Matt. 26:26). All of Jesus’ activities while He was on earth were messages. Jesus breaking the bread is telling us what should be happening in our churches. The bread gives sight to see the cup. The bread is the word of the spirit while the cup is the spirit. Without the bread, one will not see the cup.
The cup is where the New Testament is (Matt. 26:28); it is where the inheritance is. However, the process begins with eating the bread. The breaking of the bread is a feast. It was after the breaking of the bread that Jesus led them to take the cup. Although both activities took place in the same evening, there is a journey from one to the other. One can eat the bread and not partake of the cup, but the full cycle of the Lord’s blessing comprises partaking of both.
This bread is a bread in the Kingdom. One will not be able to partake of the bread without first being a disciple. This bread is an understanding of Him, of who He is. Jesus broke the bread and gave it to His disciples. This bread is one that gives knowledge of Him. We begin with the bread and end with the cup.
“And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it…” (Matt. 26:27). The cup is the storehouse of the inheritance; it contains the life of the inheritance. The spirit of the life of the Lord is hidden in the cup. Thus, one cannot inherit His life without the initiation of the cup into His sufferings. The cup is both a storehouse of testimony and an administrator of sufferings. The cup contains the way of knowing Him; it represents portion or inheritance.
“The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.” (Psa. 16:5). The cup is a storehouse of life. One begins the journey from the bread to the cup. One can partake of the former but turn away from the latter; this is because what is in the cup is both suffering and inheritance. Without partaking of the cup, one cannot be tied to the Lord. The cup is the administration of covenants; it is the “lines” of the message.
“The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.” (Psa. 16:6). The cup administers the life of our Lord Jesus Christ. The actual inheritance of the life of our Lord Jesus Christ is in the cup. God has been taking us from table to table, as a people and it is imperative that the Lord shows us how to discern the table.
We have come into a new era in the spirit, where the Lord would administer His cup to us. This cup is both a cup of sufferings and inheritance. It is in the cup that we have the privilege to partake of His sufferings, though, one may decide not to partake of it. There are sufferings that would be orchestrated by the Spirit for one, and there are sufferings that one would have to choose whether or not to partake of. The cup is the choice one must make to partake of His sufferings. One who has partaken of the cup is qualified for the inheritance.
“Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.” (1 John 3:1). The demonstration of the Father's love is revealed to a people who have used the light of Christ to come to a place where their hearts have been prepared for the Father’s love. The Father’s love is an administrator of the cup. It is this Father’s love that would give one the privilege to suffer for His name. The Father’s love is demonstrated by the shining of a light that wants to expire sin because the Father cannot behold sin.
In the company of Christ, there are still darknesses which are visible to the Father. That is why as one journeys further, such a person would feel more sinful because of an increase in light. It takes light to reveal darkness. This Father’s love is an administration of a light to expire sin in the company of lively stones.
The Lord is teaching us things everlasting because some of us have qualified to become lively stones. God just needs one person amidst us to represent us in the spirit for them to shed this love. The purpose of appearing is to expire darkness and give Himself because He will not give Himself to those who are in darkness.
The cycle of our birth must be completed. One of the dangers in this realm is for one to be half-done. The Lord does not want to see such, for it is better that such does not enter this realm at all. So, God is particular about us completing our cycle of sonship.
The Father’s love is what imparts the understanding of coming into the sonship of God. God is love (1 John 1:16) and He is also light (1 John 1:5). For one to come into being perfected in love, one must begin with light. Light is the communication of the understanding of the nature of God. The message can be encapsulated in three: God is light, God is love and God is life. Love is the perfection of light.
The epistle of John began with light and settled in love. Love is the litmus test that one has light. Light is a storehouse of life. Therefore, for God to give one His life, He first gives His light. One cannot have the life of the Godhead without their light. Light is the understanding of the nature of the true God.
“In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” (John 1:4). Life is what is fetched out of light. The true God is an everlasting Father and from His realm of love, beams out light. We approach Him by walking in the light, then we beam out life. Life is the nature of the true God; it is also His dominion. God is love. Love is the conversation of life amidst the fellowship of the true God, which is the fellowship of the Father and the Son. This conversation of God cannot be brought out, except by love amidst brethren.
The communion table tells how doctrine must be served – from the bread to the cup. In the season of Christ, it is from bread to cup. There is a cup of Christ which is fetched out of the cup of the Son of God. Thus, there is a first cup in the cup, which is the cup of Christ. In this cup, there are several appearances; it is a journey. We have now come into the season of the cup of the Son of God and this is where a generation can divert. When a man sees this cup, he can choose not to enter it, but God is waiting for a generation that would take that cup.
One of the greatest breakthroughs in the community of the word of righteousness is the understanding of precepts and lines. If we can learn them well, we would break into God. God gave us a sense of measurement; it takes apostolic wisdom to fetch it out.
It is the Father's love that gives His light.
“This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” (1 John 1:5). We need to know the “you” being referred to in this scripture. Epistles have age and one can tell the journey of the churches through the age of the epistle. The epistles of John and Jude are ending epistles. The churches that these epistles were written to fall are those that have used the light of Christ and come into the realm of fervent love.
All the churches John wrote to were lovers. Hate in the epistles of John is not the same as in the season of Christ. There is a demand of love when one comes into the light of God that is not the same in the order of the light of Christ. “To hate” according to the light of God means “to love less”. Based on the light of God, when a believer loves another brother less, God sees it as hate. So the “you” used in these epistles are referring to those in Zion. We are in the season of the appearing of the light of God upon Zion.
“Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.” (Psa. 102:13). Favour is appearance – it is the coming of God to Zion, to shed light on her darkness. Favour is for God to shine His light, and expire darkness. Therefore, the message, or the appearance of God‘s light, is the mercy of God to Zion. This mercy is the showing of God’s face.
Some of us do not yet see our being a part of this company as the mercy of God. This is because the light looks very meek and we can easily despise it. Apostles of this order are gentle and can be easily despised just as the Corinthian church despised Paul. The message is light but in three folds – light, life and love. The end of the message is to raise sons of love.
“If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: [7] But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” (1 John 1:6-7). Light is the understanding of the nature of the true God. To fellowship with ‘Him’ is not to fellowship with things about Him but to fellowship with His cup. God is bringing us to a place of fellowshipping with Him.
The proof of light is that one's darkness is expiring. In this order of appearing that we have come to, They would no longer tolerate our darkness. We have come into the season of testing; God will try us and expire our darkness. The Father is tough. Though the Lord is tender, His tender mercies, as revealed to Zion, are not to tolerate our darkness but to expire them all. He will be patient with us but His patience is to expire darkness.
God is giving us ears for commandments because we do not come to Him without commandments. They come to us by commandments and we also come to Them by commandments. Thus, we are coming and They are also coming. We come by walking in light and we walk in light by doing truth. Truth is the commandment of the Father’s light. It is as we do truth that we expire darkness. This level of darkness constitutes what is called the hidden things of dishonesty. We do not know the hidden things of dishonesty until the light of God shines.
It is as we walk in the light that our darkness is expired. Fellowship in 1 John 1:7 is koinonia, not that experienced with the brethren, but one we have with the Lord. There is a kind of fellowship we cannot access except there is light. It is as we walk in light that we have life and life is signified in the blood. It is in this koinonia that we have access to the blood (life).
The essence of life (of the Son) is to deal with another life (of Satan). One can have light shining and the sin-life is still present in one. Hence, we need to move from light to blood, which is a shedding of life, to really have sin dealt with. Sin is a life. Thus, we need a life to deal with a life (sin).
Sin is not just a life, it is a kind of man – the man of sin (2 Thess. 2:3). Sin is an image, a nature, a life. Sin talks, reasons, laughs and plays; it is a person. Jesus is also a person and we should not see Him as an ‘it’. Jesus wants us to embody Him, to embody His life.
The blood is shed as we engage light. Therefore, one can have light and there is no blood. Hence, there will be no change in such a person. We must have a constant supply of blood. Our churches must be centers of blood that can go into the inner recesses of our beings to delete sin and give life.
The Lord is doing great things in our midst, however, there is more. One testimony common in our assemblies is that souls are changing. However, our destination is to become sons of God. When God gives birth to a son, such would be God. God wants to give birth to sons that would embody His life. Blood is made available as we walk in light; it is as we do the truth that we have blood.
Sin is dealt with in the place of blood. Sin is a perverted blood, which is why it is difficult to remove because it dwells in us by covenant. Sin is a perverted life. It would take the blood of the Son of God to deal with sin because by nature, sin has an everlasting strength. Sin is within man and dwells there as a nature. Sin has to do with genetics; it is not what we do but it is a life within. Jesus purged sin from heaven to earth because sin originated in heaven. He then sat to commission the Church to deal with sin. The purpose of the New Testament Church is not to give those natural benefits that sin can also produce, but to deal with sin.
“And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their sins.” (Matt. 1:21). This scripture is speaking to “His people”, not unbelievers. An unbeliever is dead in his spirit and needs to be quickened, but the problem of His “people” is sin. Sin reduces the stature of God’s people. Satan must see a generation that he would give up on.
All our labours are for the body of Christ, which is why we will be reproached, misunderstood and unloved. We are a house of Joseph. Joseph goes ahead of his brethren to journey and suffer because of them, but they also would come in later. Some people can argue with the message, but the conversation produced cannot be gainsaid. Let us be encouraged to continue with this message. If it raised the likes of Apostles Paul and John, it can raise us.
Blood is shed for the purpose of dealing with life. When we take life, we have life. To have life, a former life must be displaced.
We need this cup because it can deal with all sin. Jesus has the ability to deal with the root of all sin. God is light and that light has the power to beget us to be sons because it can deal with all sin. The proof that one is a son of God is sinlessness and deathlessness. The essence of becoming sons of God is to manifest incorruption. This was proved in Jesus – He embodied incorruption as a conversation.
Sonship is incorruption. To be born of God is to be born of the incorruptible life. This defines the full cycle of the birth. God is light, God is life and God is love. The love is to test if we have life, and They do so amidst the brethren. We must never break the love code. It is impossible to break the love code and claim to have God. This love code has measurements in different dimensions of God’s life.
“He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.” (1 John 2:9-10). The epistles of John are majorly lines. As we commit ourselves to light, we will be taught how to love. Love is the expression of the life we are receiving. Light is expressed as love. The members of the Godhead do not promote themselves. If we have our own minds, we will sin. Following one another should be natural to us.
The standard of love in this season is very high. If we have light, it would show in our conversations with our brethren. One can have light and still stumble, for whoever does not walk in the light will stumble. Satan had light and stumbled. The only way to deal with the adversary is to walk in the light.
Satan wants us to offend. When we offend ethics in the spirit, we sin. To hate one’s brother is to love less. If one does not engage the commandments of light, such would enter into darkness. Satan also wants to beget sons and he seeks such from the company of the sons of light, luring them out of light into his own path.
The dominion of the kingdom of God is expressed as love of the brethren, described as unfeigned love in 1 Peter 1:22. The unfeigned love of the brethren is an expression of love that cannot be blamed; it is undefiled and faultless. That is the love of the Godhead. The charity of the Godhead is the highest charity. This kind of love exists in the Godhead because They are all dead, none having Their own agenda. The Son defers to the Father and the Father says the Son is the greatest. They both then speak of the Spirit as Their abode. Love does not speak about himself.
This kind of love is generated from the cup through sufferings. It takes suffering to produce unfeigned love. Even amidst the Godhead, there is a death that They die. Their oneness is a product of death.
“We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.” (1 John 3:14). The purpose of walking in the light is to come to the point of abiding in light. Love is a settled life; one that has rested. Satan murdered his light because he did not keep the commandments of light. He did not only offend God but also his brethren who keep the commandment. This is why immediately someone disconnects from God, he hates the brethren. The tendency to transgress the law of love is more when there is light. It is the perfection of life that makes a man true, and to be true is to have completed the curriculum of light.
“Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.” (1 John 3:16). It is important that we do not get tired at this point in the journey. One of the greatest miracles in the universe is that God became flesh because of man (John 1:14). Everything Jesus did was not for Himself but for the sake of God – He wanted us to come into Their fellowship. They laid down their lives for ungodly, worthless people. This is how we also ought to love. It is those who are not worthy of our love that we ought to love. The love that would make one a son of God is the kind of training that would make one love the unlovable.
The cup administers death and it is this death that ties one to God’s nature. In the cup is the binding force into the nature of God’s life. Love is the litmus test of life. We prove we have life by laying down our lives for the brethren.
The brethren in 1 John 3:16 are those whom God wants to declare His name in their midst. The Lord wants this table to be served in the body of Christ. It has not been served for a long time in the body. We must come to this table with honour and fear.
“If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?” (1 John 4:20). We move from the seen to the unseen. The love of the brethren is a pedestal of perfection which is used to move us to the point where we are born of God.
Rounding Off: Reverend Kayode Oyegoke
This teaching is a destruction of the cup of Satan in us and that is where his pain is. It would take the blood of the Son of God to break sin. Sin is the blood of Satan – a high being who was in paradise. Hence, it is a blood war. If such a high being turned bad, he would be highly lustful. Satan’s blood is also love. But Jesus gave us the key to expire it – that if you lose your life, you would gain it or keep it for life eternal (Matt. 16:25).
This teaching is an impartation for denying the wicked one. We are being taught so that we can engage in service to carry the power of denial. For a long time, Satan has boasted that no one can deny him; but this time around, he would see many men who would deny him because they "loved not their lives unto the death" (Rev. 12:1), that is, until the life died. This means it is not easy to expire the life of Satan (in men).
It is only the Church that is given the privilege of denying sin completely and finishing it. No other institution is given the duty of judging sin asides the Church. The Church is where we judge the prince of this world. When the sacrament is taught, Satan is being judged within us and by receiving light, which is judgment, we gain capacity to also be able to discern sin and deny it.
We will be committed to doing righteousness. A time will come when we will have no excuse because there will be enough light to do what is right. God will flood this floor with light and our churches will be light churches. A time will come when everything we are doing in the body of Christ will no longer match sin. Iniquity will abound so much, but people will become desperate for God.
When one is not hungry for God, there is nothing that can be done. One cannot go out of sheer zeal and reach such people. One can fail, even with such a person's passion for God. What matters to God is not the preaching, but that the preacher is first saved. God can use anyone to reach men, but He is more interested in our salvation.
He sent Jonah to Nineveh to preach, who never wanted to go. After Jonah’s preaching, every living being, including animals, fasted and repented. The goal of this teaching is to say that in all of one’s involvement in ministry, one must always bear in mind that it is important for one to save oneself first (1 Tim. 4:16).
Passion is pleasing to God when we strive to know Him. This does not mean we should not engage in evangelism, but something is more important than our mind of evangelism. There is an order in the Spirit which we ought to follow. 1 John 3:2 admonishes that we should prioritize our soul prosperity. Let us be humble under God so that He can instruct us and help us.
When the Lord sends people to ministry, it is with the mind of saving such. He knows such a one has infirmities, but He puts responsibilities on the person so that the person can be built not to give in to temptation. The purpose of ministry is to save you and not for you to save people. The minister must know that he needs to be better so that those who are hearing him can be saved.
Another reason for ministry is to kill one’s life, not for you to preach to people. Hence, a minister must not be too busy with ministry and hold it above the important areas. The more one grows up spiritually, the better and more flexible such a person becomes. We should follow Jesus’ example in raising people. God does not want us to work here and remain here, rather, His desire is that we work here and go up to Him while we are working for Him. That is the dividend of working for God and serving people under God — He is our reward.
Blessings!