Programme: Anamnesis 2024 - Day 1 (Evening Session)
Theme: The Son; The Way
Date: Wednesday, 11th December, 2024
Minister: Pastor Tope Falaye
Topic: Learning the Way of the Son of God
Transcript Summary
1. The theme of Anamnesis this year is, “The Son; The Way”. One of the burdens in the hearts of God’s servant and His handmaiden is to spell out the way into the gospel that our pastors and parents in the Lord are teaching.
2. For decades, God’s servants and all our pastors have taught the gospel of Christ as seen in Romans 1:16. We have also seen this gospel bear fruits in our midst in great ways, so much that we now see people who, as a result of the gospel of Christ, demonstrate the fruits of Christ as seen in 1 Corinthians 13. It is on the basis of the prosperity of the fruits that have and are being borne in our midst that the Lord, as declared by His servant in this years’ convention, came into our midst (1 John 5:20).
3. Chiefly, the coming of the Son of God has come to open the way for the embodying or inheriting of the things that we have heard. This does not mean that we have not inherited any everlasting life at all. We have only inherited it according to how the Lord has measured it out to us through obedience to instructions and yielding to the emphasis that is placed on different natures per time during our meetings. However, until the Son of God comes, the way to inherit the nature of everlasting life will not be obvious.
4. There are distinctions between knowledge and doctrine (Isa. 28:9). The Lord cannot deal with a people in doctrine if He has not dealt with them in knowledge first. The Son of God is come, not only to give knowledge, but also to give understanding. In other words, He is coming to show the way to inherit things that have been said in the season of knowledge. He was coming to show the Way or doctrine of Himself that will make those who have heard knowledge now come to know how to inherit the life of the knowledge that they have been hearing.
5. The coming that was declared in 1 John 5:20 was not a coming and going or visiting for the sake of opening more scriptures regarding the things of His Father. Rather, it is a coming to show the Way or bring an understanding of how to inherit the Father that He has trapped. The coming of the Son of God will lead to the recovery of milk. It will bring the fulness of every other knowledge that are below the things of the Son of God or the things of everlasting life. In addition, the coming of the Son of God, by the will of God, has now opened even the knowledge of salvation and of the Father. However, what the Son of God really came to do is to give an understanding. The Son of God is come to teach us the way to His Father.
6. No life can be attained unto without its way. To take away the way of a life is to make it unattainable. To keep the tree of life, God knew that all He had to do was to hide the way or put beings who can beam other ways that may not be injurious, with the ultimate aim of making sure that nobody finds the way to the tree of life (Gen. 3:24). If a way is not found, its life can never be attainable.
7. All the people God dealt with in the Old Testament, from Adam to all the prophets were using ways but they could not find the Way. This is because God placed an embargo on the way from the beginning. He did this because something went wrong with man: man died in his spirit by eating into another knowledge. If man has another knowledge, another way will also come because knowledge precedes way. So when Adam and Eve ate into the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, God knew, by the ordinances of the becoming, that man would eventually come into the way of the devil.
8. Knowledge cannot blot out way, it takes way to blot out way. If we give the best and correct knowledge to a man who has not been weaned from his ways and taught another way, he will turn that correct knowledge and use it in his way. Until Jesus our Lord came, no other prophet could say, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14:6)”. There is the tree of life, but there is also the way to the tree of life. When Jesus came, He began to say that He is that way which God protected using cherubims with flaming swords, to tilt the way of every man into every way, so that nobody would come to the tree of life. The learning of the way of the Son of God is meant to remove the way of the devil in us.
9. Satan not only opened the eyes of Adam and Eve, he also killed their spirits. God had to come in and kill an animal and divide their spirit, which was now dead, from the soul to hinder the prosperity of the work of Satan inside Adam and his wife. Then He clothed them and sent them out of the garden. In later chapters, they were still walking with God but by Genesis 4, we saw that Satan sat with someone, Cain. Cain and Abel offered unto the Lord and God had respect for Abel and his offering but He did not have respect for Cain and his offering. Cain was wroth and his countenance fell (Gen. 4:5-7). This was the time a way that was not from God’s side entered into the earth.
10. When God made Adam, he woke up with the knowledge and ways of the living God. But on the negative side, man only knew the knowledge of the devil, which was the knowledge of the tree of good and evil, but its way was not yet on earth. However, Cain, because of a wrong heart and untamed ambitions, allowed sin to come in and teach him. In the epistles of John, Peter, and Jude, they began to speak of the way of Cain because it was now patented to him (Jude 1:11). Cain was the first person to know the way of the devil. Cain was taught that way.
11. Way is the life of a person. When way has settled, it is life. The Way, the Truth and the Life is a person. What the devil taught Cain was a person. In Gen 4:7, sin was not spoken about as an action; it was personified. This means that sin there was Satan manifesting to teach a person his own way. That was what Jude called the way of Cain and was what made Cain a son of the wicked one, one that the wicked one gave birth to. The Son, the Way is a high way. When God made Adam, He did not make him a baby or a child spiritually. God made him a high man that had a high way. When Satan came into Cain, he built ways inside of him, and the way he built in Cain was what he used to give birth to his generation.
12. When we were born again, the Holy Ghost that was sent from heaven came for many reasons. One of the chief reasons for the Spirit of God, apart from getting us born again in our spirits and filling us up with the wine of the Spirit, is to both teach us the milk and help us see the way of the milk. Many of the fathers in the body of Christ today hold ways. They may not teach milk articulately but they have ways. The reason for ways is to culture a life.
13. For many who have followed the word of righteousness for a while, we must have seen the Lord in different seasons of our lives with different leadings, particularly those of us who fellowship with Hagin. The blessing of Hagin is not because of the man particularly; rather, it is because of the things the Lord worked into that man. Reverend Hagin embodies the way of the Holy Ghost so greatly, beyond what we can explain. For every person who has been led in the milk, the leading of the Spirit in the milk is to culture the nature of the Holy Ghost or a child inside the soul. So, a well grown child has the way of the Holy Ghost.
14. There are people who were referred to as people of the way (Acts 24:14). At that point, the Son of God had not come and Paul had not received his encounter, but those people were in the way – the way of the milk. The Holy Ghost was sent down from heaven to come and show that way. Isaiah called it lines, which means that the Holy Ghost leads us in a path and does not stop leading us until we inherit a nature out of that leading.
15. The Holy Ghost can only culture nature where knowledge has gone ahead of time. The knowledge that is given is the basis for leading because precept must be upon precept for doctrine to be given. Around Christ, the Holy Ghost gives the gospel of Christ, which is the power of God unto salvation — the preaching of faith, hope, and charity. After the knowledge of it has been given to a degree, the Holy Ghost becomes a Spirit that leads in the way to deal with sin and death. The Holy Ghost leads somebody who is exposed to the meat of the word or the gospel of Christ to make the person walk in the way of the Spirit of life and peace so that the person may inherit life and peace. We cannot inherit life and peace by sheer will. We must be led (Rom. 8:14).
16. In our community, through our parents and pastors, leading has been so elevated. If we want to know a place where the Holy Spirit has liberty, it is in a place where people yield to leading. The Holy Ghost is free in our midst because we have been exposed to the kind of knowledge that has shown us what they want to achieve in us. What Christ wants to achieve in us is not to make us wealthy people or stars of the earth. He wants to make us meek and will take the Spirit of God to lead us in the way in order to deal with contrary natures.
17. The Holy Ghost leads babies and makes them children after they have received knowledge of the milk. The same Holy Ghost leads children to become sons or Christs after they have received the knowledge of the gospel of Christ. When it has to do with coming into the nature of the Father, the Son of God and the Holy Ghost are both involved.
18. The Son of God is one but can manifest as many things. He came for the purpose of inculcating the life of the Father. For Him to successfully inculcate that life, He had to start as way, become truth, and then arrive at life. He does it in partnership with the Holy Ghost that is in us. The same Holy Ghost that started as the Holy Ghost and later became the Spirit of Christ now behaves as the Spirit of God or the Spirit of the Father, leading us to become more meek and more low.
19. God made His ways known unto Moses, meaning He was around Moses (Psa. 103:7). Satan was around Cain, and Cain inherited his way. Being under our pastors and parents, anyone who is not being pastored from a close range may find it difficult to understand what is being spoken of. Our parents in the Lord are prisoners and they have mastered being in prison. So what we are learning as ways is not what they only read. It is the conditioning of the Lord. In a season, it is the conditioning of the Holy Spirit, in another season, it is the strict conditioning of the Lord Himself. If we want the way, we have to submit to the ordinances of close oversight.
20. The children of Israel heard all that Moses said but they did not know the Lord’s way because ways are communicated through proximity. The Lord may not give everyone the mercy of coming to each person directly. There are things in our lives that He can lead us on but when it comes to way, He will impart it from the top, all the way down. That is the blessing of local assemblies and of submitting to someone therein. It is the devil and evil spirits that teach souls to run from spiritual authority, and it is to make sure that people do not inherit way and life.
Blessings!