`Date: Thursday, 12th August 2021
Ministering: Rev. Busuyi
“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse...” (Romans 1:20). This scripture makes it clear that it is possible to see and understand the "eternal power and Godhead". The key to seeing these things is understanding. This is why the light of the Godhead must shine into our hearts. The conversation of the Godhead must break into our world. Paul recorded that some began to know God but did not glorify Him as God. This was possibly referring to the generation of Adam. A man can only be reckoned to be knowing God when he is beginning to comprehend the eternal power of God. The book of Romans and Hebrews are higher than most of the books written by other apostles because they talk about God. They show us what we must know before we can know God.
“And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” (John 17:3). Jesus Christ who was sent is the everlasting Father, and He is God's eternal power. The sent one here does not refer to Jesus who appeared at Jordan; He is the one whom God asked the disciples to hear. Jesus began to demonstrate the eternal power from the mount of transfiguration; and it is so that the three disciples would see the Son of God in His glory (Matt. 17:5). He was about transiting into His eternal nature (or glory) but the disciples needed to see Him in His everlasting glory.
While Jesus was on earth, He did not teach of Himself. After He was anointed and approved as the Christ, He began to do good and to heal those who were oppressed of the devil (Acts 10:38). However, He had also begun to do the works of the Father while doing all those things. He attained the stature of Christ and began to obey the words of the Father (John 5:17). It means the Father had also begun another work inside Him. This is because Jesus was meant to capture every stature that is inside the Godhead.
The essence of the training or leading of the Spirit is to raise persons of the Godhead in us; that is how God works in souls. God’s work is not just to give us revelations; it is to also raise our souls through revelations. Revelation is the doorway to growing up spiritually; it is needed if we would allow God to work in our souls. Revelation is the door that opens a man's soul for God to come in and work. A focus or target has been set such that when a particular work is done in a soul, the person of that work shows up (John 14:21).
The church has been taught to just keep loving the Lord until they make it to heaven. However, that scheme or program is one without a focus or target because serving God is more than that. There is a way one serves in different domains of God based on one's level of growth. The Levites and the Priests are all different workers in the tabernacle. However, there is also a particular work in the Most Holy Place that goes beyond the activities that take place in the Sanctuary. We need to grow up so that this work can be done in our souls. If God spent time raising Jesus for thirty (30) years and He could not measure up to the standard that was presented at Jordan, then God would have laboured in vain. If Jesus did not appear at Jordan, there would be nothing written concerning His growth from birth.
To fulfil all righteousness is to cooperate with all the righteous procedures that is needed for Christ to appear in the flesh (Matt. 3:15, 1 John 4:2). There are righteous procedures or training needed for Christ to be approved of God (1 Pet. 2:4). The opening of the heavens over Jesus was a demonstration that there is an approval of a work done in Him (John 1:32-34). Jesus had not yet done anything significant or spectacular, neither had He preached any message when He arrived in Jordan. However, John was able to behold His order in the spirit. John beheld Jesus’ conduct at Jordan and knew that it was not just the attitude of a religious man who wants to please God. John saw Jesus first as the Son of God or the Lamb of God who would take away the sins of the whole world (John 1:29-36).
God’s actual work is calibrated in stature. The real work of God at creation was man; it was not necessarily the things that were created. This was why the enemy did not come against any other thing but man. Satan did not withstand the sharks or whales in the sea but man. God made the whole of creation for man. If not for the fall of man, every other work of creation will be under man. However, we now have the new creation man called Christ. When we move into the day of God, the subject of discussion will be the perfection of Christ, or the full appearance of the Son of God in our flesh.
The course of the gospel is shifting into the revelation of the mystery Beings who are works (Col. 2:2). According to John 6:29, Jesus made it clear that the work of God is to believe in Him whom God has sent. This means Jesus wanted the disciples to stop beholding the external works He was doing and focus on His person. As Jesus was so enlightened in the spirit to understand this, we must also be so enlightened that our pursuit in life would be geared towards the appearance of the persons of the Godhead in our flesh.
Christ is a person; He is also a power and a wisdom (1 Cor. 1:24). Christ was raised to show us the life expression of Christ in the flesh. Christ was further raised as the everlasting Father or as the eternal power of God. The everlasting Father is a work that must be raised in the soul so that the everlasting life of God will be manifested in the flesh. However, for this (everlasting) work to be raised in souls, its doctrine or gospel must be preached (Rev. 14:6). The eternal power is a body of knowledge or commandment that is meant to raise the soul into everlasting life.
As we make progress in the spirit, we must move to a point where our eyes begin to work with the Lord, even as we see what God is doing. We are being initiated to learn how God works when we begin to learn Christ. Christ makes us to discern the works of God. It is in the school of Christ that we learn that things of the Spirit do not just work based on what is apparent but what is revealed. Anything that is revealed takes time to be built up in order to be manifested. This is why the Kingdom of God is decorated with beings who are products of God’s work (Psa. 103:20-23). We cannot manifest the good works of Christ without walking in the Spirit, just as John the Baptist discerned the works of Christ when Jesus walked towards him at Jordan (Eph. 2:10, John 1:28-36).
Jesus is the way, the truth and the life; He was given so that believing believers can advance to the next phase called the realm of the Father (John 14:6). Our Lord Jesus is also the door to the Father; a believer that does not finish the course of Christ cannot have access to the Father (John 10:9). Christ is supposed to be the door to where our Lord Jesus is presently at. “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.” (John 14:3). We need to be brought to where He is; this is the place for everyone who is born again. The present place of Jesus is for all those who are journeying to everlasting life (John 3:16). Our Lord Jesus came to show us the way to that place. Our destination is where our Lord Jesus is (John 17:24). This place where our Lord Jesus presently resides is a Person; and it is a Work. The place is a building, a temple or an abode (Eph. 2:20-22).
Jesus questioned why the disciples had been with Him for so long but could not discern Him as the Father (John 14:9). This was because they were not observant enough to see the two works going on – one is external and the other is internal. At a level in our Christian journey, we are only engaged in religious activities without understanding the essence of the things we do. Jesus gave the disciples the mandate to teach men until they can observe His commandments (Matt. 28:19-20). It begins with teaching and ends in observation. We must be observant when we are with Jesus because things can be going on that would miss our radar if we are careless. The reason why the disciples were with Jesus was to see what the world cannot see (John 14:19). They should be able to identify what is happening within. Although the disciples had seen and heard things when Jesus was with them, they were not observing them (John 14:26). The real job of conversion could not occur in their souls when they were with Jesus because they were unable to observe/discern the person and works of Christ. Work begins in our souls when we begin to observe.
The garden of Eden is the garden of the Father. This is designed for us to learn the work of the Father until we are sealed or approved as those who have completed the program of the Father. We cannot be approved of the Father until we attain unto death (Rev. 12:11). When a man is completely dead, he becomes severed from (unaware of) this present world and its god.
Death means severance or separation from a thing. There is a program of death in Christ to reconcile/raise the soul from its first death. There is also a second death of the soul that would cause whosoever attains such to be permanently separated from God (Rev. 20:14). This is a covenant that cannot be broken anymore. This is the death that only the death program of everlasting life will deal with. At the New Birth, there is a covenant in place that makes our flesh lust or war against our spirit and vice versa; this makes us do things that we would not like to do (Gal. 5:17). This means that we fail when we obey the flesh; but we have victory when we obey the Spirit. Our instability in the spirit sometimes is because there is an allegiance we still have with flesh. However, we will break our allegiance or alignment with flesh when we journey into the covenant of Peace (Mal. 2:5).
A man with the covenant of Peace is one who is fully spiritual, though he still needs to be perfected by the everlasting light. A spiritual man who has the covenant of Peace is one who cannot be deceived by flesh because he has broken his allegiance with flesh. To be delivered from periodic rise and fall in our spiritual life, we must exercise ourselves in godliness until we break allegiance with flesh (1 Tim. 4:8). In the program of the Spirit, there is a place of breaking allegiance with the law of sin and death (Romans 8:2). When this happens, a man will no longer take joy in cooperating with the flesh. As such, he has become a free man (Romans 6:18).
Death is a barrier between creation and God; and no creature can cross this barrier on its own. Man is corruptible because of the allegiance he has with death. Although a man may have been made free from the law of sin and death, he still has to be made free from a higher death. This is because such a soul can still be subject to the death of hell. Jesus conquered this death when He was in hell. Though Jesus had conquered the law of sin and death in His body while He was alive, He still went on to conquer the death of hell with His own death (Rev. 1:18). A man who is still alive to the natural life cannot conquer this death; such needs to sign a pact of dismemberment from his natural genealogy (Deut. 33:8-9, Heb. 7:3).
The enemy uses our natural life against us. We must be delivered from the frailty of man. There is something in every man that does not allow him to completely give up his humanity. Christ had that right also but He did not use it (Luke 22:42). There is a gap between the creature and the Creator that no one can move beyond; and even Jesus never moved beyond this realm while He was still in His body. This was why He never referred to Himself as the Son of God but as the Son of man. Though our Lord Jesus is the Lord from heaven, He did not assertively say that He is the Son of God (1 Cor. 15:47). No man can transit between those two realms (manhood and Godhood) just by claiming or confessing it. The work that changes or moves a creature into the realm of the Creator must have been wrought in a man for such a transition to take place. This work is a death that must be wrought or done for the soul of a man to be completely separated from the natural life. You can be spiritual and still have this life. This is why we must not think that we have known it all at any point of our spiritual journey.
The first set of creatures that knew God did something wrong. “Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.” (Romans 1:21). A song writer once said, “May we never become too familiar with the way of truth”. It is a powerful prayer. The knowledge of God that we have can become an hindrance to the aspect of Him that we have not yet known if we ignorantly assume we have known all of Him. Those people who became vain in their imagination after knowing God to a measure presumed that they knew all of God and that space allowed darkness to invade them. They took away all checks and limits around their persons; they became lawless. It is only God that should not have checks. A creature must not take away checks and laws that God has put in place because that would translate to iniquity. As we journey into God, there are laws that would be removed; but the laws of God would not be taken away (Heb. 10:9).
There are veils between man and God that can make us feel like we already know God; and except these veils are taken away, we would fall into the same errors as those people in Romans 1:21. Moses had to plead for this veil to be taken away. Though Moses had known a dimension of God where He spoke to him face to face as a man speaks to his friend, he later came to know that there is a God that he had not seen (Exo. 33:11). It took many years for him to know that he had not yet known all of God. So he began to pray and desire that God would show him His face (Exo. 33:17-20).
The teaching of the Father is from everlasting to everlasting. The message of everlasting life is to remove the veils between God and man (Hebrews 10:19-20). These veils cannot be removed until the death program in God is administered to a man. The veil is a body of knowledge which when administered to a man, makes him dead to all the pulls of Satan and what he stands for. Jesus only obtained the name above every name after He obeyed the program of death by the cross (Phil. 2:8). The place or program of this death is where Satan becomes ignorant. It is still unimaginable that God captured Satan through the crucifixion of Jesus. If Satan knew this, he would not have killed Jesus; but the wisdom that was in operation in the design of Jesus’ death was higher than Satan and the princes of this world (1 Cor. 2:6-8). Even if Jesus was brought to Satan several times, he would still kill him and later realise he should not have. This is because of the superior wisdom at work; it is the wisdom that the Father teaches.
“Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock...” (Matt. 7:24). “Sayings” speak of teachings and commandments. The last commandment is one that shows a man how to die completely to Satan. This wisdom of death is a light; it is the eternal power of God or the hidden wisdom of God (1 Cor. 2:7). The death of Jesus was executed in mysteries to fulfill the will of God. It is this will of God that is written in the volumes of the book (Hebrews 10:7). The will of God speaks of the strong meat of the word of God (John 4:34). There is the beginning of the will and there is the ending of the will. This means that it is possible for a man to finish the curriculum of obedience to God’s will.
Paul prayed that he might finish his course with joy (Acts 20:24). The realm of joy is the realm of everlasting life. Joy is life and strength. It was joy that took Jesus to the cross (Hebrews 12:2). A man of joy is not afraid of death; Jesus was not terrorized by death. Many times, our reaction to pain is to test our level of joy. The procedure of dying to this world and to Satan is not easy; it is a pang. We cannot cross into the realm of God if we do not have everlasting joy while going through the painful motions of death (Psalm 23:4).
“Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves…” (Isaiah 28:15). It is death that gives hell. Hell is a life that men live and enjoy. It is hell that leads to the second death. Hell is a lie that deceives man that he does not need anything more. Hell sells a strong delusion to man so that he can believe a lie (2 Thess. 2:11).
In these last days, we must move from believing truth to loving it. This is so that we can escape delusions. What the man of sin sells are delusions. We are in an age where lies are being sold as life. We are in a generation that keeps inventing a lying life. Lies and falsehood make up an abiding place in the kingdom of Satan.
We have been learning the truth and it is now time to learn the truth that can lead to the true God. The truth that can lead to the true God is the knowledge of His eternal power. We would come to a place where we would know what it means to love righteousness and hate iniquity (Hebrews 1:9). We would love and do righteousness. It is time for the Father to work in our souls; it is time for His work to begin and to finish. We must agree with this timing in the spirit. It is the season of comprehension, alignment, observation and training. It is the season of dealings and tutelage of the Spirit in order to go through the procedure of death that would lead us to the true God.