Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Believers’ Convention 2024 (Day 5 - Evening Session)
Date: Thursday, 22nd August, 2024
Minister: Reverend Kayode Oyegoke
Topic: X-Raying the Power of the Remission of Sin
Transcript Excerpt
“Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; [20] 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.” (Acts 3:19-21). It is clear that Jesus’ coming had been promised. He is gone to heaven; heaven has received Him. But He would need to be sent back here just like the Holy Ghost was sent. This is a hidden secret in the Bible.
I did not understand the meaning of this (this sending/coming of Jesus) until I had an encounter in Broken Arrow at Rhema Bible School in Oklahoma. I remember that I read while I was young that while Kenneth Hagin was still in the womb, a being appeared to his mother to say that “This child will be instrumental in bringing me back again.”
So while at Rhema Bible School, that was what I prayed in the prayer room (thanking God about using Kenneth Hagin to bring Him back again). I was led to pray this way because I actually asked God what to pray for. I wondered why God told me to pray that way seeing that it touched Hagin’s core but immediately after obeying the Lord and praying that way, my tongue changed and began today these words:“Home, I am taking you home. I will cause you to go home and will cause you to see Him. I will cause you to come up to see Him. You will see Him. When you see Him, then He will be brought back here. You will be instrumental for Him to come back.”
I ran out of the prayer room after praying because I did not understand what those words meant. Fear gripped my heart. In fact, I thought God was saying my time on earth was up. But God was saying something different that is meant it to be a blessing to us. It was the Father talking about the Son to me; that I must see Him, that is, I will also belong to a company who will see Him. This is a promise and we have been seeing Him.
It is a wonder that seeing Him is attached to bringing Him but it is scriptural. It is clear that what Apostle Peter was saying in those verses is that if some saints do not ascend and see the Lord, He will not come. Reverend Kenneth Hagin did not preach anything around rapture, rather, he taught about the word of faith and walking in love. Later on, he began to teach about the Holy Spirit; he inspired a path that will cause some people to look for Jesus. His ministry is so crucial and should not be lightly esteemed by any believer. A lot of people settle for the word of faith without learning the spirit that Reverend Kenneth Hagin taught.
There are concrete things that should happen to us. These advents of comings are also called “appearing”. This appearing is not rapture but the last trump. For it to be the “last” trump, it means that other trumpets had previously sounded.
“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.” (Acts 3:20-21). Jesus will come in the times when God wants to restore all things. Restitution means to restore that which was taken because Satan stole things from men.
“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. [8] And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.” (Gen. 2:7-8). The first man was a living soul (1 Cor. 15:45) and his name was Adam (Gen. 2:19). Everything that made Adam up was the life he had from the breath of God. The spirit of life God gave to Adam in his soul was a living breath which made him a living soul. That breath was a particular spirit of understanding, an awareness that Adam had (Job 33:4).
The breath of life was the spirit of life. The body without the spirit is dead (Jam. 2:26), so Adam’s spirit being present in his body was enough to make him rise (after God formed him), but his function needed to be defined. This definition was done by the breath God gave his soul, so he had a living breath. The measurement of life in a soul is determined by the amount of life that soul can handle. Adam had capacity to handle living breath to become a living soul, which shows his height in the spirit.
Adam was described as the son of God (Luke 3:38). Adam means ‘red earth’ and this rests on the fact that Adam is the son of God. This does not mean he was directly God’s offspring but it was a title depicting heights in the spirit where creatures are placed. Adam had sonship with God. If Jesus on earth was the last Adam (1 Cor. 15:45), it means that every other person after him was not an Adam. What makes an Adam is the quality of breath in the soul.
Sons are made according to their breath and God has to work on them to rehabilitate their breath to a capacity of sonship. It is not every man in the Bible that was an Adam. Jesus came as an Adam and He expired that race called Adam, being raised a quickening spirit, not a living soul (1 Cor. 15:45). By the coming of Jesus, the capacity of the soul of man was upgraded from living soul to quickening spirit.
Adam was made a little lower than angels (Heb. 2:7); he had a heavenly soul. In the realms above him are heavens that are purely spirit. The souls of angels are not like that of man; they have souls, but theirs is completely spirit.
“God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” (John 4:24). The kind of soul God has is a quickening spirit. Angels are also spirits but they are not quickening spirits. The soul of a man is the operating system of the entire man. In the natural, the reason for the operating system is to drive the hardware; it defines the functions.
Man has a spirit and has a soul but man can exist and not live. For man to really live, he needs an operating system – breath that will cause the functionality of the hardware to find expression. Thus, by virtue of the breath of God, Adam became a living soul. The program of the salvation of the soul is a crucial one. That is why Jesus had to come.
Jesus is a Saviour; He knows how to save (Heb. 5:8-9; Tit. 2:13). Salvation starts after redemption. Our spirit was quickened (Eph. 2:5), but it was not redeemed (Eph. 1:14). It is possible to redeem a thing but it does not make it saved. There is a redemption that occurs through the purchase of our souls by the blood of Jesus. Our souls were purchased by Jesus and this is what makes us a church. Jesus purchased us with His own blood in order to save the souls He purchased (Acts 20:28).
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of promise (Eph. 1:13). There is a promise called “Spirit”. There is also a promise of the Son of God which is “Christ” and that which is “the name of the Father”. The redemption of the purchased possession is to redeem the Church which was purchased. Jesus gave the Church to overseers (five-fold ministry) to feed them until they are redeemed.
The inheritance is not just the Holy Spirit, for He is the down-payment of our inheritance (Eph. 1:14). Given that the Holy Spirit who is among the Creators is the down-payment of our inheritance, it means that the rest of our inheritance would also be the Creators (the Son and the Father). This means that having the seal of the Holy Spirit is only a portion of our salvation; it is not complete. This is because the soul still needs to be redeemed.
“Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; [20]And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you…” (Acts 3:19-20). The purpose of the sealing of the Holy Ghost is for conversion. Repentance comes before conversion and conversion leads to the removal of sins. When sins are blotted out, we have times of refreshing.
“Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” (Acts 2:38). One can receive the gift of the Holy Ghost without the remittance of sins. The gift of the Holy Ghost is not speaking in tongues, rather, it is the person of the Holy Ghost. Baptism here includes the New Birth and water baptism. We need to turn (repent) then get baptized; our believing is the first baptism.
Believing in the Son of God is the baptism that we are called to do. The message of repentance to a sinner will not quicken him from the dead. What will quicken him from the dead is not what he did not do; he is a dead man, so he cannot raise himself from the dead. He needs to be raised, so he needs to believe in resurrection by believing and confessing.
One has to be alive in the spirit to have the power to repent. Remission of sins does not mean that the sins of the people are not forgiven. The Holy Ghost can live in one’s spirit with the soul still carrying sins. There is something about the remission of sins that needs to be highlighted and seen properly by the people of God (Luke 3:6; Isa. 40:5).
Flesh does not see salvation because it cannot see good coming. When one sees life, such a person can have life. “The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field...” (Isa. 40:6). Grass refers to the soul. This is what the devil did to the soul – he turned the soul into a grass.
Before repentance can take place, the spirit has to be quickened to give power for turning. Life must be put in the human spirit to aid the soul from turning. God wants to take souls and convert them. There is a quickening we have received (in our spirit through the New Birth) but there is one we have not yet received (in the soul). We have been raised to heavenly places in our spirit (Eph. 2:6) but our soul has not been saved to this point. The day our spirit was saved, our grass (soul) was not saved. Thus, the need for the soul to be brought to the Church.
God is the one who sees the soul. The devil also sees men’s souls and knows that they are in his grasp. To have access to our soul and save it, Jesus had to die. His blood needed to touch the earth to purchase the soul. After resurrection, he returned to heaven with His resurrected body and a more glorious blood. He went into the tabernacle that is made without hands (Heb. 9:11) and offered blood in the tabernacle: the Courts, the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place. The purpose of the blood is to purchase the soul and then redeem it.
As long as a man is carnal, he is a grass. Sins made the soul grass; it was the practice of sin by the soul that made it grass. Man was initially made a living soul but he eventually became flesh (Gen. 6:3,13). Anything that cannot respond to God is useless to Him. To be in sin is to be perishing. A man can get to a place where he perishes to the point that he cannot be recovered. Satan did not only share the genes of sin to men, he also taught men how to change from being useful to God to being useful to him (Satan); that is why the Church is very important—it is the ground God has for saving souls.
The adversary is a highly intelligent priest; he created sin and made it holy. The first definition of sin is not wrong doing, but life. Sin is life – “my sin means my life”. True sin comes from a wrong definition of life; it projects wrongdoing to mask its true self and prevent it from being uncovered. What informs wrong decisions is a wisdom of life. When you trace that life, it is coming from a source of weakness. Our sin is fear for our life.
When God wanted to save Abraham, he delayed childbearing in order to make him living. When God leads one, it is to train one’s soul to live out of death. God was the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, which means that He was living in their soul.
Sin made Cain decide to leave the presence of God (Gen. 4:16). His action of leaving the presence of God to build a city (Gen. 4:17) made him the author of the way of evil (Jude 1:11). It was Cain who engineered the way of flesh from the living soul; he started the generation of flesh.
“Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.” (1 John 3:12). Cain was the wicked one because his ways were evil; he was taking suggestions for living from Satan. Satan was teaching him how to live outside God’s presence. When God is commanding one, He does it to teach him how to live.
An unbeliever cannot receive the lesson of remitting sin. “Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord…” (Acts 3:19). The sins God wants to blot out are the things that make us flesh; it is a conversion. Satan is also an expert in converting men because he is an angel of testament.
He killed angels and turned them against God, so man was too small for him. Sin is a form of the wisdom expression of the devil. Satan is a creator of life, but what he truly gives is death, not life (John 10:10). In the garden of Eden, Satan preached promises to Eve (Gen. 3:2-5). The promise of God is Eternal Life (Rom. 6:23) and someone else was preaching that they could be like gods.
We need preachers who would preach God and make people hate anything Satan can offer. A time would come when teachings will not just be words, but promises would be evident. What we have become is what we would herald. When Satan was preaching sin, he was painting promises. When Satan wanted to kill Jesus, he came with offers (Matt. 4:3-10). Satan was showing Jesus promises because promises can make one’s heart turn away from God.
Satan is a killer and he used promises to kill Cain. The reason people refuse the blotting of their sins is because sins are promises. Sins are going to be demystified in the body of Christ. Immediately after sins are blotted out, it would trigger something. The first sin which are ours is that sin against Christ.
Adam was the son of God. God had already put some measures of Christ in him; He built him up to occupy the living status. However, these things were corrupted by Satan and man eventually decayed into flesh. Satan did a terrible work in man, which gave him confidence that God would not be able to reach man.
Immediately sins are blotted out, it will trigger a refreshing from the presence of the Lord (Acts 3:19). When a community of Christians can get to that state where their sins are blotted out, a refreshing would be triggered. This is another program from the presence of God and then He would send Jesus Christ, His Son. For us to see the Son of God in our midst is because sins have been blotted out.
To make the Son of God come, we must preach Christ and Him crucified (1 Cor. 1:23; 1 Cor. 2:2). Christ cannot be preached and Son of God would not show up eventually. There are messages that can be preached by ministers but would not make Him come. However, when messages for the conversion of nature from grass to rock are preached, He would come.
The rock is raised when Christ is fully built, then the Lord will commence building His church (Matt. 16:13-18). There is something called “My Church”, which is the Church of salvation or the Church of the first born (Heb. 12:23), but this Church is yet to be raised. This is a church that can handle the gates of hell and it is about to be built. Jesus is in our midst to build His Church.
“Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; [2] Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. [4] For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.” (Heb. 3:1-4). What He built was God; He built God in people. Jesus’ hand is a builder of God; He is a minister of God and He is building all things God. Jesus is here and He is committed to building us.
When Jesus said, “I will build My church”, it means He would come back and build His church (Matt. 16:18). When we are given Christ, we will see the Son of God and when we see Him, we will live. We will live to a point that we will call Him and the purpose is to be built up. There will not be a mistake in the building because there is Someone who is overseeing the building. This Person is the Builder who will build us until the gates of hell can no longer prevail.
We will be built above death. The Son of God is coming to give us a building, that is, a frame that death cannot access. If we want to manage the resources of heaven, we must be a house that can transact life, which we need to be built for. Thus, we should not stay in the Sanctuary; we need to be built up. The Son of God is here with promises; He is here to raise us up and raise us higher. Sins are dropping because men are turning. The Church is changing; the body of Christ is climbing, for God is raising the Church.
Blessings!