The Lord has been bringing fresh substances to us through the things we have been hearing because the words He speaks to us are substances. Our Lord Jesus said, “…the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” (John 6:63). In the same way, when the enemy speaks, he carries a negative spirit and life. This is why we may find it hard to ignore his words, when they are spoken to us. We often need the positive versions of those words to counter them. When we have gathered enough substances around what the enemy is saying, it usually becomes a work-over to surmount them later. By God’s grace, many of us have gained victory over some of our previous battles, which have been a walk over for us because of what we are receiving from God.
When we complete the cycle of hearing, seeing and looking upon, we can lay hold on these words. This will enable us to respond to the enemy based on what is written in the word, like our Lord Jesus did in the wilderness when He said, “It is written” (Luke 4:3-12, Matt. 4:3-11). In that situation, He was not just quoting scriptures but was handling a life that those scripture summarize. Jesus journeyed from hearing what the Holy Ghost said to trapping the substances of those sayings and ruminating on them. He could do this because He had kept faith with the commandment of those words. At some point in time, He could even comprehend those words (Psa. 49:3). We complete the cycle of seeing (understanding) when we hear repeatedly. The reason why our pastors keep revisiting some subjects and thought processes is because the sheep (souls in the church) are at different levels of growth and understanding.
“And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.” (Luke 3:6). Flesh is the estate that the fall has brought man to. However, the flesh in this scripture is one who has experienced the washing of the water by the word and the sprinkling of clean water, which has to do with charity (Eph. 5:26, Eze. 36:25). This water is actually the blood content of Christ. There is also the water content of that level of Christ, which enables us to come into washing. To come into sanctification, we need to experience the fullness of the washing known as sprinkling. What this does to us is that it produces a heart of flesh, which has the law and Spirit of Christ. This is a heart that can cry “Abba Father” and is set on seeing (understanding) salvation. The beginning of the process of seeing salvation is an adventure with Everlasting Life.
In the allocation of the word of Christ, we keep hearing until we gather enough substances to be able to see what we are hearing. Job came into the dealing of the Almighty, where he began to see what he had been hearing (Job 42:5). We may not be able to articulate the words of the preacher, but we can use our own words and dealings to experience them. This is why by the graces upon our Ministers, they can witness to these speakings based on their dealings.
We are meant to complete the cycle around the Word of Christ. When a soul does so, He can be said to have come to the end of the commandment of faith, which is charity. This soul will have a pure heart and white teethed love (that can love fervently). The more we see, the more formation takes place in us. The more we come into understanding, the more we can love what we are seeing by beholding it. Then, a time will come when we can handle that word, skilfully use it and bring it into our conversations (Heb. 5:13-14).
“Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;” (Luke 3:5). This was the estate that the world left the soul after men loved darkness rather than light. Therefore, God gave His only begotten Son to die for mankind. Every man on this geography was on his way to perishing because we were filled with the wrong knowledge. However, God so loved men that He sent His Son to die for them.
The man whom God wants to fill already has a wrong filling and resultantly, a wrong satisfaction. The true estate of that soul is that it is still a valley, although he does not see himself that way because he is filled with another kind of substance. This is why he sees faith as a foolish conversation and can only relate with what he needs in the natural. In the spirit, mountains typify formations that lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh and the pride of life brought to the soul. However, every mountain and hill shall be brought low (Luke 3:5).
“And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.” (Luke 3:6). This means that all flesh will become another kind of flesh, which resurrects by keeping the commandments of faith, hope and charity. ‘All flesh’ refers to a heart of flesh that has experienced resurrection from the dead. As such, he can begin to entertain a higher light, which is an everlasting light. This life should lead to an everlasting love, which is God. That all flesh shall see salvation means that all flesh shall comprehend salvation. God will minister to the heart of flesh by bringing forth the good and perfect light, which is the Alpha and Omega light of Everlasting Light or Everlasting Life.
There is a difference between water and clean water (Eze. 36:25-26). “Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: [23] Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.” (1 Pet. 1:22-23). This church had experienced the washing of water and by being elect, they had come into the sprinkling of clean water. The purification of their souls in obeying the truth occurred as they experienced the washing of water by the word. However, there is a blood content of the word of Christ, which is sprinkled. You need some age in the spirit to handle this water. We need to love one another fervently because of the water that has come upon us, so that we can perfect charity and handle a higher commandment or higher life. This will then enable us to begin to comprehend the beginning of Everlasting Life.
“Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.” (2 Cor 6:17). We cannot get to this point without the sprinkling of this clean water because this is what will deal with the unclean, which is an aspect of idols. In the Old Testament, a priest was supposed to lose all his emotions, such that he should not cry when he lost a loved one. This is because the emotions of a priest belong to the Lord. Clean water will administer redemption to the soul; it will buy back and restore it. It will bring about a resurrection from the dead, so that the soul can become a priest and the Lord can receive him. Then, he can begin to officiate the ministry of the covenant of the Everlasting Father, which is the season upon us.
Clean water deals with idols; it will first give birth to the little children in 1 John 2. There is also that which charity does to birth and complete a work amongst those little children. The reason why they still sin is because of some activities of idols. As such, the bible tells little children to abstain from the world. We are instructed to not love the world because we still have the tendency to do so (1 John 2:15). The Lord has been emphasizing the need for us to perfect charity because it will create an enmity for the world, and birth the love of Christ in us.
“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.” (Eze. 36:26). This is the heart that can begin to comprehend God and despise the world. This is the heart that has lived godly, righteously and soberly in this present world (Titus 2:12). This is the heart that can house a new hope. Christ is well formed in such a soul, so that he can begin to hope for glory (Col. 1:27). God will then have to bring the tidings of Everlasting Life to such a man.
“And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.” (Eze. 36:27). In this scripture, ‘My spirit’ refers to God’s law; it is the beginning of Everlasting Life. There are those who would become the sons and daughters of God, and whom He will also be a Father to because they have departed from iniquity (2 Cor. 6:18, 2 Tim. 2:19). They will then get to a level where God would want to father them, so that they will hate iniquity. This is the essence or commandment of Everlasting Light.
This company has experienced the names of the Holy Ghost and the Son; they have profited with the name in the path of righteousness (Matt 28:19, Ps. 23:3). They have prospered with Pauline epistles and experienced turnings thereby. However, they still need to be turned again. They have experienced light because they have been turned from the power of satan to the power of God (Acts 26:18). They have experienced remission of sins, which is what the first experience with the blood does to a man. When they have been turned from the power of darkness to light and from the power of satan to God, they can now have an audience with the Father. These souls have prospered with the revelation of the Lord and have turned from flesh, which corruption brought about. They have been turned to a new kind of flesh, which is a heart of flesh that is docile. This is a heart that can respond to frequencies from an abundant measure of life.
"And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them." (Eze. 36:27). These are part of the things that the Lord does when we begin to desire with meekness, the engrafted word of God, which is the milk of Everlasting Life. The essence of this is to communicate a knowledge that will become a law in us, even as we walk in the light of that law. This was what happened to father Abraham.
"And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly." (Gen. 17:1-2). This is an example of where God expired the old man and begat a new man, who can entertain the appearance of the Father or the revelation of the Almighty. Then, God can bring a covenant to such a person because he or she has prospered with the initial covenant. This person has gained a stature that can be fathered to a place where God will walk in him, dwell in him, be his God and He will be God’s people.
There is a dimension of Christ where the Lord is static. However, when He begins to give the revelation of the Almighty or appear unto salvation, He will begin to come. An example of this was when God appeared to Abraham and told him to walk before Him and be perfect. A man whom God can appear to in this manner is fruitful and blessed. The Lord is waiting for us at the last veil because this journey is a journey of blessing. When we have profited with the covenant of Christ, come out from amongst them (the world), been made separate and touched not the unclean thing, we come to that veil of peace where the Lord is waiting for us. A time will however come when Christ will receive a company at this veil, who can begin to receive another tiding. When a people appear here, He will turn to minister another entrance to them.
"He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. [4] He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.” (Psa. 24:4-5). This salvation is known as everlasting righteousness. “And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, [3] Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. [4] Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. (Matt. 5:2-4). The hope of glory means the hope of salvation. The beginning of salvation is like when Christ journeyed from age twelve to twenty, which was when He grew in stature. At this point, He could begin to receive the downloads of Everlasting Life. This was why it was natural for Him to walk in the light of what was written. He was a man who had trapped Everlasting Life.
God will bring a tiding to one who is at this level and expose him to Everlasting Life because He is looking for comfort and now has the capacity to seek for God. Such a man has been comforted with Christ. He has laboured to fetch that light called Christ, which is the name and inheritance by which a soul departs from iniquity. However, there is still another labour.
Many usually draw back at this point, like the Hebrew church and some of the churches in Revelation. This is because at this point, God wants to stretch the soul further. One of the things that God has been able to do through the length of our meetings is to stretch us. Our souls are like a sack and they want to bring them to the place where they have that bosom, like Father Abraham had. God fathers us because He wants to give us a bosom in the spirit, like He gave father Abraham. Many people want to tabernacle at this point because when they have acquired the measure of wisdom called Christ; they can see a generation of the church that they are higher than. They can also compare themselves to whom they were before because they have increased in stature. However, the bible says woe to them who are at ease in Zion (Amos 6:1).
Part of the reasons for the ministrations that are coming to us now is to insulate and purge us from ease because it is still in us. As such, God will still stretch us. The milk of the word also stretches us; like we saw in the early church, when they had all things in common and began to give for this purpose. The essence of giving in the natural is not to expect something in return but because of your love towards all the saints; this is a measure of stretching. It will then get to a point where those who are at this level will lose their comfort around the milk because it cannot satisfy them anymore. They will begin to long for more.
The goal of the Word of Righteousness is to stretch us to a point where we can take the word of God, which introduces us to Everlasting Life. When a soul has prospered with the word of righteousness, it will birth a nature of meekness in him and cause him to mourn. It will culture a new nature that makes heaven call that soul blessed. This is because he is poor in spirit and always wants more. “The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;” (Isa. 61:1). When you preach the gospel to the poor, the recovery of sight and deliverance, it brings the soul to that acceptable year, where he is at peace with God.
"Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. [4] Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. [5] Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." (Matt. 5:3-5). The remaining blessings in that chapter are attributable to the fruits of the Word of Righteousness. You know you have profited with the word of righteousness when you begin to mourn for Everlasting Life. You know you are meek when you are ready to take what will make you inherit the earth. Those who will inherit the earth are kings after the order of the New Testament. That holy city inherited the earth, just like Moses did, because they had the meekness of the new heavens.
“Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.” (Matt. 5:6). The word of righteousness wants to birth in us a hunger for everlasting righteousness. Many of us are not hungry for what is upon us right now. This just shows that we have not really prospered with the word of righteousness. Those who are hungry for everlasting righteousness will be filled with the knowledge of God (Hab. 2:14). When the word of righteousness births hunger in us, we will go from being fruitful in every good work – faith, hope and charity (which are part of the exploits of the word of righteousness) and then, increase in the knowledge of God. God will be willing to fill this soul with His knowledge because he has dared to be faithful with the commandments that the Word of Righteousness has brought his way.
"Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy." (Matt. 5:7). This is a compassion in Christ because Christ has His compassion. “And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.". (Mark 12:30). These are the exploits of Everlasting Life because it is by Everlasting Life that we will regain the possession of our souls (Luke 21:19). A soul that has been repossessed is one that has come through faith to patience. It is when we are in possession of our souls that we can love the Lord our God with all our hearts and minds.
It is the ‘all things’ of Everlasting Life that will energize or strengthen us to love the Lord with all our minds and strength (Col. 1:10). The spirits that will react to us here are different from those that reacted to us when we were just walking worthy of the Lord. This is a season where we are going to be experiencing the Everlasting Father, who is the Almighty Father.
“He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.” (Isa. 40:26). There is a season when we will be weak because we are not yet in possession of those good works. Giving power to the faint is an activity of faith because that man is walking and can still faint. That soul can even faint in his mind, like the Hebrew church. "That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; [11] Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness." (Col. 1:10-11). The activity of increased strength comes when we have an audience with the Father. We will be strengthened with all might because we want to serve or love the Lord with all our strength and might. We regain possession of our souls when we love the Lord. To be strengthened ‘according to his glorious power’ does not refer to the power of God.
“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:” (Rom. 1:20). This is an activity of eternal power, which is everlasting power and is also from Everlasting Life. God wants to engraft the word in the soul that has laid all aside because he wants to start taking all things of the Father.
"That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, [18] May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height." (Eph. 3:17-18). This is how the knowledge of Christ will give birth to the love of Christ, which will cause us to judge. We thus judge with the love of Christ because it constrains us. Christ is a judge because of that peace He has.
“And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. [20] Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,” (Eph. 3:19-20). This is the realm of 'all'; it is the corridor of Everlasting Life. For us to have God’s fullness, a power must be at work in us, which is God’s power or everlasting power. This power is pressed out of that increase in God that will come our way.
“Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;” (Col. 1:11). We have to be strengthened with all patience because we will encounter the dragon here. We will first encounter those who can represent the adversary well; they are called spiritual wickedness in high places. The patience that is needed at this level is not the patience of the first works or of Christ. This is a patience of those who are journeying from the kingdom of Christ into the kingdom of God. It is a patience of the kingdom of God.
“Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” (Rev. 14:12). These are saints who have dealings or transactions with the Most Holy Place. They have transactions with the word of God and are being prepared for the testimony of God. They are keeping the commandments of God, which are actually the commandments of Everlasting Life. They are the commandments of love because this is a terrain of love.
There is a full measure of patience. “I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.” (Rev. 1:9). This patience is the patience to endure dealings; for this is the season where we are not going to love our lives unto the death. There is a tribulation that brings us into the kingdom of Christ; but there is also a tribulation by which we need to gain access into the Kingdom of God. As such, there is a patience because every faith has its patience.
In this season, God is administering a strength to us because of some exploits we are going to undertake. The exploits of Everlasting Life are different from the ones in Matthew 5. The reason why they were poor in spirit was so that they could handle a particular exploit. The reason why they had come to a place where they were mourning for more was so that they could be strengthened for another exploit (Matt 5:4). In the same way, the reason why they came to the place where they could hunger and thirst for more righteousness was so that they could come into a filling that everlasting righteousness would bring their way.
Charity is kind and it suffers long; this suffering is a blessing. There is a suffering that will birth Christ in a soul, but there are also the sufferings of those who are Christ; these ones have a glory. This is the suffering that the glorious church will be counted worthy of, before they can come into glory and take the tidings of glory. We therefore need to take advantage of these sufferings to come into glory.
There is a joy that must be seated in our souls for us to come into glory. God wants to bring us into the joy that was set before Jesus on the cross, which He now has as He is seated on the right hand of the Majesty on high (Heb. 12:2). God wants to bring us into this joy because it must be seated in our souls for us to occupy the throne.
It takes the heart of a father to request an inheritance for a nation; Abraham had that kind of heart. It takes a father to have the heart of compassion and intercede like Father Abraham once did. This compassion is available to us; however, some of us have not yet profited with some previous seasons. This is why it does not even occur to us to ask for some things from God.
“O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.” (2 Cor. 6:11). In the previous verses, Paul went through some dealings that opened up his heart. Even after straight paths have been made for the Lord, He still needs to enlarge our hearts and stretch us further for the season where we need to see salvation. Then, we will be able to pick some things we couldn’t pick in the seasons where it was just Christ being formed in us. This was why Peter kept canvasing that we should abound in these things. Virtue, temperance, faith, patience all have an abundant measure that will cause those doors to open unto us (2 Pet 1:5-8).
”And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. [31] And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.” (Mark 12:30-31). These are the exploits of Everlasting Life (exploits of love). The second commandment is like the first; it will prepare us to have that heart of flesh that can see God. it is what precedes the first, therefore it is faith. This is where the likeness called Christ will be raised in us.
For us, our ‘neighbours’ are our brethren. The exploits of one who has the testimony of Christ are the exploits of charity (1 Cor. 13:4-13). Therefore, you are expected to love your brethren as yourself. Seeking things that are in the interest of others is a profession that the Word of Righteousness wants to birth in us. This is the exploit of when they have dressed our souls with the eyes of the Spirit of the Lord; and this life has become natural to us. As such, it would not be burdensome to obey the commandments of giving to others. The witness that a man has in this life is that he can spend on others in the same way he can spend on himself; and can also be spent for them. Many of our fathers in the faith got to this point and provoked God to cut covenant with them. This is why God could commit resources to them. It is charity that will bring us to the place of loving our brothers as ourselves. In the New Testatment, the currencies that will give us access are faith and love. What they want to open to us is “love”.
”And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. [31] And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. [32] And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side. [33] But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him.” (Luke 10:30-33). Many believers still behave like these Priest and Levite to their neighbours. The healing for this is in the Word of Righteousness and it will make us have the blessedness described in Matthew 5. The blessing is a compassion and the Lord will give it to us because He wants to raise our senses further.
Christ has His own sense and it is from it that this compassion was borne. The blessedness in Matthew 5 was referring to a sense that the word of righteousness will birth. "For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe [14] But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil." (Heb. 5:13-14). This full age is a sense and in it is a compassion and mercy. This sense has the capacity of a mourner. This soul has journeyed to Zion; he has journeyed from being a foundational stone to a tried stone and then, a precious stone. It is out of that preciousness that the full age is measured. This is where a believer will get to when he has believed that Jesus is the Christ. Such a soul is born of God
If we use the word of righteousness, we will have our senses exercised to a place where we have full age. One of the characteristics of that exploit is mercy and the Lord expects us to be more merciful than we are. We need to be merciful to our brethren such that we can spend on them and give them our time, as the Lord will have us do, in the same way we will do to ourselves. Sometimes, this does not even occur to us, but we first have to journey through that corridor where we will give the Lord our substance.
“Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; [18] That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate;” (1 Tim 6:17-18). Through this, God wants to birth a sense in us but also take another away, so that our souls will be disarmed of that defence called money (Ecc. 7:12). He wants to raise a sense in us that peaks with full age. One who has reached here is letting go of his hold on vanity. Then, he will be prepared for a season when God will give him time and he will also be asked to give God his time, which is his life. The actual measurement of a man’s life is his time (John 9:4). When we have been disarmed of our wisdom, God can then lay a good foundation (which is Christ), against the time to come.
One of the things that will happen in the time to come is that money will fail. God may take some people through dealings where their finances will be drained; but it may not be so for others, even though they are also going through dealings. To lay hold on Everlasting Life is to have Everlasting Life and to have Everlasting Life is to have all things that make it up. There is a sense that cannot be borne in us, until we can relate with vanity the way the Apostles and some believers in the early church did.
The man who needed help in Luke 10:30-33 typifies our neighbour (our brethren) and the Samaritan did not shut his bowels of compassion to him. For some of us to relate with what is upon the house, we will need to do be contrary minded. One of the things that God will reveal is where we lack compassion and where we are still skilful in shutting our bowels of compassion (Phil. 3:15). “And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.” (Luke 10:34). Something occurred to him that did not occur to that Priest or Levite because his senses had been developed. It is with that sense that one can relate with things of Everlasting Life, which will make him love the Lord with all his heart, strength, mind and might. This is charity in a figure.
"And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee. [36] Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among the thieves?" (Luke 10:35-36). The Lord usually blesses us in the natural because of our neighbours, who represent the Lord’s brethren (Matt. 25:42-43).
"Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. [8] Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. [9] Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God." (Matt. 5:7-9). This state of a peacemaker is a major milestone. It is the Lord waiting for us at the last veil. These are those who shall be called children of God, children of the Most High or Sons of the Highest. They are sons who have received all things of Everlasting Life and have thereby obtained mercy to fully comprehend God.
The Lord is calling us to be prepared to be stretched. This is also a manner that can be found when serving our pastors. You cannot work around them and not be stretched. This is the nature of the path because God wants to give us His all. Our souls are like a sack, which God wants to expand and pour living waters into. There is clean water, but there is also living water. Ultimately, we are all supposed to become fathers. If we are going to be fathers, we would be like Father Abraham who had a bosom.
The exploits of Everlasting Life are exploits of love. The essence of the commandments of Everlasting Life are to prepare us for love, or for God. "And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also. [41] And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain." (Matthew 5:40-41). These are demands that were placed on Christ, for He had prospered in keeping the commandments of Everlasting Life. He did so till he got to a place where He had a cause to say that the prince of this world cometh and found nothing of himself in me (John 14:30).
Jesus was journeying to a place; it was a journey of One who is blessed. The fulfillment of Matthew 5 borders on the everlasting things. The things that they shall come into as a result of this blessing are the comfort they are bringing to those who have kept faith with the Word of Righteousness. This is the season when God is making the everlasting covenant available. This is also why the Bible says that we should be perfect as our Heavenly Father is perfect (Matt. 5:48). If we prosper with these tidings, we will be able to do what our Lord Jesus was calling for. These are part of the works of Everlasting Life; they are part of the works of those whom God is cutting and will cut an everlasting covenant with.
“Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. [44] But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;” (Matt. 5:43-44). Jesus loved Judas, although He did not like or approve what he was doing. However, Judas could not bring Jesus outside a circumference of life. This was how satan proved that Jesus was not just a kind of a new man but also a Son of God, who is ready for the reward of Eternal Life. From the beginning, Jesus knew that it was Judas who would tempt Him.
The essence of the feeding that we are getting in this season is so that we can handle some exploits that have not necessarily occurred to us yet; but will occur as we hear, see, look upon, behold and handle this word. There are measurements of the word of Christ, which saints have held right now. In like manner, God is also saying to us that we are also meant to hold the word of God in a particular season.
The best way to show our appreciation to the Servant of God (Rev. Kayode Oyegoke), who has been labouring over us in the spirit is to bear fruit. When we hold the word of Christ and it has dwelt richly in us, we have shown our appreciation to God’s servant for his labours, because God will credit his account for that fruit.
It takes the presence of life in a man to bless them that curse him. David expressed this in a shadow, when he blessed Shimei who cursed him. David could do this because his eyes were not on the physical throne but on the mercy seat (2 Sam. 16:7-14). His eyes were on Everlasting Life. He was someone who had come into Christos and had experienced deliverance. He had sung the song of deliverance and wanted to sing the song of salvation. When your eyes are on the fullness of Everlasting Life and on the ultimate reward of Eternal Life, you will naturally have the ability to bless them that curse you.
We have been despised by many, whether brethren or unbelievers but those transactions contained a measure of life. A lot of times, our eyes are not on getting life and we would rather defend or justify ourselves. The reason for this is because we lack a wisdom that comes by being foolish (1 Cor. 3:18). The wisdom of Christ, which are Faith, Hope and Charity are corridors of foolishness to the world. As such, there aren’t many men or believers here. The gift of speaking in tongues is the beginning of this ‘foolishness’ to the natural man/mind and every other thing that follows looks the same. However, it is in all that foolishness that the mind of Christ will be formed in us. Even when we come through all that foolishness, we also need to enrol in another school of a higher foolishness, where they will teach us a higher wisdom of God. Many of us need to raise altars for those who despise us because by so doing, we fulfill an obedience. Anytime we fulfil an obedience or respond to a situation that carnal believers or unbelievers cannot, God will give us life.
“That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.” (Matt. 5:45). Luke also calls these children the children of the highest (Luke 6:35). The ability to “send rain” on the just and the unjust is the exploit that they are expecting from this company. Therefore, they want us to begin to prepare our hearts for this. These are thoughts that we need to conceive and believe. They are the conversations that Jesus came into while He still bore the likeness of sinful flesh; while He was being tempted like we would also be tempted.
“The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.” (John 3:35). In the same way that the conversations of faith, hope and charity have become a new norm for some of us, a time is coming when these exploits will also become a new norm for us, because of the light that the Lord is bringing over us in this season. “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” (John 3:36). This was the ‘all things’ that God gave to those who believe on the Son. We therefore need to believe these conversations because Jesus carried out these exploits in the season that they are now baptizing us into.
We have been under a cloud but they are now bringing another cloud to bring forth a perfection that is not just after the order of a perfect man (Eph 4:13). Then, the Father will father that man till he becomes ‘the perfect man’ or ‘a Son of God’ (John 1:12). God will begin to give everlasting things to make men become Sons of God. “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.” (John 3:36). He that does not believe on the Son however, shall not comprehend life.
"That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." (Matt. 5:45). It is a thing of delight for a Father to see his children have his traits. Right now, all heaven is waiting for the precious fruits of the earth which are excellent, comely, beautiful and glorious. Therefore, we must not keep them waiting. “Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.” (James 5:7). James was referring to the brethren of the Lord; those whom the Lord is now declaring the names or the things of the Father to. This is to bring them to a perfection, completeness, wholeness or an entirety after the order of the Most Holy.
The early and latter rain are the rain of Christ and the Father. It is the heart of a Father that will send rain on both the just and the unjust. God is waiting for the people whom He is sending rain to because He has long patience for them. The dividend of keeping these everlasting things is a reward. “But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.” (Luke 6:35). Paul, the Apostle also had this attitude where he was hoping for nothing again. The great reward is actually a prophetic stature, like the great reward that was given to the prophets who were prosecuted (Matt. 5:12). Children of the highest will obtain mercy, be filled, inherit the earth and see God.
When we are overcoming the wicked one, we are overcoming the work that he is manifesting. He needs men to manifest his works. As such, even after he had left Jesus in the wilderness, he still came to him through the Pharisees, Saducees and even His disciples. When we overcome these works and bring forth everlasting conversations to match them, we are actually overcoming the works of the god of this world, the last enemy, being death.
A man can be kind to the unthankful and to the evil because with strong meat, his judgement or discernment have been raised. He has exercised himself with strong meat, such that he can discern God and discern love walks. He has also x-rayed the walk of our Lord Jesus between the ages of twenty to thirty. Many of the epistles of Paul shine light on what took place in Jesus in that time. He grew in wisdom between ages twelve to twenty. The epistles of Paul show the commandments of the Word of Righteousness that a believer needs to keep to acquire full age. The tail end of the epistles of Paul and the epistles of John show us the breakdown of some of the works of Jesus’ last three and half years. This is because these were some of the works that led to the works of the devil being destroyed. When we walk in the light of that work, we are actually overcoming the god of this world.
“Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.” (Luke 6:36). There is a mercy that will be measured to us in this season where we are hearing Everlasting Life and when we keep these commandments. If we are struggling to keep those commandments, it is because we have not profited with the strength that the word of righteousness wants to measure out to us. It is with this strength that they will now strengthen us unto all patience, with long suffering. This suffering is the suffering that Christ experiences when he is moving into glory world. We are going to glory in tribulation because there will be tribulation on the path. In the days of the early church, men endured the contradictions of sinners and contradictory experiences. Even now, God’s servant and our other pastors have endured and resisted to the shedding of blood. We do not just have words or preaching to prove this; but we have also seen the conversations that they have trapped.
“And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people”. (2 Cor. 6:16). These are temples that God will raise after He has fathered them; after they have trapped living waters and walked with the light of that life. As a soul journeys into that terrain of obtaining mercy, God can no more resist him. When the Father has fathered him to this place, he has obtained mercy. Like our Lord Jesus, such a soul will love not his life to the death. He will become irresistible and then, God will dwell in them (John 14:21-23).
The good news is that this will not just happen to a few people or just the minsters of the word, but to the whole company. Some in the early church got this far, but satan pulled a fast one on them. God is therefore bringing light to ensure that we do not repeat the history of the Hebrew church and the churches in Revelation. God is bringing light that will strengthen us to rejoice to the saving of the soul. This rejoicing is a strength that is drawn from the wells of salvation. It is a strength because of the acquisition of Everlasting Life (Heb 10:39).
When the Father is fathering us, it is because He wants to perfect and crown Christ with glory. He wants to bring a crown of life to such a man. The migration from being a royal priesthood to a royal people happens when God dwells in them, walks in them, becomes their God and they, His people. When a soul gets to this place, God can no more resist him because he is a treasure. This is the labour of God’s servant over us now. It is also the reason why the activities of Ministering Spirits have increased. Heaven is therefore asking us to prepare to be stretched.
You should pay closer attention to the things that make you murmur because they could be opportunities for you to get life. God wants to use that thing to stretch you. It is not about how right or wrong that thing is but about a commandment or wisdom that you are meant to exercise by being foolish (1 Cor. 3:18). If you can go in the route of wisdom and check out how Jesus would handle that thing, especially when He was subject to His parents and in His conversation between ages twelve to twenty, you will see a different way to approach it. The stretch will be such that the outward man will perish, but the inward man will be renewed (2 Cor. 4:16).