Most Holy Call to Pray (CTP, 10th April, 2021)
Topic: Handling the Word of God with Reverence
Minister: Rev. Kayode Oyegoke
The core reason for the scriptures is to bring people into an alignment of coming to God. No man or company of people can come into the fullness of the understanding of scriptures without journeying or coming to God. The bible will only be aligned along our pilgrimage in the spirit. Whosoever will not acknowledge that the scriptures are for spiritual journey will not have a breakthrough into its true understanding.
The essence of scriptures is to give the knowledge of truth (1 Tim. 2:4). However, it is possible for a man to be ever learning and never come to the knowledge of truth (2 Tim. 3:7). A man who is not willing to come into this knowledge will not truly understand scriptures. And the purpose of truth cannot be known without the right understanding of scriptures.
Many Christians have a misconception of what truth is. For example, the primary purpose of truth is not to make one financially or materially rich. It is possible to use scriptures to become financially prosperous but that is not what truth is about. Truth is beyond what men desire; therefore, no man truly seeks it (Romans 3:11). Many who seem to be looking for God are not seeking for truth; they still have other intents behind their search for God. The reason for all these is because man does not even have what it takes to look for truth; it is God that brings men to truth.
Man has no clue about the gift which truth will deliver to him because it is still abstract to him. This is why the gift of truth has to be revealed to men because our thought pattern had been reconfigured against the path of truth. It is a great breakthrough for a man to have an idea of searching for truth. This is because men will naturally not seek for this gift called truth. Therefore, a man’s exposure to truth is a royal and noble call (1 Corin. 1:26).
Truth is the alignment of scriptures that can cause a man to discern and know the gift of God. So, no man can get truth except by its knowledge (Eph. 1:17). God wants us to have this knowledge because it is one that will not pass away. What God wants to give us are good gifts, which are sincere and holy. They are things of His kind and order, unlike Satan’s gifts which are ephemeral and eventually harmful (Matt. 7:11, James 1:17).
When a man has acquired full age in the spirit, he will be able to discern between good and evil (Heb. 5:14). A man’s age in the spirit is determined by how much of life he has gathered and received by hearing and obedience. The Spirit of life in Christ must give a man enough life that will make him free from sin and death (Romans 8:2). When a man has the fullness of life, he will be completely free from sin and death. Life and Peace are against sin and death; Life will deal with sin, while Peace will deal with death (Romans 8:6). One needs deep spiritual judgement to be able to x-ray death.
A man who has Life and Peace is a free man, and it is only such a man that can be saved. The covenant of Life and Peace can never be with someone who does not have the fear of the Lord because this covenant is cultured by fear (Mal. 2:5). The covenant of Life and Peace is the knowledge and the fear of the Lord (Isa 11:2). This knowledge is a teacher of fear. Those who have this fear of the Lord are sanctified believers; they have been well taught to go into the fear of God in the Most Holy Place. We progress from the fear of the Lord to the fear of God.
The Father's name is a lesson for fear. Therefore, one must have full age (in Christ) to handle it (Heb. 5:14). We cannot keep the Sabbath without fear because it is the most holy day. Jesus was able to cry unto God to save Him because He had been keeping the Sabbath and the record of fear (Heb. 5:7). He handled the law of God with great caution, reverence and godly fear. Reverence is an instruction of the Most Holy Place, so we need to obtain mercy for us to have grace for it (Heb. 12:28). It is a godly and fearing soul that can have reverence; such that calls for the immovable and everlasting Kingdom.
The word of God can only be handled by the sanctified (1 Pet. 1:22-23). We cannot finish the covenant of peace without godly fear, as such, this fear must fill our hearts. The word will undress creatures that are still hidden from the eyes of the sanctified. The character of the word is programmed in the Father's name because this name is the teaching of the Father. His eyes (sight) are in the word; therefore, He sees through the two-edged sword (Heb. 4:12).
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the world's…” (Heb. 1:1-2). The only way we would attain rest is by the word that the Son is saying because what He is speaking are things that pertain to entrance into rest. As such, we should fear (or reverence) what He is saying. The Son has power and sight, and we are to engage with Him and the things that pertain to Him (Heb. 4:13).
Jesus the Son of God is the owner of this word of God (Heb. 4:14). It is this word that will take us to rest, because it is our key into rest. It is a discerner of the thoughts and intent of men because everything is naked before its eyes. This is what Jesus carries and how He judges, as such, He can help those who come to Everlasting Life to do the same.
The word of reconciliation is the word of the ministration of righteousness and God wants all of us to come into being made the righteousness of God. The righteousness of God is the Son of God. Before the word reconciles us, it will have to work out its character in us. It is quick and powerful and will pierce even to the dividing of our souls from our spirits. This separation will be done when God wants to save the soul.
The time of need is the time of cutting covenant with God and breaking agreement with hell and death (Heb. 4:16). Our sins make up our iniquity and infirmities; they are the writings of this present life or what most men often call “life”. We cannot hate this life without God’s help (Heb. 5:1). What constitutes sin is our inability to rest. Therefore, whosoever is unable to practice the Sabbath or the life of rest is a sinner.
God cannot just bring you into the Holy of Holies if you have not been sanctified. Our High Priest (Jesus) also wants us to come there. Those who can access the blood of the sprinkling are the sanctified and they know what to access the blood for (Heb. 10:22). You must be tutored by the menorah, so that you can discern what is appropriate for that place.
When people’s consciences have been washed, everlasting and Eternal Life become a veil that can be visible and pierced through (Heb. 10: 19-22). To have Eternal Life and everlasting life is to be living the most holy life while you are on earth. These are the seasons when people will be weary as a result of the word that is coming to us. It is also the time when Satan fights the light that God is beaming, in order to make people weary. However, it is the season of everlasting joy