Programme: Anamnesis Prayer Meeting (Week 3_Day 1)
Date: Monday, 20th November 2023
Transcript Summary
1. We should desire to look like Jesus because He is so worthy (Rev. 5:12). Jesus is a Being that even a hundred years will still be a crash program when it comes to knowing Him. God is granting us mercy to touch what He had concealed. We should not trade our change for anything; nothing should rob us of our inheritance. We should take this as our priority. We should not pass through our time on earth without having our members full of the members of Jesus. The distractions of the earth should not rob us of our change; we are only on earth for the change of our nature (into that of Jesus).
2. The evil of Satan is subtle. It generally looks harmless but will lie there (somewhere) until the deed is done. “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.” (Matt. 6:13). This scripture means, “As You are leading us, do not let temptation swallow us, rather, we should get delivered from evil.” This is when we can truly say, “...thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.”
3. It is the devil that stands against the attitude of seeking God. The devil destroys the works of building men by temptation. As such, he makes the labours of the builders go in vain. This is why the High Priest has been ordained to succour us (Heb. 2:18). Succour speaks of help and comfort. He provides succour so that it is not a temptation without succour.
4. “But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.” (Heb. 8:6). The use of the word “now” tells us the ministry of Jesus is functional presently. The concept Satan used in deceiving the church is to tell us that everything is already done and Jesus is presently not doing anything. He is doing this so that the High Priest (Jesus Christ) will not be able to reach the church. The high priestly ministry of Jesus did not start and end on the third day, it is a heavenly vocation (Heb. 2:17).
5. Covenants precede promises. The access to promises is the covenant. This means there is no promise that does not have a covenant. All the promises of God are "Yea and Amen" (2 Corin. 1:20) – these are the two promises. We need the High Priest to establish these promises in us. There is a covenant to “Yea” and there is a covenant to “Amen”. The things pertaining to God are the things that will end up or result into covenant. Jesus is "the Mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises." (Heb. 8:6). Mediation is a work of succouring. There is one Mediator between God and men, which is our Lord Jesus. This Mediator is a Man and not an angel. Jesus is a Man who has been tempted; this is what makes the mediation valid and strong. It authenticates the strength of the ministry.
6. Many have driven the work at new birth to mean that once saved is forever saved; this is why they do not see any more work to be done after you become born again. But this is a lie that breeds error. Sin has levels. Sin has its ascension. As we go up to God, we are removing sins; but when one gets to heaven, there is a heavenly remnant that should be removed.
7. “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our's only, but also for the sins of the whole world.” (1 John 2:2). There are two classes of sins here: our sins and sins of the whole world. There is a reason for the word “our” beside the first category of sin. It speaks of heavenly men. They are men who have ascended into heaven, and the purpose is to be cleansed of sins. So Jesus went ahead to purge it. He purged it and then sat at the right hand. There is a correlation between these two actions—purging of sins and sitting down. Sitting here is not speaking of finishing the work of sin in men; it is the access to the governing strength on how to remove sins from men. The "sins of the whole" world begins from the new birth to a time when one will receive the covenant of life and peace. In dealing with sin, whosoever rises and comes into a place of “our sins” has come into honour.
8. Jesus’ responsibility was beyond the earth. God prepared Jesus for 33 years for Him to sit and be able to deal with sins. Men do not know the strength of the enemy and how much separation there is between us and God. Jesus had to do a lot to access a vantage point to remove and take away sins from men. Our Lord Jesus purged sins from heaven, and He then sat so that He could deal with sins in our hearts. The grounds for sin to remain with us is because they are present in heaven.
9. “My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous…” (1 John 2:1). The whole epistle of John is the ministry of the High Priest. This ministry is not without the message of the High Priest, which is that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. It is from the High Priest that we get things pertaining to God.
10. "If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: [7] But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. [8] If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." (1 John 1:6-8). To walk in darkness is to walk in evil. Fellowship here is fellowship with God. This is when one takes and uses the things that pertain to God. Fellowship is when light is given to a man and he is using it or is in agreement with it. These things belong to fellows. A user of light is a person who has been brought into fellowship; it is such a one that has been enrolled among fellows.
11. God is the light of fellowship. Those who are brought into fellowship are illuminated. They are people with the illumination of who God is. But if one walks in the illumination of the fallen one, the devil, one is a liar. The only answer to darkness is God as light. “This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” (1 John 1:5). Darkness presents itself as a form of light and if one is not careful, one can think that darkness is in God. It means that one can be engaged in darkness and think it is light. Without the message of God as light, one cannot discern darkness. God is the tutelage to know darkness. A man cannot ordinarily stop darkness. What has been hindering us is something we do not take cognisance of; it is something we cannot compromise. That thing is darkness! Darkness is the light Satan made for living.
12. God is saying that one cannot know that darkness is not light without coming up to heaven. It is in heaven that one will know that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. One can be handling darkness and say that he has fellowship with God; this is why Apostle John refuted that a man cannot say he has fellowship with God and walk in darkness. Such a person lies and is not doing the truth (1 Jn. 1:6). Walking is doing. One cannot stop doing darkness without engaging God as light. And it can only take the High Priest to advocate for our sins, for this to happen.
13. The strength for making or committing sins is how to commit sin. It is the understanding or the light for sin. This understanding is darkness. The purpose of darkness is to put people under a light, for sin to be done. This is so that people will not have any other option but to sin. This is what is called bondage (Heb. 2:15). Jesus came to bring another light so that sin can be stopped. Sin is life. It is a commitment to a wrong life. Darkness is the instruction for the commitment to that life. What one sees as life is what one would be committed to or persuaded of. When persuasion is there, people will make covenant.
14. A carnal Christian who is still dealing with the sins of the whole world cannot be brought into fellowship. Fellowship is an entrance into communion, whether we feel it or not. Fellowship is a world of awareness that one is enrolled into. It is a participation that allows you to completely delete sins by your walk. Under fellowship, one has access to constant light; this is what breaks one's commitment to the life of sin and initiates another commitment.
15. We are to do truth. Truth is light; it is righteousness. Someone who is a doer of righteousness is a doer of truth. One who is a doer of evil is a doer of sin. Light is a surveillance tool for both. Doing that which is a lie is darkness; it is an understanding for committing evil. When God's light is coming, some people hide their heads from the new commitment that will take their 'evil life'.
16. “Do evil” means the ‘devil’. The devil is a doer of evil; he is the creator of lives that are against God. This is the pain of God. God is supposed to be the only life but someone came, offered and created another life. He did it and would be there to see to it that men are doing that life. But when God is breaking evil and delivering us from evil, the things in the storehouse of Satan are being killed.
17. “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1:8-9). This verse means we should not say that we have no sin. The reason why truth comes is to deal with sin. One who has truth in him has everlasting life in him. Eternal Life should not be put side by side with sin. It is everlasting life that deals with sin. We should not reduce Eternal Life. If we confess our sins, we agree that we have this sin somewhere in us. These sins are not sins we commit; it talks about if we agree that we still have our former life – the life Satan gave to us – God is faithful to forgive. But if we hide it, we will not prosper. If we expose the sins and agree that they are in us, God will forgive us.
18. It is heavenly beings who can make this confession. These are the people who write their names in heaven. This is where we should rejoice; this is where our joy is full. For our joy to be full (1 Jn. 1:4), there must be a cleansing and removal of sin. Sins are dealt with in presence – where fellowship is. The key to presence is the light we are under (1 Jn. 1:5). Fellowship is the deepest belly of the Holy Ghost; it is the kingdom of joy in the Holy Ghost (Rom. 14:17). This is where fellowship takes place and one is brought into glory.
19. (Heb. 5:2-5). The practice of the high priestly ministry is a work of glory. One cannot touch sin without being glorified. Anyone who is brought to glory is brought to reason the way the High Priest reasons. To partake of His glory is to be given His sense. When we have His sense, we have the sense of light and think in terms of God’s illumination.
20. To be able to detect evil glorious work, one needs glory. This is because what started evil was glory. Satan’s problem was glory. This means the only thing that can make us detect the works of the devil is when we continuously think of the original glory pattern. A man must think heaven for sins to be removed from him. One who is not thinking in the patterns of heaven cannot get rid of sins in their members. To think heaven is not to think of a planet; it is to think high in God. Sin is a high thing that exalts itself against God (2 Cor. 10:5). To deal with it, one needs the High Priest who has passed into the heavens (Heb. 4:14). He has gone into God’s things, so He can now give them to us.
21. After Jesus purged our sins and sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high, He is now expecting His enemies to be made His footstool (Heb. 10:12-13). ‘Expecting’ speaks of His expectation of the time when we would be ready to receive His ministry. The season of His enemies being made His footstool is tied to our response to Him. Making His enemies His footstool is to remove their place in us (Rev. 12:8). The place of evil spirits is in our heavens. Every man has his heaven, and it is in the soul. Every man has his high places. We can refuse evil, though it is not easy to refuse heavenly temptation. We need an advocate who will succour us. Jesus will not have a legal right to remove sins from our hearts without purging. The purging our Lord Jesus did in the heavens gives Him the access to remove sins from our hearts.
22. We should be zealous to get rid of sin by being zealous of good works. Good works are removing evil and establishing that which is good. To deal with sin, it will take a "peculiar people" who are zealous of good works (Titus 2:14). It is dangerous and futile to draw back; this is because there is nothing anywhere. God is cleansing us from the influence of darkness. The Lord shall be our everlasting light (Isa. 60:19-20). We will receive grace to carry these works and cooperate with the Father of lights. The High Priest will constantly be before us. Our hearts have to be prepared to have a closer tie to Him in our hearts. Jesus will become real to us (Amen).
Blessings!
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