Lekki Soul Centre (5th May, 2021)
Ministering: Pastor Tayo Fasan
Topic: Profiting with the Sayings of April
In April, our souls and bodies were beaten to a particular frame which we are meant to keep and not lose. We are meant to exercise ourselves in what we have heard. Keeping that frame will involve a fight against the flesh who still wants to pull a fast one on us. The Lord is still saying one thing. He is giving to us the same honour and opportunity which He gave to some in the early Church.
There is warfare that God's servant, Reverend Kayode Oyegoke, has undergone while believing. Believing is an experience that does not come naturally to the soul because of the nature we have. One would rather trust God for what they can see than what they cannot see. Right now, God's servant, Reverend Kayode Oyegoke, is believing God for many things concerning the ministry, souls, the nation, and different speakings of the Spirit. All these things he is believing God for are what enlarges the heart (2Cor. 6:11).
Whenever contradictions come our way, they are opportunities for us to believe; and the more we believe, the more our hearts are enlarged. This means that we cannot shy away from challenges and speakings. The more the speakings, the more the commitments being placed on us to believe what is being said. As the threshold of speakings increases, believing should increase also. By God's grace, in this season many have journeyed to a place where it is now unnatural to doubt.
Robert Liardon wrote in one of the chapters of his book, God's General, of an encounter he had where the Lord expressed His displeasure at the issue of doubt; nothing displeases the Lord like doubting. This is because men in the Old Testament days went through what we are going through and they believed. So that posture of doubting depicts that we are wrestling with the Lord or what the Lord has said.
Before the word of Christ shows up, there is something called unbelief that does not necessarily show up. It could show up as it did for those in Matthew 13:54-58. We also see that Jesus commended the faith of some in Matthew 8:10. So, somewhere, man degenerated to a place where he struggles to trust God for the faith that can address his natural life. That is a work somewhere in the soul. Unbelief is addressed whenever the word of Christ is being revealed. That word wants to go against an aspect of unbelief that the likes of the Hebrew Church were able to surmount and were satisfied in the spirit as "holy brethren", but another unbelief was waiting for them that was still resident in them despite the formation of Christ in them. So, in chapter 3 of Hebrews, Paul was cautioning them about how unbelief could show up.
What the word of God had come to deal with is unbelief which is a nature. Before our father, Abraham was commended in Romans 4, the Bible talks about how he was fully persuaded after 24 years of training to live on words. When he came to a junction where he surrendered his life, he won a warfare against unbelief.
Romans 4:18-19
"Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. [19] And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb…"
Abraham got to a place where he did not consider his own body because he had been trained to live on words. He had been trained to look not on the things seen, but on the things not seen. He came to a junction where he excelled at doing that, thereby becoming a professional of faith. One of the things he had to surrender was fear (Gen. 15:1). There was a fear he surrendered that made him see what God was saying. There is a cycle of seeing what God says - the cycle of hearing. We gather substances by hearing (Rom. 10:17). But there is something we do with that substance that will displace a nature, which will lead to the remission of sins; though, at some seasons, Abraham wavered, as some of us had previously done.
In April, the Lord helped us to push in the spirit. The Lord helped us to disobey unbelief, especially concerning what God is speaking. The Lord expects us to hear what He has to say, just like He expected the children of Israel to hear also when they gathered at the mount. The children of Israel were expected to mix what they had with faith. People who are trusting God for their natural needs do not have a problem mixing what they hear with faith because there's a physical expression of what they are trusting the Lord for. But when the word of Christ (which borders on change of nature) is coming, the soul struggles to respond and God just keeps speaking. By speaking and speaking, the soul would gather measures of substances, but a season would come when the soul will have enough substances to believe what is being said about the New Man – Christ, then old things will pass away. What is resident in old things are some fears around the present life.
There are still things that are upon us as a people, and even individually; there are still speakings that are still hanging over us. There are promises and prophecies that borders on our natural and spiritual life still hanging over us, which we will need to take hold of by winning some warfare. For example, the speakings in April bothers on both our spiritual and our natural. We still need to remain in faith and prayers. As our pastor, pastor Emeka Egwuchukwu has said, that the angel is still around, we will do well to keep watching and praying until we receive all, and the receiving will vary for different people.
One thing that helped some of us was an exercise we had around milk faith. So, for me, when I came around the teaching of the faith of the Son, it was that same exercised frame I began to use to believe what is not seen. God uses the discipline of faith to train us so we can come to a place where God becomes our only alternative.
If there is anything that we are trusting the Lord for, natural or spiritual, that has not yet become tangible, there are alternatives we need to crucify. It took Abraham about 24 years to crucify his alternatives. One of the essences of the dealings of faith, especially when well kept, is the crucifixion of alternatives. Those alternatives are what sustain unbelief. It is difficult for someone who does not have the foundation of faith to surrender to things that border on the unseen. Abraham was on a journey to God and he was being fathered by God. He had to come to a place where the Bible says he was fully persuaded.
I believe every speaking that God's servant has spoken over the house. If there is any reason that you and I have not experienced it, it is because we have not been fully persuaded. Oretha Hagin, in her book, said she knew she could not depend on the faith of her husband for the healing of the disease she had. She had to stay on the word. Similarly, many of us need to stay on the words that have been said. We need to stay on these words until we transact and fetch the substances of those words. Every word carries substances, which include substances of the resurrection from the dead, which is Christ formation and much more, substances of the resurrection of the dead. For Oretha Hagin, it was the substances in her that were speaking to the mountain.
The Bible talks about not doubting in the heart and believing (Mk. 11:23). The only reason one doubts is that they have not gathered enough substances from a ministration of the word they heard. If we gather all the substances spoken in April, we would experience the resurrection of the dead. For some of us, concerning the resurrection of the dead, there is still some doubt which means we have not been fully persuaded. To gather the substances is to see and come into what God's servant, Reverend Kayode Oyegoke, was saying. He was speaking at that high level of utterance because it was an understanding to him. So, we need to also tarry with them until we fetch the understanding. When we are full of the understanding, we will overcome every unbelief or doubt that is limiting us from coming above that mountain, or from fetching that life.
For father Abraham, it took him 24 years for the Lord to take his eyes off alternatives. For him not to consider his own body was a feat because Satan was using that body to speak to him. Once one entertains that speaking, one has entertained a fear. What the enemy uses to speak to one are things that are seen, not things that are not seen. The enemy has access to the present world, that is why God wants to use the contradictions around the present world, around things that are seen, to deliver us from the present world. Then, we can have the liberty in the spirit to seek our world.
A point in time came that Abraham did not consider his age. God separated him from that report, it became unreal to him. He was trained until the feeling of his body was no longer real to him. By so doing, he lived; that transaction tampered with the genes of his soul. Satan was also using the deadness of Sarah's womb to speak. There was no fear of faith that a woman at her age conceived, but there was a reference in the spirit. Delaying the answer to that prayer he made was to change the judgment of his soul. His problem in the natural was a competition to him receiving the promise and God saw that. That thing in the natural was a snare to a spiritual reality. God knew that was the bait to use to separate Abraham from the present life, which is to separate him from death.
Romans 4:20-21
"He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; [21] And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform."
There is a rhema in verse 21 for everybody concerning what has been spoken in April, and it is that we all need to come to a place where will be fully persuaded that what God has said through His servant, which is a promise and is what will commend us to God. For some, it may take them months, for some, years. There is a literal time, hour or season where all these words are meant to become flesh, just like the words of Christ has been embodied in a good number of us. The Lord has seen it for everyone. The Lord wants to mature us corporately because it will take a company to bring God-like in the company in Revelation 14. This company will entertain the name of the Father and the Son.
Revelation 14:1
"And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads."
These are thronic beings - those who will be seated on the throne. The reason why we are hearing the revelations of everlasting life or the declarations of the name of the Father is so that iniquity will be dealt with. There is a way the word came to us in April that it did not come to us previously.
Psalm 50:5-6
"Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice. [6] And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah."
The heavens in verse 6 are different from the present heavens. What we saw in April was a type of what David was speaking of in Psalm 50. The saints there now needed to hear something that will enable God to make an everlasting covenant with them; tidings that border on everlasting righteousness, which is what makes up salvation. The month of April was a month where those words that came were to perfect every measure of Christ formation we have.
What we had were declarations of the name of the Father which will deal with another measure of unbelief left in the soul by death. There is unbelief that sin and death left in the soul and there is a way the word of Christ takes care of that. Many of us in this company has found the grace to believe. If you are part of those who have been fully persuaded, then you will hear the voice of the Son of God, bringing about the name of the declaration of the Father. Those who now walk in the light of that declaration and generates the works of that word are those who will register their presence like in Revelation 14.
The Lord is saying that as many as are hearing and will keep faith with what they are hearing -what they have heard especially in April - a literal time is coming when they will not see death (Matt. 16:28). As we will keep faith in what we have heard, we will come to a place where we will not see death; we will be separated not just from sin and death but from hell and death. This refers to what Paul said in Romans 8:35-39. This means because of the separations they have come into, those things listed in Romans 8 cannot separate them. The reason why God permitted those things is that those people have substances to surmount them. Just like Job, he had had a word and that is why God asked if Satan had considered him (Job 1:8).
God's servant, Reverend Kayode Oyegoke, said that before the end of this year, the testimony would have been in the custody of some. The Lord was able to fuel a desire in our midst for April, but that desire has to be sustained. The only way and place it can be sustained is in the place of prayers. This is an instruction to the house. It would be foolishness on our part to do otherwise if God's servant has told us that he is still tarrying in the place of prayer. God used the month of April to beat us to shape. We are meant to take that frame and as the prophecy said, handle the individual censer They will give us and then keep a prayer lifestyle. We are being prepared to fight fallen angels because they are the only ones standing in the way to our inheritance.
There are some who heaven will give an accelerated growth until they are raised to a place where they register their place in Zion. The New Testament edition of Romans 8:18-24 is what we are going through. Abraham’s training was to look not at the things that are seen. When he excelled, God showed up and came to perform what He promised. One reason why He has not performed what He promised is that the ball is hanging on our side of the court. The ball never drops on the Lord's side but always on our side.
The nature that makes us look at the things that are seen is firstly sin and death. That nature limits us from walking until we become spiritual and then have a spiritual mind that God can instruct. The fullness of that nature is hell and death and the only antidote to that is feeding. The season of April was to feed us against another unbelief that comes when there is a right division of the word of truth over a duration of time, without interruption.
Why we are presently dealing with the chapter of the resurrection of the dead is because of training. The reason for the provision of milk faith was to begin the exercise of putting our eyes on the word. Now, the word is not just what guarantees our provision in the natural or make us become holy brethren. It is now a word that will deal with an enmity and a law; it is a word that will also implant another law. While doing so, we have to look not at the things that are seen (2. Cor. 4:18). The temptations of Jesus in Matthew 4 and Luke 4 were around things that are seen. So, things that are seen are heavy.
The best the old testament saints could do, while trying to engage this warfare, was to obtain a good report. Things that are seen refer to expectations that are not born out of righteousness. Safety lies in what the Spirit is saying to the church (Rev. 2:7). If it is not according to what the Spirit is saying, one would lose in warfare against fallen spirits.
The Lord wants us to hallow the meal that came down in April. It is too sacred for us to hear it and go back to our default states. Some people are going to tarry with it until they break through and register their presence.
2 Corinthians 4:18
"While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal."
The things which are not seen are eternal, though the way to come into them is through the everlasting door. Being eternal means they are the things of the new heaven and the new earth; they are the things of the new realm wherein dwelleth righteousness (2 Pet. 3:13). God's servant, Reverend Kayode Oyegoke, said that the world to come is a place where eternal life can be naturally expressed.
God needs to set aside this present heavens and earth because this is our problem. For it to be fully set aside, we not only need the word of Christ but the word of God. This is because the present is a realm under the subjection of the angelic and though some of them are fallen, they can still touch it. So, if our expectations can still be found in that world (the present), those fallen angels can limit us from piercing and receiving things of the new heavens and the new earth or of looking for it. What we end up becoming is what we look for. Looking at an average believer today, you can see that what he is looking for is around the present heavens and the present earth.
Robert Liardon was caught up to heaven at the age of eight and Pastor Emeka said the way he described it was one of the best descriptions of an encounter that a man had. An encounter Jesse Duplantis had was also real. Eight-year-old Robert Liardon was raised by his parents to always study his Bible, four chapters daily and on a faithful day, as he laid down to do that, he just got caught up. If you read the description of what he had in the present heavens that They want to set aside/dissolve, you will know that there is nothing on earth. Rev. Kayode Oyegoke says it but somewhere we do not still believe it because our expectation is still found here. Souls are still dwelling here.
When you read the things he said in the present heaven that They want to set aside/ dissolve with fervent heat, you will know that there is nothing worth seeking. If God is not bringing that addition, then so be it. It means there is something we do not even know about that thing we are seeking God for. If God cannot bring it in His way, at His own time and with His resources, then "that thing" can wait for as long as He will have it wait. We will look like what we look for. In our midst, some will excel, including some who come in the eleventh hour because the same opportunity is given to them. They will excel in looking for "these things" and they will become it.
One of the wisdoms by which we will win warfare hanging over many of us is to trust the Lord for what He wants us to trust Him for. Sometimes there are things we find ourselves defending - "this is what I want to trust God for" but at that same juncture God is saying, “trust Me for this”. However, a lot of times, it is wisdom for us to get those things in a more supernatural way. This is what happened in Isaiah chapter 4 - one man trusted God for what He wanted him to trust Him for, sheepishly followed the Lord and has experienced a maturation; a quick work was done in raising that man.
Isaiah 4:1
"And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach."
This scripture summarizes the present life/covering. House, clothing and many things around the present life is a covering for many; a kind of glory that men seek when they are meant to be seeking something else that should bring things supernaturally. Something else that should see people plug into a priestly lifestyle that will cause things to seeks them, which is one sign of the word of Christ. When we give ourselves wholly to it the natural will respond to us supernaturally.
“...only let us be called by thy name to take away our reproach” (Isa. 41:1). These people spoken of in this scripture were those who were in the same season like we are all presently are, but God was provoking them, by virtue of honouring that “one man” who dared to seek what He wanted Him to seek - like God is telling us to seek everlasting life. Everlasting life can be sought.
Isaiah 4:2
“In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel."
This will happen, Why? Because of what they have looked for. God’s servant Rev. Kayode Oyegoke once said that one of the designs of the Faith of the Son is to cause us to sprout out - to rise out of the new earth. There is a way we will transact with what has been spoken in April that we will see some in the seasons and months ahead, register their presence in the city of God (Rev. 21:2). The month of April is what the Bible describes as a quick work in righteousness (Rom. 9:28); a quick work to acquaint people with everlasting righteousness. To hasten them out of the new earth and make them celestial in nature (1Cor. 15:40). So, God will be provoking others through some.
John 16:12
"I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now."
Some things were said to us in April and they were said to us because we can bear them. One of the proofs that a believer can bear such a thing is that has he experienced the conversion that should have taken place in previous seasons before those things were spoken? which is one of the things the word of Christ does.
Mark 4:12
"That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them."
One of the reasons He could not speak many things, even for the Hebrew Church, is because some of them had not fully prospered with the word of Christ. There is an age the word of Christ measures that will enable us to hear when the Son is speaking - when they are bringing the word of God (Jn. 10:35). In April the word of God came, meaning there was a way the word of God was divided. There was a lot of divisions because They want to raise a manner of men (2 Pet. 3:11).
1 Peter 1:22
"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…"
This scripture raised a company of those who by God's grace can be found in our midst. There is a full age in Christ that keeping faith with the unfeigned love of the brethren will culture in a soul and when that age is cultured one can hear what the Son is saying.
Hebrews 3:7
"Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice…"
What you do with what He said, like the things He said in April is what will now deal with something in the heart of one who has a Christ formation; something that can still make someone who has become Christ drawback. The voice of God wants to come and deal with such a thing. God's servant, Rev. Kayode Oyegoke described those things as thoughts and intents; which is what hell and death as a testament have. It is a testament that someone who has put aside old things and has become a new man needs to surmount by the testament They handover when he keeps faith with the commandments of the word of God.
Many things were said to us in April and we can bear those things (Jn. 16:12). One way to help our infirmities in any place we are wavering to bear those things is in the place of prayers. Meaning some will come short if they do not give the attitude to prayers that we can see in God’s servant Rev. Kayode Oyegoke. It means some will come to it at a later time and it can be costly. Coming to it at a particular time is going to make God harvest a pleasure from the earth, and when God is denied of harvesting this pleasure, even though a man can come into it at a later time, it might be very costly; sought with tears like the seven women.
I do not want to be like the seven women where a reproach that should have been dealt with at a season, which should see me bear the name of the Father has not been dealt with. The Spirit of truth in our midst in April was breaking down truth around the mystery of the Father and the mystery of God because some can bear it. And He is still here to guide us into all those truths until it becomes our conversation. The same way He guided us around the word of faith and the faith of the Son became a conversation among many believers in our midst is the same way He now wants to guide us.
John 16:13
"Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come."
Things to come are always being shown to those who have come to the season like the Hebrew church. There are conversations to be harvested out of what has been said (Heb. 2:1-10, 2 Cor. 6:2).
John 16:13-15
"Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. [14] He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. [15] All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you."
Reverend is not just preaching things to come; he carries the persuasion, that is why they can flow out the way they do. The imagination of God's servant has been captured. The imagination of man is a core of man, it is where iniquities sprouted from (Ezek. 28:15). It was there the sons of God in Genesis 6 lost out in a warfare. The kind of warfare God wants us to overcome by keeping faith in what we have heard is the same kind of warfare they fell short of because every truth must be able to move successfully into our thoughts and imagination. They must become our thoughts and imaginations as David said in Psalm 119:97.
The bottomless pit of David’s soul was able to be captured, that is why all those prophetic sayings about our Lord Jesus, His death and post-resurrection could flow through David. I believe that is the activity of a sound mind because of how he gave himself, how he sought what the Lord wanted him to seek. What does the Lord want us to seek? The Ark. There are other things even around the sanctuary that He is not asking us to seek and if He is asking us to seek things that bother on the Ark, it is a weighty thing and we know when we are shying away like the children of Israel.
When we are falling short in the demand of response, we know. We brush aside things a little here, a little there. Those who successfully do so will come to where the Sons of God in Genesis chapter 6 got to - where the Holy Ghost had to say concerning them "My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh..."(Gen. 6:3a). This means that many times they have brushed aside feelings: feelings to pray, feelings to listen to a message again, feelings to commune. Sometimes praying may just be being quiet before the Lord.
There are many attitudes and conversations around this New Testament just like the beatitudes. There is a way someone to whom they are committing such light to his trust is to respond to it. Holy Ghost knows He has to help us, but sometimes when He is helping us there is a way we just brush aside that feeling, that prompting, a little here, a little there. That is what the sons of God did that He said He will no longer strive with them. May we not strive with the Holy Ghost.
"He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.” (Jn. 16:14), God said this through John meaning only thereby will He (Holy Ghost) reveal Me (Christ) in glory.
2 Peter 3:11
"Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness…"
1 Peter 2:1-2
"Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, [2] As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby…"
These were the things they should lay aside while loving the brethren fervently so that they can relate with the milk of the word of God, which is the beginning of everlasting life. There are things that most and many should have laid aside so that interacting with this word will become natural, or so that we can fetch the desire of this word. The word of Christ has its desire - its passion. There is a desire that the word of Christ has not yet unlocked that will now be unlocked when we lay aside all malice, guile, evil speakings, hypocrisies, etc.
Hypocrisy is not to mean what you say, and hypocrisy can be as natural and at home with us as we can hardly imagine. After we have laid all these things aside, we now have a stone in the sanctuary, we now have what Hebrews chapter 2 called "both He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all one" (Heb 2:11). Heaven will certify that we are one because of what we have done with faith and then we will be able to hear the voice of the Son of God. We will begin to take the commandments from the word of God which will enable us go against our thoughts and intents that will first be exposed.
There were thoughts and intents exposed to me and my wife by the divisions that came in April; conversations that seem good with the light of Christ because we are seeing darkly. This is why the ministry of revelation is key, because without it you cannot see the nakedness of some thoughts and intents, and you will seriously drive it. I saw some things for the first time and there are still more.
Jesus is saying the Holy Ghost will glorify Him by showing us things to come. The showing of things to come is the showing of all things that the Father gave to Him (Jn. 16:15). All things are what God's servant, Rev. Kayode Oyegoke has been declaring. The declarations of the name of the Father are the declarations of those all things. They are what will make us become a manner of persons or a manner of man. A manner of man that started off being flesh, but there was something he did with the word of righteousness, there was a way he came into the word of righteousness and took it personally like some take their business personal and became a spiritual man.
One of the things the tongue that came was saying was that "take as personal the appearance that is upon us the way I (the angel) takes as personal what I am ministering to you. I am more passionate about it than you are". The reason the angels want us to take it personally is that they want to see the close of this age. The present heaven means nothing to them, from the day they saw the Son. When they saw Him, they saw a world and knew they were living in an inferior world. It was further said in the tongue "Let the world to come mean to you what it means to us". This is what the ministry of reconciliation wants to carry out in us.
There are things in us still limiting us from taking as personal the world to come or taking as personal the way the two Marys took the body of our Lord Jesus. Their visitation to us was to impart some passions in us; without them, we cannot take the "all things" the book of John spoke of, that the Holy Ghost will show. We need some passions to take it; passions from our rapport with milk provision of scriptures, the word of righteousness and the word of faith. These cumulative passions and frame are what will enable us to relate with the passions around this message.
Luke 21:19
"In your patience possess ye your souls."
Luke 21:16-17
"And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death. [17] And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake."
This scripture is talking about those who will have received those “all things” that the Father hath and the Holy Ghost will show; which for us in this season are the declarations of the name of the Father which is meant to bring about a christening or fully make us believe on the name of the Son. It is meant to instil a love program in us which is a hate program against everything the enemy represents. All things that the Father hath is what is ongoing; it is what is upon us (Jn. 16:15).
John 10:33-35
"The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. [34] Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? [35] If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken…"
Somewhere we still share in common where these people (the Jews) were springing forth from. When the word of Christ is coming our way, it is trying to inform where we should spring from - where our judgement should spring from. They were still seeing Jesus as a man and their definition of man was what God put disapproval upon. They could not discern our Lord Jesus, a man that was a being of the world to come; a man speaking from the ages to come because that was what He inherited.
The journey to becoming "what manner of persons" Apostle Peter spoke of, began from an estate we all partook of called flesh. A time comes which has dawned on many, where many have become a kind of man called the new man, Christ, but inasmuch as God approves of such a man, the approval God has of Him is that he has used faith well to come above the present world (the veil that limits man from relating with His world). Meaning, when a man has become Christ, he is still not yet “a manner of man or a manner of persons”, the Holy Ghost still needs to show him all things. He still needs to be fathered until he can be christened again or until he can receive "all things that are Mine" (Jn. 16:15) which in John chapter 5 is called all judgement.
It is by that judgement that takes place when the word of God is being rightly divided that we can see thoughts and intents. These people in question here did not see Jesus in His glorified form (Jn. 10:33). One of the things John spoke of is that "He will glorify Me". The only way the Holy Ghost will glorify our Lord Jesus which is what He is doing now is to make us see what Jesus saw; to make us see the perimeter of this judgement because it is only thereby we will own it and it is only thereby this judgement will journey.
2 Corinthians 10:5
"Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ"
In the same way by God's grace, there is a rapport with the word of Christ that we see those thoughts that constitute Christ fill and saturate our thoughts, and get us to come to the place where we overcome the world. In the same way, the word of God this season is to change our judgement and help us take those grounds that iniquity once took in our imagination.
The sons of God in Genesis chapter 6 were like saints who came into Christ and now even began the journey of everlasting life. They were called sons of God because they were meant to perfect that course of sonship, but the enemy did something to their imaginations.
Genesis 6:1-2
"And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, [2] That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose."
Ezekiel 28:15-18
"Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. [16] By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. [17] Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. [18] Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore, will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee."
This account speaks of what happened to the imagination of Satan. What happened when he was being defiled was that he was taking thoughts from different parts of his sanctuary and his most holy place. Iniquity was not found in him until he did something with his imagination (Isa 14:13-14). The way goods are moved between borders was the same way he was moving thoughts. What Satan did to himself was what he also got the sons of God to do with thoughts.
Jeremiah 15:16
"Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts."
Every pleasure the soul of man needs is actually in the word. There is a way the word of Christ satisfies the craving for an adventure but not fully. The peak of that word only creates a panting for more and the only thing that can satisfy that soul is the word of God. That is why when They bring a soul to that juncture, They know he can undertake the journey of the holiest and become an ark; he can become a manner of man. We can still err where these sons of God erred. There is a pleasure that will come when the word of God has been rightly divided and we keep the commandments of that word which John says in 1Jn 5:3 are not grievous.
If our expectation is the new heaven and the new earth, and to be part of the heavenly Jerusalem then there is an adventure we will find in the word of God. The sons of God fell short of something in their day that Noah did not fall short of; Noah, Enoch and the sons of God lived in a generation. There was a way Noah and Enoch moved from being just - which is righteous. "...Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations…" (Gen. 6:9). For Noah to walk with God and to have been saddled with the responsibility of building an ark; for Enoch to walk with God and was not, it means there was something They said that They did not say when he was being raised to be just and perfect. Noah and Enoch found grace to find pleasure in that word. "Butter and honey shall he eat…" (Isaiah 7:15). There was another meal for them that the sons of God did not relate with, they chose to rest. Choosing to rest when They are bringing a higher commandment, a higher ministration is a fearful thing.
Hebrews 10:36
"For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise."
The word of faith has its patience, the word of God also has its patience. The will to be done here is the perfect will. All godliness, all holiness that will make you a manner of persons is what the sons of God were meant to do and it is by doing so that thoughts and intents will be dealt with and imaginations captured. The way God’s servant Rev. Kayode Oyegoke was able to capture those thoughts (celestial thoughts - thoughts that angels cannot comprehend) while He was ministering, I saw that this is what it means to judge angels. Breaking down the world of angels, what they represent, even their placement in the world to come is judgement. And this judgement they brought the way of God’s servant, They also want to bring it our way because it is only thereby, we will become a manner of men.
1 John 3:2
"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is."
The sons of God here were sons of faith but they were meant to do something with the words of John which they are also speaking to us and Paul in Hebrew 10:39 says, something will happen to those who cannot come into the full persuasion of what is being spoken when They are declaring everlasting life; they will draw back and when they do, they will become useful prophets in the hands of the enemy. Many of them will become false prophets. This is why it is fearful for us to have come this far; we need to trust God for more fear.
When a believer draws back, spirits will use all the things he had to raise him an anti-Christ and will draw back unto perdition. This is why one of the counsels in the epistles is for believers to pray for fellow believers even before they get to the season where they begin to drawback. This is why the prayer tempo in the house should rise, spirits want to prey on some, especially those (christs) who are meant to be perfecting holiness. They have the holiness of Christ; they now need to perfect holiness. They need to use these promises and revelations around the word of God to cleanse themselves. When we have fully used these revelations to cleanse ourselves, something will happen - we will have perfected holiness; testimony will sit well in our soul.
So the declaration of God’s servant Rev. Kayode Oyegoke was true. By that declaration, They just set before us the word "let us run with patience the race set before us" (Heb. 12:1). The race is not just looking at Jesus the author and finisher of our faith, but looking at He who is also set at the right-hand, meaning we should look at what took place after He finished faith till when He sat down. When you are reading the scripture look for those things, then pray around the incense Holy Ghost also brings, then you are guaranteed to also sit.
At Jordan, Jesus did not account that “he found nothing in me”. It was in John chapter 14:30 that they gave that account because at Jordan, He had started the work of everlasting life but He could still be pulled. I believe when a believer has acquired those first and last works, he will have enough weight not to be pulled that way. It is by those first and last works a believer will overcome (Rev. 2:26).
There is a sword the enemy has for us that the Lord wants us to escape. The way we will escape it is by the word that is coming our way, as He said to one of the churches in Revelation (Rev. 2:12). One of the swords the devil was using against that church was the doctrine of Balaam, Nicolatians etc.
1 John 3:2
"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is."
There is a sight that is being communicated which is our lifeline. We must labour to fetch the sight. There is a labour we are still running from and it is clear in the tongue that came forth and from our disposition to prayers. There is a labour we must labour until we fetch some sights which God’s servant Rev. Kayode Oyegoke was saying from Hebrews chapter 4.
Hebrews 4:13
"Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do."
There is a sight that is beyond creature that we are to fetch as we labour (Heb. 4:11). This was something the sons of God shied away from. They shied away from a sight that the likes of Noah and Enoch did not shy away from that enabled them walk with God. There was also a labour that Job did not shy away from, there was something he endured (Job 42:5). He held on to a piece of knowledge; he was not looking at the boils on his body, the contradictions, the loss of life of his family members, the loss of all his goods or the loss of everything. He was stripped of everything but he found grace to look not at what was seen but to look at what was not seen - to look at those words of redemption, to look at that which for us is the light of the resurrection of the dead.
We are meant to romance the words of the resurrection of the dead, we are meant to labour around it. There is a light we will fetch from it that will see us walk with God like Noah, Enoch did, and even Job later did by accomplishing that warfare. I believe in that season Job must have been initiated to a walk with God, because God showed up and one of the things He said was that “he eschewed evil” (Job 1:1); which for us we will do when we keep faith with the content of the word of God - with that strong meat. There is a law in this body that limits us from committing to the demand of labour, especially of the word of God. Even when cares of this life are not an issue, there is still a warfare.
There is still a communion/dialogue we need to have with the High Priest. There are still succours God needs to bring our way until we access this rest. When we shy away from that labour like those sons of God, we will settle for something else that is a pleasure outside the everlasting pleasure God has. There is still something they can still use to tempt a christ, but for our Lord Jesus when They had committed that all judgement to Him, He could say concerning Himself “all things that the Father hath are Mine". When He got here, He could say, “the prince of this world cometh and finds nothing in me” (Jn. 14:13) and God is bringing us there.
I believe God's servant must have seen that season before he could declare what he said that "a time is coming, this year when some will have the testimony", meaning God will commit into the trust of some the testimony. Committing the testimony is a function of our response to some commandments around the word of God.
One of the persons leading prayers in the course of the week said sometimes in the course of prayer, some thoughts, some imaginations will just flow your way and you imagine where it came from, but of course, one joker God has to dissolve that thing is this word that is being broken down in our midst, and that is why those to whom that puzzle is pieced together are those who the Lord can successfully bring that word their way. He said, "ye are gods" (John 10:34), meaning they will come to a place where they can judge and respond to thoughts and imaginations with the judgement of that word. We will come to a place where we can cast down things that exalt themselves against the knowledge of God.
There is a count of thoughts we need to bring down for the full age of Christ to be formed and then there is something we will do with the knowledge of God to bring down imaginations; an image that constitutes the present world or the present life or any image that is outside the world to come. Satan has access to it and he can use it to trouble and defile us. That is why one of the things said about the company being raised in Revelation 14 is that these are they that were not defiled with women and Rev. Kayode Oyegoke said women are not just the world. The 'women' they faced was Jezebel - one anointed to go against everlasting works. There is still a pleasure they can give to a christ, there is still a way a christ can be seduced just like the sons of God. It was that Jezebel spirit that was upon those daughters of men.
There is a pleasure our soul is still looking for now, if we do not find it in the words that are coming forth, we can and will be tempted. If we do not do something with the words we are hearing, when this season elapses, they will not be able to handle the temptation that will come for those who did not profit with it; they will be tempted. But I believe God will help us, He will do a quick work that will see us come to that place where we can cast down imaginations. We can use the good and the perfect light from the word of God to bring down imaginations.
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