Programme: Lekki Soul Center (LSC)
Date: Wednesday, 24th January 2024
Transcript Summary
1. The Lord is calling us to believe His servants again, whom He has raised over us (2 Chr. 20:20), because there is a prosperity that awaits us this year in doing so. God's servants are stewards of God's grace for a generation, carrying a burden to present us perfect before God. When we believe them, we believe the work God has wrought in them; this is key to receiving and inheriting such work. It is a good ambition to have a desire to be like our parents in the faith and have a conversation that can be traced to their walk.
2. “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:” (Matt. 28:19). Each of the allocation of these names is to bring about different expressions of possibilities. This scripture shows the realm that we are being brought into is the realm of possibilities (Mark 9:23-24). The calibration of these names: the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost, are communication of appearances. The aim is to bring us into the realm of all possibilities because something remains impossible with man, until that man is with God. The commission upon EGFM is to take the name of the Holy Ghost, the name of the Son, and the name of the Father to the uttermost parts of the earth, and to baptize nations with these appearances.
3. Matthew 15:22-28 tells of a woman of Canaan who begged Jesus to heal her daughter. This woman saw this encounter with Jesus as the only solution to her need, knowing she had met a man with whom all things are possible. She was not willing to take no for an answer because she believed. She had all the substance of faith to doubt her doubts. It is at such a point that faith is fully operational. The Lord Jesus is waiting for us to prevail, especially with a higher expression of faith either in the Sanctuary or Most Holy Place, like this woman did.
4. Every appearance (of the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost) is to communicate a spirit. The apostles had been sealed with the Holy Ghost name, the fruit of which climaxes in naturally loving all saints (Eph. 1:15). When one has this spirit, differing denominational backgrounds of saints will not prevent us from loving them. The likes of Stephen had fetched that spirit (Acts. 6:5). When the word and spirit of a particular doctrine has been rightly divided and a believer can see the name (or activity) of the Holy Ghost, and apply his heart to it, a spirit is formed in such.
5. Having all things in common is a sense and a product of the activity of the Holy Ghost upon the mind (Acts 2:44). The name of the Holy Ghost begins the process of separating us from the grip we have on our worldly goods; that process would after some time be consolidated by the name of the Son, like we see in the Hebrew church who joyfully took the spoiling of their goods (Heb. 10:34).
6. The spirit of Christ, which the name of the Son births, separates us from our goods, because the faith of the Son redefines Christ as our life. It takes time to be separated from goods, because sin ties the soul to goods. To be separated from one’s goods, there must be a change in the hope that governs the soul. When a soul is unhooked from the hope around the present life and is fed with the word and spirit that makes up Christ, Christ is formed in the soul. It can then begin to hope for something higher than earthly goods.
7. “Goods” are purchased using a form of life called time. Hence, goods are a form of life. This is why one must lay it down in order to take the life that is Christ. The giving of our worldly goods precedes receiving and giving of life. We cannot get to a season when we can give life until we have a liberal spirit (Prov. 11:25) – one thing that the name of the Holy Ghost gives. Scripture says that the disciples had all things in common (Acts 4:32).
8. The wisdom of keeping back things and gathering in barns is not of God. Jesus did not live with that principle. One who has a liberal spirit would be free from fears, and would be able to live a day at a time; he would be able to lean on faith as security. And the Lord would have liberty to give such a person a higher commandment. Even when we save, we should do it with a mind that gives room for God to instruct one on what to do with the savings, at any given time.
9. When Abraham was accosted by the king of Sodom to take goods, he said, “I have lift up mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth” (Gen. 14:22). By lifting up his hands, he had won in the temptation to lift up his soul to vanity. Psalm 24:3-5 highlights the separations we ought to come into when the Lord is calling us “from amongst them” to be separate (2 Cor. 6:17).
10. Abraham was a kind of king of righteousness and peace. One needs to be at peace to be able to resolve such a thought. This was a judgment that can be traced as a righteousness of faith. It is a proof of the spirit that the name of the Son is offering. In every name is an inheritance, and that inheritance is a spirit. Abraham proved that his satisfaction did not come from what he has; he was content. The sum of the dealing around the name of the Son is to bring us to a state where we are content, having food and raiment, with the promise of life. (1 Tim. 6:8).
11. (Mark 13:9) A person’s confession can tell what spirit such is carrying, whether it is the spirit portion of the name of the Holy Ghost, or of the Son, or of the Father? Because that spirit tells them what to say. When “ye shall be brought before rulers and kings” speaks of a new season. There was a season when the apostles were delivered up to councils and synagogues. However Paul had something else—the name of the Son—which was an appearance; and the activity of the spirit of that name troubled the gates of hell. Those gates began to trouble Paul through kings and rulers because he also had come into kingship.
12. Christ as a life is as tangible as worldly goods are to a soul that has moved to a state Acts 2:44 referred to as ‘having all things in common’. The peace of someone who has the spirit of Christ cannot be tampered with by the absence of the things that are traceable to this world. He has peace with God because he is separated from that life that attaches him to these things. Even when there is a delay in that provision, he still has peace because he has come into the spirit portion of the name of the Son.
13. The race that has been set for every believer is one that requires patience. It is a call to the heights, but one has to first come to the heights of the sanctuary. Height is added to the soul through the way of charity. The height of Christ is where the Hebrew church had journeyed to when the scripture said they had come to Mount Zion (Heb. 12:22); and as they came, they proved something by passing the test that required them to take joyfully, the spoiling of their goods. One cannot process the declarations of the judgement of the Father without passing that test.
14. God wants to raise His firstborn sons — people who will have heights measured out to them, in addition to the previous 2-D expression of knowledge that has covered their earth. Hence, the labour required is both in words (knowledge) and doctrine. But most times, some ministrations carry more knowledge because the 2-D expression needs to be in place before one can add heights. When height is added, it becomes a 3-D which is tangible. God would be doing a quick work that will see many being brought before the throne (Rev. 7). They would experience a simultaneous activity of the measurement of length and breadth (2-D), and height to them in a short season.
15. To measure height in the spirit, one has to be exposed to depth. The way up is hidden because it is in the depths. The keys of the Kingdom are the keys that unlock what is hidden. Isaiah 45:3 calls it the treasures of darkness. These are treasures in the deep, and can only be searched out with the hidden wisdom of God. That was the treasure being made known to our Lord Jesus while He was being led from Jordan to Gethsemane.
16. The cross is the instrument for measuring heights to everyone who has length and breadth (that is, knowledge). The cross supplies that aspect of height by introducing us to the depths and to the leadings of the spirit. Here, we would have to use a greater sense – the sense of faith, which is outside our five senses. Treasures of darkness are everlasting life materials, and they are given in seasons when height is being measured unto us. They are given to those who would be made free from sin.
17. “And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: [18] Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers…” (1 Pet. 1:17-18). To call on the Father is to seek salvation. The above verses talk about a redemption from amongst men. Our goods can be summarised as “silver and gold”. These are the things that inform transactions on earth. They also limit man from being high on the transactions of faith or with goods from the realm of the invisible.
18. “But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot…” (1 Pet. 1:19). The precious blood of Christ is a portion of the blood of the New Testament. The first portion of that life remits our sins and vain conversations, and brings the soul to a place where it is free enough to receive the free things that the Father wants to give. This is the life in Christ that will make a soul have precious faith. In such a season, faith would have become as precious as silver and gold to the soul, for faith is the silver and gold of Christ.
19. (1 Pet. 1:17-19). This is the redemption from amongst men whose lives and hope are traceable to silver and gold, or that which perishes. When this redemption has taken place, that soul has been kept by the power of God unto salvation and can now live by the power of God, which is Christ. Such a soul can then begin to receive conversations about an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled and fades not away. That is the process for a soul to be redeemed from the earth or to be made a heavenly man.
20. Heavenly men are fathers, as they have been given certain things to give to others. They are elders of a particular degree, who can relate with elders among men. There are different levels of elders (1 Pet. 5:1). As an elder, Peter had experienced a high degree of redemption from the earth. A soul that has been redeemed from the earth has a sense of glory. Such a person has a treasure (everlasting life) in his earthen vessel.
21. Those who have been redeemed from amongst men still have another cup to partake of – to experience redemption from the earth. Jesus called it the cup that He desires to drink with them in His Father’s kingdom (Matt. 26:29). This is what is being brought as a meal. Those who successfully feed the flock that is among them (1 Pet. 5: 2-4) would have proven to be shepherds at heart, having the Father's heart and the spirit that is present in the name of the Father. That is the spirit that will qualify one to have what Ezekiel 36:27 calls “My spirit”. That is the treasure in everlasting life.
22. To have the way everlasting or the spirit in the doctrine of the Father, we will need to go through the sufferings of Christ, after which we will receive His glory. We need the tangibility of every life to respond to every contrary life. This means that some who are Christ still need to experience some sufferings to prepare them for their portion in the Father. This year, glory will become more tangible to us. Thoughts of glory will not only come our way, but we will possess them and they will become our conversation.
23. The realm of everlasting life is the realm of selflessness. The law keeps us from the world and is fetched by keeping the commandments of charity (1 Cor. 13). However, we still need to be kept again and that is why the appearance of salvation needs to come to us. Cain profited from two appearances. He was warned when he was making his way through the second appearance, but he did not heed. A soul has to be twice dead to get to this point (Jude 1:12). Similarly, a soul has to live twice to appear before God. In addition to the appearance that deals with sin, the soul has to take the appearance of salvation, which is an appearance that brings one to God.
24. Of all the seven churches in Revelation 2 and 3, only the Philadelphia church had prospered with this economy. They bore a particular fruit called “the word of His patience”, which is the portion of everyone who, through faith and patience, can now come to a season when they can relate with the promise of Eternal Life directly. This year, some who could only relate with the promise of Christ will now relate with the promise of everlasting life in person because they have gotten custody of the name of the Son. And as many as have done this, the Father will be able to speak to them in person.
25. The church in 1 John had gotten to that season of Eternal Life (1 Jn. 2:25). They had gone through the sufferings of Christ and the word of life had become tangible to them. They had not only heard and seen it, but also began to look upon it. They believed the words the Father spoke to them and were living by them. As a result, that life became theirs and they could relate with the promise of Eternal Life.
26. There are different materialities and substances of faith. There are substances of faith in the name of the Holy Ghost that can move mountains. Also, there are substances of faith in the name of the Son that can move the world and give victory over sin and death. One who is full of this faith would have many spoils of war, and a time would come when faith becomes his new nature. Such a soul would be re-gened because it is carrying the gene or sense of faith. This happens because the soul has journeyed from where it was at new birth to where the spirit is seated in Christ.
27. The declaration of the name of the Father is of a different substance and we ought to believe it. Hebrews 10:34 calls it a better and enduring substance because it is meant to make us better than the present heaven. This is what would give us a better inheritance, that is the spirit portion in the name of the Father described as incorruptible, undefiled, that fadeth not away (1 Pet. 1:4).
28. A person who has come to believe in this better and enduring substance believes to a point where he can doubt everything else that is contrary. By doing so, glory would become tangible to such a soul and the fear of death expired; like it was for the church in Smyrna who did not fear what they had to suffer because they held something stronger than death (Rev. 2:10). When some of the apostles were being martyred, there was something more real and tangible to them than the fear of death. Peter chose to be crucified upside down. That thought came in the spur of the moment because he had a nature that the word of God and the testimony of Jesus birthed in his soul, something that could be traced to the Father.
29. When everlasting life moves from a 2D to a 3D expression in us, our souls would have become earthen vessels that can transmit the life of the Father in conversation, because our sole love and only temptation would be God. At that time, we would have experienced redemption from the earth and from our humanity.
30. So when Satan pressures our humanity like he did to Jesus at Jordan, what will come forth is life because our souls would have first and last works. Such a soul has lived by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Father and has become a kind of man that has been redeemed, not just from men, but also from the earth to a good degree. He cannot be traced to Adam, father, mother, beginning of days or end of life (Heb. 7:3). He has been born of God and therefore sins not. We would experience the fullness of the second appearance and appear before the Throne of God in the days of our flesh.
Blessings!