School of the Spirit (20th May, 2021)
Topic: The Journey into Becoming a Begotten Son
Ministering: Rev. Kayode Oyegoke
Tongues and Interpretation (1):
“Praise. Thanksgiving. Your thanksgiving should arise, saith the Spirit. Your thanksgiving should arise. Your thanksgiving and praise should arise even to Him who sits upon the throne; to Him who has not held back even things of Himself, even givings of Himself; to Him who has yet allocated great lots, even great portions of Himself to you at this time. He is worthy of praise. He is worthy of thanksgiving. You ought to give Him praise. Give Him thanksgiving, for He has been good to you. He has lavishly poured out blessings. He has lavishly poured out His essence; opening locked doors within Himself, even doors that have not been opened to many generations. Praise! Let your praise arise! Let your thanksgiving arise! For He is raising you, even you, a people. He is raising among you a people who would bear His name, His most hallowed name. Yea! A people who would come in that name and would say blessed is He who cometh in the name of the Lord. I say give thanks and praises to Him who sits upon the throne and to the Lord Jesus Christ.”
(Message begins)
It is a great honour for us to know God, to have access to Him and to know that He knows us by name. God does not know some people, even though He created them all. The reason why God asked Adam where he was after he sinned was because Adam was not found where God had put him initially. The reason why God does not know many people is because they have not presented themselves before God to know them, that is, they have not given God an opportunity to know them. God brought the animals to Adam to name them; to name them was to know them. One may see something and not know it.
God is saying some awesome things amidst us. He has made up His mind to share some things that He has never shared before. It is His pleasure to share them and He has chosen to say them in our midst. Jane Lead prophesied that among the end time army (or man-child company), there will be some people called blossoming roots: “Wherefore the Spirit of David shall revive in this church, most especially in some elect members of it, known as the blossoming root. Men in favour with God who would bear the first office.” It is those with a right heart that God will listen to and will not cast away from His presence; they are hearts that can stay in His presence.
God has taken it upon Himself to educate men. This is God’s eternal promise and it is according to His eternal purpose. God’s eternal purpose as seen from John 1:4 is this – “In Him was life and the life was the light of men.” Note that the Scriptures did not say ‘in Him is life’ but ‘was’. This life refers to eternal life. We may not be able to pinpoint the actual time God began to think of creating man i.e. someone who would be able to trap the life that was in the Word of God. This intention of God for man was an honour to man. These words are not just letter; they are spirit and they are present with us. This is real life and it is in the Logos.
Eternal life is timeless; it does not obey the timing of man or of creation. There is the timing of the heavens which angels understand. A believer who has grown spiritually can also understand the times and seasons by which heaven operates. However, there is another timing, by which the eternal realm (eternal power, time and seasons) run; and we see this peeping into the earth.
The idea of timing is not only of this present realm. Although it is a creation in this present realm, it is actually uncreated. There is that which is called time according to eternal life. There is a timing according to eternal life. Eternity has its own time. If we are humble enough, Elohim will bring all of Himself (eternal wisdom, eternal power, eternal glory) to us, until He is well understood and we are able to capture Him wholly and completely.
God designed this school where we can learn of the eternal light. There is no man on earth that is not seeking this light. This is true because even the father of the worldly men, Satan, seeks it. God had set a limit for all creation in learning but Satan lifted the bar and fell into darkness instead. Beyond the realm of creation is thick darkness - a realm of cluelessness, and God made it so. When Satan went into this realm, he became evil. He became evil because of the inability to discern what was more than him. What is more than you will handle you instead. As Satan thought and desired to be like the Most High, he lifted himself higher than the level of an angel and his thought pattern changed into something that was different from the rest of the angels.
Ezekiel 28:12
Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
Tyrus is the same as Tyre; Tyrus is a Greek word. The Jews call it Tyre while the Greeks called it Tyrus; just like we have the different pronunciations and spellings of names like Isaiah/Esias, Jesus/Joshua, etc.
Ezekiel 28:1-2
The word of the Lord came unto me saying, Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
Self-exaltation does not come from God; it comes from the heart of a man. Anytime a man’s heart is lifted up, Satan is very close to such a man. This was his tactic towards Adam and Eve when he deceived them into sin/disobedience. He promised them that they would be like God (Gen. 3:4-5). Satan sells pride to men. Pride is sometimes hereditary, and predominant amongst certain family circles; just like other character traits like stealing, stubbornness etc. At times, we can be lifted up without knowing it. Satan knows where he put all his attributes of pride in men.
Tongues and Interpretation (2):
“Threat to the seed of life. He has something in you, but he has nothing in Me. He found nothing in Me. He has something in you and as long as he has something in you, there is a threat to the holy seed. It is a threat to the precious seed. Truth will unveil something in you that is a threat to the seed that will make him have nothing in you. For I want to bring you to the place where he can find nothing in you; and he will find nothing in you. He will find nothing in you as you hear the words of purification, even the words of sanctification, even the words of consecration. Yea, the words of separation to separate you from the things he has in you. For he boasts in the things he has in men. ‘I have my things in men,’ says he; ‘I have my things in many, I am replicated in many.’ But says the Spirit of God, a generation is coming. Look, we see a generation where he has nothing in them. He will look and lo, he will leave disappointed because they have allowed the word of life, which is the light of men, to purify them and remove all that he has in them. And then they will be like Me. And he will find nothing in them as he also found nothing in Me. Says the Lord Jesus.”
(Message continues)
When we find ourselves in situations where we can serve our brethren or other people, we should not despise them or think we are being taken advantage of. Rather, we should be thankful for such opportunities and serve without complaining. You should embrace opportunities to serve your brethren, even by washing clothes and plates for them, or being slandered.
Tongues and Interpretation (3):
“I hate it! I hate pride! I hate it. I resist anyone that comes with that aroma. I hate it. From afar I will resist you. From very far, I would resist you. I hate it. Every fibre of My being hates it. Everything inside of Me hates it. I resist anyone that comes with it. Therefore for this cause, I have brought a meal this morning, I have brought a meal that will cause pride within you to die. For I have come with ingredients that would cause pride to die, and would put an end to it inside of you. For you see, there are places that you cannot come to in Me; for I smell it around you. It is a programme inside of Me that resists anyone that comes with pride. So I want to help you because I want to bring you close. I want to help you because I want to draw you closer. Therefore, give attention to what I want to do in your midst this morning. For I am standing in the midst of you as a surgical doctor, to remove everything that has to do with pride around you. I will bring a sense. I will bring an understanding. I will bring a wisdom. I will bring utterances; I will bring entrance for everyone of you to understand what this thing looks like. What began in that evil fallen one that made him enter into chains of darkness, I want to deliver you from it. Open your heart to receive that which I want to bring to you this morning. I hate it.”
(Message continues)
God hates the smell of pride. Pride has a pungent smell; jealousy also has a smell.
The prince of Tyrus was a great economist: he did well in commerce and had riches like many young men today (Ezek. 28:2-3). However, many of the men today deny the existence of God. No one will enter heaven if he knows that God exists but denies His existence in order to prove a point to the world. Many of these men want the position of a god such that without them, life cannot go on.
One thing that the spirit of pride does to people is that it raises defenses in them. It teaches men to defend him (Satan) who is within. These defenses are a cyst formation that Satan has injected into the host (man). These things are spirits and they can have discernment or an evil intuition. There are also negative dimensions of the gifts of the spirit exhibited by Satan and his cohort.
Lucifer left his abode or estate. Estate is the measure of the heart state; not just the environment, but the inside. Jesus said, ‘I am meek and lowly in heart’ (Matt. 11:29). If these are attributes of Jesus, it means that they are also attributes of God. Some men love to take worship from other men; God frowns at this. We should not take worship, rather we should be meek and lowly. Only God and Jesus are worthy of worship and can take worship. Even though we have been promised to sit together with Him, it does not mean that we should take worship. He alone must have all the worship.
Worship is sacred to God. Some believers who have taken the new creation reality overboard misinterpret what worship is and do not revere God. They presume that since we would sit on the throne with God, the angels should worship us. They also hold the opinion that believers do not need to worship God but only fellowship with Him. The right hand position of God is the best place to worship. God intends that those who would sit with Him would worship Him (John 4:24).
If Jesus had claimed to be God, that would not have been robbery (Phil. 2:5-6). The word ‘form’ has a different meaning from being ‘conformed’ to the image of His Son (Rom. 8:29). To be conformed is to take the form of God. This means that we will become God's children by Him putting His Child in us. Jesus took on another form, which is explained in the context of Philippians 2:7. This form means that Jesus changed completely from One who should be worshipped to a worshipper - a servant.
There is a clear-cut demarcation of how servants and God ought to be. This servitude is one of high esteem, not just an errand-boy. A servant in this context is one who faces God and gives best attention, one who responds to God and reacts to His call. It refers to one who can give back when God gives. He can positively give back to God when God demands. In the mind of God, there is a way the servant form is and there is a way the God form is.
A God does not serve anybody. A full God can never be a servant. The human form is the form of a servant. Jesus lost His God form - One who should be served and worshipped. He gave it up and came down to the lowest level of servants. Animals do not serve God although they were created for God's pleasure. Yet, high pleasure to God comes when a will is involved; but animals do not have will. Anything that has a will must possess a spirit. Man is not the soul but the spirit. The spirit has the vessel of the man’s will which is the soul. The will lies in the soul making the soul a vessel. The body is also a vessel unlike the spirit which is not a vessel but a candle. The spirit is the life. The soul is a superior vessel to the body. Jesus likened the soul to a vessel when He spoke about wineskin (Mark 2:22). When the Scriptures highlighted different kinds of vessels in 2 Timothy 2:20, it was referring to the soul and body.
Anything that possesses a spirit must have a will. Angels also have will because they are not dummies. God cannot commit the heavens to dummies. Angels are smart and highly wise. The angelic mind is heavenly. They were created to look more like God's mind than that of man. God put the lowest servants (men) on earth. Therefore, we serve Him at a lower estate or with a lower response.
The form of God is different from the form of a servant. This form does not have to do with a man’s bodily shape but the form of deity. There is a holistic riches of Their essence that is beyond description. They have a demeanor that is not like that of creation. Jesus had to agree to come into the form of creation; and to do that, He must have undergone a death. Jesus was a person and had lived as God with His form intact.
To understand the concept of God's form, we see that the Holy Ghost takes different forms like water, oil, river, fire, great hail, lightning, etc. Whereas, we do not often see the scriptures describe Elohim with different forms. Instead, He is mostly described as the One seated on the throne. The Holy Ghost is the rainbow around God. The rainbows around the throne are the seven spirits which are the seven horns of God, while the lamps are the seven eyes. The Holy Ghost cannot be bound with chains or fetters of iron unlike Satan. The Holy Ghost cannot be limited to confinement because He is God.
The Logos also has His expressions. In the wilderness, He followed the Israelites as a rock. He created everything on earth and knows the landscapes and galaxies more than anyone else. There is a form of God; there is also a form of a servant. Jesus changed His form into that of a servant, in order to serve God.
An angel is a created son of God but Apostle John is a begotten son of God though not fully begotten (Rev. 22:3, 7:3, 19:10). Here(in Patmos), he had everlasting life. John was on the Isle of Patmos for the sake of the testimony. He still had the propensity to worship. One who has the ability to worship still has the form of a servant. There is a form of the worshipper and a form of the One who receives worship. No man has the ability to take worship. If you take worship as a servant, you will burst into pieces. We can take things like honour and respect but not worship. Jesus was always a servant of God but Satan wanted Jesus to worship him (Matt. 4:9-10). Jesus was a pattern servant; He was showing us how to serve God. Jesus served until He sat upon His Father’s throne.
The issue of sonship was not with the Trinity at the beginning. There was no Son among Them otherwise, He would not have been included in the Trinity. In the beginning, They were just three and They were equal. They were meek and lowly and they honoured each other; but They did not worship each other. Something made Jesus to take the form of a servant which is the form of a worshipper. The form of a worshipper is different from the object of worship. Fellowship is the highest form of worship and it takes place in the Holy of Holies; it means communion. However, it is not only man who has been communing with God; angels also do so. Communion is an elevation of a kind of worship in the spirit.
There are certain authorities a man cannot attain in the spirit when he has not attained a certain age, even naturally. God employs teaching to dispense His word so that the time it will take to understand will reduce. If we are to learn it on our own, it would take a very long time. Thus, we cannot get these things of God without knowledge and help from teachers. There are yet many things we need to know that our spiritual parents already know. It is not just about the letter; there are layers of authority, ethics and spirit. Certain revelations and understandings come only when we have gathered enough stature.
Jesus came into becoming a servant but He was exalted from servitude. Jesus’ obeisance to God did not end as a result. Even though he was God, He remained a servant. If Jesus went back to the state of being a God, He would have disappeared and taken His place among the Elohims. Because of what Jesus did, God had to bend and allow humanity into divinity.
God’s dream from the beginning is to have sons. However, the Godhead cannot have sons just like that. They needed a vessel to shield the sons. So, They started the issue of sonship. God first started with created sons and placed them in their degrees. He had an eternal intent of giving birth to children who will not remain creation but will become higher than creation. He would raise them from below creation to being above creation. God raised us when He was raising Jesus. Jesus moved from the lowest level of being a son till He arose upward and sat on the throne. Jesus learnt everything the Father wants to give to His Son as He moved upward.
What Jesus knew and had on earth did not make Him higher than the angels. It was resurrection that made Him higher than the angels. There is a season of training, learning and then actually becoming. We are still servants and we will still become eternal son-servants. God desires service; that was why creation came about. Angels who are sons of the morning are also servants. The name ‘angel’ means servant or messenger. Though they are sons, they are sons with a form of servanthood in creation.
The new creation man is a Christ that ought to be begotten. Christ is higher or better in texture than the present heavens. However, in terms of position (in the world to come), Christ can be lower than many heavens. He can be earthly, first heaven or even second heaven. But third heaven is the realm where They begat. Creation towers high to the realm of the second heaven. Sons of the morning are a prototype of sons that are begotten; however, they are not begotten (Heb. 1:5).
God arranged the order of heavens such that there are some angels that are supposed to be higher than creation: they were at the beginning of creation but they are still creation. This was to show how His begotten sons will look like. However, He did not beget these angels but created them. They were highly made and are from the manifestation of the face of glory. These sons of the morning are the alpha of creation. Creation was divided into their hands. They were mentioning something high from the Spirit of God: that a time would come where God would move beyond creation. In the new order or new world i.e. world to come, there is Christ. Christ is that which precedes the begotten. “This day have I begotten Thee.” Many believers are not yet begotten but they are born. We need to come to ‘this day’ or ‘to day’ to be begotten.
You will not hear the voice for to be begotten except you get to ‘to day’ (Heb. 3:7). You must be under the economy of ‘to day’. ‘To day’ means ‘to a day’. This might not happen on a Sunday but God used the first day of the week on earth to officiate the ‘to day’ to birth Jesus. God raised His own Son from hell ‘to day’. ‘To day’ is the dispensing of the ministry of His glory or His face.
You cannot kill a begotten son. A begotten son cannot sin (1 John 3:9). A son whom the voice of ‘to day’ has made and in whom the seed of God remaineth, cannot sin. When you are born again, you are not born of God but of water and the spirit. To be born of God is to be born of the incorruptible seed (1 Pet. 1:23). When this seed has finished its birth, you have finished your incorruptible birth. One who is at this stage cannot sin and is an overcomer. There is still a birth to be fully begotten of Him. This is the birth that comes with reward.
The devil is able to birth above creation because he is that same entity (1John 3:8). Morning sons are the rulers of this creation. When Satan fell as the son of the morning, he did not lose his sense but only perverted it. God therefore wants us to be careful about him because he can overtake even those who attained the nature of Christ. He can turn you and birth you as his own son by his corruptible seed.
Corruptible seed is higher than Christ. Therefore, we have to get to the fullness of Christ to locate the incorruptible seed. The incorruptible seed is a season of everlasting life. It is a time of learning to defeat corruption. It is a lesson, a suffering against sin and iniquity, as God said, “... I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day” (Zech. 3:9). The incorruptible seed has a timing, which is a day. One day is equal to seven days in the book of Genesis; it is only divided by darkness. ‘To day’ refers to when the light of that day has fully shed.
The day star is the star of the day (2Peter 1:19). They need to make it the star of the morning. Star is the fruit or son of the womb. We must bear a son who cannot sin for God. The begotten of the Father will enter into His glory. In the Most Holy, there is what is called sufferings and there is what is called glory. Suffering is learning the incorruption. Anyone who finishes the lesson and overcomes, is like the begotten Son.
“We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.” (1John 5:18). Satan cannot touch him because he has learnt the mastery of keeping himself. The Lord Jesus learnt how to keep Himself. He was tempted at all points, yet without sin (Heb. 4:15). The state of keeping yourself is the first state of being begotten. To keep yourself, you need to keep your guard. However Jesus had gone past this stage. He had overcome but still needed to wait. He kept Himself at Gethsemane. He kept Himself at Golgotha. He kept Himself in hell for three days and nights, for our sakes. He did this for three days to break the configuration of a god. It was three days because He also had to fulfill the order of the triune God.
Jesus was resting when the God of glory came. He was buried in His spirit, soul and body when God came. God will not come until you are sleeping. Jesus did not come to Bethany until Lazarus slept. The tabernacle is a place of sleep. It was here Samuel was sleeping when God called. There is something about death that attracts God. He likes when man is helpless and is not involved because He does not take the glory in such cases. When ministers do not allow God in their ministrations to His people, He will not come. Many things may come, but God will not come until you are lifeless.
Tongues and Interpretation (4):
“Dust. For that's where you began from. For that is where I hewed Adam from. For I am attracted to dust and even to ash. For what the adversary did was to turn ash to that which has life in another manner. For the man that I have interest in is a man that is dust after My manner of dust; that I may put My own kind of life in him. I say, saith the Lord, I will reduce, I will cremate, even by My word and My consuming nature, everything that is flesh and does not respond to Me at the response that I expect and demand.
“Walk till I cause you to begin to lie down and sleep. For I want many to sleep. For there are many things in you that I want to sleep. For I want you to sleep the sleep of Christ, even the sleep of the Father. I want nations, ambitions and standards in you to sleep. I want them to sleep. I will make the desires that are hewn by the adversary to sleep. I will cause them to sleep. I am coming with sword. I will begin to measure out sword and death instructions towards things that are contrary to Me. Your energy and passion towards death on Satan's side will begin to reduce. As it reduces, you are making progress in My direction. And it will be obvious that you are dead to Satan and living towards Me; yet dead in Me, saith the Lord.”
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These things are possible; that is why they are written. The church is afraid of this verse (1 John 5:8) but there is a way to get there. You are on the right track to come into being begotten. Many people are changing; therefore, you should also change. You should not be left behind. We are about to cross over to the other side; therefore, no one should miss this train.
Wives should not enter eternal life and leave their husbands behind or vice versa. God will help spouses to submit to one another. Let it not be that wives are submitting while husbands are relaxing and enjoying. Marriage is the easiest way to get everlasting life, if couples can do the commandments well. God tied everlasting laws around marriage so that husbands and wives can easily enter. The reason for the commandments is to make both husbands and wives enter. They are both heirs to the grace of life (1Pet. 3:7). Therefore we would fight and win the war of marriage. Christ life and God life would be your inheritance. Husbands should not hate their body (wife); doing that would disqualify them. Women should not hate submission; the train into everlasting life will not pick up such women.
Tongues and Interpretation (5):
“Stop limiting Me. I desire to bless. It is our nature to bless but you have been taught to reject blessing, I am restoring you even to bring you to that blessed life, even to that blessed status. Stop limiting Me; do not stand in the way anymore. Commandments are being brought to align you with blessings. There are blessings hanging over your family. You, in your submission, are the only conduit I am waiting for. You are the priest standing in your home. Allow Us to come in. Allow spiritual provisions to come in. Allow even natural provisions to come in. Provisions are hanging over your heavens. I see backlogs of blessings that are not supposed to return to Me but are supposed to land in your home. Even your children, allow Me to nurture your children. As you submit, you open yourself to this blessing. Just a few months and I will turn it around. Just a few months of your alignment and I will turn it around completely. It would be like a dream and you would weep tears of joy. Allow Me to bless you. Allow Me to put your home in order. I am waiting for you. I will reach him; he is not unreachable. Allow Me to reach him. Don't stand in the way. Don't limit Me. I want to reach him, says the Spirit of God. “
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If a woman is not meek, she does not have a covering. There is no way a woman can sidetrack her husband and come under Jesus. Your husband is your covering; protect your cover. Stay under cover; this is where Jesus is. Marriage is designed for our covering; it is designed to protect us. The key to staying under covering is meekness.
Meekness is sublime (1Pet 3:4). It refers to one who can submit and is not contentious. What is in the world is gross evil. Take joy in not protecting yourself; instead, allow God to protect you. Do not be afraid of being taken over. One who is not submitting is weak. However, one who submits is weighty. It takes glory to crumble. It can only take glory to press a man.
The best way to maintain a conducive atmosphere in a home is to think of your spouse as better than yourself. Do not ever take the side of vindication on marriage. Be contrite and accept the blame like our heavenly Father did when Lucifer did evil to Job. He told Satan ‘you have made Me do evil to Job’ (Job 2:3). Even when He was to destroy Sodom, He brought it before Abraham; that was courteous.
Tongues and Interpretation (6):
“For you see marriage is between two dead people, who consider themselves not. Two people that are dead are the ones who can obey the ordinances of the beginning marriage. Marriage is an everlasting doctrine that prepares you for that which is eternal. I am bringing you thoughts of what marriage is supposed to be, to show you men that will carry the weight of marriage. In marriage, you need to completely die; for those are the ones who will carry marriage. Those who will marry the Lamb must be completely dead. For I want to marry you and I cannot marry you when you are still alive. I am serving you what will make you marriable to Me. You need to be completely dead and then the marriage can take place.”
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The Holy Ghost is equipping people now to prepare them for the future because the world may not be conducive for it anymore. Marriage is meant for strong people. Men should be models in meekness and death. You should die now because when you die, God will bring out your wife. This is just like what God did to Adam when He put him to deep sleep in order to bring out Eve.
Men should handle and treat their wives carefully and fearfully. Satan hates women with a passion. He is more afraid of women than even the men. The woman brought the answer. Therefore, men should treat them well - with great honour. There is a reason why God keeps bringing instructions about marriages. Satan wants to deal a final deadly blow to the marriage between a man and a woman.
Meeting Ends.