Programme: Special Prayer for the Nation
Date: Wednesday, 1st February 2023
Transcript Summary
1. 1 John 2:17 The term “passing away” does not mean the physical destruction of the cosmos alone; it rather reveals that the strength of this world is weak, it can pass away. For many committed to the doctrine of the Father and the Son, the world has or is passing away in their hearts and minds. The world is driven by lust and those who hold on to this world are in danger. The world is a product of lusts; the world and its system would naturally suffer decay. There is an adverse effect on them that hold the world. There are two dimensions of the antichrist. The antichrist that shall come and the antichrists that are here now. These antichrists that are here now are the ones John instructed us not to allow in our house. They are the deceivers recorded in 2 John. They left because they were not rooted in the things of Christ.
2. Revelation is the unveiling of the last days’ kingdoms and the expiration of them. Political room, governmental dominion, kingly rule, monarchy are not exempted from being spiritual. There are spirits controlling them; they are being controlled by doctrines. Doctrine is the one handling the world. Satan offered Jesus the kingdom of this world in a solitary place where no one is. This doctrine we are commanded to have and do has a lot to do with dominion. This is why these kings and princes will not want you to complete your course of embodying Jesus in the flesh. Satan wants to scuttle, cripple, and abort Jesus' coming in the flesh. It is a war against the breakthrough of a manifestation. He wants to abort the process, which is why he wants to get some, and he would use them to abort the rest.
3. The Church is not meant for any pastor to acquire their personal dreams or craft kingdoms. Satan also talks to men to build a kingdom here, which is a bribe not to allow the work of God to thrive. It must be knocked out of us so that we do not work with the dominion of the adversary. Satan tempted Jesus to stop Him from coming into fullness. He offered Him a kingdom. Most of the teaching in churches is offering a kind of kingdom. The adversary will tempt us with kingdoms. He can tempt a minister with ministry. It is a seed that has been produced by Satan. He was over the angels. The issue of pastoral grace and leadership is interesting. The love for preaching is good but dangerous. It is not about preaching alone, it is about the syllabus of salvation.
4. We must be irrelevant to the kingdom of this world. Immediately you are relevant, you are of that kingdom. Many people were taken to Babylon, but only Daniel was calling on the name of the Lord. Daniel separated himself to seek the Lord; He was on a routine to bring an answer down. He did not stay 21 days because He wanted to demonstrate strength. He was looking for something. Truth projection is leading somewhere. There is scripture, knowledge and there is doctrine. You cannot use scripture to get to truth (Jn. 5:39). Only knowledge can get us to Truth. We need the knowledge of the truth. If the knowledge of the truth is not gotten, we cannot get to the truth (2 Tim. 3:7). However, it is possible to be in knowledge but not get to the truth because truth passes knowledge. What is in Jesus is not knowledge, it is grace.
5. The doctrine of Jesus coming in the flesh is deep. Every spirit loves flesh; it is an expensive commodity in the spirit, spirits do anything to get it. Flesh is a covering, meaning to hide. Flesh has manifestations; another word for flesh is body. Our body is the least of body kinds, however, it possesses the greatest manifestation. If our body were to be useless, Jesus would not have bought it with His blood, meaning it was costly because there are bodies terrestrial and bodies celestial (1Cor. 15:40). Every seed has a flesh (body) programmed within it. Thus, flesh originates from within where it is hidden. Different realms have some kind of manifestation. Angels are some kind of flesh. “Flesh” here does not refer to the fallen state, but a body for manifestation. Body is a vessel for expression, flesh is a collector of a programme that seeks manifestation. God came into creation with His manifestation as the everlasting God. The everlasting God was the flesh of the Eternal God.
6. Isaiah 25:7 The feasts are two: first and last feast. The first feast are two: fat and wine, which are also grace and truth. These two things are spirit; they are lines or doctrines. The words ‘covering’ and ‘veil’ used in this verse tells us that both are not exactly the same veil design. A veil can be used in different ways; it can be used to spread as a blanket or wrapped over someone. What binds the people is a covering. In another translation, the face is a wrap and the covering is a blanket. It would take a feast of fat things full of marrow and wine well refined to destroy them. ‘Face’ and ‘cast’ mean two different things; cast is stronger than the face. Fat things full of marrow is the fullness of joy, that is all the grace and truth. Hence, for wine to be well refined, two things are needed - grace and truth. (Num 6:25-26) Face is for grace, countenance is for truth because peace is truth. Truth is a settled grace; a grace fully done, grace well processed. When the Lord is spreading His own cast (blanket), He is lifting His countenance.
7. Jesus said a woman cannot marry another man who is not flesh with her. We are joined to Jesus and one flesh with Him. If the woman’s husband is dead, then she is loose from the law of her husband and free to remarry (1Cor. 7:39). Likewise, we have to be dead to the man who has married our soul (Satan) so that we can be free indeed. Satan marries people through covenant. When he marries someone, his own flesh becomes the flesh of the man, joining one’s body to harlot. This is referring to a lifestyle that Satan perpetuates through humanity, which is his manifestation. Thus, Satan's flesh is people’s flesh. As people manifest flesh, it is Satan's flesh they are manifesting because their body is no longer theirs. Therefore, God is taking away the covering cast over the people and will kill the husband for us.
Blessings!