Programme: Believers’ Convention Prayer Meeting 2021 (Week Five Day One)
Date: 12th July, 2021
Powered by: Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Minister: Reverend Kayode Oyegoke
“Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.” (Mal. 3:1). This messenger is not an angel of the present heavens; He is One who has been made so much better than the present heavens (Heb. 1:4). The title “angel” does not refer to a creature with wings; it refers to a message carrier or tiding bearer. Everything about angels has to do with the everlasting gospel and reward, for that is what was used to frame them. They were named according to the tiding that was used to frame them.
The Angel of the everlasting covenant was not created but begotten. He is the one with the capacity to sit on the throne. Through Him, God showed the angels of the present order His standard of what an angel should look like. One who has stature in the spirit is one on whom honour has been conferred. In the spirit, there is no regard for men who have natural knowledge, no matter their status; rather, it is the spiritual stature that counts.
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds…” (Heb. 1:1-2). We are learning to worship God but the angels do not need to. This is because they were made with the frame of worshippers (Ezek. 28:14). They know how to worship God by virtue of their make. We therefore need to stay with the doctrine of truth to learn how to offer accurate worship unto God.
Jesus was appointed as the Saviour of those who will obey Him eternally (Heb. 5:9). Jesus first inherited salvation and was then appointed as a Saviour to men. This appointment gave Him the capacity to share the inheritance with those who obey Him (Heb. 1:2; Rom. 8:17). A true heir is one who is looking for salvation. Jesus is so desirous of sharing this inheritance with His children.
“Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.” (Heb. 1:4). The angels have an inheritance but Jesus’ inheritance was so much better than theirs. What qualified Jesus to have a more excellent name than the angels is the quality of His inheritance, which is based on His make.
One who has inheritance is an heir of salvation. Salvation is what counts in the realm of the spirit. Trade in the realm of the spirit is by the quality of persons. The firmness of one’s substances or quality of one’s make are the basis for ranking in the realm of the spirit. When Jesus ascended into the heavens, what the angels saw ascending upwards were His substances within. This made them worship Him. When the angels saw Jesus, they understood the message of everlasting life because He was a message. God put the message in Him to frame Him and then made Him sit on the message. The right hand where He sat is also a message (Heb. 1:3).
“But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.” (Heb. 8:6). The Mediator is the Angel of the covenant; but before you can meet this Being, you should be ready to walk through the corridor of everlasting life. We are looking for promises, but there is no way we can come into these promises without the covenant.
Satan broke his eternal and everlasting covenant when he turned because what God gave to angels are promises; and behind those promises are covenants. Angels were attached to a covenant when they were created; thus, when these covenants are broken, the angel also becomes broken. When Satan turned, he destroyed the covenant he had with God and twisted his promise.
The promise of Lucifer was life but after he turned, his promise became the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He originated a new covenant called “hell and death”; and then he became a tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Satan had a life which was his wisdom. “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.” (Ezek. 28:12). Satan was full of life; he was the perfection of beauty. To seal up the sum means he was at the peak of life; he was full of wisdom. Satan did not go bad in one day; rather, he kept turning overtime until he was fully corrupted.
Everlasting covenant is what God wants to make with us, but He needs a Mediator. The purpose of this Mediator is to make man cross to cut covenant with God because there are promises attached to covenants. The book of Hebrews 1-7 is a preaching, showing how we will arrive at salvation; but chapters 8-13 show how we will inherit salvation. These latter chapters show how Jesus will declare His name to the brethren of the Sanctuary (Heb. 2:12). Jesus will take them from the Sanctuary into the Most Holy Place where they are prepared for the covenant.
“And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.” (Isa. 28:18). Agreement is different from covenant; it is weaker than covenant. As such, it is first broken before the covenant can be broken. Agreement is enacted with hell while covenant is enacted with death.
Hell is a life, but there is also another life called “sin”. The end of hell has its death (hell and death–Rev. 20:14) and the end of sin also has its own death (sin and death–Rom. 8:2). Sin is a lifestyle that is beyond acts; it is a way of life. Anyone who is not living by the faith of the Son is sinning, for anything that is not of faith is sin (Rom. 14:23). When one is not living by faith, such a person is sinning and can eventually come into death.
A man is in iniquity when he has not broken agreement with hell. The ministry of reconciliation is what is needed to deal with iniquity. Hell is how you demonstrate the life of iniquity but death is the end of that life. "Sin and death" can be handled by the life in Christ Jesus; but "hell and death" can only be handled by the life in God. The High Priest is the Mediator between God and man (1 Tim. 2:5). This man here is not the natural man but the perfect man whom God can draw covenant with; he is the one who can take the wisdom of God (1 Cor. 2:6).
Hell and death are kinds of wisdom, although corrupted wisdom. This is why they have power to hold people down. Hell and death is a greater force than sin and death; and what can break them is the word of reconciliation (2 Cor. 5:18-19). “Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.” (Dan. 9:24). Transgression is a terrible sin; it is a disease that makes one break the laws of God regardless of what the law is. A man with such needs to be healed.
“But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.” (2 Pet. 2:22). A transgressor is of two natures: a dog and a swine. They are such that go back to their vomit or break laws after holy things have been built in them. When you start with a doctrine of truth, do not turn your back on it. Doctrine doctors you, sets you aright in a place and helps you get to God. When one falls out of doctrine, it is a transgression in the realm of the spirit.
The doctrine of Christ will make a dog vomit corruption; but an unrepentant dog will go back to pick up what he has dropped. Satan knows how to turn men away from God; he teaches men how to break covenant with God. Sin is the life of this world that makes a man into a dog. Those who stop hearing the truth do so because of this world.
The outward nature of a transgressor is a swine while the inner nature is a dog. The outward nature is the world; while the inner nature is the corruption that is in the world (2 Pet. 1:4). The nature of transgression is not completely healed until one gets to the Most Holy Place. We must be completely healed of the nature of transgression because God no longer wants us to be enemies with Him. The ministry of the everlasting covenant comes by the word. A spiritual man (Christ) is not yet saved; the everlasting covenant must still be administered to turn such a man into a divine man who has gotten to his end and is saved.
“This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah. [7] Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.” (Ps. 24:6-7). We will begin to knock at the gates, for they are everlasting doors. The doors are at the end of everlasting life. A door signifies an entrance from one realm to another. Everlasting righteousness is eternal power; it is the only thing that can overcome iniquity. Iniquity gives rise to the agreement of hell and death in a man. Iniquity hides because it does not want to be revealed; but it can only be revealed through the scriptures of truth. The scriptures should be enough for us, for the words in them are not a lie. Therefore, we should not doubt. The fact that these words are around you and are properly aligning are enough evidence that they are true. As such, we should not disregard them.