Writing the Vision (22nd May, 2021)
Topic: The Path to Acquiring Christ’s Senses
Ministering: Pastor Tope Falaye
Our daddy, Reverend Kayode Oyegoke, was talking about sense in yesterday's meeting, and that we need spiritual sense to access the sense of the Father. We need the spiritual sense, that peaks in the holy place, to access the things in the holy place and of the Father which are the things of the most holy place. The manner of things that were said in this past week are things touching the most holy place. Hebrews 5:14 says that strong meat belongs to those who are of full age (mature/perfect), that is, those who have their senses exercised and trained in preparation for something. This is the stature of the spiritual man who has a particular sense.
Every man has his own sense, which is his instrument of trapping information. These senses are beyond the five senses of the outward body which traps information from the external world and judges by them. God designed the sense of the outward man to be interdependent so that, together, they would give a wholesome judgement of the outward man. Thus, the disability of any or all of these senses would limit a man from interacting with the external. This manner of disabled man would need help to do certain things that are required of the body. God put senses on the body to give us indicators of what senses means because Hebrews 5:14 is talking about people who have spiritual senses.
The elders in the camp of Israel were not ignorant of censers. The censer in the holy place works with the golden altar. This censer is filled with coals from off the altar and is used by the high priest to gain access into the holiest of all.
Leviticus 16:12
"And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the Lord, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail…"
Exodus 30:7-8,34
"And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it. [8] And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the Lord throughout your generations. [34] And the Lord said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight …"
Every one of us is meant to transition from the realm of Christ into the realm of glory, learning everlasting things. In the old testament, the high priest enters on behalf of everyone; however, in the new testament, Jesus plans to bring every one of us in by committing certain things to us. These things that He would commit to us are knowledge, wisdom, understanding of Christ, which must inform our daily judgements to be different from that which other men use for life. The Lord is going to change us by the doctrine of Christ so much that it would become part of our natural senses. At this point, the thoughts of faith, hope and charity would be our natural persuasions.
When faith, hope and charity are given, incense is given. Incense on its own would not grant entrance until it is burnt. The golden altar is commonly called the altar of sweet incense. The altar is constantly feeling heat, yet it produces heat that a min-altar (the censer) picks coals from and uses to burn incense. So burning the incense is what produces pleasure.
The Lord wants us as a people to burn incense. This speaks of the fact that our souls are meant to burn things by reason of exercise. Christ doctrine is a fuel for pleasure when it is given to us, but we need to burn it up until it becomes our sense. We ought to have the sense of entrance, that is, can be able to grasp the next allocation. Anyone who has the incense of faith, hope and charity and does not burn it will be depriving himself of entrance. Therefore, there is a clarion call upon us to burn incense. For all of us to make a continual journey as we follow those ahead of us as they begin to talk about things behind the veil, we need to burn incense.
Charity suffers long and a man who is suffering long is burning. The more we commit ourselves to the sufferings that accompany the doctrine, the more we become spiritual and legitimately qualified for the next allocation. We need to trust God to burn these things until they become an indwelling sense. This sense is a disposition of mind that we received by doctrine and inherited by reason of use. Only this sense can be positioned to see a higher sense. Things that are beyond the veil will not be discerned if we do not exercise our senses (Heb 5:14). The things of charity have to become very normal amongst us so that our senses would be able to discern the things of the high priest as they are being spoken.