Program: School of the Spirit (SOS)
Date: Thursday, 18th May 2023
Transcript Summary
1. “Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.” (1 Cor. 15:34). We would not stop sinning if we do not awaken to righteousness. However, we cannot awaken unto righteousness without the knowledge of God. There are different levels of knowledge. The knowledge of Christ brings us to an understanding that helps us come into a judgment, an awareness of our cleansing and sanctification of the righteousness of faith. When we are cleansed and sanctified, we move into a season where we would not sin. The first learning in the school of everlasting life is the learning of sinlessness, that is, how not to sin. God wants to raise little children to young men, and ultimately fathers. God wants to raise men who cannot sin anymore, but we cannot afford to skip any level in the school of righteousness.
2. “Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. [34] Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.” (1 Cor. 15:33-34). No man can be free from sin if he is not spiritually wise. Sin is spiritual because the being that designed sin is spiritual. Lucifer that fell was a spirit and he is still a spirit. Sin is an inverted spiritual and unholy law. Spiritual understanding is ordained to make us free from sin. The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus makes us free from sin and death, but it is not enough to be free from sin because sin would keep seeking to overtake us. While we are free from sin, we must also seek to embody substances that would make us unable to sin. This is the essence of the doctrine of the Father. The substance of the everlasting God is to make us not to faint nor grow weary; this would delete the ability to sin from the soul.
3. “Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.” (Isa. 52:1). When we awake to righteousness, we come into a state where we would sin not. A man of knowledge increases strength (Prov. 24:5). What would make us not sin is an infusion of strength and that is what the everlasting God does. He gives strength to the weak and He gives might to them that are weary. Sin wants man to fade away. But when we awake into righteousness, we would awake into the strength that is the righteousness of God.
4. Our ways refer to our manner of life. Our thoughts are our unrighteousness and our ways are our wickedness. When heaven weaves out ways to save us from our ways, it looks weak. It does not look like we are putting on a garment of strength that is higher than the law of sin we are battling with. There are some thoughts in the realm of God we have not yet awakened to. There is sin as iniquity and uncleanness that prevents the Father from receiving us as sons and daughters. Sometimes, we lose the strength that we are meant to awaken to when we fail to respond to certain ways because they seem weak. Receiving the knowledge of God is the routine that would awaken us to His righteousness so that we can come to a place where we do not sin anymore.
5. There is a love walk behind every seed. The essence of loving the brethren is to give the soul strength to keep the seed. The enemy will definitely war against the seed in times of trials and tribulations, but we must not lose the seed. Love is a compulsory course or commandment that we must excel in for the incorruptible seed to remain in us. The incorruptible seed will make us not to sin, but it must remain in us. Not to sin is the first entrance into the everlasting Kingdom. We are at the door of the season of everlasting dominion where we will be as little children who do not sin. However, the season comes with a lot of warfare so that we can lose the incorruptible seed. But one thing we should continue to do is to keep loving the brethren.
Blessings!