Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry
Programme: Writing The Vision Prayer Meeting Day 2
Date: Tuesday, 12th October 2021
Ministering: Reverend Kayode Oyegoke
Hebrews 7:26
“For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens…”
Jesus is made higher than the heavens. The present state of the High Priest is that He is holy and separate from sinners. What first comes to mind when we hear sinners are the Pharisees, Judas Iscariot, etc., but sinners are more than that. If Jesus was not made higher than the heavens, He would not be able to save us to the end. The realm of the High Priest is an extra-celestial realm. Jesus is more than the heavens; meaning He can break heavens.
Sinners can be heavenly. There are earthly sinners, so also, there are heavenly sinners. If sinners cannot be heavenly, then it would be an error to say that sin came from heaven. Sin never came from the garden of Eden, it entered into it. Death is the devastator but sin has the ability to knock at doors. When God sees sin coming, He would not stop it because He wants you to overcome it. Sin has the jurisdiction to come to anybody regardless of who you are; but if you do not allow it, it will go. God told Cain that “sin lieth at your door” (Gen 4:7). Sin knocks at the door and a man can open the door for it. Sin would not just come in, it would invite a great guest — death. So we should overcome sin. We have been designed to overcome; we can overcome it.
Hebrews 1:3
“Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high…”
Scriptures say that Jesus purged our sins. The One who purged our sin is He who is the brightness of God’s glory and the express image of His person. The phrase “by Himself” means that He used Himself to purge sin -- He was the remedy for sin. Jesus took away sin by Himself.
Hebrews 9:22-23
“And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.”
Jesus was used as a purger. The tool that was used in cleaning sin was an excellent Person. The earthly and heavenly things were purged by blood; this means that there were things that were not pure in heaven. The law requires that blood be the utensil of purging because things that will be removed or purged are laws. So there are heavenly laws that must be purged.
There is a difference between laws on earth and those in the heavens. The crucifixion of Jesus was to shut down earth so that He can access heaven. His resurrection was to access heaven. The ultimate glory of the ascended Christ was an offering; what God raised was the Lamb of sacrifice. He raised a man that will be offered for sins. We often sing that the Saviour arose with so much joy, but we must understand that the Savior that arose was a Lamb of offering. The process of getting that Lamb was why they made the Word to become flesh. The Lamb is the Lamb of God; it is not just a Lamb for the sins of the whole world, but for the propitiation of our sins (1 Jhn. 2:2 ). They are two different things.
Spiritual growth is a heavenly purification wherein a man is being made holy by the word of His grace. There is an inheritance for the sanctified. The destiny of this word of His grace is to build us up to a place where we would be sanctified. Entering into sanctification is entering into a stature of holiness. You cannot face the doer of evil (the devil) if you do not have holy installations. Resisting the devil is not an ordinary thing. The church that was instructed to resist the devil was an everlasting church.
The devil passes through some of us with little or no resistance. When any current is passed through a conductor, there is a war due to little resistance from the conductor. However, there is a complete insulator that will never allow current to pass. What will make us insulators are things that will not allow the devil to pass through. There is a holy frame that we must have within; we need to stay on the word and be built up. When we resist the devil, he will flee. Satan does not flee from some people because they like his things. The devil is not an ordinary being; he is a sinner from the third heaven.
Hebrews 9:22-23
“22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. 23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.”
What you purge are things, and you purged things with “these” many things, meaning you purge things with things. Things being purged are sins.
Hebrews 1:3
“3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high…”
ArchAngel Michael is here so that these words being spoken can dwell in you. He knows what was taken from you to take things away. So if sacrifices will purge sins, sins are things. Purging is not just removal, it is also an addition; purging is a replacement. Purging our sins is purging our things.
Jesus sat down on the right hand of the Majesty, expecting till His enemies be made His footstool (Heb. 1:13). Jesus used His blood because blood is a major tool for cleansing, as shown in the law of Moses. The law of Moses was actually a copy of a higher law in the spirit. The home of the law of the Old Testament was the ark of the covenant, which was a pattern of an original ark in heaven which keeps a law within it. The law in that ark is an everlasting covenant; even the law of everlasting covenant. This law is the law of God and not the law of the Lord.
The tables of stone represent the heart of flesh, which is a spirit in that ark upon which God wrote. Thus, God kept His law upon a heart. What God put in that ark was also written in angels, especially the cherubims. God had not yet opened that door unto the seraphims; they had not yet attained it unlike the cherubims who stand upon the law. They stand upon the law while God sits in their midst. Thus, the service of Moses was officiated by the hand of such angels. This is why they could relate with the testament.
Lucifer used to have that which was in the law – the heart of flesh. To have the heart of flesh, one must have some laws. What makes the heart is a law, and only upon this heart can they write the other laws; it is a pile up of laws. The Most Holy Place, Holy place, and Outer Courts are all laws. Anywhere laws are, blood is present. Wherever a law flows, the blood is beside it. Christ is a law and there is something called the heart of Christ which is graduated into laws of life and laws of peace. To have the law of Christ, one must have attained the heart of flesh.
A new spirit is given by ministering Christ the spirit unto a man (Eze. 36:27). Unlike Ezekiel’s rendition, Jeremiah went straight to say that the Lord will write the law in their hearts and minds (Jer. 31:33). This speaks of those who already have the heart of flesh - brethren whose inheritance is the heart of flesh. These are godly men, and unto whom are promised the world to come, that is, the life which is to come. The heart of flesh is the summation of the life that now is, and also doubles as a gate to the life that is to come.
When tables (hearts) are full of vomit, including activities that are unlawful, God’s law will not be present. Therefore, tables have to be cleansed for God's law to be present. The beatitudes are laws; when they are present, they invite a Being. God revives the spirit of the humble (Isa. 57:15). To revive is to excite them into another state. The spirit of the humble is the nature (or laws) of the humble. There is a way the humble behaves. We should be careful not to drive away our humble spirits when we notice them within us. We must not lose our humble posture.
Certain peer pressures are designed to press out our spirits. For some people, the motions of sin in them get deleted easily. Laws are like genes but are not visible even to a scientist. We should present ourselves to be purged. As the church, we are all patients of Jesus, while His ministers are doctors. Some patients are more easily delivered of their ailments than others. For others, laws have been woven deep into them. God wants every man to look not at the things of themselves. The preacher should be able to see and admire that which God has wrought in the flock.
To defeat sin, one has to own up to having it in a repentant manner. This is what makes a contrite heart. A contrite heart does not plead its vindication but its guilt. The nature of vindicating oneself is a sin-given gift. The Bible encourages us to not defend ourselves and to refrain from speaking when accused (1 Pet. 2:21-23).
Nothing is purged except by the blood. Blood is a house/container of laws. It is a requirement for cleansing and is not merely stumbled upon; there has to be a sacrifice. Blood will not flow except the person who carries it is willing to let it go. Thus, a testament is not of no effect until the death of the testator (Heb. 9:16).
One of the evidence that we are still sinners is that we see and count wrongdoings that are done to us. God said we should ask for forgiveness because of ourselves, not Himself; it is for our benefit. None of us should stand in a position that imputes sin upon people; we do not have that jurisdiction.
There are sins that are heavens -- sins that can grow into heavens and get up to God. The contrite spirit and the humble heart is a great gift. God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble (Jam. 4:6). God and the proud cannot have a conversation; He casts them away.
On the other hand, Jesus ascended into the heavens by some other means. The Lamb is a provision against wrong heavens, and the anomaly that Satan made in the heavens was purged by Him. Satan was the one who taught us how to sin. As God purged our things, He was purging Satan out and removing his remembrance from the heavens. After purging the heavens of his things, Satan no longer has access to peruse the heavens like he once did.
When understanding increases, our enemies are defeated. Knowing sin is different from understanding the things that make us free from sin. Sin should be demystified to us. Our heavens need to be purged. Our high places need to be crumbled and our strengths broken.