Programme: Believers’ Convention Prayer Meeting 2024 (Week 4_Day 3)
Date: Wednesday, 31st July, 2024
Transcript Summary
1. “Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” (John 3:5). To be born of water and spirit represent “lines”. After knowledge (or precept) is “lines”, which constitute the world of spirit or ways. There are two divisions to lines: word and spirit (John 6:63). These two constituted Jesus’ stand while He was on earth. The word comes first, then the spirit. One who is born of the word alone is not fully born (John 3:5).
2. A lot is stored in the allocation of learning. Coming into depth is not in terms of revelation knowledge but understanding the realities of knowledge. The realities of knowledge are divided into two parts: word and spirit. The word is spirit and the spirit is spirit. Word, which is water, comes before the spirit. Water is the spiritual tangibility in the realm of the spirit that God poured for the purpose of preparing one for the ministry of the spirit. To every water, there is a spirit.
3. We have come into a season of a particular angel; it could be the angel that assisted Rev Hagin along his ministry. Rev Hagin had two angels that worked with him; one from his childhood, and the angel of his message that ensured the widespread of his tapes and books. Our messages are being teleguided by angels. When it is time to move this message into the Body, heaven will move the message. They will break any barrier.
4. “That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him…” (Eph. 1:17). Precept is an empowerment for one to supernaturally know things. This is not the gift of word of knowledge as that has nothing to do with understanding. Rather, this is the interaction of the understanding imparted through the light wisdom. Wisdom brings the word while understanding establishes or stores it. When understanding has stored the word, one can now begin to know. We cannot know except the spirits of wisdom and revelation are at work.
5. When someone who still has a vanity mind begins to follow this message (the Word of Righteousness) and things around his natural are not sprouting according to the timing he expects, he may get angry and begin to question the message. When expectations do not come to pass, God allows it that way so that Satan’s veil over the soul can break. When his veils break, God will begin to do a new work of reconstruction; hence, the need for patience. Patience is the manifestation of the fruit of the spirit that occurs when the expectation of human timing has expired upon a man. If such a man can still stay, then he has patience.
6. “And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.” (1 Cor. 13:2). Charity in the above scripture goes beyond loving your brother; it means to be planted in a world where you seek not your own. Charity seeketh not her own (1 Cor. 13:5). Some ministers still seek their own. One’s heart has to be purified from the “success” of ministry. If one is still in the “grave”, some kind of ministry will work well for one. One may have the devil’s speed and not God’s speed.
7. Precept is the ministration of eyesalve, it can cause the spiritual eyes to be enlightened. A person can see and yet may not be raised. One can see the Kingdom but may not have entered into the Kingdom (John 3:3-6). It will take word and spirit to enter into the Kingdom. There are two sides to the remission of sins; it will take water and spirit to bring you into the Kingdom and convert you to be a child.
8. “And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. [4] Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” (Matt. 8:3-4). Jesus interchangeably used the terms kingdom of heaven and kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is twain: the kingdom of Christ and of God. The Kingdom starts with Christ (John 3:3).
9. The first line of encounter that the believer experiences is the water of the Kingdom. The believer needs to be cleansed with water; that is the meaning of being born of water. Water is for the body of those who will enter the Kingdom, while the spirit is for the heart in the body. Water is important (Eph. 5:26-27); it prepares the table (heart) for the law of the spirit. Both water and spirit are lines. Water is the word of the Spirit. The spirit is the law of the word.
10. “The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.” (Ps. 25:14). The secret precedes the covenant. Secret means spirit. The law of the Lord is with them that fear Him, and He will show them His covenant. Without the fear of the Lord, one cannot come into knowing the covenant.
11. “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom...” (Ps. 111:10). This wisdom is the wisdom to know the affairs of God in the spirit. Some people can be wise with revelation-knowledge but they have little wisdom concerning conversation (lifestyle). When someone is not having caution, he can disobey the word he is teaching. It is called ethics or carefulness; caution is where “way” comes in.
12. “And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears…” (Isa. 11:3). The fear of the Lord entails things to avoid. The wisdom of the spirit comes through fear. Likewise, in ministering, a minister will do well with God when he understands the fear of God. The judgment seat will not be given to anyone whose fear level is low. The key to judgment is fear. One who is cautious will be given the sacred and under such a person, souls will not be destroyed.
13. Some people are not afraid to speak against authority. They use revelation-knowledge to speak against fathers in the faith who have little revelation-knowledge but are full of ways. Some people want to eagerly minister before fathers. The fathers are looking for those who know fear, and they know that it is not easy to get them. The fathers know that God does not produce jewels that are beautiful and present them to the open. They know God has ways.
14. “Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus…” (Heb. 3:1). Jesus was so raised by God as the only potentate—the most primate, seated in places above heavens. There are other attachments that the priestly duty can dispense, and one of them is an apostolic calling.
15. “Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. (Heb. 3:2). The house of Moses is not easy to discern. It is constituted of the body of the saints in the Old Testament and their promises. How powerful that body must have been. Moses walked through all the perimeters and all the obediences of this house. He was faithful in all his house. This means that in the Old Testament, there was an expectation of a person, which is, that such should stand before the shekinah and behold the similitude of the Lord.
16. Those who would come into the Holy of holies should be high priests. God wanted to make all of the children of Israel as priests, but He could not because the will of men are involved. They could not stand the processes or the quaking of the mountain. The prolonged sound of the trumpet and the thunderings was necessary. They should have endured it because those are the processes that will make the house complete.
17. Moses brought the children of Israel to the wilderness and as a result, they had a dimension of cleansing. They passed under water so they were somehow washed (1 Cor. 10:2). They were gradually being raised. So we can understand that the end of the house is from the Red Sea to Jordan. The last water was meant to take them into the promised land. God brought them into the promised land for the everlasting covenant. The purpose of the wilderness was for the building of the house. The children of Israel were able to build a physical sanctuary, but not themselves. However, Moses was built.
18. There was a need for a house because something had been broken down. “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil…” (Heb. 2:14). ‘Flesh and blood’ is ‘word and spirit’. What God wanted to deal with was their flesh and blood. No one can take this discipline except the sons of the Sanctuary.
19. (Hebrews 2:16-18). Jesus wants to succour them that are tempted. Reconciliation is the present day ministry of Jesus. Sin is a body. Sin is the word of Satan; it is the water by which Satan gives birth to people. Sin is the body we are wearing. There is something about the frame of the body and sin; hence, David said he was shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin (Ps. 51:5).
20. “For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: [2] who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.” (Heb.s 5:1-2). This word is also the word of God’s way. Hebrews 6 talks about the law of the priest, which is the law of the word. A priest is a building, and it takes time to build a priest. Words are used to build a priest. The priest should wear the word. Things pertaining to God are used to build. These are things God will offer for sins. They are called gifts and sacrifices for sins.
21. Jesus is building His own house which is not the body of sin. However, we need the things pertaining to God to get that kind of body. Things pertaining to God are the things that constitute the offering of reconciliation for sins; those are the things that deal with sin. Satan made sin as a shelter/covering. Sin is a house. It will take the water of everlasting life, which is the word of God, to handle the body (house) of sin.
22. There is the body of the word of God. Body is an engineering of a covering put together by tiny pieces. Cells build organs, organs build systems, while systems make the whole body. So the body is traceable to tiny things that cannot be literally seen. So sin is not just fornication, it is a wrong provision of material from the devil to give man a fake house. That is what Isaiah called the “grave”. It is inside man—the soul wears it. It informs how man thinks.
23. “For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: [2] Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity.” (Heb. 5:1-2). This word is also the word of God’s way. Hebrews 6 talks about the law of the priest, which is the law of the word. The priest is a house/building; and it takes time to build a priest. Word is used to build a priest. The priest should wear the word. Things pertaining to God are used to build. These are things God will offer for sins. They are called gifts and sacrifices for sins.
24. The priestly ministry is wide. To raise a priest is an elaborate course in the spirit. The enactment of the priest is their law. The law takes away iniquity. The writing of the law in the heart is called remission. Everything about the priest ought to be complete; however, when God sees the building or house of the priest and it is not okay, He will reject it.
25. (Hebrews 12:24; 9:11-12). The Lord can be seen as a Mediator of covenant and as a Priest over the house. One deals with sin, the other handles iniquity. The purpose of eternal redemption is to deal with iniquity. Until iniquity is dealt with, God will still be remembering. When God sees a built body, and sees iniquity in it, He will be remembering. The testament speaks of good things to come or better things.
26. “And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.” (Heb. 12:24). The word of God which is the flesh of Jesus is the veil into the presence of God. If one has not eaten that flesh, such a one cannot come into the presence of God. If we do not have a deal with His flesh, we will not get access to the blood. Blood speaks of better things; the word speaks of things pertaining to God. Better things are ‘things to God’ while things pertaining to God speak the very life (core) of God. The High Priest is a High Priest of both things.
27. The Trinity divided themselves; we have the Spirit and we have the Word. They are both Spirits. The Word is the house. The Father is the Father of the house and Spirit. This is the mystery of the Trinity. Although They are equal, the Word and Spirit agreed to submit to the Father to be Their head. The sending of the Spirit is not as a servant but a position of eternal submission to each other. Jesus referred to the Holy Ghost as the Spirit “whom the Father will send in my name…” (John 14:26). The Father sends as a duty of God. They are obeying a law, the law of purity and eternal love. They knew well that They ought to arrange themselves that way. When the law of God is flowing in us, and we are together, we will also know what to do.
28. Some people do not have the genetics of the Godhead. When a man is having Eternal Life, these are the things he will begin to know. These are the things that will ascertain our spiritual citizenship in the spirit. Jesus is making an arrangement in the spirit to establish us in the land; He is making preparation so that we can be known as we are known. Jesus has arrived; this is the meaning of Emmanuel.
Blessings!