Prayer Meeting (1st June, 2021)
Topic: Understanding the Conversations of the Gospel
Ministering: Reverend Kayode Oyegoke
Message Begins:
Hebrews 1:1-4
"God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, [2] 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; [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; [4] Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they."
The reason God ordained the gospel to be preached is that He wants us to be saved. Also, He wants the fruit of what He sent through the preacher to the people; that is, He wants evidence of the word. The gospel is classified into the gospel of good tidings (peace) and after that, the glad tidings of good or the good tidings of good.
Before God would preach a gospel to the people, quickening must be done. He quickened Abraham's soul to be able to receive the gospel, but He did not quicken His spirit. He gave him a type of the gospel at a level. The actual substances of the gospel were not handed to Abraham, but it was preached to him in a manner and at a level. God committed the gospel to Jesus; God gave Him all things.
The Bible says Jesus is the author (originator) of our faith (Heb. 12:2). Abraham's faith was mentioned in Hebrews 11, but his faith is not our faith. If it were, then he would have been made perfect without us. What Abraham had is inferior to what God is giving to us. Abraham had materials of low quality, compared to what God gave to us in His Son. God is careful, He is wise. The angels didn't learn the gospel, even though they knew it; they were made to know the gospel.
There is the angelic interpretation of the gospel. There is the gospel committed to man and angels. The gospel is extremely powerful. When the gospel is given to a man, there are great expectations attached to it beyond what one can imagine. God gave the gospel to spirits - ministers; that is, angels of the heavens. Angels have already completed the work of the gospel, they do not need to change. There are angels of salvation, and there are angels who do the biddings of peace. There is an intelligence God framed creation with; it is the wisdom of the gospel.
There is a great responsibility attached to receiving the Gospel. The world to come was not committed to the angels (Heb. 2:5). That means the present is under the subjection of the angels. They have the inheritance to subdue the present and all its elements.
There is an invisibility to things. Everything created has a relationship with the invisible. There is an invisible dimension that science can see; there is another dimension beyond what science can see or pursue - there is an invisible of the invisible things of creation. There are other substances that science cannot see. Science sees molecules, but something created them, and magnifying lenses cannot look into that dimension. What holds molecules and atoms are in the spirit.
Atoms are the smallest units of molecules. Science has limitations; it is limited to how far it can reach with things. What we are dealing with will give us access to things. There is a wisdom that only God can give, and that wisdom can only be hewed through the submission of the soul to the gospel. Nothing in the natural is isolated from God; everything knows God. Rocks, clouds and even the weather knows God. God made the ostrich the way it is, to show His ability to keep the egg, even without the help of the mother (Job 39:17). The jaw of the Hyena is very strong, yet it cannot break the egg of an ostrich.
The gospel is what the angels are using to hold the present. The law of Christ is better than the law of Aaron, and the law of Christ is so much better than that of the angels. This inheritance of the gospel is what God is communicating and impacting us with.
The gospel is faith (life, perfect life, everlasting life, then eternal life). It is difficult to tie conversation to dominion. People don't have regard for conversation. Except we possess the conversation of the gospel, things will not come under our feet. The conversation of the gospel is the giving of the dominion of God. Conversation is the stature that can handle power; we need stature to handle power. We need the stature for authority. Inside conversation is embedded the giving of stature. We need a building to be entrusted with dominion.
Genesis 1:26
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the Earth.[27] So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. [28] And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. [29] And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat."
Conversation would confer upon us the understanding to handle creation. Adam had a conversation that enabled him to handle creation. Image and likeness are buildings. God made man with stature, image and likeness, and only after the building would man have dominion over everything that creeps on the earth. God created man in His image. He did not just make him, He modelled him and framed him after responsibility. He created man, male and female, in His image. God did not give image to donkeys/animals. We are not animals, we are created with image; we were created with distinctive features. We were made for a great purpose; before we can rule the earth, we need to be decked with God's image and likeness, and we will have dominion.
After Adam was created, God framed a body for him —the suit of dominion was made for him. He needed an interface, something that would enable him to have influence on the earth. A home for his soul and spirit was created for him. Image and likeness are not just spirit; God didn't just create his spirit, he also made his soul and body.
Everything was a building from the beginning. God built the house – He built the body. The body is a building; it is a building because wisdom was invested. The building has a background from a blueprint. God had the chart in His heart. God is not like the earthly architects. He made the plan of how the body would house the soul and the spirit.
Adam awoke with life, he had breath; he became a living soul thereafter (Gen 2:7). That breath commissioned him into his estate. The breath of life was an understanding. Understanding is the program of a hardware which determines the function of things. Adam woke up with the understanding of how to function. He functioned differently from the animals. This understanding brought him near the tree of life; it made him live in the garden of Eden. He had the sense of the tree called life, which the animals don't have. God gave man breath, an understanding to seek, pursue, and eat of the tree.
Adam could read and understand God from all of creation. He saw the gospel. He understood where he was and knew he should not live below that. He had understanding; he had life. Understanding is an adoption into the land of the living.
As a living soul, he inherited an understanding. That understanding is an X-ray into a life; it is a universe of a lifestyle. What God gave to him was a paradise; he had paradisiacal thoughts. He knew what paradise was; he was living there. He would not be able to dwell comfortably in paradise if he had lower thoughts.
A man without understanding cannot live in paradise. Paradise looks easy, but no one can live there without some grace capacity. Adam was cushioned with grace to survive in paradise. In paradise, he wasn't thinking about food or clothes, nor was he worried about tomorrow because he was graced to live there. But when he ate the forbidden fruit, the grace capacity dropped and he became afraid of everything, not just God. He started seeing another life.
Adam has suffered; he must be a sorrowful man because his children are living like beasts now and all creation blames him. Only Jesus can comfort Adam. Jesus would not condemn Adam even though He had to change form eternally to correct the anomaly that happened in the garden. We must be careful not to speak against Adam because we would not have done any better.
Tongues and Interpretation (1)
"For he saw the day of Christ and he was comforted, and creation was also comforted. They saw the day of Christ; the conversation that the life of Christ would bring forth to creation and they were comforted. They saw the day of the Son of God and all the heavens were comforted. All heavens were comforted because of the kind of gospel that God is giving as a gift to creation; even to man. For he is waiting eagerly, even your progenitor is waiting for your day when his full comfort will come. He will see you and he will thank and appreciate you. Because what he could not do, you, by the grace of Jesus did it. You are the full comfort of that man, and the comfort wherewith I comforted him was that the gospel which I give is able to undo his mistake. Therefore, he is waiting for that glorious day when many sons will arise out of the earth by the power of the gospel, which he saw in Jesus. Therefore, I say run, and run, and complete the course of comfort."
Message continues…
The word 'became' is the final verdict of a man. In chapter 1 of Genesis, we did not know what became of Adam. But in chapter 2, we understood what he became; he became a living soul, that was his inheritance. The life flowing from his spirit was that of a living soul. What that life could do was to make his soul live.
We need the everlasting light to understand these things properly. People like Abraham were not shadows of Christ, they were the shadows of the Son of God. That is why he met a man that was made like unto the Son of God (Heb 7:3). Melchizedek was a living soul.
Living souls are men with the breath of the Almighty and they vary in degrees. We can tell what life they held by their conversation. We can tell conversation from the weight of their understanding. We can tell a conversation from the materials of the understanding. What tells the weight of the understanding is the material quality - what they can understand. No man born of a woman had the understanding of John the Baptist except Adam. Adam had some discernment of the tree of life but didn't partake of it.
John was able to discern Jesus, a man with everlasting life because he had risen to a capacity that enabled him to detect life. The person coming was not a miracle worker; Jesus is far erected than being a miracle worker. He was neither Moses nor Elijah. He is a superior prophet that God raised through everlasting light. The actual everlasting light, the light of the tree of life, was working on the earth. Jesus is the light of the world (Matt. 2: 10, John 8:12).
John 3:35
“The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand. He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.”
John understood that beyond the new birth, the Son had to be believed. To believe on the Son is to believe on the stature of the Son, to believe all He represents when He stands. To believe on Him, one has to first believe in Him.
There are two ways to believe in the Son. The first believing is to believe to be born again. The second is to believe in His faith, that is, believe His things which are 'Christ'. These verses are not for unbelievers. Even a Christian may fail to believe on the Son when He appears. A time will come when the preachers of the Son will preach Him, and many will not believe on Him because they love their life. A Christian must be helped to believe on the Son; except they are helped, they will not be able to believe on the Son because they would love their lives. One's life must be hated to receive the Son's life. Anyone who would not hate his own life cannot believe on the Son.
We have proven that anyone that does not believe in God would go to hell; it is true. Hell is not the wrath of God; it is a prison yard for the spirits. Wrath of God begins from here and ends in lake because even hell would be cast into lake. A time would come when all controversies of the Son would be disproved. The Son will be understood; the veils would be removed and all religions would know that He is the Son of God. Jesus would be preached highly by those who have seen him and all religions would believe Him. Hearts would be convicted.
The season the Son would be preached and revealed would be the season of eternal choice. The Gospel of the Son of God is going to come upon the housetop and all eyes shall see and all ears shall ear for a witness. Preaching the Son of God is the preaching of God's eternal power. The eternal power of God is the Son of God. Those who must have received the power are those who can preach the gospel; those who can preach the eternal power of God.
Two lives must be evident on earth before the end; everlasting life and eternal life. The Son is the eternal life and the Godhead. It is God's desire, His eternal purpose, that this life is preached to all men. There is a power to make all to see and hear. These are the days the dead will hear His voice and they will live (John 5:25). The voice of the Son of God is a power higher than the power of Christ. There are those who are the dead.
Prophecy
“Saith the Lord, I will bypass that; I will preach the Son directly to earth; I will cause even the dead to hear the Son. I'll cause a short work to be done on earth. ’ll cause the dead to hear the Son of God and they shall live.”
Message continues
Everlasting life power which was communicated in a shadow in the old testament made living men. God is the God of the living; He is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The word of the living is everlasting life. The living are His people. Adam was a living soul, so he was everlasting. There is a slight difference between live and living; Christ ‘lives’ but the everlasting Son is ‘living’. The word of God liveth and abideth forever (1 Pet. 1:23). There is a difference between ‘life’ and ‘live’. Life (righteousness), live (Peace) then living (everlasting life) are stages of life. You must have life to live, and you must live for you to be living. God is not the God of those who live, He is the God of the living - those who have passed from death unto a life for them to continue to live. A living soul is very high; it is an everlasting life, it will not stop. We have to be living to come into eternal life. We must arrive at the state of living to cross to eternal life. This breath is an everlasting life for earth.
God couldn’t have given the earth to any kind of man except a living soul. Adam is a riddle to carnal men, to theologians and still to some prophets. The only person that can unveil Adam is our Lord Jesus. When He was on earth, He was the last man; He was a living being. Living God is an everlasting God. Jesus was a living Son; the Son of the Living God. These are secrets that must be understood by creatures. Adam's spirit, soul and body trapped the living breath; he rose into an estate and began to do it. That breath of life is the quickening that he needed.
God gave him a conversation, he bought into it, stayed there and with it; he was governing the earth. He (Adam) was governing the earth with breath. Breath are not ordinary things. Breath sustained Adam. He was alive and was doing all that the breath recorded and imputed; he lived that conversation until he was being tempted. He was tempted where the tree was; where eternal life was. Satan can tempt one when he is very close to eternal life. We must pray that God will make us know satan. We do not know him well; he is also hiding.
The Bible still warns everlasting life brethren to be sober and vigilant because they are close to eternal life. Adam, though carrying everlasting life, was tempted when he was close to eternal life. Until we have eternal life, we must be sober. Conversation (lifestyle) is key. Conversation is insight to living.
There must be enlightenment before living. Eyes have to be enlightened to be opened for living. What we see is how we live. Gospel is conversation, a preparation of salves. The Gospel is the salve for the eyes; it would keep enlightening us. Pasture is understanding. Pasture really starts with Christ. Lambs feed on milk until they can chew the cud. The sheep tendency is the ability to eat the meat of the word. We are able to eat the meat of the word after we have become Christ (Sheep). To eat meat is to be welcomed into the world of understanding. We would receive understanding and begin to do it. There are levels in the sheepfold; they are in subdivisions. The tabernacle is constituted of different realms of the sheepfold.
We are not yet sheep until we walk (Gal. 3:11). There is a faith for every realm in the sheepfold. We must have responded to the faith of the Son to be called sheep - a response to what the world can never respond to. We must hate what the world loves. The real pasture would teach us to deny ungodliness (Tit. 2:11-12). Not all lambs are lambs. The lamb and the kid are used for sacrifice; as long as they are both small, they are lambs. There are different kinds of natures in us; one is still goatish responding to the world while the other is lambic. One must be starved for the other to develop; the goat tendency in us must be starved and the sheep nature would develop. When people fight the message of Christ, it is the goat nature at work. All of us have the two tendencies but the goat tendency has to be denied for the sheep nature to arise.
Tongues and Interpretation (2).
"Let goat go! For the destiny of goat is everlasting darkness and eternal darkness; the destiny of goats is the gnashing of teeth. Let goat go and let Christ arise that you may approach the light of everlasting life. He who retains his goatish nature will not understand life everlasting. The essence of Christ is to reveal the goat so that you take your goat to the altar for it to be slaughtered for a sin offering so that you can enter into where the light of the judgement of Christ is given. Let goat go that you may have entrance. For this is the secret of understanding. For some have said, I don't understand this light. But I say unto you - let goat go, let goat die. Lay it upon the altar of sacrifice that light may be given unto you; for the destiny of goat is everlasting darkness."
Message Continues…
We determine sheep by pasture; that pasture is to reveal sons. God knows how to reveal our hearts to us so that we can kill our goats. If we allow our goats to grow, our sheep would die. Goat is tiny wickedness. When very little they are not easy to discern. Some of our goat tendencies are strong; a goat’s body is always rough. It is the goat nature that does not listen to instructions. No goat likes leading. A sheep wants to be led. A goat is self-made; it can find its answers. We are all like that.
John 10:27
“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me...”
Mystery must be placed on a flock to know them. The voice of the shepherd is the gospel. Sheep know when you preach the gospel; it is an innate ancient thing - it is the call of the shepherd to the flock to come home. As the gospel is being preached; the flock returns. It is kept a secret because it belongs to the flock. The gospel unlocks the flock.
May we find grace to relinquish the goatish nature in our souls and be converted to become like sheep that can follow the Shepherd.
Message Ends.