Programme: Believers’ Convention Prayer Meeting 2021 (Week Seven Day Two)
Date: 27th July, 2021
Powered by: Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Minister: Reverend Kayode Oyegoke
Transcript Excerpts
Hebrew 8:1-3
"Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; [2] A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. [3] For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. "
The true tabernacle is the tabernacle of God, and it is the Holiest of All. The One who pitched it is God. The Sanctuary (the Holy Place) precedes the true tabernacle. The Lord God pitched this tabernacle because that is the tabernacle the Father would come into. It was pitched in the spirit. As Jesus was teaching men on earth, He was laying a foundation in the spirit; He was laying what the Father had laid. The Father laid them as secrets in the prophets and Jesus fetched them from there. This foundation was not clear to man at that time until Paul came and painted the picture (1 Cor. 3:10). Paul also laid a foundation by unveiling these secrets to the saints. Then, Apostles like Apollos watered by expounding what Paul had laid to believers.
Strong apostolic grace is to be able to do invisible structuring. God does not work in the visible. Jesus had to reveal what the Father is doing, therefore, He granted Paul to see what the Father was doing.
The Father is the dimension of God that does everlasting life. The Father's work is everlasting work. The Father pitched the true tabernacle; therefore, the moulding of a man by everlasting life ought to follow the pattern of the pitched tabernacle before he can be called a true tabernacle. The Father pitched it in the spirit within Himself and brought it out as a work. For the first time, the Father was working on earth; He had never done this before. That is the work of everlasting life which He did on Jesus. He had never done that job of making a Son like that.
The Father was working what was a work in Him. The true tabernacle was hidden in God. The true tabernacle is the Holiest of All. The Holiest is a life put together by God in our Lord Jesus Christ. It was never created but has always been in God. There are people in scripture who stood in that tabernacle, like Balaam. Balaam was not a man of the sanctuary but a messenger of the holiest. He saw the visions of the Almighty (Num. 24:4). The Almighty means the Father and He saw His works. The Lord Almighty is a revelation of the Father and the vision of the Almighty is the vision of everlasting life. This vision is based on the understanding of the word of God and the intent of God
Numbers 24:16
"He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open…"
‘Words of God’ in this scripture do not refer to words of Eternal Life, they are still words of everlasting life. We need the words to see the vision. God used everlasting words to pitch the tent. Therefore, we would see the stature of the everlasting Father. His words are what made up the Almighty.
The experience of Balaam was similar to that of Paul when he was caught up to the third heaven. However, Balaam’s experience was of a lesser quality than the quality of the New Testament.
For the earth, we have The Court, Holy Place and Holy of Holies but in heaven, we have the Court, Holy Place and the Holiest. This is the same pattern in the world to come. God used heaven and earth to paint the world to come. The true tabernacle is the one that is of the New Testament and it was pitched for Christ. Every son of God that must come into glory must meet the demand of the pitched tents. God wants His sons to be like the everlasting Father.
1 Peter 1:2-3
"Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. [3] Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead…"
There is an allocation of the resurrection from the dead. The power that raised Jesus from the dead can only present one to be an elect that would be qualified for the obedience and the sprinkling of the blood. One can be an elect through the sanctification of the spirit but may not yet have the inheritance. The inheritance of all of Christ is that a soul is sanctified. What makes the inheritance is who Christ is. It makes us holy, but we can still be corrupted. It's an inheritance to be holy – a holiness by sanctification.
Sanctified brethren in the holy place are being referred to in kingdom hierarchy as royal priesthood. Brethren who are in the kingdom, who are yet to come into sanctification and are in the courts of the tabernacle are referred to as the holy nation. The brethren in the holiest of all are referred to as a peculiar people.
Exodus 19:2-5
"For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount. [3] And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; [4] Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself. [5] Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine…"
People are treasures. Nothing would make one a treasure of God except such one keeps His covenant, and obey His voice and word. It is not boasting to hear the Holyghost; it would take heaven to decide that. The order is that God would speak to a congregation. Meekness must be involved in receiving the blessing, so it is demanded of us to hear. His voice is the personality through whom He speaks. The voice would move us forward; it would open one's path and prosper the soul. There is something that had made us crude; therefore, we need light of understanding.
If we want to take out Satan and his light, we must be hearing God. Satan also raises men who talk to us; they are inventors of evil things. Nimrod spoke to a generation and they all turned from God. He was a preacher to people. Sheep are designed to hear; this is not to negate the leading of the Spirit. Ministers don’t have rights to tamper with the leading of the Spirit, but they are there to help one out to help the person pick it clearly and avoid error. They listen to the leading we have heard and weigh it by the word. Many times, they discover we aren't being led. Ministers set over us have been trained to master leading, and so they can discern when a leading is wrong. They lead the sheep and follow the sheep. If it is of God, they follow it; if it is not of God, they would need to help us out of it.
It is good to grow in our witnesses. Leading of the spirit is beyond the inner man. The inner man should confirm the upon. Many times, we are not even aware we are being led. Sometimes, angels are sent to help us move too. They police us; there are law enforcement angels. Some are sent to make sure that we don't move in error. Some have driven their angels away because things were not working well in their natural. If we understand the life of God, we would understand how He leads. We lack understanding of what life is. When the natural does not go as we plan, we would regard it as a misfortune. Many times, they hinder some natural exploits because they are on the wrong paths. We often go off God's path.
The Holy Ghost would not be able to lead us if we have strong attachments to our earthly life. Many times, we are joined to idols; and delivering some of us from our idols would cause us to get to heaven unholy, because we go with idols. Many think they are pure, when really, they are not. The things that we often crave for and desire to have are not the good things of the kingdom. Satan tries to talk us down into believing that he has something better to offer, when the only things that he has to offer are ephemeral things. Some believers are sometimes left alone to continue with their idols instead of being led away from their idols. Such believers arrive at heaven and are put to shame because of the level of holiness that is present there (1 John 2:28). The earthly things that we pursue after are nothing compared to the glorious things that we are called to seek after. When we meet with Jesus, we would realize how glorious He is. He is so glorious that He makes every other thing around Him ashamed and spellbound.
The incorruptible inheritance is higher than the inheritance of sanctification. While the former is a most holy place inheritance, the latter is a holy place inheritance. The Most Holy Place is the realm of the incorruptible, undefiled, and that fades not away. It is in this place that the corruptible is made incorruptible. How we would attain this is that we would be taught the manner of life that is incorruptible. We have once engaged corruption and lived out disobedience. However, in the incorruptible realm, we would be given the skill to keep ourselves incorruptible and undefiled. We would be taught to obey the incorruptible life. In doing so, we may fail at first, but by continuing therein, we would gain mastery of the incorruptible inheritance. As we gain mastery, we would overcome the works of the devil.
All evil spirits are devils. Beyond the oppressions and possessions of demons, they also teach men unclean things. Evil spirits are higher in their operations and are responsible for teaching men natures. The day that we start disobeying the things that bind us with these spirits, our covenants with them are being broken and they fall as men soon begin to disobey them in large numbers.
How we come into the incorruptible inheritance is by being born again by the incorruptible seed (1Pet. 1:23). By understanding, we enter into the things that are guarded/reserved for us in heaven (1Pet 1:5). These reserved things are to be transacted with by revelations. The things which God reserved in heaven for us is our salvation and we have to transact with them.
The season of being born of the incorruptible seed is a season wherein Satan shows up; a time of warring with the spirits of corruption. These spirits are wicked spirits in high places. This corruption is what Jesus hated and because of this hatred, the scepter of His Kingdom is righteousness (Heb 1:8). The instruments that make up His scepter are righteousness and judgement (Isa. 28:17). He has an incorruptible dominion. Men who do likewise by fighting wars with certain spirits would be regarded as kings of incorruption. These men would war with these spirits of corruption by disobeying them.
Jesus is the minister of the sanctuary. He would appear in His temple to receive the sons of the kingdom and pass them from the Holy Place into the Holiest. His major task is to take them from the sanctuary and make them end up in the true tabernacle (Heb 8:2). He is the messenger of the covenant; this covenant is the everlasting covenant (Mal. 3:1). The messenger of the covenant steps down from eternal life into everlasting life, and down to the holy place from where He harvests sons. He does this in order to bring in the everlasting righteousness (Dan. 9:24).
This is why He has given us the ministry of reconciliation and for which He was made sin (2 Cor 5:18). This sin is iniquity. He who knew no sin was made sin (1Cor. 5:21). This sin is not the sin of fornication but the sin life that men have been committed to. Sin is the offer of another life that we should live on earth until light comes.
He was made sin so that we may be made the righteousness of God (2Cor. 5:21). This righteousness is a work of the word of reconciliation. This work deals with iniquity which God hates. There are certain things which God hates that are resident in us. God hates them so much that Jesus had to be crowned for hating the same (Heb 1:8-9).
When a man peruses and enters into the thought realm that peddles thoughts of things that are not convenient (including homosexuality etc), he is engaging inquity against his conscience. Such a man is a murderer and has used an invisible sword to stab his conscience. Iniquity is the opposite of equity which is righteousness.
The premises upon which Satan first deceived man is that they could not see God and were convinced to live a life without Him. However, men are currently being hardened to a point where they would deny God even when He shows up. This is going to be borne out of desire to live without being under the control of another being.
Satan did something through certain cultures to offend the woman and make her apprehensive against the man. The woman ought to be content with her place as the weaker vessel. The weakness of the woman's nature does not make her out of place. There is great wisdom in being a weaker entity. Many things survive because they have a weak nature. Strength is not shown by dominating over others. True strength lies in enduring.