Revelation Hour (5th June, 2021)
Topic: Understanding the Power for Establishment unto Everlasting Life
Ministering: Pastor Tope Falaye
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Romans 16:25-26
“25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith”
Apostle Paul drew the attention of the Roman Church in Romans 16:25-26 to the two gospels (of Christ and of God). However there is centrally just one gospel. One major characteristic of the teaching spirit/grace/ministry is a unique capacity to help expound the word; they shed light on it - comparing scripture with scripture according to the operation of the ministering spirit (Mark 4:34; 1 Cor. 2:13; Heb. 1:14).
When we study scriptures, it requires the strength of the Spirit by the ministry of teaching graces to decipher things. There is the gospel of Christ and the gospel of God. We learn Christ to be able to learn God. In recent times, the Lord has begun to show us that there are even more than two gospels: the gospel of Christ, the gospel of the Father and the gospel of God (Col. 2:2). The teaching ministry meticulously broods on things that the apostolic grace shows forth in their true essence.
Paul was an apostle, a prophet and also a teacher in verity to the Gentiles (1 Tim. 2:7). His epistles are apostolic and has a prophetic might with the grace, wisdom and skill of a teacher which we should not ignore, otherwise, we would not come to the full potential of his writing to us – to become sons of God. This is the reason for all scriptures.
Adam was a son of God, although not in its full potential; as such, he could fall short when he partook of the tree of knowledge of good and evil (Luke 3:38). In the Old Testament, God raised sons in earthly dimensions in their different manners. Adam was an everlasting being from scriptures but in eating into the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, he ate something that was greater than him; he ate a ‘God-tree’. He did not eat a ‘Christ-tree’ or ‘Father-tree’.
Genesis 3:5
“For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”
Genesis 3:22
“And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:”
God did not deny the fact that he had become a god; he tapped into the god-essence but not through the God-route. If he had eaten the tree of life, he would have become as God, knowing good and evil. He passed through another route to know the things that are of gods. He was a man of everlasting strength or had in a shadow, the things of everlasting strength, otherwise, he would not have been put in that part of the garden.
You need faith, hope and charity to learn the Father and then, you need to learn the secrets and the knowledge of the Father and it is this knowledge that will bring you to God. This ordinance has been in existence since the Old Testament, as with Adam.
Romans 16:25-26
“25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,
26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:”
Romans 2:14-16
“14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.”
Paul could call this gospel his gospel because God encountered him on the way to Damascus and told him about this gospel (Acts 26:16-18). What Paul means by his gospel was that the Lord encountered him and told him to open the eyes of the people and turn them from the power of darkness to the power of Christ. This power of darkness is the power of Satan. Without this gospel, the other apostles would not have had access to the other gospel.
Paul, as well as some of the other apostles wrote about the everlasting gospel, but there is a particular gospel that came to only Paul and not the other apostles. Everything about God is in a man; all the gospels are in Him. However, we cannot take everything about God at once, we have to take them in bits. The tabernacle shows order, the scriptures also show order.
Galatians 1:11-20
“11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.
13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace,
16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:
17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.
20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not.”
Galatians 2:8-9
“8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)
9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.”
The gospel that was given to Paul was the basis for the next thrust. There are angels in the Christ stature, and so on. However, He made man - Adam - with everlasting stature. God would not have given him this stature if he did not have the capacity to do so. He made him in this state in hope that he will take the stature in the next level. We know that he had the capacity to take God’s stature because he took the nature or seed of the negative god.
Some have sincerely sought the knowledge of God but have ended up in heresy because they stumbled on the rock (the word of God). The visitation of God to Saul on his way to Damascus was mercy to the human race; God showed him that rock. Christ showed mercy to the early church by appearing to Saul of Tarsus (Acts 26:18). The gospel that he revealed to him here was the key to the other gospels. This was why Satan kept fighting Paul in his ministry because this gospel had what it took to connect men to the Everlasting Father or the Everlasting Gospel. The strength that can endure and see the everlasting gospel is Christ (Isa. 40:28-29).
The words coming to us are words that only a man who has been formed by Christ can learn. God is not in a haste to teach us Eternal life. As such, Christ had to come down from the God-realm to man (a level that man can take) because our problem is sight. He came down after Stephen’s death and knocked down a man with this revelation (through Paul). God promised that He will deliver him from the nature of the Jew and Gentile, which were the two types of men on earth then (Acts 26:17).
Acts 9:4-6
“4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
5 And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
6 And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.”
Acts 26:14-17
“14 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.
16 But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;
17 Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee”
God delivered Paul by opening his eyes and it was what He did in him that He would also do in others. He delivered him from the nature of the Jew and Gentile. He said He would open his eyes and turn him from darkness to light. This darkness is not blackness but another man (another nature). This dark man had given eyes to the Jews and Gentiles and turned them away from God thereby. As such, they will not be able to understand the Bible. We have to be led to accurately discern scripture.
The level of your understanding is the strength of God’s leading in your life. Some people have knowledge of scripture but lack the leading of the Spirit. The leading of the Spirit for a minister is what is responsible for his eyes. We would be going in another direction until the Lord leads us.
Psalm 23:2
“He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.”
No one began their journey by God's leading; we all started by being made. For everyone in the path of life, they begin leading us by making us, and then, we graduate to leading. If they do not lead us, we will not turn from the power of Satan to the power of God. ‘Turning’ is ‘grinding’.
When God wants to begin to 'make us', he ‘grounds’ us. The reason why God begins to shepherd us is for provision of water and green pastures for our souls (Psalm 23:1). For Paul to open their eyes (Acts 26:18), they had to make him. The one whom Saul of Tarsus encountered was Jesus who is the Shepherd over the church; and the experiences that followed - his blindness, etc., were part of the making process for him. Everyone who will walk the path of life will have to go through the process of ‘making’, though it might have different variables. Arrangements in our lives prior to when we encountered this light was a ‘making’ for us.
For our eyes to be opened, we need to be stopped in our track. The essence of this making/leading is to keep us from going the way we want to go. If we are allowed to go the way we want to go, we will never see truth. As such, we should not joke with the words that come from the servant of God from over the pulpit as they come as a result of leading. If something is said on the premise of the servants of God being led and we are not also being led, we will hear but not also hear because we will not be able to appropriate what they say to us. Understanding at any level is precipitated on leading. Anyone that takes leading with levity is playing with his growth, therefore, we have to be led. Leading is the basis for understanding.
When the Lord wants to show mercy to us, He comes into our lives and stops us in our tracks because there is a power at work in every man leading unto destruction. But when the Spirit of God brings the season of Christ over us, He stops us and opens our eyes. The reason for subjecting us and opening our eyes is to make us respond to turnings. The more we respond and turn, the more we are enriched. These riches are revelations, knowledge, understanding, making known of the person of Jesus by truth which is meant to deal with the sin nature in us.
A person’s eyes can be enlightened and he has not turned. He is seeing yet he is stagnant. The reason why we see is so that we can turn. We need to see before we can walk. The power of Satan is the power that governs how people live (Acts 26:18). It is not the day we hear that sins are remitted, rather, it is the day the process of remittance kick-starts. As we hear, we turn (our eyes are opened). As our eyes are opened, the Holy Ghost brings instructions to us. If we miss seasons of these instructions by not yielding to them, we will not have access to more open doors in the spirit.
Leading is tied to knowledge and knowledge when obeyed makes us turn. When we turn, our sins are remitted and we will get the inheritance. Inheritance is the nature acquired through the process; it is what we have become. This whole process is the gospel of power. A powerful life is living by what is being said. The ground for instruction is light, therefore, to play with light is to play with instruction. The Lord cannot instruct you more than the level of light you have. Revelations are at different strengths and the reason for them is for turning and blessing.
They make us, open our eyes, and turn us from darkness to light. Then we are instructed and as we obey, we are being delivered from the power of darkness. The process of being delivered from the power of darkness is the person whose sin has been removed. The person whose eyes have been opened, receives instructions and obeys God exposes himself to a process of turning and deliverance from the sin nature.
Our diseases (in the soul) vary - some are cultural, ethnic, national, traditional, etc. The Holy Ghost therefore brings specific instructions to deal with our different soul diseases. The instructions may not be directly targeted at the obvious infirmity but may first address other issues because lights are in grades. For instance, a believer struggling with the infirmity of malice may first be instructed as light comes, to love and prefer her sister. The Holy Ghost leads us to detach us from our will; it could be from our child, husband or even our pastor. At a level of growth, before we get to ‘hope’, the leading of the Holy Ghost can be persuasive. At the level of Christ, everlasting life and eternal life, leading becomes a commandment.
In turning, by responding to the instructions of the Holy Ghost, power is broken. After sin nature has been purged, it will get to a time when we inherit the nature that the Holy Ghost is bringing to us through those instructions. To remove the power of the nature is like killing a man while he stands but the blessing is in cooperating with the death. A man who has journeyed from faith to hope to charity will become an expert in yielding to death. There will be a time when we will have mastery of death (at the level of fervent charity). He will be able to go to this place again because he has inherited the nature of charity; meanwhile, someone with the nature of the old man will not go back to that situation that will cause him to die. A charity man can do this because he has inherited a nature. A charity man suffers love; he endures all things (1 Cor. 13:4). When the Lord brings certain seasons around us, it is for a nature. If the Lord can work a nature which process begins with making, light, turning, power broken, nature purged, sin removed, nature imputed (inheritance) from beginning to the end, it will make a man powerful.
Romans 16:25
“25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,”
This ‘my gospel’ is the preaching of Christ (faith, hope, charity). It is the preaching that begins by our eyes being enlightened, turning from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God (Acts 26:18). A man in whom this gospel has been wrought is established; he is stable and not tossed to and fro. It does not mean he cannot fail but he is established to take another thing.
Romans 16:26
“26 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith:”
Power is faith. A person should learn faith to come learn everlasting gospel.
Hebrews 13:20-21
“20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.”
In the Most Holy Place, there are two covenants: the everlasting covenant and the covenant of eternal life.
2 Peter 1:3-4
“3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”
Through the gospel of power or preaching of Christ, these people have escaped corruption that is in the world through lust. It is to such people that God commits exceeding great and precious promises. There were given great and precious promises so that they will partake of divine nature. However, the fact that we have escaped does not automatically make us have the nature.
2 Peter 1:5-8
“5 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
6 And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
These things are the bridge between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place; they should not just be in us but also be in abundance. It is the Holy Ghost that teach us how to add but we also need to have a sense of adding. The Holy Ghost adds based on our levels.
2 Peter 1:8-9
“8 For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
9 But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.”
Those who add these things (2 Pet. 1:5-7) will not be barren or unfruitful in the knowledge of the law (2 Pet. 1:8). These things will add to sight. What is a far off is everlasting life (2 Peter 1:9). If we slip from these things, some works that had been done will slip. We are instructed to allow these things speak to a level that they will allow for us to add more things
2 Peter 1:10-11
“10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
11 For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.”
If these things are not done, it is possible to stumble (2 Peter 1:10). There is a kingdom that is Christ but there is one that is everlasting, which is the realm of the Father. It is this realm that will deal with iniquity in us to enable us inherit God. We need to trust God to finish our Christ curriculum, even as God is speaking to us from the realm of the everlasting light. There is the gospel of power and there is the commandment of the everlasting gospel.
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