Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: School of the Spirit (SOS)
Date: Thursday, 14th October 2021
Ministering: Rev. Kayode Oyegoke
The “oraculous” is a tongue that is often seen around the ministry of righteousness. This is what Apostle Paul called “speaking”. The Church ought to graduate from tongues to speaking. We should graduate from praying in tongues and come to a point where we can verbal out known tongues. This is what Paul meant when he said, “I will pray with my spirit and also pray with my understanding” (1 Cor. 14:15).
“For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.” (1 Cor. 14:2). Speaking mysteries means that though one is speaking tongues in a language that is understood by men, it remains a mystery until it is properly interpreted and broken down.
We are not sure if those who spoke in tongues on the day of Pentecost were speaking mysteries (Acts 2:1-11). Scriptures tell us that they were speaking about the wonderful works of God. It might be a mystery but it’s at a different (and lower) level. “Cretans and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.” (Acts 2:11). These tongues are not a direction in the spirit per se. In other words, they were not speaking doctrine but they were speaking about the things God has done. The things they were speaking were not instructions for the believers or things they should do or obey.
The utterance of the Holy Ghost in the book of Acts was to herald the things that God has done. However, the tongues being spoken of in 1 Corinthians 14:2 is a secret that the Church ought to know, and that’s why it’s important that the tongue is interpreted; else, the Church will not benefit from the tongue. This tongue is more of a word of God, a word of mystery that will benefit the body (or the Church) of Christ.
The use of the word “he” in 1 Corinthians 14:2 tells us that the unknown tongue here differs from the allocation of the gifts of the Spirit that was given to every man. “For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:” (1 Cor. 12:8-10). The interpretation of tongues here is meant for the diverse kinds of tongues. However, though this diverse kind of tongues brings a message to the Church, it is still different from the unknown tongue in 1 Corinthians 14.
Diverse kinds of tongues can be different earthly languages, and its manifestation is not only limited to the company of people who have become perfect in Christ or those among whom heaven discusses the wisdom of God (1 Cor. 2:6). The manifestation of diverse kinds of tongues can also be found amidst a Church that is only handling the milk of the word.
Operations of the diverse kinds of tongues is such that is more applicable to the people, and the interpretation will come to the people. On the other hand, the unknown tongues in 1 Corinthians 14 is a tongue to God. We have ignorantly taken this tongue to mean our prayer language, as in when we speak in tongues. But that’s not so because a believer cannot pray in the degree of this unknown tongue if he has not been speaking this tongue (to God). When Paul said, “I speak in tongues more than you all” (1 Cor. 14:18), he was not referring to the length of speaking but height of speaking. Paul was saying that he accesses mysteries more than everyone else. It means that he speaks to God higher than everyone else.
The language or the word of God is the mystery of God. Paul came to a place where he was able to speak the language of God. Normally, the general law of believers who are baptised in the Holy Spirit is speaking or praying in tongues. However, praying according to 1 Corinthians 14:2 is thicker and richer than that. Whosoever speaks unto God is speaking the tongue of God and no man understands him. If there is a tongue of men and of angels, God should also have a tongue (1 Cor. 13:1). The tongue of God is the original tongue. Jesus and the Father can be talking and angels won’t understand Them. They (the angels) won’t access what They (the Father and the Son) are saying.
The tongues of men are tongues of earth (or terrestrial tongues); the tongues of angels are celestial tongues; and the tongues of God are extra-celestial tongues. Whosoever speaks in an unknown tongue is speaking a tongue unknown to men and angels, such a person is speaking a mystery to God. It’s not every believer who can speak that tongue. Paul talked about seeing someone speaking in paradise where he heard words that are unlawful for man to utter (2 Cor. 12:4). If these words are unlawful for a man to utter, then it means that man is not worthy of speaking such words.
It’s not everyone that can speak unto God. Though we can all pray (to God) with our spirit, it’s not every believer who has access to God or His mysteries. God will not open the world of mysteries that are only known to Him to just anyone.
There used to be one tongue in the beginning. God used one tongue in creating everything on earth; that tongue is the tongue of the first creation. It’s the tongue of earth. However, God used another tongue to design or create the heavens. As God was speaking in Genesis, He was creating things. There is no way one would say a thing without a tongue. God did everything with the tongue. Then God blessed them and 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.” (Gen. 1:28).
To subdue the earth is to lay weight on the earth. When God finished with the earth, He gave the tongue to Adam. God gave the tongue or authority (or power) of the earth to Adam so that he can subdue it. No man can rule the earth without having dominion. God cannot commit this dominion to a man if he has not overcome the enemy and his cohorts. The rod is the final thing God commits to an overcomer for the purpose of bringing things under his feet.
God blessed other creatures with the power of multiplication, but He did not give them the power to subdue the earth. God only gave the subduing power to the last creation (man). When God raised man from the dust, He had already put some things in him. The blessing of Adam is not just the ability to be fruitful and multiply, but to subdue the earth and have dominion over it. So it’s possible to be fruitful and multiply but unable to subdue or have dominion.
Man was the one that God chose among creatures of the earth to rule the earth and it’s because he had the building for speaking. When the authority was functioning, he could speak to trees, waters and all things that were put under him. So, Adam was actually dressing the garden of Eden with words, not physical tilling. The earth was supposed to respond to words but we resorted to manual or physical technologies because we lost dominion.
God will not give us His very tongue until the work of posture or building has been concluded in us. It is this tongue that will empty words that are meant for our building into us and when we have developed stature, the tongue will rest on us. The tongue is the rod that will lay on us; we will become carriers of the rod. The essence of doing and finishing the work is to be able to carry the rod of iron in the end.
The rod of God is the glory of God. “And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:” (2 Thess. 2:8). It’s the brightness that presses out the word of God. If glory is not on you, you should not dare to speak. When weight is upon a man, it takes over his vocal cord and expresses its dominion through his mouth. You disseminate weight or glory through speaking. Tongue is the representative of glory. When you tongue, you are dispensing glory. Adam had the glory of the earth because he had all the secrets or mysteries of the earth. So God gave Adam the tongue of the earth. People like Williams Braham touched some aspects of the earthly dimension of dominion. However, we must understand that what God wants to give to us is more than earth, even more than the heavens.
What our tongue represents is a language. Scriptures talked about “the tongue of the learned” (Isa. 50:4). This tongue is not what every believer has because it is a tongue of mysteries. A man cannot talk to God when he is not learned. The tongue of the learned is not ability to speak scriptures but the spirit of another learning or of the unknown learning. “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” (1 Cor. 13:12).
The realm of the unknown is the realm called “then”. A man who knows in part is a knower in the spirit but there is yet a realm that is unknown to him. The realm of the allocation of faith, hope and charity is the realm of now (1 Cor. 13:13), but there is the unknown realm. So the unknown realm or tongue is yet a mystery to a man who has attained charity. However, if such a man can acquire the unknown tongue, the unknown will become known to him. We can only come to the realm of the unknown by tongues.
When you have tongues, you will be aided to speak. God is welcoming us to a season of ascension so that we can speak mysteries, for there is yet another mystery beyond the mysteries of Christ that we will speak with another tongue.
“Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.” (Isaiah 28:9-11). What comes out from another tongue is the instruction of doctrine that would cause people to come into the salvation of their souls. By “another tongue”, God is saying that He would speak to us in ways He has not previously done, and the purpose is to bring us into rest.
There is an increase in angelic activities when you move higher into the heavens. There are mysteries of the heavens, but there are also mysteries beyond the heavens. Christ is aligned from the earth to heavens, and from the heavens to the realm beyond heaven. Jesus is made higher than the heavens. In the world to come, there would be new heavens and new earth, but Jesus has been made even higher than the new heavens. There is an extra celestial realm that Jesus represents. That’s the realm that commissioned Him to have a name higher than all names even in the world to come. “Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:” (Eph. 1:21).
“For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.” (Heb. 2:5). Jesus wants to share the subjective ability He has over things in the world to come with some of us. God has not given the words of the world to come to angels, but He wants to give them to certain men. To subject a world is to bring the world under you. This shows that the world to come is not really our reward, it’s our place of manifestation. However, we must firstly receive and inherit things to come and then we move to the zenith. God is higher than the world to come, likewise Jesus.
God wants to subject the world to come under some men, but there are levels of subjection. The subjective variances are according to heights that those men were able to attain in the days of their flesh. There won’t be breaking of rank or order in the world to come. Jesus showed us a pattern, how that He is yet under subjection even amidst the Godhead (1 Cor. 15:28). In the world to come, the Father rules over Jesus. If Jesus would do that to the Father, we should also be glad to be subject under Jesus in the world to come.