We must understand that we cannot hold the word of God if we have not held the word of Christ. What was referred to as “word of life” in 1 John 1:1 is more of a spirit (that is received) than a person. 1 John 1:2, however, talks more of a person. Apostle John didn’t say that the word was manifested but the Life. The former refers to the Word of Life while the latter is the Life that was manifested. We need the help of the Spirit to see what these two things mean. This is a high bible wisdom.
We need the light in Logos to access the realm of the beginning. A kind of life existed in the beginning. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. In him was life; and the life was the light of men.” (John 1:1-2, 4).
Prior to the time when Apostle John wrote the book of 1 John to the Church, they had been taught some things; but he was about introducing them to something he called “that Eternal Life” (1 John 1:2). He was telling the Church that this Life had existed in the past and the Church at this time had not known it. This Life had been before the beginning in Genesis. It was found present already even at the beginning of creation (Gen. 1:1).
Whosoever handles the Word of life, will handle Life. The Life cannot be accessed without the word. This Life from the beginning has word. “Word” in this context simply refer to a body of things that must be learnt before one can hold the Life. The Life is contained in the word; it is attached to the word. According to biblical understanding, the word would become an imprint in the soul of any man who has grasped the life. When we are going into scriptures, we must forget our previous definitions. If not, we will not have a head way. We must be patient enough and wait on scriptures to true definitions according to God’s mind. We call or define things in scriptures according to the level of light that we possess.
There is no way there can be a manifestation of a life without the word. The first manifestation of life is its word. The name of God or the identity by which He can be defined is Life. God is Life and there is no way anyone can know this Life without the word. Anybody who is not willing to invest his time in being educated by the word can neither see nor hold the Life. Without having the word, no one can understand or know the Life. The word is the intelligence that the Life projects.
Learning in the spirit is coming to God. To be learning a thing in the spirit is to be coming to it; and what comes is not the outward man but the soul. Anything you come to, you fellowship with. Fellowship starts when there is a miracle of understanding in your soul. This fellowship will begin to show its many sides and it won’t stop. The word “fellow” was derived from fellowship and they are those who drive the same school of thought; or men who think in the same way. Fellows are men who have access into thoughts that no one else have access to. They hold things together or in common.
So there is no way a man can say that he has seen the word of life when he has not heard. You have to hear before you can see. Seeing is discernment, comprehension or revelation while hearing is wisdom. When you really hear, you will begin to become wise. Wisdom is the response to hearing. A man has become wise unto a thing when that thing now means a lot to him. A man is being made wise unto a thing when that thing calls for attention or beckons, and he is drawn towards it or takes a step towards the thing.
A man cannot hear all of the word of life in one day, he needs to hear many speakings before it can be said that he has heard word. Then the man will move into seeing the word (i.e., beholding the word) and finally handle this word of Life. The word will come to us in bits and pieces as we begin to hear it. For a man to hold or be said to have learnt Life, the words of the Life must have crystallised in him. We hear Life by words. In other words, Life is communicated to us through the word. Every man was given the gift of hearing and we cannot give God pleasure or please Him if we are not hearing Him.
Jesus right now is not in the form of God that He was in the eternal past. There is a way the prophets described Elohim; Ezekiel said He is saddled upon the four living creatures, having the appearance of a man (Ezek. 1:26). God decided to take that form in the realm of the spirit for visibility and so that Ezekiel can describe who he saw. The form of God in the eternal past cannot be described by any man. Jesus had this form of God before creation. “Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:” (Philip. 2:6). John 1:1 also described Jesus as God; He used to be God or Eternal Life without the form of a man. But presently, our Lord Jesus Christ is Eternal Life with the form of a man. This is powerful! This is why He is subjected under God (1 Cor. 15:27-28).
God has been looking for a God who will serve Him. That has been God’s ambition. God’s ambition is His hunger, which is His desire. It is the desire of God that drives His purpose. God’s purpose is what pleases Him, or what can fulfil Him. We cannot blame God for wanting a God to worship Him because that’s who He is. In the first creation, God raised angels in high places and made them gods of some kind of capacity so that they can worship Him (Psa. 103:20). Angels hearken to God, meaning that they hear Him and respond accordingly.
Jesus was a Life from the beginning and that is what we all refer to as God. He is the uncreated Life who is the origin of all things. Jesus was the Life Who created all things without being created Himself. The argument of those who don’t believe in trinity is that the Godhead is not three persons but one person occupying three offices. This is not true! If it was, it won’t be written that the Word was “with” God in the eternal past. This means that the Word was with Persons; they are separate Beings. The word “God” does not just mean “the Father” but a word that identifies the confluence of Godhood. So the Word was among that confluence called God. Our God is one; and the word “one” does not mean one person (Deut. 6:4).
We are able to see (righteously) into the eternal past through the window of John 1:1. John mentioned or described one of the triune personalities – the Word. There were three eternal lives in the beginning: The Father, the Word and the Holyghost (1 John 5:7). John 1:1-4 was rendered in past tense because one out of the Godhead (i.e., the Word) decided to be manifest to creation. He was not forced; He chose to.
Jesus never robbed God if He says that He was God in the beginning because He was actually equal with God. “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God” (Philip. 2:5). People who teach new creation reality and say that they are already God, are driving the light they have to excess and stretching it beyond truth. There is no way a man can be like Logos because we were not there in the beginning. As men, we have our origin in creation; but Logos was a Creator and so He had a different form. Creation has no part in that form of Godhood. Some folks just like to vaunt and talk about realms they are oblivious to. No man had part in the beginning that was before creation; only Three of Them.
It wasn’t a robbery for Logos or the Word to be in equal status with God in the beginning. He was actually equal with the Father and with the Holyghost. These are the three Eternal Life present in the beginning. Eternal Life is what They all had in common but They are different entities. The Father is not the Word, and the Word is not the Holyghost. “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.” (1 John 5:7). Talking about the name “Father”, He was not called that in the beginning; it’s also possible that that has been His name. But this doesn’t mean that Jesus was an eternal Son from the beginning; He was a God just like the other two. However, eternal sonship began with Jesus, the day He was raised from the dead. In the beginning that was before creation, Jesus was not a Son, He was a God. The only thing scripture tells us about their form in the eternal past is that there were only three beings and They are One.
The Father, the Word and the Holyghost are all Eternal Life; and They are One. The form of God that They possess is a type of life called Eternal Life. This Life can exist without creation; They don’t need the heavens and earth. They had existence before heaven and earth were created. It is creation that thinks of heaven and earth. Before God started creating, there was nothing in existence. There was no space nor time. This present earth is in a space; the galaxies also are in a space. Space is a mirage.
The only thing that existed in the eternal past was Life. In the eternal past, space, time and existence were Eternal Life. The Beings that were present were Eternal Life. Everything was Life. So then, creation had to become a substitute for what was. This is why creation is an expression of things that are not seen (Romans 1:20). The creations are actually an explanation of the unseen to creatures of understanding. Angels know God but they don’t know Him enough. Cherubims know God very well, so much that one of them (Lucifer) could rebel against Him but he hadn’t truly known God yet.
There is a reason why Jesus in the eternal past bore the name “Word”. This Word is the Eternal Life. “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.” (1 John 5:7). There is the first person of the Trinity and there is also the third person among the Trinity. Rev. Kenneth Hagin of blessed memory affirmed that Jesus said He is the second personality in the Godhead. Presently, Jesus has all the quality of Eternal Life but in a different form - the form of a man. This is why He is a Son. Jesus was not a Son in the eternal past; He was equal with God. But presently, He didn’t make Himself equal with God; rather He humbled himself. Even when He was exalted, He went to God to submit to Him. And He has made up his mind to be eternally under God. So, the timing of eternity has been switched completely and it happened because of us. Then, we would understand what great sacrifice had occurred, even in the arrangement of the triune God. One of the persons of the Trinity is now like us (man). None of Them was like us, but one decided to take a resemblance of the creation called man. The promise of sending Jesus to creation has been before the foundation of the world but it never happened; until one man (Abraham) took that promise to earth and sealed it. The seed was not given to any man but Abraham.
“For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.” (Heb. 2:16). The seed of Abraham was Christ. The seed was a new creation. According to the flesh, Jesus was the seed of David. And through David, he was joined back to Abraham’s flesh. But the spiritual seed called Christ is of Abraham; Christ is God’s spiritual seed. So, Abraham’s seed was not the physical Jesus but Christ. The revelation of Christ is the revelation of the promised seed. Christ was promised in the scriptures of the prophets, which Jesus the seed of David became. Jesus wasn’t born as Christ; He became Christ. Jesus was made flesh and later became Christ, i.e., He became Abraham’s seed who can receive Eternal Life.
“Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;” (Romans 1:1-3). David’s seed was Jesus in the flesh, but Abraham’s seed was not flesh. Even before the time of Abraham, God (from Genesis) had been talking about this seed called Christ (Gen. 3:15). Christ is the seed of Eternal Life or the power of Eternal Life. Without that Christ, there is no way any one can know God. That Christos is attached to God. There is a thing about Christ and coming to God. The power for entrance into God is a wisdom which God hid, and He could flesh out a person from it (1 Cor. 1:24). So when Jesus was born, He became the seed of David according to the flesh. This Jesus grew into Christ - the seed Abraham received from God (Gal. 3:16). It is this seed that would be blessed by God. If God does not bless Christ, he won’t be the Son of God (Gen. 22:16-18).
God swore an oath to Abraham while blessing him. A blessing that comes by God swearing an oath is not an ordinary blessing. It is the giving of the life that constitutes God to man. The Eternal Life of God cannot be given directly to a natural man; it can only take His own seed (Christ) to receive It. Israel knew Jesus as the son of David according to the flesh; they never accepted him as Christ, neither as the Son of God. This is why they often referred to Him as “Jesus the Son of David” (Matt. 12:23, Luke 18:38). It was not David who warred to get Christ to earth; it was Abraham. Abraham did something to get that seed called Christ into our universe; and for His blessings to also come to earth. The delay in childbearing that Abraham experienced was the corridor by which Christ could come. This means that Abraham never gave birth according to the flesh. Even after He gave birth to Isaac, God told him to take the child and offer him. God was killing something in the soul of Abraham so that he will be able to father the spiritual seed called Christ. Without those dealings of faith, Abraham will not be a conduit to bring the spiritual blessings to earth. The spiritual blessings are not in Jesus but in Christ, because Christ is the spiritual man (Eph. 1:3/4:13). The Son of God is the divine man. The divine blessings can only come upon the spiritual man.
Abraham’s enemies are not men but spirits; and if his seed is not blessed, the gates of these enemies will still be standing. The chief enemy is Lucifer who hell from heaven. So, we need the blessings that comes upon the seed called Christ to be able to possess the gate of our enemies. Lucifer was not originally man’s enemy; he was God’s enemy.
Satan saw what God loved on earth -- man. He decided to marry flesh and became one with flesh. Immediately Satan was made flesh, the Word decided to become flesh also. Man is so enticing to evil spirits. This is demonstrated from the carnal dimension of (demon) possessing men; even much more, there are evil spirits involved with the formation of natures in soul. Man is the only creature that has that capacity to house spirits. We see an example in the man of Gadarenes, who had a legion of demons living in him (Mark 5:9). Those demons were sent into swine and they all perished but one man had the capacity to house them, and he was alive. This shows us the capacity of man. If this is true about the fallen man, how much more a man who has been fully built. A man can be so built that he would house or carry God.
Spirits understood that what God framed as man is a house. God didn’t just make a being; He made a house, and He could foresee how He would eternally make His abode in men (Isa. 66:1-2). However, Lucifer also got attracted to man. He vowed to marry man’s spirit, soul and become one with flesh. The outcome of this is shown in how we automatically think about flesh when we mention sin. Sin became one with flesh. It was not so from the beginning. The outward man or flesh was made beautiful. God’s hand beautifully crafted it; but an enemy polluted it.
Glory be to God - Jesus came to reverse the work of the adversary. “For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:” (Romans 8:3). By Jesus’s unblemished walk on earth, He didn’t condemn man but sin in flesh. To an intent that sin won’t have the right to find expression in flesh anymore. By this victory, we should no longer say that flesh is for sin, but that flesh is for righteousness. Flesh will marry a spiritual reality. Jesus came through flesh and destroyed the works of the devil.
“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). So, it’s clear that without flesh, Jesus couldn’t die; and without death, the devil cannot be destroyed. So Jesus had to die so that He can destroy him that had the power of death. Any man that desires to overcome Satan must die because Satan abides in death.
“I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.” (Rev. 1:18). So, without death, a man cannot get the keys of hell and death. Death is no longer as powerful as it used to be, because the being of death has been destroyed. Destruction does not really mean extinction; it is to render something or someone powerless. In this phase of the revelation of the Son of God, Satan has been rendered powerless.
“Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.” (Gal. 3:16). Jesus is the son of David; but Christ is the seed of Abraham. Abraham did a spiritual obedience to be able to receive the seed or to be able to father Christ. It is important for God to find someone who would father Christ, not just Jesus. God had to rid Abraham of that inner desire that wants to father flesh. Towards the end of Abraham’s life, he was no more concerned about his natural genealogy.
Jesus said that Abraham saw His days and he rejoiced (John 8:56). The day Abraham slew Isaac, he killed his own generation and put an end to himself so that he can own Christ. Then, he called that place “Jehovah-Jireh meaning, “on the mountain of the Lord, it shall be seen” (Gen. 22:14). Abraham saw it and knew what it meant to father a spiritual man, i.e., another seed that will be as the star of heaven; a seed that will not need a woman to multiply, who will not need natural birth to become many. That’s so great power!
God was trying to show Abraham another kind of book of reproduction that is not after the flesh but after the spirit. it’s Christ who has that multiplication power. This is why a natural man cannot father Christ. God removed everything that will father a man from Abraham, and nothing was left. By the time Abraham was returning with Isaac, he had evolved to be like God, who can father Christ. This was when the seed called Christ found a space in Abraham. By spiritual law, there is a space like that in the spirit; such that when you deal with someone like it was done to Abraham, you can expand that man beyond the natural. And the devil also will not be able to argue or raise any charge. Because it would be acknowledged in the realm of the spirit that such a man is no longer a natural man. He is now another man, with the capacity to become the father of Christ.
The access to the promise was given to Abraham and his seed -- both the blessing and the multiplication. It means that Abraham will also become what Christ would become. After the blessing, Christ became the Son of God: the everlasting and eternal Son of God. Abraham also became that after resurrection. This is because our Lord Jesus Christ was the first person who received the blessing. Abraham is not the father of the Son of God. God never claimed Jesus as his own begotten when He was a Christ, He was God’s beloved. This means that God could share Christ with Abraham. However, God fully claim Jesus as His only begotten Son (Heb. 1:5). This is because no man had hand in the resurrection of the begotten Son, Who sat on the right hand side of the Majesty on high. This was the destination of the blessing of God on Christ. This tells us that God is a Warrior, because He began this journey to lead a man to the throne right from Genesis. Furthermore, after Jesus sat on the throne, God said that He needs many more like Himself (Romans 8:29). God wants many sons to be brought to glory; and this means that they will be taught things that pertain to glory (Heb. 2:10).
There is a reason why the second person of the Godhead stood out as the Word (John 1:1). This Word is the Logos or the Eternal Life. This is different from the Word of Life in 1 John 1:1. So, it is possible to handle this word of Life; that is, the word of the person called Life. This is the person that was with God in the beginning before creation. It is this Life that manifests His word for us to understand Him who is called Life. That Life is called Eternal Life “(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)” (1 John 1:2). That Eternal Life is Who is called Logos.
The word of Life in 1 John 1:1 is the understanding of that Eternal Life in 1 John 1:2. Eternal Life is the name of the second person in the triune God. A man can never breakthrough to the Trinity through the Father. The Life that the Father is, is also Eternal Life but of a different complexity or frame. The Eternal God - the Father - is the first person of the Trinity and He is framed in such a way that He doesn’t manifest Himself. So man cannot learn Him separately because He is difficult to learn. Even when He shows Himself to creatures, they won’t know Him (Romans 1:19-21). In the same way, the Holyghost can never be learnt.
So if a man wants to really know the Godhead, he or she cannot go through the Father or the Holyghost but through the information carrier called the Word. So we cannot access the triune God through the Father or the Holyghost. In the same way, God never revealed Logos to the angelic realm. The angels knew about the Father and the seven spirits, which is the Holyghost. However, the knowledge they had was still limited but God kept Logos away from creation.
Creation was familiar with God the Father as Elohim, Yahweh. Even in Genesis, it was first God and then the Holyghost moved over the waters (Gen. 1:1-2). Logos was also present, but He was very silent; He wasn’t showing up to creature. When He would show up, He appeared as an entity that could not talk. He was the rock that followed Israel in the wilderness (1 Cor. 10:4). It’s a physical rock; and that’s why it could give them water. Moses struck the rock when the Lord asked him to speak to it; he never knew it’s a person. God warned him to be careful with the rock.
So there won’t be a proper revelation of God to a lesser creation except the Logos is involved. It is in the era of the New Testament that He decided to make Himself manifest; he came in the last days. Angels and Israel dealt with Yahweh. The Old Testament and the testimony of angels align.
Yahweh was actually a cover for Logos. Lucifer was aware of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit may not be present as a person but he was present as fire and thunder. Angels know and understand the spirit of the Lord. They understood the Menorah and they were even framed after it. But Logos was the hidden One and He is the actual passage to Eternal Life.
“The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.” (John 1:2-3). Everything that made creation was in Logos, even though He wasn’t seen making anything in the beginning. He was not the word that was spoken by God, the words spoken in Genesis came from the secret of the triune God. It’s from their Life. Logos too has that same life spoken by God in Genesis; it’s called the word of God. So, there is a word of God that is not the person of Logos, and that’s what is called the sword of the Spirit (Eph. 6:17). This is indicating the quality of spirit, strength and power that God has. Logos is a person; He is not the spoken word of God.
God can speak things and His spoken words are the same things as God’s word of power. If Logos were to speak, He would say the same thing that God is saying. Holyghost acted on what God said in Genesis because He also has the word inside of Him. Holyghost is a person but He can also flow like a water. He is the ghost among the Life. Holyghost is the eternal spirit; He is the Spirit of Eternal Life (Heb. 9:14).
Holyghost does certain characteristics that are spirits. One of the demonstrations of a spirit is fluidity. It can blow as a wind (John 3:8). Even in the spiritual or celestial, when the Father is seated upon the throne, the Holyghost is burning like fire. That’s His ghost-like behaviour. He is a person but He behaves as a ghost. He is Eternal Life too. The Father, the Word and the Holyghost all have a record; and that record is that life called Eternal Life (1 John 5:7). These three that bear record in heaven are one. The word “one” means that they are one God.
Jesus prayed that the church should be one. However, we cannot achieve this oneness on this present earth but in the world to come. The first age in the world to come will not be enough to get it done. This is because it will take some time for those who are earthly in the world to come to be one with those who are in heaven.
All the three persons of the Godhead are Eternal Life. And They want man to also have this Life. It’s beautiful that one of Them (the Word) became us; one of them is wearing flesh (John 1:14). This is a great message. It is a great mystery that one of Trinity wears our type of body. He didn’t have that kind of body in the eternal past before; He was just Life.
The first gate that will be open to us is the gate of Logos; and what God will show to us about Eternal Life is the Son of God. The doorway to Life Eternal is through our kind of person, Who is our Mediator into Eternal Life. The Son of God is the one who represents us in the counsel of Eternal Life. Without Him, no man is welcome in the sphere of the Godhead.
The reason why the Son will manifest Himself to us is to manifest the Father eventually (John 14:21-23). The person of the Father and the Son is something serious in the spirit. A lot of people talk about heavenly encounters, but most of the encounters are not truly substantial. This is because they do not hold the gist of Eternal Life. Holyghost can show us many things. He can show Jesus to a man even when Jesus is not present; this is because He is the Spirit of the Lord (2 Cor. 3:17). Oftentimes, we don’t see really Jesus; we see the Holyghost. Holyghost is the mirror that animates Jesus. A whole lot of people have all manner of encounters and think they have seen it all. This level is the level of Life Eternal; and it’s being done for the purpose of life. It’s not just to do any kind of gist. When a man comes out of that fellowship of the Godhead, it will be known. The person or nature of such a one will become divine.
The first lesson of divine understanding comes through the Son. The Son is the door. Christ shows us the way and He is also the door at the end of Christ that leads to Life Eternal. If God talks to you outside the Son, He is not giving you Eternal Life but saying something else. There is no door to the Father but the Son. He that has the Son has the Father also (1 John 2:23). But the day you get the Son is not the day you will have the Father; the Son has to prepare you for the Father.
“And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.” (1 John 5:20). The word “come” is an occurrence of the program of the salvation of the soul. The Son manifests Himself for the purpose of saving our souls. He doesn’t just come to have a gist with any man. There is something about the Son and the Father that binds a soul (when They come) so that it cannot be unwound. For a man to be saved eternally, the manifestation of the Son and the Father is needed. It’s beyond just having the understanding of Christ. We get Christ by hearing; but we get the Son of God by manifestation.
When the Son of God comes, He talks, and we must hear. As we keep on hearing, we would see, and go on to look upon, and then we can handle His word (1 John 1:1). The Son of God will help us to handle the word of life. Whosoever has the word of life can now have a clear manifestation; such will begin to see Him. The Son of God will gradually appear by voice and when He comes, He speaks. Furthermore, the Son of God can come and speak but that does not mean that He won’t depart. All the season of His coming is termed “is come” and the purpose is to give us an understanding, so that we may know Him that is true (1 John 5:20).
If anybody says he has the understanding of Eternal Life, he should be able to demystify any passage of the bible. This is because such a person should no longer be thinking as a reader but as a writer. It was not man who wrote scriptures, but men wrote by the understanding of God that they possessed (Job 32:8, 2 Tim. 3:16). There are two ways of writing. There is a type that is a direct prophetic copy, where you write as you hear but the understanding is not yet part and parcel of you. But there is another kind where one writes from the nature or understanding that has been possessed within the soul; just like God possessed Moses' soul after He showed him His back (Exo. 33:19:23). Something was grafted into Moses; Moses’ mind was open, and he was able to write like God did wrote (Exo. 34:1,28). God wrote in Moses; and Moses wrote.
The presence of understanding in a man is the presence of a person. God is opening up a passage for Him to come when He is giving Eternal Life to a man. Anytime a man understands this Life, he is turned towards God. Such a man will no longer think like he used to. The reason why we are unable or limited from receiving is because we were turned negatively. But when God turns a man, he won’t know when the Godhead would have occupied him. It is when we are occupied with the Godhead that they can find expression in us. This is different from possession by lower spirits or demons. When spirits possess someone, his or her physical senses are suspended. That’s a carnal possession. But inheritance is such that our consciousness will be intact because it won’t be without our permission. God works through our understanding and person. God wants to inherit us a vessel because the Lord’s potion is His people and Jacob is the lot of His inheritance (Deut. 32:9). Meanwhile, the Lord is also our own portion in the land of the living (Psa. 142:5). So, we inherit God and He also inherits us too.
The understanding of Eternal Life comes by what the Son of God speaks, and what He speaks is called the word of life. It is through this word that we will be able to have the perception of the Person called Life Eternal. The word will alter the being or nature of any man who has understood it. And by having the imprint of the word in the soul, it would be clearly identified in the unseen realm that the man has word. When a man carries word, he is changed, and he is identified by his understanding in the realm of the spirit. An evil spirit that used to meander and tamper with the man’s understanding anyhow will no longer be able to touch him. Because the man now has a different understanding, he won’t move when he is touched by evil spirits. The evil spirit will know that the man has been delivered from his bondage. So, a spirit can tell when a human being has become higher than him.
There are certain things a man can know in the realm of the spirit that some spirits don’t know. A man can know things that some angels don’t know. Some angels know things more than you; but when you allow Christ to raise you up to the finish, you will begin to know far better than angels (1 Pet. 1:12). The Church must come to know so much better than the angels like our Lord Jesus did. The Son of God wants us to know God Who is true. The true God is the Father of the Son. The Father is true, and the Son of God is also true. The Father is God; the Son is also God. The Son is Jesus Christ but the Father is the true God.
As we engage in learning and understanding, God is taking us to Eternal Life. The first step of differentiating Eternal Life from every other life is to see it as a life that existed before creation. This is what will pose a challenge or throw the soul into a world of adventure. We cannot just know Eternal Life by thinking; someone has to come from the Father to tell and teach us what Eternal Life is.
According to John 3:31-32, when Jesus first came, no man could receive the things He was testifying of. Men and the apostles could hear Him, but they could not receive it. So it took time before Apostle John could write as one who is in the same fellowship of the Son and the Father. This is because he has also seen and heard the testimony (1 John 1:3). However, there were others in the Church who have not yet come into this fellowship.
John was writing and admonishing the Church in 1 John 1 to also come and fellowship with the things or beings they were fellowshipping with. The Apostles were fellowshipping with persons -- the Father and the Son. Apostle John was writing to those he referred to as “ye”, who are not yet in that fellowship. He referred to some as “we”, who are (like him) already fellowshipping with the Father and the Son.
1 John 1:3 is beyond the realm of opening the gate of Eternal Life through the word of life or the understanding that the Son of God brings in verse 1. After the gate of understanding has been opened to a man, such will now sit with the rest who had had encounter with the Son and the Father. It’s not the same duration, there is a time of the Son and there is also a season of the Father and the Son. The Son will first manifest Himself to a man and His intent is to introduce him to another, who is the Father. This is the time when the Father and the Son will begin to fellowship with the man.
“And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.” (1 John 1:4). Those referred to as “we”, who are writing here are the Father, the Son and the fellows. So, Apostle John must have been instructed to write from that world of high fellowship, with the intent of bringing the Church up to this realm.
“This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” (1 John 1:5). So, all that the fellowship is about, or what the fellows with the Father and the Son are celebrating is a feast of light. It’s the season that they will be communicating God. That tells us that we cannot know God just like that, or just by the Holy Spirit. The Holyghost will never mention God or open the realm of God to any man without permission. Infact, the Holyghost cannot open the realm of God directly; He creates the ambience for the two (i.e., the Father and the Son) to come. In the realm of Christ, Holyghost talks; because Christ speaks to the Holyghost and He begins to talk to us (John 16:13-15). But in the realm of the Father, Holyghost creates the enabling environment for fellowship with the Father and the Son. The Holyghost is the transition realm.
This fellowship of the Son and the Holyghost is what is called the communion of the Holyghost (2 Cor. 13:14). Holyghost makes that fellowship of the Godhead possible; and They will all speak through the Holyghost. Holyghost is in charge of this communion. It’s the Father and the Son that would be talking and Holyghost is in charge of the communication. The discussion is the message that the Father and the Son will be having about God. The message is that God is light. The Son alone will not share the message; the Son will bring the Father and both of Them will be discussing about God. They will be discussing who and what God is; to the intent that the joy that the Church has can become full. It is possible to have joy; but we should come into fullness of Joy.
They can be with us, discussing this message and sin can still be present with us. “This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.” (1 John 1:5-7). God is light and when this light is shining, they expect us to walk in it. If we do not walk in it, we walk in darkness. God has adopted us; and He is eager to take us and to deal with our sin. The blood of Jesus Christ is the everlasting blood. This is the state of everlasting life that prepares us for Eternal Life. Every teaching that communicates the message that “God is light” is a push out of the sprinkling of the blood. It is possible to be in everlasting life and not know; so much that one may need another to write to let you know that you have it -- like Apostle John did (1 John 5:13).
The Son of God comes from the realm of Eternal Life, firstly to the sons of the Sanctuary. He would then bring them in, into glory. In the world of glory, He will keep coming there. The Son won’t bring the Father where He first met the sons (i.e., in the Sanctuary); He takes them out of the Sanctuary so that they can also meet the Father. The Son of God will be coming with everlasting life, then declaring the message with the Father. The fellowship will not be with the Son only but with the Father and the Son.
There is a sin that God wants to cleanse us from; it’s called “all sin”. In the same way that we will receive all the inheritance of God, He would disinherit us from all sin. So, what Apostle John called sin is not fornication or stealing - it’s some form of inheritance that looks righteous to us but really are not. We need to be disengaged from such. This is the same thing that was done to Abraham; he was disinherited from Isaac. However, if Abraham will appear in the Most Holy Place with Isaac in his heart; he is falling short of God’s glory and it is a sin to him in that realm. This means that there are certain things that may look right at a particular realm but in another dimension, it would be a foul. This is why God would need to expand some of us beyond our natural family; because some of us can disappoint God due to blood ties. In the everlasting life realm, God will disinherit us from natural lineage. It’s not easy because this thing is in all of us as human beings. We need the everlasting blood for purging or cleansing. Blood is life; we need to be supplied life in other for us to obey light. When light appears, we will see the standard, then we would need purging of the blood to make us meet up to the standard. We need to fulfil the course of everlasting life so as to meet up with the demand of Eternal Life.
“All sin” is all that Satan represents. Satan was the one who sinneth from the beginning (1 John 3:8). He committed the sin in the hidden place. Satan is a sinner in the Most Holy Place; and this “all sin” came from him. He did the sin and imprinted it in us; and this sin shows up when we are in the everlasting realm. The purpose of the everlasting dominion is for us to be prepared unto Eternal Life. We can imagine how notorious that sin must be, so much that it takes the Father and the Son to get rid of. This monster is dealt with in Their presence. So, this sin is not an ordinary one; it’s from a particular life that angels have -- a life created with a high potency. It was that strength of life in the angels (that fell) that turned into sin and this was done in the presence of the Father. The life in these angels was done under a feast of (high) light. Satan was wicked; he looked at this holy and beautiful inheritance on the face and murdered it. He wanted to claim it. So much selfishness! He was given a gift and wanted to claim it; and was malicious about it. That’s who Satan is. This is why we see people who break truce; there was a father who did it -- Satan. Such are people who betray their brethren because of gain. When people love themselves and are unable to hate their lives unto death, such people will fall as a prey to Satan’s temptation (Rev. 12:11). This is glory talks; these are high things of the spirit.
These things of glory are the things of the Godhead. The Father, the Word and Holyghost are the glory. John 1:1 is a scripture of glory; it’s an unveiling of the realm of glory and it’s a great privilege to talk about these things. This is why we must have reverence and godly fear.