How to Serve God the Father More Acceptably and Perfectly

Transcript Summary

1. The revelation of Jesus Christ is the showing forth of the ordinance of serving God, the Father. God gave the revelation of Jesus (Rev. 1:1) because it is only Jesus that is currently serving God. Jesus is a son who is serving His Father. Malachi gave that prophecy when he was teaching about priesthood (Mal. 3:17-18). It is a son who serves in the ministry of a high priest. Thus, one who is not a son cannot serve in that ministry. That is why the ministry of priesthood was given to Aaron and his sons (Num. 3:10).

• “Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.” (Revelation 3:2). “Thy works” here means “your service.” The revelation of Jesus was to show why the Son of God ‘is come’ and why He is showing things. God gave the revelation of Jesus Christ to His servant John to give to other servants in the churches, ordinances of serving God the Father more acceptably unto serving Him perfectly.

• John showed the Church that they can start using the word of God, which is the book of the covenant and the testimony of Jesus, to carry out service, until the Church is ready to use the prophecy. The Church cannot use the prophecy until they have assessed and used the testimony of Jesus into a place of testament. After John received the book (Rev. 10:9), the ark of the testimony of God was open (Rev. 11:19).

• (Heb. 9:1). The ordinances of divine service are attached to the covenants. It is not only the covenant that has ordinances, the testimony also has ordinances because one cannot serve God haphazardly. There is an order to serving God; it has to be done line upon line. Ordinances are measuring lines of serving God acceptably. Ordinances of divine service are necessary for inheritance.

• John bore record of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ and served God. The word of God is spirit and life. One cannot serve God without the revelation of Jesus, for God will not accept this service. One cannot serve God acceptably or perfectly without the revelation of the Son of God. The Son of God must come and when He is come, He must come to manifest. There must be a manifestation of the Son of God in the midst of the churches or in the midst of the elect; He must come and signify ordinances. Ordinances are measuring lines that must be seen.

• The High Priest brings a commandment to serve the Lord. How we show that we love the Lord is by loving our brethren with a pure heart fervently. In Christ, we love with a pure heart, but the commandment that the High Priest will teach a newborn babe is to love fervently with a pure heart.

• It will take the fervent love of a pure heart to be able to keep this commandment that will lead to one being born as a newborn babe in everlasting life. This is a babe in everlasting life that will take the sincere milk of the word. A newborn babe is made by the fervent love of a pure heart. It is a pure heart that can see God (Matt. 5:8) and when one is seeing God, such a person is seeing the commandments that the Son of God brings. To see God is to see the commandments or the ordinances of serving God till one becomes a newborn.

• (John 4:23). The Father seeks for men who will worship God, who will serve God in spirit and in truth. Spirit and truth are ordinances needed to serve God. Without these ordinances, one cannot serve God acceptably. The seven churches in the book of Revelation had been raised but they lacked the ordinances of divine service (Rev. 2 & 3). As such, some of the churches were using the doctrines of Nicolaitanes (Rev. 2:15) and Jezebel (Rev. 2:20) to serve.

• The ordinance of rest should be learnt by those who labour and are heavy laden (Matt. 11:29-30). One can labour with religious spirits because such has not found the ordinances of the laws of spiritual commandments to carry out service that is well pleasing, acceptable and perfect to God. The ministry of the Son of God in our midst is to show us the ordinances of serving God.

1. (2 Chr. 15:3). A teaching priest is a man who teaches the ordinances of serving God; it is not just about doing service, rather, one must be able to serve God until He accepts one’s person. Your person is your inheritance. As service is taking place, one is being converted to become acceptable to God. That is why there is a need for ordinance to order one’s mind because not every kind of mind can serve God. One thing that disqualifies one from serving God acceptably is the mind.

1. (Rom. 12:1). “Your bodies” here means your mind and your heart, which are translated as your members. We are to present them to God as a living sacrifice. All our members are to serve God, but we cannot do this without law and the person that holds those ordinances is the person of the Son. The ordinance of serving God acceptably and perfectly is the Son of God. This is why we need the ministry of the Son of God and that is why His person is come.

1. (Psa. 25:14). To show His covenant is to show the ordinances of the covenant. The ordinances of the covenant are the secrets, which are the lines, that must be shown. They are also called doctrine and they are with them that fear Him. Those who are rewarded in the book of Revelation (Rev. 11:18) are they that fear Him because they have access to the secrets. One cannot make covenants without accessing secrets, and those secrets are needed to be able to serve God until one is able to make covenants.

1. (Eph. 4:17-18). Understanding is darkness. Our understanding is darkness, but through the ordinances of Christ, we are changed. At some point, our person becomes light (Eph. 5:8), just as God is the true light. This is the message we have heard of from the beginning that God is light (1 John 1:5). When the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus is obeyed (Rom. 8:2), it will show us the lines. He will teach us and we will acquire those lines and as we do so, we are changing and being converted. This conversion is from darkened understanding or blindness of our hearts.

1. (Heb.‬ 12‬:25‬-28‬). The first measuring line is godly fear. Godly fear is a criterion to serving God acceptably. Godly fear will cause one to have a breakthrough into the secrets of the Lord; it will give one mercy. Godly fear positions one to accept the secrets of the Lord because the secrets of the Lord are with them that fear Him (Psa. 25:14). It is those that fear Him that He will show covenant. Without fear, one will not have access to secrets. Thus, we must cultivate fear this season.

1. We cannot serve God effortlessly until our soul accesses ordinances, secrets and lines. Fear is not an impartation, rather, it is cultivated. Fear is a working of the law of spirits. Fear is a law; it is a spirit (Isa. 11:2). Fear is worked out through subjection of the Spirit and exercise of certain obedience. It is a nature of the heart needed to serve God acceptably and perfectly. Fear is a secret of the Lord, but one does not stumble on it – it has to be worked in a heart.

1. The beauty of the New Testament is that the Son of God has these ordinances in Himself and He wants to show them to us via the Spirit of truth. He wants to commit this secret to us so that we can make covenants. The children of the Lord are them that fear Him. He will show them and teach them His covenant and His testimony, but the key is fear. The meeker one becomes, the more fear the person develops. That is why the law teaches us to become meeker for the purpose of having more fear.

1. These ordinances of divine service must be well done. We can see Jesus our Lord who was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things He suffered (Heb. 5:8-10). He showed God that He feared Him by going through all the things He learnt. Jesus observed ordinances and one of the ordinances was fear. He did not only observe the ordinance of fear but also the ordinance of trembling. Thus, we should serve God acceptably with trembling and fear. 

1. Reverence is honour, but God wants to teach us fear because without fear we cannot have reverence. We should have honour for spiritual authority, brethren and spouses, so we can serve God acceptably and perfectly.

      Blessings!