Believers’ Convention 2024 (Day 6 – Morning Session)
Date: Friday, 23rd August 2024
Minister: Reverend Ken Igbinedion
Topic: The Preparation for the Coming of the Son of God
Tongues and Interpretation (1)
“There is a portion with you. There is a portion also with you, My servant. There is a portion also with you for you to dispense to My people. There is a portion in your mouth. Yea, there is a portion of the builders on the table that you are to serve, that you are to serve. You are to serve a portion of the fat, a portion of the blood for My people to ingest upon this mountain. For upon this mountain I am charting My own way, My way, My way, My own way. This meal being served is a creation of the way. It is a creation of the way. It is a creation of the way, yea the highway that will allow for He that is coming to come. For highways must be formed, highways of holiness, even the highway of holiness as a result of the leveling of the mountains, of the filling of the valleys, of the straightening of the crooked paths and the smoothening of the rough places so that that way is made plain. And with you is the portion to make it plain, relatable that everyone will walk on this way and meet their Lord as He journeys towards them like the prodigal son who found the way back to the Father and met the Father on the very way that has been crafted. You also will pour a meal, will serve a meal that will cause them to return and meet Him on the way, meet Him on that highway. A portion is in you. A portion is in your mouth for to serve to My people. So serve, so serve that they may eat and the way may be made plain and I may come even as I have determined to come.”
Message Begins
A time will come when we will have to leave our current state of service whether or not we like it. The important thing is, while you are there, ensure that something meaningful is done in you and through you.
Why are we where we are? Why are we here right now and why are others not here right now? If many are called and few are chosen, what are the criteria? Everybody must know that we are in a race to get somewhere. We started to have issues when we took new creation realities to the extreme. New creation realities ought to open eyes to the realm of the spirit. However many have gotten here and got stuck; they could not see beyond these realities. They have abandoned the race set before us and decided to claim the reward at the end of the race without being a part of the process. As a result, the journey got terminated. As beautiful as new creation realities are, it has made a shipwreck of many people’s faith. When some hear that the Son of God is come, they can ask: “how can One who is within me come?” When the purpose of a thing is not known, abuse is inevitable; so understanding must come. Where there is no understanding, death is inevitable.
Matthew 13:19
“When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.”
The wicked one can steal away because you did not understand. The one who has understood a matter is one who can stand a matter from under. Whenever Jesus taught, He always asked if they understood. If you cannot stand a matter from under, you have not understood it. This is not head knowledge, it is a heart formation. New creation realities were to show us what Christ has done. We must understand that Christ’s race is not our race. When we hear that Christ has done it, that was His own race, we must run our own race while looking at Him. We have to run this race looking up.
Hebrews 12:2
“Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”
It is not about gathering information, it is about experiencing formation.
Galatians 4:19
“My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you…”
It must be clear that you cannot stand at the new birth and be claiming the end of the race. There is so much to learn. Ministers that God has called are going through in-service training; they were not made perfect before starting ministry. So, as they grow some of them have to reteach what they had thought previously. Assumption is the lowest form of knowledge. If it is a journey, it means that everybody must enroll by him/herself. This journey is a birth canal where everything that is of you is purged. Anybody that refuses to go through this canal cannot see God.
John 14:6
“Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
The journey is to come to the Father and not heaven. Heaven is what it is because the Father is there. There is a goal and that goal is God. In heaven, God is a Spirit to those who are spirits. Jesus cannot be bypassed to get to God. He is the manifestation of the unseen God, not only here, even in heaven. There is no way any man can know God outside Jesus. If it is not clear, we will think we are doing religion. Christianity is not a religion. We are not trying to please God, somebody has lived and has pleased God and God testified of Him. If we follow the steps of the One who has pleased God, we will please God. That is what brought about the Bible. Abraham and the patriarchs did not read any Bible; men had lived and pleased God before the Bible was written. It means that God is beyond the Book, but it was given to us as a memorial so that our references will not be outside the Book. We are not in the days where men lived and pleased God without the Book. Now, you have to come to the Book to please God. In it, we see how men have walked, things that have been laid for us and how to please God. You cannot choose to go your own way and end up pleasing God. Do not query that Jesus is come. Jesus is come. We are not here to learn the English language. Jesus is come is not theology, it is a sounding of the Spirit that only those who are waiting and expecting Him will hear. In the Jewish religion, the trumpets meant different things; there was a trumpet to journey, a trumpet to stop a journey, a trumpet for war, celebration and gathering. This sound became an anthem that they could recite. We also must give ear to the sounding of the spirit and know the sound.
Isaiah 7:14
“Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”
Isaiah 9:6
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”
A child is born, a Son is not born. A Son is a product of instructions. This is why a son is given. A child must be born. We are all children of God but to become sons of God, we do not claim it, we obey instructions. Sonship is a product of a work. Therefore God does not want us to remove the process.
This verse says His ‘name’ and not His ‘names’ shall be called. Emmanuel means God with us, and this is different from God is with us. The goal of this whole work is that God who is Spirit, who is out of the seen, wants to be seen. The reason for church is for God to be seen. It is when God is not seen that other religions think we are the same.
Judges 21:25
“In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.”
The essence of Jesus coming was to show us who God is. Thank God that Jesus died but beyond that, the death of Jesus was not primarily because of you. Certain things must be clear so we can sit down and learn. There is a King to which we are gathered and He is the reason for the gathering. You do not come to God because you want to do ministry. The end must be clear, we have not been called to Him because we want to serve Him. God is not primarily looking for who will serve Him. Your understanding can create a limit because your understanding is your expectation. Even in your expectation of Jesus, there is a reason why you are saying He should come. God did not call you to serve Him primarily, He called you to become. Otherwise you can get so carried away by ministry and your building is at a limited level. There is a building going on.
God saved your spirit but He purchased your soul. Our souls were like slaves, when a slave is bought from a slave market, he does not automatically become one’s child. Such a slave will not regard those who bought him as his parents because he still has a mindset that he is a slave. The danger in claiming the things of the spirit is that one can think all of God has been invested in him because his soul has been purchased at new birth but once saved is not forever saved. Salvation is a procedure, it has a beginning and an end. It is a process and as you are going through the process, you are changing; you are becoming that for which He called you. What God is doing is that He brought every soul into a place called church and this is where heaven is downloading the presence called Jesus. Jesus is the meal, He is the food.
Jesus went ahead to break bread and said this is my body given for you, He then said this cup is the new testament in my blood which is for you (Luke 22:20).
John 6:53
“Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.”
There was a reason why people followed Jesus, so also there is a reason why we all came. Where the problem is is when they want to change the hope of your coming to the hope of His calling. Abraham was led to leave His country and this was not because he read a book, he did not have any reference for this (Gen. 12:1-2)
John 6:67-68
“Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? [68] Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.”
After the feeding of the five thousand, one would have expected Jesus to follow up on them. But He even said to His disciples, the 12, ‘would ye not also go?’ and Peter responded that to whom shall we go, thou hast the words of eternal life (John 6:68). This was a test and one would have thought that Peter had passed but there is still another appearance. Yet when Jesus was taken, He betrayed Him even after boasting that he would not. This is how we boast about ourselves sometimes. When you are around Jesus, it is better to allow Him to do the talking while you do the listening.
John 13:38
“Jesus answered him, wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice.”
The meaning of what Jesus says is interpreted by the level of your growth. Your lusts can speak to you, even in an audible voice. If it was the Lord that spoke to you and something went wrong you will not be ashamed to bring it to spiritual authority. It is when it is you that your pride will keep you from coming. Locate where you missed it and turn, return from that way because you can stop your conversion process if you continue on your path. Your salvation curriculum can be hampered.
God is saying to you, ‘building you is more important than you building for Him’. Jesus is speaking to us, He is the One that can speak the Father.
Hebrews 1:1-2
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds…”
Why appearance? Why coming? This coming is not a physical coming, a soul must have been receiving life to see Him when He comes. If a soul has not been receiving life, when He shows up, the soul will not see Him. He is bringing elements of God: the things that framed God and He is coming to teach us. Every appearance is a teaching time and every teaching time is salvation time. Two things are involved during teachings, one is repentance and the second is that you will be transformed and converted (Acts 3:19).
Every soul has come to Him and He is going to be investing in them; this is what His coming is for. The end of that investment is that souls would have been saved. Investments are going on through words the Son is speaking. This is because, as He is speaking, something is happening. We have all obeyed the Holy Ghost to a point but to obey the Son, you will be given commandments. You must have heard things from His mouth, and in obeying them, you would be gathering eternal salvation.
Hebrews 5:9
“And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him…”
All our souls came with their own writings that is why He has to write on our souls. We cannot wish or pray away the writings in our souls. If we look at it keenly we may discover that those writings are present in our mothers and grandmothers’ loins. If faith can have a transgenerational effect, so can infirmities (2 Tim. 1:5).
There are things written in our souls that cannot be removed by ourselves, it takes the voice of His mouth. That voice comes to shake everything that the Father has not planted so that a new handwriting by the Holy Ghost can be written. Then you become pure, holy, sanctified and undefiled.
Message Ends.