The Believer’s Salvation Journey
Every man is on a journey, whether of truth to salvation, or of sin to perishing. At some point in life, most people have wrestled with questions such as these:
1. Why did God not make man perfect from creation, but instead give him a will, knowing that some would choose evil rather than good?
2. Why did God not destroy Satan immediately after he sinned in heaven?
3. Why did God allow the tree of the knowledge of good and evil to exist in the garden, knowing that man would be tempted to eat of it?
There is one answer to these questions—and to many of their unspoken variations in the hearts of men: salvation.
Salvation can be said to mean security, except that this is the highest kind that a man can come into. The sense of having everything perfect from the beginning is a false sense of security that sin gave to man; we feel we would have been better off if God had finalised everything about man at creation. But He didn’t. Instead, He placed man within the realm of time, where growth is possible—where a man can move from where he is to where he ought to be. This movement is what we call the salvation journey.
Without a sense of journey, salvation would not really be true for a creature. Angels possess a form of salvation too, but they were made with it. They did not grow into it like we have to. This is why they do not have the true salvation that God has or is.
The rare privilege of attaining the true salvation state of God has been given to man. Yet, many times, we perceive this privilege as a burden because it involves a journey. To journey is to move from one state to another—to begin something and progressively arrive at its fullness.
Our journey as believers starts from the beginning of God to the end of Him. In truth, God never began from anywhere, nor will He ever end at any time. However, for man’s sake, God condescended into dimensions that could be apprehended. He stepped from eternity—where He cannot be comprehended by creation—into a realm Scripture calls everlasting, where He can be found and known (Isa 40:28).
God also began creation in this realm called everlasting. This is why Scriptures refer to the earth and heavens as everlasting. The first man, Adam, was also an everlasting man.
Everlasting life, therefore, is the realm where the things of God can be accessed, for God created all things in heaven and earth to reveal Himself (Rom 1: 20). The purpose of creation—including man—is to show God. When a man sees Him and captures the full essence of Him into His soul, this is called salvation.
God, Our Salvation
God is salvation. The entire essence of the believer’s journey is the acquiring of God or salvation.
Our father, Adam, though created without sin, was journeying in the garden. This was because he needed salvation—that was the whole essence of creation! The trees he had to eat of until he could get to the tree of life represented the mapping points of his journey. He was fellowshipping with things of God to acquire God’s life in full. Salvation was in progress, even in Eden.
And when Adam disobeyed and sin came into our world, God did not stop his program of salvation. He continued it, though the journey became more difficult for man because he now carried another life within him, a sinful seed seeking expression.
Salvation is often understood only in relation to sin, but salvation did not originate because of sin. Hebrews 9:28 says:
“So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.”
Isaiah 12:2 declares, “God is my salvation”. God is salvation. This is why everything that He wants to do for man and with man is salvation — before the world began, before sin came, and after sin was dealt with on the cross, God will still be saving man.
Salvation is about becoming like God, and God is without sin. So the journey does not start from sin to salvation, but from the beginning of salvation to the end—or the beginning of the learning of God to its end. When the issue of sin came into the equation, the journey only became slower. Sin is like the glitch the enemy brought to frustrate the program of salvation.
It is now clear that salvation has always been the plan, not a makeshift strategy after man sinned. Sin is a nature presently being dealt with along the journey because its purpose is to prevent man from arriving at full salvation.
The narrative changed when sin entered the world. To be saved (in his soul and not his spirit), man must overcome sin and death, which will also be overcoming Satan. This is because Satan is sin and death personified, a nature man ate into in Eden.
As such, we must be given to eating what will detonate Satan’s nature within us. As Pastor Mike Ogunoye mentioned in the last School of the Spirit of 2025, we are approaching the consummation of God’s salvation plan for man, and eating salvation meals is the only way out.
The Believers’ Salvation Journey Division in Meals
A believer starts to take a meal called the milk of the word to grow (1 Pet 2:2). This meal called milk also goes by other names such as The Principles of the Doctrine of Christ and The Apostles’ Doctrine (Eph 1:15, Acts 2:42). It is the meal a believer who is a baby eats to prepare him for the salvation journey ahead. This meal helps a carnal or baby believer to trust Jesus for his material or carnal needs, and to also understand the elementary principles of Christ life listed in Hebrews 6:1-2. This is what makes him grow into a child who can then eat meat.
The Meat of the Word
To begin the journey of salvation or of getting God, a believer needs the meat of the word. This is the learning of Christ life itself, not its principles. A believer needs the meat of the word to be made spiritual (1 Corin. 3:1-3). Pastor Mike mentioned that meat is a lot more technical than milk because it treats our nature of sin. Christ is the spiritual man that man ought to eat and drink from to be made spiritual (1 Corin. 10: 3-4).
To make a man free from sin and death, he must be made spiritual, and then divine. We become spiritual by feeding on the bread and wine, or flesh and blood, of Christ. The holy communion typifies this externally. This meal is also called the Doctrine of Christ. After this meal, a believer will be introduced into the strong meat.
Strong Meat of the Word
The strong meat of the word makes a man divine or everlasting (Heb 5:14). The journey to convert and make a believer completely divine starts with eating the most holy bread/word, which builds a believer into a house for the blood, which ia also an allocation in the strong meat. He journeys further to acquire the most holy blood of Jesus by making covenant, as laws are being written on the tables of his heart. When the laws are fully written, then they become a testament that must be expressed. When the testament is expressed, then testimony is born.
Mathew 26:26-29 makes it clear that there are two breads and two cups that we must partake of as believers:
- The bread and cup of Jesus, taken in the Holy Place/Christ’s kingdom: this is the bread (flesh/body) and cup (wine/blood) needed for the remission of sin in order to be made a spiritual man or Christ.
- The bread and cup of Jesus, taken in the Most Holy Place/the Father’s Kingdom: this is the bread (flesh/body) and cup (wine/blood) of Jesus needed to deal with death, and make man divine or everlasting. This is where servants and prophets of God (of the New Testament) are raised.
But eating the flesh and blood of Jesus is not enough for a man to be completely divine; the book is the seal for both the bread and the blood; this is to make sure one does not lose what has been gained. The first person that God sealed is our Lord Jesus; He kept the prophecy of the book to inherit the life of God completely. He is the first man who inherited salvation/God fully.
We must not be weary of hearing and knowing these things, as it is the only way we can finish our journey. We must do all we can in the year 2026 to ensure that we keep journeying (hearing and doing) until we can become servants of God, and then prophets who will keep the prophecy of the book, thereby attaining the fullness of salvation. (Rev. 1:2-3, 12:11, 19:10, 22:7-9).
Blessings!
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