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here are two things that will make the salvation sure to us: suffering and glory. The suffering is also part of the salvation, then the glory that should follow culminates it (1 Pet. 1:11-12). The suffering is the training for the glory; it is the leading of the Spirit for conversion to be heavenly.

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2 Corinthians 6:16). God wants to be our God and we, His people. It is at this point that He would have saved us. When God has established His throne in a soul, it means Jesus is seated in that person.

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If a man is not doing what he knows, his conversation (manner of life) can be too low compared to the height of knowledge he has received. We should match the things we are hearing with the conversations we have. Change has come to a man who has conversations, having heard and obeyed what he has heard (James 1:22).

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The Lord Jesus is the first Sheep of the Father. The Father led Him, spoke to Him and instructed Him to the cross and He kept on obeying. The Father said anyone who wants to be like Him should obey Him. Therefore, we must be led. We would expect a lot of subjective leading. The leading of the spirit is for salvation. It is not just to know what to do when there is a decision to make.

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The Holy Ghost wants to train us to hear His voice. For this to happen, we must know the voice of the scripture so well. The scripture has a way it sounds; it has its own voice. Nobody should hear the voice of the Lord if the Holy Ghost has not trained him well (Heb 3:7-8).

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There are also conversations where we ought to decrease so that the Lord will increase (John 3:30). The conversations where God increases are the ones He sees in secret; they are the conversations filled with virtue and bring praise to Him (Phil. 4:8).

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There is an inheritance of the first allocation of the gospel and the inheritance is a measure of the person of Jesus. It was that person that Philip became and he could preach Christ. Philip was not preaching Christ from the revelational point of view as the power of God; it was Paul who delved into that and revealed the mystery.

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Jesus wants to love you; He wants to love each and everyone of us. Jesus wants to love us in a personal way that will be our portion. One can have His knowledge but may not know Him. The going in and out of Jesus is for us to know Him. Going in and out is the ministry of a shepherd and that of a bishop. “To go out” is a shepherdic ministry while “coming in” is the ministry of a bishop. As He comes in, Jesus will deposit things in us.

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When a man is with Jesus, he will know how easy it is to deal with a spirit like Satan. Jesus is a very superior Man; this is why we need to stay with Him. He wants us to be with Him so that He can receive us to Himself (John 14:3).

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