Journeying Toward the More Sure Word of Prophecy (The Divine Mind)
Transcript Summary
1. Our prayer is that God would bring us into understanding and discernment of the things happening in this season so that we can know how to apply our hearts to wisdom. We must understand that this is not just the season of prayers for convention; convention has already started and the posture of heart we should take is the posture of the five wise virgins already prepared and waiting for the Master. Or that of the faithful servant, whom the Bible says, when his master comes, will be found doing what he was called to do (Matt. 25: 1-13, Matt. 24: 45-46).
2. We are in a season to be awake, and not asleep. This means we must do whatever we need to do to be awake. The Spirit of the Lord will let us know what we ought to do in this season. If it is to let go of some pleasures, we should let go of them. If it is to let go of some rights, we should let go of them. We ought to be like people who are waiting at the door because things are ongoing in the realm of the spirit. Some people would be looking out for something in the physical, but they would have missed it, and then things would suddenly take a turn even in the physical.
3. One of the ways to enter into this season of Believers Convention is to stay praying, whether streaming from home or coming physically. We might also need to make some sacrifices because spirits are bad. We need to pray against things that hinder participation in prayers, which can be anything that the enemy may machinate either through governmental decisions or whatever. We must not keep shut on matters like this because we are responsible for making the earth come into alignment with what heaven is doing.
4. When heaven is doing something, the earth is supposed to connect, but the earth can be disconnected. The warfare is that the people of God will be disconnected from what heaven is doing. Spirits cannot stop heaven from initiating processes, seasons and times that They need to bring upon the Church, but they fight to disconnect the Church. God will give us wisdom in the place of prayer, to pray effectively and stop their maneuverings in order to align with what the Lord is doing in this season.
5. (2 Peter 1:3-9). Apostle Peter began talking about the shift/movement that needs to be made concerning divine nature. He is talking to those to whom things have been given concerning divine nature. It is possible for one to lack these things, though they are given, yet a person can lack them because of not being diligent. The season of being diligent is the season of receiving or adding these things. Another word for diligent is being deliberate; this is the state we need to be to add things to our faith. When we are supposed to do a thing in a season and do not, we will be lacking at the end of the day.
6. (2 Peter 1:10-11). This scripture makes it clear that there is an election that has to be made sure. This election is not by selection; it is an election that one has to make “sure”. The phrase “never fall’ means such a one will not stumble in the process of making the election sure. This is because the election being made sure is what guarantees one’s entrance into the everlasting kingdom (2 Peter 1:11). The kingdom of God is the everlasting kingdom, and divine life is a portion of the everlasting kingdom. To be made everlasting is to be made divine. Entrance into the everlasting kingdom or divine life is ministered to us when we are diligent about doing the things that are tangible in the realm of the spirit, like faith, virtue, temperance, kindness, grace, knowledge, etc. If scripture says your lovingkindness is better than life (Ps. 63:3), it means it can be touched in the spirit.
7. All these things Peter was speaking about are not cunningly devised fables (2 Pet. 1:16). He was talking about the power and the coming of the Lord Jesus. The power and the coming is the ministering of divine life – or the activity of the ministry of divine life. This is not necessarily rapture, because, looking carefully at the things spoken of – an entrance being ministered to one, it takes power and coming to minister this power. This power is the power that would turn Christ into a divine man. The coming is the opening and unveiling of the Lord as the divine Man, because we would be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is (1 John 3:2). Seeing Him as He is talks about an appearance that is a ministration, which refers to Him coming to us.
8. To be like the Lord is not without warfare, because Satan does not want us to become like Him. Also, darkness on our inside prevents us from becoming like Him; we must be cleansed from all our darkness. There are things that show up in our souls in the form of thoughts we take or the decisions we make, and we get angry with ourselves. This means there are things we need to overcome. To be an overcomer entails overcoming the works of the enemy which are works in the soul and footholds of the enemy. We must keep fighting these things in ourselves until we fight them to the blood. We fight it from flesh till we get to blood. It is at the point of getting to blood that we would see the dragon. So, the dragon we are meant to fight and overcome is internal, not external. His major warfare is to make you disqualified and thereby unable to move to the next stage. However, you must overcome till you get to blood—your life (Rev. 12:11).
9. There is a hidden code in our life called ‘dragon’. That code does not show up when one is still a baby in Christ. The dragon shows up when we get to blood. But thank God that overcoming has been made simple for us, which is, to strive to be like Him according to daily revelation of Himself to us per time. We must drop whatever we are to be like Him. And when we meet up with His demand, He would reveal more of Himself to us. He would keep revealing Himself until we are fully like Him.
10. (2 Peter 2:16-19). There is a word we need to trap, which is called “the more sure word of prophecy”. When we have made our calling and election sure, there is still a more sure word. You would not be able to use the more sure word when you are not yet sure. The term, “more sure word” connotes that it is beyond the first. We would not be able to trap the more sure word unless one has been made sure. It is when one has been made sure that one can trap the more sure word. This means we would not see, hear or discern the more sure word if we are not made sure.
11. The more sure word of prophecy is not talking about prophecy in terms of predicting things that have happened or that would happen. Neither was Peter saying that prophecies are sure; there is something He was referring to. The more sure word is a word of prophecy. If it is a word, then it is something called a more sure word. It is a word that can make a man more sure. After we give diligence to make our calling and election sure, we still need something that would make us become more sure. To be more sure is to be everlasting, and to be everlasting is to be divine.
12. What can make one more sure is a more sure word of prophecy. It is that same word that made the Son of God sure. It means the Son trapped a word that made Him sure; He has trapped the word of the prophecy of the book. The word that made the Son sure is the spirit of the prophecy. The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy (Rev. 19:10). Therefore, when prophecy has been given to us, what we should be looking for in that prophecy is that spirit.
13. Our coming to prophecy is a journey. One can have the gift of prophecy but may never see “prophecy”. The things being painted to us are not cunningly devised fables (2 Peter 1:16); they only look like that to those who are not learned in the spirit. Our journey to prophecy is about us becoming brethren. One who will become this kind of brethren must have journeyed. We see how 2 Peter 1:5-7 talks about the things to be added to our faith. This means a man needs to journey and transition into a better nature in his soul in order to eventually become a brethren.
14. The tabernacle depicts the transitioning of a soul by showing a journey from the outer court, to the holy place, and then to the Most Holy Place. A man cannot stay in the outer court and expect to come to the place where God calls him a High Priest He has begotten, like He called our Lord Jesus (Heb. 5:5). We are expected to cross from one region to another, and each crossing is a birth that has requirements attached to it. This means there are things you have to fulfill. You have to fulfill the course because each of those regions has its courses called books. So, a man must fulfill the course of that book for him to cross from one region to another.
15. There are people who think some of the things we say are being stretched, but the truth is that you have to journey to prophecy. To journey to prophecy means you have become brethren, but there is still something you need to find—the Spirit of prophecy, which is the more sure word of prophecy. You can journey to prophecy and not find the more sure word. But we need to give diligence so that we can find that word. Our diligence should not stop in one place; we should give diligence until we get to the end.
16. (1 John 2:8). The thing which is true in Him is also sure; this means there is something sure in Him, or something that made Him sure. What is true in Him is also made true in believers who have received the commandment that made it possible; it is not for everybody. The reason for receiving this commandment is so that you can do this commandment to the point where this thing is sure in you, and you are also made sure.
17. The “more sure word” talks about the Son of God who is “sure”. It is the word that made the Son of God to be sure, and it is also what is made sure in Him. For a thing to be made sure in Him means that thing has been done in Him; He did it, and the thing did Him. The essence of the spirit of prophecy, which is the word of prophecy, when shown to us, is for us to be doing it.
18. The Son of God has been revealed to you when you are doing His revelation. We should not do any other thing but the Son of God; this is because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth (1 John 2:8). We must journey to a place where the thing that is true in Him is also made true in us. When they give you what made Him true, they want you to do it so that it will do you. When you do it, it will produce a result in you like it did in our Lord Jesus and made Him sure. To be made sure is to be made true by doing the word of prophecy that made the Son of God sure.
19. (Hebrews 7:19). To draw near unto God is to be made perfect, and a better hope must have been provided for this to happen. What draws you near is not merely prayer. Prayer is good and has a reward (Matt. 6:6). But while it is good to pray, there are also provisions in God for the change of nature in our souls. Cornelius feared God with all his house. He kept an order of reverence for God in his house, though he was a Gentile who was afar off. He was not born again, yet he could pray. Because he prayed and feared God, his prayers and alms came up for a memorial before God (Acts 10:4). He could pray but was still far. To bring him near, God had to send someone who was nearer—Peter was sent to get him born again. That was just a change of nature in his spirit (though not yet in his soul). What makes us far or near to God is the nature in our souls. Therefore, to draw near, one must constantly be changed in one’s nature.
20. (Hebrews 7:19). What has been provided for us to draw near to God is something that can make us change nature repeatedly. This is the reason the Lord is painting to us the divine man in this season, which is the type of man we have to become in order to be near to God the way He wants us to be near. The state of the divine man is a nature in a man. That is the reason God provides for us things that “pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue.” (2 Peter 1:3). Glory and virtue are provided so that our nature can be changed into the divine nature. It is the divine man that is near because he is an entity of the Most Holy Place (Heb. 7:19).
21. The essence of the divine man is so that we can bridge the gap to come nearer to God. Without changing nature consistently to become like Him who is being revealed to us, we will still be afar off. Though you can give alms, pray and even preach, those things cannot bring you near to God. Serving in the house of the Lord is good, but it can ascend before the Lord as a memorial. It is not only an unbeliever’s deeds that ascend as a memorial; if what a believer is doing is not coming according to order, it is only a memorial. God will remember many things and bless you, but you are not near to Him. The greatest blessing is to be near to God. Nearness is the greatest blessing. To be like the Son of God is the blessing; that is the promise. This is what salvation is all about; it is for you to be close to Him (Ps. 73:28).
22. (Hebrews 7:19). The hope in this scripture is the hope that spells out what it will take to draw near to God. Everybody cannot see this hope; It is a hope for those whose sight has been opened. True transformation begins when drawing near to God becomes a hope for a soul—what a soul lives for. It takes a while before drawing near becomes a real hope, such that it is not just something you heard and liked but something you live for. We should live out a life of hope; it must become what you are living for—your daily pursuit and your internal cry. When this happens, it shows in the way you live and your conversation. It shows in everything we do, and that we are not just doing things for the sake of it; we are doing things deliberately because there is a hope that is set before us (Heb. 6:18).
23. (Hebrews 6:19). The hope in this scripture is an anchor of the soul that enters within the veil, which the Forerunner (Jesus) has already entered for us. That veil is the second veil. It means that those who will see and have this hope are not using the sunlight or the moonlight (in the outer court) for guidance. Such souls must move beyond the realm of natural lights because you cannot see this hope in the outer court. We must stay in the Holy Place, in the dark, until the day dawn and the day star arise in our hearts (2 Peter 1:19).
24. (Hebrews 6:18-20). This hope is found in the night—in the dark—which is the Holy Place. That is where you lay hold on it. When you come into the Holy Place, you come into a place of refuge. This refuge is called hope. This means if we do not have that hope, we do not yet have refuge. We must do the hope by living in it. Hope will show in the way we live our lives, and it is because of the strong consolation and the refuge that we lay hold upon. This hope that is both sure and steadfast enters into the place where it is made more sure. This is the place where Jesus, our Forerunner, has entered in for us. This is where He was made a High Priest (in the realm of everlasting life) by the power of an endless life (Heb. 7:16). The power of an endless life is what made Him High Priest. That power of an endless life is the spirit—the more sure word—that can make a soul come into a season of endlessness.
25. To draw near to God is to be made like the High Priest. The High Priest is a Divine Man by reason of what He found, which is not without an oath (Heb. 7:20–21). The word of oath is the more sure word that gave the Son an unchangeable priesthood. The priests under the Aaronic order were made without an oath, so they could not continue or last because of death or corruption—referring to spiritual death that works in the soul. The activities of the Aaronic priesthood could not arrest or eliminate that principle of death; it could not take care of corruption. So, Jesus was raised into an everlasting priesthood to deal with the issue of corruption or death.
26. (Hebrews 7:28). What made the Son is the word of oath. The law made the Aaronic priesthood, and it is powerful; it made men priests and high priests. But the word of oath would make a man consecrated forever by the power of an endless life. When the word consecrates a man, such a man is consecrated to God forevermore. It is a divine man that is consecrated forever, and death has no hold over such a man who is consecrated forever.
27. A divine man is a man that is consecrated forever; he continues forever. To continue forever is to have everlasting life; it is to get to the point where one cannot die. A man can get to the point where he cannot die the real death. Currently, we live and die. Satan is a master killer. When scripture says the soul that sins shall die (Eze. 18:20; Rom. 6:23), it means there are deaths that we die in our souls unaware and we do not even know that the soul has lost life. We die many deaths, and then by mercy we are brought out. But Jesus the High Priest is consecrated forever; this means He knows how to avoid death—He has the sense to avoid death. He sees death in situations and conversations, decisions, relationships etc. He is seeing how death wants to participate in our relationships.
28. Death wants to participate in everything we do. It does not want man to leave its region, but the Man Jesus, who is consecrated forevermore, has an everlasting or divine mind that knows death and refuses it. How to kill death is to also die; we must not live. Whenever death presents itself in a situation, it always presents itself as life—it presents itself as gain or what would benefit one. How to deal with death is to die or live contrary to the way death demands; that is the wisdom and the sense the divine man has, and this is what would make him keep himself and the evil one cannot touch him.
29. (1 John 5:18). To be born of God is one birth, and to be begotten is another. To be begotten is to be made divine. That is when we would have the sense to keep ourselves. To be a High Priest is a consecrated sense that knows how to keep himself from the wicked one because whenever the wicked one wants to touch something, he wants to touch it with death. The touch of the wicked one is death. We must know this and that these are not cunningly devised fables—our Lord Jesus lived like this. He knew death and avoided it in conversations, on all occasions: with the Pharisees, before Pilate, etc. He knew how to evade death. Death could not touch Him, and men also rose after that order who were able to have that same sense of knowing how to deal with death. God is raising many in this generation.
29. God is raising many people because we have a more sure word of prophecy. We have to yield to the light, as a light that shines in the dark place until the day dawns. All we need to do is take heed to these things. As we are yielding to it, God will begin to open our eyes and show us mercy. We cannot draw near like the High Priest in one day; we would just keep drawing nearer until we finish bridging the gap.
Blessings!