Believers’ Convention 2024 (Day 2 – Evening Session)
Date: Monday, 19th August, 2024
Minister: Pastor Dimeji Elugbadebo
Topic: The Purpose of the Coming of the Son of God
Transcript Excerpt
The more excellent ministry is the ministry of Jesus (Heb. 8:6); this is the ministry that officiated the building of God’s house. Our Lord Jesus as the High Priest has the priestly autonomy to build God’s house. No one can build the house except Jesus is the builder of the house. Therefore anyone who must build with Him must build by His tools.
Our Lord Jesus is both a minister in the Sanctuary and a High Priest over the house of God (Heb. 8:1-2). The source of the priestly ministry of Jesus is from His high priestly ministry. Jesus ministers in both the Sanctuary and the Most Holy. One cannot minister in the Sanctuary without dealing with sins or in the Most Holy without reconciling for iniquities. No house would be built when sins are present. The high priestly ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ is to cater for iniquity, death and other things that militate against the building of God’s house.
Jesus Christ, in taking up this role as a High Priest, had to ascend the throne to access a wisdom that will purge sin once and for all. Jesus has dealt with sin and has expired the molecules of sin. Sins are natures or laws of fallen angels imposed on man and these natures are wiser than man, because angels are wiser than man.
God created the heavens after a priestly pattern. The angels are calibrations of priests. The first heaven is a heaven of spirits called principalities, powers, mights and dominion. They are levites of the present heaven and they are priestly. The seraphs are a higher kind of priests, while the cherubs are the highest kind of priests. All the heavens are priestly; it is a kingdom of priests and their reign is tied to their consecration.
To talk about the high priestly ministry of Jesus, we have to x-ray the sin code. Jesus has a ministry in the Sanctuary to end sin and He moves into the Most Holy to reconcile for iniquity. As Jesus is taking care of sin, He is building. To heal a soul is to raise the temple in it. Healing is the way to recover the soul or raise the soul. Salvation is healing, which is returning the soul back to God.
The more excellent ministry that Jesus entered is the ministry that gives understanding of how man can cut an everlasting covenant with God (Hebrews 8:6). This understanding means that we will know how to become the people of God. In understanding this, what makes it difficult to become a people of God will also be catered for. The appearance of the Son of God supplies wisdom to deal with impediments against our building to becoming the temple of God.
A more excellent ministry is to come into the inheritance of a more excellent name (Heb. 8:6). The ministry of the High Priest is to reveal a name and the building of God’s house is the revelation of a name (2 Sam. 7:13). Jesus Christ is a house of names. There are names in the Son of God that cater for different things, but there is an actual name of the Son of God which is to cut an everlasting covenant for Him to dwell in a people. The coming of the Son of God is to teach us that name. We have moved into the era of the name of the Son of God and that name is to give us a nature or promise that would make us be His people so that He would be our God.
Covenants that deliver promises for Jesus to dwell in us are given by revelation of names. The name of the Son of God has a law or an understanding attached to it. This understanding is a wisdom in that name that we must know. As we obey it, we are cutting a covenant with that name. Covenants are the key to promises. Promises are our inheritance of God’s nature. God’s promises are His life.
The understanding of the Son of God is to break the sin code forever and grant us wisdom of how to abide—to become true. What is true is original, authentic and cannot be changed. The early churches really journeyed far until they were under the actual ministry of the Son of God. They came under economies of appearance. The Son of God appeared to them to grant them understanding of names. As He appeared and they obeyed, they cut covenant. The covenant of life comes by obeying the righteousness that is revealed by the name of Christ as life, while the covenant of peace comes as we obey the name of Christ as peace.
In the Kingdom, your sacrifice is your obedience. Without sacrifices, we will not have covenant, neither can we come into promises. We come into promises by obeying laws that grant us covenant. Your covenant is by virtue of the obedience that you have done. The Son of God is revealing Himself as a High Priest because He has found a people that can take His everlasting covenant. Jesus Christ cannot communicate as the Son of God if He has not found a people that have journeyed to a point where they have laid hold of the covenant of life and peace, and have become a holy temple in the Lord.
The appearance of the Son of God is to take care of sin. Our sins are real before the Son. We cannot deceive the Lord, He knows our sins. He sees our sins not as what we have done, but as a nature that is dormant within us. Iniquity is a secret law that runs within us without us knowing. Some men would take an unhealed sin soul into the world to come. Because the nature of sin has everlasting strength, it has the ability to abide. That is why Jesus had to take on His office as a High Priest. It takes a High Priest who is higher than where sin was hatched from to be able to handle the everlasting strength of sin.
What is not called sin in the Sanctuary becomes sin when we move to the Most Holy, because what exposes sin is the light that is available (1 John 1:6). You cannot acknowledge a sin that has not been revealed because the economy of the Son of God is an economy of light. The Son of God that is coming is coming with a light and this is the light that facilitates the building of the temple. The Most Holy light is a brighter light that reveals our shortcomings which results in a stronger demand for holiness and a higher separation.
When we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves. We cannot deceive the Son of God or even Satan, because Satan is the one that put it there in the first place. We can only deceive ourselves. There are times when we see some thoughts and things in our souls that we are ashamed of. As light comes, we should repent of them. The coming of the Son of God is to expire sin. He is coming to address the very root of sin, which is the heavenly source of sin that has built its house in man.
By nature, we are not people of covenant because anything of man does not last. Any love of man does not last. All those things that cannot keep covenant are sins and those are the things that the Son of God would pick out. The economy of the Son of God is from light to light, or peaks in love. The economy of the Son of God is that God is light, God is life and God is love because love is the perfection of the true nature of God. If the Son of God is coming, that is where He is taking us to.
He exposes our sins because in the spirit, these things are seen. The ministry of the Son of God as a High Priest has its own sword. The ministry of Christ as a priest in the Sanctuary has its own sword. “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart” (Hebrews 4:12). Thoughts spring out of intent. The reagent of the ministry of the Son of God can go that deep. The Word can scan our thoughts and intents.
There are certain sins that we can still bring into the Most Holy. We cannot have the testimony to be His house if those things are not expired. We can bring unbelief and unrest into the Most Holy. The Son of God is coming to deal with these things. His coming is going to give us wisdom to demystify the operations of Satan.
What is in the Son of God is the syllabus of our perfection. The Son of God has with Him commandments and laws and when we do them, we cut covenant with natures that are living and abiding. The revelation of the Son of God is to make us live and abide; it is a twain ministry.
“My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not…” (1 John 2:1). Churches of the Son of God are little churches. The Lord will teach us to be little because the church of the Son of God can only be accessed by little men. Our journey to cutting a covenant with the true God is a journey of littleness. This means we cannot sit on the throne without being little. The throne of the Son of God can only accommodate little people. The more the Son of God deals with sin in us, the more we become little.
God is going to raise priestly men; this is needed because we cannot journey further than the quality of men that are leading us. We have to pray for our fathers concerning the promised land; this is because fathers must first touch it. If they do not touch the land, they cannot divide it. We must keep ranks in the order of the son of God. The land is going to destroy one that breaks rank. Every detail of disorderliness in us must be dealt with by the Lord. This is the reason for the things John wrote; they are wisdom to deal with and expire sin so that we can cut covenant to become the temple of God.
“And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for our’s only, but also for the sins of the whole world.” (1 John 2:2). We have sins of the world and we have our sins. The Lord wants to deal with our sins. If we keep sinning, we cannot cut a covenant to abide. And we cannot cut a covenant if we have not obeyed His commandments to a point where we cannot turn.
“And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. [4] He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.” (1 John 2:3-4). A liar, according to this scripture, is someone who does not have an abiding nature. This means that such a person can still change or is still variable. God cannot cut a covenant with a man that can still turn. His coming is to deal with the nature of varying, including varying nature in our walk with Him and with one another.
The purpose of the appearance of the Son of God is for us to abide in Him (1 John 2:6). That is the everlasting covenant. The purpose of the covenant is that we abide in Him and He abides in us, which is that He becomes our God and we become His people. The coming of the Son of God is to make a people abide in Him. We must be granted breakthrough to access His steps, which is the formula of entrance. The Son of God has steps and those steps bring us to the throne. Those steps are revelation of His commandments that causes us to have entrance to abide in Him.
Since the light of everlasting life came to us in 2019 till now, they have measured another line for us. What came then can be called old commandments and we are now under newer commandments. From this time onward, newer commandments will begin to break forth. This new commandment is to make us cut true covenant in Him. To make us true is for us to cut a covenant to abide in Him. The coming of the Son of God is to bring that true light to us.
There are categories of children and it is as the Son of God is appearing that we see these categories of children. There are little children among the little children. We also have infants and growing children. All of these are in the dimensions of the Son of God. The little children that are babes are supposed to feed on the milk of the Son of God. The milk is to expire all sins from the Sanctuary.
To stand in the Most Holy, you need the milk of the Son of God which is to perfect your season of ending sins of the Sanctuary. There is no way that one can enter as a baby into the world of the Son of God without milk. We need that milk, which is the first season of the Son of God and is supposed to expire all kinds of sins from the Sanctuary and to declare you as a child of the Most Holy. The meal of the second class of little children is cheese (Isaiah 7:15, 7:22). It is when milk increases that it coagulates and becomes cheese. There is a meal in the land, it is butter and honey. But before that meal, we must take milk.
The little children in 1 John 2:13 are being introduced to the meal of the Son of God. The purpose of this meal is to birth incorruptible life in the different seasons of incorruptible life. As the Son of God is coming, He is coming with measures of incorruptible life. In becoming a young man, the meal that can overcome the wicked will be given to us because we cannot cut an abiding covenant that is true without overcoming the wicked one. To do so, we would have journeyed to expire every season of wickedness. It also means that we would have used the word of God to overcome the wicked one.
What makes you overcome the wicked one is the abiding word (1 John 2:14). The climax of the coming of the Son of God is to make His word abide so that you are empowered to overcome the wicked one. We will use the abiding order (or life) for a long time until the Son of God comes. The Son is coming to seal a life that they have been walking in as a reward to teach how to overcome the wicked one, to teach how to expire sins of the Sanctuary, and to teach how to begin to know the Father.
The climax of the Son of God is to birth sons that are incorruptible—sons that have an unchanging nature. To be born of God, it will take the coming of the Son of God to give an understanding. To be born is to be born of His life. The coming of the Son of God is to raise sons that would be born of God. The signature of the coming of the Son of God is to raise men that are impenetrable by sin. The laws of perishing and corruption cannot penetrate them because the very essence of their life is against it. When the Son of God finishes His work, we are kept where the wicked one cannot touch us. This means that the ministry of the Son of God has not been finished until we come into this place.
The coming of the Son of God is for the giving of understanding so that we may know Him (1 John 5:19-20). If He does not come in this way, we will not know Him as He that is true. Eternal Life is the knowledge of the Only True God and Jesus Christ whom He sent (John 17:3). Jesus Christ, whom God sent, is the true God. This means the climax of the appearing of the Son of God is to make us know the true God. The link between the “living God” and the “Only True God” is the “true God” (living God—true God—Only True God), and this is how we can arrive at Eternal Life. For us to come into the reward of Eternal Life, which is the promise of life before time began, we have to understand this ministry of the Son of God (living and true God/1 Thess. 1:9).
Blessings!