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When God created man, He created his spirit and soul and formed his body from the dust of the ground (Gen. 1:26-27, Gen. 2:7). So, man is essentially a spirit, he has a soul and lives in a body (1 Thess. 5:23, Heb. 4:12).
It is good to note that each compartment is a man. Scripture refers to the spirit as the inner man (Eph. 3:16), the soul as the inward man (Rom. 7:22) and the body as the outward man (2 Cor. 4:16).
Adam’s partaking of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil caused his spirit to die or to be unresponsive to God (Gen. 2:16-17). The spirit of man is made to respond instantaneously; it is likened to a candle (Prov. 20:27). However, the soul is not an instantaneous entity (Psa. 18:28). Rather, it operates through knowledge.
The soul, being a man (inward man) which runs by knowledge, has the ability to walk (Eph. 2:1-2). After man fell in the garden of Eden, man began to walk according to the knowledge it had acquired by reason of eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
This knowledge is called ‘Sin’. Ephesians 2:2 further shows that men for generations had walked according to the course of this world, under the tutelage of the prince of the power of the air. If we walked according to a course, we must have been given the knowledge of that course as every course has its knowledge, even in the natural.
It is the soul that has the ability to do this walk. For every course in the natural, one cannot advance in its learning without obeying the laws around that course. Such laws include reading, understanding, writing and passing tests and examinations. The soul must also learn and obey the laws guiding every knowledge it encounters for it to progress. This learning and obedience is what makes the soul to walk.
At New Birth, the spirit of a believer gets quickened or regenerated. This regeneration makes the spirit to become Christ or to become one with the Lord (Rom. 8:10, 1 Cor. 6:17). After one gets born again, the natures that have been formed in the soul by reason of walking according to this world’s course have to be removed (Eph. 4:22-24).
This can only happen if one learns a contrary, and higher nature called Christ (Matt. 11:28-30, Eph. 4:20). Every believer must receive Christ by learning and then walk by the wisdom he has received (Col. 2:6).In other words, every believer must learn and obey the revelation of Christ for Christ to be formed in the soul (Gal. 4:19).
The obedience to the commandments of Christ is what makes the soul walk. Hence, Christ must first be revealed and then the believer must obey or walk according to the revelation the soul has received.
The preaching of the doctrine of Christ communicates a manner of life which every believer ought to express (2 Tim. 3:10). This conversation can only be expressed by believers whose eyes are being enlightened by the revelation of Christ (Eph. 1:17-19).
According to the wisdom penned down in the epistles, this life produced by the obedience to the doctrine of Christ is called ‘Charity’ or ‘the Love of the Brethren’ (1 Pet. 1:22).
From 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, we see that it is possible to do many good things but without Charity, it is counted null. It then shows that Charity is firstly an understanding or a law that produces the conversation of brethren. Without the giving of this law called Charity, it is impossible to live the life of Christ (Jam. 3:13).
One important thing to note is that the brethren life cannot be expressed without hearing the doctrine of Christ. Understanding the doctrine of Christ initiates one into the leading of Spirit. It is the yielding to the demands of the leading of the Spirit that works this life.
Anyone who hasn’t been led by the Spirit according to the doctrine of Christ would at best be religious, and will be unable to live Christ.
Conversations which are found among brethren as shown in the epistles of Christ are meekness, lowliness, submission one to another (1 Pet. 5:5), preferring one another (Rom. 12:10), esteeming the other better than yourself (Phil. 2:3), looking on the things of others rather than on your own things (Phil. 2-4), provoking one another to good works (Heb. 10:24) etc. We see other attributes in 1 Cor. 13.
Yes, it does. It is scriptural to believe God for our needs to be met. It is also scriptural to confess the word of God into the different situations we are faced with in life.
And the faith expression of life that Jesus authored—which we are commanded to obey (Romans 1:5) and which we are expected to live by (Gal. 2:20)—does not in any way take this foundational demonstration of faith from us.
This is because God would rather have us turn towards Him than trust other methods of getting things done.
However, the faith that is in Jesus intends to take us a step higher. It was authored to take us past the limitation of the hope of our own (foundational) faith.
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the hope (or the ambition) of the faith expression of life that is in Jesus or that He authored is Salvation.
At this point, it is important to stress that no faith expression can hope for Salvation other than that which Jesus authored and finished (Heb. 12:1-3). For a man who is a practitioner of this faith (that is in Jesus), his needs being met and his life going according to plan are no longer his obsessions.
This is because the faith of Jesus prioritizes Salvation above everything else. It de-emphasizes every other pursuit (or obsession) so that the man can be single-eyed and focused enough to seek God (Matt. 6:25-34).
Whether his needs are met or not, his passionate and heartfelt desire is to be saved. This faith (that is in Jesus) will still end up meeting our needs, but it will be in God’s own way and time; but much more, it affords us the opportunity to obtain Salvation (Matt. 6:33).
Hence, the emphasis on learning and living by the Faith of the Son of God!
After man fell by reason of Adam partaking of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the soul of man began to depreciate in quality because of the presence of sin; the soul began to die. The death in the soul is as a result of the gradual working of the nature of sin (Rom. 6:23).
The wisdom of sin is to make its nature (flesh) one with the soul, where sin becomes the life of man or the default manual for living (Rom. 7:15-21).
This nature is skillfully woven by a being (Satan) who is full of wisdom (Ezek. 28:12). It would take the unveiling of a wiser being (Jesus Christ) to free man from this nature (Eph. 4:20-24).
The gospel, according to scriptures, is the preaching of the person of our Lord Jesus Christ, whose nature is totally against that which is in man.
The preaching of Christ and Him crucified comes to rid us of sin which has over time become our life (1 Cor. 1:23, 1 Cor. 2:2, Gal. 2:20). Hence, the Holy Ghost begins to instruct us against this life (flesh); this is what is called Suffering or the Leading of the Spirit (Rom. 8:14, 1 Pet. 4:1-3).
It is called ‘suffering’ because it is neither comfortable nor conducive for flesh/us. Jesus speaking to His disciples in Mark 8:34 said, “Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself…” showing that denying the flesh is denying oneself.
The cross is the instrument through which every believer must crucify or utterly separate himself from the world (Gal. 6:14). The process of crucifixion is a deliberate obedience to the Holy Ghost for the removal of wrong natures such as pride, envy, jealousy, strife etc.
Obedience to the commandments of the New Testament is in turn, disobedience to sin and death. The hope of the New Testament is to give the very nature that is in Jesus Christ to man.
As we obey and deny ourselves, we die to or become unresponsive to sin until Christ fully becomes our life (Col. 3:3).
It is good to know that the Present Church, i.e., the body of Christ has gone through different phases of growth.
There was a time when the Church was in the dark ages. At this time many false and erroneous teachings flew around the atmosphere and scriptures were interpreted wrongly to suit many fleshly desires.
The reason why it was called ‘‘Dark Ages’’ is because there was absence of the light of the scriptures. The Lord Jesus had to light up the flame and there was a revival of the baptism of the Holy Ghost. In the early 1900’s popularly called Azusa Street revival, the need and emphasis of the baptism of the Holy Ghost was restored and we saw the Present-day Church just like we see in Acts Chapter 2. It was an infant Church that needed to go through the different phases of growth
The reason for the explanation above is to explain the growth process of the Present Church in different phases and seasons. After the Azusa revival, the Church was trained in the rudiments or first principle of the doctrine – The milk of the word (1 Cor. 3:2). God raised our father Rev. Kenneth Hagin to ground the body in the milk of the word which was the greatest need of the Church back then.
The foundation and rudiments of the milk such as: the teaching of human spirit, soul and body, the operations and workings of the gifts of the Spirit, the New Birth, the teaching of faith in the Lord Jesus and towards God, workings of healing and other fundamental teachings as listed in Hebrews 6:1-2 was expounded.
The whole body of Christ at large was raised to understand these teachings and drink the milk of the word – for as many that submitted under the teachings of Hagin.
Many of our fathers in the body of Christ today did submit under Hagin and have their roots traced to his loins. Many went for Rev. Kenneth Hagin camp meeting and were imparted and anointed by him.
But the teachings of the milk of the word isn’t all about the Lord Jesus. As a matter of truth, the milk of the word is to point a believer to the next allocation of the word of God which is the unveiling of the meat of the word or the doctrine and gospel of Christ (Romans 1:16).
This is clearly seen in Eph 1:15-18. Paul acknowledged that the Ephesian Church had been trained in the milk of the word.
They had fruits of “faith in the Lord Jesus and love unto all the saints’’, but he went further to pray for the workings of the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation, that the eyes of their understanding be enlightened to know the “hope of his calling, true riches of the glory of the inheritance in the saints, exceeding greatness of resurrection power’’. All these stated above and more are expounded and taught in the meat of the word where Christ is unveiled with the aim of conforming such soul to His image (Romans 8:29)
Now, the present Church has lingered and stayed so much in the first allocation of the word, that is the milk, but the Lord has started calling for an upward movement where, by the operation of the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation, there will be a revelation of righteousness by His faith and a clear painting of the hope of His calling, i.e., Eternal Life (Titus 1:1-2).
It is possible to struggle with the next allocation of the word (i.e., the meat) and shy away from its demands when you have stayed long in the previous and enjoyed its benefits.
However, it can only take the doctrine of Christ to expose the flesh, the old man and the mystery of sin and death with the aim of delivering you from that law of sin and death and bringing you into the righteousness which is by faith (Rom. 1:16-17, Gal 5:5, Phil 3:8-9).
The uncommonness of the message presently is because there are only a few believers who have agreed to embrace the demands of this faith life.
It is also due to the gradual and wise introduction of the message to the body by Jesus, ordained timing and seasons for its widespread. But it is good we know that the message of the Kingdom must be preached in all nations of the world so that all will be without excuse, and the knowledge of the glory of the Lord will cover the earth as the waters cover the sea (Hab. 2:14).
Yes, they are.
The reason they are not easily seen when we go through Scriptures is because Satan and wicked spirits (Eph. 6:12) blinded the eyes of our understanding, thus darkening our minds not to prosper in the comprehension of God (2 Cor. 4:4).
By reason of the fall of man in the beginning, man was trained by these wicked spirits to be carnal in his understanding. Though he might be sincere, a carnal man would naturally drag things spiritual to the level of his own understanding—by default.
What God calls ‘A’, a carnal man would naturally call it ‘Z’; he cannot help it. 1 Cor. 2:14 says, “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned”.
Though a carnal man might excel in the reading of scriptures, but if he has not been healed of the blindness of his heart, he would read and not see (or understand). In hearing, a carnal man would hear (these truth) and not understand (Matt. 13:13).
No matter what he does, he cannot see these precious treasures of the word of God (2 Pet. 1:4a), because he doesn’t even know that there are any treasures to be discovered in the first place.
For this reason, one of the major commissions of the New Testament and one of the major reasons for the New Birth is to have the eyes of our understanding opened—or enlightened (Eph. 1:15-20).
Jesus’ pattern has always been to raise men, deal with them for the opening of their eyes and give them back to His body to, in turn, open the eyes of others (Acts 26:18, Eph. 4:8-14). Also, we must always remember that these things which are not easily seen in scriptures are precious things that are of great price in the sight of God.
They are precious things which, though God wants all men to see (1 Tim. 2:1-4, 2 Pet. 3:9), it is still in His jurisdiction to reveal it to anyone. That jurisdiction is what is called ‘Mercy’. Romans 9:15-16 says, “For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.” It does not matter how wise a man is or how noble or righteous he might be. It does not matter how willing he is or how fast he is willing to run—if God holds these things back in Mercy, they cannot be seen (Matt. 11:25, 13:16-17, 16:13-17, Lk. 10:21, Jn. 12:38-40, 1 Cor. 1:19-31).
Thus, we must be humble before God and before His Word, seeking His Mercy always.
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