PASTOR TAYO LADEJO
ACTS 3:19-21:” Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. 20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: 21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. “;
COLOSSIANS 3:1-4: “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.“;
What unlocks transition in the Spirit is repentance. Repentance is not just associated with the things we see as sins. The real Sin is endemic in human nature. Repentance is a key word in moving with God. We cannot move at the frequency of the Spirit without repentance. To repent is to change attitude; it is internal reconfiguration. We must always apply ourselves to repentance. Each time God opens our eyes and we repent, the High Priesthood of Christ is validated in our lives. Purging and blotting away of sins is ongoing so that our souls may be saved to the uttermost. There is a conversion of the spirit and there is a conversion of the soul. To be converted is to be delivered from self. It is the reparation of the twisted human nature. What will bring us to perfection are not the regulations of man or our self-imposed strictness. We will come to perfection by the working of the Spirit. God’s life must be our life. We are of Christ because we have been raised with Him. We have the right to inherit His life. God has given us the legal right to His dominion. Dominion is not how much authority we have over the power of darkness, it the ability to be perfectly like God. We must seek those things that are above by hungering after righteousness. We need to love his ways and desire His will.
We need to seek and set. As we seek God, our affections will automatically be set on things above. To so set our minds is to allow the Holy Spirit alter our thoughts and reverse imperfection. The first implication of the life of God in a man who is on a pilgrimage is death to self. When you are dead to self you have the right to access God’s life. It is not human life, it is Divine life. The life of God becomes our right when we submit to the Holy Spirit. Inheritance does not just come by birth. What is yours by birth has to become yours by process. The appearing of Christ is a consistent process in the life of a child of God. The coming of the Lord is not an event, it a process. He is not coming for defeatists or passive people. The coming of the Lord is an ongoing finality. If He has not been coming again and again, He cannot come in His fullness and we will never enter immortality. God does not have different kinds of faith. He has only one faith which is the seed in us. It is that seed that grows into the fullness. The beautiful leaves of the Olive tree signify the Gifts of the Spirit. As good as leaves are, God will not eat them. God will only eat fruits. The fruits of the Olive tree talk about the Fruits of the Spirit. The beauty of faith is not in the things that we receive. Rather, it is in the waiting process.
If Jesus is not revealed to us, He will not be revealed in us. He will only be revealed in those who see Him. Revelation is not to massage our egos, it is to help us see the Lord. As the processes of deliverance of the Church continues, there will be times and seasons of refreshing. Refreshing is about revival. Kronos and Kairos represent time. Kronos talks about accumulation of events. Kairos is a time of specific divine appointment.
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The Lord is bringing refreshing upon the Church again. God is bringing back the evangelical thrust of conviction. Culture is powerful. It is not easy to break through cultures. Religious cultures terrible and God will have to develop capacity in us to take them on.
To reprove is to correct with a grip. It requires the intervention of God. We have to believe in the saving grace for sin to be judged. Righteousness is predicated on the finished work of Christ. The world is judged when we exercise faith in Christ Jesus. Kosmos is deceitful adorning or false orderly arrangement. It is embedded in human nature. Faith is the revelation of Christ in us to judge the world in us.
God has many things to tell us about the above order and the excellent way. We often don’t have the foundational depth to bear them. We need strong foundations to be able to bear the release that heaven is bringing upon us.
The Spirit of truth deals with foundations and builds capacity in us. He initiates us into the above order. He prepares us for eternal life. Truth is the unveiling of secrets. It comes when that which is concealed in God is revealed. It is superior reality verified. The Spirit of truth comes from the unseen realm. When secrets are unveiled to us, God is introducing us into His realms and realities. He guides us into all truth. He transfers the ownership of Divine realities to us. The essence of the revelation of Christ is so that we might follow His footprints. The essence of following His footprints is to have the ownership of God’s things transferred to us. The Holy Spirit does not speak of Himself. He does not pursue self-agenda. He does not endorse selfish interests. As we submit to the dealings of the Spirit, He incorporates us into the things to come. God wants to bring us into His inheritance.
The only way to deal with the operations of falsehood is to be discerning. In these last days, we have to be discerning like never before. Breakthroughs are coming and the spirit of the age will come through camouflage. We have to be reinforced by God to stay through. We must be submissive to God. The greatest instrument to abort Divine process is offence. We need love to resolve the crises that will arise among us so that we can reap a massive harvest.