FMEli
Sunday Service*
22nd April, 2018
*Rev Busuyi Olabode.. (Eternal life embassy church Nigeria)
The faith of God that will bring change comes only by hearing. We must not be proud with the wisdom/revelations God has given to us; rather, we must be committed to it.
The ministry of washing by the water and the blood is a vital ministry from which God expects fruits. In the Christian faith, we have to move from faith to faith; from glory to glory.
Each time we receive God's word, we are being sanctified and we come to a position of sanctification; this becomes a continuous process. The born-again experience must be a definite experience; we may learn truth gradually but new birth experience is a definite experience.
In ministering the gospel, we must know that cleansing is a must and it is important; a minister therefore must have come in definite experiences of the Person of Jesus. You cannot preach the Kingdom if you do not magnify redemption because Jesus died and shed His blood for the Kingdom to be realised.
Christ is the Priest who makes provision for cleansing and sanctification. Cleansing by water is a vital part of the ministry that ushers us into God's presence.
Christ is the foundation of Eternal Life and God cannot lay Eternal Life on anything that is not Christ. The gospel Christ gave to Paul is the foundation of eternal life.
The gospel is meant to reorientate our arrangement of understanding. Without a soul being washed from corruption and the lusts that hold it down, it cannot make progress.
For a wise builder, foundation is important and so Paul was careful about the foundation he laid which is Christ. 1 Corinthians 3:10. Paul laid the foundation of Christ through His teachings and preachings. The foundation of Christ makes us established and gives us victory over the world.
Christ is our faith, hope and foundation. What guarantees that we will live and not die is to become established in the foundation that Christ is. Whatever Paul taught was to guarantee a foundation that can stay and not be moved away.
Every believer must have the first degree - the degree which those who would be deacons must have. 1 Timothy 3:8-13.
Deaconship is not primarily an office but a spiritual status. The people appointed into it were first proved before they were placed. Deacons must first be proved before they are made deacons; it is a matter of lifestyle; not changing lifestyle because they want to be deacons. Acts 6:3. They are those who hold the mystery of faith in a pure conscience; they are not trying to change character because of the demands of office.
The Church is not strong today because faith is not being preached but rules and regulations. When deacons retain the qualities of faith life that made them elected in the first place, they have purchased for themselves a good degree which is mastery of faith; mastery of Christ.
_Our calling is to be a professor of Eternal Life.
Faith delivers us from ourselves not to trust therein but to trust in the living God. So, the essence of our coming to Church should be to obtain a good degree and a great boldness in the faith; this, however, is the minimum standard for every soul. The first degree a believer needs is the mastery of faith in a pure conscience.
We cannot enter into the Tabernacle (the service of God) without obtaining the degree/mastery of faith. We cannot wash people's feet if our own feet have not been washed. John 13:5-10. Our hands and feet must be washed to do the service of God. Faith is the instrument of washing.
If we try to enter into the knowledge of Eternal Life without first being washed, we will die, that is, we will become worse off. Exodus 30:18-21. The mystery of faith is a revelation; it is not just to get.
When a proud man is endowed with light, he will not be saved and will do much damage. Every pastor must obtain this degree/mastery of faith. We must be raised above the things that are created. Psalm 24; the steps we take into the tabernacle is actually an ascension into a higher spiritual realm. The point of ascending the hill of the Lord is where many people turn back; we must believe the things we hear and trust in the Lord. It is not just enough to ascend the hill of the Lord, we must ascend and stand.
The power that will penetrate our world is the power that proceeds from the snactuary - the Shekinah glory of God. There is a blessing ordained for those who come into the presence of God and many cannot come in because of limitations.
We must enlist for washing as it is a must lest we die because Eternal Life is the Word of He who kills and makes alive.
Paul was both a deacon (diakonos) and a bondservant (doulos); every believer must be in this status. What matters at the end of the day is how well we have been washed and not what we have on earth.
We receive grace to continually go through washing. Amen!