Minister: Pst. Tayo Fasan
(Gen. 2:23-24) – “And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. 24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”
Becoming one flesh is a process of time. In the garden, God was pastoring what he had said by pasture. His appearing was to bring what he had said to an understanding. Understanding what Adam said in Gen. 2:23-24 requires the stature of Christ to fully comprehend it. We will need life to understand what he is saying.
God wants to use families and homes to reclaim the earth. The battle for the earth was lost in Eden. Adam was supposed to use this commandment to morph from being a living soul to becoming a true soul or full Son of God. This commandment is what Jesus ended up keeping with the church, and this was how he overcame Satan for the first time. The word shall in verse 24 means it might not be achieved.
(Eph. 5:25-27) Adam did not complete the process of giving himself for his wife. Many couples in the body of Christ have not been able to give themselves for each other. Love is the giving of yourself. Cleaving starts with the degree to which you leave. Through marriage, a Christ soul (verse 26) and an everlasting soul (verse 27) can be formed, which then qualifies for the promise.
God has been looking to recover the lost purpose in Genesis 3 – 4. He then began with another man, Abraham. In the process, God was able to begin the process of transferring His genes to man. God’s gene is firstly a faith gene. In the process of birth or in the process of the soul being restored, there are things in the spirit that the soul must take – these are the faith genes. This is what makes the soul look like its creator, the Father. The genes of faith and love are in the Holy Ghost, the Son, and the Father, and we are to take of these genes for the different seasons of our births. People should be able to look at us and say we look like the Holy Ghost, or the Son, or the Father. There should be something about our faith foundation that looks like the Holy Ghost before we can look like Christ.
Where they gather the genotype, blood group, etc., that makes a soul look like the Holy Ghost are faith and love. The privilege of these can be traced to Pentecost. This is where God recovered things that were lost. (Eph. 1:15) – “Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,” – This is a spiritual milestone. This is the foundation of the Holy Ghost. Every relationship, marriage, and home must have this foundation. Every home must be built on this foundation. People should be able to come into our homes and personal lives and experience/see the faith and love ingredient. The Holy Ghost has his smell the same way; if you have discernment, you can smell/discern evil spirits.
The Holy Ghost dwells in our spirit but needs to move to our soul. How you know this has happened or is happening is how people begin to describe a person who was not previously there.
By virtue of the Apostle Paul visiting the Ephesian church, He was able to raise a Christ soul in them. He raised the man in them. This man was once a child. The soul that has the Holy Ghost is a child (1 Cor. 13:11). The process of becoming a man requires that God uses some seasons and crucibles; for instance, he can use a prison experience, defining the coordinates for a soul: the what, the what not to do, the where, and the how. God expects that when he gives us a commandment, he expects us to consult with that commandment in our actions and inactions, enduring that process like Joseph did, so that that wilderness estate of the soul becomes a fruitful field. What the soul does with commandment in the wilderness is what determines the estate of the soul. For the Apostle Paul, when he became a man was when he had prospered with the prison term that God brought his way. For Joseph, his prison term was 13 years before he prospered. Some of the things we are going through are not really tied to the economy, nor is it because we lack favour; it is that God has found a window of opportunity to collect a life he never gave us so he can give us the life he actually has for us.
God wants to give man his promise, and the world provides the arrangement for our faith to be tried. The trial we go through, the world gives the environment, and God responds to that by giving us commandments. The fall of man created the environment that saw our faith being tried, and God will have us discern the commandment that applies to that situation and keep it. Many times, we prolong the trial by not being able to discern what God is trying to do through it. Sicknesses and diseases can be traced to the fall, but God has responded to it by giving a commandment.
(Gen. 2:23-24) A man here is one who has done faith, hope, and charity. Many marriages are being entered into by babies and children. They don’t have the stature of a child, yet they are getting married. God wants to use the marriage institution to recover the earth. A mission to cleave and become one flesh and become an example, like Christ became to generations of men,
There are experiences in the home that make for joining. Joining takes place when two parties are keeping the commandments that God gives them. Over time, they come to one mind and one spirit. (1 Cor. 6:16-17) – “Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. 16 What? Know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. 17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.” – Joining is not only in the physical experience. The mystery of two becoming one, if completed, would be the overcoming of the serpent. (John 17:21) Jesus only said this at a particular season when he had kept all that should make him one, which are the commandments of love. This scripture is the fulfillment of they two shall be one.
One flesh is a couple living in one body. What Christ interpreted was the mystery of love. The process of becoming one flesh is being able to use each other’s weaknesses and infirmities and partner with the commandment of that infirmity to appreciate in virtues like patience, etc. The wisdom we must use whenever we see a weakness in our brethren or our spouse is to not be more concerned with changing that person’s weakness. We should leave their change to God and rather channel all our energy to love, to keeping the commandment for that weakness. This switches you to a faith mode, trusting God to correct that thing while you use that as an opportunity to grow. We should be leveraging the weakness of others to grow. This sense of understanding cultivates a commitment of love where you are chasing after the infirmities of others because there is potential growth there. The reason some of us have not grown is that we have done nothing about the infirmities of others around us. This is how Jesus also grew from being a Son of the living God to being a full Son of God.
For example, there were natures in the twelve disciples, and he used each of those natures to climb. He had the option of putting Peter at arm’s length, but rather he used his infirmities to climb. What will naturally put us off: Jesus, in being sincere with commandment, will chase after men who have infirmity. Every time he overcame the infirmity in men and brethren, he kept climbing up. This is how he developed hind’s feet to climb the high mountain. He used the imperfection of men to become perfect.
In Scripture, there are about 20 references to if ye love me, keep my commandment. God knows we have an adversary who knows the coordinates to Zion. Those who will come to Zion are men who will handle the infirmities of men and brethren with the commandment of Christ, or of Charity. Charity is for you to come to Zion. Jesus knew Satan had deposited himself in us to limit us from coming to Zion. He also deposited a higher, more difficult nature in men and brethren that we will need to overcome to ascend. This is why we need to be renewed in the spirit and attitude of our mind.
The current state of our country is lawless, and if we constantly respond accordingly, it tampers with our atmosphere, but what we should do is tune our minds not to expect people to do what is right, so that when people do what is wrong, we are not surprised. We need to be men who keep doing what is right even when people do what is wrong; this is the commandment of faith.
We must have a mind that is not quick to correct, but quick to keep the commandment governing that issue; in doing that, when you want to correct, because you have developed spirit through obedience, you can do it with the spirit of meekness, and the Holy Ghost can act on your words because it’s coming in love (Job 6:25).
When you try to correct someone and they don’t accept it, check the spirit of the words if it was tempered with meekness and with love. Many times before we correct, we have to wait; you don’t correct in the timing and way you want to until the Holy Ghost tells you to raise it with the person. At this point, you have fulfilled an obedience, and a disobedience can now be avenged. This is what it means to be a priest. A priest can handle sin and infirmities. This is how Jesus relates to us. He bears with our infirmities and only begins to bring it up after several years of bearing our infirmities. He is not always quick to correct us because he knows we can’t give what we don’t have.
Charity suffers long and is kind. This is what will keep us in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost. When we have this posture of mind, this is what keeps the Holy Ghost coming. He knows what he says to you; you will keep it, you will value it. The infirmities we see in men and brethren, some can be traced to five generations back. This is why, for some infirmities, we must be prepared to bear with for years. If you go ahead of the Holy Ghost in trying to deal with their infirmities, you will scatter work, and they will either misunderstand you or withdraw from you, and at the end of the day, the work will not be done.
When we see men’s infirmities, just see opportunities for growth; opportunities to mount Zion. This attitude is what we will also use to deal with our enemies. The brethren are not our enemies.
(Matt. 5:38-48) This scripture speaks to when you’re moving from having a Christ soul to an everlasting soul; this is when you’ll be perfect, as your Heavenly Father is perfect. (Phil. 2:14-15) Nations are not born overnight. It takes generations. We can’t handle the work Satan has done in nations without all patience, all long suffering. Nigerian leaders are a crooked and perverse nation, and we can’t relate with them without commandments if not the work in them will defile us and bring us out of fellowship causing us to err.
When we think of our leaders and something is still offended, then we have not yet overcome. There is a mercy we found that some have not found so we must not judge nor conclude. If we do, it means knowledge has puffed us up somewhere. The only person who should judge is Jesus.
Tongues and Interpretation 1
For this is my way.
I am showing you my way.
This is the way to come to me
This is the way to grow
Don’t judge hastily
Make excuses, make many excuses for men; even for both believers and unbelievers
There are many excuses you can make for your brothers and sisters
Don’t conclude; don’t get offended
Offense! Don’t get offended. Don’t get angry.
Getting offended or angry is not the right response
For you see, your wrath cannot work out my righteousness
The enemy wants many offenses to arise amidst you
You have many May weaknesses and therefore offenses should arise but say no to it
I am not offended by your weaknesses, so don’t be offended with your brethren’s weaknesses, rather use those weaknesses to grow, make excuses for them
Take this heart, for I am sharing a heart, I am giving out a conversation
Take this heart from me, take it as my servant is declaring it
I want to you all to take this kind of heart, for when you have this kind of heart, when everyone takes this heart, there will be many many growth and there won’t be offense in the atmosphere
There won’t be offense in any nooks and crannies
When you have this heart you will not be offended, for your heart will be clear and full of faith to walk, to judge disobedience
This is how you will judge disobedience in your brethren
I need you to judge disobedience
Many disobedience must be judged amidst you
This is how to judge them
It is not your wrath that will judge them, it is not your getting offended that will judge them
Your wrath cannot in any way work righteousness
I want you to walk in this way
I want everyone to walk in this way
This is a calling to everyone, this is a calling to the elder, to the young men and women, to the married and unmarried, to the teenager and to the children
Everyone should learn this way
This is my way and I stand to tell you this is my way
Learn my way, learn from me.
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(Heb. 12:14) This verse is a commandment God is handing to everyone of us. When God wants to bless or give you what He hasn’t previously given you, he will give you commandments. God is telling all who will come to Zion that you can follow peace with all men. Why we are strangers to seeing the Lord and understanding his ways is because we can’t follow peace with all men.
Every commandment starts with faith and ends with love. One discipline of faith is to keep doing what is right in the presence of another man’s infirmity. When we see another person’s infirmity, we should know it’s the devil that did and how we can handle it is to locate the commandment. We should relate with people with scriptures and in so doing we are kept.
If God can raise someone who is holding faith this way, others in his household will eventually also hold faith this way. This is how the Lord moves through generations. What God has said is our immunity against the works of darkness that have been done in men. The work in men is the stumbling block that Satan uses.
There are many things about Cain, but one thing we are certain of is that Cain chose a certain kind of life. Likewise Abel chose and the choice he made were what the Lord Almighty and that was his immunity, that was what preserved his blood. Cain kept doing what was wrong. Cain was a stumbling block. Despite all that Cain did, Abel still pleased God. Abel used commandment to relate with what was wrong.
We must be a people who are commandment governed. (Matt. 22:37-38) To love your neighbor as yourself you have to love yourself but the truth is people don’t love themselves. A man who loves himself will love his soul enough to keep God’s word. Thou shall love your neighbor as yourself is not talking about self love. A man who loves his soul will love the maker of his soul. When you keep the commandment of loving yourself, you will have a Christ soul.
What Abraham did to Lot shows he loves himself. He consulted a particular commandment to do that. Somebody who lives by commandment is someone who loves himself. When he has done so he will now have a Christ soul that can relate to the next commandment of loving the Lord His God with all his heart, soul and mind.
Hebrew 11 is a hall of faith book. Noah obeyed amidst a contrary generation. Almost everybody in his generation was doing what is wrong and that was a weight that could have limited him from finishing his course but because he was commandment minded, he made sure the infirmities of men will not veil him from God’s purpose.
Joseph also feared God amidst men’s contradiction. He chose to fear. He used the weaknesses of his brothers mainly to grow. He didn’t allow envy, bitterness, resentment; works Satan did in them, God used those prison experiences to help him grow above it.
Moses also kept leading Israel despite the provocations. Those provocations were natures that can be traced to the devil and those responses was Moses overcoming.
By virtue of their overcoming, they made their name into the hall of faith. These men were skillful in handling men’s sicknesses and diseases. By virtue of how we handle men’s infirmities, they will touch Christ in us and ultimately the Father. This is how they will know we are His disciples.
A company of saints like this is the process of raising families on earth and ultimately families in heaven. (Gen. 2:23-24) This man is a company of those whose lives and homes have been numbered amongst that family. He is a man who can now take the commandment of the Father. We must leave and cleave and become one flesh. This is what must be done by us for God to raise us nations in whose midst are kings (Gen. 35:11). Gods intention here was to raise families on earth who will have a covenant commitment to him and by virtue of that be an example to other nations of the earth. Through them God wanted to raise a peculiar people. Wherever you see them, it means God is in their midst and has reclaimed their earth. God has no legal means to regain the earth from Satan than through marriage.
(Deut. 4:6) This is the way God wants us to colonize the earth. Any house you find wisdom and understanding is a household of God. It is a house relating with the natural from the spiritual.
The weaknessses of men can never be permission for our weakness in obedience. David still honored God even when Saul dishonored him. Faith doesn’t allow another man’s infirmity to determine the quality of his response to God. All conversations have a demand for faith. Faith keeps asking what will God require of me. Dealing rightly with men’s infirmity will require surrendering what we could legitimately insist on; there’s something we will count as loss, many times our reputation.
Abraham could have put Lot at arms length but he won’t have archived a measure of life if he did that. Isaac also withdrew from disputed well, that was a loss to overcome strife. He lost to make a gain in the spirit. God is enlightening us and delivering us from snares. Satan has a way of collecting life from us but we must not allow weakness strife or injustice of others to draw us out of the spirit of obedience.
Faith would rather suffer the loss of a right than permit the infirmity of another man to produce an infirmed response. A response is either of faith or infirmed. When God’s purpose becomes greater than personal vindication we can choose to lose something before men without losing our way before God.
Every temptation that comes our way is to challenge a way in us. (Gen. 18:19) Abraham can command or lead his household in the way of the Lord because he has ways and this way was framed while handling the infirmity of men. This is how we also can age in the spirit and be wiser than our enemies.
Mature faith does more than identify infirmity, it teaches one how to bear it. When you see an infirmity, you should see a love commandment to obey. You keep loving and obeying until your heart is established with grace. Moses for example handled and bore the infirmity of a nation; that’s why he is called the man of God. While doing so we can follow peace with all men and come into holiness.
Couples should not be ruffled by their spouse’s infirmity but rather should see a debt of love that they owe their spouse. David mourned for men who had injured and rejected him. The knowledge of men’s weakness did not merely furnish them with evidence against men, they did not react rather it gave them burdens before God. When you see an infirmity of man, let it translate into a burden to you. As you carry the burden, you reduce your debt of love. It is easy to discern an infirmity and accuse the infirmed but greater strength is required to see weakness clearly and still carry the weak before God. The strong are not called merely to expose infirmity but to bear what the weak cannot bear. One commandment we all share is Galatians 6: to bear each other’s burdens, not just financial ones, but also the infirmities of one another. This is the secret of our parents in the house.
Joseph brings this spiritual maturity into clear view in that he did not call his brethren’s evil good, nor did he allow their infirmities to become the interpretation of his journey. Joseph overcame things in him and this is how he became a saviour. No doubt, the weakness of your spouse or your brethren is real but something must be more real; the purpose of God must be greater. Faith enlarged Joseph until he could see beyond what his brethren had done to what God is doing; this is maturity. When brethren are told to come stay with us, it is you they want to save. We should not be more concerned about the person changing, but rather use their infirmities to change. It is you they want to change.
Maturity is not losing sight of God as He is in spite of seeing men as they are with their weakness, contradictions, and infirmities. If you take your eyes off men’s infirmity and place them on the Lord, a lot of times, you will draw strength. Many times we fellowship on their infirmities. We should get to a place where we are quick to forget the wrongs of a spouse or brethren; that is charity; it keeps no record of wrongs.
Offenses may arise; brethren may be weak, but their offenses don’t need to become ours. There can be transference of infirmity when you relate with a man’s infirmity without the commandment governing it. Faith keeps its eyes on God and bears with men; it keeps its own heart right and continues towards purpose. There are many things we can do differently if we are to audit our conversations. Many of us need to go back to the Lord; else we can keep missing out on opportunities to age in righteousness.
Tongues and Interpretation 2
In patience, possessing your souls
For you see, I am not a worker who is in a hurry.
I am never in a hurry
I am even more particular about the work being done more entirely more than the end product, more than the speed
I am particular that a job is thoroughly done
For I sit, not hastily, to thoroughly purge your soul
To thoroughly purge your floor.
And I said to my son, “sit at my right hand”
For there is a work done in sitting
For I am not a pauper in patience
I want you to agree with me
I believe greatly
I don’t want you to be hasty in the Spirit to go against darkness
Build trust that I can achieve the work
Do the work
Many that are not in spirit are as a result of lack of trust in me
You believe stretching forth your hands is helping the ark
But you transgress.
Do not be hasty to stretch out your hand
For you may cause a breach
Your wrath again I say will never work righteousness.
No matter how legitimate
Join me in sitting.
A thorough work must be done.
I wrote it in his heart
I wrote it in his soul
And I say it to you too
In patience, possess your own soul
For the adversary wants you to be hasty
But that’s unbelief
If you have trust in me, you will trust that I’ll do the work
So I want to do a thorough work
Allow me to do a thorough work
Don’t be quick
Don’t be hasty
Tongues and Interpretation 3
Mo so ohun gbogbo di titun
Lotito, lododo
You’ll not be subject to the wisdom of the sun.
You have used the wisdom of the sun and the moon, and verily they have smitten you
I’ll take you up.
I’ll catch you.
Together with your children. I’ll catch you up
I won’t leave anything below the sun
You’ll use wisdom above the sun
Conversation above the heavens
It will no longer be scarce.
Every family will know me.
Every husband will know me
Every household will know me
For I’ll catch you beyond the sun, beyond the moon, beyond the stars.
I sit on new new new.
I am new new new every morning.
I will make you new from morning to morning.
Verily verily verily
Don’t doubt me
I am not a man that I should lie.
I have said it, and I’ll catch you
I’ll Zion up your family.
I’ll Zion up your children.
I’ll Zion up your habitation.