Minister: Pst. Laide Olaniyan
Meeting: Bible Study
Friday, 19th of June 2026
(Acts 6:1) – 1. And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration. Some of the people who sold their properties during these times were Grecians and it was a righteousness to have done that. Going forth from there, we see that some of the people who were assigned to take care of the Greeks failed in their responsibility, and they began to come together, team up and form cliques.
There’s a sense of ‘right’ that milk can give. One of the characteristics of milk is the sense of righteousness we have of what is advantageous to us. This righteousness is not often touched by the teaching of milk. For the Greeks, one of the senses of right was that they were entitled to being fed. However we could see and learn that some of the things we complain against is actually the Lord setting up our soul to come into maturity. This sense of right is our own righteousness; it is not the righteousness of Christ. Here, we believe in Christ, but we have not yet seen Him (His Truth, His Life, His righteousness). We haven’t seen the operation of the law that made Christ lay down His life, and why we should do the same. It is still obscure from the eyes.
When a person has finished the curriculum of faith and love towards the saints, it takes the spirit of wisdom and revelation to enlighten the eyes to be able to see and comprehend the person of Jesus Christ not just what he does outwardly, but the laws inside him, and the truth that He used to live. When a person’s eyes are being enlightened, there’s a way he begins to know, through the acts of God, that he doesn’t know God. God shows through His acts, in a sense, that there is more to Him than we can predict. Behind every act is the secret of a way. If a person receives the act but doesn’t receive the learning of the way, he has wasted that opportunity. God taught the children of Israel in the wilderness to show them the training of His way; for them to comprehend God. They were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; it was not just a miracle, it was a teaching. The baptism was a teaching, the giving of instructions to a soul.
Behind every miracle, there is a learning going on in the background. Those who are wise-hearted see beyond the spectacular; they learn judgment. The judgment is in a shadow, but when you incline your eyes to it, you take heed to it until the day begins to dawn and the daystar arises. There is a manifestation of the miraculous, but hidden beneath are the wisdom of ways. Through the use of milk, which has a lot of manifestation in the external, one can pierce through the seen to have a little sense of the ways of God. Milk is actually a Christ allocation. It is the milk of Christ, the simplified form of Christ that is assimilable to a babe. It begins to train you into what Christ can give to a soul, but the body of it is given when a person begins to enter fully into learning of Christ. In transiting into full Christ learning is the learning of denial. Acts 6, in comparison with Philippians 4, shows this difference.
(Philippians 4:10-13) 10 But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity. 11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. 12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: everywhere and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Christ can instruct you to suffer, to lack and to be abased. This is what the church in the wilderness faced.
(Deut 8:1-2) 1. All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers 2. And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no 3. And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
(Hebrews 3:10) Therefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, ‘They do always err in their heart, and they have not known My ways.’ It was not the path from Egypt to the promised land that is referred to as the leading. The leading is a way in the spirit. A way of God, a way in Christ. That way in the wilderness was a curriculum in Christ. The bread and water of Christ is to bring you to a knowledge. If you don’t eat that, there are certain understandings that you might not come into. For instance, a person might not have eaten the bread of adversity and the water of affliction – (Isa.30:20-21) 20. And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: 21. And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.
It takes the curriculum in Christ to show a man who feels he can give up everything that he is truly lacking inside. It does this by showing him the person of Christ and it calls him to come and become that person. What is inside this person called Christ is Sacrifice. Babes have rights, but when they grow up, they discover that they don’t have any rights.
In the milk curriculum, you don’t see Christ or suffering; you believe that He suffered for you. However, there is an upward call to suffer with him and have the same life. We begin to see Jesus’ suffering as an example, calling us to partake of the same. One of the things they begin to do for you here, which is the first breakthrough. is that they open your eyes to see, because up until then, the concept of kingdom that you have is not a person, it is a system. There is still a ‘system’ mindset that many believers want to execute. Meanwhile, God strategically positions people. Joseph was sold into slavery, Daniel was taken, and Nehemiah too. It’s not that they strategically positioned themselves where they got to; they weren’t even looking for it. But these days, we are getting to see believers driven by their lust. It is not a bad thing for men to be highly positioned, but you need to define what is driving you. When God shows you to you, you will begin to cry for mercy. When you get there, you’ll see that the things driving you begin to overtake you, and that Jesus needs to deal with you and make you content, regardless of whether you get to those places or not. This is the same work that was wrought in Paul in Philippians 4:11 – Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. There is a truth of Christ that Paul learnt. It was in Christ that he had that learning of the person of Christ. That we would learn that, despite our right, we can be content with being deprived, without complaining and murmuring.
There are certain things in the milk that are not flagged as sin. But in Corinthians, one of their sins was murmuring (1st Corinthians 10:10) – Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. Murmuring is a more inward, not an outward sin, so it wasn’t yet dealt with in the Corinthians. It will get to a level where fighting for your rights becomes a defilement because it is flesh at work. They start dealing with works of the flesh from milk, but Christ would deal with much more than the works of the flesh; Christ would deal with flesh.
(Galatians 5:22-26) –19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Christ goes against flesh, not just works of the flesh, but flesh, its affections and lust. A baby, however, doesn’t know flesh; in fact, babies glory is in the flesh. What they call true circumcision is the cutting away of flesh.
(Philippians 3:1-6) – 3 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe. 2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. 3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
The things that Paul mentioned were not ‘sins’, but they were things he had to die to. What the Bible says in Genesis 5 is that man had become flesh, which means we had come into some sort of glorious thing. We love what flesh is, and we sometimes hope to come into flesh one day
When a person is coming into the curriculum of Christ, one of the senses they would give a Christ soul is that the soul is tuned against the flesh. Christ is the recipe against flesh. Christ is God’s design. If a milk person uses milk very well, grass can be saved back to flesh, but flesh is still a problem. Sometimes, we never really get thoroughly converted from grass because the glory of grass is beautiful. (Isaiah 40:6-8) That a man has been cleansed from works of the flesh doesn’t mean yet that he is free from flesh. The things Paul described in Philippians 3 are called flesh.
4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more: 5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;6 Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
Galatians 6:15 – 15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Galatians 5:6 – 6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
Flesh also uses both circumcision and uncircumcision. There are righteousnesses of circumcision, and there are unrighteousnesses of and uncircumcision. But all of that has no profit in Christ. It is in Christ that it is revealed that all of it is flesh. Flesh is designed to work in every environment. Flesh enters the law, weakens it and makes you subject to sin. (Romans 8:3a) Flesh hewn out righteousnesses (rightnesses) that did not lead to life.
One of the things that Christ will do is to give you a life sense; how to mind life and not lose life. You’ll rather take life than be correct or be perceived as right, because what is at stake is not between right or wrong, but between death and life. When the scale of choice is between life and death, you see that your options change. Some right things you do, and you lose life.
Christ wants to deliver you from the wisdom of sin and death, which is framed in flesh. He then begins to instruct you against your life. He shows you Christ’s constitution. That can look offensive when the soul is deeply rooted in flesh, because in Christ, you begin to see that you have found hope in the present.
(1 Corinthians 15:19) – 19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. In Christ’s allocation, there is hope for you. But if that is all that is Christ, all of that hope is misery. This means that what makes the hope worthwhile is the hope of the life that is to come. The hope of somebody like Paul is not anything here; it’s in more labour of Christ. He’s not staying on earth to see his children’s children or for his career to get to an international level. Our hope is not Christ’s hope, our hope is flesh’s hope. The only thing that is your contentment should be Christ – what the law in Christ has designed for you. Seeing this life is a life of faith in the son. The learning of that faith is a justification. The exercise of that faith is removing something from you (Galatians 2:15).
We use flesh to live daily. It has become impossible to live and breathe without flesh. And this is not all of the wisdom of Satan. There is a justification that came to us when we first believed.
(Romans 4:24-25, 5:1) 24 But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; 25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.
5 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
There is a justification by believing in Him, which is the quickening of our Spirits. But Romans 5 tells us that there is a continuous justification, those of us who have believed in Him will be justified by the faith of Him.
(Galatians 2:16-20) – 16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. 17 But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid. 18 For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor. 19 For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. 20 I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
The profiting of a soul who is learning Christ is that he is mortified or he learns to put to death everything they call his members and a new man which is a product of faith that works by love arises. What you exercise yourself in is the truth that is in Jesus Christ, that truth is faith which is working by love. It is a faith of Christ which is working by the love of Christ. A person can live and die, and not make use of the faith that is in Christ. He may not even see it, let alone make use of it.
Paul’s claim that he can do all things is referring to conforming to whatever state Christ instructs. This is a product of instruction and contentment. “I can do all things” is to abide and not change. It is to stay in a state even though he feels lost or cheated. To be free from the law of sin and death, you will be exercised by the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus. This law will show you faith, and the way of the spirit. Sin and earth is a mystery and the mystery of Christ is the antidote to unwind the mystery of sin and death or flesh that Satan has wound in the soul. This is where we begin to see emptiness in what a person labours with his life. We want to use God to pacify our religious concerns. Vanity is powerful. Remove everything that is called vanity and the world suddenly feels empty. Vanity is life. It’s difficult to make man loose his sense of vanity. We secretly pray that we prosper in vanity. What doesn’t make you cry for a formation of Christ more than paper is dangerous. It means flesh is still more real, you don’t the see the labour of becoming Christ as a vocation. When you make it and you have not made Christ, you’re a loser. There’s nothing to make, if you have not made Christ or if Christ has not been made in the soul.
Only God can save us from the wisdom of flesh. One of the wisdoms of circumcision is to cut the foreskin of the flesh. This is how they want to separate us from flesh.
(Philippians 3:3) – 3.For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
The original circumcision is that with Christ, they cast flesh away, just as they cast the foreskin with a stone. When God wants to collect flesh from us, we can become defensive. To refuse circumcision is to refuse justification, deliverance from the wisdom of sin and death, deliverance from our own righteousness.
Sin is wise, flesh is wiser. If God doesn’t help us, we won’t be able to understand the wisdom of sin. Flesh is a great mystery that a baby will not see.
(Romans 8:2-3) – 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus wants to save you from sin and death but there is a law called flesh that must be touched before it can undo the work that sin and death has done. Christ is not just the antidote to flesh, but also the antidote to sin and death. Christ is not just a project that God is doing, for doing sake. It is a deliverance programme from a malady that man doesn’t know that he has.The man that has used milk has arrived by the righteousness of the law or his own righteousness which he got by faith but they need to exchange his own righteousness for the righteousness of Christ. The law was a school master to bring them to Christ. It is was served in the place of milk. The law is good if used profitably. It is not just law of Moses, it is spiritual. If you use the law well, it will bring you as unto spiritual.
We will come to a place where we have no glory, no attainment, other than what Christ is.
(Colossians 3:1-4) – 3 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.
To be risen with Christ is to be risen in the soul. The scripture says “If ye then be wrisen with Christ”. If, not when. This is the hope of a man that his life is becoming Christ. This appearance in glory is not the second coming, it is the revelation of Christ. You can’t appear until he appears because our appearance is tied to His appearance. You can’t become what you have not seen Him as. When christ appears as the son of God, they will upgrade you by sight. Appearing with Him in Glory is seeing the gloroified Christ. The labour in Christ is doing a work that wasn’t covered in the previous allocation.
Christ is a curriculum in the spirit, a programme that is designed to undo the ways of flesh in the heart. The construct of flesh in every soul differs to hide sin. Christ programme is specificall designed for each soul to find out the root of sin.
(Deuteronomy 8:2-3) – 2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. 3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
There are things in your heart that only the programme of Christ can find out. These are tendencies, they are the workings of the flesh that hides the wisdom of sin and death. They need to suffer some things out. Venoms and vipers are in the soul until they are subjected by subjective leading. A babe can boast about some things because they have not yet led him in some ways. The more you grow, the less you judge.
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