Minister: Pst. Laide Olaniyan
Date: 3rd July 2026
Topic: The Sense of the Allocation of the Word of Christ Pt. 3
(Eph. 5:8-14) – “For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: 9 For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth; 10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. 12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. 13 But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. 14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.”
It is possible to be alive in the spirit but dead in the soul; that is, the spirit is light, but the soul remains in darkness, not having awakened to the life in the spirit. We are light in the Lord, but we still need Christ’s light. (Jam. 1:17) God is the Father of lights; He has many lights. Though our spirit is light in the Lord, we still need the light of Christ to walk circumspectly. The soul needs Christ’s light to no longer have fellowship with the works of darkness.
Christ is still a dark light. In Christ’s light, we still see darkly; that means there is still a bit of darkness (1 John 1:6-7, 1 John 2:8-11). Darkness is not truly past until the true light shines. That is when darkness is exterminated completely from the soul. We have to get to a place where we are raised to see the True light.
Jesus is the True light, but we must journey to a place where that True light shines (1 John 2:8). There is light, and there is the shining or rays of light. The light can be shining, but there can be something covering it that hinders the rays of the light from reaching us.
Jesus is both the image and brightness of His glory (radiance of the light) and the express image of his person. He is both the essence and the light (Rev 21:23-24). The Lamb is the light; the Glory of God is the illumination that goes forth from the light and then lightens the New Jerusalem. The Glory of God emanates from the Lamb and then lightens the city. He is the effulgence of the glory. The city lives in the light of the glory, but the Lamb is the light of it. Light talks about the expression and the rays of it.
There can be light, but it is not shining. The true light has been since, but the radiance of it is not permitted to reach us until we come to a place for it to be able to reach us. But there are other lights the soul can enjoy.
The economy of Christ and the Lordship of Christ begin from the day we accepted Christ, even though we don’t know Him as we ought yet, but the goal of His Lordship is to Lord us from death into light. The pathway of the soul into life or light is dependent on the yieldedness of the soul to the guiding hands of the Lord. God knows that the spirit is quickened, but the soul is dead. So, He begins to do a delicate work so the pathway of the soul into life can be created.
Christ is for the weaning of a soul from death, darkness, and ignorance until the soul can begin to learn the true light. The prosperity of the ministry is dependent on the soul structure and its yieldedness to the moulding hands of the Lord. That is why we must not joke with the leading of the Spirit. One of the most vital lessons in our spiritual journey is prayer and leading of the Spirit. Your receiving the leading of the Spirit is predicated on one’s ability to commune with God accurately. Prayer is one of the most valuable means through which we can talk to God. It is our compass. If our leading of the Spirit is not sound, we will still miss our way. We could be on the right path and still question it if our discernment of His voice is not strong. If this is the case, we will live on people’s opinions and our experiences. We should learn to commune/pray to discern the will of God. We need proper hearing and the ability to understand the word with the discipline to read the Word. If we don’t understand the leading of the Spirit, we will be more confused than when we started. The more we grow in Scripture, the more our discernment also grows.
A child who did not drink milk well will struggle with assimilation because of deficiencies. That’s how difficult it is when a soul does not know the voice of the Lord.
(Eph. 1:10) – “That in the dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him:” – Christ is the unifier. We will not come to the unity of faith just by association. It is a doctrine that brings us into unity of faith. The commission of the fivefold is actually to bring everyone to the unity of faith. Every ordained minister of God should shepherd a flock until they come to see Christ (Eph. 4:15-16). If the whole body is not growing into the head, the body will not grow.
(Eph. 4:14)Christ is the first wind breaker of doctrine. He collapses everything to one single purpose. God can send different people, but our doctrine should be the same. What makes the believer not differ from the unbeliever is that different hopes still govern us. Some of us are still more of our professional identity than a believer. People still want to become what they still want much more than becoming Christ. For example, some are more of an engineer than a believer. The soul wears this garment as a glory, and unbelievers also wear this same garment (Eph. 4:17-18). The satisfaction of the soul is not yet found in Christ. All these things are predicated on the blindness they still have. That is why the eyes of our understanding need to be opened. We need to transit, but except there is a mercy of God to open our eyes, we can’t transit (Eph. 1:15). This is why Paul had to pray; the transit does not happen ordinarily; the Lord has to show mercy for this transit.
(Eph. 1:15-20) – “15 Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, 16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; 17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, 19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, 20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,” – We see from this scripture that Apostle Paul prayed for them over a period of time for them to transit. We don’t explain light to someone we’ve never prayed for. Many of the people that we’ve tried to preach to and they refused is because their eyes were never opened. There has to be a lot of labor in prayer. Many of us have not prayed for anyone and want people to believe. We can pray to God for Him to open people’s eyes. Our eagerness and zeal cannot cure blindness. It takes the mercy of God to shine light and transit the soul. Without intensive prayer, a soul cannot cross. If it were, Paul would not need to pray and pray for men to cross. Heaven is waiting on us to ask for many who should be due for crossover, whom God will place their burdens in our heart. God will have us mediate their transition into light.
Until God brings us into the wilderness, He can’t trust us. God brings us into the wilderness to know what is in our hearts and whether we will obey His commandments (John 2:24-25). The word here is similar to what was said in Deuteronomy (Deut. 8:2). The Lord looks at hearts to see whether they can obey Him. Believing is a similitude of coming out of Egypt, but that we exited Egypt doesn’t mean we love God and are looking for God. We could just be looking for freedom. There were three wildernesses in the Old Testament (Sin, Zin & Paran). Similarly, there are 3 wildernesses in Christ – faith, hope, and charity. Scripture is prophetically accurate.
The essence of the whole journey is to know what is in our heart. God begins to filter. He begins to separate. When we first believe, they gather all sorts, then they begin to separate sheep from goats (Matt. 13:47-48). It is not everything they gather that they take home. We all have an ordination to be good and gathered into the barn, but what makes a man good is what the soul obeys. (John 3:20-21) All of us have evil in us, but as we come into light, they reprove us of the evil. It is now left to us to love our evil or jettison it. We need to complete our Christ curriculum.
A soul that escapes from the wilderness is not governed or regulated. Without regulating us, our soul will not tell us the truth of what is on our inside. God puts us through certain things and examines us thoroughly. We are kept under observation because God needs that particular state to know the truth of our soul. The way God regulates our life is through light. While He has lorded over our lives while we were in darkness, He will also Lord over our lives with light.
We ought to journey. What God is looking for is not our pain but our obedience. He does not glory in our pain; rather, He wants to sever us from what is inside us. There is a law called flesh, and a law called sin and death. So, God starts exercising us against ourselves to separate us from those two laws; they have become the laws that run our lives. Of the entire generation of Israel who crossed through the wilderness, only two entered.
We must become that man who is Charity to enter. We will do faith, hope, and charity and become a man ready for entrance. We must go through all the wildernesses to arrive at our promised land. Every mind must be exercised in the training of faith, hope, and charity. Not everybody loves Jesus. We must determine that every fibre of our being must become Christ.
We have come to a place where our lives are regulated, where we no longer live by the light of the sun and the moon. Like Israel, we have the pillar of cloud and pillar of fire over us. This is a training of our heart to transit, to help us end up with a sense that stands on no other thing but Christ. Many of us still have things we rest upon, but we will come to a place where all these things have been removed.
THE END.