Date: 18th January, 2026
Message: Unveiling the Mysteries of Eternal Salvation
Minister: Pastor Laide Olaniyan
The church is all about Christ, His Father and His God. The Lord will not speak without the spirit moving over the waters. When we hear, we need an anointed heart to receive the words of the kingdom. We need the spirit over our hearts. Worship in actuality is to serenade our hearts, anoint the minister and create an atmosphere over hearts to receive the word.
(Luke 8:8) – “And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.”
(Luke 8:18) – “Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have.”
It’s not just about hearing the word but how we hear also matters for us to make maximum profit of that which we have heard. The way we hear determines if we will call forth an addition or a subtraction. It is possible to be in an atmosphere of the spirit and leave less than how you came.
(Luke 8:10-11) In the parable of the sower, we see here that there was a breakthrough for the word to enter the heart but what Satan fights is for believing of the word unto salvation. We also see this in Hebrew 4:1-2, that though some heard the word, it was not being mixed with faith in their hearts.
What is Faith? – Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. When the word of God comes, something should come with it and mix with it in the heart. The word of God is the seed and it ought to find an environment of faith in the heart for profiting.
The atmosphere of faith is necessary for the prosperity of the word. If the atmosphere is not there, profiting will not come. Satan will always temper with the atmosphere of our heart through various ways to prevent the word we hear from mixing with faith in our faith. It becomes like a field without water or moisture. The seed of God’s word has the potential to become a mighty tree but it needs the right atmosphere.
Faith is not mental consent, it is a spiritual resource provider around our hearts to culture the word we’ve heard unto breakthrough.
(Heb. 3:18) – “And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?”
It was only those who believed not that did not enter his rest even though they heard the word. Hearing the word and agreeing with it does not mean you have believed. To believe is to receive the word with faith in the heart and resolve to obeying it by the spirit. The energy of the spirit has been set loose around it to bring forth the life in it around us.
(Luke 8:14-15) All of these hearts heard the word. Some heard the word, but they didn’t bring forth fruits unto perfection. Also for some hearts, they believed the word for a while but along the line, they lost faith and made a shipwreck (1 Tim 1:19). It’s very possible for souls to start in the faith and seek to be perfected in the flesh. We should fight to keep faith alive. To lose faith doesn’t mean we have stopped believing in Jesus. We can believe Jesus and have lost faith. To lose faith is to lose everything.
In the parable of the sower, the response of each heart was dependent on how they heard the word and how they heard the word also determined the measure of fruit they bore. We should not just desire to hear but much more desire to hear well. We should trust God to hear well.
There is a way we will hear that even in times of temptations we will be sure and unshaken. This stance is wrought from the time of hearing.
Anything below hearing unto perfection is a loss. It’s the desire of the Lord to make us perfect in every good work. The project is project perfection.
In seasons of everlasting life, the Lord would bring prosperity to us, but we should be wary lest it becomes the very thing that distracts us, because Satan can use it to prevent us from bringing forth unto perfection. Prosperity is a phase we must face. Our eyes must be fixed on the goal if not we will think that prosperity or riches is the reward. The only reward and goal we should fight for is perfection.
At the end of the day, the disposition of our hearts cannot be hidden. Our goal towards hearing the word should be for sin to be undone in us and to be like God. The word will only make sense to the degree of what we are looking for in Him, the rest will sound like gibberish. The labour of our soul in hearing must be for perfection in the days of our flesh. This is why the Son gave His blood.
(Heb. 13:20-21) – “20 Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, 21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.”
If you deny that it is impossible to be perfect is denying that the blood of Jesus is inefficacious. The goal of Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection is for our perfection. To be made perfect is God’s will for us (Matt. 5:48). The secret of perfection is in Jesus. He knows how to make us perfect. God has done this before in our Lord Jesus, that’s why we are sure he can also replicate perfection in us.
(Heb. 5:7-9) – “Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; [8] Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; [9] And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;”
There is a process Jesus was walked through to be made perfect. If scripture says he was made perfect, then it means he wasn’t perfect before. Jesue became perfect, and has the power to make every imperfect being obeying Him perfect. Satan’s greatest lie is that it is impossible to be perfect.
If the law could make men perfect in that dispensation, then much more is possible in the better and new testament. For example, we saw God’s witness concerning Noah in Genesis 6:9 and with Job in Job 1:1. Job was made perfect by God. It is possible for me to be made perfect also by God. It’s possible for me to be perfect like our Father in heaven is perfect. If we don’t believe this, everything else will sound far-fetched.
(Heb. 5:1-10) God made in the Son an archive of everything that is perfect. (Heb. 6:1) – “Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,” – We see Paul labouring to bring the church in Hebrew away from the distractions that Satan had put in their way and to the place of perfection.
(Heb. 5:11) – “Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.” – The things of perfection are a hard nut to crack. They are usually hard to utter. If our plan is to just play church, we will not be able to break into perfection. There was also a need for the foundation of milk to be laid again in the Hebrew church. Milk makes us healthy to hear the next allocation of God’s word to make us perfect. It’s possible for us to lose the foundation of the milk that had been previously wrought in us (2 John 1:8) but if we will be made perfect, the Lord must work in us again and relay the foundation else some things will be impossible to be transmitted to us. The Hebrew church through losing the work previously done were now in a place where they had need again of that which was already previously wrought.
(Heb. 5:13) – “For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.” – Satan casted a stumbling block in the way of the Hebrew church so it made them turn back rather than go on to perfection.
(Heb. 5:14) Strong meat is the meal for perfection but it belongs to them that are of full age. At the point where they were entering mastery, Satan cast offenses, reproaches e.t.c. This project of perfection is a Christ thing, it is not an EGFM/NLWC thing as some think. We saw Paul in the scriptures laboring to bring the church into perfection. Perfection is God’s goal for us. The time of perfection are times where you must not be ashamed of afflictions (Heb. 10:33).
(Heb. 10:29-34) The Hebrew church at some point chose rather to suffer than to enjoy the pleasures of this world just like Moses. They took joyfully the spoiling of their goods and had compassion for Paul in his bonds. The gospel of Christ will teach us to endure afflictions together with our brethren; to not be ashamed of them during their seasons of affliction. We should associate ourselves with our brethren when they go through contradictions. This is our charity work.
(Heb. 11:24-25) – “By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; [25] Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;”
Many cannot choose denial for the sake of their brethren. Many still do things that betray what we preach with their lusts still intact. For Moses, it was not brought upon him, He chose to deny himself of the pleasures of Egypt (Sin). He had options but chose to go low. Can you let go of your worldly goods for your brethren?
The faith of Jesus Christ will teach us to deny privileges, because it will teach our value system to esteem something better. If our value system has been upgraded we will be able to, like Moses, choose to suffer afflictions with God’s people than to enjoy the wealth of the world alone.
Sometimes what we call pleasure is sin and what we call afflictions is righteousness. If we don’t discern well, we can reject or choose to not go through afflictions that are in fact righteousness. Many have been trapped in sin due to the love for soft life. Satan has set traps for men, in the disguise of soft life, to ensnare us, weakening our minds in labouring and doing righteousness. Sin looks sweet, but it’s vain, it’s only for a fleeting time.
One of the deceitfulness of riches is that it undervalues true riches (righteousness). When our value system changes, we will place a premium on how much righteousness or Christ a man has rather than how much money a man has. When God begins to raise us with Christ, our value system changes.
When our value system changes, we won’t esteem men based on their material possession. The honour we will have for men won’t be based on their pockets, but on their ability to do faith.
A person that cannot keep the laws of faith unto charity is a vain man. We should not relate with one another based on what we wear or how we speak but rather we should relate with one another based on God’s workings in us. Our conformity to the image of the Son of God should be our greatest value.
(Heb. 10:34) The deceitfulness of riches makes us undermine eternal things and makes us value corruption. We should trust God to be raised above it. We must come to a place where we don’t have regard for vanity/mammon.
(1 Tim. 6:17-19) – “Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; 18 That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; 19 Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.”
What the world calls goods is not what Christ calls goods. Wealth of this world and financial security are worldly goods. They are called corruptible things or uncertain riches. 1 Timothy shows us how to relate with worldly goods.
Satan has designed men to rest in worldly securities, but God’s wisdom for us to escape this is to trust alone in the Living God. Good works are everlasting works. Worldly goods are not things we should treasure up, but rather, we should be willing to distribute our resources and ready to give cheerfully as the Lord brings opportunities our way. No goods should be too valuable to us that we should withhold, and not to be able to give out. When we cannot freely give a thing out, then it has become a worldly good to our soul. If it is worth receiving, it is worth giving. Let nothing be too high in your heart that you cannot give away.
Sometimes, we have a wrong perspective that we should not give out a gift we received from someone, but it’s not true and scriptural, because scripture says it is more better to give than to receive (Acts 20:35). God is not against us having worldly goods, He just wants us to deal with the value we place on it.
Additionally, any money we cannot give God or have not yet given to the Lord, we shouldn’t spend on ourselves otherwise you become a god of yourself. We see holy men choosing not to spend on themselves more than their monthly tithe. It is wise to consecrate ourselves before God concerning our finances and not spending more on things that are beyond the tithe we give to God. These consecrations, instructions and wisdom will help our hearts not to place inordinate value on things we possess. The reason we keep certain things to ourselves is because we esteem them so highly. Things have power, and can overpower us. The power things have over us is based on the value we place on our goods (1 Cor. 6:12).These things can kill us. If we are not wise in the use of things, they have power to ensnare us. May God give us grace to disrespect vanity, and the deceit called riches.
(Heb. 10:34-36) – “For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. 35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. 36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.”
The Hebrew church began failing after they had done the will of God for a while and could not patiently wait for the reward. The church failed in the school of patience. They had done all things right, but it seemed the promise wasn’t coming which made them want to turn back.
(Heb. 6:10-12) – “For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. 11 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: 12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.”
Indeed they had done the will of God, but slothfulness and impatience began robbing them of their hope. They had fought the cares of this world and deceitfulness of riches but could not keep being patient in hope and fervent in faith to a place where God opens up an economy over them for perfection.
(Heb. 13:20-21) – “Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, 21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.”
God who made Jesus perfect, wants to also teach us the things that made Jesus perfect so we can be made perfect. The things archived in Jesus’s blood are tools for our perfection. However, God will only perfect a soul with the nature of Christ.
(Eph. 4:12-13) – “For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:”
There is an initial perfection we attain in the curriculum of Christ. This isn’t the fullness of perfection. It signals maturity. A perfect person in Christ has attained unto faith, hope and charity but hasn’t become perfect in all things of God. A man of God is a Christ man (2 Tim. 3:16-17). The man of God (which is Christ) needs to be made perfect unto good works. This shows there is still more for a perfect man in Christ to come into. Good works are God’s work.
(John 6:28, Heb. 4:2-3) Works of God are good works. God finished all His works from the foundation of the world. Some think the works of God are miracles of healing e.t.c. This cannot be the work of God because the need for healing is an offshoot of the fall of man or sin. This scripture – Heb. 4:2-3 rules out what God’s work cannot be. One work God finished from the beginning but is just being rolled out is the work or programme of salvation. This is what we are being asked/made to be perfected in. The work of God is entrance into His kingdom (John 3:5).
From Genesis to Revelation, the only things referenced in the realm of what God wrought are things associated with Salvation. Every other thing was in response to the fall of man.
God initially rolled out His work in a shadow between Abraham and John but revealed it in its fullness with the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. This plan of Salvation is still ongoing. This is the work that God is overseeing upon the face of the earth.
(Heb. 5:8-9) – “Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; [9] And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;” – Perfection is the mystery of Eternal Salvation. (Heb. 12:2) Looking unto Jesus the Author and Finisher of our Faith is also saying the Author and Finisher of our Eternal Salvation. The faith Jesus authored is that for perfection. Others that came before Jesus did faith, but didn’t touch salvation or perfection (Heb. 11:40). He authored Eternal Salvation, therefore, anyone who will be saved eternally must learn Jesus.
Even our Lord Jesus went through the phases of perfection. He was first Christ which is a level of perfection, then He went unto the fullness of it (Heb. 5:4-8). Christ was not yet saved eternally, He had to labour to become perfect, and laboured to be the author of Eternal Salvation even from the state of Christ. Christ was the one they perfected. He was the one that learnt perfection. If Jesus learnt, we also must learn perfection through obedience.
The secret of perfection is in a person. If we must learn the secret of being saved eternally, we must eat his flesh and drink his blood (John 6:54-58). This is how we partake of Him and the laws in Him, The knowledge of what He trapped is in His flesh and blood. We eat and drink by understanding. (Luke 22:19-20) The covenant, testimony, and the book of the prophecy are things trapped in the blood. This is the feast and table the church should come to until we become like Him.
(Heb. 10:19-22) – “Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, 20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; 21 And having an high priest over the house of God; 22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.”
If they don’t give us their blood, we will not overcome nor come into perfection. Our perception concerning faith should change. Satan has made us dull concerning these things. Life in the holiest of all is blood, flesh and water. Our life in the holiest of all is mediated through flesh which is the word of God.
(Heb. 10:4-10) We can’t approach the corridors of will without a body being prepared for us. A body is prepared through the raising of a house through the word of God. Heaven wants to raise an everlasting house, even the house of God (Eph. 2:21-22). A house is a spiritual body being turned into a divine one (2 Pet. 1:4).
(2 Pet. 1:1-8) Like precious faith means Christ has been wrought in them. Divine nature is the law that runs the house. (Eph. 2:21-22) The first building in verse 21 is a Christ raising. We also see this in Hebrews 3:1. The holy brethren here are the holy temple as seen in Ephesians 2:21 while the building in verse 22 is an everlasting building. God indeed can raise men to be buildings
Apostle and Highpriest are titles of divine life. (Heb. 3:1-3) Which house did Moses build? The house really is Moses. God raised Moses a house. What God built wasn’t the tabernacle, Bezaleeel did that. What God built was Moses. This is why the law is called Moses and even Satan contended for the body of Moses. He was the fullness of the laws of that testament. So also Christ became a house wrought with the laws of God which God can dwell in.
(2 Cor. 5:1) Our bodies are our house. Our bodies are referred to as a tabernacle in Scriptures. The system of worship in priesthood is to learn a man. For Israel, it was the law of Moses, for us it is Jesus. Jesus is the divine house that God dwells in. There are eternal mysteries locked up in Jesus and we can’t afford to be dull of hearing. Jesus Christ did not raise a physical tabernacle, the church is the building He will raise.
To understand the tabernacle, Israel had to see Moses. To understand the builder we must see the builder – Jesus Christ, the Son of God. We must hear Jesus to be raised into a house. The program of salvation is blood for blood, and flesh for flesh. The Lord will unearth them not just as knowledge but as ways.
THE END.