PASTOR OLUWASEYI OSANYINBI
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The manifestation of the pre-incarnate Christ began when light came forth on the first day of creation. Darkness is the personification of a reality and light was needed to make it go into extinction. Darkness is a life of it’s own. Satan became enslaved to darkness though he fathered it through sin.
Darkness is the representation of the life called Sin and Death. Light represents the life that is called Eternal Life. The antidote to darkness is light just like Eternal Life is the antidote to Sin and Death. Darkness can never overpower light; it cannot withstand light.
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The pattern of God has always been the same. There is always an eternal battle between the Life of God and Sin and Death. Our daily decisions help us decide the part to which we belong. God is God because of a kind of knowledge that defines Him. If we will continually depend on God to give us His kind of knowledge we will end up like Him. Different civilizations in the history of the world are what they are because of knowledge. Knowledge separates the rich from the poor.
The kind of knowledge we have access to determines how we turn out. The knowledge of good and evil was what led man to the fall. The conflicts that bother on the relativity of what is good and what is evil is what has turned the world upside down today. The knowledge of good and evil is intrinsically evil. It is not the kind of knowledge that comes from God.
Knowledge has abounded so much in the world that everybody wants his human right. People now have a kind of freedom that can best be described as lawlessness. This kind of knowledge is sickening as it seeks to pleasure man endlessly.
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When men refuse to retain God in their knowledge, all kinds of vices take over their lives. Rejecting God’s knowledge reduces man to the level of mere animals. The animal instinct of man is activated and brought to the front burner when God is expunged from his lexicon. There is something tricky about believers who sit on the fence. They are not seen to be doing the wrong things but as a matter of attitude, they endorse evil.
Those who do not have the knowledge of God are dead to righteousness and they are sinners. It is shameful for tongue talking believers to indulge in things that are not proper. We can demonstrate the gifts of the Holy Spirit without the knowledge of God. We must not be deceived to think that we are in right standing with God just because some spiritual gifts are manifesting in our lives.
The Corinthian Church was full of the demonstration of the gifts of the Spirit but they were still babes in producing fruit fit for righteousness. We need the knowledge of God. We need to know Him to the point where He dictates what we do, when we do them and how we do them. We have to stop going about thinking we have everything figured out outside of God. The image of the earthy is the image of the fallen Adam that is mortal. That image is finite; it is subject to death and corruption.
The image of the heavenly is immortal. God wants to redeem us so that we no longer bear that which is earthy. We get transformed from glory to glory into the heavenly image by beholding God. We get distracted from looking unto Jesus and that is why we keep struggling to leave the earthy image. You cannot hear the last trump if you have not been changed because corruption cannot inherit incorruption. To hear the last trump, we must keep listening to the trump that keeps coming to us from time to time, that is the knowledge of God conveyed to us through the instrumentality of His word.
As believers, our salvation has been handed over to us on a platter of gold but we have a work to do. That work is to behold the knowledge of God incessantly until we are changed into His image. When we finally conform to God’s image, death will be swallowed up in victory. We have to feast and feast on the knowledge of God for the salvation of our souls. We always have to make deliberate decisions daily to follow God.