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18. Preparations for the Kingdom by Pst. Tayo Ladejo
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Preparations for the Kingdom
The everlasting Kingdom of God is not just for every believer, it is for those that the Lord has prepared on earth; those who have embraced His burden even in this present world.
There are certain formations that the church must take as we see the day of God approaching. The purpose of the coming of the Lord is to strengthen the kingdom of God upon the earth and to establish the everlasting kingdom of the Father.
The Lord's coming will be instrumental in bringing the day of God legitimately. His coming is not just a one-time event, it is successive and it precedes His final coming. (Dan. 7:13-14)
The Lord is coming for the purpose of establishing His kingdom, to bring the earth in harmony with Heaven. The conflicts on earth will continue until the appearing of the Son of God.
The church must, therefore, look and hasten His coming, because all the issues and troubles on the earth today is an indication that the day of God is being heralded.
God is raising a Church that is being prepared for the Day of God, a church that will overcome death. We must not be onlookers but people that will be instrumental in entering the Kingdom of God.
The more we are one with the Lord, the more we are being incorporated into the company of those that are looking for the Day of God. (Dan. 7:26-27)
The essence of the Church is not only to stop sin but also to make men conform to the image of our God.
In the Day of God, every other kingdom will bow. God needs people whose sole purpose is to showcase Him in every sphere of their lives.
We must lay down our lives for one another because our Lord Jesus gave His life for the church even when it does not deserve it and His action sanctified her. (Eph. 5:25)
Washing takes place as we intimate ourselves with the Word of God. We must take measures that help the Word reach us easily, for this allows for our cleansing, purging, and purification; God will not absorb anyone that has not gone through these processes.
God desires to showcase Himself to the Church, but she will have to align with Him. (Eph. 5:27, 6:19-20)
God is raising a company of messengers that can live the life that the Word of God postulates. God does not just want us to display charisma but to live the word we have heard. Necessity is, therefore, laid on every believer to understand the life and intent of God. (1 Cor. 9:16)
There is only one mystery in the gospel which houses the mystery of the Godhead, (God, Father, and Christ). Until the mystery of God becomes that which constrains our liberty then, He cannot bring us into the fellowship of the mystery.
The people that will reign with Him are the captives of the Lord. (Eph. 3:9, 2 Tim. 2:12)
There are three things that make up the messenger of the Lord - the unveiling of His mystery, utterance, and boldness; these three are needed to declare the mystery of the gospel.
The messenger may have the mystery but not declare it boldly to the people, but the ability to speak boldly will come as we conquer the fear of the unknown and death. (Eph. 6:20).
As we come into the Day of God, He will raise messengers who will speak with so much boldness in declaring His whole counsel. The message must not be declared with timidity or mediocrity but with the assurance of the power of the Gospel. (Rom. 1:16)
In the season of the teaching of the everlasting gospel, there will be a total transformation of the soul of man. There are earthly formations and images in our spiritual voyage that must be collapsed because they will unfailingly fade away.
Therefore, it will be wise to drop them before the law sets in. The images of the earth are corruptions in the heart, thoughts, vision, actions, and so on which hinders the formation of the heavenly image. (2 Cor. 5:1-2)
Heaven wants us to trap the things of the heavenly in our soul so that such a soul will be able to groan for the clothing of His God. The soul will then say mortality has been swallowed up by life and immortality.
The giving of the Spirit to man is for them to come into the hope of the gospel, which is Incorruptibility and Immortality. (2 Cor. 5:3-5)