Excerpts

The Lighthouse Apostolic Centre

Thursday, 24th October 2024

(Day 4 – Evening Session)

Understanding and Inheriting the Dominion of Life

Rev. Busuyi Olabode

1. In these last days, the contest will be against Jesus as the Son of God (John 20:31). Not many will contest against Jesus as the Christ, not even the antichrist. It makes sense and a lot of meaning that Jesus is the Christ, but when it comes to Him being the Son of God there is a contest. The Jewish are expecting the Messiah which is ‘the Christ’ (John 1:41) but they do not believe that the Messiah is the Son of God (Matt. 16:15-16).

2. The end of the law that the Lord gave through Moses is Messiah (Christ). Christ is meant to end the law; the law is not finished until Christ appears (Rom. 10:4). Rom. 8:3-4 – Jesus Christ fulfilled the righteous demand. He fulfilled the law not by mosaic law but by the Spirit.

3. As Christ He died on the cross and as He died on the cross the works of sin were destroyed (Gal. 5:19-20); He took away our sins.

4. There must be remission of sins for the Kingdom to be accessed. Matt. 4:17 – Remission of sins is not the Kingdom but it is the gateway to the Kingdom. The essence of remission is to prepare people for what is ahead, there is something ahead of remission.  After Jesus died, the apostles began to teach about being converted (Acts 2:38).

5. 1 John 5:6 – Jesus came not only with water but with water and blood. Water starts the remission of sin but cannot finish it - water and blood is needed. John did not finish the work of remission but Jesus finished it and He finished it by blood. Baptizing with water is in hope, the physical deeping in water does not clean. Nobody gets saved by baptism (1 Pet. 3:21). When we get born again and we are baptized in water, we are identifying with the message. Baptism is identification; you identify with the name. The real message is the message that is being preached. 

6. John 3:5 – That a person is born of water and spirit does not mean he has entered. The two births are to make us eligible and qualified to the Kingdom of Heaven. When we talk about Christ we are not talking about Jesus but the ministry of Jesus in saving man. Saving man does not mean that you stop sinning but that you take up the image and the likeness of God.

7. Jer. 31:34 – A time is coming that sin will no longer be the discussion. A time will come that things like adultery, fornication, drunkenness will no longer be a discussion because all will know Him from the least to the greatest . Therefore, it is clear that there is a life before sin. There was a program God had in mind before sin came; it means there is a life and a dominion above sin that God wants man to come into.

8. It is not enough to say that we believe Jesus is the Son of God but there are things about the Son that we must know, so as to know what is locked up in the Son of God. Ps. 2:6-7 – Nobody knew how Jesus was begotten. We know He died and resurrected but we did not know what happened in the grave. Eph. 1:19-20 – Something happened to Jesus in the grave that changed Him from the beloved Son to what God has been waiting for. Even though He knew what He would become after death, Jesus did not teach Himself all through His sojourn on Earth. There was a power that raised Him from the dead.

9. There is the Earthly Christ and the Heavenly Christ. The earthly Christ is for remission of sins while the heavenly Christ is for the revelation of the Son of God - to make Heaven seen. The Son is to show those that have gone through the way of His Father. The first part of the kingdom of Heaven is the Kingdom of the Father. What the Father has for everyone whose sins have been forgiven (not by new birth but by remission) is access to the Kingdom of our Father.

10. Jesus came to show the way back to God, and not to Heaven (as a place). Heaven is not just a place, He is a Person. The Father is not just a place, He is a place and also a Person (John 20:17). The land in Heb. 11:9 is a Person; the promise is a Person.

11. Keys are understanding - they are access. We have to know what we are looking for, that is why we have to seek it. We cannot find the Kingdom of Heaven without seeking it. If sins are fully remitted, we will have eyes to see the Kingdom. Remission of sins remit us from fleshly lust that is not making us focus. The light in us can turn to darkness if we lose the power of focus (Matt. 6:19-21, 16:22-23).

12. The dominion of Heaven is the promise for those whose sins have been remitted and not for the world. You do not preach that the Kingdom of God is near to the Gentiles - to them it is very far but to the Jews it is near because they are children of the Kingdom, and all they need to do is to finish the law. Eph. 2:13-14 – The Church is a balance where both those who are far and near are brought as one. The Gentiles are to believe on Jesus but the Jews are to repent from their unbelief  (Rom. 10:9-10).

13. The Kingdom of Heaven is not the kingdom of Heaven of angels, it is a Kingdom of Heaven in Heaven. It is a Person kept in Heaven because of us which we cannot reach if He was not in Heaven. They kept Him there until a time where He will be revealed. The last time project is the revelation of Salvation (1 Pet. 1:5).

14. Amen means ‘it is done’ (Rev. 1:18). We need to know hell to vanquish hell - to demystify hell. Many of us do not know hell. Sin knows us more – sin teaches us, sin deceives us but in the years ahead of us, we will know more about sin. The work of the Son of God is to demystify hell and death and have the keys after which He will give us the keys for our ascension.