Five levels of consecration: Apostle Michael Orokpo

0:00 [Music] very [Music] quickly what is consecration because I want to advance five levels of consecration and then I show you the precursors of consecration because there are things that provoke consecration and then we shut down. Our father is coming up. I'm just coming to give a charge. Glory to God. So don't mind me that I'm rushing. The ego is around. [Music] So consecration is a life of

0:47 total devotion and commitment to Jesus as Lord. I tell people God is father and on the strength of being a father he provides. But God is not only a father. God is also a king. As a king he has an agenda that we all must come into service to advance. God is also Lord. As Lord it means we are his possession. And so we do his biddings and his will. And God is also judge. As judge at the end of time, he will recompense everyone not based on

1:34 the love he has for them but based on their service. And so when we are talking consecration, we are dealing with the Lord a dogged commitment and devotion to him. And this devotion are in cadas. As you read the Bible, you will find five cadas of consecration. Number one is the generic level of consecration. It's called the believer's consecration. This one, everybody who is a Christian, this is what it should be like. You don't need to be called into ministry to have this because you are a

2:20 Christian. There are levels of commitments that God expects from you. And the believer's consecration is five-fold. Number one is purity. God expects you to live a life of dogged purity if you are committed to him. Because light and darkness have no business. So if you are committed to him, you must delete everything that is not of him from you. So a person who is a believer who is not contending to live a holy and a pure life does not understand what it means to be a servant of God. The standard of the Lord standeth sure. 2 Timothy 2:19-21 he said therefore the Lord knoweth them that are

3:08 his. Verse 21 he said he said they that name verse 20 they that name the name of the Lord must depart from iniquity. Whoever purges himself, there is the regeneration of the Holy Spirit. There is the sanctification of the spirit and the word. But there's also him that purges himself. That's where consecration comes in. Devotion to God, impurity and holy life. When you find men who were committed to God, they fought sin out of their life using grace and the power of the Holy Spirit. We are comfortable with iniquity. We advertise it. And now we are fighting to modify doctrine to

3:54 accommodate it. So when you talk righteousness, they say it's God's nature. That's correct. When you say righteousness, they say it's a gift from God. That's correct. But that's not all. I'm talking because I have the nature of a man. So if I have God's nature, I must live like God. I can't have God's nature and live like Satan. So there is righteousness of 2 Corinthians 5:21. There is righteousness of Romans 5:17. But there's also righteousness of 1 John 37 and 9. Herein are the children of God distinguished from the children of the devil when we do righteousness. So it's not just a nature. It's not just a gift. It's also a lifestyle. A lifestyle of purity. Paul

4:42 said in 1 Corinthians 9:27, "I beat my body. I bring it under subjection." That's a consecrated believer. I beat my body. I do have impulses, but by the spirit, I will multiply it. I won't let it have it way. I beat my body. Purity. All the apostles knew this. In 1 Peter chapter 4:1 it say him that have suffered in the flesh have ceased from sinning. That means there are times when you feel lost while you are telling the Holy Ghost to help you you delete the number of everybody that triggers it. And so for 3 months if you need to cry

5:28 in the room you cry. It's called suffering in the flesh. So when the hol the Holy Ghost comes to multiply the flesh but while you are waiting for the spirit you are suffering in the flesh. So in this kingdom we burn bridges. If those bridges lead to [Applause] sin I'm talking the fight of purity. I've had a covenant with my eyes that I will not look upon the virgins. That was the testimony of Job. So believers fight to sustain purity. Number two, believers consecration is service. We are not motivated to serve. Joshua 24:15, it say, "As for me

6:13 and my house, we will serve the Lord." If you are a Christian and they need to promise something before you serve. If you are a Christian and they need to pay you before you serve, oh, I wonder the heaven you are going to. I wonder the eternity you are going to because Jesus told us to lay up treasures where m and rot cannot go to destroy and where thief cannot go to steal. Meanwhile, you have receive all your rewards on earth. I pity the eternity you are looking forward to. It's our honor to serve and we don't just serve even if it will put hazard on us. Acts 15:26 it say Paul and Barnabas he said this be the man that hazarded

7:01 their life for the gospel. Is it the gospel that they were slaughtered for that we charge money to preach? Is it the gospel that they were in prison for that we charge money to preach? We don't know what Christianity is and it's a pity for anybody who brings justification for that. He doesn't know the way of the father. See doctrine. This is why when you are dealing with kingdom matters, there is existence in doctrine. And there's also the way of the apostles. You can't find whether in doctrine or in life of the apostles where service had a price. For them it was an honor to serve even up to death. Those days they punish Christians by removing them from

7:50 responsibility because you did this and did that you can't sweep the church anymore. And they beg today they pay Christians to sweep. What a generation. And we want to see the glory of God. We want to see the power of God. No, it's not available for a generation like ours. He said do not cfully things with the swine. They will trample it under food. They don't know the value. You give holy things to people who know the value. Yes, sir. And so consecration is dogged service. Number three, consecration is integrity. When a Christian tells you wait, wrong. When a pastor says stand,

8:38 leave the country. Today is even safer to introduce yourself as a Christian because if you say pastor, you are a conn artist and you don't blame the world. They've seen enough. But see what Jesus said. Oh my god. Matthew 5:37 he said let your communication be be by yay yay or nay nay. He said anything other than that comes from the evil one. In Job 2:3, God himself was bragging with a man. Have you considered my servant Job? See the testimony God has for his people. No wonder I said God knoweth them that are his. We may be

9:23 many in church, but God knows the ones he advertises. Have you seen my servant Joe? He said there is none like him on the earth. Why? because of integrity. Perfect and upright man that feared God and estued evil. He holded fast to his integrity. Where are Christians who in government if they want to know the truth they will look for them? Today in church even in the offering room we have to put CCTV camera because if you don't put it there you'll be shocked. Yes sir. That's how godless we are. As we are preaching here, there are people here who will have the temerity to steal

10:09 phones. When you ask them what's your name is Nathaniel, it's Peter. Is Matthew is Mary? Do you know who Mary is? In our generation, Paul still phones Paul. Do you know who Paul is? How did we get here? Is something that should make us cry? Those names are supposed to trigger awareness of our heritage. Men that were given the oracles of God. We bear their name, yet we live like Satan. A woman walked in chastity. An

10:54 angel came from heaven and saluted her. Hail Mary, full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women. How can you bear that kind of name and you don't live with fear and trembling? A generation is lost. I'm out of time. Ah. [Applause] [Music] Aha. Aa [Music]

11:50 aa. Now as I leave the stage, when I come back tomorrow morning, I will continue. [Applause] I'm just talking to you about believers consecration. There are higher levels of consecrations in this kingdom. But every believer must live pure. Every believer must live serving God. Every believer must live with integrity. And every believer must live a life devoted to intimacy. That's the fourth dimension of believer's consecration. Devotion in prayer. Complete the five levels. Go

12:37 ahead. Give the Lord a big hand. Thank you. Every believer must live devoted to God. You shouldn't be motivated to pray. Where's the life in you? Who motivates you to eat food? You have been eating for 40 years. You have been eating for 30 years. Do you come to food service to be motivated to eat? How come you need to attend a prayer meeting or a revival meeting to pray? Is something not wrong? There's no devotion to God. And the reason is because we don't fight to sustain

13:25 it. For you to be a genuine believer, one of your consecrations must be daily devotion to God. Number one, in prayer. Samuel said in 1st Samuel 12:23, "I will not sin against God by not praying for you." The apostle said in Acts 6:4, "We will give ourselves." There's a level where you pray pray prayers. There's another level where you give yourself to prayer. When we give ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word, those are the people that make things happen. These are the people that walk in what God has made available to them. Devotion in prayer. Then devotion in the word until I

14:11 come. This is not something you stop. 1 Timothy 4:13, give attendance to reading, to exaltation, and to doctrine. So they said they give themselves to prayer and to the word. And Paul told his disciples, give attendance. In Proverbs 4:23, he said from 20 to 23, he said that you should focus on the word. He said, "Keep the word in your heart. Look upon it day and night through them until they become part of you. He said for out of it are the issues of life. You are asking God where are you?

14:57 This is why God looks as if he's far. There's no consecration in our work of faith. Not in prayer, not in the word, not in in fasting. Paul said concerning himself in fasting often. So it has left time table. This is now character of my spirit often and then in commitment to empowering humanity because it is a channel for the flow of compassion. He said true religion and pure and blameless before God is kindness to the orphan and to the widow. I'm talking devotion. Him that lended to the poor lended unto

15:43 God. So you are talking what are the consecrations of a believer? Purity, integrity, service, dog get devotion to God and then sacrifice. If you don't know the language of sacrifice, believe me, there's a level you can never cross in this kingdom. There's a level you can't cross. You go read your Bible. Before Abraham crossed, he took sacrifice. Genesis 22 from verse 1 to5. Take your son, your only son Isaac whom you love to one of the mountains of Moriah and dear offer him as a burnt offering. He shifted. God said, "Now I know." Is he not to Minisiah? Yes, he

16:29 is. But you have to prove him. Now I know. And Solomon loved the Lord. First Kings 3:3-4, he offered a thousand burnt offering. In the high place, God showed up. See, there are levels we can't cross because sacrifice is what shows what we can give for God. And that is why God can entrust us with things in the kingdom. Otherwise, anything God gives us, we become for our own selfish benefit. When a man lives sacrificially, he's telling God that anything you give for my generation will be available to them. That fortitude is there. So Christians must live sacrificially first in their

17:17 bodies. Romans 12 verse 1 and 2, I beseech you brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God. For herein is your reasonable offering. Secondly, in our substances, in our possessions, in the things God has blessed us with. The Bible spoke about the early church. Acts 4:34 to35. He said they that were possessors of lands and properties sold them, brought the money to the apostles feet, even distribution was made. Okay, let's get the remaining four levels. We have believers consecration. Number

18:03 two is what we call stewardship consecration. This is where you demonstrate competence in managing kingdom realities and kingdom possessions. Competence because God is interested not just in loyalty but in competence. How do you manage time? How do you manage your body? Ephesians 5:15 and 16 it say walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise redeeming the time for the days are evil. Many Christians are wasters of time. They can sit on Instagram scroll for 6 hours not particularly looking for

18:50 anything. That's the person who is saying God should give him the nations. Then your body they destroy their health and join their body to iniquity. And that's the person saying he's the temple of the Holy Spirit. No, it doesn't work like that. God expects you to manage your body first. Healthwise, rest, exercise, eat well, prepare the body to host the spirit, and then moral wise, he wants you to be morally forthright with your body because the Holy Ghost flows through your body. Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit. He functions through your body. I don't know any anointed

19:37 person who does not have sensations. That means the anointing touches the body as well. So the body must be prepared as a vessel for the Holy Spirit. Then finances and resources. He said if you are not faithful Luke 16:11 with unrighteous mammo who will give you the true riches of the kingdom who will give you that's God asking. You have 300,000 it finishes in one week. You can't give record. How much went for savings? How much went for investment? How much went for kingdom advancement? How much went for your welfare? You don't know. 300,000. You spent 290 on pleasure. How much did you save? You

20:23 don't know. How much did you invest? You don't know. And they think it's a mistake. They not check your expenditure profile in 9 months. The profile is constant. 80% goes for pleasure. And every day you are kneeling down. Father, give us the wealth of the nations. For what? Do you know what the wealth is meant for? You shall remember the Lord your God. It is him that giveth the power to get wealth to establish his kingdom. So there is a component of the kingdom that you should establish with your resources. Deuteronomy 8:18. But the kingdom you are establishing are the test balls of your tongue. Still worship. God checks what you do with your time. What you do with

21:09 your body? What you do with your finances and then talents? What are you doing with your gift? You can talk well and the whole gifting is channel towards gossip. You are beautiful. All we see online are different shades of eyelashes and skimpy wees. Your whole profile is littered with pictures that does not edify. That's all you know to do with your gift. That's why we can't wheel power. We can't handle it. It's too precious for us. In first Peter 4:10, it say each of you should use whatever gift you have received from the Lord to serve others. So there there is stewardship around

21:56 that and then your mind and your thought processes. You must master how to steward it. 2 Corinthians 10:3-6. He said, "Though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh." He said, "The weapons of our warfare are not cannon, but they are mighty through God to the pulling down of stronghold." How? Casting down imaginations. There are people here who can't sustain divine thought for one hour. They have allowed too many things into the mind. So the mind is like a gutter. Everything flushes through it. When you find a spiritual man who is consecrated to God, he dictates what flows through his soul. He dictates it. He determines what enter because he knows the soul is a processor. So he won't allow garbage there to be

22:41 processed into finished product. And then finally influence. How do you steward influence? To what extent does your influence glorify God? To what extent does your influence impart others? We are not worldly celebrities. The idea is not popularity. So you come to a place people are running to snap with you or to take autographs. That's not why God gives us influence. He gives us influence so that his glory can be seen through us. You are the light of the world. A city set upon the he that cannot be hid. Let your light so shine among men that they may see your good works and give glory to your father. So the whole idea of

23:29 influence is for your sphere to increase to bring greater glory to God and also to impact humanity. There are people who use their influences to change people. It's called the life of obligation because they are influential. They can go to a poor village and solicit support for the people there. How many of you read about Mother Teresa using your influence to improve humanity? And as you are doing it, you are glorifying God. Influence is not about YouTube payment. It's not gain. He say perverse disputings of ungodly men that consider gain to be godliness. He said they are

24:15 destitute of the truth. They don't know the truth. So there is stewardship consecration. That's where God begins to to unstudy your competence level in managing his estate. Why? Believers consecration speaks of loyalty to God. Stewardship consecration speaks of competence in handling spiritual resources. I'm telling you for God to entrust a nation to your hand. It's not just Christ died for me. It's not just I have the grace of God. There are things you must demonstrate to prove that you are mature enough to be entrusted with those things. Number three, level of consecration is priestly consecration. This is where your life is sentenced to serving and pleasing God

25:02 only. Can I shock you? I learned these things from our father. So I'll be shocked if you don't know it. Priestly consecration. You study the life of priest, everything about them carry symbolism from the garment they wore. When a priest is dressed on the ephford are the names of the 12 tribes of Israel. So he carries Israel to God's presence. That's intercessory burden. On the toban is written holy unto the lord. That means separation. That's the life of the priest. total separation to serve God's will. There's nothing about them that is

25:50 for themselves. Now, this is where it becomes complex because at this level, you are not living for yourself anymore. You are living only for God and for God's agenda. There are those who do believers consecration. Well, that is good. It's generic. But when you enter stewardship consecration, you have entered special consecrations. This is where God begins to entrust nations, entrust powers, entrust dimensions. And there are those who finish from stewardship consecration, they go to priestly consecration. And at that level, they live only for God. Only for God. This is where your life truly is no longer your own.

26:37 And then you have the Nazerite consecration. At this level, God begins to earark men for the purpose of ordinations. So it is ordination sensitivity that determines the quality of this consecration. Ordinations. These guys are not just priestly. They are not just separated to God. God has vetoled them and seen that yes they are truly living for me. So he begins to map out different ordinations for them and so there is a unique consecration. In fact the word Nazarite means sold out. It means separated onto so these ones have been proven to be God's asset. So God can now aortion his

27:25 agenda to them. Do you see why 50 people can start out as prophet prophets after 20 years only two are standing. 30 people can begin as apostles after 20 years only three are standing because God keeps vetoing them to see the level of authority he can commit. It's when you get to this level of consecration that truly certain ordination can be handed over. I'm telling you if you study the Nazarites in scripture there are three major things that characterizes their consecration. Number one no alcohol. Number 6 verse 3-4. The Nazerite separate themselves from alcohol. Alcohol in this context is

28:11 both literal and figurative. Figurative in that a Nazerite does not live for pleasure. There's nothing wrong in enjoying life. But even the enjoyment of life if he hinders the advancement of the kingdom he will put it on the altar. That's why you see certain people they tell you I used to love watching football but now there's no time because it cuts off his time of prayer. I used to love video game this is not a sin but there's no time. He has the power to cut off pleasure for the sake of the kingdom. Now this is not a sin but if you are a Nazerite you can't do them. If you do them something is

28:56 wrong. They don't take strong drink. That is absolute cutting off from certain pleasure for the sake of kingdom advancement. Number two Nazerites don't cut their hair. 1st Samuel 1:1. Number 6:5. It speaks of unbroken connection to God. And it speaks of total surrendering to God's will. Because when you see a Nazarite hair, it means he's having a any time a Nazerite cuts his hair, it means his consecration has ended. So that hair is a testimony. This one is connected to God in an unbroken relationship. And this one is God's property. That means a Nazerite can be instructed any day, any time, on any

29:42 matter. Yes, Lord. That is his answer. God can show up and say now leave for Kenya. Yes Lord. It's not oh let me finish this project. There's no project. Every project is God's project. Not every Christian has reached there. A Nazerite God can say now empty your account. Yes master. It's not I'm saving for house. No there's no s with a Nazerite. Himself and all he has belong to God. That's the sign. So I'm not saying go and put a dreadlocks. That's not what I'm saying. But what I'm saying is that from today if you can break into the Nazarite consecration it means anything you have God can demand it any day any time there will be no argument from your time to

30:29 your energy to your resources even your relationships. Do you know one of the most radical statements Jesus made? He said if you will be my disciple cut off from family father husband son daughter. He's not saying leave your family literally. He's telling you nothing stands between you and I. Absolute submission to his authority because the highest level of consecration is a Unox consecration. Unox don't marry. They live for God. They sacrifice pleasure. They sacrifice posterity. Is a statement of brokenness, total submission, and of course absolute faith in God. brokenness because that at that level is

31:16 the spirit that moves you. It can't be by the strength of your will. Surrender because you have left everything even the legal things. Paul said, "Don't I have the power to lead a damn cell. So it's not wrong but it surrendered and then no posterity because nobody will bear your name." This is where the the the doctrine of celibacy began from. When you hear about the monastic movements, they came to a point where they saw what God wanted to do, the magnitude of his agenda and the urgency of the time. They realized if they were to connect to anything on earth, it will affect the kingdom. So it was not a law written anywhere, but it was a personal commitment to God. And

32:02 they made that commitment for the sake of God's kingdom. You may not be a uno. You may not be a Nazerite but at least make sure you reach the level of a priest. Your life must be so committed to God that God has absolute authority over you. It's on that wise that you become a corridor through which kingdom can be advanced. This is not legalism. This consecrations are sponsored by the Holy Spirit. These consecrations are power are sponsored by the life of God in your spirit. These consecrations are sponsored by the realm you get to in God. And these consecrations are

32:48 sponsored by the government of the light that you found in scripture. They are purely organic. This is where sons are born. As many as are led by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Listen, you may desire it, but you can't do it except the spirit inspires it. So don't leave here and say I'm a uno and not making a call for unox. But if the holy ghost tells you that thing that man is saying you are the one, then it means a new journey has begun for you. Because if the spirit inspires it, the spirit will sustain it. And then the life of God, he said the law of the spirit of life. This is why it's not

33:33 legalism. You may wake up, you want to approach a woman, you lose your peace. You want to go forward in marriage. You what? What is going on, Lord? He said that's not your part. Is life talking to you. It's not a pastor telling you not to marry. We can prescribe like Paul in 1 Corinthians 7 from verse 25 to 37. If you are not married, you will serve God better. But we can't give it as a law. We don't have the power. But the life in you can dictate it and say listen marriage is not your part. It can tell you you are a priest, you are a Nazarite. If you get there, you would have attained the fullness of life and then the realm you enter can dictate it because realms brings government. When I went to Australia, I realized they were 9 hours ahead of us. So when they are

34:20 waking up, that's when I'm sleeping. And when I'm waking up, that's when they are sleeping. A new law was introduced because of the realm. You know the Bible said at the resurrection he said men will neither marry nor be given in marriage because they will be like the angels. So as you walk with God there are realms you enter that will bring laws around you. It's not written anywhere but that realm put a law in you. So when men are sleeping you are awake. Even if you lie down to behave like them you can't sleep because that realm has become a law. That's how spiritual things work. So what are the precautions of consecration is the Holy Spirit is the life of God in you. It is the realm that you break into and then is the encounters that you have. Those of you who pray for encounters be careful. The day you meet an your life

35:08 will change. The day you will meet Elijah something will happen to you. Hope you know. He said he shall go in the spirit and in the power of Elijah. That encounter shaped his consecration. When you looked at the man, you thought he was Elijah because encounters provoke consecration. Rems provoke consecration. Life provoke consecration. And the Holy Ghost provoke consecration. If you don't get to that point where these four forces are at work in you, your Christianity is questionable. Please and please help us grow this gospel ministry. Subscribe to the gospel channel. Like and share this message. You will be richly blessed in Jesus's name. Amen.