The Doctrine Of Sanctification And Consecration | Apostle Michael Orokpo

0:00 We appreciate you seeing this channel. Please remember to leave a comment, share and subscribe. I want to look at the doctrine of sanctification [music] and consecration. We began this study two weeks ago and I told you the reason is simple. True victory comes [music] when foundations are established. If your foundation is not established, [music] your prayer won't profit you. You either pray in unbelief or you pray in error. And that you are emotional about it does not mean anything [music] is happening. Your result will tell you that emotion has no power [music] in the spirit.

0:45 Emotion is only a flavor that energizes the things that have power. And so beyond getting emotional, rather get spiritual. And for you to get spiritual, you must keep sink and pace with light. If you don't have the accurate understanding, [music] you will labor like the foolish man. He said the labor of the foolish weies every one of them because they know not how to enter the city. And so because of the height we want to attain in this edifice, it's better to study the foundation and set things up correctly to be able to bear the weight. Praise God. And we decided to go back to

1:33 the cradles and to set structures [music] right so as to help us build correctly. And we looked at few areas we needed to draw our attention to. And so we choose doctrine [music] to begin from. And so there were four doctrines I told us forms the most basic foundation of an effective life engendering victory for the one that allows the Holy Spirit to establish this truth. I said the first let's celebrate Aposa. He's been a blessing to this house. [music] We are honored to have him celebrate you.

2:20 I said the first doctrine is the doctrine of forgiveness. The second doctrine is the doctrine of righteousness. The third doctrine is the doctrine of sanctification. And the fourth doctrine is the doctrine of consecration. If you understand forgiveness and you don't understand consecration, you will become lascivious because these truths in isolation are extreme. This is why the balance must be put in place. [music] If you understand consecration and you don't understand forgiveness, you will become legalistic. Both will not profit you. And so when I was looking at forgiveness, there were four major

3:06 things or five that I highlighted. The first thing I highlighted was the scope of sin. And having explained the scope of sin by defining sin, iniquity and transgression, I made us understand every man created or born after Adam is guilty of sin. And the second thing I said was the fact that there's nothing you can do about your sin. The Bible said in Romans 3:23, it say, "For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." So all of us after Adam, Adam inclusive, is guilty of sin. And there's nothing we could do about sin. That's why we needed a savior. Praise God. And so the savior came in

3:51 the person of Jesus Christ. And I showed us the covenant God put in place in order to allow the entrance of the Savior. And I also showed us the scope of that covenant. And in attempting to define it, I said God graciously bequitted us forgiveness as the major emphasis of that covenant. And you will find that in Hebrews chapter 8 from verse 6 to verse 12. In fact, the Bible speaking clearly in that scripture, I think from verse 8, he said, "Their sins and their iniquities I will remember no more." And we say, "How can God decide to forget iniquity?" Is God now lowering his standard of

4:37 justice? But the scriptures reveal to us the dynamics. And I said the dynamics is what? Propitiation and expeation. [music] Expeation is the act of washing sins away while propitiation is the act of atoning for the anger and the wrath of God that insist that the sinner must die. And both was accomplished by Jesus. The blood of Jesus washed our sins away and the cross of Jesus atoned for us. And so the anger of God for sin was sufficed or sufficiently atoned for. So God is no longer angry with a man that is in Christ Jesus. In fact, I said the most radical aspect of that doctrine is the fact that God did

5:25 not just forgive past sins, [music] he forgave present sins and he also forgave future sins. And I showed us how God did it [music] in Romans 4 from verse 7 to verse 8. You can project the scriptures so people can read them because these things are quite radical. If you don't believe in the word, you won't teach it because it's a burden. The Bible said, now David speaking, Paul quoting what David said about the blessedness of the man whom sins God will not impute [music] and whose shortcomings or iniquities God will cover. And so what God did about the sins of the past was that he covered the antagonized Paul's ministry because they felt Paul was giving ticket for lasciviousness through his doctrine of

6:11 grace. And so Paul began to open up some other chambers to us that was inclusive of what God did. And the first thing Paul said was the fact that when God forgave sin, God also opened the door for intimacy because it was sin that separated us from God. Now that sin has been taken away, we now have free access into God to have a relationship with him. And so Romans 5:1 said 5:1 said being freely justified by faith. We have peace with God. [music] The antagonism, the animosity that exists between us and God has been taken away. So a man now comes into intimate relationship with God. And the reason God opens this door is because when you dwell in the ambiencece of God, the presence of God

6:59 has the ability to mortify the tendencies of sin. And so when God invites you into fellowship, the desire to continue in sin will die. And so when God forgave future sin, it was not a ticket for sin. It's actually because God created a system that will stop you from continuing in sin. If you will embrace intimacy and if you understand forgiveness, intimacy becomes natural because gratitude will flow out of your spirit and you want to relate more with this God that decided to unconditionally forgive you. Number two, Paul revealed to us from Colossians 2:13. He said we were dead because of our trespasses. However, when we were forgiven, he said life was quickened [music] in our spirits. And so when God was forgiving

7:46 us, you may call it pardon, but God doesn't see it as pardon. God actually sees forgiveness as quickening. [music] So the moment God forgave you, he activate the activated the forces of life in your spirit. And that life we know is what sustains the power to multiply sin and to mortify flesh. Because no matter how you desire to stop sinning, you can't stop because sin is a nature and sin is spiritual. So your resolutions cannot stop you from sinning. And so God knew that you will continue to labor in futility if you keep making decisions because those decisions cannot affect something that has become your nature and sustains his root in the spirit. [music] And so the only thing God will do to stop you from sinning is to go deep into your spirit

8:32 man and activate the well of life. And the only way the well of life can be activated is for sin to be for forgiveness [music] to be credited to you. And so when God forgave us, life was activated. Your consciousness of forgiveness is what quickens that life that is in your spirit. Now when that life begins to dominate you, which I will talk about here briefly when I'm talking about consecration, that life now begins to constrain you. That life begins to restrain you. That life begins to mortify the deeds of the flesh. And so the desire to sin begins to die. And you now discover as the life grows on your inside, a time will come where that lust you couldn't resist suddenly dies.

9:17 It loses the power because Paul said what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh. He said Christ dying for us activated something that had more power than rules and regulation. And he said that thing is called the river of life. That river comes with a law and that law is what stops you from sinning. But that law cannot be [music] activated except as forgiveness is first of all credited. And so when God forgave past, present and future sin, he wasn't [music] giving you a ticket for lasciviousness. He was actually inviting you into the frequency and the corridors of life. And that life has the power to stop you from sinning. And so a believer who is living by rules will continue sinning. A believer who however becomes conscious of the benevolence of God through forgiveness will unleash a force in his spirit and

10:04 that force will mortify the flesh. And then number three, I said the reason God forgave [music] was because he needed to activate power and authority against the demons and the princes that lay us into sin. Because there was nothing you could do about demons. In the Old Testament, you will not hear anywhere that somebody commanded demons to go out. We didn't have authority over demons. The only thing you could do was to exercise demons. And so when you bring [music] a flute like David and you play that flute, that flute can create a vibration that will lure the demon away. But you have no authority to command demons. So spirit had few days [music] in the Old Testament. But what God wanted to do was to bind the powers of the princes because those princes are the ones that

10:51 subjugate your will and force you to live a life you don't want to live. But the only way you can receive that kind of authority is to be restored back to dominion. Because when you sin, you fell from authority. And so when God wanted to restore you back to authority, he had to forgive you. And when God forgave you, you mounted back to your throne. And so in Colossians 2:14 and 15, he said when Christ was on the cross substituting on our account, he said he was also deleting the record [music] of sin. And he said when he deleted the record of sins, he spoiled principalities and powers and he made a public show of them and he triumphed over them. And so the moment that was done, Jesus resurrected from the dead.

11:36 And when he entered where the apostles were, he say, "Oh, hail the king." And he began to speak to them. And he said, "All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. You now go in that power." They were walking with him before not having the right to exercise dominion. But now that he's risen, anyone [music] included in him has the authority to exercise that power. And so in the New Testament context, [music] we now cast out devils. We rebuke spirits. We we we we fight with principalities and kick them out of the scene for the will of God to find expression. So if if a demon is trying to manipulate your environment, now you can stand up and address that demon. You wouldn't have had that authority except as you were forgiven and restored [music] to God. And so in forgiveness,

12:22 God did not give a ticket for that seriousness. In forgiveness, God invited us into fellowship so that his presence can mortify our appetites. In forgiveness, God quickened life in our spirit so that life can begin to regulate us and bring us to the place of sunship and dominion. And in forgiveness, God restored us to the authority that we love that made principalities to become lords over us so that we can now [music] decide the outcomes of our lives in our cooperation with the Holy Spirit. So these were the emphasis we raised when we looked at the subject of forgiveness and we said this economy does not stop here and so we went a bit further into righteousness and the reason we needed to look at righteousness was for two reasons. Number one we said in forgiveness

13:10 everything that happened happened because of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus. But those of you who are lawyers here, you know that when the law is passed, a law has to be enforced. That a law was intelligently written does not mean it will be followed. Authorities have to sit on it, proclaim it, and then agencies have to be deployed in order to enforce that law. And so righteousness became necessary because a spiritual agency needed to be created to enforce the provisions of the cross and the blood. This was why Jesus upon resurrection stopped Mary Magdalene from touching him. He said, "I've not yet ascended to the father. If you touch me now, you will corrupt the perfect

13:56 sacrifice and everything that came to do on earth to be wasted." And so he ascended to heaven and the Bible said he went into the tabernacles of heaven once and for all to secure for us eternal redemption. And so when he entered that tabernacle, two things happened. The first thing that happened was that a royal proclamation was made that because this man satisfied the claims of divine [music] justice on behalf of the human race because everything Jesus did was on behalf of the human race. In incarnation [music] he he identified with humanity that's why he became man. In baptism, he identified with sinful man. On the cross, he identified with [music] sin.

14:43 So Jesus identified with man completely through incarnation, baptism, and substitution on the cross. And so when Jesus came to heaven, he came as man. That's why he ascended bodily. And so when that sacrifice was seen to be perfect, a royal declaration was made that from today man is no longer a slave [music] in the realm of the spirit because sin made man to fall from the height of a [music] prince to become a slave. And so when Jesus appeared before the father with the [music] testimony of the blood as a sign of a perfect sacrifice, the father had to make that royal declaration. And that royal declaration is what we call righteousness. So now the same way God

15:28 sees himself, that's how he sees you. And that's why your righteousness is not your own, your righteousness is the righteousness of Christ [music] put on you because it's the perfect sacrifice of Christ that was the basis of that proclamation. And so everything we do around God is not because of us. It's because of Jesus. Are you following this? And I said, "This righteousness is a power. It's not just a declaration. It's a power." And I said, "It's a power because this righteousness is God's righteousness. And God's righteousness is a power." Now, when a man is said to be righteous, he's said to be righteous because he does what is right. That's what many people call right living. But

16:15 right living is not [music] a weapon. Righteousness is a weapon. And the reason righteousness is a weapon is because is a power. Because when God when you look at God's righteousness, God is not righteous because God does what is right. Yes, God does what is right. But over and above doing what [music] is right, anything God does becomes right. Now those are two different things. When you do what is right, you are following what is and aligning [music] with it. But when whatever you do become right, it means you are the standard. And so when God looks at a fair man and say you are black, if you look at that man, he will be black because God cannot lie. God is righteous. Anything God says become

17:00 because of the power and the reign from whence he existed or exist. So when God declared man righteous, he actually put that power on that man. And so this man now is not just trying to do what is right. This man now has the power to control and to rule over what is wrong. And so any man who is in Christ and is sinning is sinning out of choice. He's no longer sinning because he's not able to live righteous because righteousness is a power. And so the first thing God did was to declare us righteous. So he put upon us the capacity that he has to [music] do that which is right and right only. This is why right living becomes a manifestation of a righteous nature. A man who is righteous now of necessity

17:47 will live right because he now has the power over evil, the power over wrongdoing. And I said God did not just stop there by making a declaration. The declaration God made had to be conveyed to you because you were not in heaven when it was made. But in order for you to vitally participate in that declaration, the Holy Ghost was mobilized. And so when the Holy Ghost came into you what you call new birth, the Holy Ghost actually came [music] to impute into you two precious gift. Himself being the third gift. The first gift he came to impute into you is eternal life. That's the life of God. The second thing he came [music] to put in you is the righteousness of God. And I said that righteousness of God was

18:34 possible because you were recreated. Because the old man died on the cross, a new man had to be created. And so in Ephesians 2:10, it said we were created in Christ [music] Jesus unto good works. In 2 Corinthians 5:17, he said, "Whoever is in Christ Jesus is a new creature." So when that declaration was made in heaven, the Holy Ghost came with a blueprint like an architecture and an engineer and he entered into you and created a new man that perfectly aligns with what God said. And so Ephesians 4:24, the Bible said, "Come into this consciousness that the you now was created in righteousness and true holiness." So when the Holy Ghost came

19:19 into you, he actually came to create a [music] new man. And the new man he created is after the order of the declaration that was made. And so we are righteous because a sovereign declaration was made. And we are righteous because our spirits are recreated to be righteous and to be truly holy. So as God is, so are we. Now are you following? I said when this becomes your understanding, everything that the old man suffers from, you lose the ability to suffer from it. If you continue to suffer from it is because you either chose to or because ignorance is making you. And so this doctrine brings you the first layer

20:06 of deliverance in that this doctrine makes you now see yourself [music] only as God sees you. This doctrine makes you see yourself only as God is. And so anything not permitted in the realm of God, you have the right to refuse it in your own realm. If sickness is not in the realm of God, you are not begging God to heal you. You refuse sickness now naturally because as he is, so are you. If poverty is not in the realm of God, you now have the right to resist it and it will not happen. If demons [music] cannot dominate God, then you now have the authority to resist demons from dominating you. Because anything that cannot happen to God is no longer permitted to happen to you. Because on

20:51 the strength of this understanding, only as God is are you. Now, this is the foundation of the love of God. And this is the foundation of faith. The love of God in that we never end any of these [music] things, but God gave it freely. and then faith in that we are now sure that if it is not with God it [music] shouldn't be with us. And so when you find me talking with boldness and authority, [music] I know if Christ were talking, that's how he would talk. If you find me expecting only good to happen to me and only good to be permitted in my space is because I know if Christ were there, that's the only thing that will happen to him. And so if I want to live my life now, I'm not looking at a physical mentor anymore. A

21:36 physical mentor can inspire me. But when I'm living my life now, I'm photocopying from Jesus Christ. Anything that is in Christ, I have the right to demand for it. I'm not begging. I command it because it has become a rightbased reality. That's why Romans 8:17 said that we are joint hes [clears throat] with Christ. So everything in the realm of Christ becomes everything you can command. 1 Corinthians 3:21, he said, "All things are yours." This is where faith comes from. When a man does not understand this, he still at that level where he's begging God to do things. But go and study the life of Jesus. In the synoptic gospels, Jesus never [music] begged God for anything. Jesus only gave commandments. Jesus only

22:23 dialogued with the father. Jesus spoke as a [music] prince, one in authority. Even when Jesus was supposed to die, he said this thing is a commandment. I have the power to lay down my life and to take it up. No man can take my life from me. Many times they try to kill him. They will drag him to the cliff of the mountain. The Bible will say he walked through them and left. When they were dragging him, they thought they had power. Obe. When they now get to the cliff of the rock to throw him off, he will pause time and throw away. when he goes they will now wake up. So nobody had power over him. Even when he stood before Pilate he said I can release you now if I want. He looked at him and laughed. He laughed. You release me. So you think

23:10 you are the one holding me here. He said for [music] this cause was I born. He said for this cause came I into the world. He said my kingdom is not of this world. I came to deliver a people and to release a kingdom back to them. You don't hold me. I come, I give up, and when I'm tired, I rise up again. That's why even death could not hold him captive. He told them, I will go to the belly of Hades, but after 3 days, I will come again. Who is that man that will tell you, I want to go to the grave and come back. Who talks like that? Only a righteous man talks like that. And that's why the Bible said the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availth much. The reason is simple. A righteous man

23:57 operates in the God class. And so when he talks is as good as [music] God talking. When we came into this realm, Jesus began to teach his disciples. See, the idea behind the gospel is to teach you how to be like God. [music] He told the disciples, whomver sins you forgive is forgiven. Uh for is it not only God that forgives sins? How can you be telling people that they now can forgive sins? He said whomever sins you forgive. He was teaching them how to operate [music] in the God class. He said let me go to there's so much my [music] spirit is beginning to charge. You know when you start talking truth it's like you are plugged with

24:42 electricity. The way a battery charges to 100%. Truth begins to charge you. If you know these things, you'll be intoxicated. He said, "Lay hands on the sick, [music] they will recover." What are you doing? What is that technology? Because when you touch them, you transfer eternal life. You don't just have it, you communicate it. Now, that life subdues and subjugates sickness. So Jesus was teaching us how to operate in a new order. And that order is the God order. That class is the God class. But all of that is [music] possible because we've been declared righteous and we were recreated in the order of the Christ.

25:28 And so anything that is [music] possible with the Christ is possible with us also. And so John 14:12 he said the works that I do, he say greater works than this shall ye do because I go to the father. That go to the father is the sacrifice is presenting making you to become like him. When Jesus was introduced in John 3:16, the Bible said he was God's [music] only begotten son. But when Jesus resurrected, he stopped being God's only begotten son. If you said that prayer now, you are wrong. He say I go to my father and to your father. My God and to your God. So when you are now talking about the son of God, you have to use plural because the son of God is no longer one. Not because you are part of the godhead but because you are also

26:14 born with the [music] DNA of God. The Godhead is an administrative order. You are a Nigerian. It doesn't mean you are a president. Do you understand? So you are now also a bonafide son of God because you were created in the order of God. Now having understood all of these legalities, love for God begins to flow out of your spirit because you now judge that everything you have, he gave you freely. Not because you earned it, but because his love necessitated it. Why would you love him in return? And because you know this, you are now bold. Paul was so bold about this that he said, "Who can bring any charge against God's elect?" [music] The one who is the chief judge is the one who justified you. So where are you

27:01 taking the case to? The one who should conclude on the case has already declared you justified. So how can a charge now be presented against God's elect? So faith is born from your [music] understanding of the doctrine of forgiveness and the doctrine of righteousness. And so he says strong meat belongs [music] to them. Hebrews 5:14 who by reason of use you don't just become strong in this thing by hearing it is by doing it. Because when next you confront a demon, the demon will challenge you. But you will go forward now because of what Jesus did. When next you confront a challenge, [music] you will go forward because of what Jesus did. You will just notice rest, ease, fear will go, confident, assurance

27:49 will just come out of your spirit because now you know you are going on the merit of another. But it doesn't stop there. He has given you merit before the father but he now expects you to grow experientially into it because your spirit has been created [music] in the order of god but god expects you now to grow into it. If I call you out for example and I tell you maybe I I called one of my pastors out this evening and I said ordain him ordain him an apostle and I said both of us are the leaders of this move legally every authority I have every right I

28:36 have every privilege I have is now [music] shared If I say something is because he agrees with it [music] and if he says something I can't change it unless both of us agree because now legally I've brought him to that level. However, that I brought him to that level legally does not mean he will preach the way I'm preaching. So he now has to study the word of God and grow to experientially handle spiritual things the way I handle them. He has all the authority I have not because he did anything because I conferred it upon him. It's called the power of Anthony. I've conferred it upon him. So he can exercise the same authority I exercise here. If I'm not

29:22 around, he can change the policy. He can decide to restructure the leadership. I can't do anything about it. I can't even be angry with him because both of us now operate as co-airs, co-equal in administration. But it doesn't mean he will preach the way I preach. It doesn't mean he will operate in word of knowledge the way I operate in word of knowledge. It doesn't mean he can exercise spiritual dominion the same way I exercise spiritual dominion. In fact, if I don't come here for one year, nobody may come again because he will need to demonstrate God as much as I'm demonstrating God. [music] He will need to manifest God as much as I'm manifesting God. So there's no argument about his stature, but there will be an argument about the things he can command. And so in addition to forgiveness and righteousness, God

30:09 introduced more because the Jesus that you have been made a co-air with, you have to grow into his stature. That's why Ephesians 4 from verse 11, the Bible said to some he gave to apostles prophets evangelists pastors, and teachers for the equipping of the saints. Why? He said for that they will grow into the fullness of the measure of the stature of Christ unto a perfect man. So it's one thing to be declared, it's another thing to grow into it. So there are many believers who are as righteous as Jesus is, but they cannot live the way Jesus lived. And so in order to balance living how Jesus lived, there is the necessity of the doctrine of sanctification [music] and

30:54 the doctrine of consecration. And so this evening I want to introduce the doctrine of sanctification and consecration. We will deal with this maybe in another two two teaching because this is where true Christianity is. Every spiritual thing you handle has its foundation in consecration. Authority manifestly is built on consecration. The operation of the anointing manifestly is built on consecration. There is nothing you command in this kingdom that does not have its root on the quality of your consecration. And so this evening I will explain to you what sanctification is. And I will also explain to you what consecration is and then how to engender

31:41 consecration and then we will stop. [music] When we come back we now enter the dynamics because if we enter the dynamics there will be power things will happen. You can't say something because when you start teaching these things your your reality will start calling. Anything you represent as you start talking about it it start coming it will call forth because deep callth onto deep. So let's look at sanctification as we move further. The word sanctification is derived from the Greek word hagiazo and that word simply means holy [music] and holy means to be set apart. To be set apart that means you are separated from and [music] then you are

32:26 separated onto. It's a two-way kind of separation. You can be separated from but not separated unto. That's not hagiazo. Hagazo means you are separated from that is the word that is from sin that is from death that is from the devil and then you are separated onto God. Now God is the one who engineers [music] sanctification. But when God is done with sanctification, he now expects you to respond to sanctification. Your response to sanctification is what we call consecration. And so it's just like God drawing a standard and asking you to follow that standard. You know, the temple Moses built was already built in

33:14 heaven, but Moses was commanded to replicate the pattern on earth. So sanctification is God's idea of holiness. Consecration is your own idea of holiness. They two must work together for you to be able to bet a spiritual thing. Are we together? And so as I outline sanctification, you will be putting it somewhere at the back of your mind that consecration means you will do what sanctification is. Sanctification is God making you holy. Consecration is you living holy. If these two are not together, you cannot see spiritual realities. And I will show you four reasons why consecration is a must. But let's begin with sanctification. What is the scope

33:59 of sanctification? The scope of sanctification is captured in 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 verse 23. He said, "And the very God of peace sanctify you holy, and I pray your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved. blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. And so sanctification is a reality of separation that affects the [music] spirit, the soul and the body. Remember forgiveness and righteousness dealt principally with your spirit. But now God has migrated beyond your spirit.

34:45 Your soul is not righteous. That's why you think iniquity. Your body is not righteous. That's why you can join it with hallot. Your spirit man is what is righteous. Now God wants to make your soul and your body the exact way your spirit is. But unfortunately God does not have the right to do that without your corporation. When it has to do with your spirit, your spirit came wholly from God. And so God can decide to make your spirit whatever he wants. But your soul and your body, your will must be part must be part of it. And so sanctification is God exercising his right as your author to make you holy. Consecration is you accepting what God has done and responding to it. So sanctification and consecration affects

35:33 spirit, soul and body. The sanctification of the spirit is what we call justification. It means you have been separated unto God so much so that every right God has he puts on you. It's just like acquitting you in righteousness. God declares you right, worthy to stand before him. In justification, God acquits you because now he has made you exactly like himself. So cons holiness of the spirit from the realm of God is what we call justification. And the way God made your spirit holy is to create a circumference of preservation around your spirit. Ephesians chapter 1:13, the Bible said, "From the day you believed

36:20 in Jesus, it said the Holy Ghost was used to protect your spirit as a seal that cannot be corrupt." In Ephesians 4:30, the same scripture was stated almost verbatim. He said, "Great not the Holy Spirit of God whereby you are sealed unto until the day of your redemption." And so the way God preserved the spirit was to circumference the spirit from every external influence of corruption. So [music] he made the spirit holy by setting the spirit apart. Are you following? Are you following? So the setting apart

37:06 of the spirit unto God is the first layer of sanctification. But God did not stop there. God still went a bit further because this economy begins with breaking. Let me take it one at a time. There's so much flooding my spirit. You know, teaching sometimes can be a burden. It's a burden because there's so much you want to say but you are limited. Words, words are a limitation. You know, spiritual things flow as light. That's why we need grace. Grace will help you to isolate them into cognitive words so that you can give it as capsules. In chemistry, we [music] call it quanto.

37:53 The plural is quanta. Light is a packet. It is it looks like it's flowing but is a packet. So please let me follow me. And so God separates your spirit unto himself. And that is the first layer of what? Sanctification. And what that means is that the penalty of sin has [music] been destroyed. Because the idea behind the sanctification of the spirit is to destroy the penalty of sin. The idea behind the sanctification of the soul on the other hand is to destroy the power of sin. So God has have sanctified your spirit. God is now sanctifying [music] your soul. So the sanctification of the

38:38 spirit is called justification. But the sanctification of the soul is called transformation or renewal. So the Holy Spirit and the word now is trying to separate your spirit unto God. When it had to do with your spirit, God had the liberty to do it at salvation. But now that it has to do with your soul, God is requiring your cooperation. So he is still in the process of doing it. That's why sometimes you do something, the Holy Ghost comes to convict you and say you shouldn't do this. This is wrong. And if you heed to the voice of the Holy Spirit, you now discover that the power not to do it again is released into your spirit and you stop doing that thing. So that is God trying to sanctify your soul. He has made your spirit holy and so your spirit is justified and the

39:25 penalty of sin has been removed. He is now trying to make your soul holy. And that process is called renewal or transformation. And that's what you find in Romans 12 from verse two where he said in verse one particularly that present yourself because God cannot do this thing without your corporation. And he [music] said be it transformed by the renewing of your mind. Is the Holy Spirit that is renewing your mind. Now the sanctification of the soul is to break the power of sin. The sanctification of the spirit is to destroy the penalty of sin. But the penalty of sin can be destroyed but the power of sin will still be there. This is why many persons receive

40:10 forgiveness but they keep fornicating. In fact when they want to appetize their soul they will come and weep and weep and weep and when that biochemical process is completed they tear they now wake up and say thank you father. Well it's not because of your tears that you were forgiven. You were forgiven because of the finished works of Christ. And you have to stop that childish behavior and wake up cooperating with Holy Spirit to receive the power over sin. Because when the sanctification of the soul is completed, the power of sin will be completely broken. And then you have what we call the sanctification of the body. The sanctification of the body is what will happen at the rapture. That is what we call transsubstantiation or

40:56 transfiguration. This vile body will be destroyed. However, what the Holy Ghost is doing to the body now is to multiply it. Is to multiply it. So, he begins to regulate your appetite. The Bible said in um Romans 8:3, he said that same spirit that raised up Jesus from the dead, he said he mortifies the deeds of the flesh. And so, all of that operation is God's attempt to sanctify your body. This is why Paul said, "I pray that the God of peace will sanctify you holy." Spirit, which is justification or breaking of the penalty of sin, soul,

41:42 which is transformation or renewal, and then breaking of the power of sin. And then bodily, which is mortification of the flesh or taking away the presence of sin. the presence of sin will ultimately be taken away at rapture. And so if you understand this is what God is doing, [music] you will now reprogram yourself to cooperate with the Holy Spirit and to walk with the Holy Spirit. Many believers who don't understand sanctification, they never give the Holy Spirit a [music] chance. And so this is the error of many New Testament churches, especially those who call themselves grace churches. [music] They stop their teaching on righteousness and they keep declaring the finished works

42:29 of Christ. They don't know there is an ongoing work of the Holy Spirit. The ongoing work of the Holy Spirit must first of all be recognized, accepted and cooperated with so that that which happened in your spirit can also happen to your soul and also happen to your body. The Holy Spirit initiates it. The initiation part of the Holy Spirit is what we call sanctification. But you must have to cooperate with the Holy Spirit for it to be perfected. That is what is called consecration. And if a believer is not consecrated to God, sanctification process cannot be completed. And so that believer will be hedged into the power of sin and the presence of sin. The penalty of sin is destroyed, but the power of sin is ever

43:15 present. He doesn't know why he cannot break out of masturbation. He doesn't know why he cannot break out of pornography. And instead of learning of the spirit in order to break these things, he now begins to look for scriptures to keep himself [music] in sin. He begins to look for scriptures to remain in iniquity. And then a pastor that is equally lascivious because he too is sleeping with people in church. He comes to butress that guy's desire by removing scriptures, bending scriptures, manipulating scriptures and the whole church becomes a bro. And that is the kind of church that gives the devil authority to influence the world even while the church is here present. And you are wondering why is the church powerless? Why would the

44:00 church be powerless? The church is powerless because we have allowed the word come in. We have allowed sin to stay with us and we have legalized sin through erroneous doctrine. There are many places people go to and they say it doesn't matter if they fornicate. They are forgiven. It doesn't matter because the penalty of sin has been dealt with. But the power of sin has a consequence. It will give the devil an inroot. And the effect of what the devil will do [music] will not just affect the people, it will also affect the territory. And so there is a consequence if you continue [music] in sin. That consequence is even more dangerous than everything you thought was dealt with when you accepted Jesus Christ. Hallelujah.

44:49 So sanctification is God's attempt of separating you unto himself. And so God separates your spirit by sealing it with the Holy Ghost. And then God separates your soul through the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit to renew your mind. And then God separates your body by multiplying the propensities of your flesh. Now that you know this is what God is doing, what then must you do? That is what we call consecration. I'm just giving introduction tonight and so the idea is just to drive the concept in. If you understand the concept, then we begin to deal with it

45:36 thoroughly. When you now know this is what God is doing, then you begin to redefine [music] yourself and your perspectives. And the first thing you need to tell yourself is that you too have become God's sacrifice like Jesus [music] was God's sacrifice because in consecration God is teaching you to live how [music] Jesus lived and the only way Jesus succeeded in living was to live like the errand boy of the father. If you study the life of Paul you will notice something Paul did. When Paul began most of his writing, he introduced himself as an apostle, as a teacher, as

46:21 a preacher. But as Paul began to journey with God, Paul's definition of himself began to change. Paul now started introducing himself [music] as the servant of God. And a point came Paul called himself the prisoner of Christ. Paul was showing us first of all what God did. [music] and is now showing us what he is doing as a response to what God did. If you study the writings of Paul, there was a place where Paul in the earlier part of his writings and I wish I could show you the chronological order of Paul's writing. Well, maybe when we look at it proper, Paul was the one who declared that we are the righteousness of God. Paul was the one who declared that there's no charge against God's elect. Paul was the

47:09 one who declared that Follow me as I follow Christ. Literally saying he's like the reflector of Jesus. But a point came Paul now said I am the chiefest [music] among the sinners. Is it that he backed? No. He looked first at what Jesus did and accepted what Jesus did. He now turn back to face what the Holy Ghost is doing. So at one point he defined himself based on what Jesus has done. At another point he's defining himself based on how the Holy Ghost accept him. Because if you face what Jesus has done and you don't face what the Holy Ghost is doing, [music]

47:56 you will be shocked when you get to eternity. Because the crown of life is not a gift given to those who are saved. The crown of righteousness is a gift given to those who have fought the fight of faith, who have finished their course. If you don't fight the fight of faith, if you don't finish your course, there will be no reward for you in heaven. Because reward in heaven is not a product of the finished works of Christ. Reward in heaven is a product of your cooperated work with the Holy Spirit. And so after Paul taught and mentored the church to know what Jesus did for them, he began to also draw their attention to see what the Holy Ghost is doing with them. And so if you are fornicating and all you are doing is

48:42 confessing that you are the righteousness of God and you are not paying attention to what the Holy Ghost is doing on your inside to stop that fornication, you have been deceived. No matter what you are taught unrighteousness is an error because when you get to heaven you will discover you won't qualify for the master's crown. In second Timothy chapter 2 from verse 19 the bible said the standard of god standed sure. Now this is Paul now teaching as an elder. The first time he taught as a scholar now he's teaching as an elder. You know when he wrote second Timothy he was an they called him Paul the aged. [laughter] This time is an aged man talking that when Paul was writing Filimon second

49:27 Timothy and his latter scriptures he introduced [music] himself strangely when he wrote that letter he said Paul the agent I'm an old man now I've walked in grace I've not just received grace I've walked in it so I can [music] tell you some things and it was at that time that he was writing to Timothy that he told him the standard of God standeth short he said that name the name of the Lord they must depart from iniquity. [music] He said in a great house there are many vessels. [laughter] So in Christ something happened to all of us but we are separated. We are separated as we journey in our walk with God. He says some unto honor some [music] dishonor. So a righteous man can be onto dishonor. These ones were not taught any. You see

50:14 why two people come they say they are prophets. A generation will honor one and despise the other. Both of them are prophet but some vessels are on to what? Honor, others are onto dishonor. Both of them are righteous but not all are living righteous. [music] If you say you are a prophet and you are a fornicator, one day the devil will make you have miscalculation and it will come up on the internet. Now when they start attacking you, don't expect the body of Christ to come and sympathize with you. We will pray for you for God to help you come out and be restored. But if you are thinking oh we now come and say we don't go grieve we don't go grieve you have just made yourself what a vessel unto dishonor and Paul now went further [music] in verse 21 see what he

51:02 said he said if a man therefore pge himself from these things he shall be a vessel unto honor. So the what gives you this kind of honor with God is to purge yourself. It didn't say if the Holy Ghost purge you because this one now is not sanctification. This is consecration. Sanctification is what God does to you. Consecration is your response. Now that you have seen what God has done to insist that you are like God says he say if a man purges himself he shall be a vessel unto honor sanctified and meat for the master's use prepared unto every good work. So it's not everybody that qualifies for good works. It is the one who pudges himself. And

51:47 [music] for you to p yourself you must have to begin to see yourself in another order. You have introduced yourself as a preacher and apostle. Now it's time to introduce yourself as a prisoner of [music] Christ. You have introduced yourself as the righteousness of God. Now is the time for you to introduce yourself as the chiefest of all sinners. And now that you know there are shortcomings in your life, you need to turn to [music] a sacrifice and allow God to chisel you. And so in Romans chapter 12, after Paul taught all of the beautiful doctrines from chapter 1 to chapter 8, he now came to chapter 12. And then that's when he went to finally you know when you hear finally in scripture they about to say heavy things from Romans 1 to8 he was showing us the dynamics of the finished works of Christ

52:33 and the workings of the Holy Spirit and that is for the whole world gentiles inclusive from Romans 9 to verse to Romans 11 he was talking particularly to the Jews now that he has spoken to us the Gentiles that we too qualify because of Christ and he has also spoken to the Jews that they shouldn't think they qualify just because of Abraham that they too qualify because of Christ. He now group all of us together. He now say finally [music] my brethren whether you are gentile or Jews. He said I beseech you that you present your body as a living sacrifice. So you [music] cannot know consecration until you start seeing yourself as a living sacrifice. Now he's not a dead sacrifice. A living sacrifice is butchered while he's awake. It's like the principle of

53:18 circumcision. You will be awake and [music] you will cut stones, sharp stones, and you will circumcise the foreskin. Present your bodies as [music] a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable. The same you that was accepted in Christ, [music] there's another kind of acceptance. This acceptance now is only permissible when you have become a living sacrifice. So there is one holiness that is based on the perfect works of Christ. But there's another holiness that is subject to your presenting [music] yourself as a living sacrifice. In Psalm 118:27, the Bible said something that fascinated me. See, this thing is a burden. It is those who want to make up their

54:04 mind to follow God that we accept it. Check Psalm 118:27. He said, "God is the Lord which has showed us light." We've seen the light and we've seen what Jesus has done. But he said now that we have seen it he say bind [music] the sacrifice with cords because a time will come when you want to run away but you have created a cord around yourself. So even if you don't enjoy it you can't stop. He said bind that sacrifice with cord and then put it at the horn of the altar. So that sacrifice can [music] no longer go away from the altar. the circumference of his life becomes the rules and the regulations [music] that the Holy Ghost gives to him. And so a man who wants to become everything God said and did through [music] Christ must

54:51 learn the way of the sacrifice. He must be bound with courts until he can no longer think, talk or act in a certain way. Those courts that binds you is what we call consecration. And so consecration is not a pal palatable thing. Consecration is a government that a man puts upon himself in order to meet the standard of God that was defined concerning him. It's not enough to quote what God said about you. It's enough to live up to what God said about you. And so the reason God gave you the Holy Ghost and grace is because it's an enablement actually to make you become what God said. And so in consecration, we decree that God is not a liar. When God said we were righteous, our lifestyle prove it.

55:37 If our lifestyles don't prove what God said, then we are not qualified to be declared righteous. [music] And for that to happen, we must buy those cords. Those cords are the laws that the Holy Ghost gives you. Those cords are the revelations that come out of scripture as you start searching like an archaeologist. [music] And as those laws begins to come, they bind you. They restrain, they constrain, they subject you until your path becomes narrow. It was consecration Jesus was speaking about when he said narrow is the way that leads to life. That road is not bogus. It's not massive. It's not a deceptive road. It's not a large road that is built with manipulation. It's a narrow path. And for you to walk that path, you must be [music] circumspect.

56:23 You must walk redeeming the time with the consciousness that the days are evil. That's why Paul said I will not preach the gospel myself will be cast away. He says so what will I do? I will restrain my tendencies is consecration. [music] The doctrine of consecration is no longer taught in the body of Christ. So people say what they want to say. They do what they [music] want to do and they credit all of them to the finished works of Christ. Why then did God send the Holy Ghost? [music] What did the Holy Ghost come to do? In John 16:13 he say I have many things to show you. You can't receive it because if consecration doesn't come you cannot handle the powers of the ages to come. There are many things that are not gifted they are entrusted. And so when we start talking through kingdom [music]

57:08 we will migrate from what Jesus have done and we will go to what the Holy Ghost is doing. That's why when Paul taught he said the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost. It is the fellowship of the Holy Ghost that qualifies you to handle the kingdom. And so you find babes in the body of Christ shouting what Jesus has done and unconscious [music] of what the Holy Ghost is doing. How dare you call yourself the righteousness of God because of the finished works of Christ while you are yet neglecting the Holy Ghost that is putting laws over your soul every day. You don't even know what you are talking about. That's why their lives becomes a contradiction. Consecration is law is government. But this law and government is no longer external. It's now internal. The

57:54 children of Israel did not have the nature of God. And they were trying to keep the standard of God. And so it was important. But now that the nature of God has been put in you, the Holy Ghost comes to help you leave it out. And so the government of consecration does not flow from outside in. It flows from inside out. And so what the Holy Ghost does is to enter deep [music] into you and to excavate that life of God and to amplify it so it begins to dominate you. And so a believer must first of all accept the dictates of the Holy Spirit in order to embrace the desires of consecration. [music] And it's until consecration is born that kingdom can emerge through you. [music] Kingdom is not for everybody is for those who understand consecration. There are three channels through which this

58:40 law come. Number one is the Holy [music] Ghost. The Holy Ghost is the guide of the spirit. There are many things your mind can't lead you into. And so when the Holy Ghost want to lead you into kingdom through the path of consecration, he begins to bring and furnish direction in [music] your spirit, laws in your spirit. Your job is not to be concerned about what everybody's doing. Your job is to be concerned about what the Holy Ghost is saying part time. God can lead you to a ministry and they guide you to help you. We give generic possibilities. So [music] we can tell you fast, we can tell you pray, we create all of those things because we

59:25 know that we have we know spirit the spiritual buffet. All of these things are ingredients. And so in case you've not started hearing the Holy Ghost yet, we spread the the spreadsheet. So as you [music] are doing it, one can be helping you until the Holy Ghost come. But true consecration begins when the Holy Ghost comes because you can find three fornicators. The Holy Ghost will tell one begin to pray in the night. That is the law of consecration for him. Now that person praying in the night is not a thing [music] of choice. Any day he doesn't pray in the night is a sin because for him that instruction is a law. another person who is still fornicating like that person, the Holy Ghost can come to him and say every morning that comes to you, give 80% of it.

1:00:13 Even if that person doesn't have what to eat, that thing is a law. Because the idea behind consecration is to [music] break the power of flesh and the power of flesh most times is rooted in selfishness. And so the reason the Holy Ghost brings those government is to to break those powers. Another one is fornicating. And the Holy Ghost tells him, "Worship me every [music] morning for two hours." Even if you go to work by 7, you have to worship for two hours. So what you must do now is to start waking by waking up by 4:30. [music] When you finish worshiing, you now shower and get to work. How you get to work is not the Holy Ghost's business. He wants [music] you to master the corridors of life. And so the only way he can do it is to break the things that make you look at yourself only [music] and not God and others. Now when

1:00:59 you begin to follow the Holy Ghost and navigate through his [music] instruction, a point will come, you will now realize what the Holy Ghost is looking for is not for you to master the instruction. It's actually actually for you to master the flesh. Because as you follow that instruction over time, you will discover you are not just becoming perfect in obeying that instruction, but the things that weaken [music] you will begin to die. And so as you are praying, you will discover lying is going. As you are praying, you will discover im immoral tendencies begin to go. How did you deal with those things? Even you cannot tell. Is a guide, a thought guide is leading you. He's taking you into the place of the refinement. He's taking you through the course of fire so that the purest dimensions of your being can be made manifest. It is when those

1:01:45 dimensions begin to manifest that people will now agree to the claims of God that you are righteous. They will now look at you and say ah it's true what this what this what the Bible said is true we saw [music] it in this man because the witness the word is looking for are not verses of scriptures they are men that have embodied those fruits and so Peter speaking he said holy men of God he said they moved as they were carried spake as they were carried that is the operation of the Holy Ghost through consecration these guys walked with the Holy Ghost until they began to catch scriptures they oracles of God. They journeyed with the Holy Ghost until they caught it. And the things they altered became the everlasting and eternal word of God. They became so one with God that the

1:02:32 breath of God, they could discern it and they wrote them down as documents. What you read today as scripture, they were things that holy men found when they were carried [music] by the spirit of God. But you don't enter reality first except as you are cut off from the world. And so the Holy Ghost is the master guide. He will take you out of the power of the world. He will take you out of the power of sin. But the way he will do it is through a navigation. Sometimes you will have to dip toe for many months. The Holy Ghost will tell you fast for for 30 days [music] and in those 30 days pray for 7 hours. Because of this narrow, he narrowed your path so much that you can't keep friends anymore. Because how many hours will you have a conversation with your friend? Even when you are talking to somebody,

1:03:17 you are mindful of 7 hours. 7 hours. And so a point will come where you will become so narrow that when you finish that consecration, even when you come back into the world, you will no longer have a place. Your friends that used to go to club with you, they came knocking, you were not there for 6 months. So they stopped coming. Now even if you go back to that club, you will be a stranger there. When you see them drinking, you will discover appetites have been substituted. [music] And so the things that give them joy no longer give you joy. You have been chisled [music] into a tight corner so much that your tendencies have changed. So the Holy Ghost will no longer tell you where to go. He's already guided you into [music] the path of life. And when you get to that spot, only the things of God will matter to you. This is how God

1:04:03 refineses men. He refineses men by sending [music] his spirit into their soul. And the only thing the spirit does is he cries aba father. [music] The Holy Ghost comes to what? To cry aba father. And that's why he said as many as are led by the spirit of God. He said they don't arrive at a destination. They become. When the Holy Ghost is leading you, it's not just taking you to a place. When you journey with him, you will discover you become. Because as many as are led by the spirit of God, they don't arrive as a destination. They become the sons of God. And sons are those that have power over demons. He say, "I write unto you young man because you have overcome the evil one. Because you are strong and because the word of the Lord abides in you when the Holy

1:04:50 Ghost leads you, you become." It's a rugged path. [music] But until you see yourself as a sacrificial lamb, you will not accept. Do you know what it means? [music] When the Holy Ghost visit your space with government, he will seize your life. When you made that altar [music] call on the crusade ground, you didn't give your life to Christ. When we say come and give your life to Christ is an error of semantics, [music] what you did at the altar call is actually to receive the life of Christ. It is in consecration [music] that you give your life to Christ. Because there were two confessions you made. The first confession [music] you made is the confession of his immortality. That's when you receive his life. You say, "I believe that Christ rose from the dead." The second confession you made is

1:05:36 consecration [music] based. You say become the Lord of my life. So God gives you his life and he take yours. At salvation he gives you his life. In consecration he takes yours. That's why in 1 Corinthians 6:20 he said you are no longer your own. Your body has been bumped [music] with a price. Even your body is no longer your own. See people go to commit suicide. They say I'm tired. You don't have the right to be tired. When you [music] master consecration, you will realize even your opinion is no longer yours. That's why when you find Christians who know consecration [music] you don't see them jump online talking everything. They talk when God talks because even their [music] mouth is not their own. You are you no longer have opinion. You don't have opinion about politics. [music] You don't have opinion

1:06:22 about business. It is God's opinion that is your opinion. That's what consecration [music] teaches you. I read the story of a man. He was traveling in a train and then there were these four guys [music] who were playing a a card game and they needed the four person to complete them and they met him and said brother just join [music] us in this game we will teach you how to play and he said I didn't come with my hands they looked at him and said are these not hands he said no these ones [music] belong to Jesus I only use them to open scriptures that's consecration consecration is to carry your cross and follow him there are two rest you have in Christ. The first rest he gives you, the [music] second rest you'll find. Matthew 11:28, he said, "Follow me. I

1:07:09 will give you rest." After he gives you that rest, he now say carry your cross. There is a rest that you must find. That rest you find is [music] what we call consecration. And that's where kingdom comes out of you. There are many people quoting salvation, quoting righteousness. They they don't know why demons don't know this. [music] They don't know this because they must know you as they know Christ. He said Jesus we know Paul we know who are you consecration the foundation of [music and singing] kingdom life but the Holy Ghost will guide you there. And then the second way to achieve [music] consecration is through the prompings of eternal life. When God gave you life it's not just for you to come into the God. No, it's also [music] for you to

1:07:54 walk like God. He said, "Let us make man in our own image after our likeness." When you are made in the image, you also walk after the likeness. And so, there are many Christians that are made in the image, but they are not walking after the likeness. [music] Hope you know that in this kingdom, there are two definitions of a child of

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