ADVANCE IN SECULAR WISDOM: Why The Church Is At Risk Without The Holy Spirit
by Bola Olu-Jordan
- The Bible says at the last days, God will pour out His spirit upon all flesh (Joel 2:28)
- And knowledge shall increase, both spiritual and secular, of God and of good (tree of life and the knowledge of good and evil)
- Many mysteries and secrets, which John was forbidden to open and reveal on the Island of Patmos in the book of Revelation will be revealed at the last days (Rev.10:7)
- Satan also knows that it is the time of the ingathering of the saints and he has a short time
- He will pour a counterfeit spirit of knowledge to the earth and many saints shall be strayed (2Pet.2:1-3, 2Thess. 2:3).
- He would persuade and deceive many, to the extent that if it were possible, the very elect (Mt.24:24).
- And if the days were not shortened, no flesh will actually survive (Mt.24:22).
- The devil will use a simple tool: dissemination of knowledge and application of wisdom, taken from the Bible and perpetuated by the men in collar in the name of
the Lord
- This puts the church at a very great risk, as what man can do is the greatest offence to what God will do.
- But how is the devil ‘winning’, even in the church and among the saints
- The first iniquity in HEAVEN was with Lucifer, the most perfect being ever created by God in heaven (Ez. 28:15).
- The first iniquity on EARTH was with Adam, the most perfect being ever created by God on earth (Gen. 3)
- The question then is: how did iniquity get into the heart of God’s pure creations, both in heaven and on earth?
- How did iniquity ever sneak into the perfect and holy heaven?
- How did it ever get into the serene and sinless Eden?
- If we understand these questions, we will understand how Satan seems to be winning
- By making people aware of the enormous power and potentials in them and encouraging them to release it through application of wisdom with phenomena result by the power in them through confession
- This is the danger the church is exposed to; achieving real ‘success’ without the Holy Spirit, just by the ‘proper’ application of wisdom!
- Herein lies the mystery of iniquity!
- What is iniquity?
- The Hebrew word for iniquity is avon, which literarily means perverseness or mischief
- While the Greek word anomia means illegality and violation of the law
- The web dictionary defines iniquity as absence of spiritual values or laws
- Webster’s dictionary defines it as great wickedness or injustice
- Thayers defines it as a condition without law, negative law or destitute of law
- Others define it as a crime or sin
- There is a difference between sin and iniquity
- Although it is erroneously used as the same in many Bible translations
- Iniquity originates in the heart of the saint and stands in the purest place and even seek God’s approval
- But sin cannot stand before God and cannot get to God’s holy presence, let alone make claim
- Satan was still in God’s presence when iniquity was found in him
- Adam was in the holy Garden of Eden when iniquity was found in him
- The people in Mt.7:23, Lk. 13:27 stood before God and even asserted their qualification
- But to their surprise they were damned; although, not accused of sin, but of iniquity
- How did iniquity get into Lucifer who was ALWAYS in God’s presence?
- Iniquity entered into Lucifer, the son of the morning through ambition
- We are warned to guard our hearts! (Prov.4:23)
- He was described as the seal of the sum full of wisdom and perfect in beauty
- Every precious stone was was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
- The anointed Cherub who was on the holy mountain of God (Ez.28:12-14)
- Yet, iniquity entered into him.
- It entered into Adam, created in the very image and likeness of God
- We are told that at the last days, this iniquity shall abound
- It will make the love of many to wax cold towards God and wax hot on things (Mat.24:12)
- Iniquity is an ambition gotten through knowledge of self and discovery of self potentials without God
- It’s an aspiration to greatness, promotion and power by application of human wisdom which is foolishness to God
- A quest for greatness, power, position, control and better living through strong desire of what we want to be and not what God wants us to be
- A position of knowledge of what is good and next for our advancement and progress
- It is the wisdom of man to achieve feats for himself and by himself
- It is one of the things that are described as mysteries in the Bible (2Thess. 2:7)
- And the Bible says it is already working…
- In Isaiah.14:13, five times, Lucifer used the word ‘I WILL’
- which is the mystery of iniquity… (or I CAN). Nimrod motivated the people too with WE CAN
- The word is freely used today in our churches to let people know the power in them
- The power of imagination, visualization and repetition through positive confession and positive thinking
- … power of discovery of self and the enormous potentials latent in you
- … word of confession and wisdom
- They are no longer preaching what Christ can do in you but what you can do in Christ
- Lucifer suddenly discovered through self knowledge and natural wisdom that with the enormous deposit of potentials in him as the highest creation of God, he could be like the Most High!
- Then he began to imagine himself so, visualize himself, confessed himself as God, severally positively confessing that:
- I will ascend into heaven,
- I will exalt my throne above the stars of God:
- I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
- I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
- I will be like the most High
- Please notice verse 13: ‘thou has said in THINE HEART’
- It was the ‘sin’ of the heart; he never did it, he just imagined it in HIS HEART
- But before he carried it out in action, he was thrown out of heaven
- Because God deals with our heart and every secret and hidden thing are transparent before God as the day
- That’s why the Bible says the heart of man is evil and terribly wicked, who can know it
- Every sin comes from the heart (Mat. 5:28;Mt.15:8; 18-19) and God looks at the heart.
- It is the highest power both in heaven and on earth
- Iniquity is aspiration, dream, ambition of man, devoid of the inspiration of God
- Aspiration without inspiration is disintegration
- Adam was deceived about the potentials in him and what he needed to do to become a God
(Exactly what Luicfer wanted to become but failed to be)
- The wisdom of man without the power of the Holy Spirit is self destruction
- The tree of knowledge of good and evil is still around today
- The wisdom of man teaching liberation, emancipation and release of potentials is never of God
- Because of the abundance of revelation to Paul, a thorn in the flesh was given to him
- So that he would not be puffed up above measure because knowledge puffs up (2Cor.12:7)
- But no thorn in the flesh is available to today’s church to check her excesses
- Now she’s puffed up: she says I am rich and increased in goods and have need of nothing,
- but she is poor, blind, naked, wretched, miserable and she does not know it (Rev. 3:17)
- The devil had been hiding and working silently until now that he has perfected his strategy
- Not only is he spreading it in the world, but now in the church
- As he successfully deceived innocent Eve and Adam in the Garden
- He is deceiving the church and the saints too in the last days with the same deceit
- Giving them strange knowledge of becoming a God, master of their own destiny
- with keys and many applications to become what they wish to become
- Secular wisdom and knowledge is thriving in the church
- What were losses to the Apostles are gains to today’s title holders
- Wisdom of man is elevated as revelation from God by many bi(g)shops
- In the name of positive confession and thinking