INSIDE OF GETHSEMANE!!!(PART 2)

[Dr Benard Etta]

 It’s important to note that, it is given to us (God’s people) to know the inside of every matter in the scriptures and not to live on surface information (Matt 13:11). Serving God at the outer court where we are completely disconnected from the revelation of truth is Old Testament and not part of the New Testament package. It’s becoming very critical for us in this dispensation to dissociate ourselves from what is being offered in several quarters of the church as experience with God. It’s incumbent for us to seek the Lord today than ever before, to take us beyond the letter of the word into the spiritual understanding of the word. “For the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life”.(2Cor 3:6).

There is a vast difference between what we read in scriptures and what the Spirit would have us to know from every word, phrase, sentence and story in scriptures. God’s mind is infinite and so is His word; every divine matter in scripture has an infinite dimension of knowledge and wisdom it communicates. That’s why, even in eternity, we will continue to gain greater insight from portions of scriptures we thought we already had a mastery of. This eternal and infinite nature of God and His word, is supposed to make our walk of faith dynamic and ever increasing and not dogmatic. Religion on the order hand thrives on legalism and dogmatism; God is light and His light is progressively revealed in relation to the demands of each dispensation of the Church.

Follow me inside of GETHSEMANE!!!!!

Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou [wilt].   (Matt26:36-39)

Before we proceed, it’s important to note that, every experience in the life of Christ all through His entire earthly life, was a well calculated prophetic incident designed to reveal hidden truths about the will of God to mankind. Thus, there are profound truths hidden inside the Gethsemane experience of Christ needed today by the Church.

Just going around the story of Easter, no matter how pious we do it, without journeying into the depth of what God would have us to know, it’s nothing but another exercise of religious futility. Such exercises characterized the religion of the Pharisees and Sadducees in the days of Christ and it is unfortunate that millions around the world today are still caught up in the same religious futility. May God have mercy!!

Why Gethsemane?“Then cometh Jesus with His disciples unto a place called Gethsemane”.

Gethsemane is a place you come into once during your walk with God on earth, if you are a man or woman chosen by God to bring salvation and deliverance to mankind in a large scale. The experience of Christ in Gethsemane was simply a prophetic action to establish a mile stone experience in the walk of every man or woman of purpose. It’s true that, Gethsemane was and is still a literal place you can even visit today in the holy land (Israel) but the experiences which transpired there that faithful day when Christ took His disciples there, are timeless.

Remember, Gethsemane has never been mentioned anywhere in Scriptures before Christ and His disciples went there and after that day; it has only been remembered because of what Christ experienced there. The question is; why was it reserved? It was and is reserved to serve as a junction between the call of God and the high calling of God for one’s life. Before you transit from your calling into your high calling, how you manage your Gethsemane experience will be the determining factor.

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. (Phi 3: 14).

There is a difference between the call of God and the high calling of God. Paul was already in the ministry when he wrote the above scripture by the revelation of the Holy Spirit. He was simply acknowledging the fact that, even though He is doing some fantastic things for the kingdom, there is still a higher calling he has to press towards. Many have died without entering their high calling because of ignorance of what it takes. For three and a half years, Jesus operated in his calling but His high calling began effectively after He passed the Gethsemane test. If all Jesus did was limited to what preoccupied him before Gethsemane, the salvation of mankind would have been a lost dream but thank God, Jesus passed the Gethsemane test which launched him into his high calling.

What happened inside of Gethsemane? For insight on the above, watch out for my soon to be published book, BIRTHING YOUR HIGH CALLING INSIDE GETHSEMANE!!!!!

 

 

 

 

SPEAKER! Global Faith Coalition 2012 WORLD CONGRESS on the 21st Century Church Douala Cameroon, 24th-28th of June.

SPEAKER! Global Faith Coalition 2012 WORLD CONGRESS on the 21st Century Church Douala Cameroon, 24th-28th of June.

SPEAKER! Global Faith Coalition 2012 WORLD CONGRESS on the 21st Century Church Douala Cameroon, 24th-28th of June.

SPEAKER! Global Faith Coalition 2012 WORLD CONGRESS on the 21st Century Church Douala Cameroon, 24th-28th of June.

 

SPEAKER! Global Faith Coalition 2012 WORLD CONGRESS on the 21st Century Church Douala Cameroon, 24th-28th of June.

SPEAKER! Global Faith Coalition 2012 WORLD CONGRESS on the 21st Century Church Douala Cameroon, 24th-28th of June.