Mark
12:29-31 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments
is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and
with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first
commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love
thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater
than these.
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MAN’S
SOLE DUTY
In the
twilight of King Solomon’s days, when the curtains were about to be
drawn on the famous poet and song writer, also known to be the
wisest and wealthiest man of His days, he discovered the missing
puzzle piece in humanity. After many years of much research and
experimentation, he declared:
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole
matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole
duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with
every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
This
was a king who had attained to a level of achievement in this world
unlike no other; in terms of material wealth, he was second to none.
He had exceedingly abundant gold, silver, jewelry, castles,
innumerable vineyards, beautiful gardens, orchards, water ponds,
cattle, horses and men (numbering over 12000) and chariots
(numbering over 1400). The share awesome architectural design of his
castles and throne, and his inestimable collection of artifacts was
second to none in the world. He also had thousands of male and
female servants and musicians who formed orchestras with music of
all types for his pleasure.
He had
seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines from all kinds of
races and cultures. This means that Solomon would have met with some
of his women approximately once a year. So you see in terms of
fulfillment in this carnal realm, to this very day there is no man
like Solomon who had super abundance in material riches.
In
those days attaining to an exalted position like king of Israel was
like becoming a demigod, because they had virtually unlimited power
without checks and balances like we have in this present world
democratic-like settings. To add to all this, he was also endowed
with human wisdom above all the men of his era, with which he was
able to wisely govern Israel in a period of unparalleled peace in
the nation’s history. Out of his wisdom He made famous judgments and
wrote proverbs, poems and songs which drew the listening ears of men
of all calibers from various nations of the earth. His exceeding
wisdom, riches and flamboyance attracted much fame to himself and to
Israel.
Seeing
that the heart of man is fixed on gaining the glories of this world,
and success in this world is measured by how much a man can gather
unto himself, we can consider Solomon as one who achieved this in
every sense. In the midst of all of this, the observer from without
will probably think that Solomon was fulfilled in every area of His
life, but it is definitely not so. The book of Ecclesiastes gives a
clear picture of Solomon’s reflection and summary of life from His
own perspective. It is obvious that he never saw true fulfillment
where He could say: “I shall not want”. In the midst of his earthly
glory he still experienced frustration, bitterness, anger, emotional
pain, sorrow and an unending desire for more and more. He had sought
out everything searchable and tried to satisfy his cravings and
curiosity on the human level, but he never saw an end to his
wanting. He then wrote:
Ecclesiastes 1:8 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter
it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with
hearing.
True
satisfaction and fulfillment equates to stillness, a thing that will
continue to elude the men of this age, because the heart of man is
insatiable. You can liken it to the grave that is never satisfied
with the flesh and bones of the dead, the barren desert land that is
never satisfied with water, the barren worm that continuously
receives but never conceives and the fire with continuously devours.
Proverbs 30:16 The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is
not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
This
is the fate all men who inhabit the lower dimensions of this present
world; all their labors and quest for satiability will always be
nothing but a mirage before them. They will always seem to be
arriving at the desired haven, but never attaining to it.
Solomon experienced all this too, he had investigated and learnt
many things but realized at the end of it all that it was nothing
but a merry go round in a never ending circles which only wore him
out at the end of it all. After much meditation he declared:
Investigations and inventions by men will never end, and all they do
is wear men out, but to find true fulfillment in all things, there
is only one thing that is needed, which is fearing God and keeping
his commandment. This is the only profitable thing in this present
life and in the ages to come. [Ecclesiastes 12:12-14]
Solomon had just gotten a revelation to the missing key to fill the
void in his own life. Like every man born into this world, He had
been searching for that key in trying to gather riches and fame unto
himself, but from the look of it, these things never did the magic.
He was also searching for the key in the many wives and the
concubines he gathered unto himself, but he never found it there.
After pondering over and over again, he came to the conclusion that
all is vanity and profitless under the sun, and therefore mourned at
the futility the men of this age are subjected to. In diligently
keeping the fear of the Lord and keeping His commandments, man will
discover the true fulfillment he seeks. Definitely from the little
we know, Solomon never attained to that place of true fulfillment,
because in the first place he did not have the revelation of the
commandment of the Lord he spoke about.
BENEFITS OF KEEPING THE COMMANDMENT
To
understand what Solomon meant when he spoke about fearing the Lord
and keeping the commandments, it will be very helpful going backup
to the beginning of the last chapter of the book of Ecclesiastes. In
the twelfth chapter, he starts off by saying: “Remember the Lord
your creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come,
the days when pleasures seize”. He then goes on to describe the
systematic wasting away of man as he slips into the realm of the
grave as he forgets the Lord His creator. In the day when man’s
youthful vigor and vitality diminishes, and the days of singing upon
the spiritual heights of Zion becomes nothing but a farfetched
unattainable dream. When the brilliant glittering morning star and
the bright cloud of God that he is disappears from sight, and the
eyes and ears become diminished in their ability to perceive the
living one and the blessed realm. When the eternal fountain of
living waters of delights become inaccessible to man because the
pitcher has no ability to retain it. In the day when man lays his
bed in the dust where there is neither wisdom nor knowledge.
All
these describe how man loses knowledge of his glorious radiant self
as he submits to the lower voices from the dust below (the wisdom of
man). The grave is the ever sinking realm (bottomless pit) of the
dead who lose knowledge of the true God of love, who richly blesses
man with every spiritual blessing.
Moved
by the Spirit of God, Solomon started off in the last chapter of
Ecclesiastes by revealing how man systematically slips away from his
glorious realm and inheritance in God by forgetting or in other
words deviating from the Lord his creator.
This
Lord his creator is the one who says besides me there is no other:
Isaiah 45:5-6 I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no
God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That
they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that
there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else
He is
also the one who says, “I am He that liveth”: Revelations 1:18 I
am he that liveth, .............
From
all this it is crystal clear that there is only one that lives, the
Lord himself; anyone who lives lives solely on account of the Lord.
Living outside this reality is death. Consider these are words of
Jesus:
John
6:57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father:
so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
Any
man who lives lives by the name of the Lord; anything apart from
this is death. Forgetting the Lord is forgetting your true invisible
and incorruptible radiant glorious self from eternity. The describes
the deep slumber man falls into when he walks erroneously in the
flesh, deceiving himself thinking that he is a terrestrial creature
with some sort of belonging to this carnal realm and neglecting the
substance he is made of.
Don’t
you know that the Lord of glory is your true life? Isn’t it written
that when the Lord who is our life appears we appear with Him [Colossians
3:4]? In other words His appearing is our appearing; it is the
unveiling of our true radiant self from eternity. This is not the
moment for lamentations, self pity or murmuring, rather it’s a
moment to stand still and receive the witness from above which
testifies of this invaluable treasure hidden within your earthly
tabernacles. Receive these words freely with gratitude and allow it
lead you out of the realm of the grave where corruption, sin and
death reign supreme.
Remember your place among the Pleiades and among the bright clouds
of heaven, repent of your forgetfulness and reign once more in true
abundance. Radiate once more as the morning star that you are; awake
and ascend upon the heights of Zion, with a new song unto the praise
of the Lord your God
The
last chapter of Ecclesiastes starts off with “remembrance of the
Lord” and ends with, “fear God and keep his commandments”. Solomon
intends to say that if a man will keep the Lord in remembrance which
is synonymous with keeping the commandments, He will never see the
realm of hell and the grave, where those who forget God are cast
into [Psalms 9:7]. The faithful man will be ever shielded
from the woes and curses that befall the men of this age in which
the spiritual descendants of fallen Adam are buried in their
trespasses.
I HAVE
COME TO FULFILL THE LAW
The
big question on the lips of everyman is how can we fear the Lord and
keep His commandments and partake of the beauty of His realm. The
Jews knew that there was tremendous benefit in obeying the
commandments that is why they had so many rituals that included
recitations of the laws of Moses etc. Some recite the laws of Moses
and the Psalms virtually every day of their life seeking to keep
themselves focused on the commandments of God. In trying to keep the
commandments many others have subjected their bodies to much
fasting, abstaining from certain foods and beverages all with the
hope of attaining to this elevated place. Some subject themselves to
isolation; others become more and more outwardly religious etc. From
the look of things these methods have not drawn man one inch closer
to that bliss that Eden represents. Some have had a glimpse of this
realm but were never able to abide in that place; rather they formed
religion out of the little they saw. Outwardly pious men have come
and gone but from the look of things they never truly attained to
that place that Jesus says He has prepared for his beloved.
It is
more and more evident that the answer to fearing God and keeping His
commandment is much deeper that we know. Even though there is a
desire to rediscover God’s paradise and a witness within man tells
him that there’s got to be a path to joy unspeakable, a place of
rest, eternal delights and stillness, man simply does not have the
answer.
In the
twenty-eighth chapter of the book of Job, Job speaks about this
precious realm, where darkness – spiritual ignorance comes to a
grinding halt and man rediscovers his full glorious Eden state in
God.
Job
28:1 Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for
gold where they fine it.......He setteth an end to darkness, and
searcheth out all perfection: the stones of darkness, and the shadow
of death. As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is
turned up as it were fire. The stones of it are the place of
sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.
The
question is how can this path to life be found? The Spirit reveals
through job that the path to this consciousness of pure light is
hidden from all men of this age. The depth of the sea, death and
destruction which is synonymous with the world, where those who
forget God inhabit, has only mere rumors of this place called
paradise but it remains a mystery.
Job
28:13-22 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in
the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me: and the
sea saith, It is not with me…………. Seeing it is hid from the eyes of
all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air. Destruction
and death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.
From
all this it is obvious that this precious reality is veiled from the
man of this age who has laid his bed in hell. Even king Solomon in
all of his worldly glory, was in reality just one of those who
inhabit that lower dimension of the dead. In his earthly glory, He
remains less than the least of those who rediscover this place of
life. Yes he wrote many things and was the wisest of the men in this
age, but at that time He was not endowed with the ability to truly
see and understand some of the very things he wrote.
The
twenty-eighth chapter of Job ends up again with a similar solution
to that of King Solomon when it declares that the path to this
inestimable treasure is in the fear of the Lord and departing from
evil. I may ask again, how can we keep the Lord in remembrance, fear
the Lord, keep His commandments and depart from evil? There must of
a necessity be a revelation from above; a thundery voice and a flash
of lightening from heaven from the Father of lights in the hearts of
the inhabitants of the deep – the world. It is a gift from God.
Job
28:23-28 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place
thereof. For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under
the whole heaven; To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth
the waters by measure. When he made a decree for the rain, and a way
for the lightning of the thunder: Then did he see it, and declare
it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out. And unto man he said,
Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from
evil is understanding.
The
thunder and flash of lightening is the same voice from above that
says “this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased”. It
is the voice that thundered from heaven into the heart of Peter
causing him to utter secret words: “Thou art the Christ, (the
anointed of God without measure) the son of the living God”.
The
revelation of the lost secret of the son of God is the pathway of
the fear of the Lord and departing evil which leads man back into
glory of the days of his youth, back in eternity where true life is
at its peak. In thundering into our ears and illuming our hearts
with the flash of His lightening, the Father gives us the revelation
of the mystery of the son of God so that we no longer perish in the
graveyard of mankind but rather ascend back into the place of life.
John
3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
everlasting life.
Because
of His love for us, God has commanded his lightening to shine in our
hearts uncovering the hidden secrets of the son of God.
This
everlasting life is the splendorous life of the son of God which
Solomon describes as the days of your youth. The days when you beam
with pure light as the transfigured Jesus upon the heights of Zion,
and the Alfa and Omega – the Almighty in the elevated place of God.
The
revelation of Christ the son of God has come like a flash of
lightening to cause man once more to fulfill the commandment and
live. Your religion, whether it be from Moses or any other prophet
or man will not help you fulfill the fundamental requirement of the
fear of the Lord and to keep his commandments. Neither will your
treasured beliefs and convictions draw you one inch nearer to God’s
world. The only thing that is needed is a revelation of the son of
God; this is the pathway into the glory of the Father.
Like a
flash of lightening and a thundery voice from above, the revelation
of I the Christ within, the beginning of the creation of God, the
Holy one has come to cause man to fulfill the law:
Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the
prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.
The
revelation of I the Christ within, the Lord of glory has come to
restore the true rich life of Eden:
John
10:10 .... I am come that they might have life, and that they might
have it more abundantly.
The
revelation of the Christ within is the workings of the Father,
bringing healing to man, lifting his soul out of death and
destruction and crowning him life. This revelation renews my
youthful vigor once more, causing me to sour upon the mountains of
Zion with shouts of joy.
Psalms
103:1-5 A Psalm of David. Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that
is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and
forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who
healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction;
who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; Who
satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed
like the eagle's.
Only
the revelation I, the Christ within gives me the victory over sin,
death and the grave, so that I can walk in true victory, in the
glorious liberty of the son of God.
1Corinthians 15:55-57 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where
is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin
is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ.
From
all this, it is plain to see that trying to abide by regulations of
dos and don’ts thinking that we any in any way please God through
them is only an illusion. Fearing God and keeping the commandment is
fulfilled in getting the revelation of the mystery of the son of God
and adhering to the same.
The
Father has given us His Spirit today to be get us thoroughly
educated on the son of God that we all, individually and
cooperatively are. As we get a clearer picture of the nature of the
incorruptible and immortal Son within, we are liberated from the
sticky corruption that reigns in this world. Freedom from the lusts
that contaminate the souls of men due to ignorance embedded in their
heart is obtained by embracing this pure doctrine of the mystery of
the Christ within.
THE
COMMANDMENT FROM THE BEGINNING
Keeping the commandment(s) of God is synonymous with the remembrance
and fear of the Lord; it is all embedded in knowing the secret of
the Lord in truth. If a man loves the name of the Lord, He will
definitely keep his commandments; this is eternal life. Loving the
Lord is all about knowing yourself and the brethren in truth.
Falling out of this knowledge is death. This is the ancient landmark
that is never to be tampered with.
The
Apostle John speaks of a commandment from the beginning and this
commandment has come to us once more as light shinning in the
darkness of our old human ways to give a revelation of the true
living One in us all. This is the revelation of oneness declaring
that GOD IS LOVE, and any man born, conceived or generated of God
loves. It does not say, anyone born of God tries to love, rather it
says any one born of God loves because it is in his nature to do so.
The commandment is that we maintain ourselves unblemished in the
bond of oneness of the Spirit in pure love, because we are one body.
Jesus never came to make us one body, rather He came to reveal that
we are one; that one is the only true God and eternal life [1John
5:20].
Nothing that we as men can do in our infinitely low definition of
what life is can ever tamper with this oneness it is unbreakable
throughout all eternity. When a man is consciously absent from the
reality of this oneness, he is in outer darkness and will suffer
many unnecessary hurts that will plunge him into endless
destruction.
Discord among brethren is borne out of the fact that the
understanding of men becomes darkened so that He is unable to
discern the Lord’s body which fills all in all. The wisdom of this
world which is derived from carnal reasoning causes men to work in
misalignment mentally from the body of God. For this reason, we are
admonished to shun the darkness of this world, because all that is
in this world is the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh and the
pride of life. These diabolic perception of the creation by this
present world system hides the reality of God’s body from man’s
sight, hence the spiritually wickedness we see in this present world
system. If any man loves this system, the love of God is not in him,
hence the need to forsake this present world and the lusts
associated with it to rediscover God’s – our realm.
Why
lust and seek for vain glory? Don’t you know that the earth and all
that is in it is the Lord’s; don’t you know that all things are
yours. The Wisdom the glory, the majesty and the power rests with
the holy one of God throughout all eternity. Awake in Him and know
that I am Him. Striving for the goods and glories of this material
world only multiplies your sorrows; stand still and know that all
things are yours. Put on your spiritual eye and enjoy all things;
they are yours for your pleasure.
Do not
say, “I am afraid”, neither ask, “What will I eat and what will I
wear” because I will never leave you nor forsake you, just be still
and trust in my name and I will bring your dreams of glory to pass.
Again
the old and only commandment from the beginning has come once more
as the new commandment because ignorance of our universal oneness in
the true living One is passing as the revelation of Christ dawns on
man.
1John
2:7-9 Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old
commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is
the word which ye have heard from the beginning. Again, a new
commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you:
because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. He
that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in
darkness even until now.
Love
is the commandment, and God is love; God’s is the living one, God is
above all, through all and in us all. Let this doctrine of love lift
every man out of deep waters back to their heights in God, where you
will discover a joy and peace that the world is unaware of. The end
of the faith is rediscovering the true rich abundant life that has
eluded men for ages and it comes by allowing this revelation of love
and oneness lead us back into this one man in whom the fullness of
the Godhead dwells bodily.
Hear O
Israel, the Lord your God is one. Do you have ears to hear? Can you
hear what the Spirit is saying? There is only One, and It is the
Lord your God, it is in you and in your neighbor. Therefore love the
Lord your God with all your heart and your neighbor as yourself.
Awakening back into this divine oneness beyond the comprehension of
man is the key into delights and true fulfillment. Oneness in the
Lord is the key out of hell and death back into paradise. Fear of
the Lord and keeping His holy commandment of oneness comes by
remembrance of the Lord who is the one that lives; He is in you all.
I will
round up with the lyrics of Nature Boy, a song by Nat king Cole.
This is one wise man who wandered far in search for understanding;
he ended up discovering love was the greatest of all things he had
learnt.
There was a boy a very strange enchanted boy.
They say he wandered very far, very far Over land and sea.
A
little shy And sad of eye But very wise Was he
And
then one day A magic day he came my way
And
while we spoke of many things, fools and kings
This he said to me
"The greatest thing You'll ever learn
Is
just to love And be loved In return"
Blessings
Trevor
& Emiemineni Eghagha
