TWPC - DAY TWO AFTERNOON SESSION | SEPTEMBER 11, 2026 | THE BIRTH-PANGS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT PRIESTS

TWPC D2S2 | September 11, 2026 | THE BIRTH-PANGS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT PRIESTS The life of God planted within every believer is not meant to remain hidden; it must be brought forth until Christ becomes visible in thought, conduct, desire, work, relationships, and daily living. This bringing forth requires spiritual “birth pangs”—a deep hunger, mourning, travail, and willingness to surrender everything that belongs to the present age so that the realities of the age to come can emerge. Do not merely accumulate revelation; return to what you have heard, meditate on it, question it, digest it, and allow truth to reshape you, because the Word is given not simply to inform you but to command your obedience and produce the nature of God within you. Hunger not primarily for things that can be seen, possessed, enjoyed, or lost, but for the eternal realities of glory, honour, immortality, righteousness, and the knowledge of God; the more the heart is occupied with temporary things, the more the present world retains its hold, but as truth reveals Christ and detaches the heart from the world, a new nature begins to appear. The coming kingdom is therefore not merely something to wait for externally; its realities must first be birthed within a people whose lives declare that another civilization has begun. Holy living, complete obedience, blamelessness, godliness, and righteousness are ways of hastening that coming reality, because darkness loses its influence as the sons of God increasingly shine through the kind of people they become. Prayer and fasting have their place, but they cannot substitute for obedience; what God commands must be practiced until truth becomes character. Scripture equips you for these good works by producing a life in which the old nature loses its authority and the new man becomes visible. Faith must therefore be understood not merely as a means of obtaining things, but as the courage to release what is temporary in order to possess what is eternal, as Moses forsook Egypt because he saw an invisible reward of greater value. You cannot hold tightly to the old life while expecting the new life to appear; resurrection follows death, and reigning follows surrender. This process of crucifixion must reach every area of life: the mind must be renewed so that your thoughts are governed by Christ rather than the world; the hands must be crucified so that your work, business, craft, and pursuit of gain are free from dishonesty and manipulation; the feet must be surrendered so that you go only where God sends you rather than pursuing visibility, recognition, opportunity, or religious fame; and the heart must be pierced so that worldly affections, ambitions, desires, motives, and attachments lose their beauty before you. Carrying the cross is therefore a daily yielding of your own life so that Christ can live through you. Ministry activity, spiritual language, miracles, or public usefulness are not proof of maturity if the inner life remains worldly; discernment is necessary because a person may continue ministering while inwardly loving the present world. Maturity means becoming able to distinguish what is truly of Christ, refusing to excuse spiritual carelessness, and allowing constant fellowship with truth to transform the soul until what you preach and what you live are no longer different things. Offenses, pressures, work, money, relationships, and hidden motives become places where the reality of Christ is tested and revealed. Like pilgrims who saw a better country and refused to return to what they had left behind, set your affection on things above and refuse every invitation—whether through old desires, friendships, ambitions, or memories—to return to Egypt. The world that must be judged is not merely an external system; its appetites, values, fears, pride, lusts, and patterns must be uprooted from within. Allow the Spirit of God to produce an inward earthquake so deep that the old landscape of carnality disappears and those who encounter you increasingly encounter Christ. Seek God Himself above everything else, not merely knowledge about Him, until knowing Him creates a hunger that nothing in this age can satisfy. Let discipleship, fellowship, Scripture, obedience, discernment, prayer, intimacy, and the continual working of the cross bring you into maturity, so that the life presently hidden within you becomes a living expression of the coming age and your existence on earth becomes evidence that the kingdom of God has begun to appear.