Mystery of the 99 and the One: Moving from Knowledge of God to Experience of God
Mystery of the 99 and the One Sheep · Part 1 of 2
True transformation comes not from reading about Jesus, but from encountering Him.
Scripture was never meant to be merely studied — it was meant to be experienced. The difference between a believer who endures and one who abandons their faith is not how much they have read, but whether they have encountered the living Jesus. This teaching opens the mystery of the 99 and the one sheep through the lens of divine encounter, spiritual inheritance, heavenly positioning, and the humility that marks those who are truly great in the kingdom of heaven.
Teaching Overview
- Scripture must be experienced, not merely read — an encounter with the living Jesus answers every question and transforms you mentally, physically, and spiritually.
- Spiritual experiences are inherited and transferable — when God meets with His servant, He has met with all those connected to that servant.
- The kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven, and the kingdom of earth are three distinct realities — understanding the difference is foundational to operating in true kingdom authority.
- Jesus is the true Light and the true Light Bearer — the name and nature falsely attributed to the devil belong to Christ alone.
- True greatness in the kingdom comes through humility — letting your works testify, not seeking titles or recognition for yourself.
Key Distinctions
| Knowledge of God | Experience of God | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Intellectual familiarity with Scripture and doctrine | A personal, transformative encounter with the living Jesus |
| How it is acquired | Reading, studying, religious practice | Divine encounter — Jesus revealing Himself directly |
| What it produces | Information, religious behaviour, moral effort | Unshakeable knowing that cannot be described or taken away |
| Risk when absent | Vulnerability to abandoning faith when questions arise | N/A — the encounter itself silences every question |
| Biblical example | Following religious practice without meeting Jesus personally | Adam "knowing" Eve — to know is to experience |
| Kingdom of God | Kingdom of Heaven | Kingdom of Earth | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | God's royal authority and anointing — basilia | The established heavenly realm where God reigns | The earthly realm under human and demonic influence |
| Where it operates | Brought near through Jesus — "the kingdom of God is at hand" | Already fully established in heaven | The domain the devil offered Jesus in the wilderness |
| Its current state | Being established on earth through the Church | Fully established — nothing defiling can enter | Subject to spiritual warfare and the devil's influence |
| Key Scripture | Matthew 6 — "Thy kingdom come… on earth as it is in heaven" | Revelation — war in heaven has ended; it is now sealed | Luke 4 — the devil offered all the kingdoms of the world |
| Reading Scripture | Experiencing Scripture | |
|---|---|---|
| What it involves | Intellectual engagement with the text | Being brought into a living encounter through the text |
| What it produces | Religious knowledge and moral framework | Transformation that cannot be stolen or undone |
| Analogy | Attempting to be good | Living a good life |
| Danger of stopping here | Faith collapses when hard questions arise | N/A — experience becomes an anchor |
| Attempting to be Good | Living a Good Life | |
|---|---|---|
| Nature | Effort-based moral striving | Experience-based transformation from within |
| Source | Religious practice and self-discipline | Encounter with the living Jesus |
| Sustainability | Fragile — dependent on ongoing personal effort | Sustained by what has already been received |
| True Light (Jesus) | False Light (Satan/Lucifer) | |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | The Morning Star — the original Light Bearer | Son of the Morning — a product of the light, not its source |
| What He/it brings | Genuine illumination, clarity, salvation, truth | Corruption, darkness, deception — never actual light |
| Biblical declaration | "I am the light of the world" (John 8:12) | Transforms himself to appear as a messenger of light (2 Cor. 11:14) |
| The name "Lucifer" | Rightly belongs to Jesus as the true Light Bearer | Misattributed — the devil never brought light to anyone |
| The first act of God | "Let there be light" — asserting the true light against the false | Already a false light present in the darkness before creation |
| Seeking Recognition | Seeking Jesus to Be Known | |
|---|---|---|
| Motivation | Personal ambition — wanting to be seen as great | Humility — allowing Jesus to be magnified through you |
| Method | Claiming titles, asserting greatness verbally | Letting works and fruit testify |
| Example of failure | The devil — seeking to be like God through dominance | N/A |
| Example of success | Peter — never claimed greatness; his shadow healed people | N/A |
| Kingdom principle | Greatness that comes from you means nothing | Let people say it — but let it not come from you |
| Religious Practice | Experiencing Jesus | |
|---|---|---|
| What it looks like | Following Scripture, attending church, behaving morally | Personal encounter with the living Christ |
| What it produces | External conformity without inner transformation | Complete knowing — every question answered in one encounter |
| What happens when tested | Faith collapses — "I no longer believe Jesus is the only way" | Immovable — no external opinion or argument can shake it |
| Biblical picture | Knowing about God | Adam knew Eve — knowing by experience |
Scripture Must Be Experienced, Not Just Read
- The things written in Scripture are meant to bring believers into an actual encounter with the Lord Jesus — not merely to be read and lived by intellectually.
- Attempting to be good and living a good life are two entirely different things — one is effort, the other is experience.
- God teaches through experience because an experience is something no one can ever steal or take from you.
"Attempting to be good and living a good life are two different things. One is attempting to and the other one is experiencing it. God wants us to have experiences because an experience is something that nobody can ever steal or take it from you."
The Danger of Knowledge Without Encounter
- A minister who publicly abandons faith in Jesus has never experienced Jesus — they read about Him and followed a religious practice, but never encountered the living Christ.
- Seeing the living Jesus answers every single question a person has ever had — not through conversation, but through the encounter itself.
- One experience of encountering Him changes everything — mentally, physically, spiritually — and produces a knowing that cannot be expressed or taken away.
"When you see the living Jesus and you know the living Jesus, every single question you ever had in your life is answered in a second. Seeing him, not you talking to him, you seeing him answers every single thing you ever had in your life."
"Nothing is more precious. Nothing is better. Nothing is greater than experiencing the Lord. Nothing is greater than an experience. He that has an experience has crossed from hearing about God to knowing God."
To Know Is to Experience
- Genesis 4:1 establishes the biblical meaning of "knowing" — Adam knew his wife and she conceived, meaning Adam experienced his wife.
- In Scripture, to know is not merely to be acquainted with — it is to know by experience.
- This is why God teaches through experience and never gives a believer all the information before sending them out.
"To know is to experience, to know by experience, not just to know, but to know by experience. This is why God loves to teach you lessons by experience. This is why God will never teach you everything and then send you out."
Spiritual Experiences Are Transferable and Inherited
- When God met with Moses and Moses went to the elders, Moses told them, "The Lord God of the Hebrew had met with us" — not just with Moses alone, but with all those connected to him.
- When God meets with a servant and that servant shares the experience, the experience was never for the servant alone — the servant was sent to the people.
- Spiritual inheritance works like physical inheritance — just as sickness, gifts, and traits pass through family lines, so do spiritual experiences and anointing.
"If God meets with me, he has met with you. If God meets with my father, Prophet Passion, he has met with me. So the experience of my father is mine and my experience is yours."
"Every time I teach you about an experience, never say it is Prophet Lovy's experience, say wow, that is my experience."
The Three Distinct Kingdoms
- The Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Heaven, and the kingdom of earth are completely different — they must not be conflated.
- When Jesus preached on earth, He declared the Kingdom of God is at hand — not the kingdom of heaven.
- The word basilia — translated "kingdom" — means royal power, kingship, and anointing; when Jesus declared the Kingdom of God at hand, He was declaring that the One with divine authority to anoint and rule had arrived.
"When Jesus was saying the kingdom of God is at hand, the word kingdom there is basilia. Basilia means royal, anointing, and authority. Has come unto you."
War in Heaven and the Crime of the Devil
- The war in heaven was not God versus the devil — it was a war among angels fighting for supremacy, which has since been resolved; the kingdom of heaven is now fully established.
- The devil's desire was not to be God but to be like God — his crime was going about it the wrong way, seeking dominance over fellow angels through imposed power rather than through God's ordained order.
- Power without legitimate authority is corruption — the devil wanted dominion over fellow angels so that he would be like the Most High, but he corrupted the wisdom he had received.
"The war in heaven was not against the devil and God. It was against angels fighting for supremacy. The devil said, I want to be like God. It did not say I want to be God."
"The era of the devil was not to want to be like God, was going about it the wrong way, thinking that's how God is. He corrupted his wisdom."
Jesus Is the True Light — The Name Lucifer Belongs to Him
- Jesus is the Morning Star; the devil is called the Son of the Morning — a product of the light, not its source.
- The name Lucifer, meaning "light bearer" or "the one that brings light," was never the devil's true identity — it is a description that rightly belongs to Jesus, who declared repeatedly, "I am the light."
- The devil has never brought light to anyone — he is a liar from the beginning and was never able to become what he was created to be because he corrupted his wisdom.
"The honest truth is this. The name Lucifer belongs to Jesus. He is the light bearer. The devil has never brought any light to anybody. He is only brought corruption and darkness."
"The first thing you see God doing in the Bible is let there be light because you already knew there was a false light that is pretending to be Him. That is still in His name."
How Satan Disguises Himself
- Second Corinthians 11 reveals that Satan transforms himself — the Greek word is metaschematizo, meaning to make himself appear as something he is not.
- The word angel simply means messenger — so when Scripture says Satan transforms himself into an angel of light, it means he presents himself as a messenger bearing witness to the light, not that he appears as a heavenly celestial being.
- The account of the woman with the spirit of divination in Acts demonstrates this — the demon attempted to align itself with Paul's ministry so it would be received as a messenger of the light.
"The devil can come and preach to you as he is sent from the light. It is not saying that the devil will come and talk to you as he is an angel from heaven. Is saying that devil can come and transform himself or make himself to appear into the messengers as one of them that is bearing witness of the light."
Authority, Binding, and Loosing
- When Jesus told His disciples that whatever they bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, He was not speaking to every believer universally — He was addressing those who had been anointed and appointed to operate in that specific level of dominion.
- A believer can trust in Jesus for salvation and yet not believe in His power to heal, deliver, or raise the dead — faith that stops at salvation does not produce signs and wonders.
- The power to bind and loose is not generated from the earth — it is authorized in heaven, meaning the believer is operating from heaven, not controlling heaven.
"You can never produce what you don't believe in. It is impossible to produce what you don't believe in."
"The power to loose and to bind is not actually from the earth is from heaven. That whatsoever is happening on earth is being authorized in heaven as if you are in heaven. It is not saying that you're controlling heaven, it is saying you are operating from heaven."
Heavenly Positioning of the Believer's Spirit
- Some believers' spirits are not located in the world — the body is in the world, but the spirit is positioned elsewhere, making such believers inaccessible to the enemy's full attack.
- Elijah's servant was afraid because he was in the valley — Elijah was not afraid because his spirit was on Mount Zion, which is why the chariots of fire surrounded Elijah on the mountain, not both of them in the valley.
- When a man of God who walks with God prays, God responds — because that servant is already speaking to God from the place where God is.
"This is why a man of God that works with God, a man from God that is with God when they pray for you God responds. They are already where he is. They are talking to God from a different place."
Humility as the Foundation of True Greatness
- The disciples asked who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven — not who gets into heaven, but who carries greater authority while still on earth.
- True greatness is not claimed with titles — it is demonstrated through works and fruit that testify on their own.
- Peter never declared himself the greatest apostle, yet his shadow healed people — humility is the greatest recipe to be converted into the fullness of what God has prepared.
"Walk in humility. Don't seek to be known. Seek Jesus to be known. Don't seek to be powerful. Seek Jesus to be powerful."
"Let people see that greatness, let people say, but let it not come from you."
"Humility is the greatest recipe to be converted."
Key Definitions
Basilia — The Greek word translated "kingdom," meaning royal power, kingship, and anointing — it speaks of the authority of the One who rules and appoints, not merely a territorial domain.
To Know (biblically) — To know by experience, not merely by acquaintance or intellectual familiarity; as in Genesis 4:1 where "Adam knew Eve his wife" means Adam experienced her.
Lucifer — A Latin translation of the Hebrew phrase "son of the morning," meaning light bearer or the one that brings light; a name and nature that rightly belongs to Jesus, the true Light, not to the devil who has never brought light to anyone.
Angel — From the Greek angelos, meaning messenger; it does not denote a celestial or divine being by nature, but one who speaks on behalf of another — specifically, one bearing witness to the light.
Metaschematizo — The Greek word in 2 Corinthians 11:14, translated "transformed"; it means to make oneself appear as something one is not — describing how Satan presents himself as a messenger of light without actually being one.
Experience (in Christ) — A direct, personal encounter with the living Jesus that produces unshakeable knowing — the biblical standard of faith that goes beyond reading about God to knowing God.
Key Takeaways
- Scripture is meant to produce encounter, not just information — a believer who only reads about Jesus without experiencing Him is vulnerable to abandoning faith when questions arise.
- Spiritual experiences are inherited and transferable through spiritual family — you do not only carry your own encounters with God; you carry the encounters of every servant connected to your spiritual lineage.
- The Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Heaven, and the kingdom of earth are distinct realities — operating in true kingdom authority requires understanding the difference and knowing which realm you are functioning from.
- The name and nature of the Light Bearer belong to Jesus alone — the devil has never brought light; his power lies entirely in deception and imitation of the true light.
- True greatness in the kingdom is demonstrated through humility and fruit, not titles and self-promotion — letting your works testify is the kingdom pattern; seeking recognition from men is the error of the devil.
Reflection Questions
- Are you engaging with Scripture as information to be memorised, or as an invitation to encounter the living Jesus? What would it look like for your Bible reading to move toward experience?
- If your faith were tested — if someone challenged whether Jesus is truly the only way — would your confidence rest on what you have read, or on what you have personally experienced? What does your honest answer reveal?
- Have you received the spiritual experiences of those connected to you in faith and treated them as your own, or have you kept them at a distance as belonging only to the servant God sent? What changes if you truly claim them as yours?
- In what areas of your life are you still attempting to be good rather than living from a place of inner transformation? What would it take for you to move from effort to encounter in those areas?
- Are you seeking recognition, titles, or the appearance of spiritual authority — or are you allowing your works and fruit to speak for themselves? What does the way you present yourself in your church, ministry, or community reveal about your answer?
Prayers and Declarations
"So I pray that every gift and everything that the Lord Jesus ever gave to me, I give it to you also in the name of Jesus."
"I pray that you enter into experiences with the Lord Jesus. I pray that you enter into experiences with the Holy Spirit."
Scripture References
- Genesis 4:1 — "And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD." (KJV)
- Exodus 3:18
- Matthew 6:10 — "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven." (KJV)
- Matthew 18:1 — "At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?" (KJV)
- Matthew 18:10
- John 1:8
- 2 Corinthians 11:13–14 — "For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light." (KJV)
- Revelation 12:7–8
Golden Nuggets
"Attempting to be good and living a good life are two different things. One is attempting to, and the other one is experiencing it."
"He that has an experience has crossed from hearing about God to knowing God."
"Nothing is more precious. Nothing is better. Nothing is greater than experiencing the Lord."
"When you see the living Jesus and you know the living Jesus, every single question you ever had in your life is answered in a second."
"You can never produce what you don't believe in."
"The power to loose and to bind is not actually from the earth — it is from heaven. It is not saying that you're controlling heaven, it is saying you are operating from heaven."
"Walk in humility. Don't seek to be known. Seek Jesus to be known. Don't seek to be powerful. Seek Jesus to be powerful."
"Humility is the greatest recipe to be converted."
"There is no great man of God but there is a great God in man."
"Let people see that greatness, let people say, but let it not come from you."
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