All Glory must be given to Jesus Christ!
He promised, "If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto myself" (John 12:32), and we have just witnessed this promise dynamically fulfilled at the Global Crusade (GCK) Pakistan Outreach!
What a divinely ordained time we had in Pakistan.

The Crusade, Ministers' Conference, and Sunday Worship Service were powerfully saturated with salvation, new commitments to Christ, profound healings, and mighty deliverance for countless precious souls.
By God's grace, across the events, we saw-
Total Attendance: Over 58,000 participants
Total New Converts: Over 33,000 souls committing to Christ!
We rejoice for every single soul.
My profound gratitude to our amazing and anointed host, @5Eternallife (Pastor Fazal) for his wonderful partnership in the gospel.
We were also pleased to have a gracious courtesy visit with Ramesh Singh Arora, the Honourable Minister for Human Rights & Minorities Affairs in Pakistan.
The Global Crusades @TheGCKHQ keeps expanding to all corners of the earth. The harvest is plenty!
Please join us in celebrating what the Lord has done!
#GCKPakistan #GlobalCrusade #PastorKumuyi #PakistanCrusade #Salvation #GlorytoGod
Righteousness means functioning rightly, operating exactly as the Manufacturer intended. When a product aligns with its original blueprint, it is righteous. If a car performs at its peak in speed, strength and luxury just as its maker designed, that car is righteous, it is functioning rightly.
But holiness is different. Holiness is when that same car is set apart for a particular purpose, for example, to carry children to school, and it does only that. The moment it carries anyone or anything else beyond that assignment, it may still be functioning rightly in mechanics, but it has violated consecration. It becomes unholy.
This is why God is both righteous and holy. He functions perfectly in all His ways, that is righteousness. Yet He is also completely set apart, distinct and unmixable, that is holiness. You can be righteous in performance and still miss holiness in purpose. You can be doing the right thing but not the set apart thing.
And this is why the believer did not become righteous by effort but by union. Scripture declares, He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us so that we might become the righteousness of God in Christ. This righteousness is not a trophy of performance but a gift of grace so that the believer may function optimally as Gods workmanship, rightly aligned in nature, design and operation.
Yet righteousness alone is not the fullness.
A minister may be righteous, doing what is right, preaching truth, functioning effectively in ministry, and yet not be holy. Holiness is his segmentation, his positioning, his differentiation. Holiness defines the boundaries of consecration. It is why a righteous minister has restrictions. There are messages he cannot preach, platforms he cannot mount, associations he cannot entertain. Those things may be righteous and true, but they are not holy to him.
At a personal level, not everything righteous is holy, but everything holy is righteous. Holiness refines righteousness into purpose. It filters performance through consecration. Righteousness is right function, holiness is exclusive function.
Holiness means God cannot be used. He is too pure to be repurposed. His holiness is what makes Him God, unexploitable, unbendable, unmixable. That is why Scripture says, Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord. It is not because God is hiding, it is because His holiness is too pure to be engaged outside consecration. You cannot use Him for a purpose outside His purpose.
Further, Scripture calls us holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling. Holiness grants access. Even apostles and prophets who are holy unto the Lord are entrusted with certain revelations, not because they are more gifted, but because they are more separated. Holiness is the realm of access.
And this is why in the new man in Christ, the two are inseparable. Ephesians 4 verse 24 declares that the new man is created after God in true righteousness and holiness.
It would be a tension, a contradiction, for the new man to be righteous without holiness, or holy without righteousness. His nature is both. He functions rightly and exclusively. He lives in alignment and in consecration.
So righteousness speaks of how you function.
Holiness speaks of why and for whom you function.
Together, they are the full configuration of the new man in Christ.
The least you will ever be in Christ is the new man, and that is also the most you will ever be. The new man is not a phase; he is the genesis and the zenith of your spirituality. You are eternally locked into this reality. You grow in it, move in it, and have your being in it.
The new man is not a starting point you outgrow; he is the eternal configuration of your being in Christ.
The journey of renewing your mind begins as the new man, not toward becoming one. Peter said, “As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby” (1 Peter 2:2). Notice it says as newborn babes, not to become newborn babes. Growth in Christ does not change your species; it unveils your essence.
When a baby is born, he is not becoming human; he is fully human from day one. He will never grow into another kind of creature. His growth is the unfolding of his humanity. Likewise, being a babe in Christ does not make you less new; you are as much the new man the day you were born again as you will ever be. Growth only brings greater expression and awareness of that reality.
That is why the milk is sincere. The Greek word for sincere means unadulterated, pure, without mixture. You cannot grow rightly on contaminated teaching — half law, half grace; half Moses, half Christ.
The new man feeds on sincerity, the undiluted word of truth that affirms who he already is in Christ. The milk is not meant to make you new; it is meant to reveal the newness you already carry.
Then comes the transition from milk to strong meat, but even that does not improve your status; it heightens your consciousness. The difference between milk and meat is not superiority of status but maturity of perception. Both are for the same man, the new man.
It is dangerous, spiritually fatal even, to operate in any spiritual praxis without this understanding. Without it, prayer becomes performance, fasting becomes self-punishment, giving becomes transaction, and warfare becomes fear management. You begin to measure spirituality by activity instead of identity. That is why so many wear themselves out “doing” for God rather than “being” in Him.
Every spiritual act must proceed from the revelation of the new man; otherwise, it degenerates into religion and self-righteous effort.
When you pray as the new man, you are not trying to move God; you are aligning with His nature already working in you. When you fast as the new man, you are not striving for approval; you are sharpening your sensitivity. When you give as the new man, you are not buying blessings; you are expressing the generosity of the divine nature you already possess.
All true growth in Christ is consciousness growth, not status improvement. The new man is the constant “k” in every equation of life. You began as him, you grow in him, and you will end as him.
This is who you are in justification, and your sanctification follows the same protocol. You are who you will always be in Christ. Sanctification is not about becoming someone else; it is the progressive unveiling of who you already are by justification. Both flow from the same source, the new man.
Paul captured this beautifully:
“And have put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”
— Ephesians 4:24
That verse sums it all. You have put on the new man already. You are not trying to wear him; you are growing in the awareness of who you already are. The new man is both your beginning and your becoming, the eternal workmanship of God in you.
This morning, in an office in Lagos, I stumbled upon a copy of one of my very old books, Put On the New Man, first released in 2008. Seventeen years ago! As I flipped through its pages, I could not help but smile.
The message has not changed. Everything I teach, write, and proclaim today was already there, just in seed form. It is amazing how The Thesis of the New Man, one of my recent books, is simply the advanced study of that same discourse, the New Man in Christ and yet I had totally forgotten about the old book 'put on the new man'
Also,I had completely forgotten that the forewords were written by three remarkable fathers of faith, Dr Tunde Bakare, Rev Victor Adeyemi, and Rev Shola Adesoye. Thank you, sirs, for believing in a much younger me then. I also vividly recall the day of the book presentation when Pastor Bakare shed tears of joy as I decided to give out the entire book for free. That moment was not about the book, it was about conviction, consistency, and covenant.
Seventeen years later, I can boldly say the message has not shifted, only deepened. The same grace that began the journey still powers it. The same revelation that stirred me then now burns even brighter. Consistency, steady growth, and progressive impact are the true hallmarks of ministry.
The seeds you sow in conviction never die; they grow into trees that bear fruits in new generations.
@deleosunmakinde Hallelujah! I cannot keep silent about what the Lord has done for me over the past 3 months at Mathetheuo School of Ministry both basic school and the Advance School —it's been nothing short of a divine encounter, a life-transforming journey that has changed my entire life.
Scriptural and Christoral...
The authority of the text remains unchanged, but its interpretation is governed by the finished work of Christ.That is the non-negotiable key.
Whether you are reading the Old Testament or the New Testament is not the issue.
The decisive issue is the covenant lens through which you read it—and that lens is the finished work of Christ. Without that, even a correct quotation can lead to a wrong conclusion.
Acts 15 gives us the perfect case study. “Some men came down from Judea and began teaching the brethren, ‘Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved’” (Acts 15:1). Circumcision was not a pagan practice—it was written, authoritative, and directly commanded by God to Abraham.
Yet Peter, standing in the clarity of the gospel, declared: “Now therefore why do you put God to the test by placing upon the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?” (Acts 15:10).Things like ancestral curses fall in this category.
In other words, here was something Scriptural, once binding, yet rendered obsolete by Christ’s fulfilment. It failed the covenant lens of the Cross.
The text was still inspired, but the practice was no longer binding. This is the gospel’s interpretive revolution: a thing may be written and once God-ordained, but if it does not pass through the filter of Christ’s finished work, it is no longer covenantally binding—it becomes an unnecessary yoke.
And this principle applies whether the phenomenon is found in the Old Testament or the New Testament period. The location of the verse is not the issue—the covenant lens is.
Even in the New Testament, we see limitations without that lens. Apollos, for example, was “mighty in the Scriptures” but “only knew the baptism of John” (Acts 18:24–25). He needed Aquila and Priscilla to expound to him “the way of God more accurately.” The text he taught was correct, but his covenant understanding was incomplete.
Peter himself warns that “some things in [Paul’s letters] are hard to understand, which the untaught and unstable distort, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction” (2 Peter 3:16). Notice—Peter doesn’t limit “Scripture” to the Old Testament here. People can wrest the New Testament too if they read it without the covenant lens of the finished work.
Moreover, we must acknowledge what the apostolic witness declares: the Old Testament has fault lines, not because God erred, but because it was provisional. It was a shadow, a preparatory system pointing forward to Christ. Hebrews says, “If that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion sought for a second” (Hebrews 8:7). Paul adds that, to this day, “a veil lies over their heart; but whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away” (2 Corinthians 3:15–16).
The veil does not make the Old Testament irrelevant—it makes it incomplete without Christ.
This is why the placement of the text—Old or New—is not the real argument. The real argument is: Through what covenant lens are you reading it? If it’s not through the death, resurrection, and ascension of Christ, you will either enforce obsolete shadows or distort present truth.
So here is the principle that cannot be broken:
The text’s authority is permanent.
Its operative meaning is governed by the finished work of Christ.
Every verse, every command, every practice—whether carved into Sinai stone or penned in apostolic ink—must pass through that decisive filter. If it survives, it is gospel truth for the believer. If it fails, it is an obsolete yoke.
You speak in tongues so violently that even angels duck for cover—but somehow you still can’t speak kindly to your spouse.
That’s not the Holy Ghost—that’s tongues without transformation.