Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry
Programme: Anamnesis 2022 – Day 4 Morning Session
Date: Saturday, 10th December 2022
Glory has demands; this is why you do not walk anyhow into glory. There is order in the realm of glory. This means if you are going to walk into it, you have to follow the order. Submitting brings the anointing easily, even faster than praying and fasting. Your fasting and praying should end at instructions.
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." (Genesis 1:26). We know that image is responsible for glory. What God intended for man is that man will carry His own glory. "Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high…" (Hebrews 1:3). Jesus Christ became the express image of God to let us know the intention of God, which is for man to carry God’s nature (Rom. 8:29).
“What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? [5]For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.” (Psalm 8:4-5). When man was made, he was still a project in the making because the real image of God is not a little lower than the angels. When Jesus was fully made, He was made higher than the angels (Heb 1:4). Adam had glory but it was not the glory of God, it was the glory of the living soul. But a time came that he was tempted out of that glory (Rom 3:23). What sustained glory left man when he fell for the temptation (Gen. 3). God did not forget His intention and He is not giving up on it. He came through our Lord Jesus to come and fulfill His intention. Man lost glory and he has to be gradually restored back to glory. The only way to restore man back to glory is to gradually build an image in man and this is because an image is responsible for glory.
“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.” (Romans 8:29-30). Justification is a kind of raising – it is a process back to glory. Christ has to minister to us for justification purposes. Having peace with God means that one has done the righteousness required; this means one would have done Christ to the place of peace. It is to be cleansed and made free from the law of sin and death. This takes a process.
“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. [2]For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.” (Romans 8:1-2). To be justified, you must walk: you must engage certain laws that are revealed to you. The learning of Christ justifies us. Man dropped from the living soul stature and became flesh that God couldn't relate with at all; the flesh cannot come to glory and neither can it inherit God. To bring us back to glory, man has to be raised out of flesh and the only thing that can bring man out of flesh is the justification of Christ.
"But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption… (1 Corinthians 1:30). The journey to glory will begin with the revelation of Christ that will take us out of flesh. Jesus is law calibrated. He is law-weaved. Those laws are the laws of the spirit of life. We cannot quote Romans 8:1-2 because we have not walked in all the laws. That is why Paul was so committed to preaching Christ because he wanted to deliver men from bondage.
"Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified." (Romans 8:30). To be justified is to be brought out of flesh – to be made spiritual. You don't just get thrown into glory. It takes someone who has been justified to be glorified. Being glorified is also a process. The glory that the Godhead is calling us into is not the glory of creation. Their glory is not the glory of creation but the glory of the creator. The giving of salvation is the giving of glory; it is the giving of everlasting life which is the very life of God. It is the raising of a man. This glory is not the glory of man. The glory of our Lord Jesus is the glory of God. (2 Thessalonians 2: 13-14)
"And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was." (John 17:5). The glory He had before is the glory of the Creator. God glorified Him. It can only be God that will create something with His hands and still desire that it wears the same glory as He. Before you can come in, you have to be worthy of glory. You have to walk worthy of glory. We can only change or become like Christ by walking. God gives us understanding to generate a walk that is worthy of Him (1 Thessa. 2:11-12).
"For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God…" (Colossians 1:9-10). Without understanding and knowledge of His will, a walk cannot be generated. A worthy walk can never be produced except there is understanding and revelation. You must first be made worthy of the Lord by submitting to Him for the cleansing of your soul.
We were raised by corrupted wisdom, so God had to raise us with the wisdom that is of Him. If we are not wise, the devil will destroy us. Satan has corrupted man with inverted wisdom, so, we need a wisdom that is above him; the wisdom of the Creator. "For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding…" (Colossians 1:9). At every level, there is the wisdom that is in Christ. There is the wisdom that is in everlasting life. Satan comes with his own wisdom to turn us against ourselves. We have to be endued with wisdom to beat Satan hands down. It takes a lot of wisdom to escape this wisdom of Satan so that our journey will not be truncated. Wisdom produces a lifestyle. Satan works where we are not endued with wisdom. We need to be endued with wisdom in this season that we are in (James 3:14-17).
A wise man is pure and peaceable. Being peaceable means accepting that one is wrong even when one is right. God teaches us and instructs us in this manner. God gives us knowledge but the Spirit leads us. The Spirit guides us into all truth (Jn. 16:13). Trust is what you obey which will make you grow. The Lord also wants us to be gentle even when we have justification not to be. Gentleness is heavenly. The test of gentleness is revealed when we are placed in uncomfortable situations.
"For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God…" (Colossians 1:9-10). Glory seekers must continue in well doing, which is according to what is revealed. What is pleasing to God is what He tells you is correct. Knowledge gives you tools for well doing.
“But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile…” (Romans 2:8-9). It is revelation that enables us to do. There are things that are required of us to do, but those things are products of knowledge, understanding, and revelation. Revelation comes to kick-start a work in us. When knowledge and revelation come to us, the Holy Ghost brings instructions around the revelations, as it relates to our lives individually.
“That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God…” (Colossians 1:10). God is bringing commandments of what to do for glory sake to those who seek glory for us to live in a certain way. God teaches us laws of glory by revealing Himself to us. Christ has glory in a measure, the everlasting Son has glory in a measure. The Eternal Son has the glory of God. When one has obeyed Christ to peace, he is then ready for the knowledge of God.
These are laws that framed a heavenly man. They are the laws that framed our God. When we grow in the knowledge of the Godhead, we will be increasing in these things. When they are revealing themselves to us, they are showing us the laws that make them up. If we do not know these things, Satan will take advantage of us. These are the laws for dwelling with one another until we become perfected. To endeavor is to work towards something. These are the things that make us worthy of God (1 Thess. 2:12). These are the things that make up our God; they are His laws.
"And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth…" (Exodus 34:5-6). Proclaiming His name is declaring His person, laws, and nature. Jesus needs to declare the name of the Father to us. The Lord Himself was proclaiming His own name. The declaration of His name is the declaration of His nature and person. This is done through the revelation of the laws that configured the Father.
Another level of long-suffering comes with knowledge. An increase in knowledge makes one increase in long-suffering. The knowledge of God teaches us God’s laws and helps us relate with His person. When we learn God, we are learning a person. When learning a person, there are things that constitute the person that are transferred to the soul (John 16:15). The things of a man are the things that frame him while the things of God are the laws that framed God. The things of God are His laws. His frame will be declared to us and those are the things that will raise us.
When we learn Christ, we learn a measure of longsuffering and gentleness. However, when knowledge increases, the demand gets higher. When we do those demands, we also increase. We increase by doing that which is revealed - that is the path to glory.
It is sin that made us fall short of glory and it is responsible for our stature. A soul at new birth still has a lot of sin nature and is ignorant of what is right. To raise us, heaven brings us the knowledge of righteousness. Righteousness is at a level. When Jesus resurrected, the Father said He loved righteousness (Heb. 1:9). He obeyed righteousness at all levels, then He was enthroned. Since we have fallen short of glory, they have to minister righteousness to us to receive glory back.
“Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away. [17] Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. [18] But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord." (2 Corinthians 3:16-18). As we behold His glory, we are being changed into His image. This means that glory and image are the same. There is no glory without a change or a raising; there is no raising without the ministration of righteousness. Righteousness is ministered by the Spirit – it comes by revelation, knowledge, and understanding. Changing into glory is the quest of the beginning. Man was made to be able to wear God’s glory because once a man has an image, then he has the glory.
"For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them." (2 Peter 2:20-21). We escape pollution through knowledge that is obeyed. Many believers became entangled because they stopped engaging the knowledge; they did not have patient continuance in well-doing. Knowledge was delivered to them, they used it, then they were cleansed. They came across the way of righteousness through the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. In that knowledge are ways of righteousness and it takes the Spirit to lead us into those ways. It is contained in the knowledge of Jesus but one can hold the knowledge and never locate the way, if such does not cooperate with the leading of the Spirit.
God is not unrighteous but He can tamper with our abilities to make money. This does not mean He hates us. It just means that He would rather give us His knowledge than plenty of money. He can meet our needs more than we can ever think. There is a way righteousness provides for us. One thing we first need to learn is contentment. We would be taught to be content with little. We should be able to abound and abase (Philp 4:12). We can journey beyond our needs. By leading, the soul can be configured to be content with little. It is a work that must be done for abundance. When abundance then comes, we would not be consumed by it. It is a training for abundance, so we would not hold anything too tightly.
These words can put more than food on our table. It is life! When we trap life, to trap things created will not be difficult.
Blessings!
Summary
1. Justification is a kind of raising; it is a process back to glory (Rom. 8: 29-30). Christ has to minister to us for justification purposes. To be justified is to be brought out of flesh – to be made spiritual.
2. It takes someone who has been justified to be glorified. To be glorified is also a process. The glory that the Godhead is calling us into is not the glory of creation. Their glory is not the glory of creation but the glory of the Creator (2 Thess. 2:13-14).
3. Without understanding and knowledge of God's will, a walk that leads us to God cannot be generated. A worthy walk can never be produced except there is understanding and revelation (Col. 1:9-10). You must first be made worthy of the Lord by submitting to Him for the cleansing of your soul.
4. We were raised by corrupted wisdom, but by the mercy of the Lord, we have to learn the wisdom of God and be raised by Him to fulfill His purpose. If we are not wise, the devil will destroy us. Receiving the wisdom of the Creator helps us war against the enemy.
5. When we learn God, we are learning a Person (John 16:15). The things of a man are the things that frame him while the things of God are the laws that framed God. The things of God are His laws. His frame will be declared to us and those are the things that will raise us.
6. There is no glory without a change or a raising; there is no raising without the ministration of righteousness. Righteousness is ministered by the Spirit; it is by revelation, knowledge, and understanding (2 Cor. 3:16-18). Man was made to be able to wear God’s glory.