Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Anamnesis 2022 – Day 3 Morning Session
Date: Friday, 9th December 2022
God is bringing us into the season of the glory of the persons of the Father and the Son. The Lord of glory is also referred to as the hidden wisdom and the deep things of God (1 Cor. 2:7). Hidden wisdom is taught of God; it is the secret of God kept in the Person of our Lord Jesus Christ. Wisdom is justified/approved of by her children (Luke 7:35). The works of wisdom is the stability and strength of salvation. The wisdom that is ordained for our glory has to be the raising of us or building of wisdom.
“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse…” (Rom. 1:20). There is an hour of temptation upon every son who is being brought into glory. God wants to bring us into glory. For this reason, the Captain of our salvation was made perfect through suffering (Heb. 2:10). The essence of this Anamnesis is to cause us to have a glimpse into the make-up of the Captain of our salvation. The learning of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord is for salvation. The learning of the salvation of the Lord is for wisdom (2 Tim. 3:15).
Every saint who desires the glory of the Lord must be made wise. Souls can become overwhelmed with learning as it happened to the Hebrew church whose knees became weak and their hands hanged down (Heb. 12:12). The aim of learning wisdom is not to walk in the ways of fools. Satan taught men wisdom, but their wisdom is foolishness to God.
One of the ways of the fool is that he pursues vanity. Natural wisdom births forth the pride of life (John 2:16). There is a pride of life that learning the glory of God does not give us because it strips us of everything that is of man. This is foolishness to man because he cannot relate with a wisdom that does not project the pride of life.
“Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.” (Prov. 18:1). No one comes into wisdom without some form of separation. What we are to be separated from is fleshly lusts which work against our souls. We cannot partake of the wisdom of life without separation. The essence of the separation in the doctrine of Christ is to bring our hearts to the place of stability, where the conversation of Christ becomes something we can show forth.
However, separation does not stop there as we need to journey to the next allocation of the wisdom of Christ that is ordained for our separation or sanctification. Sanctification is what makes a godly man. A man becomes separated when he has lived by the doctrine of Christ.
“Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, Nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.” (Ps. 1:1). The man here is a godly man. This work is one that is done in the soul – the heart and the mind. This work is not done as a result of do’s and don'ts, but rather, it is done via the leading of the Spirit. Separation is not mechanical, rather, it is a work done through following the leading of the Spirit and yielding ourselves to obedience.
“Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.” (Jam. 3:13). There is a wisdom ordained for our glory. Jesus came into fullness and thus, carried persons and entities of wisdom. In Jesus dwells the wisdom that is Christ, which is for sanctification. In Him is also the hidden wisdom which is for our salvation, and these wisdoms are all glories. The glory of the Lord is wisdom. The essence of wisdom is that God will be able to express a life through us. Obedience to commandments is the interpretation of the wisdom of a life.
“Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: [7] but we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory…” (1 Corin. 2:6-7). Princes are wise men (Prov. 8:16). We are moving into a season where we will deal with substances unseen; wisdom is a very high substance. Our adversary also possesses high wisdom.
“And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. [4] But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased” (Dan. 12:3-4). This is everlasting life and Eternal Life; it is the place of moving and allowing the work of wisdom, which is the work of salvation for giving us stability. We are going to enter difficult times in years from now but God wants us to be stable and have the strength of salvation.
We must be perpetually delivered from the darkness in this world and commit ourselves continually to changing. We cannot compromise our changing. Anybody that does not change in these days will get worse because there is no more middle ground. We must know this and put our minds to it! That is why we must grow and desire the strength of God’s wisdom which is ordained for our glory.
"Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. [14] But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth" (Jam. 3:13-14). What they made in Jesus is not His body but His soul. Jesus was initially made a little lower than the angels (Heb. 2:9). Angels are calibrations of heavens. Jesus embraced the lesson of making Himself to be made and we also need to allow ourselves to be made.
People were reading the law and prophets in the day of Jesus Christ, but Jesus was reading the same thing and He was fetching things. The person of Jesus was made from the pages of the scriptures of the law and the prophets by the Spirit. We do not read scriptures in our bedroom, rather, we must go to the synagogue. There are people that do not want to go to church. Jesus our Lord had the custom of going to the temple. (Luke 4:16) He observed the sabbath for thirty years and did not miss any service. Jesus had to learn the scriptures. This is how He was made the High Priest and Apostle of our profession.
“Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil." (Matt. 5:17). The law was supposed to bring us to life. Jesus was raised by scriptures, just like we have scriptures today. We even have the advantage of scriptures being put together but we cannot break it ourselves. For this reason, God raised the office of apostles and prophets.
"If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward…" (Eph. 3:2). The dispensation of grace is an economy of wisdom. God gave us our spiritual parents so that scriptures will open up to us. We need to stay a while for it to open just like Timothy waited for his grandmother before he could see the wisdom of salvation in the scripture. When scriptures are open, it takes meekness to receive its wisdom at every strata. For us to be able to receive high wisdom, we need more meekness to tap into its resources and ways. Scripture was designed to open the way to the wisdom of salvation, sanctification and eternal exceeding weights of glory.
Scripture was written with high wisdom such that it is not possible for spirits to read it. Spirits know and read scriptures but they cannot get the wisdom of it. Satan quoted scriptures to Jesus when he tempted Him because he knew scriptures by heart but lacked the wisdom of it. The way of wisdom cannot be found without meekness, for meekness is the doorway into wisdom of the scriptures.
We need to keep increasing in wisdom and lowliness so we can have a better gateway into scriptures, so that a life can be manifested. We need meekness to access the wisdom of life. God would not forcefully make us weak and meek, rather, we have to be deliberate about being made meek and weak. We have to keep exercising in meekness and weakness.
We must be deliberate to take the opportunity to be meek and have breakthrough into the way of wisdom. This is a warfare of those who are escaping. We have to be conscious to do things that would make us meek; we must relinquish our rights so that we can have a breakthrough into the way of wisdom. The things we are hearing should not just stay as knowledge in our heads; they must break through into life inside our hearts.
The princes of this world do not know the wisdom with which the Lord was raised and they cannot know it. We can fetch wisdom from the lives of the prophets. The prophets fetched the wisdom of the law to make it a life. Jesus learnt from the lives of the prophets and lived by it in the days of His flesh. God helped Jesus' heart but it will take a man that is growing in wisdom to embrace the laws of the wisdom of God.
Suffering may be the withdrawal of resources and sometimes it is abundance. Above all, there is a discipline of the Spirit we must be cultured by. The Lord is going to use situations around us to make us meek. He would work contentment in our hearts. The Lord by discipline can stay on us to be content with a particular thing, even though we have the resources to get another thing. When we are meek, it would be easy to follow the leading of the Spirit. This is the essence of meekness!
Blessings!
Summary
- No one comes into wisdom without some form of separation. What we are to be separated from is fleshly lusts which work against our souls. We cannot partake of the wisdom for life without separation. The essence of the separation in the doctrine of Christ is to bring our hearts to the place of stability, where the conversation of Christ becomes something we can show forth.
- There is a wisdom ordained for our glory. Jesus came into fullness and thus, carried Persons and Entities of wisdom. In Jesus dwells the wisdom that is Christ, which is for sanctification (1 Corin. 1:30). In Him, is also the hidden wisdom, which is for our salvation (1 Corin. 2:7). These wisdoms are all glories. The glory of the Lord is wisdom. The essence of wisdom is that God will be able to express a life through us. Obedience to commandments is the interpretation of the wisdom of a life.
- We must be perpetually delivered from the darkness in this world and commit ourselves continually to change. We cannot compromise our changing. Anybody that does not change this season will get worse because there is no more middle ground. We must know this and put our minds to it! That is why we must grow and desire the strength of God’s wisdom, which is ordained for our glory (1 Corin. 2:7).
- We must be deliberate to take the opportunity to be meek and have a breakthrough into the way of wisdom. This is a warfare of those who are escaping from the earth. We have to be conscious to do things that would make us meek; we must relinquish our rights so that we can have a breakthrough into the way of wisdom. The things we are hearing should not just stay as knowledge in our heads; they must break through into life inside our hearts.
- There is a discipline of the Spirit we must be cultured by during sufferings; this is when the Lord uses situations around us to make us meek. The Lord would also work out contentment in our hearts. The Lord by discipline can stay on us to be content with a particular thing, even though we have the resources to get another thing. When we are meek, it would be easy to follow the leading of the Spirit. This is the essence of meekness!