Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Anamnesis 2022 - Day 2 Evening Session
Date: Thursday, 8th December 2022
Speaker 1: Pastor Kenneth Eyanohonre
When Jesus died, the pain of His loss was present in the heart of everyone who was looking for redemption. But, in the midst of that pain, they saw an opportunity that heaven had given to them. This was because it felt like they had lost the goodwill that had come so close; they were sorrowful (Lk. 2:14). In the midst of their sorrow, Jesus showed up. Jesus appeared to them, not because they were special, but because everyone is consequential in the program of salvation.
Jesus appeared to some of His disciples who saw and heard Him, but could not recognize Him. “Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: [26] Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?” (Lk. 24:25-26). It was clear that Jesus had entered into His glory, was exalting the position that He had entered into, and spoke of His suffering. Glory is tied to suffering. The suffering of Jesus was not that He was born in a manger but that He submitted to the script that was written concerning Him. That script brought Him to a place in God where He could function and serve God's purpose forever.
Jesus spoke of the way He was to suffer and the pain of the suffering. The suffering was much more in His soul than in His body. He was not bothered by the externalities of lack of shelter or food (Luke 9:58). He was rather focused on His assignment and on the things that God had set for Him, which was the suffering. By suffering everyday, He divorced the pain that should have naturally held him down. He instead focused on purpose and responded to God's seasons, remaining in tune with the heavens.
The burden that God wants to leave us with is the ability to connect with His thoughts so that His thoughts can hold our being down to be a conduit for heavens' thoughts and abilities. Seasons are ahead of us and we need to understand how to submit to them so that the design and intent of God can be realised.
Even when the people He came to did not really understand Him, Jesus still sought to bring them to the intent of God. He was giving them an opportunity to experience glory. We may not comprehend many things but we must know and understand that God has measured us out as candidates for glory. He is telling us about suffering, not to scare us, but to make us know that it is important that the glory is realised.
We are all part of the design of God. We are all in this glory definition because Jesus has entered into His glory. Glory is for a man to come into all of God's essence so that he could use his thought process, imagination, and forces from within to connect to and relate with all of God. Jesus did not just grasp this for Himself but made the opportunity available for men to go up. Jesus is a glorious man and He has the power to bring many to glory also.
God is bringing Himself close (John 7:33-34). But if we are not patient to learn the process, we would not be able to access all that God has prepared. Jesus focused on opening understanding to men and He did this by teaching and breaking bread with them. We must be able to beseech the Lord to stay with us till we break into understanding. Therefore, we must not joke with meetings but must respond to the inward cry of our souls and yearn for understanding.
Jesus' intent is to expose man to glory. Jesus, who walked the street of Nazareth, is on the throne today and He desires to take us through a similar process. The disciples desired that Jesus abode with them and that must be our cry also. If we cry to Him that we want to abide, He would give us thoughts that are eternal and thoughts that are true. The exalted One is remaining because He carried the way of God that would make other things fade away (Heb. 1:11-12). Every other thing does not have the fibre to start and endure. The wisdom of God is to upgrade our understanding to seek for.
In order for us to abide and remain, God would give us His thoughts. It is by these thoughts that He would bring us into Him. As God's thoughts visit us, we are moving closer to God. We must be excited and have expectations. We must connect with Jesus in the season over us so that we would receive the substances of glory. Jesus possesses the substances of glory and His intent is to give them to us.
Summary
1. The suffering of Jesus was not that He was born in a manger but that He submitted to the script that was written concerning Him. That script brought Him to a place in God where He could function and serve God's purpose forever (Heb. 10:7).
2. Jesus' suffering was much more in His soul than in His body. He was not bothered by the externalities of lack of shelter or food but was focused on His assignment and on the things that God had set for Him. Thus, He was focused on purpose and responded to God's seasons, remaining in tune with heavens.
3. The burden that God wants to leave us with is the ability to connect with His thoughts so that His thoughts can hold our being down to be a conduit for heavens' thoughts and abilities. Seasons are ahead of us and we need to understand how to submit to them so that the design and intent of God can be realised.
4. Even when the people He came to did not really understand Him, Jesus still sought to bring them to the intent of God. We may not comprehend many things but we must know and understand that God has measured us out as candidates for glory. He is telling us about suffering, not to scare us, but to make us know that it is important that the glory is realised.
5. Jesus desires to bring man into glory. When Jesus walked on the earth, He received glory and ended up on the throne, and He desires to take us through a similar process so that we can abide in God. God would give us thoughts that are eternal and true in order for us to abide and remain in Him. As His thoughts visit us, we are moving closer to God.
Blessings!