Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Anamnesis 2022 - Day 2 Evening Session
Date: Thursday, 8th December 2022
Speaker 2: Reverend Olabode Busuyi
We are in a time when heaven and all that it stands for have prepared to empty itself upon man. We are therefore learning to look to God for help. Heaven is richer than the earth because there are more resources in it than on the earth. Whatever blessings or mercies the earth enjoys is because help came from heaven to put blessings and strength on the earth. Man’s understanding of heavenly blessings is good things Heaven has to give us. The perspective of Heaven we have always had is that heaven is a place that is better and more resourceful than the earth. But we are in a time when the Lord is shifting our gaze from seeing Heaven as a location to seeing it as a Person. What makes heaven what it is, is that the Lord is there. But when God leaves there, it will no longer be relevant. Heaven is corruptible and will pass away, with all its grandeur and glory (Matt. 24:35, Heb. 1:10-12). Heaven’s resources are its inhabitants/creatures.
“The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all. [20] Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word. [21] Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure. [22] Bless the Lord, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the Lord, O my soul.” (Psa. 103:19-22). Blessing the Lord does not imply giving something to Him. Creation cannot really add or give anything back to God because He is complete and self-existing. To bless the Lord means to make known the works God has done in those creatures. Lucifer could not bless the Lord because he had corrupted his wisdom and altered his original substance. But the other angels could because they remained in their estate.
The strata of the creatures listed in the verse above express a reflection of God’s nature in a frame. God will not use anything for His glory that does not have a reflection of what is in Him. ‘Oh my soul’ referred to in verse 22 above refers to a living soul and not an earthly man. An earthly man cannot bless God because he is not a reflection of what man was created to be like. Those whom God sees as men are the first and last Adam (Adam and Jesus); others were not identified as Adams.
Christ is a Son, a Message, and a Foundation (Isa. 28:16). He was first a stone before He became a sure foundation. A sure foundation is a foundation of the new world. Christ’s soul can respond to God and bless Him because this is the first work God did on earth. Christ is the first work of the new heaven, therefore, the new heaven is a Person. God intended that when the Israelites come into the promised land, their attention would eventually shift from the land to the promise. However, they got the promised land but did not get the promise. The promise is a Person. All the allotments put in the twelve tribes of Israel were supposed to be a reflection of this Person. The Lord distributed Himself through the twelve tribes of Israel with the hope that when they begin to seek the promise, all the allotments should reflect the promise, and the entire nation would be able to access it. The promise was a heavenly one and its purpose was for Israel to become a nation in line with what God has in mind for nationhood.
Christ is the promise because He is the Being who custodes everything that constitutes God’s promise to man. His person captures what it takes for a man to move from the earth to Godhood. The Israelites were given the law because it was meant to bring them to Christ. After then, they ought to have sought for everlasting life and Eternal Life — the promise of God to the fathers. There would be a new heaven and a new earth. Those who would live in these realms would do so because of what their soul constitution has captured. As such, it is not a function of a physical dwelling place.
Jesus discovered early in life that the work of God is to build a man that can reach God. This is the essence of Christianity; this is what Jesus stands for and this is the reason for communion. This communion is not just an observation or ritual, but a consistent affirmation to show the Lord’s death till He comes. Before his death, Jesus ascended to God (in stature); His death was only an approval for His coronation after finishing the journey. This shows that a man can be on earth and also be able to interact with all the faculties/thoughts of God, and capture it in his flesh — this is the work of God.
“Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? [29] Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.” (John 6:28-29). Believing on Him who has been sent defines true apostleship. That is not just a man that has been sent with a message, but a messenger having works as the message. Jesus was the messenger of the covenant because He captured the message with the work within Him.
We are not perfect but we have a focus that is a work of mercy. If our focus on hope can be set aright, it would be easy for our souls to be anchored. Every soul on earth is subjected to the waves of the earth, but when the soul is anchored beyond the veil, such a soul has found mercy. We ought to be clear about our destination — God. This must be a faith reality in our hearts. It must be our hope in life, strong, firm, and unmovable by the devil and the waves of the earthly realm. Temptations often come in areas where men’s hopes are anchored. The hope of some men are anchored before the veil, while those of others are anchored beyond the veil (Heb. 6:19).
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ…” (Eph. 1:3). This blessing is a new heaven captured in the person of Christ. Thus, Christ is another heaven. We often hope for a new world because of the discomfort our flesh has gone through. But we should get to a point in our lives where suffering in the flesh does not mean anything to us. Jesus decided to go through the process of the cross despite the pain because He knew it was God’s will. In the time of the Roman government (when Jesus was on earth), the cross was a terrific punishment and was usually an open show. They subjected the body of man through pain in a bid to conquer the soul. But the soul is stronger and deeper than pain. Jesus proved that life is stronger than pain when He endured the cross and despised its shame (Heb. 12:2).
Jesus’ endurance did not mean that He managed the situation, but that He outlasted the cross. There are communications in the spirit that are stronger than the pain of the cross. This was why, even in spite of Jesus’ pain, He still had room to bless and forgive sinners and His persecutors. Thus, Jesus showed the victory of life. Redemption is not saving man’s soul through activism but God coming to flesh to rescue it from the bondage of Satan. The beauty of Jesus is not just that He became God but that He captured the stratas that lead to God.
“Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? [4] He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.” (Psa. 24:3-4). Everyday, souls make oaths with vanity. Sin did not begin with unrighteousness but developed into it. Out of sin, men swore allegiance to creatures; they loved the creature more than the Creator (Rom. 1:25). To love creatures more than the Creator is to swear an oath to vanity. All created things are vain, including angels and anything that is corruptible. But vanity also has its glory. Anything the soul bows to, other than God, is vanity.
“But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.” (Heb. 3:6). This scripture refers to churches of everlasting life because such churches define their faith by the faith in Hebrews 11. The faith in Hebrews 11 is not the faith for just any believer because not every believer can use things hoped for or things not seen, and live by it. The faith of those who believe to the saving of the soul is the substance of things hoped for and the things not seen (Heb. 11:1). But there is more ahead.
“For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.” (Heb. 10:34). The enduring substances were supposed to move them to a place where they could handle things that are eternal. There are enduring substances and there are eternal substances. Enduring substances are a school for eternal substances. There are things laid up in heaven for us, but we do not have to wait to get to heaven before they can be transferred to us. The reason for the faith described in Hebrews 11 is to transfer these better and enduring substances. What Jesus captured are grades of materials that were laid up in heaven until He captured Eternal substances that reckoned Him as a being of glory. Life is glory; when one has a life, he carries its glory.
“Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin…” (1 Pet. 4:1). A man can cease from sin. Works of the flesh are no more issues for some people, though flesh may still be an issue for them. If works can cease, it means they can get to a realm where they can be given higher judgements to live by. For example, there is a sphere where a person can resist the hatred of the brethren by righteousness. However, there is another sphere where hatred is counted as murder (1 John 3:15) because hate is not permitted in that sphere. In this realm, hate is an alien.
The reason for the names of the Godhead is to give us a template of relating with the substances of the strata that are all in the Son of God. The names of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost were given to the first apostles (Matt. 28:19). One must have been commanded before such can teach what they have been commanded to teach. The apostles could go to the whole world with this gospel because they were given the names. They could capture the three names by the help of the coming of the Holy Ghost. The baptism of these names was not water baptism but baptism by the truth of the names. When the twelve were not capturing the names very well, God raised Paul. They were struggling with the name of the Son when Paul came.
Paul was not sent with the name of the Holy Ghost. He was baptising people in the Holy Ghost without teaching them about it. Paul began with Christ; he taught Christ, the Father and God. Paul did not receive the commandment that the twelve received. In the same way, we also did not receive it. The three names that were given to Paul were Christ, the Father and God and these names have commandments. The devil does not fight us head-on with commandments because they are strong. Where he fights us is in doctrine. Commandments should dovetail to doctrine for the purpose of our growth. Satan fought the seven churches in Revelation with doctrines and as long as he was on this ground, he was winning.
“For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean. [9] Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.” (Isa. 28:8-9). Where we feast and commune together on the table is doctrine; that is where the meal is present. It is on this table where there is doctrine that we find knowledge and understanding. The essence of the revelations that come to us are to make us know the divine persons. True doctrines ought to make us understand what the divine persons are made up of. The fact that it comes from the Bible is not what makes it true; it must reveal the divine persons.
Doctrines are the instruments for unveiling and understanding the three persons of the Godhead appropriately. The true blessings are inside them (Col. 2:2-3), for that which they capture are treasures. The real call of churches seeking ascension is to gather around tables of the doctrine. Men are given commandments but it is the job of gifts and graces to change the commandment into doctrines. What we will feed on are doctrines.
There is the doctrine of vanity (Jer. 10:8). If we cannot capture the divine persons, anything else that is taught is a doctrine of vanity because it cannot outlast the present world. A doctrine that cannot move to the world to come is a doctrine of vanity. Vanity goes beyond physical possessions like cars and houses. There is another realm of vanity that has to do with images, which is actually the strength of man. Fornication is not a problem for some people. Such men rather treasure seeing the future without the revelation of who God is. They see safety or sure places of rest without the revelation of God.
“Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.” (Rom. 1:21). The seat of vanity is imagination. The sin of man in Genesis 6 was also in their imaginations. Those men gave themselves to those imaginations until God could no longer take it from them (Gen. 6:5). If we try to imagine heaven without the Divine Persons, we can end up with images that are corrupt. This is because the hope is not heaven, but the Beings who are there. If we cannot crack into their nature, we will not be able to access them. That is the true hope of a man.
“That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; [3] In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” (Col. 2:2-3). This shows us that these treasures are all in one person. A good doctrine acknowledges these Divine Beings. At least, it must acknowledge Christ and the Father, before it acknowledges the mystery of God.
The mystery of the Father is difficult to understand, but is a gateway. The Father is calibrated in Christ, but there are two major Beings manifested in Him. This is what makes His dominion a little bit difficult. If these two beings are not known, one might not have a free course through the Father. This is the reason for the first epistle of John (1 John). If scriptures do not dovetail to reveal a person, we would not be able to fellowship with that person. It is not the scripture we fellowship with but presence. One can know scriptures and still not know the Persons.
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” (Gal. 2:20). The one that can really deal with the issues we have within us till the end is a Person. It is a Person that has a beginning and an end. We have begun with Christ but there is a point we would get to, where we would know that Christ has been formed in us. Without the knowledge of these persons, we would not know if He has been formed in us. In the grace of the apostleship of the old times, it was possible to know when Christ was formed. As such, Paul could say that he was waiting for a time when Christ would be formed in the Galatians (Gal. 4:19). He was waiting to receive them. He was labouring, so that He could present them as perfect men.
“That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. [4] And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.” (1 John 1:3-4). What they had first seen was the Holy Ghost, the Son and Father. Without these Beings, one may have joy but the joy will not be full. As Christians, we have Christ. Christ's dominion is righteousness, peace and joy. Those who serve God by these are approved and the reason for them is to move the churches into fullness of joy. But there is a place beyond the fullness of joy and there is still the right hand after presence (Psa. 16:11).
One must come into presence before he can come to the right hand. There are two beings in the presence that we must fellowship with: the Father and the Son. Christ is a Son. There is a Son in the Father that ended as a Father. For three-and-a-half years, Jesus journeyed from Sonship to Fatherhood. He was already Christ, but He had to make that journey. There is the doctrine of the Son and of His Father. It is the Son that knows the journey to the Father because He is the way to the Father, but not as Christ.
“Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward. [9] Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.” (2 John 1:8-9). These things that have been wrought are meant to make us eligible for the full reward. Verse 9 tells us that if a man cannot make abode in Christ's doctrine, then there is no hope for God. They that abide in Christ have hope of the Father and the Son, which are entities of the fullness of joy. If one does not have the Father and the Son, then such cannot have God.
“I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. [5] And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.” (John 17:4-5). The work of the Father is a work of glory, but there are some works of the devil that prevent men from accessing the works of the Father. Everybody who carries that work of the devil cannot see the Father manifested. This is why the devil is the father of nearly every human. The works of the devil are much more than the sin of the works of the flesh, but the manifestation of the Son of God is to ensure that the seed of the devil is destroyed (1 John 3:8, John 8:44).
It is important that the sin of the beginning is dealt with. If other sins are dealt with and the sin of the beginning is not dealt with, man will not be free. Such men are still good tools in the hands of Satan. This was what Jesus had to run from in the season of trials and temptations of the wilderness (Matt. 4:1-11). God did not allow Him to be tempted until He began this work. If He was earlier exposed to the temptations, there was no guarantee that He would escape it. As such, He was led of the Spirit to the wilderness.
“And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.” (Matt. 6:13). God must not expose us to some temptations now. There are some things and realms of Satan we must not know now. There are even some books that can destroy our balance in the word of righteousness for years, if we read them. There should be no bragging in the Spirit. When we are being kept, we also ought to keep ourselves. When we are instructed to stop reading a book, we should obey. The materials and wisdoms in some books and open gates of thoughts are capable of changing a man.
As we are being fed, we are being led. God ensures that we are being led away from the temptations that are beyond what we can bear. However, a day is coming when we will be exposed to these temptations because there are conflicts of ages that must be settled sometimes. If we do not settle them, we would not break through in the Spirit. There are ages to handle some evils. Part of the essence of oversight is to prevent us from being exposed to evils. When people who are over us see these things, they keep them away from us so that we can do well.
God is making a table for us to feed on the Son more and to relate with the meal of the Son. We have not finished the meal of the Son. We are being asked to use this revelation to relate with their Persons, because this is how Jesus related to them. It is only these Persons and their knowledge that can save us. If we have access to their knowledge without their Persons, then we would not have the needed power. It is the Persons that direct the knowledge. Knowledge is not something we just store in our heads. It is the ability to instruct, lead and guide us.
The realm we are in is difficult to teach because it is not a body of doctrine with do’s and don'ts. It is the sins we did in Christ that we are still being instructed about, howbeit at a higher standard. Judgement and standards have been raised, so that we can see those things better, beyond the way they exist before. By this, we acquire capacity to move in the Spirit.
Blessings!
Transcript Summary
1. Man’s understanding of heavenly blessings are good things Heaven has to give us. We have always seen it as a place that is better than the earth, But at these times, the Lord is shifting our gaze from seeing Heaven as a location to seeing it as a person. What makes heaven what it is, is that the Lord is there.
2. An earthly man cannot bless God because he is not a reflection of what man was created to be like. Christ is a Son, a Message, and a Foundation (Isa. 28:16). He was first a stone before He became a sure foundation. A sure foundation is a foundation of the new world. Christ’s soul can respond to God and bless Him because this is the first work God did on earth.
3. Christ is the promise because He is the Being who custodes everything that constitutes God’s promise to man. His person captures what it takes for a man to move from the earth to Godhood. The essence of christianity is to build men who can reach God and this can happen while we are on earth.
4. (Hebrews 10:34). The enduring substances were supposed to move them to a place where they could handle things that are eternal. Enduring substances are a school for eternal substances. The reason for the faith described in Hebrews 11 is to transfer these better and enduring substances because we do not have to wait to get to heaven before they can be transferred to us.
5. Doctrines are the instruments for unveiling and understanding the three persons of the Godhead appropriately. It is in the doctrine that we find knowledge and understanding. True doctrines ought to make us understand what the divine persons are made up of. A doctrine that cannot move to the world to come is a doctrine of vanity.
6. The one that can really deal with the issues we have within us, till the end, is a Person. Christ's dominion is righteousness, peace and joy. They that abide in Christ have the hope of the Father and the Son, which are entities of the fullness of joy. If one does not have the Father and the Son, then such cannot have God.
7. (John 17:4-5). The work of the Father is a work of Glory, but there are some works of the devil that prevent men from accessing the works of the Father. Everybody who carries that work of the devil cannot see the Father manifested. The works of the devil are much more than the sin of the works of the flesh, but the manifestation of the Son of God is to ensure that the seed of the devil is destroyed (1 John 3:8, John 8:44).
8. As we are being fed, we are being led away from the temptations that are beyond what we can bear. However, there will be a time when we will be exposed to these temptations, in order to settle conflicts of ages. If we do not settle them, we would not break through in the Spirit. Part of the essence of oversight is to prevent us from being exposed to evils.
9. God is making a table for us to feed on the Son more and to relate with the meal of the Son. We are being asked to use this revelation to relate with their Person because this is how Jesus related to them. It is only these Persons and their knowledge that can save us. If we have access to their knowledge without their Persons, then we would not have the needed power.
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