Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Anamnesis 2022 — Day 2 Morning Session
Date: Thursday, 8th December 2022
Speaker 1: Pastor Tayo Fasan
“For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. [4] For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. [5] And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest. [6] Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief…” (Hebrews 4:3-6). Unbelief has many shades. It can relate to an unbeliever, a believer, and one who has become Christ. Any time the devil speaks, the thoughts and images that proceed out of his mouth will culture unbelief if one fellowships with those things. However, there is an allocation of mercy for the things we do in unbelief when we are ignorant.
Even ministers struggle with unrest. As long as death is in the soul, the program of unrest is at work. By speakings, Satan put things in Adam that passed through to us by blood. Every mental picture of the future has death in it. Unconsciously, we have responded to death and the voice of the Son wants to deliver us from unbelief. The Hebrew church had journeyed to a point where they would begin to hear the Son like they had not heard him before.
The works that Satan has done in us, that is, the nature of death that has not been remitted, would be awoken and that would inspire unrest. There are many ways through which death rides on zeal. Zeal can become like a horse upon which works of unrest ride and these works do not please God. We should judge ourselves so that we should not be judged (Matt. 7:1) but become judges under God. We should be as one that can stand in the congregation of the righteous and receive all judgement from God.
“Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus…” (Hebrews 3:1). For us in this season, we are now considering the High Priest and the profession of our faith. God wants all nations to consider the faith and then come to this season where they can now begin to consider the High Priest of the profession of faith, which is what will make them heavenly.
The least in the Kingdom is greater than John the Baptist (Matt. 11:11); the least of those in the Kingdom are those who are heavenly after the order of the New Testament. God had to open Psalm 104, where while considering the High Priest of the profession of faith, we become ‘O my soul’ of the New Testament who can capture a heaven that is in God. Satan does not know about the heaven that is in God.
“And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God…” (Rev. 21:10). In this gathering, we are placing a premium on the experience of considering the High Priest because He is the first citizen of this realm. This is the heaven where those who make their way to it would be greater than John the Baptist; it is not every believer that would be higher than John.
“But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.” (Matt. 11:9). When Jesus spoke of John the Baptist, He was speaking of the works inside of him. There is a way that the souls of those who have not been washed cannot bless God the way the soul of John the Baptist could bless God. His soul was washed but yet he was not yet a son of God in the realm that God wants; he still did not measure up to the dream that God had.
God wanted to replicate a man from their realm who will be called sons of men; they will be sons of God that can fully manifest the kind of man that they are. These are the kind of people that will populate the city; they will overcome the one thing which we have not yet overcome –unbelief.
Unbelief is born when we do not respond to the speakings God is bringing our way. If Adam had responded to what God said, he would have been able to wrestle with the unbelief that made him fall. The moment we are not considering what the High Priest is saying, we are already considering something else. This means the moment we cannot allow what the High Priest is saying to disarm us of tendencies and potentials of flesh, we would consider something else.
Iniquity is everywhere. As long as you are dealing with someone who does not have a Christ formation, that legal and conversation is worldly. As long as you are dealing with someone that has not journeyed to a place where he has that works which Jesus was looking for in the seven churches, there are many conversations that can still be tied to iniquity.
Every conversation has a smell in the spirit. God is awakening our senses to be able to process it and depart from it; to be able to see beyond the veil of human face, which is the veil of legitimacies. Many things that look lawful and legitimate have something behind them. We should weigh the motive and intent behind every action and inaction. This would enable one see that many things are born out of a wrong motive.
The conversation that would be born out of an ability to judge all things is what will please the Father. Anything we do outside this ability to judge does not please God because He has raised our Lord Jesus. When we take any decision that is inferior or contrary to what Jesus would take, it would not be well pleasing to Him, even when it does not seem sinful. Death has a smell and a feeling. As we keep seeing these conversations that can be traced to the fall, we should always be repenting.
A time would come when God would be able to project the thoughts of the manchild company. The reason our thoughts cannot yet be projected is because certain works have not been done in us. When these works are complete, we will enter into rest.
If we know the expectation of God regarding us as individuals, we will live under the weight of the Spirit to be able to deny what we did not previously deny in the life of faith. The light of the Father that is available this season will help us to deny what we did not deny in previous seasons – self. Self can only be deprogrammed while looking unto Jesus (Heb. 12:2). Anything that we do outside looking unto Jesus with the eyes of the Spirit of the Lord cannot be well pleasing to the Father.
“Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. [19] And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: [20] he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God…” (Romans 4:18-20). That Abraham ‘considered not’ was an everlasting thought of giving glory to God. This means that the thoughts that ran through his mind at that point in time were glorious. This is a man who experienced the resurrection "from the dead" and was going to experience the resurrection "of the dead".
Abraham had his senses disabled so that the ability to use the Lord’s senses was awakened. Anything outside this would be to respond as Adam responded in unbelief. The seven churches also faced the hurdle of considering something else when they stopped paying attention to Jesus. Abraham’s body was no longer real to him, as his senses had been resurrected to relate with the invisible and anything done from this realm is well pleasing to God.
A promise of rest is being brought to us and how we respond is what will determine how unrest will be removed from us. When we respond well (by obedience) to the sayings of rest, then we can gather the works required for rest.
The church in Philadelphia had completed these works in a measure which is why a throne was set before them. The speakings of the throne are eternal things. For some of us, unbelief will show up but we should stand strong in the faith while we are looking unto Jesus, the Author and the Finisher of our faith (Heb. 12:2). This is not talking about charity. The end of the commandment of faith is charity but the end of faith is to lay hold on everlasting life, which is an inheritance (1 Tim. 1:5;1 Peter 1:9).
“Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us…” (Ephesians 3:20). This is God’s eternal power that will make us come to the Eternal One. God is generating a willingness in us that would see us respond to the uproars of hell the way the apostles did. That is why Satan has begun to live in fear because, for the first time, he is seeing that generation that will bring him down.
Blessings!
Transcript Summary
1. Unbelief has many shades. It can relate to an unbeliever, a believer, and even one who has become Christ. Anytime the devil speaks, the thoughts and images that proceed out of his mouth will culture unbelief if one fellowships with those things. However, there is an allocation of mercy for the things we do in unbelief when we are ignorant.
2. Unbelief is born when we do not respond to the speakings God is bringing our way. If Adam had responded to what God said, he would have been able to wrestle with the unbelief that made him fall. The moment we are not considering what the High Priest is saying, we are already considering something else. This means the moment we cannot allow what the High Priest is saying to disarm us of tendencies and potentials of flesh, we would consider something else.
3. Many things that look lawful and legitimate have something behind them. We should weigh the motive and intent behind every action and inaction. This would enable one to see that many things are born out of a wrong motive.
4. The conversation that would be born out of an ability to judge all things is what will please the Father. Anything we do outside this ability to judge does not please God because He has raised our Lord Jesus as an example (Heb. 12:2). When we take any decision that is inferior or contrary to what Jesus would take, it would not be well pleasing to God, even when it does not seem sinful.
5. If we know the expectation of God regarding us as individuals, we will live under the weight of the Spirit to be able to deny what we did not previously deny in the life of faith. The light of the Father that is available this season will help us to deny what we did not deny in previous seasons – self. Self can only be deprogrammed while looking unto Jesus (Heb. 12:2). Anything that we do outside looking unto Jesus with the eyes of the Spirit of the Lord cannot be well pleasing to the Father.
6. A promise of rest is being brought to us and how we respond is what will determine how unrest will be removed from us. When we respond well (by obedience) to the sayings of rest, then we will gather the works required for rest.