Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Writing the Vision (October)
Date: Saturday, 15th October 2022
We need to be built up in order to relate with the realm of high love that is coming to us this season. We are in a realm where God expects us to love people unconditionally despite their shortcomings and imperfections.
There is a higher concentration of conversation in our midst, one which is borne from thoughts of redemption. Many things, including social media, have fathered us in the days of our flesh and a vain conversation was thus handed down to us. But now, the Father of all spirits intends to father us (Heb. 12:9). In relating with the Father, Jesus had to be a spirit. An accruing of judgement precedes the birth process of becoming a spirit. When a soul takes upon itself the properties of a stone and takes his place in Zion, the Judge of all (God) would come with judgement for that soul. The Lord wants to enlarge our capacity to receive judgement. There are different levels of love quotients in Christ, in the Father and God; we ought to experience all these in the days of our flesh.
“And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? [26] He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? [27] And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.” (Luke 10:25-27) From the era of the Old Testament, there has been a campaign for love, just like there are campaigns for various candidates in a political election season. Through Luke 10:25-27, we should sincerely examine ourselves on how naturally we can love our neighbours as ourselves, other than taking the verses only at a surface value. In the New Testament, our neighbours are our brothers. This order of brotherhood stems from the beginning and is seen in the book of Genesis before Cain killed Abel, while sin was lurking at Cain’s door (Gen. 4:7-9). In order to be taught of God to love our brothers (1 Thess. 4:9), we must keep the precepts in the learning of Christ.
“But ye have not so learned Christ; [21] If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus…” (Eph. 4:20-21). This tutelage is experiential. Loving our neighbour means loving our brother. The Lord is emphasising that such is not yet natural to us. The Lord expects us to love our brothers the way we love ourselves. We do not think twice to do good to ourselves, but we reconsider before doing good to our brothers. The Lord Jesus and His disciples fulfilled these commandments. He wants us to do the same by the doctrine of faith, hope and charity (1 Cor. 13:13).
The Lord intends to make loving our brothers natural to us, as it is when we do things for ourselves. We do not struggle to meet our personal needs but we may not be able to meet the needs of others without giving it a thought. When we see the need of our brother, it is a revelation and an opportunity to keep a commandment. Sometimes, we identify people’s needs, but because the script of the resurrection of the dead is not running freely in us, we shut the bowels of our compassion (1 John 3:17). We must be helped and shown mercy in order to meet the demands of love.
Despite the high revelations pertaining to everlasting life, some still struggle to desire good for their brother instead of themselves. This is how we carry our cross daily; our brother is our cross (Luke 9:23). Through this, heaven expects us to build the capacity to desire and love the Father. We must endeavour to win the warfare which Cain did not win although he was a priest — he got to an estate where he could offer (Gen. 4:3). We also would be raised a priest to attain this height. A priest is one who does not do servile work but does all for the course of the Kingdom. These are opportunities for us to be skillful in preferring others and seeking first the things of others (Phil. 2:4).
Despite its present emphasis, we cannot keep the commandments of everlasting life when we still struggle with the commandments of charity. The least amongst us ought to be a charity man, i.e., one who has heard the sounds and instructions of charity and has kept them. He is one who has used the mirror of the water of faith. The Lord requires that we come before the water of the word to behold Christ (Eph. 5:26) and thereby, deal with our inconsistencies with its law until we are grown to handle the demands of the word of God.
Like women examine themselves frequently with a mirror, so also should we be in a constant examination of ourselves by the word. In doing so, areas where we come short of His conversations are revealed and we inherit the image of the New Man before us.
We should be like the certain good Samaritan (Luke 10:30-34). The conversations he carried out exemplify how we should relate with our brothers. Just as the priests and Levites despised that man, so also we look down on brethren amidst us. Our neighbours and brothers are those close to us, those whom we know their weaknesses and can see their conversations — the Lord expects that we relate with them using specific commandments.
“But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him…” (Luke 10:33). The Samaritan truncated his journey to help the man. He did this because he had a virtue that others did not possess — compassion. Some have gotten to a point where their bowels of compassion are shut whenever they see their brothers in need – it is becoming natural to them not to show compassion. The Lord wants us to clean our slates of such so that we can receive a higher commandment.
The knowledge of everlasting life has been coming our way but the Lord has not measured out the commandments yet. This is because we have not understood it or profited with the understanding of Christ that has already come our way. When we eventually do, the bowels of our compassion will be enlarged (1 Jn. 3:17). Whenever we keep faith with these commandments, we will bear some suffering. However, our brothers must be preferred, and in so doing, we go against many principles that run the natural man.
Milk faith helps one to take his eyes off his natural source. Such one knows how to use faith to get their accounts reimbursed and harness the grace for supernatural living. They have built capacity while exercising milk faith around the needs of the saints.
Conversation is a fruit. Jesus cursed a tree because it did not bear a particular fruit in the season it was supposed to. It was not bearing fruit in a season where godliness was meant to be born. That tree was a fig tree – a faith tree which is supposed to bring forth 30, 60 and 100 fold. In Galatians 5:22, we see the fruit of the Spirit— the fruit of a soul which bears the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus (Rom. 8:2). This is the man that the incorruptible seed will be given. He is the same man who will be brought into another season where he begins another order of service.
To serve is to love the Lord with all our strength and might (Lk. 10: 27). In order to serve the Lord, we must have served with the light of Christ. We grow from service unto service. Our relationship with our brother is also a service but it can not be carried out without a law. There is a kind of servant who has been freed of a class of fear and can serve the Lord by virtue of how much their souls have prospered with the sayings of the Lord.
The sayings of the Lord are to make us free from fear; His sayings will expire the fears in our hearts as we continue the course of preferring our brother (Phil. 2:4). Jesus cursed the tree because it was holding back as opposed to bringing forth (Matt. 21:19). The Pharisees and Sadducees are a false kind of tree without fruit (Matt. 3:7-10). It is a thing of dishonour not to bear fruit or conversation of life in this season. To walk unto all well-pleasing is to take the needs of our brothers personally; this would build capacity in us and make us able to receive another seed (of everlasting life).
“For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.” (Mark 11:23). There are mountains (limitations) against our conversations that we ought to wrestle out. Sin and death is wrestled out in our conversation with our brothers. We should use the light of Christ to discern our brothers and relate with them as Christ. Satan magnifies their infirmities to us as a veil and this hinders us from relating with our brethren as we ought, thus, redefining our conversation with our brothers.
Lust is a negative desire fetched from the world (Eph. 2:3). God wants to fuel a desire of love in us because we have grown familiar with loving our brothers. We are not as passionate as we ought to, just like the tree that was not yielding fruit. There are conversations which are not bringing forth fruit yet which we ought to repent of.
Blessings!
Summary
1. We need to be built up in order to relate with the realm of high love that is coming to us this season. We are in a realm where God expects us to love people unconditionally despite their shortcomings and imperfections.
2. Many things have fathered us in the days of our flesh, including social media; through which a vain conversation was handed down to us. However, the Father of all spirits also intends to father us (Heb. 12:9). This is so that we can be made a spirit, like Jesus.
3. There are different levels of love in Christ, in the Father and God. We ought to experience all these in the days of our flesh.
4. The order from the beginning is that of brotherhood; then man fell. It took the New Testament to restore that order. In seasons to come, many would be taught of God how to love their brothers (1 Thess. 4:9).
5. The Lord expects us to love our brothers the way we love ourselves. When we see the need of our brother, it is a revelation and an opportunity to keep a commandment and not shut the bowels of our compassion.
6. Our brother is our cross. We carry our cross daily by desiring good for our brothers instead of ourselves. This is how we build the capacity to desire and love the Father.
7. Cain got to a place where he could offer as a priest, but he could not win this warfare of preferring his brother. We will also be raised as priests to meet this height. It is an opportunity to become skillful in preferring others and seeking first the things of others.
8. To serve with all our strength and might is to love God. Before we serve the Lord, we must have served with the light of Christ. We grow from service unto service (Luke 10: 27).
9. The Lord expects that we come before the water of the word, see Christ and deal with our inconsistency in Christ. By constant examination of ourselves with the word, we embody the image of the new man before us. Then we can use the mirror of the demands of the word of God (Eph. 5:26).
10. Our neighbours and brothers are those close to us, whose weaknesses we know. The Lord expects that we relate with them using particular commandments. The Samaritan truncated his journey to help his neighbour. He did this because he had a virtue that the others did not have — compassion (Luke 10:33).
11. As we profit with the understanding of Christ, the bowels of our compassion will be enlarged. This is how They can measure out commandments of everlasting life to us. When we keep faith with that commandment, something else suffers but we prefer our brothers, thereby going against many principles that run the natural man.
12. Sin and death are wrestled out through our conversation with our brothers. We should use the light of Christ to discern our brothers and relate with them as Christ. Satan magnifies their infirmities to us as a veil to hinder us from relating with our brethren as we ought.
13. If the world fetches lust, which is a negative desire, God wants to fuel a desire for love in us. We must get things right with our brothers so that we can relate with the conversation of the Father. We should repent with the light coming to us and bring forth fruits worthy of repentance (Matt. 3:8).