Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Lekki Soul Center (LSC)
Date: Wednesday, July 20th 2022
The material for building the house of God is the voice of the Son (Heb. 3:7). At some seasons, heaven doesn’t expect a believer who hasn’t had the foundation called Christ to hear the voice of the Son.
The believers were called holy brethren because they had been faithful with what the Lord had previously committed (Heb 3:2). They were holy brethren because they had kept faith with something that gave them a foundation. God had brought another season where he was building on a foundation. As beautiful as the conversations of charity are (1 Cor 13:4-8), God can’t dwell there because it’s just a foundation (2 Tim 2:19). God comes with judgement to build on His foundation, and we are in that season where God wants to build us to become a house for Him.
Heb. 3 referred to the character of Moses. Moses was called a house, he was a builder. Moses built the tabernacle and it took a lot to have the stature to do that. That was the stature that the testament could offer. It takes a lot to be able to download the blueprint of heaven for a generation and more importantly to have the compassion to administer that testament. One of the hallmarks of the foundation of faith is the compassion because Christ has his own compassion (Rom. 9:15).
Jesus expects that when He comes, He will find faith on the earth, such faith which is the foundation of God – the foundation He can stand on and be built upon (Luke 18:18). God wants to give the kingdom to as many that have been faithful with the little that has been previously committed to them (Luke 19:15). When a season comes upon the church (a season where and when people have been faithful with little), as it has come upon us, the Lord will come with more.
According to Romans 4:1, Father Abraham trapped two kinds of life in a shadow. In verse 17 and 18 of that chapter, we see an activity of most holy faith. There was a faith with which he began that journey and there is a most holy faith God was calling him to when He told him to walk before Him and be perfect (Gen. 17:1). Abraham was strong in faith and not wavering, giving glory (Rom. 4:20). There is a faith that brings praise when we are faithful with little. It isn’t everyone that has been faithful with little, but the Lord is still trying to strengthen our feet in the spirit to perfect the walk of charity.
“He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God…” (Rom. 4:20). What he brought to the flesh was what enabled him to partake of the promise of a land as an inheritance. This promise was fulfilled when he became a house – a building for God. He brought two measures of life in a shadow.
“His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.” (Matt 25:21). The servant here had done well with Christ. Hence, he could now be given something else to do well with the Father. The king in Luke 19:17 said he had given the good servant authority over ten cities. This is the realm of abundance – the realm of everlasting life which is being laid bare for us. That is the realm where the Hebrew church got to. If a believer is able to hear and understand the voice of the Son, it is an indication in the spirit that he has been faithful with little – he has that foundation called Christ. Christ has been laid in such a man. He has wrestled and has come to the state where Paul said in Ephesians 6:13 “…having done all to stand”. You stand by charity, then God will kit that Christ formation with the whole armour of God because warfare is about to change; service is about to be upgraded.
God wants to raise servants who have used the righteousness of faith that is in Christ to become the actual servants of God, as we have seen in the seven churches in Revelation chapter 2&3. All the armour of God are all knowledge (Eph. 6:13). They will all be equipped on a believer by revelation. If the seven churches were reproved for coming short of something, it means there was a revelation that they came short of. They came short of a revelation that was higher than that which raised them to be a foundation of God.
(Luke 19:16-17) The servant that feared was meant to use the talents given to him as a currency of faith to go against his fears. He was meant to use that commandment to go against a nature. Our Lord Jesus Christ called him a wicked servant because he kept a life. He wasn’t ignorant of the life he kept. He loved something else – he spared himself of a death that he was meant to embrace.
“Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury. Take therefore the talent from him and give it unto him which hath ten talents.” (Matt 25: 27-28). This person ended up not having, because of vanity. He was meant to use the talent given to him to wrestle with an aspect of vanity and experience an escape from the corruption that works through lust. There was already a wrong building in place, and the light of charity is to crumble a worldly formation; the worldly building is an aspect of corruption.
Our journey has been calibrated in seasons. In some seasons, heaven expects some fruits. A season will come where, if we cannot bear fruits according to God’s words and some things are not found in our flesh as expected, our Lord Jesus can take away the light that's meant to be our light (Rev. 2:5). There is a kind of sin within most Christ companies – the sin of wanting to rest when we have not yet been built to be a sure house (1 King 11:38).
“And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies; [2] That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains. [3] And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart; for the LORD is with thee.” (2 Sam. 7:1-3). The king was speaking from the abundance of his heart. This heart-cry triggered an alarm in the spirit. This is one of the reasons why God called David a man after His heart because God's heart is seeking a resting place, just like the ark was looking for a resting place.
“Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.” (2 Sam. 7:6). This means that all the while, God had a need and no man knew about it. The man that ended up knowing about that need was a man that did so by virtue of the abundance of the rest God had wrought in him. If not that he had the kind of heart that God is looking for in our midst, he would have missed it. He was able to locate a need God had.
“Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel…” (2 Sam 7:8). David was where he was faithful in little. To be made a ruler is for our sphere of influence in the spirit to be enlarged. The summary of what is happening in this season is how they want to give a company an abundant entrance into the everlasting kingdom, and how they want to spare us the pain of knowing we came short of an entrance. David was faithful with little and God gave him more. He did not seek his own things. This is a trial for those to whom God will open the season of reward. It takes a lot to handle abundance, especially abundance of light. God tries to teach us to handle abundance from milk days. This is to train the soul how to handle the light; to empty ourselves and give room for faith.
Being a faithful steward of time comes after a man has been able to steward his carnal substances faithfully. It is regulated by a higher commandment which will also help address shortcomings in previous seasons when the man was serving the Lord with carnal substances. The essence of the everlasting judgement coming our way is for us to be able to think God only. One of the hallmarks of a soul that is obeying the commandments of everlasting life is that Christ is perfected in him. When a soul perfects Christ, he is brought into the abundance, and that soul is raised as a house. His obedience will also commit the Lord to his 3rd and 4th generation as was done in Abraham, Job, and our days.
“For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.” (Heb. 3:4). Moses did not build with all things. If you don't build a soul with all things, you have not built that soul and God cannot inhabit that soul. We have an honour that Old Testament saints do not have – we can bring into our flesh the actual thing that was designed to be found in the flesh. The things that were not displaced from the flesh of the patriarchs in the days of their flesh is what heaven is waiting for to be displaced in our flesh. There is a pleasure They (the Godhead) did not receive from them. Our manner of life ought to make up the Hebrews 11 of the New Testament. This manner of life is what witnesses are waiting for. It takes a lot to use abundance of light to grow smaller (humility) because this is the purpose of light.
The Lord is raising a company of men who will be able to faithfully handle abundance. It takes a lot to handle abundance: abundance of truth or abundance of revelation. It takes a lot to use an abundance of light to grow smaller, but this is the purpose of light. One of the greatest uses of revelation is to grow in humility. It allows the crumbling of a nature that limits the raising of His house in the souls of men.
There is a greater commitment to commandments that many souls are yet to have. Sin in this season is different from a natural man’s definition of sin. Sin is the love of a life, the vaunting of oneself, the response to aggravating situations with the mind of being somebody (better than the other), instead of a response from a place of being nothing (2 Cor 5:14). But our judgements are being upgraded by holy speakings.
“Now the just shall live by faith: But if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.” (Heb. 10:38). Here, God was looking for a pleasure from the Hebrew church that was higher than that pleasure that made them "holy brethren" (Heb. 3:1). This pleasure is one that comes when their conversations have become blameless; when fallen angels or angels that kept their estate and are faithful would not be able to fault their conversations, because they are conversations of the world to come.
A holy brethren is one who has secured the holiness in Christ by having and keeping Christ’s commandments. God saw in the Hebrew church and the seven churches in the book of revelation how He can be robbed of a pleasure, when they are not faithful with the judgements of everlasting righteousness being brought their way. And this pleasure is what would make a Christ company become God's beloved. It was what raised Jesus the Christ to become the Son of the living God (Matt. 12:18).
A man of God shall not strive but be thoroughly furnished (2 Tim. 3:17). Timothy was a man of God because of how faith had become a now-life for him, even from his ancestors. He was a man that had the formation of Christ. Christ is built with glory. The thoughts that are coming our way are glorious thoughts and that is why they are volatile and heavy. They are meant to adorn us so that we would have the conversation of a meek and quiet spirit which is of great price in the sight of God (1 Pet. 3:4).
(Jam. 3:14). God is bringing glories to sons that have profited from the sanctuary and are being made citizens of the Most Holy. We must be able to resolve every thought and see them in their bare form because if a wrong thought should land on our hearts, it would bring defilement. Some thoughts should not last a second in our minds. What brings about these wrong thoughts is because, unlike David, our hearts were not on a pilgrimage with many of the truths we have heard. We are not as busy as David was, yet he meditated on the word of God all day long, including while administering his duties as a king.
The safety for a wrong thought not to land is to engage our minds rightly. When our minds are engaged rightly, there would be no space for vain thoughts. Like the ruminant animals, we would be able to take all the revelations that are coming our way in and out and meditate on them until they become an understanding. We can be engaged with a wrong wisdom rather than the wisdom of meekness that will enable us to bring forth that conversation that is of a great price in the sight of God (Jam. 3:14-17). At every hour of the day in this season, we are either generating pleasure to or withholding pleasure from the Father. We are either in heaven or on earth.
The reason for giving meat and strong meat is to enable us journey to that pedestal in the spirit where our Lord Jesus journeyed to. We are journeying to a place where everything we do will generate pleasure to God; even our jokes would be blameless. Some are unholy because there is no consciousness of pleasing the Father. Until knowledge becomes a law, giving pleasure would not be our natural phenomenon.
What enabled David to commit himself to God in the manner he did was that he had, with a clean heart, been faithful with little from being a shepherd boy, before he was made a ruler. When he had the shortcoming with Bathsheba, he cried earnestly to God for renewal and restoration.
The free spirit David cried for is the spirit to relate with presence (Ps. 51:10-12). The knowledge coming our way becomes a law (has been embodied by us) when we have kept the commandment of the path, and the life of the commandment has found its way into our soul. We would then be able to freely respond to the demands of pleasure that are coming from heaven. And in such a season, we can say that a soul has been raised to become a house. Such a soul has been decked with the judgments of glory so he can now respond to the God of glory.
“If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.” (John 7:17). Doctrine had captured Jesus’ will. The doctrine of the Father and the Son that is coming to us these days is going after our will. Doctrine is will; the doctrine of the Son and the Father is the will of the Father and it can become our will.
Our Lord Jesus could have been careless with the nudging to go minister to the woman at the well. The quick obedience required was a life and death issue. But He had been made of a quick understanding, so He could quickly respond irrespective of what His body was telling Him; this is how the Lord would have us be in this season. Many of the things that cause us to come short of pleasing the Father well come from the dictates of our bodies. But when we go against those dictates in faith and in wisdom, we are going to bring some pleasure to the Father. There are some responses that will come when we are pressed to some measures like Paul. That is the best moment to respond in obedience and to please the Father.
Blessings!
Summary
1- The material for building the house of God is the voice of the Son (Heb. 3:7). . If a believer is able to hear and understand the voice of the Son, it is an indication in the spirit that he has been faithful with little – he has that foundation called Christ.
2- As beautiful as the conversations of charity are (1 Cor 13:4-8), God can’t dwell there because it’s just a foundation (2 Tim 2:19). God comes with judgement to build on His foundation, and we are in that season where God wants to build us to become a house for Him.
3- God wants to raise servants who have used the righteousness of faith that is in Christ to become the actual servants of God, as we have seen in the seven churches in Revelation chapter 2&3.
4- There is a kind of sin within most Christ companies – the sin of wanting to rest when we have not yet been built to be a sure house (1 King 11:38). David was faithful with little and God gave him more. He did not seek his own things. This is a trial for those to whom God will open the season of reward.
5- One of the hallmarks of a soul that is obeying the commandments of everlasting life is that Christ is perfected in him. When a soul perfects Christ, he is brought into the abundance, and that soul is raised as a house.
6- The realm of abundance is the realm of everlasting life which is being laid bare for us. It takes a lot to handle abundance, especially abundance of light. One of the greatest uses of revelation is to grow in humility. It allows the crumbling of a nature that limits the raising of His house in the souls of men.
7- The reason for giving meat and strong meat is to enable us journey to that pedestal in the spirit where our Lord Jesus journeyed to, where everything we do will generate pleasure to God. Until knowledge becomes a law, giving pleasure would not be our natural phenomenon.
8- Many of the things that cause us to come short of pleasing the Father well come from the dictates of our bodies. But when we go against those dictates in faith and in wisdom, we are going to bring some pleasure to the Father.