Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Believers' Convention 2022 (Day 5 - Morning Session)
Date: Thursday, 11th August 2022
Speaker 2: Pastor Emeka Egwuchukwu
When the theme “Who is like God?” is placed before us, everything we have ever known seems to shut down. We have profited with the knowledge of Christ but the knowledge of God is beyond our capacity. We thank God for the seven spirits of the Lord (Isa. 11:2); these spirits teach as faculties of the holy place. What enables us to eat the shewbread is the Menorah because the inheritance of the saints is in light (Col.1:12). The shewbread is an inheritance which we should partake of in the holy place and the menorah shines the light that brings us into the inheritance.
The Christ of God is alien to our way of thinking. The Israelites did not receive Jesus because they did not discern Him. The true concept of the Messiah was higher than what they could comprehend. It took the Menorah to unveil God, to make us come into partaking of the inheritance that is in Christ. If it took the seven spirits of the Lord to do this, by the time we begin to come to the things of God, it would have to take the seven spirits before the throne to do the unveiling of the things of God, because the things of God are majestic things; they are things that we cannot comprehend.
They had to bring an angel to signify the things of God in the book of Revelation, because if the things of God are brought directly to us, we might not be able to comprehend it. Jesus, also speaking to Nicodemus (Jn. 3:12), mentioned that he could not comprehend earthly things; these earthly things are things of Christ. How can we then comprehend the substances of God which are high and deep?
Every concept of God that man has ever had is attributed to what He has done, but the things which He created are too low to explain Him; you cannot justify God by what He does, you justify Him by who He is.
“No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him” (John 1:18) “Seeing” in the scripture above is not referring to physical sight. The seeing is more than just seeing Him in a vision; it is about hacking into His substance, knowing who He is. There is a way the Son knows the Father. (Matt. 11:27). The ‘knowing’ here is ‘to see’. The Son, Christ, opens us to the realm of sonship. The Son that He was talking about that no man knoweth is not Christ; it is the Son of God which Peter needed revelation from the Father to know, because only the Father knows the Son.
The way Peter got the revelation and the way John the Baptist knew him are different. For Peter, the revelation dawned on him, not because he understood it (Matt. 16:22). As we grow into Christ, that is not the end of our journey. We are supposed to shoot further to abide. John could discern Him by stature (Matt. 11:11). To discern the Son of God to the measure that John discerned him, he needed stature. It would take a prophet of the highest to discern the Son of the highest or to discern Him in His true sonship, which the Father knows (Lk. 1:76). John would not have been sent to baptize Him if he did not have the stature to discern Him.
The discernment of John was still limited (Jn. 1:26). To talk about the Son, it would take the Father – the operation of the seven spirits before the throne – to fully explain the Son. Everything that God has done, He did it in the Son. There is something in the Son (1 Jn. 5:11) In the Son is a record, because there are three that bear record – the Father, Word and Spirit (1 Jn. 5:7). Record here is talking about them in their highest state. When you hack into that record, you have just hacked into who God is.
Record is a scroll. It is a scrolled life. It is a life that you cannot just see, a life that you cannot just hack into; it is rolled. The Son in 1 John. 5:7 is called the Word. That record is what they call God. So, if they remove this record and put it in man, then we would have God in man. If they can find a way to take that record and insert it into man’s frame (not just the body, but the whole being), then you also would bear the record. There are three that bear record in heaven and there are three that bear witness on earth. ‘Three bear records’ is talking about their eternal state; ‘three bear witness’ speaks of their everlasting state.
“But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.” (John 4:14) The well here is springing up into everlasting. That water would spring you up into everlasting. There are three that bear witness – the spirit, the water and the blood (1 Jn. 5:8). To bear witness here on earth is to explain what is in the record, because they do not have any technology to insert that record into any man, no man can take the record. So they had to devise a means of doing that – they had to bring it to witness.
It is one thing to escape, it is another thing to overcome (1 Jn. 5:5). What we did in Christ is to escape the corruption that is in the world: the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and pride of life; but they are things that are in the world, the world itself is still there. When you overcome the things that are in the world, there is still the world to be overcome. One of the things that God is doing is for a generation to rise that would overcome this world.
The faith in Hebrews 11 is the victory that overcomes the world; it is everlasting faith–the most holy faith, it is not the faith of Christ. The faith which they held on to, which they profess was in the realm of the everlasting. In 2 Cor. 4:18, the faith here is faith unto Eternal life and an ordinary man cannot have this faith. The things of Christ are seen, but the things Eternal are things invisible (2 Cor. 4:18). Not every unseen thing is eternal. “Seeing” here is spiritual comprehension. The seeing is to see that which is eternal.
The men in Hebrews 11:2 are elders. A person is not an elder if he is not everlasting. John’s epistles were epistles to everlasting men, to everlasting churches. John was an elder. One cannot remove John in the understanding of things everlasting and Eternal. What made John an elder were things he heard and saw (1 Jn. 1:1). He was an elder writing to other elders that just got into eldership. There was something he was holding that made him an elder. There was something the elders had that enabled them to obtain a good report (Heb. 11:2). To obtain a good report means to be good (Matt. 10:16).
“But without faith it is impossible to please him : for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” (Heb. 11:6) To come to Him means that he that is doing everlasting works must believe that God is and that He is a rewarder. “He is” means He is living - Living God; the reward is the Eternal God. When one is coming to God, such a person has to believe that He is the living God. God has to show us that living God.
The reward is Eternal Life, that is the scroll; that is the record that He has in Himself, and there are three that have this record and They are one (1 John 5:7). What makes Them one is that record. What would make us one as They are one is that we would have that record; and for us to have that record, we have to come to the witness.
“Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? [6] This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.” (1 John. 5: 5-6) “Believing” in verse 5 means to know. When John came, he came to bear witness to a record. The things that bear witness which are the water and blood are things that he came with (1 Jn. 5:8). Those things are properties of everlasting life.
There is no technology by which they would transfer the record They hold into man, it is impossible. They have to convert it to a witness and that witness is in His Son (1 John 5:11). One cannot have the life without the Son. One cannot have Him without having the Son (1 Jn. 5:12). He has to come to us first of all as a witness.
To have a wholesome witness, the Three (The Spirit, The Water and the Blood) have to come together (1 Jn. 5:8). These witnesses are in various degrees. The witness of God is greater than the witness of man. The witness of God is everlasting life, the witness of men is that of Christ.
“He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.” (1 John 5:10) Believing “on” here is different from believing “in.” Believing on here is believing that is borne out of understanding. When that understanding is given to a man, that man is also a witness. Being a witness is higher than being a minister. For one to be a witness, one needs to have water, blood and Spirit. In order to bring record, God has to make a witness first. Making it a witness is the means of bringing to the point where the man, Christ, can assimilate it, understand it and take it. There is something in the Son which has to be seen, which has to be understood, but it has to be preached out.
“And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.” (John 12:32 ) To lift Him up is to preach Him to that record. The record that God has given us is Eternal life. To come to Eternal life, you have to preach Him to the end. To preach God is not easy, it takes time, not because God does not want to give us Himself, or He just wants to hide but because God is a mystery.
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John…” (Revelations 1:1) This revelation of Jesus Christ is the revelation of God, which God gave to Jesus. Creation does not have this revelation, nobody has it but God gave it to His Son. Being given to the Son means being given to man. Jesus stands for us as the first man to receive God.
Man has God – a Man (Christ Jesus) has God and that Man that has God is sited on the throne. A man is seated on the throne. It is a guarantee, a surety, an insurance for us that man can actually get there. They were able to give this record to a Man, that Man received it and it made Him better than angels. That thing (record) is so high that He could not give it directly to men like us; He had to raise men like John who also gave it to other elders.
Blessings!
Summary:
1. The shewbread is an inheritance which we should partake of in the Holy Place and the Menorah shines the light that brings us into this inheritance.
2. To come into the things of God, we need the activities of the seven spirits before the throne (Rev. 4:5) because the things of God are majestic; they are things that a man cannot ordinarily comprehend.
3. God cannot be justified by what He does; He can only be justified by who He is.
4. To discern the Son of God to the measure that John discerned him (Matt. 11:11), one needs stature. It will take a prophet of the highest (Luke 1:76) to discern the Son of the highest in His true sonship.
5. There is a record in the Son (1 John 5:11) which refers to the Godhead in their highest state. One who is able to access this record has discovered God in His true essence.
6. There are three that bear witness – the spirit, the water and the blood (1 John 5:8). To bear witness on earth is to explain what is in the record because no man can of himself receive that record.
7. Christ enables one to overcome the things that are in the world: the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and pride of life (1 John 2:15), but we still need to overcome the world itself (1 John 5:4).
8. What makes the Godhead one is the record (1 John 5:7). Therefore, what would make us one as They are one is the record, but for us to have that record, we have to come to the Witness.
9. For the record to be given to a man, it has to be converted into a witness and that witness is in the Son (1 John 5:11). Thus, one cannot have the life (record) without the Son coming to such a person as a Witness.
10. The essence of making a witness is to bring the record to the point where one who has become Christ can assimilate, understand and receive it. However, this can only be achieved through the preaching of the Son.
11. The record that God has given us is Eternal Life and we can only receive this record by preaching. To preach God is not easy because God is a mystery.
12. A Man (Christ Jesus) has God and He is seated on the throne; He received this record and it made Him better than the angels (Heb. 1:4). This is a guarantee that we can also receive this record and sit on the throne, as the Man Christ Jesus did (1 Tim. 2:5).