Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Believers' Convention 2022 (Day 7 Morning Session)
Date: Saturday, 13th August 2022
Topic: Becoming a Lamb by continuing in the covenant
Although it may not look sinful, the greatest threat that the enemy is using against the Church today is the natural ambition of a man. Every motivation of flesh is grass and that is the glory of man. To us, this is the only thing that makes us relevant in life. To us, the concept of ministry is one that concerns the external. The labour placed upon every man by Satan is to produce flowers, which is the glory of the grass (1 Pet. 1:24). The expression of the grass nature is flower.
We are now being confronted with the gospel that defies the natural disposition of grass. The natural disposition of man is to produce flowers, but this disposition has been upgraded to the transformation of nature. One of the things that God is giving to us through this excellent ministry is to use the skill of the word of righteousness to discern which life is proceeding out of us. Without that, there will be a counterfeit/carnal interpretation of who Christ is because one has not received the skill to divide between life expressions.
Life is more dynamic than nature. We can retain the same nature and have different lives and that is what this gospel has brought to us. Life has forms, even the life of grass has forms. The life in the root is still the life of the grass; the life in the shoot is still the life of grass; the life in the leaves is still the life of grass; the life in the bud is still the life of grass and even the life of the flower is a life of grass.
In the same manner, the disposition of a stone is to bring its own life. A stone seems lifeless and the desire of God is that we become lifeless so that the only life we would have is that which God makes in us. To judge that we have actually transformed into that life, we have to check if we are living like stones.
The motivation of grass is to produce flowers and man generally feels that this is the chief purpose of his life. This is the same nature we bring into ministry – we feel the need to do something. We ought to see the way Satan is creeping (and working), despite the way this gospel is coming, because the motivation of bread has not fully been dealt with in us. Before the fall of man, the major preoccupation that God gave Adam was to tend to the internal flower that is inside of him.
We think that if we are able to train ourselves in school and get a good job that our flower has blossomed and this is the thing that the gospel is trying to deal with. This gospel can slip away if we do not hold on (Heb. 2:1) to what we have been given.
There was a fault with the first covenant and we need to identify this fault (Heb. 8:6). For us to be able to escape this fault, we have to identify the fault. The fault was that the people did not continue (Heb. 8:9). They accepted, received, loved and followed God, but there was no continuity. The fault with the old covenant was the inability to continue.
Many of us have started, but can we continue to the end? The power of the gospel is for this generation to continue beyond what those under the dispensation of the old covenant could not. There is a spirit that is being given to us through the gospel which is to equip us for continuity. One who rejects this gospel is rejecting that power that would enable him to will and to do according to His good pleasure (Philipp. 2:13).
We should not joke with what we have received, for it is greater than any flower that would come out of any vocation. We should consider the High Priest of our profession (Heb. 3:1) and this is the highest profession that God has given us. We would all be asked the question, “who is like God?” and the question will be answered by our works and not our lips.
The whole essence of the High Priest is to teach us how He did the work. The Mediator did this work and He sat on the throne to answer this question and He has now left us His footprint, which is the beautiful feet (Is. 52:7). We cannot behold until there is a preacher who teaches and reveals the feet. Until the feet are revealed, we can not see how He journeyed and sat on the throne. The biggest preoccupation of human beings is to study the feet and labour so that we would be seated.
May our eyes will be opened to see these beautiful feet. These beautiful feet are lambish feet, not sheepish feet. There are sheep feet and lamb feet. All Christians are sheep, but we have been defiled. As such, we need another working that would make us become lambs.
A sheep is a believer who is still looking for flowers. However, the desire of God is that we become undefiled lambs.
Blessings!