Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Believers' Convention 2022 (DAY 1 - Evening Session)
Date: Sunday, 7th August 2022
“Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth. [2] Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.” (Psa. 80:1-2). It is not all flocks that can be led by God, like He led Joseph. It is only the flock of the Lord that can be further led by God. A flock of God is he who has come under the leading of the Throne of God. As such, a person ought to have been the flock of Christ before he can be led by God. We are all flocks but we vary according to age.
Jesus instructed Peter thrice, saying — ‘feed My lambs’, ‘feed My sheep’, ‘feed My sheep’ (Jn. 21:15-17). This signifies that there are three stages of feeding. The first feeding is for babes in Christ. They are to be fed until they become sheep and are able to respond to the Lord. The requirement for graduation in being led is to be fed, for no one can be led except he is being fed. Some flocks will not easily yield to all the leadings of a lamb. But as they are being led, they are also being fed. A time will then come when God will convert those lambs to sheep and begin to feed them. This is because God does not lead lambs but sheep.
It is not everyone whom God can lead. Therefore, it takes time for God to feed a person. Before a person can come into the authority of being fed by the Throne of God, he must first be a qualified flock for the Throne. Feeding qualifies a person for leading. We need the Spirit of Christ first before we can be led by the Spirit of God.
There is a carnal man who has never been exposed to truth, but there is also a carnal man who refuses truth; such a person has refused the leading of the Spirit. One who refuses truth is the one being referred to in Romans 8:6-7 as being carnally minded and not subject to the law of God.
It takes time to have the Spirit of Christ and we acquire this Spirit by the leading of the Holy Spirit. A man who does not have the Spirit of Christ is none of Christ’s (Rom. 8:9). There are portions in the Holy Ghost: He has allocations for babes, children and then, the matured (those who have become perfect). As we mature in scriptures and grow in judgment, we would see things that look the same but are not all the same. This is because eyes (judgment) grows with age; it is one of the acid-tests for seeing scriptures. The more we walk with the Spirit of God, the more the Holy Ghost expresses His dimensions in us. The allocation of the Holy Ghost in us is according to our age (in the spirit). We did not receive all the Holy Ghost at the new birth. We received a dimension that our ages could accommodate because babies cannot be given strong wine.
The wine of the Holy Ghost at Pentecost is a wine of the new earth. The new birth is the birth of the new earth. The Holy Spirit will not leave us but He is supposed to grow in us. The Holy Ghost can be shed in bits and pieces; He does this because we do not have the capacity to receive all of Him. The Holy Ghost is the drink (or water) of the Godhead, while the Father and the Word are the Eternal meat of the Godhead, for they are both food. In eternity, the Holy Ghost serves His drink to the Godhead. Before the world was, God has been drinking out of the Holy Ghost.
“Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.” (Heb. 1:9). The gospel of salvation is also called the gospel of glad tidings; that gladness is everlasting. Joy means ‘day’ and when the day dawns, one becomes glad. God’s reason for making us glad is for us to go into the world of gladness. The oil of gladness is an eternal oil because the oil that will come upon an eternal man must be eternal. Gladness has two dimensions: the everlasting and eternal dimensions. They are all different joy states. After this, one moves to the right-hand side.
A person does not get to the right-hand side by the righteousness that is through reconciliation from iniquity (everlasting righteousness). Rather, it is a righteousness that is the property of majestic things. There is a righteousness to the Throne, which is ‘so great salvation’ (Heb. 2:3) but there is a righteousness which is the Throne itself.
“Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.” (Psa. 16:11). The word “Eden” means pleasure. The right hand that Jesus is seated on is the right hand of the Majesty on high and it is beyond everlasting. Our Lord Jesus is an Eternal King and we are gradually approaching the days of His kingdom. The evil day is about to be cut off (Eph. 6:13). The evil days will become good, but we need warriors who will war with the evil days. Satan hates these warriors.
When churches are not standing in the evil day, they will lose all that they have learnt from the milk of the word to the doctrine of Christ. The evil day is needed to establish the warriors in the day of God, who will lift up the flag of God’s agenda and bring it to the finish. They will do all the works of God and take out the evil day. Everyone whom God has called is a potential seed against the evil day, to stop the reign of the adversary. The end of the evil day is not characterized by a change of government. Rather, it is the day that man (in his heart) is no longer obeying iniquity. At this point, men will have no darkness at all and will be like God (1 John. 1:5).
“If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth…” (1 John 1:6). There is the truth of God that will take us to the Only True God (Eternal Life - Jn. 17:3). The truth in the above verse however refers to everlasting life. When God sows the seed of everlasting life in a man, He has sown the truth in him. Truth can be given to a person, but it may not remain. Truth has its perfect work when it brings us to a place where we do not sin and cannot sin. Truth takes away every strength that can cause us to still be tempted.
Truth is the inoculation against iniquity. The process of knowing the truth of God is the process of unlearning sin. Iniquity has blurred our minds such that we cannot discern sin. Sin does not want to be known. But once we begin to receive an accurate definition of it, fear will begin to dissipate. This is because truth is the injection of love. When truth does its perfect work, it will send fear away (1 John 4:18). This is because the messenger of sin is fear.
Fear paints a wrong perception to us. It raises the standard of sin to make people think sin cannot be defeated but we are in the season where we will partake in God’s meal and take strength, attitude, character, boldness and defiance from it. Boldness can be taken from God’s table; such are the things that accompany salvation. Then, our souls will be so altered that we will not remember iniquity anymore. When this remission has taken place, there is no more offering for sin (Heb. 10:26).
According to the Bible, there will be an end of sin, reconciliation of iniquity and the bringing in of everlasting righteousness. Then, the vision and prophecy will be sealed up, and the Most Holy will be anointed and moved into eternity (Dan. 9:24).
It was a wrong leading that killed mankind; therefore, it will take God’s leading for us to be made alive again. Leading cannot be separated from feeding; it graduates one to heights, such that we would be led above these heavens and into the world to come. We will be led into eternity. Sin is nothing; when it is demystified, we will see its true makeup. Sin came from a creature and there is no creature (nature) that is hidden from the face of God (Heb. 4:13).
Eternity can easily be understood if we go back to its origin. Eternity is the realm of the world before creation. Then, there was no world but three Beings (the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit). Creation has a limitation, so we have to come out of creation in our minds and see what was before. These Beings are the real heaven and earth. They are also the ones who are in the world to come. They are a fusion but creation gave them a reason to split themselves.
Everlasting righteousness is the stature that is permitted to eat the tree of life. Hidden manna is a corn of eternity (Rev. 2:17), therefore, the eternal dimension has corn plants. We will never find a land called eternity, either spiritually or in the natural. All these things are unseen. The world to come is the best place for showing and giving Eternal Life. When God is giving us the hidden manna, He does not go to pluck it from somewhere because the hidden manna is in Him. He is an earth that grows seeds. He is not a sower that plants physical seeds, for what He sows are words.
What makes the new earth and the new heavens to be eternity is not just their material makeup. Rather, it is the light that comes out of God that envelopes it; that light is so elastic that it can accommodate what God is showing of Himself. It can take God, even though God made it. When God moves, Eternal Life moves.
Eternal Life can be communicated as a seed, water, fruit, a name or any other variant or manner. When we receive them, then we have received spirits. We will not see the white stone with our physical eyes (Rev. 2:17). What God wants to give us are His things and He will transfer these things with breath. Therefore, we should expect breath. Satan passed things into us through breath, but God will give us the breath that will take away Satan’s things that we were given.
Blessings!
Summary
1. A flock of God is one who has come under the leading of the throne of God. We are all flocks, but we vary according to age.
2. God does not lead Lambs; He leads sheep. No one can be led except he is fed. The first level of feeding is for the babes in Christ; they are to be fed until they become sheep and are able to respond to the Lord. This will then bring them into sanctification so that they can be led by God.
3. As we are being led, we are being fed. Therefore, the requirement for graduation in being led is to be fed. It takes time for God to feed a person. Before you can come into the authority of being fed by the Throne of God, you must be a qualified flock. It is feeding that qualifies a man for leading.
4. There is a carnal man that has never been exposed to truth, but there is also a carnal man who refuses truth or has refused the leading of the Spirit. The one who refuses truth is the one being referred to in Romans 8:6-7 as being carnally minded and not subject to the law of God.
5. As we keep walking with the Spirit of God, the Holy Ghost expresses more of His dimensions in us. The allocations of the Holy Ghost in us is according to our age (in the spirit). This is why we did not receive all of the Holy Ghost at the New Birth; we were only given the measure which our statures could accommodate.
6. The gospel of salvation is also called the gospel of glad tiding. Gladness has two dimensions: the everlasting and Eternal dimensions. These are all different joy states. After these states have been accomplished in us, then we can move to the right hand side of God.
7. The evil day is about to be cut off (Eph. 6:13). The evil days will become good, but we need warriors who will war with the evil days. Satan hates these warriors.
8. When churches are not standing in the evil day, they will lose all that they have learnt from the milk of the word to the doctrine of Christ. The evil day is needed to establish the warriors in the day of God, who will lift up the flag of God’s agenda and bring it to the finish.
9. There is the truth of God that will take us to the Only True God (Eternal Life - John 17:3). When God sows the seed of everlasting life in a man, He has sown the truth in him. Truth has its perfect work when it brings us to a place where we do not sin and cannot sin.
10. Truth is the inoculation against iniquity. The process of knowing the truth of God is the process of unlearning sin. Iniquity has blurred our minds such that we cannot discern sin. But once we begin to receive an accurate definition of it, fear will begin to dissipate. This is because the messenger of sin is fear.
11. Fear paints a wrong perception to us. It raises the standard of sin to make people think sin cannot be defeated; but we are in the season where we will partake in God’s meal and take strength, attitude, character, boldness and defiance from it.
12. It was a wrong leading that killed mankind; therefore, it will take God’s leading for us to be made alive again. Leading cannot be separated from feeding; it graduates one to heights, such that we would be led above these heavens and into the world to come.
Amarachi Ekeocha - 1 year ago