Being Born Back to the Beginning (SOS)

Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)

 

Programme: School of the Spirit (SOS)

 

Date: Thursday, 1st September 2022

 

 

The beginning spoken of in the interpretation of tongues does not refer to the beginning of creation, but the beginning that is in the Lord Jesus. This beginning does not speak of how the Godhead began, but how They began things. We cannot truly understand the true spiritual meaning of ‘the beginning’ if we go by the English dictionary meaning of the word. 'Beginning' speaks both of a doctrine and a power that is with the Godhead; the ability to make something to begin.

There are processes to the beginning. Nothing actually begins without the Godhead. John 1:9 says, “That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world”. From a priestly angle, life begins when He that is the Beginning lights a man. The life of a foetus does not begin when the body is formed as science suggests, because the spirit already existed before the body is formed. Life starts with the spirit. The spirit of a child may not necessarily exist somewhere in heaven before he is released to earth. The only room for the prior existence of the spirit is in God.

There is a dwelling place in God (Acts 17:28; Psa. 90:1-2). A fallen man counts life from the biological sense, but that is not how God sees life. God sees life form at the time He lights the man. He is the light that lights the path of every man (John 1:9). Every one of us has paths in us, which is commonly called destiny. God is the light that ordains destinies and courses of life.

Paths constitute the manners through which life should flow. Men are guided to make choices and we are often influenced to make the choices we make. For the believer, the Holy Spirit guides us because there is a path that each individual ought to follow. Sometimes, light interrupts our tracks to divinely guide us into the choices we should make.

God is the light that lights every man. When a man believes in Christ, he is restored back to the Shepherd of his soul, after which he begins to find the proper course to return to the Father. We all have gone our own ways which is a course that the prince of the power of the air (Satan) laid before us.

There is a course God has ordained for every soul, but Satan fights against the fulfillment of that course of life. He fights so that we do not return to light because it is in the light that we come to understand our purpose in God. Satan knows the things that he can use to derail a soul out of its course. Sometimes, he could go as far as planting ambitions in the hearts of one’s parents to drive one further away from the course of life, as ordained by God. However, the Shepherd finds a way to guide such a one back so that he does not totally go astray. The Shepherd begins to lead the soul in the rightful course such a one should follow; like He told Jeremiah (Jer. 1:5).

“That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life;…This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all” (1 John 1:1,5). The message of the beginning is that God is light. What John (and the company he was referring to in the above Scripture) heard from the beginning was a message and a doctrine. A believer may never hear this message because there is a stature required to hear the message of the beginning. Although the message is for every soul and it is a message that God wants to be on the earth, He has to prepare every man to hear it.

God wants all His creation to know Him as light in whom there is no darkness. It is this light that will rule the world to come. It is a light that was ordained for man to live by (John 1:9). This means that this message is the light of men.

There is a thought of man in God that is not what we have right now. God thinks of us in light. God's light is man's light, not because it originated from man, but because it was ordained for man. When God thinks of man, He thinks of this light. Darkness was not inclusive in the original thoughts of God for man.

According to God, the beginning is not just when a thing begins evidently or when we can see it. Rather, He is the beginning and the initiator of things. The message John (and company) heard from the beginning is that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all (1 John 1:1,5). Whatever God does not initiate has no place in existence. Darkness was initiated by Satan; so, in God’s realm, there is nothing called sin, iniquity or darkness. “He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he” (Deut. 32:4). God is good and upright and everything He does is good and upright (Psa. 25:8). God cannot be blamed. When we blame God, we do so in response to the darkness in us. God had to condescend in order to liberate men from sin (Heb. 2:14).

The Godhead want to give us beginning thoughts which enables us to think and reason like them. When we take these thoughts, we journey to the beginning. The beginning has been packaged for us as a message (or doctrine). We ought to learn it and follow it. As we learn, we are taking the thoughts of the beginning. It is possible to journey to the beginning.

One of the quests of man is to find the beginning of creation and they try to do so through science. Man is interested in the beginning because he does not want to end. Satan is seeking to hinder men from getting to the beginning through the truth because, as men journey to the beginning, Satan is ended. So, he propagates lies. The visitation of Christ’s thoughts to our souls come by revelation, and the essence is to catch our souls up or birth us. We can be born. “Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him” (1 John 5:1). This is a believing that Jesus is the Christ, not that Jesus is the Son of God. Whoever believes this is born of God. This birth is not the new birth.

John 3:3 says, “... Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God”. The man that needs to be born again is the soul. A man's spirit can be regenerated but he may still not be able to see the Kingdom. Except the soul is born again, one cannot see the Kingdom. This does not mean that we will not go to heaven, even though our hope is resurrection and what we are promised is Eternal Life (Tit. 1:2; 1 John 2:25). The spirit of a man may be regenerated, however, his soul may not have encountered the Lord yet. The soul needs that encounter for the purpose of entrance because our minds cannot articulate the realm that our spirit presently is. The spirit of a believer, which is a christ already belongs to the kingdom of Christ. This happens when the spirit is recreated. This kingdom is life. Our spirits belong to a life that our soul is not yet in and cannot yet comprehend. But the soul needs to come there by being born again. There are other births after the initial birth of the spirit.

John 1:12-13

“But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: [13] Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God”.

The blood, the will of flesh and the will of man are birth processes. Being born of wills is a birth the soul undertakes, not the spirit, because every man’s spirit died (Rom. 5:12). Satan does not stop at the initial death in the spirit because he wants to ravage the whole being or man. Therefore, he introduces these births to the soul in a bid to birth man's soul into darkness. These levels of births bring the soul into an awareness of something it initially did not know, nor could he relate with. Satan seeks to bring man to a place of awareness of sin through the levels; firstly, flesh then blood, which is life.

There is a birth which is of blood, which the soul of a man comes into, even though his spirit is dead (John 1:13). A typical unbeliever is unaware of what death really is. Death is a knowledge or an awareness that can be used as life. Cain died. When Adam sinned, he died in his spirit but did not die immediately in his soul. So, Satan could not do much with him. If death had entered his soul, he would have been born of the blood of Satan. Adam kept his soul from Satan until Cain arose who became the first born again (in a negative sense). Cain showed us that men can be born of blood. Cain did not stop at blood but finished the curriculum of the birth of the soul and inherited a way, which is called the way of Cain (Jude 1:11). Cain is regarded as being ‘of that wicked one’, because he had been fully born (1 John 3:12). Other persons who fall into this category are Nimrod and the Antichrist.

As believers, we begin our birth with life, which is Christ (Col. 3:4). However, the birth process is not just for our spirits but also for our souls. Man must be born again, and that includes the soul. Except a soul is born again, he cannot see nor can he enter the kingdom of God. The first birth is to make us see. To be born of blood is to make us see (John 3:3; 1:12-13).

A man who is born of blood can see. Such a person is awoken to this world and can respond to it. He can use this world better because he has an understanding of it. An unbeliever, whose spirit is dead but is not yet born of blood, cannot use this world and may not be seeing it. Satan can enlighten a man's eyes to see this world. Jesus saw this world, not by birth, but by encounter with the prince of this world who made Him to see the glories of this world. But Satan wants to make us see this world by birth. To see this world is to see the glories of this world. Anyone who is born of blood would understand the glories of this world. If a believer is not careful, his soul can be born of blood; this is what happened to Judas.

The spirit of a man can be regenerated while his soul still partakes of the births of Satan (John 1:13). We see such men in the book of Jude. Jude describes them as wandering stars (Jude 1:13). They have died the great death and it is impossible to renew them again (Heb. 6:6). We have to be careful to not be born of Satan. Anyone who is born of the blood of Satan would see the glories of this world, carefully painted by seducing spirits (1 Tim. 4:1). This seeing, which occurs by blood, is the equivalent to what Christ will do to the soul if the soul is born again. The soul can be born again by what the soul beholds. The soul can behold Christ. We behold by understanding. As we understand Christ, we are being born of Christ. Therefore, if we are risen with Christ, we are admonished to see the glory that Christ is (Col. 3:1). Being risen with Christ is the same as being born.

There is a place upon which we can stand to see the glory of God and agree that Jesus is the Son of God, so that we can be born again. This second birth is the birth that is in the doctrine of everlasting life. The reason for the doctrine of Christ is to birth us. The end of the doctrine of Christ is to birth a man. The end of the commandment is charity (1 Tim. 1:5). All these spheres have their individual degrees of charity. We need to arrive at the unfeigned love of the brethren, which qualifies us to be born of the incorruptible seed. The purpose is to make us see the incorruptible seed, which cannot be seen or comprehended by just anyone.

The first birth process births us into charity. The charity of all the stages is called perfection. “Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God…” (1 John 5:1). We come into Christ by believing that Jesus is the life; this is the first step. We believe from faith, to hope and to charity. When we arrive at charity, we have come to the peak of Christ-life and have attained perfection, which qualifies us to be born. When we are born, we can then see the next step and the commandments to obey.

The next step is to believe that Jesus is the Son of God, which is everlasting life. This believing is a message and a doctrine which would also see us from the beginning to the end of it. When we get to the end of everlasting life, we would have attained the level of unfeigned love of the brethren. This is a higher perfection. When we finish the course of believing Jesus as the Son of God, the sincere love of the brethren will be evident in our conversations because we have to love both He that begets and he that is begotten (1 John 5:1). It is called the unfeigned love of the brethren because they are Jesus’ brethren. This love is characterized by a nature that does not seek its own.

Our goal and ambition should be to love one another with a pure heart fervently (1 Pet. 1:22). We must love fervently to be born. We must hear the incorruptible seed till we are born. There are three birth processes on the path of life just as there are three births in sin. The only antidote to the birth of the will of man is to be born of God, that is, become the only begotten Son or the Eternal Son. There are many birth processes that await us.

“Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. [8] Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children” (Isaiah 66:7-8). There are two birth processes for Zion; one happened before her pain came, while the other happened as soon as she travailed. In the former, she brought forth a man-child, while in the latter, she brought forth children; children differ from man-child. The children of Zion were those remnants who had the testimony and were still doing it to get to the point where they could be born (Rev. 12:17). The birth of ‘before her pain came’, is a birth that is after the Eternal order. While the birth of ‘as soon as she travailed’ is the everlasting birth.

The reason for the doctrine of everlasting life is to bring us to the point where we will be born. We have to be born of Christ, of everlasting life and ultimately, of Eternal Life. This is done by giving us knowledge, which is referred to as the message of the beginning. We are being born until we get back to the beginning.

“We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not” (1 John 5:18). We err in deeds because we err in thought. He that is born of God does not err in his thoughts because he has judgements by which he keeps himself. Such a man cannot die because deathlessness is a thought, and such has been born into a sphere of awareness where darkness does not exist.

There is a place called God where no darkness or sin can exist. This is a sphere which when a man is born into, he will not sin. This provision is not for when we die but can be attained while we are still here in our bodies.

The preaching of the gospel would rid man of every form of sin in all its cadres. A company of men would arise, which sin has no access to. To such men, sin would have become a thing of the past and expired. Satan will be angry with this company and would want them removed; but God would keep them here on earth so they can teach other men how not to die.

 

Blessings!

 

Summary

 

1. God does not see life like science which suggests that the life of a man begins when his body is formed. From a priestly angle, life begins when He, who is the beginning, lights a man. God is the light that lights the path of every man (John 1:9). He ordains the destinies and courses of life of everyone. 

2. There is a course that God has ordained for every soul, but Satan fights against the fulfillment of that course of life. He fights so that we do not return to the light because it is in the light that we come to understand our purpose in God.

3. The message of the beginning is that God is light, in whom there is no darkness at all (1 John 1:1, 1:5). God wants all of His creation to know Him as this light because it is this light that will rule the world to come. It is this same light that was ordained for man to live by (John 1:9).

4. God is the beginning and initiator of all things. Whatever God does not initiate has no place in existence. Darkness was initiated by Satan; so, in God's realm, there is nothing called sin, iniquity or darkness (Deuteronomy 32:4). God, and everything that He does, are good and upright (Psalm 25:8). Therefore, whenever we blame God, we do so in response to the darkness that is in us.

5. The Godhead want to give us beginning thoughts, which will enable us to think and reason like Them. When we take such thoughts, we journey to the beginning. Satan is hindering men from journeying to the beginning through the truth because, as men journey to the beginning, Satan comes to an end. 

6. No man can think ‘God’ by using the full capacity of his brain. The visitation of Christ's thoughts to the soul comes by revelation and the essence is to catch our souls up or birth us. It takes believing that Jesus is the Christ to be born of God (1John 5:1).

7. The blood, the will of flesh and the will of man are birth processes that the soul, not the spirit, of a man undertakes (John 1:12-13). Satan did not stop at the initial death in man's spirit because he wants to ravage the entirety of man's being. Therefore, he introduced these births to the soul in a bid to birth man's soul into darkness.

8. As believers, we begin our birth with life, which is Christ (Colossians 3:4). However, the birth process is not only for our spirits but also for our souls. We must be born again, including in our souls. Except a soul is born again, he can neither see nor enter the Kingdom of God (John 3:3, 1:12-13). In the Kingdom of God, there is a first birth which enables us to see.

9. We have to be careful to not be born of Satan. It is possible for the spirit of a man to be regenerated while his soul still partakes of the births of Satan. Jude describes such men as wandering stars (Jude 1:13). Such men have died the great death and it is impossible for them to be renewed (Hebrews 6:6).

10. The soul can be born again by what he beholds. We behold by understanding and as we behold or understand Christ, we are being born of Christ. Therefore, if we are risen with Christ, we are admonished to see the glory that Christ is (Colossians 3:1). Being risen with Christ is the same as being born again.

11. We come into Christ by believing that Jesus is the life; this is the first birth process and it births us into charity. We believe from faith, to hope and to charity. When we arrive at charity, we have come to the peak of Christ-life, have attained perfection and are qualified for the next birth process which comes by believing that Jesus is the Son of God, which is everlasting life.

12. When we finish the course of believing Jesus as the Son of God, the sincere love of the brethren will be evident in our conversation because we have to love both He that begets and He that is begotten (1 John 5:1). We must love fervently in order to be born. Therefore, our goal must be to love another with a pure heart fervently (1Peter 1:22).

13. The reason for the doctrine of everlasting life is to bring us to the point where we will be born of Christ, of everlasting life and, ultimately, of Eternal Life. This is accomplished by giving us a knowledge that is referred to as the message of the beginning. Thus, we are being born until we get back to the beginning.