Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Writing The Vision (WTV) March Edition
Date: Saturday, 19th March, 2022
Speaker 3: Pastor Thompson Ehima
When God is giving the incorruptible seed, He is giving His covenant. However, one cannot receive the covenant until he has journeyed with the law of the Spirit of life in Christ. A people that can receive this covenant must be those who have obeyed the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, and whose hearts have been converted from stone to flesh. It is only with a heart of flesh that this covenant can be made. Therefore, it will take the fleshy table of the heart for God to deliver the things of the incorruptible seed (2 Cor. 3:3).
"Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption." (1 Cor. 15:50). Flesh and blood are programs of corruption and therefore, cannot inherit the kingdom of God. What Adam ate in the garden of Eden was a fruit but in that fruit was both the seed and blood (of corruption). As such, He (and all of mankind, through him) partook of flesh and blood (1 Cor. 15:50). The inability of flesh and blood to inherit the Kingdom means this nature cannot partake of the covenant. Therefore, God made a solution to deal with this nature— through His own flesh and blood. The solution to corruption is to partake of the incorruptible seed, which lives and abides forever (1 Pet. 1:23).
To partake does not mean hearing the word alone; it also means to inherit, possess, internalize and own what we have heard. A fallen man can hear the word but may not partake of it. When you partake of a word, you are able to translate what you have heard into a life or conversation. If a man has only inherited Christ but does not yet have the incorruptible seed, he has only been washed. Such a man can still turn back.
"He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. [11] He came unto his own, and his own received him not." (John 1:10-11). The world did not know Jesus because sin had entered into it, and death through sin. As such, they lacked the tools to discern Him. The world cannot also receive the Spirit of Truth for this same reason. ‘His own’ refers to those who have learned Christ. However, we also need to have a certain level of capacity to be able to receive Christ. We need to have inherited these natures before the incorruptible seed, which is also known as the eternal power, can be delivered to us. This eternal power is capable of producing sons of God.
"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." (John 1:12-13). Sons of God are everlasting sons and the word of God is the power that God uses to create them. These sons of God are born by the incorruptible seed.
"Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, [20] By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh…" (Heb. 10:19-20). Jesus’ flesh has a new and living way and it possesses blood. The life of the flesh is in the blood. If one has the flesh without the blood, it means he is not yet abiding; that flesh is not everlasting. As such, we must begin to know the learnings in both His flesh and His blood. There are obediences that must be done and lessons that must be learnt in them.
"He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him." (John 14:21). There are commandments (works) that we must do, and there are works that must also be revealed to us. Some works will be learnt when God gives us His thoughts. The first Adam was living; He was blessed with an everlasting lamp, which is the lighting of his breath. It is not possible for any man to have access to the living works without breath. Breath refers to inspiration or understanding (Job 32:8).
“And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.” (1 John 3:3). ‘Purification’ refers to purging. When God brings commandments of the incorruptible seed in the dimension of living, it is for our purging. The program of “living” is centered on purging, so that one can move into bringing forth more fruits and then abide. There are commandments that are brought to us for the purpose of purging. We are to be purged from the old flesh and blood, which are materials of corruption that man partook from the fruit of the evil tree.
One of the things we have to be purged from is ignorance. Ignorance is the veil that spreads upon all nations. There are veils that make us ignore God. What will make a man stop living is ignorance. Anything that makes one too quick to make an appraisal of himself is ignorance. The church in Laodicea thought they were rich and had no need of anything (Rev. 3:14-17) but unknown to them, that appraisal was as a result of ignorance.
“But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.” (2 Cor. 3:15). God wants to deal with veils, and He will do this by opening up His sufficiency to turn us from the veil of the flesh, which is a will. A will is a written code. It is possible for a man to have passed through the cleansing of the law of sin and death, but still be veiled. A veil prevents a man from seeing clearly. There is a ministration of spirits that can deal with veils. These spirits are words that Jesus speaks (John 6:63).
In order to partake of Jesus’ flesh, God will begin to address things in us, which we do not see. This is why the Son of God was ordained as a High Priest of things pertaining to God (Heb 5:1). He holds that office because of the veils and flesh in men. Sin and death may have been dealt with, but the veils must also be destroyed. Veils are works of the devil that will take the manifestation of the Son of God to destroy.
"Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the way; for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity." (Heb. 5:2). Jesus can have compassion on the ignorant. The ignorant are those who still have the veil. We cannot be turned or converted without the revelation of the living seed. We cannot access things that pertain to God without the knowledge of God. There are people who do not like to retain the knowledge of God (Rom. 1:28). However, it is also possible that a person wants the knowledge of God but may not be able to retain it because he has an inward arrangement in his soul.
Those who have learnt Christ still have arrangements within them that can also hinder the retention of God’s knowledge, even when they want it. These arrangements have to be dealt with because they are operations of the veil, which is the flesh and blood that every man was born with.
“And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.” (Gen. 6:3). This “flesh” does not refer to fornication or works of the flesh but the life of mighty men. The will of the flesh is a kind of love. Jesus suffered in the flesh (1 Peter 4:1) by warring against it. What Jesus used to war against flesh was the incorruptible seed (1 Peter 1:23). This suffering in the flesh was not the lack of natural things but was by obeying commandments.
Suffering cannot be arranged by man; we rather come into this arrangement by obeying commandments. There are judgements that can part the veil and roll it away and we come into them by keeping commandments. It is when a man has gotten to this level that he is abiding. We have to get to the point where we abide because Lucifer (our adversary) is an abiding being; he is not just living.
Just as we were born of corruption, by mercy we shall also be born of incorruption. God has an answer to our corruption, through the incorruptible seed. He will deal with our corruption and we will be partakers of divine nature – even of all things that pertain to God.
Summary
1. When God is giving the incorruptible seed, He is giving His covenant. However, one cannot receive the covenant until he has journeyed with the law of the Spirit of life in Christ.
2. A people that can receive this covenant must be those who have obeyed the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, and whose hearts have been converted from stone to flesh.
3. It is only with a heart of flesh that this covenant can be made. Therefore, it will take the fleshy table of the heart for God to deliver the things of the incorruptible seed (2 Cor. 3:3).
4. Flesh and blood are programs of corruption and therefore, cannot inherit the kingdom of God. What Adam ate in the garden of Eden was a fruit but in that fruit was both the seed and blood (of corruption). As such, He (and all of mankind, through him) partook of flesh and blood (1 Cor. 15:50).
5. The solution to corruption is to partake of the incorruptible seed, which lives and abides forever (1 Pet. 1:23). If a man has only inherited Christ but does not yet have the incorruptible seed, he has only been washed. Such a man can still turn back.
6. Sons of God are everlasting sons and the word of God is the power that God uses to create them. These sons of God are born by the incorruptible seed (John 1:12-13).
7. Jesus’ flesh has a new and living way and it possesses blood. The life of the flesh is in the blood. If one has the flesh without the blood, it means he is not yet abiding; that flesh is not everlasting. As such, we must begin to know the learnings in both His flesh and His blood (Heb. 10:19-20).
8. (1 John 3:3) ‘Purification’ refers to purging. When God brings commandments of the incorruptible seed in the dimension of living, it is for our purging. The program of “living” is centered on purging, so that one can move into bringing forth more fruits and then abide.
9. One of the things we have to be purged from is ignorance. Ignorance is the veil that spreads upon all nations. Sin and death may have been dealt with, but the veils must also be destroyed. Veils are works of the devil that will take the manifestation of the Son of God to destroy.
10. (Gen. 6:3). This “flesh” does not refer to fornication or works of the flesh but the life of mighty men. The will of the flesh is a kind of love. Jesus suffered in the flesh (1 Peter 4:1) by warring against it. What Jesus used to war against flesh was the incorruptible seed (1 Peter 1:23). This suffering in the flesh was not the lack of natural things but was by obeying commandments.
11. Suffering cannot be arranged by man; we rather come into this arrangement by obeying commandments. There are judgements that can part the veil and roll it away and we come into them by keeping commandments. It is when a man has gotten to this level that he is abiding. We have to get to the point where we abide because Lucifer (our adversary) is an abiding being; he is not just living.