Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Believers’ Convention 2023 (Day 6 - Evening Session)
Date: Friday, 11th August 2023
Minister: Reverend Kayode Oyegoke
Transcript Excerpt
“For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us…” (Heb. 9:24). There are certain things that cannot be done outside God’s presence, which is why Jesus went into the presence for us. There are jurisdictions of the presence and certain works are only lawfully done in presence. It is dangerous to sin against an angel standing in the presence of God. We can see the repercussion of Zechariah doubting an angel that stood in the presence of the Lord (Luke 1:18-20). He was made dumb so that he would not disturb the work God wanted to do. Gabriel came with God’s presence to announce and bring to pass the coming of John the Baptist to earth; this conception cannot occur outside of this presence. This was similar to the experience of Abraham and Sarah for the conception of Isaac.
Men have angelic encounters when God is dealing with them and wants to adopt them into His presence. The kinds of angels that show up in the face of impossible situations must be angels of God’s presence. It is in presence that God quickens the body. The body of Abraham was dead, but the visitation of angels quickened his body. The three angels that visited him brought something enough to effect a change in his body (Gen. 18:2-14). After Sarah died, Abraham still had children; this shows that the effect of the angel did not stop, as his body was still strong (Gen. 25:4). This shows that something really happened to the body of Abraham and not only Sarah’s body.
“Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.” (Job 2:1). Satan was qualified to come into presence in the days of Job because our Lord Jesus had not come by this time. As such, when the sons of God came to present themselves before God, he also accompanied them. “And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.” (Zech. 3:1). Joshua was being adopted into presence and Satan was there to accuse him. When Satan sees that a generation is coming into presence, he raises an accusation against them. The epistle of Hebrews was written to bring the church into presence. The dimension of the temple of presence is the Most Holy Place.
“But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels.” (Heb. 12:22). One can be in Zion and take company amidst the general assembly but refuse to get to the place where the presence of the Lord is. The presence of the Lord is on the mountain. Most of the time, Moses would climb Mount Sinai to get to God’s presence. This means there is an obedience we carry out when we reach the mountain to climb the hill of the Lord and break through into presence. It is an uphill task.
“To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect.” (Heb. 12:23). All are in the general assembly, but there is also the church of the firstborn. The foundation of God is in the holy mountains (Psa. 87:1). The foundation in the holy mountain is what Jesus is made to be – foundational stone, tried stone, precious stone, precious cornerstone, and sure foundation (Isa. 28:16). What is on the holy mountain is a sure foundation, which Jesus became. This shows that Jesus made His own calling and election sure. The day Jesus became the sure foundation was the day He declared that He had finished His work and had glorified the Father on earth. To glorify the Father on earth is to do the work the Father gave Him. The work of the Father is a work of glory. Jesus finished the course of being a glorious stone on earth, which made Him a sure foundation.
“Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.” (Isa. 28:16). A precious cornerstone is a stone of peace. This is the priest of the Sanctuary who has broken into the veil. While Jesus was on earth, He broke into the veils of heaven. It was not only on the day of resurrection that He broke into the veil, He had entered into the veil to take things for Himself on earth. Our Lord Jesus obeyed the instructions behind the veil while He was on earth. When He was entering the second time, He did not enter for Himself but for us.
Jesus’ soul pierced God’s presence while on earth, but at resurrection, He now had a body that could go there. Our present bodies cannot go into presence but our souls can get there. Our souls can live in that realm while we go about our normal earthly activities. To enter into the Most Holy Place is not by prayer but by a conversation of freedom and liberty. The worship of those who are in the Most Holy Place is not just in songs, but by the expression of the life within the veil.
Angels like Gabriel were angels of the Most Holy Place. The desire of God is that many will be brought into the Most Holy Place. Many saints are outside the temple. The temple is divided into courts, starting from the Outer Courts. Each of the courts are lives and the innermost life is the life of presence, that is, everlasting life. The purpose of the temple is for the extraction of sin from the soul. There is an amount of sin that certain courts can deal with. When sin has been dealt with in a man, such a person is moved to the next court until he is clean enough to enter where the Levites are. Presence is hidden in the innermost court. The purpose of presence is to provide a conducive environment to see the ultimate sin. Lucifer, the son of the morning, used a kind of light (wisdom) to create sin (Ezek. 28:17).
“And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. [6]] Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.[7] Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. [8] He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.” (1 John 3:5-8). ‘Our sins’ here refer to the original iniquity that can only be taken away as we see the Son of God. To commit sin is for one to make up his mind to be completely allegiant to sin.
“And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.” (1 John 2:25). Eternal Life is the promise of God. Satan wanted a kind of life that would put him in the position of God, but in an attempt to have such a life, he created another life. As such, sin is not just about disobeying God, it is a work that Satan was doing. The law that Satan transgressed was not the law of Moses, but the law that runs from the highest point in heaven to the earth. Everlasting life was the governing law in that realm, but Satan did not want the governance of the law.
Sin is also a promise because it is a life. Death is the wage of sin; and this was the freedom Satan gained from God. This means that Satan is dead to God. In the same way, whosoever is free from sin is dead to sin. There is something in Satan that gave him liberty from God. Those angels that fell with Satan saw that it was possible to be free from God. Satan is not subject to any law. As a very high angel, he thought he had seen all the perimeters and all the measures of God, and then concluded that he was free. He believed there were no consequences to his actions. Satan is dead but he has a form of life somewhere. Death is a type of life that is a lie. When the antichrist comes, he will show what he has as life and that is what will be called a lie.
“Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, [10] And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. [11] And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie.” (2 Thess. 2:9-11). A lie is death. Lie became a tree that was planted in Eden, which Adam partook of and died. Though Adam ate of the tree, he was not completely gone, meaning that the seed had a gestational period to fulfill its course. God had to kill an animal to clothe Adam, to separate his thoughts from following the program of sin in his spirit (Gen. 3:21). God veiled Adam’s spirit from his soul.
The spirit without the body is dead (can no longer perform its earthly function). Although Adam was a living soul, his spirit had to depart because it could no longer stay in the body, and could not sustain the life of the outward man. Satan saw that Adam and Eve were not continuing his agenda, so he focused on Adam’s first son (Cain) because he thought that if Cain turned, Abel would follow. Satan captured Cain and got his love (Gen. 4:16). By allegiance, Cain began to learn how to commit sin until it became a constant activity. He kept committing sin till he became committed to sin. This sin is beyond fornication. Fornication is an outer show of a life that is in Satan. That life is wickedness or twistedness. When something is 'wick', it is twisted. Satan weaved the life that was in him and began to turn it until it was totally twisted, then he became wicked.
Satan stole from God: first, he stole himself from God, then he stole his glory from God and went away. Some people serve a minister with the intention to eventually have their own ministry, but this is not the right heart state. One should serve without an intention to have his own ministry. Some people come to learn under a minister, but with the intention to take from the minister and reproduce theirs. Men should love where they are serving so that they would eventually be released well without injury, for there is a lot about service.
Satan thought he had learnt everything of God. After Satan had created sin, he began to teach the angels what he did. Sin did not occur one day; Satan took time to entice and tempt the angels that fell. Those angels followed Satan and began to change their nature for the wage he promised them. Those angels have not left Satan because they are still in deception; they believe that one day, they would still gain from their rebellion.
Satan knows his end is sure, but his plan is to delay men from getting righteousness by teaching men how to love the world. Sin is a fallen everlasting life. It takes some time to commit sin (1 John 3:4) because it is not a one-day job. The end of sin is for our allegiance to be completely given to Satan; it is to teach us how to die. Satan knows how to do this; he knows how to measure disobedience to men which they would obey and gradually take steps in until they arrive at death.
“If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death. There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.” (1 John 5:16). The answer to sin is God’s life because sin used to be a life. Death is to acquire the stature of liberty Satan promised. Jesus was sent as an answer to sin (1 John 3:8). Satan perverted all his virtues, beauty, and humility; he eradicated everything that would have made him repent. As long as one can still repent, God will forgive; but when one’s repentance level is no longer reachable, it means that it would be impossible to change such a person.
As children of God, we should pray to be easily entreated. The ability to turn is a gift; when a person is asked to repent, it means there is something within his soul that can still yield to God. One who is qualified for the lake of fire can no longer repent. Satan was taken to the bottomless pit for a thousand years, yet he continued on his path of destruction after he was released (Rev. 20:8). This is why he will be put in the lake of fire for eternity. Second death is not the lake of fire; second death is from God— it is also known as eternal death. Satan had great death, but God judged him with eternal death beyond his great death.
“Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.” (1 John 3:7). Righteousness is to be like Jesus but death is to be like the devil. We should be conscious of doing righteousness. As we do righteousness, the image of God is being worked in us. Righteousness is to do what would make us look like the righteous Lord. To be righteous is to know the constructive nature of the divine God and access the secrets of His life; it is to make the divine life ours and thus, become like Him. He that commits sin does things that would make him be like the devil.
The Son of God was made manifest to destroy the works of the devil. All the works of the devil are to make men become like him. Majority of men nowadays look more like fallen angels than Adam because the fallen angels have invaded our space with their images. Man has not really finished the duty of sin because it is still ongoing and it will not stop until full formation is attained. When God stopped the first work of continuous sin, He destroyed that work so that man would not finish the work of the devil.
Satan enrolled people into work before God did, but when Jesus appeared, the work of God started. God first worked His image in Jesus, then He sent Him. Jesus obtained a more excellent name than the angels (Heb. 1:4). He is also a more excellent minister than they are (Heb. 8:6). His ministry is not just above that of Aaron but is also more excellent than that of the angels. There is a necessity for existing covenants to be broken to establish another.
Jesus needs to bring us into the testimony before we can be New Testament saints. Testaments are from God; they are the gifts of God provided as materials for covenants. It is possible to have testaments and not have covenants. Testaments are laws. Jesus is the High Priest of a new law. The first testimony is Christ. The hearing of Christ takes care of certain sins, then we move to another testimony called “My covenant”.
“For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people…” (Heb. 8:10). The testimony was called ‘My law’ here. Christ is the new law while God is ‘My Law’. Both laws make up the New Testament. God knows that His law has a greater demand that flesh cannot easily obey. We are given the Holy Ghost so that we can enter Christ and commit to Him and get life. After we commit to Christ, there is a need to commit to God or His law.
Satan is a lawgiver with laws within him that kills, for he has the power of death (John 10:10; Heb. 2:14). We are unable to be fully free from our allegiance to death because of flesh and blood. The power of death is in Satan, but he has been destroyed by Jesus, and this means he no longer has the freedom he used to have. Although Satan is still working, he cannot easily have an effect on people. Even if he does, men can still be free, but if he was not destroyed, we would never be free. Appearances are feasts of the things that God has provided to give us liberty from Satan.
We need Jesus to show us how to break death, for He is the only one worthy to supervise this. Anytime Jesus shows up, the end of the covenants of death is near. Jesus understands the genetics of death; He can tell how they would expire. Jesus went to heaven so that He can give life to those who are dying. Also, Jesus was exalted to offer a ministry against the ministry of death (2 Cor. 3:7). The ministration of death is aimed at keeping one focused on earthly needs and would not allow one turn to the Lord for real problems (of the soul).
Satan has created needs around us that would hinder us from concentrating on God to reach us. Death has an occupation in us through our will. We entered into an agreement with hell and a covenant with death (Isa. 28:18). As such, we need someone who can offer something against the death Satan had offered. Sin and death are lifestyles that men are obeying. They both came from Satan who was once an excellent minister in heaven, but Jesus is a more excellent minister than him. God offered so much for the destruction of sin. Satan fabricated the laws of God under the throne of God, as he used to be an excellent minister. Sin was initially foreign to the earth but it has now become our life. The lives of many men since the fall have been products of the appearance of an angel and the reign of sin.
God will send Jesus in the times of refreshing (Acts 3:19-20). Jesus will break through to the Church that has passed through the veil and have arrived in the Most Holy Place; then He will open the ministry of the new covenant. We need presence for this, and God has provided a superior one for us in the new covenant through the more excellent ministry of Jesus. Jesus is using the presence of the world to come to minister and in that presence, iniquity is exposed and weakened in strength. This is why our Lord Jesus needs to appear so that the laws of sin will be weakened and so that men can relinquish them.
“Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.” (Psa. 110:3). We need power for us to be made willing. We need Jesus to come because there are things that He brings. Jesus needs to visit us so that He would bring an ambience that would cause us to really break our covenants. Jesus would not break our covenants for us; we have to break them by purposing not to do them again. Even when we are bought over by God, the adversary would still stay around because he believes we can still turn back to him.
When it is time to break covenant, there is the ministry of accusation and the ministry of intercession. There are grounds Satan presses for when we are turning away from him, but we have an Advocate. Jesus will oversee us until His things (life) become our own. We must keep fighting until we get to the point where God’s life and testimony become ours. With Jesus’ supervision, the angelic ministry is unleashed for men to be partakers of the things of God (Heb. 1:14). When we take our parts, a season of war breaks over us to prove to Satan that God’s things can be given to us.
“And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.” (Rev. 12:10). Some people will cast the accuser of the brethren down. The dragon accuses so that we would not commit ourselves to do the testimony, but we need to war with him because it will facilitate our ownership of the testimony.
“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.” (Rev. 12:11). The testimony became theirs and began to generate instructions which they could live by. These people had fallen in love with the testament, they had already made covenants which could not be broken, for they loved not their lives which were the sins they had. Life is a promise; this world is full of promises. The promises of sin are in levels and if we fall in love with them, we would be destroyed. Rather, we can fall in love with the promises made by God.
The Lord Jesus is watching over men who are breaking covenants with sin. We can present our covenants (with sin) to the Lord, and He would help us break it by giving us life. When one possesses a covenant with God, the work is mostly done because covenants are upon promises. The new covenant is the New Testament; it is a testimony. On God’s side, it is a covenant but when we own it, then it becomes a testimony. Testimonies are things that testify of God’s covenant. When the testimony is given to a man, he has made a covenant, which becomes the guidelines of life to him.
“My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. [21] Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. [22] For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.” (Prov. 4:20-22). These things were taught under the appearance of the Lord; therefore, grace is supplied. Many of us will come out of death; we will begin to make quick progress. The deaths known with us will no longer be found in us. Jesus will supply grace and blessing to push us forward in things pertaining to God.
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