Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Believers’ Convention 2024 (Day 7 - Evening Session)
Date: Saturday, 24th August 2024
Minister: Reverend Kayode Oyegoke
Topic: Overcoming the Dragon by the Testimony of Jesus
Transcript Excerpt
“Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia…” (1 Pet. 1:1). If the Jews were scattered throughout Asia, then the Jews must have been among the seven churches in the book of Revelation (Rev. 2&3). The Lord must have wanted the Jews to be among the Gentiles so that their Jewish traditions and heritage would be completely healed. The law of Moses in the Jews could not be easily taken out of their hearts. As such, it took some time for God to purge them.
When Paul wrote to the Jews, he told them that they had journeyed to Zion (Heb. 12:22-23). He wanted them to know that they were not in the same place they used to be but had migrated to Zion.
“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, [23] 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. 12:22-23). This is a church that was written in heaven. This is not the same as having their names written in the book of life. Everyone who is born again has their name written in the book of life. However, this scripture speaks about being written in heaven.
“Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.” (Luke 10:20). Jesus was not just telling them to change their reason for rejoicing, rather, He was telling them what they had to achieve after which they could rejoice. Those whose names are written on earth are carnal (Jer. 17:13). Whenever we do not gravitate towards everlasting life or heavenly things, we are limited to earth and will not be written in heaven.
One who becomes born again is a child of God but such a person is still earthly (in the soul) at that point. This means that the soul is known earth-wise. One can be carnal and can also be carnally-redeemed or earthly-redeemed. Jesus spoke to Nicodemus about the New Birth to the point of being born of the Spirit.
“Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” (John 3:3). The purpose of the New Birth is to see the Kingdom. However, this does not mean that we start to see the Kingdom the day we became born again. It only means that by virtue of the New Birth, we have the capacity to see the Kingdom.
The major reason for the recreation of the human spirit through the New Birth is to make man see the Kingdom. Thus, after being born again, our eyes can be opened through knowledge. The purpose of knowledge is to see the Kingdom. A time will come when we will be able to comprehend and see the Kingdom. As a result of this, we will have access to the things of the Kingdom.
Entrance into the Kingdom of God requires water first and then spirit (John 3:5). That which is born of the Spirit is spirit (John 3:6). The Holy Ghost is the giver of both the water and the spirit. The birth in John 3:6 is higher than the New Birth. One can be born again but may not have entered the Kingdom.
Entering the Kingdom is not the same as going to heaven, rather, it is to come into the dominion of God. The fact that the spirits of believers are in the Kingdom does not mean their souls are there as well. God does not count the entrance of the spirit as the only requirement for one who has fully entered the Kingdom; the soul must also be a partaker of the Kingdom to activate the powers of the Kingdom. This means that the soul is the work and the spirit is the life. Thus, if one’s soul has not entered into the Kingdom, such a person has not really entered.
When the Kingdom is mentioned, people think about dominion, subduing and ruling, but those are not the primary aims of the Kingdom. The real aim of the Kingdom is to break off and translate people from the influence of a wrong dominion that man is unaware of. The kingdom of darkness does something to a man – it depreciates the soul. This is what gives birth to flesh.
Satan used a wrong dominion to configure man to be flesh. The dominion of Satan was what configured flesh. In other words, what Satan births is flesh. When Satan gives birth to men, he gives birth to beings that perish and wither. When Satan is trying to do his own good works, he ends up destroying man so that he can be useful to him. That tells us that the birth canal of the devil is deadly and poisonous; it is corruption.
When John the Baptist came, he began to herald a news. He never came as another prophet, rather, he came with a mandate to make men repent, for the kingdom of God was at hand (Matt 3:1-2). John looked like Jesus because he was preaching the same message that Jesus began with. This shows that God’s desire is for people to leave the earth and be gathered up to heaven in their souls; He wants us to enter heavenly dominion.
“Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: [13] who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son…” (Col. 1:12-13). The purpose of the Kingdom is to ensure the deliverance of man by turning man from flesh into spirit. Flesh cannot naturally see salvation; it is designed to see death because flesh likes to die.
“In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.” (Matthew 3:2). John the Baptist began to herald the preaching of repentance in this scripture. According to the prophecy in Isaiah, John the Baptist came to announce to all flesh that the season of continuing to be flesh had come to an end (Isa. 40:3-5). This is the gospel!
The purpose of the Kingdom is to make man cease to be flesh and arrest flesh (Luke 3:5-6). The state of flesh is a state of death. Anyone who is flesh is written by Satan as an earthly being, for Satan is a writer. That nature in the soul that makes one earthly is a writing; it is a genetic code that needs to be broken so that flesh will cease to be flesh and would have access to life. One who has entered into the Kingdom has ceased to be flesh and has become spirit.
“How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him…” (Heb. 2:3). This shows that the teaching of the so-great salvation had previously been taught. It means Jesus was a speaker of the salvation of the soul. This is a teaching of deliverance; it is a Kingdom message. When the Kingdom is being preached, only one Man is taught – Christ. Christ is the message of the Kingdom and it is not easy to preach or teach Him.
Paul preached the Kingdom of God (Acts 28:30-31). It is not possible to preach the Kingdom without teaching the things of the person of Jesus Christ. It is possible to cease from being flesh. However, this does not happen to the human spirit at the New Birth. The essence of faith is to train one against flesh; it makes one rely on the unseen.
The faith for moving mountains (Mark 11:23-24) is different from the faith that abides (1 Cor. 13:13). A person can move mountains but may not be able to endure the configuration of changing flesh to spirit. Faith is the door that begins the alteration of flesh; it trains man against flesh to see the invisible. It makes one begin to rely on the unseen.
Satan opened the eyes of man to death. The way to death was by enlightening man’s eyes so that he could die. Adam was a man of life who had promises; he did not rely on the trees in the garden or on earth to survive, He only looked up to God. Adam knew God in a way and had life in his soul. There was a life originally present in Adam but he died in his spirit, then the law in the soul was lost. Subsequently, that law was no longer present in man and the heart of man was evil continually (Gen. 6:3-5).
“The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.” (John 3:8). When the Kingdom of God works on a person, such becomes a wind and begins to flow. It is the soul that becomes windy. The soul was not meant to think of the natural, but Satan dragged man into getting committed to legitimate things so that the soul will feel robbed of life if it does not possess such things.
Satan designed the natural around man and convinced him that those things are his life. However, the life of a man does not consist in those things (Luke 12:15). This is not an easy standard to live up to or else, many more men would be in church. There is something keeping men down which is the power of Satan. This shows that those spirits that keep man are powerful.
A believer can be held down by the power of Satan. The power of Satan is to give us a life programming that keeps us away from being able to respond to God as a living being. To a mere man, God is only useful to him for answering his prayers for the natural. Flesh has its kind of prayers. Satan wants the Church to remain carnal, so he attacks ministers and prevents them from preaching words that will allow souls to ascend spiritually.
One who has been delivered from the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of God has become a spirit in his soul. The flesh of such a person is converted and has become windy; such a soul has changed from being flesh. When a wind (soul) has been set free, it goes upward; winds can ascend into heaven.
The soul is to journey from faith to hope and to charity (1 Cor. 13:13). Our names do not get written in heaven on the same day we get born again. Charity has a curriculum; it contains steps that we ought to do until we become perfect in it.
“Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned…” (1 Tim. 1:5). A pure heart is a hope heart. Faith, good conscience and hope make the heart pure. Hope is a tool of purity (1 John 3:3). After the journey to hope, one can begin to do the unfeigned love of the brethren, then ascension becomes perfected.
There are stones closer to earth that can be buried on earth, stones that can be buried in flesh. There is a stone closer to flesh that is Christ, converting a soul from bad to good flesh. That is the purpose of milk for the child of God. Jesus was made flesh (John 1:14) so He drank milk. If Jesus was not made flesh, He would not be the Saviour of flesh. Jesus was made in the likeness of sinful flesh (Rom. 8:3) but He was birthed as flesh.
“The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. [2]For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. [3]Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?” (Psa. 24:1-3). God put man on planet earth to go above the earth; man is the only creature that can go higher than the plane where he started from. Satan knew this, so he bound man in his first habitat and reduced him to a degraded habitual man.
The earth is rich but when the nutrients are taken out, it becomes useless. Flesh is not the original body; there is a flesh of sin but the flesh Jesus had is not the same that men on earth have. Milk of the word makes one a good earth to climb the rock. That is how building is done; there is a foundation stone for one to build upon.
“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). The tried stone is higher than the foundation. A tried stone is Christ and a precious cornerstone is Christ at a very high level. Stones gradually move upwards to become precious and that is how men in the Kingdom graduate. The Kingdom makes one a stone and the level of stone that one is determines the level of salvation such a soul has attained until it is precious.
The preaching of Christ is needed, or else, flesh would not come into the program of salvation. The rock is the power of God unto salvation (Rom. 1:16). One needs to become rocky and then climb Zion which is also a rock. These things are promises. One who is godly is a peculiar rock that can learn God and can learn judgment.
“[3] And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.” (Psa. 1:1-4). The tree is a godly tree. There is a tree called Christ and a tree called the Son of God and these two are different.
“Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.” When God is judging the righteous, the ungodly cannot stand because he is not a rock (Psa. 1:5). The ungodly are like the chaff (Psa. 1:4) which are driven away by the wind. Thus, sinners (ungodly) and the godly are two completely different beings.
The learning of Christ makes one godly and this level of godliness is equal to the height of Zion. Cherubs are a copy of saved sons of everlasting life; they have everlasting life but not at the same pedigree as God intends to give to man. The life in them does not have the type of everlasting life God purposed for man. The everlasting life in Cherubs is salvation but it can be corrupted, so it is not actually the life that is in God. This is why Cherubs have to serve us (Heb. 1:14). One who is about to be saved will be served by ministering spirits. These angels that serve are attracted to salvation because that is the greatest coin in heaven.
Our calling and election is made sure (2 Pet. 1:10) when we become a sure stone. This lesson begins upon Zion. The church of the first born, who are believers that have written their names in heaven, (Heb. 12:23) must have partaken of the flesh of Jesus. Heaven is a veil. Flesh is a veil; it is a body. To write one’s name in heaven is to write one’s name in another flesh. This means such a person has become a dweller of a different heaven. Satan knows this which is why when one is becoming heavenly, warfare breaks out.
The feast of the body is the feast of the flesh of Jesus; it is to eat His flesh. This is one gift from a high priest: flesh and blood. “Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine…” (Gen. 27:28). Dew comes upon bread (flesh) and blood; it is the commanding of the blessing. The dew of heaven rests on the body and the life that is in the body; it is the accreditation that a person has completed the course of life. One can have life everlasting within but would still need life everlasting upon.
“Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.” (Isa. 60:1). The Lord is risen upon, but there is also the glory of the Lord written within. This is the same also with Eternal Life; it is needed upon and within.
“For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” (Romans 8:18). Glory comes after the word is given; it comes after covenant is made and then testimony is generated. This is when prophecy and vision are sealed. Vision is the body and the word. Prophecy is the life (spirit) and then the Most Holy is anointed (Dan. 9:24).
“I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread. [16]I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.” (Psa. 132:15-16). There is the poor in Zion who are those that are exiting Zion. The essence of this feeding is to make them written in heaven. One should not remain on earth because God has an allocation for people; He has given grace to men to climb up, so we should respond to grace. We should go up and climb Zion.
One who is climbing Zion is climbing angels and the doctrine of Christ is our aid to go over them. Angels have brought themselves down for us to go up. As we climb, we also war with the rulers of the darkness of this world. That is our heavenly dimension! When we get there, we will see the church of the Firstborn and meet God the Judge of all. God does not judge sinners in Zion but the righteous (Psa. 1:5).
“And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.” (Isa. 25:6). There are two things here: blood and wine which make up for the feast. Fat things is blood, while fat things full of marrow are fat things that have matured blood; they are marrow that have fullness of life. This is what takes place in the feast!
We will not be eating bread only. After we eat bread, we become strong as a result of our obedience. After the body, life is needed. Full perfection in everlasting life is not attained until one has encountered the blood of the everlasting covenant.
“Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant…” (Heb 13:20). This Shepherd of the sheep is a pasture in the blood. There is a meal in the blood that He will lead us through to feed on blood. “Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.” (Heb. 13:21). This perfect is not Christ’s perfection; it is the perfection of the fullness of Christ. One may have done good works but there is a need to perfect it.
“And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.” (Isaiah 25:6). All people is not all nations, rather, it refers to the church of the Firstborn written in heaven that ascended Zion. Marrow comes from the bones of the body. The flesh may leave the body but marrow keeps the life of the flesh, thus making it difficult for it to fall into corruption. Even when the flesh goes away, it (life) can still be generated from the bones.
“So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. [8]And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.” (Ezek. 37:7-8). This is why it is not easy to destroy the soul no matter how far it has gone because God can still raise it again. Flesh is the word; to put flesh (sinews) is in the word. By putting those things, the man is being covered.
“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads…” (Rev. 13:16). This beast taught them to build an image. Thus, their hands were involved in the process. The image of the beast is the disguise of Satan behind the beast, but the image later became expressive. These men were building an image in themselves, which is an everlasting work of the devil.
Satan can exercise the full power of the first beast. The partial power of the first beast is to make an image, but the fullness of the power is to give life. He both caused them to build and then to have life. When the image spoke, it wrote their name on their forehead.
Jesus wants to feast us with both blood and wine. The blood of the everlasting covenant sprinkled on one gives the person an opportunity to make covenant. The word is a teacher of the covenant. Jesus is a mediator because when covenant is being made, Satan is also there. As such, to defeat iniquity, one needs to come into a peace higher than angels and then be raised to allow the expiration of death in him.
“And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.” (Isa. 25:6). On the lees, there are wines. In the process of fermentation, sedimentation takes place through the drapes, but it can be well refined. Both wines are necessary. Fat things alone qualify one for wines on the lees. One must receive wines on the lees first then move to the fullness of blood that has matured.
For each blood, there are wines. Wine is the spirit that is harvested from the blood; it is the intoxication gotten from the blood. Grapes signify blood. Jesus did not give blood; He gave the New Testament in His blood (1 Cor. 11:25). Jesus gave wine because wine is a testament. When it is in the blood, it is a covenant.
When one has been served with wine out of blood, such a person has been moved from covenant to testament. It is on the mountain that covenant is cut. After covenant has been cut, there is a need to wait. The purpose of waiting is to ferment the blood to get wines. The wine is the spirit of the blood.
The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy (Rev. 19:10). Covenant is the spirit of agreement; it is the spirit to make covenant. Testament is the result of the covenant. Covenant fermentation produces wine. At the end of Jesus’ life, He called Himself the true vine (John 15:1). It was at this point that Jesus became true. The Father oversees the vine; He is always around the vine because the vine tree is the pleasure of the Father.
“Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.” (John 15:2). To be a branch bearing fruit is to produce wine. For one to be fully true with the vine, one needs to be engrafted in the vine. One becomes a qualified branch for the vine when one has eaten of the bread, thereby, having a body to be grafted in.
We become engrafted in the vine so we can have the life of the blood. The vine tree is firstly a covenant tree. God plants it through His law—spirit. He plants the tree and it becomes a covenant. After some time, the tree through processes of growth begins to produce wine. To make covenant, one needs to agree with the One who is planting and respond to Him who feeds it.
The fullness of divine nature is the expression of the life of the blood and wine. In Revelation 14, Jesus reaped the earth, then they reaped the clusters of the grape of the earth that are mature. The earth was reaped, the Son of man who sat upon the cloud brought that to himself (Rev. 14:15). To reap the earth is to separate the earth. Jesus is a presser of the vine and He needs something to crush.
“And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.” (Rev. 14:18). These are men who have gone all the way with the devil. Satan is the husbandman and the beast is the vine. It is not everyone that is planted on the vine, but everyone with the mark of 666 are already made up. The army of the beast are the matured amongst the vine of the earth. One cannot be an army without wine, hence, they need to be wined to fight the Lamb.
“Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty. [4] And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.” (Psalm 45:3-4). The testimony is to dye the garment in blood. Covenant become testament while testament becomes testimony. What we use to get to the vine is meekness. To overcome the dragon, we need much more than covenant.
“Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. [3] Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.” (Rev. 1:2-3). In the blood, there is covenant and from the covenant, there is testimony. The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy (Rev. 19:10). As such, what the testimony is saying is prophecy. What came out of the blood is wine, which is the testimony. The wine also has word; there is another word from the blood. You have blood, then you should have wine. Out of the wine are words. It means the wine is a spirit while blood is life; wine is a spirit that is generated from the blood.
The word of God is flesh but there is a flesh from the blood or the wine which is word. Word is flesh. That is what will be given to the army of heaven to eat so that their garment will be dyed in blood. The manchild would be able to sit on the throne because God will teach him covenant and testimony also. When he is taught testimony and how to be a testimony, he would get the word from the testimony to overcome the dragon. Nothing overcomes the dragon but the word of their testimony.
The remnant of the seed of the woman has testimony, not just covenant (Rev. 12:17) but they are unable to overcome him because they do not have the word of their testimony. The ones who overcame had the word of their testimony (Rev. 12:11). There is a word which God would teach us and it is called the prophecy of this book. The testament generates book. Book is a container of words. There are things written therein which are meant to overcome the dragon and he does not know it.
Someone should be able to read. Stars of the churches can read; servants or prophets can hear. Testimony makes one a prophet of the everlasting God. Prophecy is the life of the prophet. There is a way we are to live that Satan cannot read; it is the apex of everlasting life that creatures cannot partake of. It is the word of the highest point of everlasting life. The everlasting life that man should attain would overcome the dragon because creatures do not have it.
Without the coming of the Lamb, we cannot ferment the wine until the wine begins to speak. The end of prophecy is the overcoming of the red dragon. The blood of the Lamb is the life of the Lamb. They have blood and testimony, which is wine. These are the things that will overcome the devil. Our meekness and gentleness cannot overcome the devil, we need to hear things that are written. The purpose of wine on the lees is to destroy the covering cast over people and the veil spread over the nations (Isa. 25:7).
“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). Satan dyed his garment in red so he would not leave heaven. It is a baby with the word of prophecy that will sit on the throne. There is a meekness that is higher than creatures—the uncreated meekness that the testimony generates. It is the life of prophecy. What makes a baby of the womb are those words. There is a mystery converting one from a walking child to a baby that can be born. One can be a little child that can lead many and have testimony, but not be a child of the womb.
“Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.” (Psalms 127:3). The conversion to a child of the womb is where reward is. To get the reward, one must be completely helpless. God kept the child in the womb of the woman and one who gets to this point will receive maximum protection of the throne. The more helpless one becomes, the more powerful the person really is. The more vulnerable one becomes, the more protected the person is by the throne. This is because God’s full strength cannot accommodate our (man’s) strength. Thus, we have to be weakened completely to receive the full strength of God.
“I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.” (Rev. 3:8). It is the door of the key of David to hear words of prophecy. The Husbandman of the vine who has expectations from the tree and branches is hiding. Anytime Jesus is seen, it means the Father is not far. The person that has passion is the Father, He is always hiding behind the Son. Once you can get Jesus, you will get the Father. Jesus reveals Him but there is also Himself. There are vines troubling the earth, men whom Satan has fellowshipped with, but the time has come for them to be judged. This is a season of judgement and judgement must begin from the household of God (1 Pet. 4:17).
God is raising a formidable weapon against Satan and he can not do anything against it. Satan cannot kill the manchild because the sun that covers the mother is the power of the throne. The moon is the power of the earth, for the earth was her footstool (Rev. 12:1). We ought to complete our term in the womb and we stay in the womb by words.
God has a program for keeping us. Thus, do not make provision for the flesh. To live fleshly on earth is very dangerous now because the earth is not ordinary anymore. Things are going to happen on the earth but to you shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in His wings (Mal. 4:2).
Blessings!