Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Revelation Hour (RH)
Date: Saturday, 29th October 2022
Ministering: Pastor Tayo Fasan
When a man is turned from idols, he has appreciated in a program of love. This program of love is both a program of love and hate (hate for the world). To hate the world is to hate the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life (1 John 2:16). We will come into hatred for these things by coming into a program of love. We cannot hate the world on our own accord. We prove that we hate the world by how well we obey the commandments that are given to us. It is in the understanding of the word that commandments come.
We are in a season where we ought to take stock of what we really love or hate. The way to hate the world is to keep overcoming, until the program of hatred has been installed in our souls (1 John 5:4). When we have overcome, we will see the world in its true colour and see how it has robbed us of life through our upbringing, life exposures and experiences. When we are able to see this, we will take faith more personally and be committed to it.
When we know what it means to be fruitful and how a new man ought to look like, we will acknowledge that we have been robbed by the world. When we realise this, we are supposed to hit back at the world because it has caused us to have many wasted years. As such, when God wanted to use men like Samuel, He started early with them; He started with them from their childhood. For those whom He did not start early with, like Abraham and Moses, it took decades to flush out the world from them and create an enmity in their souls against it.
The things of the old man – the lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh and pride of life (1 John 2:16) have a smell but the light of faith helps us discern, fight and overcome them. We may lose the battle sometimes, but a time will come when our victory will become a new norm.
“These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: [17] A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, [18] An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, [19] A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.” (Prov. 6:17-18). Some of us see these conversations and do not react to them because we see them as normal. This is because of where our souls are still dwelling. When we realise where our souls are meant to be dwelling, we will hate these things. If the Lord hates a thing, it means it can be traced to death. Men who have these conversations are vessels of wrath. Ideally, our spirits and souls should be vexed at the sight of such conversations.
The reason for the love of money and all sins can be traced to fear (1 Tim. 6:10). This is why God looks to deliver us from fears and the things we love (Psa. 23:4). The spirit of the fear of the Lord is what ignites love for Him and makes one of quick understanding and judgement (Isa. 11:2-3). The fear of the Lord is what capacitated Him to judge the categories of the poor, the meek and the wicked (those who can be snatched from fire), while He was on earth. A person who has this spirit will judge with everlasting righteousness. The fear of the Lord is also known as the love of the Lord. When the Almighty has fathered sons and daughters to become temples for God, they will have this spirit.
“Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.” (2 Cor. 6:17). After a believer must have come out of the world and become separate, such a one must journey further to “touch not the unclean”. Through teaching, a believer is meant to be able to discern the clean and the unclean. This was how the Roman and Thessalonian church were able to turn to God and become a Christ company, whose faith was noised abroad.
“Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.” (Eze. 22:26). For us, the unclean is the world and we get defiled every time we touch the things that are in the world. People who do not have the hope of the gospel are living in fear no matter their outward appearance. Even people who are using milk faith are living in fear because what was ordained to drive out fear in the soul is firstly the doctrine of Christ. Fear is perpetuated by principalities, powers and rulers of the darkness of the world not merely demons. The remission of our sins is the remission of things that have the primary characteristic of fear.
The love of money is traceable to fear. Fear is the absence of the faith that is in Christ. People who are living by fear today and are appreciating in it were not born fearful. There is no neutral gear in the realm of the spirit. We either go from faith to faith and climb Zion or remain inhabitants of the earth. The only way to avoid the latter is to come under the gospel because it is a covering.
If we are not under the covering of faith, we are living in fear. When we hear the voice of the Son, we ought not to harden our hearts or respond in unbelief (Heb. 3:15). This is because the voice of the Son is saying something that can reconcile us to heaven. After we have set our affections on things above, the voice is meant to bring us to the substances of things above. It is by gathering these substances that fears are displaced in the soul.
We do not know where fears reside in our souls. But as seasons come and go, God will displace those fears in our souls. Our actions and inactions are traceable to fear, even concerning the love of our brethren. Many of us love our comfort zones because of fear. Our boundaries and carefulness are not borne out of faith because they do not amount to laying down our lives; this is fear.
“For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. [5] Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?” (1 John 5:4-5). One who has overcome the world still has to believe with faith for better substances that can deal with (the fear of) death. This is what the voice of the Son gives. If we do not respond to the voice of the Son, we will respond in unbelief. It is not everyone that is using the speakings of the Son however, to go against death.
Another word for fear is love. The voice we are hearing is preparing us to not love a life. We often feel secure in a familiar territory, but when we are taken to unfamiliar territories, our fears will be exposed. There is a heart that can relate with God’s presence. Jesus went into the presence of God for us, not for Himself. The essence of His speakings are to reconcile us into presence. Part of the reason why we question some things is because of our fears. Alternatively, it could be because of a love for something that will hinder us from launching out into the unknown.
Some of us have some things we naturally hate but we do not have that kind of reaction when it comes to death because we have not gathered substances. The gathering of substances and the keeping of the things we hear is what will displace fears in us. Death is a perimeter of life or the perimeter of a walk or conversation; its bait is fear.
“But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.” (Rev. 21:8). All these things mentioned in here are properties of a throne — the second death. They are on earth right now and are culturing men. The antichrist is also embodying these conversations right now on earth. Therefore, it is not too early for us to embody the conversations that the Lord is expecting in the season of everlasting life. The works listed in the verse above are works and conversations of death. Many of the men who had these attributes did not start as murderers, they just completed a course. In the same way, God also wants us to complete a course and keep faith with this feast.
The Lord told the everlasting churches to be faithful unto death (Rev. 2:10). This means that He might not necessarily deliver them from the fiery furnace, but He will give them something which will sustain them there — Presence. What clothed the four Hebrew children was the presence of the Lord. For us, what will cloth us is a word. When we gather a particular measure of the better and enduring substance, we will be immune from death.
We should not count it strange when we go through fiery trials (1 Pet. 4:12) because when we are about to be decked with glorious thoughts, some spirits which have not reacted before will react. Nonetheless, God will not allow us to be tempted more than what we can bear (1 Cor. 10:13). That the Lord will deliver us from evil does not just mean that we are not going to experience evil, but that we will also be given something that will make us wiser than the spirit that is using that evil.
“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” (Matt. 6:33). This is the immunity from the evil day. In the kingdom of God, there is righteousness, peace and joy. Without them, a believer can be hurt by virtue of the evil that is coming upon the earth in years ahead. This is a service that mammon wants to demand. We are all called to sit on the Throne, therefore, we will face the same classes of evil spirits that Jesus and the Apostles faced.
“Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” (Matt. 6:34 ). To take Christ is as easy as taking a thought, just as it is with death. We ought to live by taking no thought for tomorrow. We can assess how well we keep faith with this commandment by checking if we can live like Jesus is coming tomorrow. The Apostles lived in this manner (2 Cor. 4:8-10). Every fear emanates from an image — tomorrow, and all the plans for tomorrow are influenced by mammon. To be free from tomorrow is to be free from mammon, which is the fear of death. We will get to this point by believing in Jesus the Christ, the Son of the living God (John 20:31).
We ought not to relate with tomorrow in the same way that merchants of the earth do because when the world system collapses, they will wail. Some of us are yet to hate death, but this is not a safe place to be. Those who do not hate death will get to a place where their love will wax cold because iniquity will abound (Matt. 24:12). When Satan comes with wrath, we would need a certain nature that can withstand it.
“O how love I thy law! It is my meditation all the day.” (Psa. 119:97). This is the immunity we should have, for only thereby will our minds be weaponized against spirits. Our minds ought to have the shield of faith (Eph. 6:16). They need to continually transact with a server in heaven. When we use our minds that way, there will be no space to take evil thoughts. This is how our minds will be shielded. This shield is a formation in the mind, such that it becomes an anointed mind that can smell contrary thoughts that are not after Christ (Col. 2:8). We should not allow some thoughts to perch on our hearts. If they do, they will defile our hearts.
Until we process and digest the speakings over us, we will not have the strength to react against evil thoughts. Evil thoughts do not always look evil, they are fallen glorious thoughts or promises. It was this kind of thought that Adam fellowshipped with, and it came from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Many times, these thoughts will catch us unguarded because they do not look evil. If we do not have a lifestyle of consecration and our minds are not busy with the revelations of righteousness before those thoughts come, they will overtake us. Therefore, our minds must be charged to discern them.
“But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.” (Heb. 5:14). We ought to exercise ourselves with these teachings that are coming our way; this is when we will be able to know what evil thoughts are. It takes mercy to discern evil thoughts, our minds must have been exercised overtime because what is evil may look good. There are conversations that would come our way that our responses will be dependent on the level of at which senses have been exercised by the word.
Many of our souls have not been quickened, this is why the Word of God is our only immunity (Heb. 4:12). To discern evil, we must experience eternal power (John 1:12) which is everlasting life. This is a power to come into Eternal Life and it comes from the word of God. The word is not just powerful, it is also quick. When we have been empowered and quickened by that word, we will be able to judge motives and see what is right while using the light of faith.
God would bring deliverance our way this season, including from deceptions. Sins need to be remitted in us otherwise, we will be easily deceived. We must journey from believing the truth to loving the truth, in order not to be deceived. By loving the truth, a software of hatred would be birthed in us.
“My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.” (Psa. 73:26). Until God becomes the strength of our hearts, we are not saved. Therefore, we must live in fear and trembling before the Lord. We must tremble at the commandments of the Lord and the word (Isa. 66:2). In the place of trembling, we would be constrained by love and empowered to do what is right.
“Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” (Matt. 6:34). Every trial that God permits is to train us not to take thoughts. When we profit from a trial, tribulation, and persecution, we are developed. Then, we can be more responsive to our spirits. There is a part of us that is not grave and would not be careful to consider all the sides of a matter; this usually emanates from fear.
“When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.” (Isa. 4:4). Their filth is their iniquity and it is a higher level of uncleanness. There is an uncleanness that is the iniquity of the Most Holy Place; it is a love. In the day of salvation, the filth of Jerusalem would be purged. We are being purged of this filth. As long as we still carry this filth, many of the offerings of the devil and the temptations he has to offer us would be appealing.
“In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.” (Isa. 4:2). We are engrafted into the Vine so that we can take a higher commandment that will enable us to handle the evil day and respond appropriately to that which we see as good but is actually evil. It is by the fruit of divine nature we would develop judgement to discern the end of every matter. Our escape is our purging from filth; this is usually done by the Father of Spirits. We know heaven is measuring out dealings to help us embody this judgement being given to us when we go through chastisements that would humble us. Our escape is deliverance from filth. The washing and purging of filth is being done by the giving of glorious thoughts to us. These glorious thoughts x-ray every negative glorious thought in us.
“And I am sure that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.” (Rom. 15:29). The fullness of the gospel carries a wisdom. The fullness was committed to him because he had been separated to the gospel. The gospel of God is a wisdom. This wisdom is a salvation and it is usually spoken to them that are perfect (1 Cor. 2:6). The commandment that was given to Adam was a wisdom that was given to him. We need the hidden wisdom that was ordained for our glory. Jesus was harmless because of wisdom. We should be wise unto that which is good — salvation.
“Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.” (Matt. 10:16). The nature of being harmless is borne out of the wisdom of meekness. It is wisdom that will make you avoid some things. We can avoid many temptations with wisdom. By wisdom, Jesus walked in a way that the enemies could not discern. This was a wisdom that was produced from the fullness of the gospel. Paul was using the wisdom of obedience to overcome spirits and was demonstrating the many-sided wisdom of God before princes and powers. By doing so, He came into Presence.
We should have a good rapport with our spirits. There are many things and even losses we can avoid if we can be subject to our spirits. A lot of times, it takes a lot of patience to get to this point. The spirit is a new man and he has a good measure of patience with which he overcomes the world. We need patience to overcome the world. We should therefore seek to be part of those under whose feet Satan would be bruised (Rom. 16:20). One way we can tell that a thought is not from the Lord is based on if it was revealed. If it is revealed, your spirit will bear witness to it.
“And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.” (2 Cor. 10:6). We would obey fully and so be able to bruise Satan. Joy is the rest of the everlasting kingdom; it is a state of peace. God wars in peace because He sees the end. There is a disobedience that has not been avenged. When we embody the conversation of being harmless, God can come to avenge us.
Blessings!
Summary
1. To hate the world is to hate the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and pride of life (1 John 2:16). We cannot hate the world on our own accord. We prove that we hate the world by how well we obey the commandments that are given to us.
2. The way to hate the world is to keep overcoming until the program of hatred has been installed in our souls (1 John 5:4). When we have overcome, we will see the world in its true colour and see how it has robbed us of life through our upbringing, life exposures and experiences.
3. The reason for the love of money and all sins can be traced to fear (1 Tim. 6:10). This is why God looks to deliver us from fears and the things we love (Psa. 23:4).
4. The spirit of the fear of the Lord is what ignites love for Him and makes one of quick understanding and judgement (Isa. 11:2-3). A person who has this spirit will judge with everlasting righteousness.
5. Fear is the absence of the faith that is in Christ. It is perpetuated by principalities, powers and rulers of the darkness of the world, not merely demons. Therefore, people who do not have the hope of the gospel are living in fear.
6. When we hear the voice of the Son, we ought not to harden our hearts or respond in unbelief (Heb. 3:15). This is because the voice of the Son is saying something that can reconcile us to heaven and bring us to the substances of the things above. The accumulation of these things will displace fear in a soul.
7. We should not count it strange when we go through fiery trials (1 Pet. 4:12) because when we are about to be decked with glorious thoughts, some spirits which have not reacted before will react. Nonetheless, God will not allow us to be tempted more than what we can bear (1 Cor. 10:13).
8. We ought to live by taking no thought for tomorrow (Matt. 6:34). We can assess how well we keep faith with this commandment by checking if we can live as if Jesus is coming tomorrow. To be free from tomorrow is to be free from mammon, which is the fear of death.
9. Our minds ought to have the shield of faith (Eph. 6:16). They need to continually transact with a server in heaven. When we use our minds that way, there will be no space to take evil thoughts. This is how our minds will be shielded.
10. Evil thoughts do not always look evil because they are fallen glorious thoughts or promises. If we do not have a lifestyle of consecration and our minds are not busy with the revelations of righteousness before those thoughts come, they will overtake us.
11. It takes mercy to discern evil thoughts. Our minds must have been exercised over time with the teachings that are coming our way to be able to do this. To discern evil, we must experience eternal power (John 1:12) which is everlasting life.
12. The word is not just powerful, it is also quick. When we have been empowered and quickened by that word, we will be able to judge motives and see what is right while using the light of faith.
13. We need patience to overcome the world. We should therefore seek to be part of those under whose feet Satan would be bruised through our full obedience (Rom. 16:20). When we embody the conversation of being harmless, God can come to avenge us.