Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Anamnesis Prayer Meeting - Week 2 Day 1
Date: Monday, 14th November 2022
Ministering: Rev. Kayode Oyegoke
“The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.” (Psalm 16:5). The “Lord” in this scripture is Jehovah. Portion speaks of a plot or allocated land, and a land is one’s inheritance. Our inheritance is the portion called the Lord (1 Peter 1:3-4). This portion is characterized by strength. Thus, for the Lord to be one’s inheritance, it means He is one’s strength. The Lord knows how to maintain our lot, therefore, our lot cannot fade nor diminish in quality.
The Lord is also the portion we drink. Therefore, the Lord is both our land and drink. ‘Lot’ also refers to portion and inheritance. Inheritance is a mighty Person; it is the Lord Himself, for He is high. The Lord is not only our inheritance but also the keeper and sustainer of our inheritance. To keep is the wisdom of the incorruptible which is resident in the Lord.
There are things and activities at work in the Lord that make it impossible for Him to fade. The Lord is unfading, unfailing; there is no loss of strength in Him. He can also increase might to those who are fading (Isa. 40:28-29).
The everlasting Lord, not the Eternal God is the Creator of the heavens and the earth (Isaiah 40:28-29). When God wanted to create, He had to step down into the everlasting state. Satan cannot defeat the everlasting Lord, for there is no searching of His understanding (Isa. 40:28-29).
“The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.” (Psalm 16:6). ‘Lines’ refer to judgements – precepts upon precepts. Lines coming to one means doctrine is coming to such. What makes the heritage good is because it is a heritage better than what flowers with grass can find. One who has a goodly heritage is blessed of the Lord.
“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.” (Hebrews 5:2). A high priest must be compassed with the infirmity of the people. He must look like them to be able to save them. There are two categories of people the High Priest ministers to: the ignorant and those who are out of the way. The goal is to heal them of something they are not aware of.
The righteous are those who have come to life and peace, being spiritually minded and are also priests (Mal. 2:5). Thus, to be a man indeed that can transact with the High Priest, one must have made a covenant. This is because the High Priest is a mediator for the covenant of life. At the level of peace, there is no need for a covenant because that is a realm of being trained by the Holy Spirit in Christ.
Covenant is higher than a commandment; it is the response of the commandment. Thus, when God writes a commandment in a man, He is fulfilling the commandment. The ten tablets of stones the Lord gave Moses were not commandments but covenants. The commandment was the book of the law Moses wrote.
“if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.” (Deuteronomy 30:10). When one has turned to the Lord with all his heart and all his soul, a covenant is written on the soul. Commandment is something one observes to do while covenant is a nature. One who is at the level of the covenant has received that nature as a life and no longer struggles to keep it.
After commandments, there are also precepts, statutes and testimonies that must be done before covenants are made. It is the covenant that God validates. The shekinah does not rest on the commandment until it has been done. One can have commandment and may not have done the covenant. There is a time/season for hearing and storing the covenant. 6
Hearing brings about the materials for building. There would be an excitement to build when there are first materials on site. Thus, God first loads us with knowledge, so no one would be lacking in what to do. Knowledge causes us to know, making us aware. We must never be ignorant, or else, we cannot obey. Knowledge increases strength. If one is not strong, such a person cannot do.
A man can be strong and may not deploy his strength. Thus, we should ensure we make use of the strength God gives us through His knowledge. As light comes, strength is given. Joy is strength. One can lose his strength if he refuses to use it. The adversary does not leave us when strength has been ministered to us. There are some who received the word with joy, but when persecution arose because of the word, they became offended (Matt. 13:21).
The seed is borne in one when such a person receives the word but it is possible for that seed not to be rooted. Tribulation and persecution would arise because of the word. The first level of opposition to the word is that of the fowls of the air who come to steal the word and make the soul easily forget the word that was planted.
“He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.” (Matthew 13:22). The last level of opposition is that which receives the word and it grows, but the cares of this world and deceitfulness of riches choke the word. This is a dangerous place to be!
Deceitfulness of riches comes by the devil luring the saint with riches and pleasures of the world. There are pleasures, status or power that the soul may crave to get, seeking to puff itself up and gain expression in spheres that exalt the soul. On the other hand, cares of this world are legitimate things designed by Satan to prevent one from being fruitful. There are some who have left the word of righteousness because they do not see the hope of riches coming into their hands.
We should see ourselves as custodians of the resources (money) God gives us. This would help us manage the holiness in the soul. This is where many saints fail because of the weakness of the soul.
“Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil…” (Hebrews 2:14). The power of death is the ministration of the face of Satan, which makes people aware of an impartation of knowledge they previously did not have. When knowledge is taught, it gives a way. There is a way of death and the teacher of that way makes it look right to a man (Prov. 14:12). The way of death is also the power of death.
Satan created the way of death and taught man how to die. He wrote that way as a thesis and sealed it in darkness. He wrote it as a formula for life and patented it as right, worthy of pursuit because he wanted to kill man. It is only in the church, that is, the local assembly that the celebration of the victory over death would be attained, for it is only the Church that God has apportioned freedom from death. This kind of church (local assembly) is not just an ordinary one but one that has followed the pattern of receiving freedom/liberty from the way of death.
Without a way of death, people would not know how to die. Therefore, Satan had to write a way for death, by making death alluring so he could sell it to man. He packages death so it can be attractive to man. This is what Satan did in the garden of Eden; he convinced the woman to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil by preaching about the tree as being spectacular till Eve saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food, pleasant to the eyes, to be desired to make one wise (Gen 3:6).
We ought to check and watch our innermost intentions for making our choices, especially concerning our natural affairs. We ought to be able to avoid the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil when we see it.
Satan has made death no longer estranged from our community but well present. God has no regard for any person (Acts 10:34). Thus, if a soul has regard for iniquity even to the minutest level, He will purge it. No one who regards iniquity in his heart will appear before God. Until hatred for iniquity is born in the heart and the soul has come to disregard iniquity, such a one still has a tendency to refuse God. No idols should be found in us. We must also not use the edge of information to slight another. When the Son of man is lifted, a soul that regards iniquity will refuse Him.
Ignorance makes a soul trade the things of God for the things of this world. In the sphere we are approaching, nothing of iniquity, no idols must be found in us; not even the confidence of preaching should rely on anything traceable to flesh. To attain well-doing goes beyond being committed to meetings, but more so, being able to divorce idols. Idols are creatures the soul regards.
Idols portray the status of glories in the spirit. There are silver, brass, wood and stone idols portraying different statuses of glories. These idols are things that Satan can use to lure a soul away from God.
The power of death (Heb. 2:14) is the wisdom of death. This talks about how to make death work and how to kill the soul with death. The devil ‘had’ the power of death but no longer does. That power remained with the devil and no one had access to demystify and dislodge it. However, there is now a solution for the power of death. Jesus destroyed he who had the power of death, not just death itself (Heb. 2:14).
God is the Father of life. Death was not completely Satan’s property, but he turned the life he had to kill. The Bible tells us that death is the last enemy that shall be destroyed (1 Cor. 15:26). However, Jesus already destroyed death (Col. 2:15). Thus, to say that death is the last enemy to be destroyed means there is an element of death that is yet remaining – the manifestation of its destruction. Many believers still die today because the effect of death is still expressed in the majority of people. Thus, heaven needs a company by which it can completely swallow up death in victory. Therefore, the victory is yet to be seen.
The High Priest builds all things that are of God in a man (Heb. 3:4). It would only take a special building to make one free from death. Without this building, death would keep ravaging us. It is only a habitation of God through the Spirit that can withstand death.
If Jesus was not built, He would not have been able to reject the glory Satan offered. Jesus was a stature that could withstand Satan. Every profession is a house. Jesus, being the High Priest of our profession (Heb. 3:1), needed a house. The job of this house is to demonstrate unusual grace above sin, iniquity and death. We can only be saved and free through the wisdom that the High priest gives for liberty out of bondage. Every man would be committed to bondage willingly, but it is only a particular house that can refuse it. The heavenly calling is a building; it is a call to be built up.
We should not harden our hearts because this is the voice of the building (Heb. 3:7). When building is going on, we would be provoked. The time of temptation in the wilderness (Heb. 3:8) is a time of being raised in a capacity. If houses could talk, they would let us know that the time of building is a time of pain because of the weights and framings involved. However, we are being encouraged to go through this process for our liberty. We need to be built to experience true liberty. Building is training; it is a type of schooling for the acquisition of special skills needed to endure temptation.
Lovers are the overcomers; they are the ones who overcome temptation. There is a sense of rest against death that the High Priest will pass to us. The High Priest would raise us to practice rest at a very high level. A priest is for rest while the High Priest is for high rest. Among the covenants, the last is the covenant of rest while the other is the covenant of not having any other god (Exo. 20:3, 8-11). This means that the reason for all the commandments was for rest.
Rest is a state of high contentment; it is a realm where one can never be tempted. It is a state of high completeness. This state requires us to be full. It is not only knowledge that can communicate a building, for ways are also involved in raising a building. The voice does not just convey knowledge, it also communicates ways.
The teaching of the way is constructive. If it were destructive, it would take down mountains, hills and valleys; it would also construct ways. This tells us that every building is a construct of ways. Every person is a way construct. The High priest guides us in His excellent skill. He would lead us and give us the ability to be built, then we would find rest.
The High priest communicates something that can pass us from death to life (John 5:24). It would be a great shame if anybody falls short in this season. We are in a season where it is of necessity that some must enter this rest and we enter by receiving the building and being professionals of rest. We must gain the ability to rest from the High Priest.
Our tiredness in the body is a sign that we have been used by the world for many things. What we are used for is what we partake of. Now, we are being changed to be used for glory. We need this new use and we must examine how well we are being used. The reason we fall into fornication is because we are not being used. When we are used enough, there will be no space for Satan and his spirits.
These are weightier matters of the law. The transactions of making a building are to teach us how to learn to rest. Death hates beings at rest because when a thing is resting, it will be strong enough to not respond to its pulls. When we come into rest, we would have resolved iniquity, that is, we would know where it is going and what it offers. There is no way Satan can tempt Jesus. The Apostles got to a point where they gained that nature because Jesus worked Himself into men.
A person can be so skillful in the word of righteousness (from meat to the strong meat of the word – Hebrews 5:12-14). As the meat of the word gets digested, such a person would be digesting perfection. The meat offers a state of rest – . There is a boundary of freedom that the strong meat of the word communicates to sons – it is called judgment. By it, we would judge and discern death because we would be quickened. This would help us refuse the evil and choose the good (). What gets this done is the endowment in the regalia of the High Priest, which is mercy.
Our High Priest is merciful. A merciful being has unusual provisions that go beyond death; he has mercies that cannot be exhausted. Jesus is so blessed with many mercies. He is merciful because He wears ways; His garments are paths. The ways of the Lord can be a garment we can wear.
Our Lord Jesus has raised a horn of salvation for us. Anything merciful is stronger than death. Death came from a kind of mercy; it is a mercy gift that was turned to evil by Lucifer (now Satan). For us to deal with it, we would have to go back to where it came from. Death is Satan’s mercy. What he did was that he recalibrated (corrupted) the ways around the mercy that was given to him. Cherubims are merciful beings and they are full of ways. Paths will be riveted in us if we can allow and endure the building process of the Lord. The building is not just a way; it is particularly a high way.
Blessings!
Summary
1. Our inheritance is the portion called the Lord (Ps. 16:5; 1 Peter 1:3-4). This portion is characterized by strength. Thus, for the Lord to be one’s inheritance, it means He is one’s strength. The Lord knows how to maintain our lot, therefore, our lot cannot fade nor diminish in quality.
2. A high priest must be compassed with the infirmity of the people. He must look like them to be able to save them. There are two categories of people that the High Priest ministers to: the ignorant and those who are out of the way (Heb. 5:2). The goal is to heal them of something they are not aware of.
3. The hearing of the word brings about the materials for building. There would be an excitement to build when there are materials on site first. Thus, God first loads us with knowledge so no one would be lacking in what to do. Knowledge causes us to know, making us aware of what God wants to do. We must never be ignorant, or else, we cannot obey. Knowledge increases strength (Prov. 24:5). If one is not strong, such a person cannot obey.
4. The power of death is the ministration of the face of Satan, which makes people aware of an impartation of knowledge they previously did not have. When knowledge is taught, it gives a way. There is a way of death and the teacher of that way makes it look right to a man (Prov. 14:12). The way of death is also the power of death.
5. (Hebrews 2:14). The power of death is the wisdom of death. This talks about how to make death work in order to kill the soul with death. When scripture says the devil ‘had’ the power of death, it means the power remained with the devil and no one had access to demystify and dislodge it. However, Jesus destroyed he who had the power of death, and by so doing destroyed death (Heb. 2:14).
6. The High Priest builds all things that are of God in a man (Heb. 3:4). It would only take a special building to make one free from death. Without this building, death would keep ravaging us. It is only a habitation of God, through the Spirit, that can withstand death.
7. Rest is a state of high contentment; it is a realm where one can never be tempted. It is a state of high completeness in the Lord. One needs knowledge and ways to be raised as a complete building of the Lord. The voice of the Lord does not just convey His knowledge; it also communicates His ways.
8. (Hebrews 5:13-14). As the meat of the word gets digested, one would be digesting perfection. It is the meat of the word that offers a state of rest for the soul. There is also a boundary of freedom that the strong meat of the word communicates to sons – it is called judgment. By it, we would judge and discern death because we would be quickened.
9. Our High Priest is merciful. A merciful being has unusual provisions that go beyond death and such mercies cannot be exhausted. Jesus is so blessed with many mercies. He is merciful because He wears ways; His garments are paths. This means the ways of the Lord can be a garment that we can wear.