Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Revelation Hour
Date: Saturday, 5th March, 2022
Ministering: Pastor Tayo Fasan
The world is a kingdom – it is a dominion of darkness but God wants to redeem us from it by giving us His own kingdom. The coming of God’s kingdom will displace everything of the dark kingdom in us. When this takes place, everything that offends in the souls of men will be judged. It is only when this happens, that men would be able to receive the kingdom that cannot be shaken (Heb. 12:28).
God wants to avenge every disobedience in men, but He is limited when we cannot cry for this to happen. As long as the adversary has not been avenged, certain natures would not be dealt with in us. When ministrations of light come to us, they show us our states in the spirit. Our states can be traced to the fall of man in the garden of Eden (Gen. 3:1-24). When the Lord avenges that work of the enemy, men will begin to ascend to the hill of the Lord. When a believer's foot has not stood on the hill of the Lord, a disobedience has not been avenged.
Many times, we do not see that we have been robbed; that the enemy stole something from us and brought a limitation upon us, which is sin. We therefore need the word of faith to make our souls ascend to where our spirits are—seated in heavenly places in Christ (Eph. 2:6). A believer will only be able to call upon the Lord when He has attained a state of peace (Christ) and it is those who call upon the Lord that shall be saved (Rom. 10:13). In the same way that the word of faith has been able to bring our souls to the hills of the Lord, it will help us access another class of word that will take us further.
“So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” (Rom. 10:17). There is a class of faith that will help a company to ascend to the hill of the Lord but there is a transaction that will also occur on that hill. There is a faith that will come to them because they have ascended from the earth (from being flesh). The Most Holy faith comes by hearing. Everlasting life is also a faith, and it comes by hearing. If the first faith can successfully bring a people to the hill of the Lord, then this next allocation of faith would enable them to call on the Lord for salvation (Rom. 10:13). The Lord wants many more souls to come to this mountain. In the spirit, many have overcome the works of the flesh but these works are actually generated from a state in the soul that is known as “flesh”.
“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. [24] For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away…” (1 Pet. 1:23-24). There is a level of flesh that can be dealt with by the word of faith. There is also a type of flesh that fought the sons in Genesis 6, even though they had come into a level of everlasting life of their dispensation. This was possible because while God was raising them in the everlasting order, Satan was simultaneously raising another class of flesh who would come against them. These “other kind” were referred to as “the daughters of men”. Thereafter, men became flesh (Gen. 6:2).
Those sons of men still wrestled with a measure of flesh, even though they had overcome it to a certain extent. As such, they could not overcome in their testament or come into a rest, like Noah did (Gen. 6:8-9). Noah could overcome flesh because he overcame a higher expression of flesh. He overcame that aspect of flesh because he entertained the fear of God. It is a man who fears the Lord that can have the testament of faith.
Every soul has to come into a state of consecration because flesh is a corrupt consecrated state of an angel. Many of us are still carrying a measure of darkened understanding. Until we come into the understanding described in 1 John 5:20, we have not yet overcome. When we stand upon the hills of the Lord, we need to receive the blessing (Psa. 133:3).
“As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.” (Psa. 133:3). The dew (the blessing) that came upon the mountain is everlasting life. Those who have found the way to the hills of the Lord will call for life forevermore; they will then begin to trust the Father of lights for the blessing. It is by this blessing or dew that Zion will be beautified. This is a state that God can no longer resist.
“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). In the course of Zion being beautified with salvation, God will deal with things that were not dealt with hitherto. There are expressions of guile, hypocrisy, malice, envies and evil speaking that the word of Christ could not deal with. For this reason, that company of men need to be born again. They need to hear a faith that comes from the word of God, which is fervent charity (1 Pet. 4:8). Fervent charity is a faith of the Most Holy which would strengthen us to handle the enemies that we could not handle before we got to the hill of the Lord.
When Zion was formed, there was a faith or strength that was not exercised. We therefore need to fight the good fight of faith (1 Tim. 6:12). This fight is a fight to lay hold on the good in the Most Holy, which is everlasting life. This faith is a higher faith than the previous ones and will require a higher warfare. One thing evil spirits will do in this season is to prevent us from fighting. Whenever our hearing frequency is interrupted, we can become vulnerable to these spirits in a matter of time. The Most Holy faith comes by hearing and by it, we gather better and enduring substances. It is also referred to as “our common salvation” (Jude 1:3).
In the season of the Most Holy, we must contend earnestly for the faith, for it is a realm of diligence. Those who did not or who stopped contending fell short of being comforted by the goods that this faith delivers. There is a “fight of faith” and there is the “good fight of faith”. When a soul fights the fight of faith, he would lay hold on Eternal Life, which in this context is everlasting life. It would take a fight to inherit everlasting life. The process of being blessed after the manner of the Most Holy is a fight. This fight takes place with what we do and what we hear.
When a soul is exposed to a level of pressure, it reveals things that are buried in it. It was pressure that revealed the offence in John the Baptist, while he was in prison (Matt. 11:2-3). When the Lord imprisons men, it helps bring them into thresholds; first of Christ and then of everlasting life. This means that someday, we all would be imprisoned. Paul declared that he was a prisoner because his soul also needed to be saved (Eph. 3:1); there were things needed to be expunged from his soul. These things were kept in his soul by a power, therefore, it will take another power to remove them.
When we have been healed of that power by the gospel of Christ, there remains another power that needs to expose the things that can make us to offend. We come into this power, by coming into what Psalm 133:3 calls “the blessing”. We are unaware of our tendencies to be offended in the Lord. This is because offence is buried in our souls but it has to be exposed. One of the ways it is exposed is by bringing the soul to a narrow path – a prison or confinement. This is done by tampering with our coordinates in the natural, to expose the things in our souls.
“And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.” (Matt. 11:6). We cannot claim to possess what it takes to not be offended in the Lord until we come into this blessing. We cannot come to this point until we receive a sense or judgement that will help us appreciate becoming more little than we have previously become. Our Lord Jesus humbled Himself while He was on earth; He kept becoming little until He saw Himself as nothing before God (Phil. 2:8).
“I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.” (John 5:30). The reason why John the Baptist reacted in offence towards Jesus was because he believed that Jesus should have had a kind of reputation or an image. He could not reconcile how, after laying down his life for Jesus and done all the things he did, Jesus could not employ His power and authority to make him free from his imprisonment (Matt 11:2-3). John still had the love of his life in him. This love is what God wants to empower us to hate because offence usually hides there.
When we have not been blessed and decked with some measure of righteous judgement after the order of everlasting life, there are some thoughts we cannot resolve. As long as we cannot resolve a thought or temptation, we cannot respond to it accurately. There are things within us that can make us draw back from the Lord, even when they are not by our will. The reason for the declaration of the Father’s name is to heal our souls of offence. It will take divine nature to heal that state in our souls. It is not enough for flesh to escape the corruption in the world that works through lust (2 Pet. 1:4); it must also take part in a nature that would enable it overcome spirits that he has not come across before.
The summary of all the teachings in the curriculum of Christ is against spiritual wickedness in high places (Eph. 6:12). By the word of Christ, we journey to the place where our spirits are. However, there are more heavenly places in Christ (Eph. 2:6), and we need to move to those higher heavens. It will take the teaching of everlasting and Eternal Life to lift the son of man above the earth. Although some of our natural estates have not changed, there is a heaven in which some of us have been situated in our souls. Christ is a heaven; it is a place which some got to by wrestling or letting go of a life.
“For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ…” (Phil. 3:20). This heaven is higher than the heaven the word of Christ would bring us to. There are two stages of looking for things. Paul was looking for something before he arrived at the point where he began to “look for the Saviour”. According to Titus 2:13, we first look for the blessed hope and then, we look for the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour. Paul had looked for the Father, and this caused him to ascend to the point where he had the custody of everlasting life. By this, he could skilfully administer the light of Christ.
To “look for the Saviour”, as described in Philippians 3:20 is the same as “looking for the glorious appearing of the great God and our saviour”, as described in Titus 2:13. Before a man can do this, he must have been blessed while seeking the blessed hope. Such a man has received the blessing of the Lord because he has called upon the name of the Lord. Then, the Lord will come to furnish his soul with the first and last works (Rev. 2:19). Man can look for the blessed hope and can also look for the Father. By gathering the works of everlasting life, we can handle the conversations of everlasting life.
The kingdom of heaven is the kingdom of God, which He wants to give to us to make us heavenly. We cannot be made heavenly at once. For this reason, the heavenly places were calibrated in Christ Jesus.
“That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.” (1 John 1:3). The fellowship with the Son and the Father is a higher heaven than the heaven that the word of Christ will bring us into. The word of Christ would separate us from an aspect of flesh but at that level, we can still be tempted. All that Satan became after the fall is a kind of flesh. Therefore, God had to consecrate something in the flesh of Jesus for us (Heb. 10:20). We must eat all of the flesh of Jesus to be free from all expressions of Satanic flesh and lusts.
There is a will or constitution in man which He can only be saved from when He receives all things that the Father has. Jesus referred to these things as “all judgement” (John 5:22, 16:15). The full expression of this judgment is what is meant to rest upon Zion as a dew; it is supposed to beautify Zion to make her more beautiful than death. Zion is yet to confront death; the last enemy (1 Cor. 15:26). Zion must be raised above death to become Jerusalem. She must entertain a light that will make her a citizen of that heavenly Jerusalem.
“Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin…” (1 Pet. 4:1). This explains how flesh ought to be used—the gift of flesh is for suffering. The essence of the light of everlasting life is to empower us to endure till the end, when we would be saved. The mind that we must arm ourselves with is a one that can accomplish a higher warfare.
“As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby…” (1 Pet. 2:2). This sincere milk is the first expression of everlasting life. This is a growth that raised little children. It is also the growth expected of us and it is by it we will lay aside what would limit us from becoming young men. Young men are everlasting sons in the Most Holy. These men are referred to as little children because they have been born of the incorruptible seed. A time is coming when the least among us will be little children in this context. Then, we will have among us, little children, young men and fathers, just like in the days of John the beloved.
“Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.” (Psa. 119:1). These blessed men would have gotten to a place where they can stand in judgement. They are men who have ascended the hill of God and can take righteous judgements after the manner of everlasting life or the blessing. What Jesus wanted to give the Jews in His earthly days, and even those who will be Jews in the spirit, is everlasting life.
A blessed man is one who can deal with that nature that John the Baptist lacked. By virtue of receiving the dew, such a man will be blessed forever more. These men in Psalm 119:1 are the company of the anointed and the prophets. The dealing of the way here is a higher dealing than the one that raised the children of Israel in the wilderness to become anointed ones because God wants to raise them above defilement.
“These are they that were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are they that follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.” (Rev. 14:4). The women in this verse can be categorised into two—the world and Jezebel. In the same way a godly man can grow to become an everlasting man, a worldly soul can also morph to take what Jezebel has to offer. This was why the spirit of Jezebel could trouble the church in Thyatira (Rev. 2:18-24). What Jezebel is carrying is not just the corruption after the order of the Holy Place but the corruption that is in the midst of the angel (the fallen cherub – Satan). It is a program of death.
There is a defilement from the world and a defilement that God wants to separate us from in this season. When we have been separated from that defilement, we will come into an estate of being blessed beyond offences. There is a living way that has been consecrated to us; it is to take care of defilement or some thoughts (Heb. 10:20). Some thoughts used to fly above and perch on us before but because of the light and truth that is coming forth, we can discern them. When these ministrations become our meditation, they will help us guide the thoughts of our minds. They will build a shield over us called the shield of salvation.
“Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great.” (Psa. 18:35). When you are calling upon the Lord for salvation, you need a shield. Everlasting life is a shield. God needs to shield us from wickedness or wicked spirits. Faith is a shield in the Holy Place, just like fervent charity is also a shield. It is a higher grade of substances of things that will pattern our souls to receive those better and enduring substances. When those better and enduring substances land upon our souls, it will form a shield on them.
There is a fight to take what is good in the seasons of the Most Holy. Then, we need the shield. What constructs this shield are thoughts. In the season of the Most Holy, God wants to tattoo and dress our minds with everlasting thoughts, such that we cannot change or turn back. By the baptisms and immersions of these ministrations at these times, our souls will take on some properties of salvation and they will be to us a shield. When that shield is in place, we will not be able to take thoughts from this world anymore.
Sometimes, we do not know when we take thoughts, especially if God will permit such temptations from the god of this world. There is a way we do not yet know how to respond to offence or tendencies to be offended. It will take the Most Holy meal or judgements to lose the life that those offences latch unto. The reason why offences come to us is because they have a grip on us; we still have natures that are commensurate with them in our souls.
Somewhere, we have not adventured iniquity, but we have also not overcome iniquity. We all adventured sin and death and even the world, and it took time for God to cleanse us from it. However, God now wants to give us things that will make us hate the tendencies to want to adventure iniquity. This is because it is a loveable adventure. Death and iniquity are not what we think they are. They are as exciting as doing our own will and as comforting as just wanting to take a break off the pressure that the commandments of faith and love bring upon a soul. However, this is iniquity because it is our will.
What God really looks out for in our lives is how we handle or war with evil spirits. God is furnishing a company of men that will deal with spirits. God likes to see that mortal flesh (flesh and blood) can take the substances of faith in Christ and the better and enduring substances, and that they can process these substances till they become sons of the living God, who will handle spirits. It is especially by our warfare with wicked spirits that we will please the Father in the seasons of the Most Holy. Sons who are in the season of everlasting life need divine nature to respond to the devil when he is tempting them.
The undefiled in the way that were described in Psalm 119:1 have prospered in the dealing of the way. This way is like their imprisonment. The same way that they imprisoned John the Baptist and offence showed up is the same way they will be imprisoned. However, they will respond with judgements, although they will see tendencies or things about themselves that they had not previously seen. The way will expose these things to us.
Offence means to go against a law, and this is why God has to avenge all disobedience. For God to do this, He has to expose what disobedience is because we do not know what it is. However, God will begin to expose them to us, even as we cooperate with His dealings to address them. Then, God will be able to avenge all disobedience (2 Cor. 10:6).
God wants us to use the light that is being given to us to handle the imperfections of our brethren. If you want to appreciate in your priesthood, when you see a weakness or imperfection in your brethren, find grace to discern it. Know that a promotion in the spirit awaits you if you can handle it selflessly. When you are surrounded by brethren who are mature, you will not really grow. But when God brings you among brethren who do not want to grow, it will expose a lot of hell in you. Then, you need to seek commandments that you will use to handle such situations and you will grow thereby.
“This is the first and great commandment. [39] And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” (Matt. 22:38-39). Jesus likened the Samaritan man to a man who loved his brother who was his neighbour (Lk. 10:25-37). But Jesus also referred to those who will love the Lord with all their hearts, souls and might (Matt. 22:37). This is the commandment of love; it is the commandment of everlasting life. This is the realm of “all”. Those who keep these commandments are those with whom the Lord will share His spoils. Everlasting commandments make us great men, so God will share His spoils with the great (Isa. 53:12). In the New Testament, the commandment is to love your brethren or to do charity. This means that the first and the greatest commandment is a kind of charity in the Most Holy, which is the realm of “all”.
God wants to shine light into some places which light is yet to get to, so that from there, we can respond. There is something known as the wrath of man; it is in the soul of every man (Jam. 1:20). This wrath made our father, Moses, to offend–to come short of a particular conversation of life. We have not yet overcome this wrath but we can overcome it. For this reason, we need the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus, not just the righteousness of faith (2 Cor. 5:21) to heal our tendencies for wrath. It is with this righteousness that we would be able to discern what is called wrath. God wants to feed us above that law, so that whenever we are subjected to any kind of pressure, especially the pressure of loving our enemies, we will respond as we have been commanded. By the time we are fed, we will be able to love our enemies.
“Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.” (Psa. 119:4). The word diligence is used mostly in scripture in the seasons of everlasting life (2 Pet.1:5; Heb. 11:6). It is a demand from little children who need to become young men by virtue of faithfully keeping the word of God and living and abiding with it and then journeying to become fathers (1 Jn. 2:12-14). Everlasting life has its precepts, and God is laying them in our midst. The precepts will enable us to keep the first and last works, just like the precepts of faith, hope and charity have helped many and are still helping many to keep the conversations of charity.
“Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.” (Psa. 119:11). “Thy word” is a kind of word that God has been opening up to us to deal with a nature in us called corruption. By hiding and treasuring this word, we will ascend to higher heavens. Some of us have not yet imagined that a time will come when we will not sin anymore, but this is the expectation of God for us. The Old Testament saints came to this place in a shadow. They came here by honouring the commandments God gave them.
“For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.” (Rom. 10:11). To believe on Him is to believe not just the faith that is in Him but on the everlasting measure of life that is in Him. To believe on Him is to believe everything that raised Him to become a begotten Son. Whosoever believes in Him shall not be ashamed; such a person shall be honoured. Those whom God gave everlasting life in the Old Testament are those whom He honoured. Hebrews 11 contains the hall of fame of these men for they fulfilled the Old Testament dimension of ‘not being ashamed’.
“And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.” (Isa. 4:1). These women were ashamed because of their reproach, for they saw an everlasting man being raised. The man here is a man who has been honoured by God. This is a man who has dealt with reproach. He is a man who in the New Testament, would have received the name of the declarations of the Father. He is a man who has inherited divine nature in a shadow. This is a man who in the New Testament would have received that inheritance that is incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away (1 Pet. 1:4).
The seven women that were ashamed were ashamed because they had come short of that name or inheritance, which is the honour of everlasting life. There is a day ahead of us, and it is already breaking forth before us. Those who come short of believing on Him, living by commandments and who cannot entertain the blessing (the dew) that is being brought to Zion will be ashamed. They will be confounded and will come short of a particular honour or garment which God wants to bring across to this company. But by God’s grace, this will not be our portion in Jesus’ name.