Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Revelation Hour (RH)
Date: Saturday, 5th February, 2022
Ministering: Pastor Ayo Omosehin
“To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.” (Acts 26:18). The doctrine of Jesus Christ is a doctrine that enables the forgiveness of sins because the process of forgiveness of sins kick-starts with the doctrine of Christ. The inheritance is given to them who have received forgiveness of sin or have been sanctified. The season of Christ is the season of the forgiveness of sins because Christ's doctrine brings about purification, sanctification and cleansing.
“Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. [10] For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” (Rom. 5:9-10). To be justified means to be reconciled to God. There is a nature in every man that is in enmity against God, and this enmity can only be destroyed by the doctrine of Christ.
The justification referred to in the verse above is not what we receive at the New Birth but a justification by doctrine. It is a justification out of condemnation. Condemnation is opposite to justification. The Bible says that there is therefore now no condemnation to those who walk after the spirit (Rom. 8:1). At the New Birth, we did not walk but were only quickened in our spirits. Our condemnation was however lifted as we continued to journey or walk in the spirit (Rom. 8:1-2).
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. [17] For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. [18] Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.” (John 3:16-18). There is condemnation that is as a result of not being subject to the doctrine of Christ and another that is as a result of not being subject to the doctrine of the Son of God. The latter (verse 18) refers to believing in the Son of God while the first (verse 16) means to believe in Christ. There are two deaths, two justifications and two condemnations. The first condemnation was lifted by the doctrine of Christ.
As we receive the doctrine and walk, we are being delivered from condemnation. This condemnation is a state. Therefore, no matter how much we confess or believe, if we do not walk, we cannot leave that condemnation because it came in by our walking into it. We walked into it and must also walk out of it. However, after we have overcome condemnation at this level, there is still another one to overcome.
“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: [13] (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. [14] Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.” (Rom. 5:12-14). There are two deaths here. There was a death that Adam experienced (as a result of the sin he committed). This was an everlasting death or a death in everlasting life. The other death occured when the descendants of Adam sinned further and translated from being “man” to become “flesh”. This is why the doctrine of Christ is not enough to fully save the soul. There is a need for the gospel of everlasting life because this is where man fell from.
The first condemnation was as a result of Adam’s transgression, but there are some people who did not sin the way Adam sinned. God’s provision for this kind of sin is in Christ. However, the sin of Adam was inherited by all of mankind. Christ cannot deal with this sin because it is beyond the level of Christ; it is at the level of the Father.
Adam was an everlasting man therefore, his sin was the sin of an everlasting man and his death was the death of an everlasting man. This death was upon all humanity and no man could break through it because it was a high death. Enoch did not overcome this death; he only escaped it but Jesus tasted and overcame it and thereby became the first and only person to have the solution to Adam’s transgression.
Adam’s sin was the sin of a living soul - it was the sin of an everlasting man. It is a sin that only the Father can remit. There are two deaths and they require two redemptions - the redemption through Christ and the redemption through the everlasting covenant. Man fell into death as a result of sin. Death is not just a separation but a conversation. It is not just the inability to hear God. This is because a man can be hearing God audibly but may still be in death, like Cain and Balaaam, who heard God but was condemned because of lust. The fact that a man hears God and sees visions of God does not mean that he has escaped death.
The Bible refers to the first death as carnality (Rom 8:6). A carnal man is a dead man; he has partaken of the first death. A person may not necessarily have committed any sin but as a result of the inheritance of a gene from mankind, he is a dead man (not just in his spirit, but also in his soul). Carnality is an expression of our souls. A carnal man is a dead man but the doctrine of Christ ought to deal with that death. What justifies is Christ; for the revelation of Christ is the tool of justification. It is the tool of washing away the filth of the earth. It heals our carnal mindedness, which is a strong mind that is formed against God.
“For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. [7] Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.” (Rom. 8:6-7). The carnal mind cannot be subject to the law of God, therefore, it has to first be brought under the law of Christ. Carnality is the equivalent of Christ’s stature, but of Satan. Every man on earth has this stature. This is why the Bible says we were once darkness (Eph. 5:8), but God will enlighten this darkness or carnality (Psa. 18:28). Where man should journey to is God, but before we journey to the realm of God, we have to be delivered from carnality.
A carnal man is a child of wrath (Eph. 2:3) who was raised by the course of this world. When God however raises a carnal man to become a spiritual man, he is called an obedient child. An obedient child is a man who has been converted from carnality to become spiritual. As such, a spiritual man is a child of obedience.
A carnal man is framed to disobey God; he was raised by the law of disobedience to do so. This disobedience is not just an act but a state or nature. He is an enemy of God, even though he does not know it. Such a soul may be offended with the ministration of Christ, when He first encounters it. It is when a man is exposed to doctrine that you can tell whether or not he hates God, or can be subject to the everlasting gospel.
One of the ways God first trains us as Christ is to expose us to hearing so much on this doctrine until we can respond to and will naturally love to hear Christ, even without commandments. After hearing this doctrine for a while, God can then begin to give us commandments to obey. The essence of this doctrine is to reconfigure another life that is away from the former gentile life.
People can be weary of hearing Christ and they can also find it hard to do Christ’s commandments. Being justified by faith started with hearing and then, to doing. It is in learning faith, hope and charity that we are justified. Without that justification, we will not be moved from the first condemnation.
Faith, hope and charity inculcate a nature in us that make us children of obedience. This is why God has to subject our souls to leading. This leading is not leading by choice but by doctrine. What such a person has heard will then become their pattern of life. Doctrine can break any habit; it is what makes men free. Therefore, Jesus placed premium on doctrine. This is evident in the gospels because they were all teachings of Christ. Jesus placed premium on doctrine because through it, lifestyles are reconfigured. Doctrine is the key of conversion to God. Our destinies have been reshaped as a result of doctrine. Many of us have dropped wrong habits and natures in the process of being exposed to doctrine.
“...But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. [18] Being then made free from sin...” (Rom. 6:16-18). Doctrine is what sets us free (John 8:32). When Adam ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, something (sin) entered his soul (Rom 5:12). The sin that entered was not his disobedience; the sin was that fruit. When Adam took that fruit, he took an entity of dominion.
Satan intended to culture all of mankind with that fruit. The fruit had the potential to both kill an everlasting man and a normal man. When this fruit entered, a kingdom was received. Nothing changed in the natural, but his understanding was affected. Understanding is the key to dominion. The essence of the fruit was to darken man’s understanding and to make him hate God. By Adam’s disobedience therefore, a kingdom entered into our world and it was reigning over men. Kingdom is an understanding, knowledge and wisdom of rulership that determines how a man lives.
When the Bible says that we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be moved (Heb. 12:28), what we are receiving is doctrine. It is through the giving of doctrine that the kingdom is being given. When you refuse doctrine, you refuse your dominion. When you refuse dominion, you refuse a conversation. Conversation is the expression of a dominion. When God is forgiving your sins, He is also delivering you from the kingdom of darkness to the kingdom of His dear Son (Col. 1:13). The remission of sin removes a man from one kingdom and brings him into another. Sin is a dominion and a reign. It has an everlasting strength, but it can also be removed.
The reason why the law was given was to check sin. It shook the earth and led the people through the wilderness to become the people of God, but their heavens remained intact. The law was brought so low to address men’s issues because death was reigning on the earth (Matt. 19:8). God knew that man had fallen so low and if some laws such as the law of divorce was not given, men would begin to kill themselves.
The charity of Christ is not strong enough to kill hate, therefore, a Christ still has the capacity to hate. This hatred was however not so from the beginning. Man was not framed to hate, it was a conversation from a fallen angel, even a love being that was perverted. This law now resides inside every soul. There are three categories of people we have capacity to hate; our enemies, those who hate us, those who curse us and those who use us despitefully but still like us. These are different forms of things that can form enmity.
The ability to hate is a conversation from evil spirits that fell into the earth and it became a normal lifestyle. To hate is to “love less”. This means to reduce your level of love because of what someone did to you or who they are. However, our Father’s love does not drop towards us in spite of what we do. The realm of inability to hate is a nature. We know that hatred is present when life level drops.
The nature of hatred is very silent. The law of perfection is that we can love our enemies. The love of God is unbiased towards its enemies. Jesus did not reduce His love towards His enemies. This level of operation is called divine nature. It is a nature that is resident in the Father. We have to become like our heavenly Father, who causes rain to fall on both the just and the unjust (Matt. 5:45). Hatred is an inheritance.
"Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, [2] To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men. [3] For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another." (Titus 3:1-3). We may be meek towards men in the community of Christ but act differently towards those without the company, but this is also a form of hatred. Hatred has different shades. Hating one another is a nature of the Gentiles and it is everlasting. It is a sign of the death that we inherited from Adam. However, this hatred has no excuse before God in judgement because God has so much mercy to love man, in spite of the large number of people that have wronged Him.
Your brother is really not your enemy. You can walk in love towards him because he is Christ in His spirit. Loving your enemy is an exercise that is beyond your comfort zone. We will have enemies because both God and Jesus have enemies. Jesus said that they will hate us because they hated Him first (John 15:18). The world has hatred.
"He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now..." (1 John 2:9-11,15). The hate a man has is because of this world. One of the finest and most powerful expressions of the nature of this world is hate; after that hate is Satan. The love of the Father is a nature in God that is resident in Him; He has capacity to love His enemy. This love is a sign of strength; it is a sign of the everlasting nature. If any man cannot show it, he has not inherited it.
“Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings…” (1 Pet. 2:1). The feeling of jealousy or insecurity that we feel when the works of our brothers are praised is rooted in hatred. Hate is rooted in jealousy and envy. The properties of hatred are listed in the verse above. These are the works we have to deal with. The seed of hatred is in everyone and Christ’s doctrine cannot deal with it fully.
The reason for charity is so that they can prepare us for the final lap of deliverance. We are first delivered from all our enemies, and then, from them that hate us (Luke 1:71). Hatred is a matured, full-blown enemy. The laws of hatred are revealed when the works of our brothers are being revealed. Hatred has various shades. A husband has the capacity to hate his wife.
“Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven..." (Heb. 12:26-28). What is being shaken are kingdoms; kingdoms of sin, death, hell and works of darkness, and they are being shaken by the voice. This voice is not just an audible voice but the doctrine of everlasting life. These heavens are spirits that are over man, and the things they are removing are things that are connected to them. The things in us being removed now are called heavenly things; our heavens need to be shaken.
Hatred is a heavenly kingdom of a fallen cherubim. Your heaven cannot be shaken if you are not called. We are called by the gospel of everlasting life. When a doctrine is spoken and we begin to do it, it becomes our conversation. Loving your enemy is a conversation and it is possible to have it. By doctrine, we can love our enemies. Fervent charity is actually the capacity to love your enemy because it is the love of the Father. The love of the Father is the capacity to love your brethren, even when their works are revealed.
"Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation" (Heb. 13:7). One of the signs that we are pressing into fervent charity is that we will follow the lifestyles of our parents. We should emulate their actions. We must consider their conversations because they reflect the person of Jesus. It is possible to hate spiritual authority because of their lifestyle. However, we should consider their conversation and follow them, especially when we can see consistency in them. We may not fully understand the teaching of everlasting life but we should love it.
“Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you” (Heb. 13:17). Submission to spiritual authority is very important in everlasting life. Satan is angry because he is not submissive, so he does not like people submitting. When you do not submit to spiritual authority you are exhibiting the seed of the wicked one. Do not joke with spiritual authority. Pray to God to help you love them, for it is by these things everlasting life will be measured out to us.