Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Writing the Vision (WTV) - June Edition
Date: Saturday, 19th June 2021
Speaker 1: Pastor Tayo Fasan
Text: John 10:10
When God said in Genesis 1, "Let Us make man in our image", He ensured that throughout every generation, He gives man the opportunity to enjoy everlasting life. There is a life everlasting calibrated in the angelic, and those who fell short of that estate are being governed by Satan.
In Genesis, after the fall, men were still able to press into a measure of everlasting life. Our Lord Jesus described John as more than a prophet (Matt. 11:9); classifying him as one of those men who were prophets after the order of the beginning. Those men in the class of Adam had a foretaste of the everlasting life that was provided for the present creation. All the men in Genesis were given an opportunity to press into that particular civilization.
We saw how the likes of Abel fed with that provision until it became part of their blood. Similarly, in our midst, faith has become a part of our blood because we have fed on the doctrine of Christ for so long. Faith is what brings a man to the acceptable year and it is from that a man will begin to relate with perfection. Faith had successfully taken over the blood of men like Enoch, and had been trapped in their flesh up to a point where they could begin to receive the commandments of love for their generation.
In John 10:10, we understand that what the thief comes to steal is life. He feeds on life because of our ignorance of life and how to go about it.
Not many believers in the church today have begun to enquire about eternal life. Our Lord Jesus journeyed so much that the men in His days began to enquire about eternal life (Lk. 10:25). We are in that season that by virtue of our walk, men will ask us about eternal life. This is because they would have seen a manner of life in us; and we would have trapped some things in our flesh that they cannot ignore.
Luke 10:25-28
"And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? [26] He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou? [27] And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. [28] And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live."
To live in verse 28 of Luke 10 speaks of living by faith (Rom. 1:17). The just shall live until he has the covenant of life and peace; and he can thereby have dealings with the living God and transact with everlasting life. That same commandment was available in the Old Testament, where it talks about Israel loving the Lord with all their soul (Deut. 30:6). God was seeing a nation and how it would become a peculiar people. So, we can see that everlasting life is a commandment of all.
Luke 10:30
"And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead."
The account in Luke 10 about the wounded man is an account of someone who has kept faith till charity because that is the borderline to transact with everlasting life.
We were once all stripped of our raiment before the Lord began to clothe us by teaching us the truth that furnishes our souls with righteousness (Lk. 10:30). At one time, we all were also wounded by adventuring into the pleasures of this world. We were wounded by labouring for the meat that perishes. The thieves must have been able to steal from this man only because he was not in the coverage area of grace where those who are being fed are kept. Men out there have only been wounded because they are out of covering as a result of labouring for the meat that perishes (Jn. 6:27).
The Samaritan man had grown to a point where he could show forth that unfeigned love of the brethren. He had what was called oil and wine, the balm for the soul. He took him to the inn and the inn represents the courts of the Lord. So, God needs to raise priests who will administer eye salve to those that have been wounded. The only way we can love the Lord will all our might is after we have done the bond of perfectness.
We are those who are labouring in the place of hearing, and that is why we are enjoying covering. The obedience in the place of hearing is very high in the spirit and it immunes us from a lot of evil. Some people are still murmuring and murmuring is not the response of somebody who wants everlasting life.
Doing things well is an anthem of the sons of God. Well-doing is the disposition that can seek for glory and honour (Rom. 2:7). It is the same commandments that we have been given that we will be given again to do well. This is so that we get to a point where we excel at doing God’s commandment.
What Abel offered unto God cost him something (Gen. 4:4). God wants us to come to a place where every single one of us would have the covenant of life and peace. We can know how a man truly is by the kind of offering that he offers, as reflected in how he does things. In the recess of our hearts, where our thoughts and intents are bare, is where God truly judges us.
God called the sacrifice of Abel excellent (Heb. 11:4). God had taken His rightful place in his heart. God is using His servant amidst us to construct a highway of holiness in our hearts (Isa. 35:8). God is preparing a way into the midst of our souls and this He does by taking away the things that evil spirits gave us. As long as we labour for the meat that perishes, the enemy is stealing from us; and he continues to do this until the point where he can kill us.
The Samaritan man recognized the premium that God places on every soul and, as a result, did not shrink back from paying heavily for the care of the wounded man. We all will get to a point where we will be giving salvation to other souls. We are in the season of 'all', and we are going to have to love the Lord with all our heart, all our soul and all our might.