Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Anamnesis Prayer Meeting (Week Four_Day 4)
Date: Friday, 3rd December 2021
Ministering: Reverend Kayode Oyegoke
Jesus was not an ordinary man. He had so much power and skill to interpret scriptures. Jesus taught everlasting life while on earth and also touched on Eternal Life. He did not teach fully but through a few parables, He pointed out that He was Christ. Ordinarily, no one can teach everlasting life to dead people; only Jesus could. He did not teach them in order for them to have everlasting life. He was only proclaiming it to create an awareness in the spirit so that evil spirits would begin to reposition themselves to fight against God’s kingdom. However, this was only spiritual wisdom to prepare for their ultimate downfall.
The message Jesus taught on earth also prepared the Apostles and all those who believed in Him for latter times. Although He preached everlasting life, men did not have the capacity to receive it until He died and was resurrected. After His resurrection, the capacity was then deposited in their spirits. Jesus partook of two kinds of resurrection:
1. the resurrection from the dead and
2. the resurrection of the dead.
At His resurrection from the cross, He was both Christ and the Son of God (Rom. 1:3-4). God raised Him into a state that was higher than the state in which He was buried. As such, He was not just raised to everlasting life but into Eternal Life. Jesus was made the Author of Eternal salvation because He obeyed till death. Therefore, God highly exalted Him and gave Him a name above every name (Phil. 2:9).
Ignorance is heavy in the realm of the spirit. The reason why Jesus intercedes for us who are out of the way or ignorant is so that we can begin to comprehend what we should know. Satan crippled our minds and made us be focused on the ephemeral rather than the spiritual.
Satan has overthrown many by knowledge. He exalts many natural things to make null the excellent knowledge we should have. Many believers, including ministers, are after miracles and desire to expand the way the world is expanding. They are also seeking to be relevant in the world. However, such believers do not know the essence of the Bible.
Many think that the Bible is for moral instruction, but this is not so. None who ignores the Bible can have Eternal Life. The promise in the Scripture, from Genesis to Revelation, is Eternal Life. Therefore, the Bible is relevant for the fulfilment of the promise of Eternal Life. Eternal Life is the only theme of the Bible but unfortunately, many are preaching another life. Eternal Life has not yet been manifested on earth, but it will.
“For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. [34] Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. [35] And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.” (John 6:33-35). For the Word to come to the Earth, He had to shed off His bread nature and become flesh. For the bread to become flesh, it means that it has the potential to become bread again. As such, every flesh has a calling to become bread because that is its destiny. What God has called to Eternal Life is flesh.
“As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.” (John 17:2). There are different kinds of flesh. This flesh does not refer to the natural body. It is a stolen copy of the program of the outward man that was imprinted upon the soul. Satan x-rayed the body of man, saw its capacity and decided to train the soul likewise. This made the soul have the nature of flesh. Satan wants every soul to be flesh.
There are different grades of flesh—there is great flesh and small flesh. The former relates to hell and death, while the latter refers to sin and death. A soul that is at the level of hell and death can still be saved. Nebuchadnezzar was an example of great flesh in the order of darkness, although in the order of God, he was not great. Any flesh that can resist God is weak—it is strong on Satan's side but weak to accept God’s life. Whereas the flesh that can fight Satan is strong towards God but weak towards Satan.
Flesh has different levels of greatness, based on the manner of its raising. The greatest in the kingdom of God is the littlest—a little child (Matt. 18:1-4). Likewise, the greatest in the kingdom of Satan is a little child to Satan. This does not refer to a physical stature but a program in the heart. A little child in the order of Satan is one who can agree with Satan without resistance.
In the hierarchy of flesh, a little child is a man of high stature. Such a man is not a grass but a tree in the eyes of man. However, God does not see him as a tree because he has no strength to obey God at all. Such a man will call anyone who gravitates toward God a weakling. A man like Nimrod was more open to Satan and resisted God to the fullest. This was why he was called a mighty hunter before the Lord (Gen. 10:9).
Evil trees can stand before the Lord and resist Him. Such men lead people contrary to God’s counsel, to divert and kill their abilities to yield to the leading of the Lord. Men of this kind can twist the minds of people to fight against the leading of the Spirit of the Lord. No shepherd is anointed to fight against the leading that any sheep receives. Rather, they should guide them through understanding and patience to prevent them from going into error. No shepherd over a sheep should outrightly stand against his leading because some of those leadings can be true. Rather, they should pray for their sheep so that they would grow to be able to discern between feelings and leadings.
Satan can also give false leadings because he knows the nature of the soul. A believer can however escape this by feeding on the word continually. When a soul feeds on the word, he is being fed with supernatural food and would thereby develop inner spiritual wisdom to discern between the leading of the Spirit and that of the devil.
The Holy Ghost is not always particularly against what we like. Nonetheless, He will lead us by the word. God would not pressurize the soul for anything; therefore, we must be careful not to fall under the condemnation of Satan. The leading of the Lord is not overbearing and we must receive the power to follow and obey it. This is the reason why we need pastoral oversight.
“And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.” (Luke 3:6). Flesh cannot see salvation directly; it has to receive power to see it. “He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name…” (John 1:11-12). The sons of God are men with everlasting life. They are the ones who received Him, having believed on His name. Those who believe on His name believe Christ, and to them, power was given to also become sons of God. When you believe the name of the everlasting Son of God, you will have the power to become a son of God. You start receiving Him as Christ, for no one can believe on Him if he has not yet received Him. Then, He would give such the power to become a son of God.
“For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.” (John 6:38). Jesus began to do the will as flesh. The power to become bread is the will of God, for the will of God turns flesh to bread. The will of God is not something that makes us feel righteous in our hearts, for moral conviction does not translate to God's will. God has to reveal His will to you. If it were based on moral conviction, many would have become the bread of God. No one has the answer to being a bread of God except Jesus. Therefore, Jesus came down from heaven to show all flesh that they can become bread. He did this by steadily obeying the will till the end.
The life of the bread is the will of God. Therefore, we must desire to be led and stay steady in the will of God. We must not love our flesh. God hated Esau because he hated God's will. When one hates the will of God, such a person is not eligible for the birthright. Esau preferred a morsel of bread, which was for a season. “Morsel of bread” represents the will of Satan to make the flesh sinful. Such a person becomes a profane fellow, for he has no regard for the things of God just as Esau.
When Jesus said He came down from heaven not to do His own will, He meant that He was a complete bread and that the people should eat of Him. Jesus could not tell men to eat of Him when He was a baby, because at that stage, He did not possess the capacity to give Himself as food. To eat of Jesus when He was a baby implies that we would have gained something lesser than God’s provision. As such, we would not have life. For God to make Jesus a food indeed, Jesus had to do the will that would make Him to rise to that stature.
The will of God is the key to raising flesh to become bread; it is the program of God for making bread. When Jesus came down from heaven, He was bread but when He reached the earth, He became flesh. Then, He grew on to become the bread of life—the living bread. Christ is bread, He is the first bread. Entities of God's will are bread. Adam was also not flesh, he was a living soul. He was a kind of bread of the earth and not a bread from heaven. Adam was meant to rise to heaven and to eternity but he could not, so heaven had to send another (Jesus) to fulfil the cycle of rising.
A characteristic of bread is that it rises, therefore, the leaven of bread is the will of God. It requires the will of God to make bread spiritual. The will of God also has the power to transform flesh to bread. Every flesh is a potential bread, able to come into life. When God sees flesh, he sees a body He can bring into His kingdom. He who called Jesus and sent Him to the earth is also some kind of Bread. He is an Eternal Bread and He calls Jesus by the will.
“Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law…” (Heb. 10:7-8). Jesus came in the volume of the book written concerning Him to do the will of God. This book is the ‘book of bread.’ Jesus said He needed no sacrifice because He had been prepared as the sacrifice; and because of this, He chose to obey the book of sacrifice. Our sacrifice on earth is in doing the will of God. God wants us to do His will.
We offer our lives as a sacrifice when we do God's will. So many people do different things about the will of God. Some may not even go as far as knowing or obeying the will of the kingdom of God, while some may please God below the level of the kingdom. Many believers who did well in their lifetime did not even enter the kingdom of God, for example, John the Baptist and Moses. This is because no one entered the kingdom prior to the New Testament. It is only Jesus who has entered the kingdom, even though John the Baptist first began to herald it. This therefore means that someone can please God in his generation but may not do the will of the Kingdom.
Breads are resurrection entities, they are light. God has given grains the opportunity to go through that process of becoming bread. It is only grains that can be made into bread because it is from them that flour is derived.
To give a man everlasting life is to give him the opportunity to do the will of God at a high level. This high or great level is the realm of perfection; therefore, everlasting life is a perfect life. The least state that a saint should get to is everlasting life. Everlasting life has its end, for it is a curriculum that one can finish learning. After a man has finished the will, he becomes a baked or perfect bread.
There are dispensations of life in the two levels of resurrection (the small and the great). Great works speak of the work of the Father. The Father is the baker of bread, for that is his business. There is a wisdom in that profession, for it is a high one in the sight of God. A baker of this kind of bread is a maker of people. Therefore, God makes people and turns them into bread. This is what Jesus is doing now.
When a man is travelling to the world of God, he has to be transformed in all of the will of God (Rom. 12:2). The will of God is the transitional tool for flesh. The world of God contains the will of God. The oven represents the temple where breads are kept. There is fire in the oven but as weak as bread is, fire does not kill it but makes it ready as food. God wants to make bread here on earth.
When a man is around fire, God is working on him. When bread has passed through fire, the flour is dead. As such, to make flour become bread means to harvest it into a dimension that God will completely reap. God can only raise a man who has become an everlasting bread; this raising is a beautiful thing. Except a man has become everlasting bread, he cannot learn Eternal Life.
“No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.” (John 6:44). The bread that is due for this raising is a dough that is having everlasting life or everlasting light. Everlasting light through the everlasting will is going to prepare a man to be everlasting in nature. An everlasting man is one who has died a great death to Satan, not unto Satan. He is dead to the dragon and is an overcomer. This is the man whom Jesus will raise into Eternal Life.
God cannot raise anything into Eternal Life until He is sure, that is, until They have erased everything that is of man in such a man. This kind of man has become like the sons of God. Sons of God are those whom God will raise into Eternal Life in the last day. There is the last day of everlasting life, and it leads to the day of Eternal Life.
“So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.” (Heb. 5:5). Everlasting life is calibrated in days. To be begotten in this verse means to be born as a morning star or as sons of the morning. God revealed this to us in how He raised Jesus from the dead in the early hours of the morning, not in the afternoon or evening. Therefore, “to day” in the scriptures above refers to morning time. The glory of the Father which is the glory of Eternal Life is what raised Jesus from the dead.