Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: School of the Spirit (SOS)
Date: Thursday, 13th October 2022
Our Lord desires that every one of us should embody His conversation. Conversation speaks about lifestyle. So we must embody the lifestyle of Christ and God, as that is the conversation that is from above. “For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.” (Philipp. 3:20-21). The conversations in God have what they are designed to do in our souls. Every conversation has its reward. Each conversation in God has something it has to deliver to us and to also remove from us.
There is a redemption that each conversation in God should bring to us. Our Lord Jesus has purchased eternal redemption for us, but believers have not yet received it (Heb. 9:12). This is because we have not engaged the conversation that will enable us to receive the redemption.
We came into our present nature by reason of some conversations. “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;” (1 Peter 1:18). Redemption means buying back. The question is this, what will it take to buy us back? It cannot be silver and gold because we were not sold for silver and gold but to sin. Therefore, corruptible things like silver and gold cannot redeem us from sin.
If we received our vain conversations by tradition, it means we received it by learning or culture. Culturing first takes place before we can have what’s called tradition. If what brought us vain conversation was learning, then what will also bring us the conversation of redemption must be learning.
There are some conversations that need to come to the earth. What can take away the strength of sin is conversation. When certain conversations come to the earth, they will neutralise the force of sin, not only in the life of the person who has received it but even around such a person. This is because such a person has laid hold on the authority of that life. One may be hearing life and might not have come into the authority of the life. To come into authority, disobedience must be avenged. Disobedience cannot be avenged when the life we are hearing has not become our lifestyle or conversation.
God wants His conversations to be established on earth. This is what we mean when we pray, “thy Kingdom come” (Matt. 6:10). Kingdom speaks of dominion or a reign of life. However, the will of God must be done for His Kingdom to come.
The death and disobedience upon the earth right now is after an everlasting manner. So something lesser in conversation cannot deal with it, it has to take an everlasting conversation.
Bringing down heavenly conversations is not mainly because of our sins but to trap a heavenly dominion in our souls. Our Lord Jesus had no sin but He had to learn a conversation from above because that is how to trap things in the blood.
Our Lord Jesus was not learning because He had sins that had to be remitted but because He became as one of us (man), He had to learn and obey God (Philipp. 2:8). Our Lord Jesus obeyed God in everything. The Father did not find an iota to doubt the capacity of our Lord Jesus to learn. The things that our Lord Jesus has are things that the Father taught Him. It’s only the Father that understands how to live in the physical body. God is the God of all flesh and also the Father of spirits.
Our Lord Jesus trapped life, everlasting and Eternal Life by learning. So also, God will not give these lives to us by any other medium but by learning. We have to be ready to learn, not earthly subjects but life in the Spirit. We have been called to come learn life. Our Lord Jesus knows everything about life (both everlasting and Eternal Life).
Our Lord Jesus trapped Christ, everlasting and Eternal Life. The end of the commandment is charity (1 Tim. 1:5). So the end of every point (or tier) of life that Jesus trapped has its Charity. Charity simply means the bond of perfectness (Col. 3:14). So a perfect man in the dispensation of Christ is called charity, so also, in everlasting life. All the lives in God have their love quotient. Christ has its love quotient, so also everlasting and Eternal Life.
God loved the world from the height of Eternal Life. It is a grade of life that can still love us even while we are yet dead in sins and trespasses (Eph. 2:4). Man cannot yet operate such a love; we have to start with charity in Christ. There is an understanding of God that will make us love the vilest of men like an armed robber. Right now, there are people we do not yet have the capacity to love.
When we have been exposed to a higher light in God, we should not use a love judgment in a lower allocation of God’s word because the Lord will demand more from us. Each dimension of life in God has its love portion. The perfectness of Christ is charity. The faith and hope in Christ are also love while charity is the perfected work of love in Christ. A charity man is a perfect or matured man.
There is also the faith, hope and love dimension in everlasting life. A man who is perfect in Christ will still need to come up to everlasting life. God is showing us layers of light for conversation.
“This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.” (1 John 1:5). Every thing Apostle John taught was love: different dimensions of love conversation. There is hardly any chapter of his book that he did not mention love, light or life.
“But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.” (1 John 2:5). There is a word that we must keep for the love of God to be perfected in us. We must find this word that houses the love of God. Our Lord Jesus has the word of life, the word of everlasting and Eternal Life. Those are the things he trapped. Having the word of life and keeping it is what is called conversation.
Love is authority. If you want to have authority over someone, love the person. Husbands should love their wives, and this is what makes them the head or that gives them authority. For a man to be the head is not to control or boss over a woman but to love her. Godhead means lovehead; They (the Father, Son and Holy Spirit) exercise authority by loving.
God is love and by His definition, authority is expressed in love. Our Lord Jesus loved us so much that He died for us, and thereby, became our head. He therefore commanded that men should do likewise (Eph. 5:25). The term Godhead does not speak of controllers, but love beings. Headship is a love gene. What the Godhead exude as life is love. Everything in God is love because love is of Him. When the Father corrects or chastises, it is out of love. Everything God does flows out of love.
Our love still has shades of partiality or selfishness and that is why we withdraw at the sight of resistance or friction from the other party. There is still some darkness in our love. However, God loves all the way without expecting anything back. God loves until what He gets back is what He gave. God (who is love) loved us when we were nothing. God loved us when we were nothing, when we were dead in sin and trespasses, until that love shaped us to become something He can receive back.
“But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.” (1 John 2:5). This word is that which was from the beginning. Our love walk must be testifying that we are in love or in God. “Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.” (1 John 2:7).
The word from the beginning is a commandment. So the old commandment is the word from the beginning. If they had this word, it means that they kept the word and this is what qualified them for the new commandment. To have a word is to have the conversation from that word.
“Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.” (1 John 2:8). What makes love commandment new is the height the preacher is speaking from or the light that is shining at that time. John would not have added a new commandment if they had not kept the old one. What makes the commandment new is light. The people John was writing to were coming to the true God, and not just the truth of God. If we do not obey the new commandment, we will dwell in the old.
The true light is the level of love that is higher than darkness, a love that can make darkness pass. There is no darkness in God at all. The love in the milk of the world cannot judge some level of darkness. It can still accommodate some darkness, or certain conversations or lifestyles that are not righteous.
Christ life is a wonderful light, but it can still accommodate darkness. This means that there are some levels of darkness that Christ life cannot remit or deal with. The true light is the light that causes darkness to pass. Darkness remains in the soul of men because men are keeping it by their conversation. Vain conversations will keep darkness.
“He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.” (1 John 2:9). This is a darkness that a man will have and he is not aware that he is in it. Hatred here is one that we practice, and we are not aware of it. This is a conversation between brethren in the Sanctuary. If a man is in the light of Christ, there is a way he should love his brother. So also, when he has come to the season of everlasting life, there is a higher way to love. When we still use the light of Christ to love a brother in the season when we have been exposed to everlasting light, we are in darkness. This is a darkness that we may not be aware of.
“He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.” (1 John 2:9). A brother here is not an unbeliever, but one who has come into the brotherhood in Christ. Such a brother is meant to be loved with the new light in everlasting life. In everlasting life, there is a way we should love our brothers. Love is made new by the shining or appearance of our Lord Jesus. We should keep loving and by doing so, darkness is passing.
“He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.” (1 John 2:10). The way to love our brother here is to abide in the light; we should use that everlasting light to love. If we abide in the light, there will be no occasion of stumbling in us. The occasion of stumbling is the darkness that ought to pass away. Whosoever is not loving according to the new light or commandment that is shining is not ready to judge darkness, and is keeping darkness.
There is a way to make darkness pass. God wants to bring us to a place where we will not have darkness at all. This is a fellowship. “This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:” (1 John 1:5-6). John understood this message because he had love. We will not appreciate in revelation or understanding if we do not love.
We cannot have fellowship with God without firstly having the word which is His light. So this level of fellowship is made possible by knowledge. Without knowledge, fellowship will not be made possible. We cannot participate in fellowship with God without His knowledge. We cannot also be active in that knowledge without having understanding.
What gives understanding is love conversation. We will not understand what is called Eternal Life if we do not have a love capacity that can grasp it. Love builds capacity in our heart to receive or understand Eternal Life. If we hate our brother, we will not have the capacity to see Eternal Life, much less have Eternal Life abiding in us. There is a love that can fetch the understanding of Eternal Life.
John understands that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all because he has the love quotient that can grasp the message “God is love”. There is no darkness in Eternal Life at all. The work of everlasting life makes darkness pass completely from us. This is what will enable us to see Eternal Life. Love builds the capacity for understanding.
We need love to overcome. To love is to overcome. We must love if we want to overcome sin. To overcome Satan, wickedness or iniquity, there is a love commandment we must obey. There is a love to overcome everything we need to overcome. He that overcomes is he that loves. There is no way we can overcome if we do not love. There is something that love does to someone who is doing it – it shields and separates him.
Love makes us abide in God. There is an amount of love that we can do to abide in Christ, so also everlasting and Eternal Life. So love separates us. To overcome this world is to generate the love that can deal with the world inside our souls. We must have love enough, or walk in love more than what we are presently doing. God is calling for a higher walk of love from us. There is a way a husband should love his wife in the season of everlasting life that should be higher than what he was doing in the season of Christ; same applies to loving our brethren. What is at stake is that we should overcome darkness, death, and the dragon.
God wants to bring us to a place where we can love freely. God wants us to come into a state of liberty, where we are free. It is the presence of darkness that makes us not have enough liberty to love the way we ought to. There is always a higher liberty that we can come into. There are some of our brethren that are not hearing the word of righteousness, and some even fight us, but God expects us to love them. We should go out of our way to love even those who have offended or fought us because of the truth. We should not withhold love from people. We should go the extra mile to love; we should go out of our way. We should bear one another’s burden.
“But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;” (Matt. 5:44). The gospel of Christ can make us love our brothers, but it is in everlasting life that we learn how to love our enemies. Darkness is being avenged when we are loving our enemies. Darkness can still be accommodated when we are loving our brothers or friends. However, we come into a higher liberty when we begin to love our enemies. Darkness cannot stay in such a terrain.
When we are loving our enemies, we are exercising ourselves highly and this makes it easy to love our brothers. When we are consistently loving our enemies, we are developing the stamina to deal with darkness. This is what will make darkness pass. It is the light of the Father that is called the new commandment. It is not easy to bless them that curse us. Many times, we have to be ghosted or supernatural to bless them that curse us.
“that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.” (Matt. 5:45). The children here are everlasting children. Love is authority. Love is a defence. Love will cause us to pierce more into the knowledge of God. Love increases our capacity for understanding. Above all, love makes God to dwell in us and us in God.
Blessings!
Summary
1. Our Lord desires that every one of us should embody His conversation. Conversation speaks about lifestyle. So we must embody the lifestyle of Christ and God, as that is the conversation that is from above. (Philipp. 3:20-21).
2. The conversations in God have what they are designed to do in our souls. Every conversation has its reward. Each conversation in God has something it has to deliver to us and to also remove from us.
3. We came into our present nature by reason of some conversations. This is what scriptures refer to as vain conversation ”Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;” (1 Peter 1:18).
4. If we received our vain conversations by tradition, it means we received it by learning or culture. Culturing first takes place before we can have what’s called tradition. If what brought us vain conversation was learning, then what will also bring us the conversation of redemption must be learning.
5. There are some conversations that need to come to the earth. What can take away the strength of sin is conversation. When certain conversations come to the earth, they will neutralise the force of sin, not only in the life of the person who has received it but even around such a person.
6. Bringing down heavenly conversations is not mainly because of our sins but to trap a heavenly dominion in our souls. Our Lord Jesus had no sin, but He had to learn a conversation from above because that is how to trap things in the blood.
7. Our Lord Jesus trapped both life, everlasting and Eternal Life by learning. So also, God will not give these lives to us by any other medium but by learning. We have to be ready to learn, not earthly subjects but life in the Spirit. We have been called to come learn life.
8. Our Lord Jesus trapped Christ, everlasting and Eternal Life. The end of the commandment is charity (1 Tim. 1:5). So the end of every point (or tier) of life that Jesus trapped has its charity.
9. Charity simply means the bond of perfectness (Col. 3:14). So a perfect man in the dispensation of Christ is called charity; so also, in everlasting life. All the lives in God have their love quotient. Christ has its love quotient, so also everlasting and Eternal Life.