Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry
Programme: School of the Spirit (SOS)
Date: 30th September 2021
Minister: Rev. Kayode Oyegoke
The issue of perishing cannot be solved without receiving and understanding the gospel of everlasting life (John 3:16, Rev. 14:6). The idea of everlasting life in the minds of believers has been watered down by darkness. It is darkness that makes men think simply of things or thoughts of God that are weighty. The herald of the gospel is everlasting life. The gospel is everlasting life while the reward of the gospel is Eternal Life (Isa. 62:11). The main thrust of the gospel should be how to make men become everlasting in nature. The teachings in the Church should be centred on the mechanism or powers that make men everlasting. That’s the true evangelism!
The gospel is about the preservation of the people. Just like different fruits and vegetables are preserved in different ways, the gospel contains things that will not allow a man to decay. When something is good, men don’t throw it into bin bags. Things are only thrown in the dustbin when they have perished, deformed, undergone decomposition and are completely out of order. Such goods are taken off the shelf because they have become useless. So the intention of Satan is to make men become like a perished tomato, such that it is good for nothing but to be thrown into the dust bin. However, the gospel is all about the giving of things that can reverse the process of perishing or decaying that is ongoing in the soul, so that the man can become good again. This is why the gospel is called good news.
“How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!” (Isaiah 52:7). The word “good” was mentioned thrice and this shows that the gospel wants a man to graduate thrice in the process of becoming good. The definition of scriptures concerning a “good” thing is profound and it differs from the way men see or describe a thing as good. If a man buys what the gospel is heralding, it will make him better, lasting, and enduring. The reason why people resist the gospel is because they do not know how good it is.
What some wonderful preachers preach or present as the gospel are the carnal goods of the earth which do not have the capacity to last; and they do so with so much confidence because they believe that men cannot resist what they are offering. The reason why men still listen to such projections of good is because their sense of evaluating lasting things has been tampered with. The judgement of men about what is good or bad has been ruined. We have wrong perceptions, judgement and convictions about the things that are good. Humans are no longer in touch with true thoughts of things that are good. We lost our discernment of good things a long time ago when we fell into vanity. Vanity is also a good whose preacher is Satan, the prince of the power of the air (Eph. 2:2).
Solomon was a king in the Old Testament who was crazy about vanity. Solomon learnt wisdom; one of the greatest schools of learning that he also explored was the school of foolishness and he concluded that they both also amount to vexation of spirit. He then decided to write a thesis about all that he had learnt, which was what he put together in the book of Ecclesiastics. He collated facts from different departments of learning and wrote down practical experiences about every aspect of life. Solomon put together the faculties of pleasure, pain, foolishness, wisdom, knowledge etc and summed it up in one sentence saying, “vanity upon vanity, all is vanity” (Eccl. 12:8). Thus, he concluded that the only thing that satisfies is that a man should fear God and obey His commandments (Eccl. 12:13).
Nobody can be as skilful as Solomon when it comes to the issue of women. No man on earth had the guts to approach the Queen of Sheba but she came to Solomon on her own. As she climbed the staircase in Solomon’s house, every spirit or air left her (1 Kings 10:1-13). Solomon didn’t need to woo her; she was already in his arms. Solomon was very dangerous in those days. Solomon said concerning a woman that “Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised” (Proverbs 31:30). Favour here means charm; some ladies are charming such that it makes men fall in love with them without much effort. At first sight, some men are already carried away by the charm of a lady.
Some brothers claim that they are being led (by the Spirit) to a lady even though they are just being drawn by the charm of the lady. A man ought to be spiritually built above the charm and beauty of a lady. Every man should have a stature that can resist beauty and charm. We must understand that every beautiful lady that we see is meant for one man. A lady’s beauty and charm are meant for a family, to nurture the kids and to keep the man. God wants a man to appreciate the beauty and charm of a lady but not lust after it, especially when the lady is not his wife.
Mary Magdalene must have been a lady with great charm, and she was troubled much with evil spirits (Luke 8:2). When a lady has beauty or charm, evil spirits will keep disturbing her and they will send men to her who will want to lure her into temptation. There are some ladies who think that they are not beautiful enough; they have beauty, only that it is not obvious. God has given such ladies a privilege to be veiled and they should rejoice or thank God instead of crying or feeling bad about themselves.
Ladies with obvious beauty will face many troubles from men. There are different kinds of men even in the church. Scripture tells us that there are different vessels in the house of God, vessels of gold, silver, wood, and of earth (2 Tim. 2:20). The quality of a material speaks of the resistive capacity of that material. How much can a clay resist or how long can a wood endure? Gold is the highest quality of material among others. Our Lord Jesus was golden; He was not brass. A golden man is one who will not divorce his wife because of another young girl somewhere. The gospel wants to give men a superior humanity and quality of soul that can endure. A good vessel that is made of quality material will be able to see beauty and charm in a woman who is veiled, whose beauty is not obvious.
Both the lady who has obvious beauty and one that does not have do have wars to fight in order not to fall into temptations from Satan and evil spirits. There are some boys who believe that they are every lady’s choice or spec. The problem with such boys is that it would be difficult to get their hearts serious to seek God when they eventually get born again. There is a lying spirit that has lied to them that they are special when they are actually nothing to reckon with in the spirit. It is not always easy for such boys to recalibrate their hearts and to acknowledge that they need salvation. No matter how handsome a man is, he will grow old.
The School of the Spirit today is more practical than theoretical. Without theory, there can’t be anything practical. A theoretical mind is the mind of an inventor; you cannot really invent anything if you don’t have a theoretical mind. Theorems are written from theories. Theory excavates the materials of invention. An inventor is a birther; he gives birth to things that are not yet in existence through thoughts. Thoughts are theories.
“I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions” (Prov. 8:12). The word witty means subtlety. It is some kind of invention to birth thoughts that have not previously occurred to the mind. The “witty inventions” here do not refer to scientific or technological innovations. Rather, this invention borders on the life of God; it is the bringing of lives and conceptions that have never occurred to the mind.
It is good that a man is spiritually creative. An inventor is a creator. A fruitful mind is a creative mind. A fruit is attached to the branch because it is a creation of the branch. It took a movement of nutrients through the stem for fruits to appear from the stem. The stem allowed itself to go through certain weather conditions for fruits to come forth. Bearing fruits is the creation of the stem.
To be fruitful is to be creative; it is to behave the way God behaves. To be fruitful is to have the ability that God intends for the things He made. “And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” (Gen. 1:28). Without having or bearing fruits, you will neither dominate nor have dominion. It takes a creative or fruitful husband to keep a home. One of the powers of keeping things against corruption is to be creative because sin is also creative.
In marriage, the husband should lead in creativity and then the wife should also grow in creativity. Fruitfulness is for both parties in marriage. Fruitfulness is not limited to birthing physical children: there should be other forms of new births in homes. There are things that can be birthed in the home, things such as peace, love, romance, conjugation, oneness, cleaving. However, one needs to be creative to birth such things. There can never be a dominion without fruitfulness. If a couple is unable to give birth to a physical child, they can still have unseen children. If they can bear fruits of the Spirit, they will stay together for years, and people will wonder how they were able to do that. It’s because they have children that they are fellowshipping with in the spirit. What fulfils such couples are more than physical children.
We give birth to physical children through the body, but it is also possible for the soul to give birth. Jesus said, “wisdom is justified of all her children” (Luke 7:35). A very creative husband does not give up on a woman. When your wife is not fountaining, you can bless her with fruits. Atimes, barrenness speaks of the lack of ideas concerning something that ought to be done. The presence of barrenness is the presence of death. When love leaves a home and the man or woman gives up, they have given up on procreation. However, if that person understands that he or she is blessed and can give birth again, such will not happen. The key to procreation is wisdom; it will show you how to behave or how to give birth.
Marriage is solvable and livable when there is a continuity of creations in homes and by listening to the Holy Spirit. Your soul can create anything. “For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God” (Col. 1:9-10). There would be no fruitfulness without having the fullness of knowledge. And no one will attain fullness of knowledge without wisdom. The height of a man’s wisdom determines the fullness of his cup. Fullness of wisdom amounts to fullness of knowledge. We can tell what a man knows by how wise he is. Your level of wisdom determines your amount of knowledge.
There is nothing that everlasting life cannot solve. When something is not working for a man, it means that he does not yet have enough life to solve it. When a man says he doesn’t feel good because of a challenge he is facing, it means he does not have enough life acquisition compared to that challenge. Giving up or not knowing what to do is a sign of the presence of death. So such a person needs light to be awakened out of sleep. “Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.” (Eph. 5:14).
Everlasting life does not only connote the ability of a thing to last; it also means something with an enduring power. Anything with an everlasting make cannot be exhausted. We should wonder how Adam was able to live with Eve for more than nine hundred (900) years without getting tired. Some believers today are only twenty-five (25) years down the line, and they are already secretly praying that their spouse would die so that they can marry another.
When a man has enough life, he will have enough creativity to make life remain. Everlasting life is not just the ability to stay in the flesh forever; it’s an ability to solve strong problems. To deal with strong spirits, you need to pour the fire of everlasting life on them. We should not give up on life issues. For example, one needs everlasting strength to stay unmarried on earth.
The answer to Satan’s temptation is the expression of God’s life that we have previously acquired. Every temptation of Satan is an offering of life. Life here speaks of another perspective to seeing or doing things. A woman who decides to live under her husband without submitting has chosen a life. So it means that one can choose a different life outside the instruction of scriptures. When scriptures say that a woman should submit to her husband, it’s not saying that she should be a moron under a man. Rather, God is showing the woman the pathway to a life, one that she ought to understand. But when a woman is trying to live outside this design of God, she is being foolish and consequently submitting to evil spirits. The same applies to men.
The light of darkness and foolishness are one (Romans 1:21). When a man is foolish, it means that his heart is darkened. On the other hand, when a man is lively, or full of life, it means that he is full of solutions that can swallow temptations up. This is the same as saying that a man is strong. To be strengthened with might is to be strengthened by the acquisition of life. A strong man is a man who has come into a life resolution that cannot be easily bent to another life. A man can be strong in the Lord so much that he can resist the devil and can go on to have a resolve of life that would make Satan give up on him completely (James 4:7, 1 John 5:18). Satan will give up on such a man because he knows that the man has become wiser and stronger than him. A strong man will overwhelm and overpower Satan and his thoughts like Job did in a shadow.
It is the insufficiency of life that makes us wake up in the morning and we are just moody or sad. Life is important. As time ticks, life is being spent. It is possible to use the energy of God’s life in every passing second. Everlasting life does not need heaven to find expression. Just as a man can live hell on earth, heaven can also be lived on earth. A nature such as patience or temperance is heavenly, and it is weightier than seeing angels flapping their wings. Such natures are the materials that were used in creating the heavens; they are the materials of heavenly places. Similarly, natures like jealousy and malice are creations from beneath; they were lives from hell that came to earth. Faithlessness is a life that can be lived, and some men are living that way on earth. Hell should be expunged out of our lives.
As young people learn and inherit the life provisions in the gospel, they grow up to a point where they are naturally programmed to fulfil God’s ordinances. For example, young women who are following this path would have been programmed to submit to their husbands; they won’t know another life. They will be innocent of evil; just like how Adam and Eve were living in the garden before the fall. Some ladies or men feel insecure in their marriages and always live in suspicion of their partner; it’s because of the faithless life that they are operating. When the life of God has filled a man up, he will not know or consider iniquity. Even when his wife makes a mistake, a man with everlasting life will not know it. Men should come to a place where they know no evil. It is insufficiency of God’s life that makes men or women feel insecure in marriage and thereby, live in fear. When there is so much life, the heart will not shake. We should not only be free from fornication but also from things like strife.
In homes, when a couple has enough everlasting life, there is nothing Satan would bring that they will not swallow up in victory. It is life that swallows death (1 Cor. 15:54). Your rod should swallow up the other rods of Satan and his magicians. Your rod came as a result of an encounter with God. We should not hold our rod and allow evil spirits to keep having a field day. Anytime an evil spirit brings forth his serpentine life, we should use our own life to swallow it up in victory. The life of God in us can swallow death. When there is no life or love in a home, either of the parties can put it there. When there is life inside a man, he can generate life and give it out in a place where there seems to be death.
When people say they are in love, oftentimes it’s just their energised soul that they are responding to. So after some time in marriage, many couples can no longer find that initial love they used to have because the energy of the soul has changed. And people are so low on God’s life that they don’t work out love. If a man can work out his salvation with trembling and fear, he should be able to work out love (Philipp. 2:12). This is because salvation is stronger than a love between a man and a woman. So couples should be able to work out love for each other.
Love is not the emotional bubbles that people usually feel at first sight or before marriage. The Holyghost can deliberately bring a lady that is against the soulish desires of a brother to him and it’s for the sake of redemption. If God leaves our souls the way it is, the soul will not change. So that girl who does not meet the specifications of the brother is the one that will help him in the journey of redemption. It means that the brother will be re-fashioned; he will need to reinvent himself or retrain his soul. Such a brother needs wisdom of witty invention; this is a higher life and thoughts above the desires of his soul. There are laws that the soul has been subjected to, but we need a higher life. Inside that higher life, there is also romance in it. Though it can take years to unravel that life but as it is revealed, we should keep the life, use it and change by it.
Satan is losing grounds; we have reached a zone where Satan will lose ground completely. Satan knows this and that’s why he has gone ahead to promote the gay law all over the world. The gay agenda has flourished in advanced nations because of failures of marriages in those countries. We shouldn’t get tired in marriage because Satan can make couples tired in marriage. This is wisdom that will help us throughout our lifetime. We are developing a sense to keep a home. We are becoming creative against the creation of Satan. When we allow the life of God to spring out of us, it will eat up the evil energy (or creation of Satan) around or within us.
The wisdom of everlasting life is one that can dissolve any mountain and make it as water. It can liquify any mountain in the natural or in the spirit. Everlasting wisdom is a high wisdom; it’s the answer to spiritual wickedness in high places (Eph. 6:12). Wickedness can be made good by the application of the right amount of pressure. Spiritual wickedness is everlasting in thought, so the breaking of marriage is an everlasting commandment from wicked spirits. The thoughts of wicked spirits are everlasting in nature; this is why they can just drop a thought and all men will believe it. For example, it is a wicked thought to say that “marriage cannot work”, but we see that on the lips of everyone. However, God is raising a people with a different mind that cannot be plundered by evil spirits; they will prove it that marriage can and will work.
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