Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Lekki Soul Center (LSC)
Date: Wednesday, 6th October 2021
Ministering: Reverend (Nrs) Helen Oyegoke
The Bible records that God created all things for His pleasure (Rev. 4:11), but the devil has stolen all pleasure from God. He did this by making all men now give Him pleasure rather than God. Satan can still find pleasure in creation because corruption is reigning on earth instead of incorruption. God created all things for incorruption, and He takes delight in incorruptibility, but the devil is a corruptible and corrupting agent. He takes delight in corruption and spreads it.
God is not happy when an animal kills a human being because the man was made to dominate everything on earth, including animals. However, everything has been twisted and corrupted. Through this, Satan has put pain in the heart of God, but God is going to laugh last. God has said that as long as the earth stands, the knowledge of the glory of God will cover it, as the waters cover the sea (Hab. 2:14). Creation will return back to her original alignment of bringing pleasure to God. Therefore, God is saying so much to us at these times so that His word will fill the air.
The bodies of men on earth now are heavenly; they are products of an inverted heaven. The devil had intruded into God’s plan for man because when God created man, He created him to be in His image, after His likeness and to have dominion over the earth (Gen. 1:26). When God gave this mandate to man, He was referring to man’s spirit, soul and body. Man ought to inherit the nature of God in his spirit. Then, that image will translate to his soul and his body will partake of i
Adam was made with the stature of a living soul in his spirit, soul, body. The life that his spirit has is called the living soul life. This life is a high one; it is so high that it made Adam a god on earth. Although Satan has created a corruptible or vile body for man (Phil. 3:21), the word of God that is coming to us at these times will help us be aligned with God so that we can be changed.
The babes and sucklings referenced in Ps. 8:1-2 are not physical ones but kingdom children. They are kingdom men and women who have been converted to become babes and sucklings. To such men, God has ordained strength. This strength is given as they are being given knowledge. Knowledge is responsible for converting men to babes (Dan.11:32). The reason why God had ordained strength in babes and sucklings is to still the avenger. The reason why we are learning Christ is so that we can learn God, which is a higher learning. The learning of God is the learning of everlasting life and Eternal Life. Without knowledge, no man can be strong because a man of knowledge increaseth in strength (Pro. 24:5). To be formidable against Satan, you have to be strengthened by knowledge.
Gone are those days when people would get born again and only engage in religious activities, without giving attention to appreciating in the knowledge of God. This is why many Christians can still do wrong things without being reprimanded by their consciences. Such consciences have not been tutored by knowledge because it is knowledge that God uses to grow the conscience.
It is knowledge that makes a man reason at a high level whereby he can let go of anything that does not make any everlasting impact on his life. The reason why God is bringing this word at these times is because He wants to still the enemy and the avenger. He is bringing the substances and knowledge of everlasting life to men, so that they can partake of it, grow above the enemy and stop him. Jesus said, "I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it" (Matt. 16:18). The reason for the building is because of the gates of hell.
The angels whom Jesus was raised to be better than are not the fallen ones. The angels who did not fall are a hundred times better than Lucifer, who is fallen. When he fell, he fell into ruins, corruption, and death. Satan is dead and cannot be compared to a living being. When the devil turned, he sinned and died, in spite of how high he was. The least of the angels who are not fallen are better than him. We can see this superiority in how Michael did not raise any railing accusation against Satan, when contending for the body of Moses (Jude 1:9). He could do so because it was not in his character or make-up.
Some people are so bold that they can speak against the authority that God has put in place, but this should not be so. Angels know the laws that are operational in the realm of the spirit. The devil is an outlaw; he would have done anything to make Michael misbehave and then gain dominion or access over the body of Moses. He just needed Michael to misbehave.
A lot of times, Satan just wants us to misbehave. He would give us legal grounds why we should misbehave but God will have to help us to keep our grounds in the spirit. The reason why God is building us now is so that we can be strong enough to resist Satan when he is giving us reasons to lose our ground in the spirit. We need to be built by knowledge. The knowledge of Christ gives us a raising and building of a godly man who can access the knowledge of God. The knowledge of God starts with everlasting life, and the reason God is building everlasting men is because of His enemy.
(Psalm 8:5-9). That man was made “a little lower than angels” means that he was a high being. It also implies that in the spirit, he shared a border with angels. Most times, tribes that share borders share similar cultures and languages. This also existed between man and angels; he was close to the lowest cadre of angels. The stature of being a little lower than the angels has glory and honour and because of this, man had dominion over the works of God’s hands. Just like angels, Adam was made with the stature of a living soul. By that stature, he occupied a heaven that is the original heaven of man. Anyone who occupies that realm in the spirit has a kind of dominion.
"The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all. [20] Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word." (Psalm 103:19-20). The angels in the verse above are all men of stature; they are heavenly beings who occupy heavenly strata. These angels are the highest cadre of angels. They are high because of the substances used to fabricate them; they have the content of Cherubims, which is higher than what they used to fabricate the lower cadre of angels. Due to the way they were fabricated, they can excel in strength, do God's commandments and hearken to the voice of His word. All good angels do God’s bidding, but these ones are high ministers because there are commandments that these ones can hearken to, which the next cadre of angels cannot hearken to. They occupy some realms in the spirit that only they can occupy because of their building and substances.
Adam was an occupant of the heaven that was lower than the heavens of angels, although he was very close to it. Just like the angels, he was created as a full-grown man, who occupied a sphere in the spirit. By that occupation, he was a god over the earth; he was a king and with dominion. His soul was able to occupy that height because of his make-up. Adam had a building in his soul that was able to occupy the heaven of the earth. This heaven was not just a physical one.
In Ephesians 2:2, "the air” that was described was not originally for Satan, but for man. Anybody who occupies that air can influence and control the earth. The devil took over that heaven of the earth by collecting the essence of man from him, which made him occupy that place. He lied to and tempted man, and this led to the fall. Satan knew that it takes a substance to stay in that heaven so, he came to corrupt the substance man had. This was because in himself, he no longer had the substance required to occupy the third heaven.
Lucifer (satan) is a creation of God. It is a high level of delusion that makes a creation stand against his Creator, thinking he can overthrow Him. This same thing happened to Adam: the moment he disobeyed, he was cast out of the garden of Eden because he lost the image or substances that would make him abide and dwell there. He was cast out and cast down because of the death in his spirit. This death did not allow him to occupy where he used to occupy in the heavens. Also, the gap between him and the angels widened so much that one could tell the difference between man and angels. This was why John the beloved, in spite of his stature, fell flat on his face when he saw the angel who appeared to him in Revelation.
God made man a little lower than the angels, but sin entered into man and began to further break him down. Adam did not know that the tree was a tree of death from its leaves to its root. Satan planted his inverted and dead nature in Eden, through the tree. Adam’s death (after eating the fruit of that tree) was different from Satan’s (when he was cast down to the earth from heaven). Adam died the first death because he did not allow the fruit of the tree to find full expression in him. The full expression of that tree of the knowledge of good and evil is the second death. Satan is not interested in sending men to hell. His original intention is that every man will die the kind of death he died and end up not responsive to God.
God wants to raise men and he started by making man a little lower than the angels. The substances of the soul of man (Adam) made it possible for him to be able to occupy the heaven of the earth. The devil dropped man from his position and occupied the earth. However, Jesus came to earth to show us the life of that man was supposed to be a little lower than the angels. He came into this estate through the suffering of death (Heb. 2:9).
Our Lord Jesus came from his position as the Son of God to where man started from — an estate that is a little lower than the angels, so that He could die for man (Heb. 2:7). Our Lord Jesus Christ is a making, a raising, and a building. Substances were poured into Him to raise and build Him, and such substances are being administered to us now. Jesus did not end as being a little lower than the angels, He became so much better than them (Heb. 1:4). He was compared to the highest cadre of angels, who occupied the highest level in heaven — the third heaven. He was found to be so much better than them, however, He attained those heights by acquiring substances. It takes the acquisition of ‘things’ to give us a placement in the realm of the spirit. This happens as we are being raised. God is raising us to occupy realms in the spirit and He wants us to move beyond the realm or stature or height of a “living soul” to being made so much better than the highest angels (Heb. 1:3-4).
The adversary has painted the pursuit of money to be more valuable than chasing God and attaining spiritual stature. One may seem foolish, unserious or fanatical to a natural man by coming to sit and learn the word of God consistently, instead of being engaged in a business activity. This is a twisted or perverted understanding and judgement to make one feel foolish for attending to the things that pertain to his raising, instead of being like other people, who spend their lives attending to natural businesses or their careers. It is also good to know that even as we pursue after God, the things that other people chase after will chase us (Matt. 6:33).
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.” (Jeremiah 29:11). Our “expected end” is to be made better than the angels and higher than the heavens, not to go after natural aspirations. However, Satan created another expectation and end for man, which is actually destruction. The standards and definitions of what is right has degenerated over generations. It is becoming more perverse by the day. The enemy did this by perverting man’s judgment and way of thinking. He churned this out for man, and man believed a lie. Now, man is degenerating and diminishing; he is going lower than demons and animals.
God sent His Son, Jesus Christ to show us His expected end for us. The Father gave substances to the Son; he gave Him all things that are used to fabricate a man who was to be made higher than the heavens (Heb. 1:2). Lucifer was also fabricated by things or substances, just like Michael. By their fabrication, they occupy the third heaven. Due to the thoughts of God for man, God reserved things to raise His man to stand where He is — a position that is higher than the heavens (John 14:3). He occupies a place in the realm of the spirit that is higher than where any creation can come into. Therefore, to bring man (who is a creation) to God’s realm, he must be loaded with substances of His realm. Angels were created with the substances of their environment in heaven while man is made from the substances of his environment—earth. The quickening spirit also has His things and substances (1 Cor. 15:45).
A carnal man will not see the love of God in the giving of things that eyes cannot see, ears cannot hear, or the things that the mind can think of. These are the things which God has prepared for our glory; even for them that love Him (1 Cor. 2:9). These things are so out of man’s imagination that one would think they are actually the substances of God Himself. God made angels, including Lucifer, with substances that are not of His person or essence. However, Lucifer corrupted his nature and became bad. These substances were used to frame other angles like Michael, Gabriel, and other Cherubims. He made them with substances that are not of Him.
God loves man so much that he wants to give him His person, but we do not appreciate this manner of love. We rather esteem natural things better. When God brings the substances of Himself and some natural things do not come as we would want them, we get sad. The substances of God can create an entire new universe for a man, if God allows it but God knows that we do not need another universe. What we need are His substances. Nobody can take care of the natural like God can, but He desires that we align in order of priority. The natural will go well if the spiritual is is also going well.
“But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.” (1 Corinthians 2:9). Before anyone can qualify and be a part of ‘they that love Him’, they must have obeyed some commandments (John 14:15). Those who have exercised their souls in obeying the commandments of Christ are ‘they that love Him’. They are the ones who can take the things He prepared for them, which are the things of Himself; even the deep things of God (1 Cor. 2:10). We have to give attention to loving God by obeying the commandments of Christ. Obeying the commandments of Christ is a prerequisite for our entrance into Everlasting Life.
We would not be able to access the provisions of the Father that are reserved for those that love Him if we are yet to obey His commandments. Our proof of love is in obedience to Christ. The obedience of Christ forms a man with the ability to receive higher substances. We need this formation because the substances of God will come as commandments also. They are the knowledge of God, even the knowledge of everlasting life that will be revealed to us for inheritance. When we obey them, they will become a part of our formation.
The things of God are in levels; there are the things of God and the deep things of God (1 Cor. 2:10). They are given to us in bits to frame us into a man that can occupy the realm where our Lord Jesus dwells—the realm that is higher than the heavens. The substances that God wants to give will make us better than the angels and higher than the heavens—this is our destiny.
The Lord will have us hasten. He will have us ignore some seemingly legitimate things that slow us down in our walk. He expects us to die to whatever will not bring us closer to Eternal Life, so that we can travel lighter. We cry over natural things which the world has defined as most important. The glory of the earth which fades away affects our attainment of honour and glory and makes us neglect what is most important—Eternal Life. We should therefore be ready to die to anything that takes us away from Everlasting life. God is not wicked; He cares to take care of our natural, but He would rather that we align in order of priority to what is most important.
Morning thoughts are thoughts of the beginning; they are the thoughts of God and they will begin to visit us, even at these times. In the morning, there was no death or corruption. Satan fights us with thoughts of offenses. These thoughts come to us and give definitions to us about our brethren. We sometimes act in accordance with these thoughts and relate with our brethren based on them. The reason for them is to keep us down and never to allow us to ascend. These thoughts do not come to us ordinarily; they are peddled by evil spirits. These Spirits labour to keep us in offence perpetually, they tie men down by continuously bringing those thoughts to their remembrance.
A slate is a black board for writing. When a person is done writing on it, he can either clean it with a duster or charcoal, so that it becomes clear again. The devil will have nothing to perch on when our slates (hearts) are clean. The reason why he disturbs us is because we retain offences and have wrong things written in our hearts. Therefore, we have to clean our slates. Cleaning our slates is a morning thought that will defeat the thoughts of offence which Satan wants to dominate our hearts with. A man becomes a child again when he cleans his slate because the slates of children are always clean.
The devil holds us bound in the realm of our thoughts because we allow thoughts that should not stay in our hearts to stay. It is freedom when we are instructed not to let the sun go down on our anger (Eph. 4:26). The moment the sun goes down on your anger, there is a writing on your slate. You must learn to clean your slate regularly. You will always see people through the thoughts you have towards them. The devil usually informs our impression about our brethren and we accept it. This is what usually determines the way we see them. The devil will never make you see that God is working on your brother, but make you stick to your former imagination concerning them. Even when the person is showing signs of repentance, you will still suspect and conclude that the change is not real.
When you are able to clean your slate, you are growing. The devil is determined to destroy marriages by thoughts. He will make you conclude each other wrongly. A good marriage is a marriage where the wife forgives the foolishness of the husband, and the husband overlooks the stupidity of the wife. It is a strange conversation in the secular world for marriages to last for long years.
Both the husband and wife should see themselves as foolish. It is best that they learn to quickly forgive their stupidity and foolishness, and move on because there is a place we are all going to. We are going to become higher than angels. Presently the devil has beaten man down to be lower than demons and animals. Even animals do not mate with animals of the same sex, but Satan has beaten man to such a state where he can be a homosexual.
Cleaning the slate will make man better. Angels do not have thoughts like offence or malice towards one another. This implies that a man who will be made better than them must grow above offences. Cleaning the slate is the answer to all offences; it is a morning thought.
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