Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Date: Thursday, 9th December 2021
"The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts." (Psalm 10:4). God is meant to be in our thoughts, and the prelude to that is the Father being found in our thoughts. The essence of the emphasis of the Father – which is the realm of everlasting life – is to bring the thoughts of the Father to our hearts and minds. This is so that these thoughts can be ingrained in our minds. As this happens, we would be brought to the place where we carry these thoughts in our mind, the same way a natural man carries worldly thoughts until he becomes worldly (or carnally) minded.
“Good and upright is the Lord: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.” (Psalm 25:8). This shows that a sinner can be taught in the way till he becomes a saint. This is the essence of the doctrine of Christ; it is to indoctrinate us to that point where Christ is preeminent in our thoughts. The formation of the mind of Christ in the soul of a believer has different folds – there is 30-fold, 60-fold, and 100-fold (Matt. 13:23). A time will come when a believer will come into the full age of Christ (Heb. 5:14a). This is when he has fully captured the thoughts of Christ and they naturally inform the way he lives. It will be natural and seamless for such a man to express the life of charity – to be kind, to suffer long etc. (1 Cor. 13:4-5).
A believer who has not been washed is a sinner in his soul, though a saint in his spirit. For a soul to be termed as sanctified, it has to be able to naturally carry the thoughts of Christ. Those thoughts need to be his default or subconscious meditation. We must allow the thoughts of Christ to move into the recess of our hearts – the inward and hidden parts of our hearts (Psalm 51:6). The first truth that is supposed to take over our hearts is the thought of Christ (Jer. 31:33). We will not be qualified for divine thoughts if the thoughts of Christ have not firstly filled our minds and hearts.
“To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” (Jude 1:15). The ungodly is a sinner. He sins because he has not been cleansed. The ungodly needs to sit under teachings of Christ to be cleansed and then sanctified. There are many people (including believers) who carry ungodly thoughts. Many of them journeyed from being sinners to being ungodly. Their minds are set on ungodly things; such a soul has become an ungodly soul. An ungodly man is a negative Christ who can journey into a negative edition of perfection, that is, a negative everlasting tree and Satan is currently raising such men on earth.
“And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.” (Psalm 1:3). It is the godly man who can take God’s judgment and keep them till he prospers. A man who has prospered with God’s judgement shall become as the tree of (everlasting) righteousness that Isaiah prophesied about (Isa. 61:3). God is currently raising trees of (everlasting) righteousness on earth. For as many as have been able to gather the thoughts of Christ, God wants to give them thoughts that are divine in nature.
“But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.” (1 Corin. 2:15-16). The man who has become spiritually minded is the one whose mind can be set on things above, the good and perfect gifts (Col. 3:1-2, James 1:17). By setting his mind on things above, he is setting his heart to take instructions that springs from the everlasting righteousness of the Lord Almighty. A spiritually minded man is one who has acquired the mind of Christ and can bring Christ thoughts to every of his conversation. This is because his ambition is to come to a place where the thoughts of God can be found in Him.
“For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.” (1 Corin. 2:16). The mind of the Lord here is that of the Lord Almighty (or the Father). The Father has a mind, and it is only those who have gone through the doctrine of Christ or have developed the mind of Christ that can take instructions from the mind of the Father. The mind of Christ is a formation that erodes the contrary formation of carnality in the mind (Romans 12:2). The end of the renewal of our minds is the birth of a new mind (through the doctrine of Christ) that can now mind all things of God. These all things of God begins when the Father shows up.
“As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth; And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.” (Luke 3:4-6). Sighting salvation is sighting the appearance of God the Father, having come to the end of faith (1 Pet. 1:9). A man who has come to the end of faith would have developed a mind that can now see or process the thoughts of salvation - thoughts of the Father.
Coming to the end of faith is developing a full spiritual mind. However, such a mind is supposed to make progress into handling divine thoughts. The phrase ‘all flesh’ in Luke 3:6 does not refer to carnal flesh but the heart of flesh. The heart of flesh is the heart of a spiritual man. It can only take the heart of flesh to comprehend salvation. All flesh must firstly be washed with water and this peaks at the sprinkling of the (clean) water of the commandments of charity (Ezek. 36:24-25). This is where the heart of flesh is born. Such is the heart that can take God’s judgment, or that can be enlightened and instructed to comprehend the things of God. These are the things that will save or perfect a Christ.
A man with the heart of flesh is the one that has the mind of Christ. Such a man has wrestled with principalities, powers, and rulers of the darkness of this world; he now needs to hear everlasting things so that he can take on the next wrestle (Eph. 6:12). The next wrestle is with the spiritual wickedness in high place.
The Godhead is entertained when a believer is using the doctrine of Christ or the Father to wrestle with evil or wicked spirits. When you wrestle with a principality and put his back to the ground, you have just entertained or brought pleasure to the Godhead. We ought to continue to pull evil spirits down until we come to the realm of ‘all pleasing’ (Col 1:9-10). We would keep experiencing the separations in Christ until it peaks in the sanctification of our soul; this is where we become the Lord’s brethren and we have His mind.
However, there is a higher realm of generating pleasure to God. "And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” (Matt. 3:17). This “well-pleasing” was a pleasure Jesus generated according to the light of everlasting life. Jesus had become an everlasting son when Satan came to tempt him. He was not just Christ at the age of twenty (20) but a Christ who has acquired measures of everlasting life. Jesus was already living according to the glorious power of everlasting life (Col. 1:10). As a Christ, Jesus had to increase in the knowledge of God. The first portion of this knowledge is that of the Father.
Satan upgraded the status of some angels that fell with him, so that they can help in the continuity of this present world. They do this by the wicked works they culture in the souls of men. Such are spirits that a full Christ will go on to wrestle with.
There is the exercise of comparing spiritual things (Christ) with the Spiritual (the Father) that a man who has become Christ must engage in. This is how the spiritually-minded man will come into the spirituality of the Most Holy Place. We will need the spiritual substances of the Most Holy Place to handle spiritually wicked spirits. The divine nature which everlasting life wants to press out in our souls is designed to birth an everlasting sense in us. This is the sense that will bring us to a state of satisfaction - a place where the only thing we would be looking for is God. So, we firstly come into the first satisfaction in the New Testament economy, which is the godliness in Christ (1 Tim. 6:6).
There is a contentment you must come into to become a godly man. This is because you must have added to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to temperance, to patience until Charity (2 Pet. 1:5-7). A charity man is a new man who is hoping for Eternal Life. When men look at such a man, they see a man who is already contented, but there are things that can still tempt a charity man. A charity man still has some wrong definition or perception of life; this is because he is not yet a tree after the manner of everlasting life. So he still needs to be fed.
“But godliness with contentment is great gain.” (1 Timothy 6:6). This contentment is one that a man who has attained Christ still needs to find in order to attain rest. A Christ or a godly man still needs to come into a higher contentment. The goal of a godly man is a great gain which is God. This great gain comes from partaking of the divine nature.
In Philippians 3:8, Paul mentioned that he counts his old things as loss. Those things are what Satan uses to limit men from coming to godliness (Col. 2:8). Paul won Christ by counting those things as loss. However, he also spoke of a greater satisfaction that comes by excelling in strength and wrestling with those spirits which Satan has upgraded (Philip. 3:8). While Paul was on course to becoming a full son of God, an agent of Satan was sent to buffet him. Paul was on the path to having all judgments of everlasting life which comes by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Father.
We are presently being fed in the presence of our enemies so that we can be made wiser than them. Our problem came from feeding in Eden and it cannot be solved without feeding. Only the Tree of Life will be standing in the end when men would have acquired a divine sense, by feeding on everlasting meals. The judgments of everlasting and Eternal Life are meant to bring us into the mind that is called a sound mind (2 Tim. 1:7). It was this sound mind that made Jesus to humble Himself and to be obedient to death (Philip. 2:5-8). The sound mind is the mind of God.
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” (2 Tim. 1:7). Some have been able to acquire the spirit of faith that is in Christ. We are now being fed in order to have the spirit of love which is the capacity to inherit God the Father. This is where we would acquire everlasting measures of life and overcome those fears that have previously inhibited us from serving God (Luke 1:74). This is all by feeding. A man with the spirit of faith and love is one who now has the consciousness of God. God has found a way to hack into his thoughts.