Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Revelation Hour (RH)
Date: Saturday, 3rd September, 2022
As much as we have started the race with the light of faith, we are headed for a place in the spirit where the Father and the Son await us. God wants us to see how the Godhead think, for their thoughts are the thoughts of the beginning and we are meant to inherit them.
“To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.” (Acts 26:18). God wants us to forsake the life of sin and death which is woven around the world. Many are not hearing the word of righteousness because they are still yoked with the world. Hence, we are admonished to come out from among them (2 Cor. 6:17). ‘Them’ refers to those who are not doing God’s will.
“Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” (John 1:13). There is the programme of the will of God but there are other types of will. The three types of will in the scripture above typify worldliness, ungodliness and iniquity. There is a program of salvation ongoing in our lives because of the clarity of light the Lord is bringing to us in this season. Then, we will be able to see the true state of men and thereby be able to help them. We would be able to publish the word better, being able to show men the true hope of the gospel.
The reason we are unable to publish the word is that we have not seen all of its divisions. We would first have to forsake a life to have the hope of the gospel. A new man is one who has the hope of the gospel, which is glory. The Lord is equipping us, such that some of us will be labouring like we have never done and bring profit to the gospel. Flesh and blood is what has kept men from the fellowship of light; it is responsible for our darkness. For one who has used the life of Christ to handle this darkness, there is yet another level of darkness that must be overcome on the path to gaining everlasting life as our inheritance.
“For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.” (Matt. 13:12). The reason for forsaking the world, which is a birth process, is to bring us to a place where we can receive His name. The first “whosoever” referred to in the scripture above is one to whom faith has given a victory. He is one who has come above the world. The name of the Father can be declared unto such a man because faith has become his inheritance, amongst those that are sanctified. Such a one has fulfilled faith to the latter. He has been separated from a blood tie, even the birth of the will of blood. Blood is the life of Satan that will make a man become a Levite in the kingdom of darkness, but it takes the victory of faith to deliver a soul from such life.
“All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.” (Matt. 11:27). The Son is declared to one who has kept faith with the doctrine of Christ. He that has the doctrine of Christ has both the Son and the Father (2 John 1:9). God will not withhold that which will make the soul of such a person prosperous because he has kept what he has (Christ), until the level of abundance. Whosoever does not transgress and abides in the doctrine of Christ and has God, will come into a birth that will enable him to relate with the commandment that is in the name. Such a person will be given the gospel of God, which is the gospel that has the tidings of everlasting life and of Eternal Life.
“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. [29] Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.” (Matt. 11: 28-29). The call to “come unto me” is a call of faith. It is on the basis of having this rest that some who have gained the rest will declare the gospel of everlasting life. Such people have been separated from darkness and broken a fellowship with darkness (2 Cor. 6:14). What makes a believer have the covenant of life and peace is because of what he has done with the fellowship of the righteousness of faith and what he has done with charity. A believer who has broken the covenant with darkness will have the covenant with life and peace. Such a person can be brought under the yoke of Christ and experience what Isaiah called the sure mercies of David (Isa. 55:3).
“And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused. [19] And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.” (Luke 14:18-19). It is the activity of the power of darkness that makes the hearts of men wrestle with the seed of the sower. The cares of life have prevented the Church from embracing the light of life. The excuses these men gave in the verses above were legitimate things. This is an example of a power using legitimate things to keep men under a yoke. Therefore, these men need to hear the saying of faith which will teach them to come out of the world.
It takes faith, hope and charity to hate that which we have designed as life and develop the capacity to receive the incorruptible seed. Such a one would not only hear the declaration of the name of the Father, but also comprehend it because he has come to Zion and is mourning for more. The only thing that can satisfy such a soul is abundance and all he craves for is perfection. He has come into a state where he wants to use a higher light to come against the tendencies and potentials of a higher form of darkness. He can also register his presence in the fellowship of the Son and Father, and become an abode for Them. Just like Christ has been able to dwell in such a heart by faith, the Son and the Father also seek to dwell in that heart by faith.
If there is any reason a womb (soul) cannot receive the incorruptible seed, it is because such one does not have a heart of flesh. He has not responded to all the trumpets of faith. After we must have “come out from among them and become separate” (a separated Christ), we still need to “touch not the unclean” to become a sanctified Christ (2 Cor. 6:17). This is where many have been under the washing of water by the word, so that they can be washed and cleansed (Eph. 5:26).
The incorruptible seed wants to place a yoke on our necks. It is also referred to as “the new commandment”. It is by this commandment that one would pass from death to life, and the darkness in our midst will be dealt with. This is because of the mercy that this generation has found of the Lord. We must carry the word of faith diligently until that word dwells richly in us and is tattooed on our minds.
After one has hated/overcome flesh and blood, he finds his way (entrance) into the kingdom of God’s dear Son (Col. 1:13). This is not the everlasting kingdombut the kingdom one comes into, having escaped darkness. Our lives are a world that faith seeks to give us victory over (Luke 14:26). When we complete that course, we experience a birth. Such one has been anointed with a life that separates him from the world unto the Father. He is able to hear the Father differently when He speaks and would be able to relate with the light of the Father as a new comfort. Such a person is in Zion and is mourning for something.
“Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.” (James 1:21). After the filth of the flesh which we shared in common with fathers, mothers, brothers (will of blood) etc., has been dealt with, there is another level of filth which can still be found amongst the daughters of Zion. It is called the filthiness of the spirit – spiritual sins (2 Cor. 7:1). We ought to desire the sincere milk of the incorruptible seed (the beginning of the commandment of everlasting life), in order to deal with the filth (wicked tendencies) of the daughters of Zion. Then, such souls can be saved.
One who carries his cross is one who has overcome the filth of the world. Bearing the cross, for a Christ company, is a feat we come into after we have overcome the world. The cross of Christ guarantees the new creature, but the cross that this word would bring is a yoke. When God began this work by exposing us to the gospel of Christ, His goal was that we would be separated unto the gospel of God like Paul was (Rom. 1:1). Paul got to the sphere where he was able to lay hold on Eternal Life, having kept the faith and also the demands of the name. After a believer has come to Jesus, he must become a disciple again and take up His yoke.
“A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. [35] By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.” (John 13:34-35). This is a commandment that God is calling us to keep, to pass from death unto life; to surmount darkness and arrive at the place where John referred to as “the fellowship with the Son and the Father” (1 John 1:3). This is the honour that awaits us in this season. Being the Lord's disciples in this phase is different because it calls for keeping a higher commandment.
“Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.” (1 John 5:1). Just as there are three negative births of blood, of the will of flesh, and of the will of man (John 1:13), there are also three positive births. Satan never has the ingenuity of births; he is only working with an inverted template of birthing souls. But God will complete the three-fold birth process before Satan’s birth process is revealed.
“And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.” (Luke 9:23). One must have first come to the Lord before he can come after the Lord. Coming after Him is a process that will culminate into the sealing of the name of the Father and the Son, and it is summed up as everlasting life (as an inheritance). The essence of God giving us light in this manner is so that we can see clearly and deny our present states. A person who is coming after the Lord is one who is taking the Lord’s yoke upon him.
“But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. [23] For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: [24] For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.” (James 1:22-24). The glass is the mirror of the word and it is meant to show us darkness expressly because heaven wants to judge it quickly. God wants us to see commandments as a way of life and not something grievous because it comes with a grace and enlightenment of salvation. Light seeks to expose that which limits us from doing the works of everlasting life.
When a ministration comes to us, it is the declaration of who the living Son is – the Man who ate the living bread until the prince of the world found nothing in Him (John 14:30). He is the Man who wrestled with the prince of this world and overcame him (John 16:33). This is who we also ought to become.
“But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.” (James 1:25). When we are shown our true states, we are shown something we ought to deny. The bar has been raised to a state where we should begin to confront our thoughts. God wants to deal with the nature of ‘self’ in us and help us agree with the manner of salvation, which is a wisdom with God. When we finish this curriculum, we will have the wisdom of salvation and be able to save men.
When a man has put on the whole armour of God, he is warring with long-suffering. The temptation of such seasons would be to correct a person at the wrong time, but to suffer long. On getting to that threshold where everlasting life has become an inheritance, one will have compassion (Heb. 5:2) and not react naturally to the infirmities of men because our bowels would have been enlarged (2 Cor. 6:11). When heaven begins to see this kind of response on earth, they know that beloved sons are being raised. When they see the way we handle the imperfections of men, they know that perfection is happening in us.
Even after we have victory by faith over the world, we still have similarities with men. However, the days of darkness are now numbered. Prior to now, we were not receptive to some thoughts because they can easily be ignored by a person who lacks weight and compassion, but trials and dealings are meant to enlarge our hearts. As a result, our conversation and lifestyle in the natural would change.
The season of everlasting life is a season when we have to live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Father. Those words are the daily bread; they make the living bread. The reason we have meetings daily is because the Father has something to say daily. These are the things that will empower us to carry our cross daily and bear the yoke of the commandment of everlasting life. In that season, a precious fruit will be reaped from the earth.
We can not sit on the throne until we are slain. That is why we need to be fathers; firstly to be an abode for the Son and the Father and then, to follow Him until the point where we can keep our appointment with God and the Lamb in the city. This is the ultimate birth that awaits everyone of us. It will take an ultimate birth process after inheriting everlasting life for us to be caught up to the throne. But before then, the milestone before us is to keep the commandments that come with carrying His cross daily.
There is a measure of life that we must take part in and a portion of nature that ought to be formed in us daily. When we do not attain this portion, so much has to be done in the spirit for us to catch up with the life we missed. Our failure to receive all the life allocations that come to us on a daily basis distorts heaven’s plan because we have all been numbered and we are meant to register our presence on the mountain in this hour when Zion is being favoured.
To favour Zion is to bless Zion with the understanding of everlasting life. This means to equip Zion with higher commandments so that she can become the New Jerusalem and come to a place where she is sealed. The place where Zion is sealed is where she is carrying the glory of the Holy place, that is, the glory of everlasting life.
“And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. [28] For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? [29] Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him…” (Luke 14:27-29). It is not enough to have Christ as our foundation, what God wants to do is to build us. The name of the Lord is a building of everlasting life (Prov. 18:10). It is a name that when it is fully built, the Son and the Father will find an abode (Jn. 14:23). However, when the man is unable to finish the foundation, spirits will begin to mock him. This is because they know that a man’s joy is not full if he does not get to where the apostles got to. They know that such a man loved his life and did not hate something. There are two hates: hating the world (1 Jn. 2:15-17) and not loving one’s life (Rev. 12:11).
There are things we are yet to forsake, but light is coming and it is a mirror that will show us the beloved Son and what He did when He was in our shoes. Many that come short of being sealed with the names will not have the opportunity to follow the Lamb wherever He goes; His destination is the city of God. God is raising a generation that will inherit both everlasting and Eternal Life here on earth.
As many as are faithful to God's commandments will be instrumental to the formation of the company of men that He is raising on earth. We need to pay our dues to be prophets of the Most Holy. One of the deaths we will die in this season is loving our brothers again. Though we preferred them in the Holy place, we have to prefer them again. We will need to die to the sense of self.
Satan is a liar from the beginning. He lied from his realm of perfection and this was the birth of self. It means we also need to journey to the beginning to overcome selfish tendencies. We all have many expressions of ourselves that seem innocent but are actually harmful. These expressions are self-seeking; they are motivated by iniquity because the Son is being exalted in our midst. The grace upon us this season is for us not to be forgetful hearers.
We should always evaluate ourselves based on how Jesus would respond to issues. A person who is able to do this will gather every measure of everlasting life, escape every temptation and receive the crown of life. That is what awaits us in the seasons ahead and it will be our portion in Jesus’ name.
Blessings!
Summary
1. God wants us to forsake the life of sin and death, which is woven around the world. To do so, we have to be separated from the world (2 Cor. 6:17).
2. Flesh and blood is what has kept men from the fellowship of light; it is responsible for our darkness. The reason why God wants us to forsake the world is so that we can be brought to a place where we can receive His name.
3. A believer who has broken the covenant with darkness will have the covenant with life and peace. Such a person can be brought under the yoke of Christ and experience what Isaiah called the sure mercies of David (Isa. 55:3).
4. If there is any reason a womb (soul) cannot receive the incorruptible seed, it is because such one does not have a heart of flesh. He has not responded to all the trumpets of faith.
5. One who carries his cross is one who has overcome the filth of the world. For a Christ-company, bearing the cross is a feat we come into after we have overcome the world.
6. God wants us to see commandments as a way of life and not something grievous because it comes with a grace and enlightenment of salvation
7. The season of everlasting life is a season when we have to live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Father. These are the things that will empower us to carry our cross daily (Luke 9:23) and bear the yoke of the commandment of everlasting life.
8. We can not sit on the throne until we are slain. That is why we need to be fathers; firstly to be an abode for the Son and the Father and then, to follow Him until the point where we can keep our appointment with God and the Lamb in the city.
8. It is not enough to have Christ as our foundation, what God wants to do is to build us. The name of the Lord is a building of everlasting life (Prov. 18:10). It is a name that when it is fully built, the Son and the Father will find an abode