Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Writing the Vision (July Edition)
Date: Saturday, 30th July 2022
“My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: My tongue is The pen of a ready writer.” (Psa. 45:1). There is the King Eternal (1 Tim. 1:17) and also the King everlasting (Jer. 10:10). God is the One who alone has immortality and dwells in light (1 Tim. 6:16). Hence, it is difficult to know who is like Him.
God dwells in light. The essence of light is to make things visible. God hid Himself in light, so no one can approach Him. Man has devised ways to visit the moon, stars or other planets, but none has been able to visit the sun because no one can approach it. All of man’s exploration has its limitations. They know they cannot get to the sun. This tells us that the body of light (the sun) has a great physical significance of the ‘kind’ of who God is.
“Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. [6] His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: And there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.” (Psa. 19:5-6). The king referred to in Psalm 45:1 is the King Eternal, describing both His everlasting and eternal essence. The everlasting kingdom is the kingdom of the Father. Kingdom is the reign of a life or a conversation. Therefore, a person who inherits the kingdom will inherit life. It is called a kingdom because it is a life that must be exercised over other lives. Every life or creature uses one kind of life or the other.
God authored a kind of life for man when He created him as a living soul. But Satan sold another life to man through sin and death. Then man began to live by the life that is encoded in the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. That life has prospered on the earth. However, God wants another kind of life to prosper on the earth. The phrase, ‘ride on prosperously’, defines God’s intention for His life to cover the earth. It is not God’s intention that iniquity thrives.
“And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually”. (Gen. 6:5) God wiped off a generation from the surface of the earth (Gen. 6:1-17) because He would not permit evil and wickedness to be the last abiding elements on the earth. Iniquity may live but it must not abide. Lawlessness must not remain because that is not what was intended in the beginning. It was the fall of man that brought iniquity to the scene. It is righteousness that must remain (2 Pet. 3:13).
“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.” (Isa. 65:17) Wickedness will not abide. When we look at the earth today, it seems like iniquity and lawlessness will remain on earth, but they will not. Satan employs all manner of his wisdom to see to it that sin and iniquity remains on earth, but it will not remain (abide). This is why God is teaching us His law.
“Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: But he that gathereth by labour shall increase.” (Prov. 13:11) There are things that make for something to abide. No matter the work or wisdom that Satan devises, iniquity cannot abide. Hence God is teaching us the laws that will make for us to abide. David considered the ways of the wicked; it seemed like they were having things freely until he saw their end. So, God is downloading His things to us to enable us to have another kind of ending different from that of the wicked. The law of meekness is the law of abiding (Matt. 5:5; Psa. 73:3-4).
Moses (the law of the Old Testament) abides till today because he inherited the law of meekness (2 Cor. 3:15). Therefore, the Bible calls him the meekest man on earth (Num. 12:3). The Old Testament could not easily be rolled away because the man through whom the Lord brought the testament was meek. The principles for abiding and enduring are entrenched in who God is (Heb. 1:10-12).
“Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.” (Heb. 13:8). What is responsible for God’s enduring ability? Why do His years never fail? What is His frame? We need to know these. Jesus said, “Learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart” (Matt. 11:29). Peter calls meekness an ornament of great price (1 Pet. 3:4). These are the substances that make Him the One that remains. Iniquity does not remain. God wants to show us the secret of His ability to remain. This was why Jesus was ordained our High priest. The essence of Jesus becoming our High Priest is to administer things that remain, and do not fade.
“Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.” (1 Cor. 13:8). Gifts can fail and fade; that is, they can diminish in strength. Throughout history, we have seen men and even moves of the Spirit that have waned after some seasons. This is because there is something that was lacking in those moves. Those things that are missing are the things heaven wants to reveal to us in this season through the Son.
Charity never fails (1 Cor. 13:8). We journey from faith to charity and at charity, we reach the zone of abiding. Charity can be likened to the seashore where the water is. Heaven uses different things to test our charity. Charity is a requirement for committing things that abide to us. God can commit His things to a saint who has arrived at charity because such a person cannot turn. To be able to abide and remain requires a kind of nature. The things God is teaching us constitute a nature, which we are being formed into. Blessings!