Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Revelation Hour (RH)
Date: Saturday, 30th April 2022
Ministering: Pastor Kenneth Eyanohonre
“For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh…” (Rom. 8:3). God has moved in different generations, in order to reveal Himself to man in different ways. His plan is not just to initiate something different, but to raise a generation of righteousness. Jesus came to entrench a new law – a new understanding and capacity – for righteousness to thrive. The weakness of the law was that the righteousness it was supposed to project was dwarfed by the wisdom of sin, which joined forces with our flesh to undermine God’s intervention at different seasons of life.
In every season, God wanted to stop the works of death by bringing down a kind righteousness but Satan would somehow use a wisdom that would make man join forces with him to create a detour. God would then raise or create another pathway and expire that operation of death which Satan brought in order to fulfill His purpose. At every phase that God showed up, sin also showed up and man always carelessly went out of God’s way by his own wisdom. We see an example of this in the journey of the Isarelites.
The Israelites went into captivity, suffered and cried unto God. He delivered them in His mercy but they were never really free until Christ came. God always wants to interject sin so that He can raise a people without sin, who would truly be able to learn and live out God’s righteousness. When Jesus came to the scene, God raised a new standard of righteousness and a new civilization was born. The declaration of God's righteousness is the setting of a new stage for the activities of Christ to run. The Son (Jesus Chtist) is still speaking from above till date but man has still been unable to understand God’s righteousness.
“Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God…” (Rom. 3:25). God sent forth Jesus to declare His righteousness, which comes by revelation. Righteousness sometimes starts in very insignificant ways. For Abraham it was, “get thee out of your father’s house” (Gen. 12:1). For Jesus, it was the most insignificant because it did not look like righteousness according to man’s standard. The Jews had set forth a righteousness that was upon the face of the earth. Every time the Jews fulfilled the measure of commandments God gave them, a level of righteousness was being done but God wanted to elevate that righteousness, so He declared a new day, which is a new righteousness.
God wants to raise a company of new men and He has set forth a new way for men to access His thoughts. It does not make sense to the natural man, but God ordained that this wisdom will destroy the wisdom of sin and the power by which flesh had held on to man. Man sabotaged the plan of God and lined up with Satan as the days went by, but God had a strong program of redemption. God wants to perpetuate righteousness, and the vehicle to perpetuate righteousness is His will. God is raising a people who would learn, embody and manifest this righteousness. They will bring forth a new and living way.
“Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.” (Dan. 9:24). Everlasting righteousness is a perpetuity. It endures – it passes on from one age, season and dispensation to another. Through the intelligence of sin, its operation has increased in many children of God. There was a generation that did not seek God with their whole hearts but sought for other gods. However, God has a program to perpetuate righteousness. He has finished it in the spirit and we would complete it on earth by our walk. It shall also pass on from one generation to another (Psa. 145:4).
The place of the revelation of righteousness is not in trying to just stretch truth, but in God expanding the borders of our hearts to see and receive His Person beyond specific words which He speaks to us in particular seasons of our lives, to sustain us during such seasons. After a while, through the definite words God is speaking to us, our hearts should be able to marry His thoughts and acquire the wisdom of God through those words.
Revealed righteousness is an ongoing, increasing elevation of God’s standards for man. God elevates the standard of His righteousness in dealing with us and thereby, we are becoming the blessed of the Lord. We do not become blessed by remaining in the initial position of believing in the Lord Jesus to be saved. Believing comes to us progressively, as God reveals Himself and speaks forth His mind.
"Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness…” (2 Cor. 9:10). Righteousness can grow and multiply in terms of fruits. But for this to happen, God will begin to speak to us about certain issues, particularly concerning our natural endeavors/engagements. When God takes a particular area of our lives, stays on it, speaks to us concerning it and we respond, He counts that response as righteousness. Such a person will acquire a new elevation and interaction with God.
The Spirit of God broods on our natural in a bid to move us to a plane where we can come to righteousness. The natural is a very strong platform for God to speak and culture us differently (Isa. 66:1).
Wealth is a measurement in the natural, but in a new understanding, we know that the true riches of the kingdom is righteousness (Rom. 14:21; Matt. 6:33). Righteousness is God’s grace towards a people to make them endure; not with their lives being intact, but with a new civilization. If a man does not understand God’s intent, he will get weary, overwhelmed or discouraged in the journey of righteousness. As the Spirit of God moves and broods upon our natural lives, we are being trained with God’s will.
“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. [16] For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world” (1 John 2:15-16). Satan responds to the lust of the world in the soul of a man. Just as when the serpent lured Eve to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was a presence of the lust of the world in her heart (Gen. 3:6). However, the leading of the Spirit will inform a change in our nature. It would drive out a disposition, orientation and alignment that the intelligence of sin has built up over the years. Yielding to the leading of the Spirit makes us acquire a new intelligence, that is, a new faculty that aligns with God’s priorities and intentions for our lives.
“Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; [18] That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate…” (1 Tim. 6:17). In the bid to train us in His righteousness, the Spirit of God begins to influence the things pertaining to our natural lives and uses it as a platform for us to access eternal destiny. Therefore, this scripture is not so much of an affront against the rich or riches, but that the natural can be used by the Lord to purchase eternal virtues. For some, riches may not be money, but making a name, or patenting an invention. Therefore, when the Lord moves upon our natural lives, He does so in order to train us not to abuse the world even as we use it (1 Cor. 7:31).
Our natural is a template for God to rewrite a new kind of generation of man. God would rather give us spiritual things of Himself than natural things. Sometimes, He does so to test our hearts, to see if we would refrain from following Him. The Holy Spirit plays an active role in guiding us to truth. God would be giving us a new intelligence to manage our natural. He trains our hearts to long for and appreciate the spiritual over the natural and by so doing, God would have perpetuated righteousness in our souls.
As we advance in life, we will experience a lot of trouble in the world. However, our learning of righteousness will be instrumental in God’s hands and our obedience will be used by Him to preserve righteousness unto the next generation (Ps. 145:4). When God moves upon our natural lives, He has an intent to bring in everlasting righteousness upon the face of the earth. He will reculture a people and make righteousness endure.
The Spirit of God can alter a people’s lifestyle, such that their giving would become a sweet smelling offering unto God, whether in giving themselves, their possession, time etc. We must understand that the works of God in the natural realm of our lives are for a purpose – that we should become partakers of His holiness (Heb. 10:12). Thus, the leading of the Spirit is very important, especially in our natural, so as to break certain holds and so that we can relate the knowledge we are receiving with real life. The Spirit of God is like an artificer, taking all of God’s truth and infusing it into our beings. Thus, when God is taking us through unique experiences, that experience is what will make our righteousness remain.
There is so much worry about the younger generation today because of what the devil is propagating especially through the internet. But as we respond to God in faith, following His dealings in our natural, it would not end with us but reach unto our next generation. The Spirit of God who has cultured us will culture our children and immediate communities, because righteousness will endure. The mighty hand of God will keep them. God has a programme: righteousness will be a new civilization that will endure.
As God directs us, especially with regards to things pertaining to our natural lives, He will raise a company of righteous men. Righteousness will remain because there has been a shift in the core of the soul of a people. God could not perpetuate Himself (righteousness) in previous seasons, because hearts could not retain His ways.
“And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.” (1 John 2:17). We will abide; God’s ways and works will abide through us. If we do His will and He judges the world in us, and it passes away, we will abide because we will become one with the will of God. We would have acquired the wisdom that His will has always wanted to propagate amongst mankind.
We will abide, as a people who will become the generation of the righteous. We will become that company of men who would do all of God’s will – a portal by which God’s strength would be propagated through the earth. God does not deposit His things in us and turn away, but will see that it comes through, and that righteousness endures throughout the face of the earth.
Summary
1. Every time God has shown up to stop the works of death, sin also showed up. But man always carelessly went out of God’s way by his own wisdom.
2. God wants to perpetuate righteousness, and the vehicle to perpetuate righteousness is His will. Therefore, He is raising a people who would learn, embody and manifest this righteousness, and thereby, bring forth a new and living way.
3. Revealed righteousness is an ongoing, increasing elevation of God’s standards for man. God elevates the standard of His righteousness in dealing with us and as we obey, we become blessed.
4. Yielding to the leading of the Spirit makes us acquire a new intelligence, that is, a new faculty that aligns with God’s priorities and intentions for our lives.
5. When God moves upon our natural lives, He has an intent to bring in everlasting righteousness upon the face of the earth, by reculturing a people and making righteousness endure.
6. We must understand that the works of God in the natural realm of our lives are for a purpose – that we should become partakers of His holiness (Heb. 10:12).