Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministries (EGFM)
Programme: Tuesday Prayer Meeting (TPM)
Date: Tuesday, February 8th 2022
Minister: Pastor Tunji Adegoke
“Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: [29] For our God is a consuming fire.” (Heb. 12:28-29). When the Kingdom is being brought to a people, one thing that is required for them to profit with it is grace. There is a perception we have of the Kingdom that falls short of accurate spiritual judgement. God must upgrade our sight because we currently see with wrong eyes. Our level of spiritual judgement determines our accuracy in the realm of the spirit. Our judgement spells out our life, that is, how we will live or die in the realm of the spirit.
When God made Adam and put him in the garden of Eden, God breathed into him the breath of life and he became a living soul (Gen. 2:7). This breath was scripture – the scriptures were installed in Adam. The same kind of breath God breathed into Adam is what gave birth to the scriptures (2 Tim. 3:16). The scriptures are older than Adam; they were inside God till God breathed into Adam and it became his definition of life. Adam's definition of life came out from the installation of the inspiration (breath) of God in him. Adam naturally obeyed the commandment of love because it was his character by reason of the breath of God installed in him.
The formation of a character is a journey. One can likely tell where a man will end up by the way he lives and behaves because every character is a journey that has an end. When Adam ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Gen. 3:6), another definition of life called “death” was installed in him. The force of energy in his soul was redirected and tilted away. This was the same way Satan murdered himself – Satan redirected the force of energy used to express God amidst the seraphims to himself.
The doctrine of milk, Christ and the Father are introduced to man at his various levels of death to restore him back to God. The gospel is God's agenda to reach man, even at the depth of his fall (Ps. 40:2). There are realms of death that everlasting life cannot come to because it is a very high life. As such, God had to put in place lower levels of His word (milk and Christ) to reach us in our various depths of fall. The high conversation of everlasting life is one that has to be connected by a process, which is why anyone that does not do well in Christ cannot succeed in everlasting life.
“Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.” (1 John 2:7). We have all thought/understood “beginning” to be a point in time but as a result of higher light, we can now see the “Beginning” as an entity, one with a conversation called “everlasting life”.
The beginning of God's conversation is everlasting life. The beginning of the life that is beyond what has troubled man is Alpha or everlasting life (Rev. 22:13). Man has concluded his beginning as the time when he was born, but this is not so. The existence of man did not start biologically through the connection of the sperm and an egg, but man started as a thought in God. This is our original beginning.
God brought components of His everlasting nature, framed it and put it in Adam to live by but Satan showed him a contrary life, which became the beginning of man’s problems. God has to show the conversations of the beginning that existed before our problem to reverse what Satan did to man.
In the beginning, there was no heaven and earth, for only the Godhead existed. The Godhead are the definition of what the beginning is. “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” (Gen 1:1). This beginning got its origin from the Godhead (Eternal Life) who have no beginning. The beginning is a state. We must love our brethren because it is the life of the beginning. A man cannot be an entity of the beginning and have hate.
God comes to deliver us from our wrong definitions gradually. He does so by giving us the doctrine of milk to train us and then, the doctrine of Christ which is to make our soul spiritual, till it can take higher thoughts of everlasting life. Many are still struggling with keeping the commandments of charity coming to us. We should do well to prosper in charity because it does something to us, even though it is not the end of the expression of God's life. The contents of charity will eradicate sin in us.
“Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord : though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.” (Isa. 1:18). This is a judgement of the beginning but sin has a starting point that is lower than the beginning. To detonate sin, God has to show us the conversations of the beginning – charity. As we obey the commandments of charity, we will break into thoughts beyond sin.
“I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.” (Ps. 119:32). Our hearts are enlarged by commandments. As such, we must love every dealing that comes our way.
Until the enlargement comes, we run the race that has been described to us in the wrong dictionary; this wrong dictionary has many books with different volumes. One of such volumes is the commandments of men. Commandments of men can give you a false sense of satisfaction of worshipping God.
Matthew 15:7-9
"Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, [8] This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. [9] But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men." Satan did not tell Adam anything about himself in Genesis 3; everything he painted was about Adam (Gen. 3:5). Although all that was promised was to Adam, but it had everything to do with Satan; Satan himself was the author of that life of selfishness in all its forms, the Godhead is not selfish.
It is very easy to be selfish when one is hungry, tired, and most easy to be self-centred when what we call our life is being threatened (food, job, children, spouse, etc). In the beginning, there were no selfish thoughts, it is the fall of man that caused selfishness. We were not there when success was redefined after the fall. We have defined success now as having money but Adam's definition of success was not money.
Joshua 1:8,8
"This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success". Joshua would not have thought of money when describing good success - God must change our judgment. For example, the Bible says that by many tribulations shall one enter, that is good success. But in a natural man’s judgement, we do not see it as success. We cry and moan over dealings that are really good success. What is crying is not us, it is a configuration that needs to be removed. In the season of everlasting life, these things will be removed.
Satan has painted a cosmetic life to us, to always live from the outside. Adam did not live from outside, he lived by judgments brought to him. There are commandments of men that still run us that we must be delivered from. For example, height or age has got nothing to do with our choice for marriage. For all we know, Eve might have been taller than Adam but she was a helper to Adam. This judgement is of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Gen. 3). Age began to be recorded for both Adam and Eve after the fall - it was a countdown.
The enmity Satan put in our hearts is so that we would always fight God. The Lord has to help us not to win God. A man of perdition is one that committedly breaks the laws of God. He always fights God and wins.
A person can be born again, spirit-filled and still live after the commandments of men. Commandments of men are dangerous (Prob. 14:12, 16:25). When Satan sold an idea about himself to Adam, it was a way of death that was a wrong way of thinking. Paul called those commandments things that make men slip. We ought to out-think Satan and evil spirits. Everlasting life is first a way of thinking. We are supposed to out-think Satan; Jesus did it so well in the days of His flesh that He defeated Satan. This is what it means to bring many sons to glory (Heb. 2:10).
Every time we are able to obey the commandments of the Lord, it is an ornament that is added in the spirit. It is amidst the unity of the brethren that we can obey the Lord (Ps. 133). You need brethren to obey the Lord. Our understanding of everlasting life is at stake; our admittance into the things of everlasting life is tied to the obedience of the commandment of charity. Offence is a stain (on our garments/ornaments).
(Psalm 133:1-3) To dwell (with one another) is not to visit nor is it an announcement; rather, it is a synergy we have. When Christ and the Church are in synergy, the gates of hell shall not prevail; this synergy is a thing of the heart. When they want to introduce us to the end, the instruction will be around fervent charity. May we find grace much more this season.