Powered by: Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministries (EGFM)
Programme: Tuesday Prayer Meeting
Date: Tuesday, 12th April 2022
Ministering: Pastor Emeka Egwuchukwu
“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). John was not referring to the New Birth (regeneration of the human spirit) in this scripture but about a soul being born of God. To be born of God is to be born of the incorruptible seed.
“Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.” (Rom. 6:4). This burial is a form of birthing. There are many ways birth can be described in the New Testament. One of such ways is when one is born of someone/something. This is where the word “offspring” was derived. There are many terminologies that describe birth in scriptures without the use of the word “birth”.
A man has to be born again in his spirit before he can be born of God. A man starts from being born again, then goes through the process of being born of Christ, then to being born of the Father and finally being born of God. The birthings from Christ to God all take place in the soul. The first birthing a man experiences is in his spirit (the New Birth) but the rest take place in his soul.
The will of God has to be revealed for a man to be born of God. The will of God has to be revealed to a soul and this revelation takes place gradually. The will of God is revealed to a man for the purpose of doing – obedience to God. The doing of the will of God by a soul overtime gives the soul the capacity to cross into the next realm in the spirit.
“Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently…” (1 Pet. 1:22). The truth these men were obeying was the will of God and they obeyed the will until they arrived at “the unfeigned love of the brethren”. All who arrive at this realm will be given the commandment to deliberately love one another to the point of fervent charity.
If a soul does not arrive at the point of fervent love, such cannot be born. Fervent charity is a womb that should birth men into the incorruptible realm. The men in 1 Peter 1 had to keep the law of the womb, which is fervency. When love is done fervently, then the law of the womb is being kept. However, there are laws to obey to arrive at the womb. When a man keeps himself in the love of God, he keeps himself in the womb.
“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). Obedience is love. He that begat is the everlasting Father. Everyone that loves Him that begat would love Him that is begotten. The One who begat brings the begotten into His own realm.
The Father and the Son are the Ones that begat. He that loves the Father must also love the Son. The love we have for God can be demonstrated by our lifestyle. There are works that show that a man loves God. The love we claim we have for God should be manifest in the way we love the brethren because they also are being begotten of God. As such, we are meant to love them.
We have to love them that are begotten, but it is not easy to love such. To love them is to keep a high love commandment. To love them is to keep a love commandment that brings the soul to a place of selflessness – it is to come into a high degree of selflessness. No one must claim to be selfless until such has been tried with the goods of this world – such must first be tested and approved of God.
“But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?” (1 John 3:17). We must learn not to close our hearts to our brethren and the men that the Lord places around us when they are in need. It is not possible for a man to shut his bowels of compassion to his brethren and claim to have the love of God dwelling in him. The love of God is the seed of God. It is the seed of God that will make us overcome this world (1 John 5:4).
The god of this world has many lifestyles to give man, but these lifestyles must not have a place in our souls. We have to practice love at the degree of being begotten. There is a way the Father loves and that is how we should also love the brethren. God loves (John 3:16) and we ought to love at the same pedigree as the One who begats.
There is a way that He who begats loves. We should aim to practice love like the Father did. We should be able to forego our worldly goods for the use of the brethren. We should learn not to withhold our goods from our brethren just like the Father did not withhold the Son from us. Many times, we have gotten these worldly goods and were unable to forego them. However, in this season, we must train our hearts to love.
When we keep commandments towards the brethren, it shows we love. Love is not a feeling, rather, it is the keeping of commandments. Obedience to commandments can hurt us but we must love still. However, we can get to the point where we will begin to derive pleasure in obeying love commandments. The Lord would not give us people that are easy to love, for we would be tested with those we have difficulty in loving. As we keep the commandments of love towards them, the program of hate in us will be overcome.
Commandments will be given to us at the pedigree of everlasting life to knock out hate. This is love at the pedigree of everlasting life. There is an everlasting love (Jer. 31:3), there is Christ's love (Rom. 8:35) and there is love for all the saints (Eph. 1:15). All these love levels are commandments. Love gives, it sheds and as this takes place, the world inside of us breaks and loses strength. The things in this world – lust of the flesh, eyes and pride of life (1 John 2:16) are actually inside of us, because every man is drawn of his own lust within him (Jam. 1:14).
“By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.” (1 John 5:2). When we practice love at this pedigree, we can say we love God. These are commandments of everlasting love and these commandments are not grievous (1 John 5:3). The thoughts of God are not evil (Jer. 29:11) but Satan has made us believe that they are evil. The commandments grieves us because the works of Satan are still in us, but we are not the ones being grieved – it is actually the works of Satan in us that are being grieved.
The thoughts of God are seen as evil because they are contrary to our nature. The word comes as a comfort to us in such seasons. When things are not going well as we think, we must believe His word, that His thoughts towards us are not evil (Jer. 29:11). From God’s view, His commandments are not grievous (1 John 5:3) because we are being free from this world. The water of this world has to be poisoned and bittered. When this water is being made bitter, we are also bitter because we are now almost one with the world, but when we are free from the world, we would really know that it is the world that is grievous and not the commandments of God.
Everyone has a deposit of the water of this world in them and the Lord needs to make that water bitter, for this is our healing. It is bitter herbs that would heal us. The things of darkness would die in us as we obey the commandments of love. There are some situations the Lord brings around us to purge us. It might seem grievous but we must obey so that we can be free. We must not seek ways to escape situations the Lord brings around us.
“For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.” (1 John 5:4). What would bring about our birth are things of Him, which come by commandments and obedience. We are sure of overcoming by the things we now handle, which are the things of God. God wants to take away things that are of this world and give us His things. The things of God are what we need to overcome the world.
In the world is sorrow and tribulation, but in God is peace (John 16:33). Jesus overcame the world by commandments and not by prayers and fasting alone. He received the things of the Father which He obeyed and then enabled Him to overcome the world.
Jesus overcame the world by things everlasting (1 John 5:4). This overcoming is not a hope to Him anymore because He received things everlasting and we must also receive such things. Whatever is born of God is better than this world. “Our faith” (1 John 5:4) is higher than the Christ faith; it is a precious faith, it is the most holy (everlasting) faith (Jude 1:20).
Faith is a substance (Heb. 11:1). Faith here are things everlasting. It would take the incorruptible seed to overcome the world. As such, anyone who rejects the incorruptible seed cannot overcome the world. The world must be overcome. Anyone who does not receive the love of the truth (2 Thess 2:10) would believe a lie. The love of the truth is what would restrict the soul from believing a lie whose end is destruction.
This world corrupts. It is only when we have received the incorruptible seed that we would become immune and insulated from believing a lie. God would help us keep commandments to the point where we would overcome the world. We overcome the world because of the incorruptible seed inside us. The incorruptible seed is greater than he that is in the world (1 John 4:4).
We are being given the incorruptible seed to overcome the world. Some people would overcome the woman (Rev. 17:4). Overcoming the woman proved to the adversary that the woman is not sufficient to take a soul to perdition, which is why he raised another that can take a soul to perdition. The woman is a lie but the beast that would rise up is a higher lie. We overcome by the incorruptible seed. The woman and the beast are all operations of lie (the world). There would be a generation of men that would not believe the lie and would overcome her totally because they have received something.
The world changes in fashion in lies, but no matter how much it changes, he that has the incorruptible seed would always overcome. There would come a time where some people would not have anything of the corruptible and this is an overcoming. The inability of the enemy to come and find none of his things in us is not by sheer confession, but by receiving things incorruptible (John 14:30).
There are revelations of our soul at the moment that make us know that we still have the things of the evil one in us, but despite that, we must desire to come into the estate where the evil one would come and not find anything of his in us. This would only happen when we are committed to the receiving and obedience to everlasting love commandments.
Summary
1. A man has to be born again in his spirit before he can be born of God. A man starts from being born again, then goes through the process of being born of Christ, then to being born of the Father and finally being born of God.
2. The will of God has to be revealed for a man to be born of God. The will of God is revealed to a man for the purpose of doing – obedience to God.
3. If a soul does not arrive at the point of fervent love, such cannot be born. Fervent charity is a womb that should birth men into the incorruptible realm.
4. There are works that show that a man loves God. The love we claim we have for God should be manifest in the way we love the brethren because they also are being begotten of God.
5. Commandments will be given to us at the pedigree of everlasting life to knock out hate. The things of darkness would die in us as we obey the commandments of love.
6. “For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.” (1 John 5:4). God wants to take away things that are of this world and give us His things. The things of God are what we need to overcome the world.
7. We overcome the world because of the incorruptible seed inside us. The incorruptible seed is greater than he that is in the world (1 John 4:4).