Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Revelation Hour
Date: Saturday, 11th September 2021
Ministering: Pastor Thompson Ehima
Tongues and Interpretation (1)
“For I bring utterance for another layer of My doctrine upon the heart, even another layer that will cause the heart of flesh to be formed, even that heart I am at home with. I bring utterance that will cause the heart of flesh to be formed this evening. I bring it from your Lord. I am sent by your Lord to bring that doctrine for a formation again. I want to journey you further again into things everlasting. I want that heart to be formed, even that heart that can draw Me, call Me and beckon on Me to come. That heart which I can look upon, even that heart of flesh. I want to form it again by My doctrine and teachings. I want to form again that heart of flesh”
Tongues and Interpretation (2)
“Get ready to chop even Papa doctrine. Get ready to chop even the doctrine of the Father. Open your mouth wide and get ready to chop. Bread, even Father bread, is coming from heaven this evening. It is one meal that made the heart of man stony, but I am bringing that which you will eat and will make your heart flesh, even the heart that I am at home with, and the heart that I can come and dwell in. I am bringing food; I am bringing Papa doctrine. Open your heart and eat, for I will feed you this evening. I will feed you fresh; I will feed you things from My table and it will turn your heart again, saith the Spirit of the Lord.”
(Message begins…)
God wants to work out a heart of flesh in us. This is the kind of heart He can turn as He pleases. There is something called false humility and it is more terrible than pride. We display false humility when we try to make ourselves look bad to others or speak less of ourselves, when it is not by the revelation of the Spirit. As such, we call what God has called clean, unclean. We should therefore not say things about ourselves that are not by the revelation of the Spirit.
Isaiah 6:5
“Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.”
Isaiah was able to say “Woe is me” in this verse because there was a revelation that came to him at that time. There are different junctions we experience the Lord’s dealing that leads to godly sorrow, which brings about repentance unto salvation and remission of sins (2 Cor. 7:10). There is sorrow that works death (condemnation), but godly sorrow is a charity tool that works repentance in a man unto salvation. Godly sorrow is faith that works by charity. The essence of this repentance is to convert into life everlasting; it is a sealing. The world cannot see or know our sealing; it cannot see the work that is going on in us because they are inward works. Anything the world can see is not from the Father.
The word ‘seal’ means to save. What God used to seal the children of Israel against death was the blood He instructed them to put on their doorposts (Exo. 12:7). This means that the blood was a seal. The essence of the sealing was to keep them. This was the same thing God did to Noah, the other seven souls and the animals that were taken into the ark (1 Pet. 3:20). This means the water is also a seal. There is the hidden seal and there is the seal that is not hidden. The hidden seal is the same thing as the blood of the everlasting covenant and the leaf.
We saw types and shadows of what the Lord is doing in our days through the examples we have in the Old Testament. God speaks from different angles; therefore, we need a kind of wisdom to study what He says. This wisdom is a help in the spirit. Evil spirits are smart but do not have the wisdom to be able to resolve many things; it is only the saints that can be helped by the Spirit to resolve many things, as God is speaking to us.
The perfection order of the present is seven while the perfection order of the world to come is twelve. This shows how God can gather many things together to make a single meal. It does not mean that His doctrine has many things. It rather means that He needs to gather many things to explain one thing to us (Eph. 1:10). This operation is as a result of a high sense of wisdom. As such, we should not be weary with the many themes of meetings that we have. All that God is saying to us is the same thing; we just need wisdom to be able to understand them.
The hidden seal is the blood that seals us together. It is also the leaf of the Tree of Life that heals us. The hidden seal is also the new and living way consecrated for us in His flesh (Heb. 10:20). In the natural, when men want to hide treasures, they scatter the clues in different places so that it is not easy to trace. This is the same wisdom that is used in the spirit to hide the things of God. One cannot decipher Eternal Life by just having a part of the whole frame; we need to join all the different pieces together, just like in the book of Revelation 2 and 3. The bringing together of the different promises to the seven churches will give Eternal Life.
There are many things that were brought together to constitute entrance for the High Priest into the Holiest. He puts on a girdle and different other things as clothing. These things may not make sense to a natural man, but God says that they are for glory and beauty (Exo. 28:2-4). This tells us that there are many things that are brought together to make a man have access into the Most Holy Place. The Levites also have their wearing, like the ephod. The different themes of our conventions so far, like the Eden Hidden Seal and The Leaf for the Nations, indicate to us that these are the different places that God has hidden the wisdom that we need to access.
The Old Testament is not the law of Moses. Moses was a mediator, for an angel gave that law to him (Gal. 3:19). Moses wrote the Pentateuch (Genesis to Deuteronomy); he could do so because he was higher than the law. The law came when men fell. It was an angelic law but there was a higher law that men had lived by. Genesis is higher than the law because it was an era of the everlasting, even though it is part of the Old Testament. The New Testament, just like the Old Testament, has strata. In Genesis, men were handling the faces of God, for the instructor of man was the face of God. This was why it was said that Cain left the face of God (Gen. 4:16).
The Old Testament was a shadow of things to come. Although the summation of the Old Testament is one major thing, it is still divided into portions. Likewise, heaven has decided to hide the present doctrinal emphasis that we have been handling in the different meetings that have been holding. For this reason, anyone who lacks wisdom must pray, asking God who gives liberally to all men (James 1:5). The wisdom to be requested here is not merely for natural endeavors or profit. James wrote his letter to a specific audience – he wrote it to those who had journeyed into the season of everlasting life. We need wisdom to be able to take the many things that God is bringing to us at this time, through teachings, and all that he wants to impart into us. When we are able to latch onto this wisdom, it becomes a key by which we can partake of eternal life.
When God divides things into portions, it is a wisdom to hide them; so that He can test the ability of the heart to receive things and endure the process of receiving. He also does this because we would be unable to bear it, if all of Eternal Life is given to us at once. We are in the season of repentance because God must convert us before we can come into further allocations in the spirit. We also need to appreciate in judgement so that we can see the things we did not see before (Phil. 1:9). This is how deliverance can be wrought in us. We should therefore not be tired of learning nor should we get familiar with any scripture, or the things that are being spoken to us. We need to pray for wisdom because we need a lot of it in this season. We need high wisdom in this season, even though we have previously used a level of wisdom in Christ.
2 Timothy 1:1-3
“Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, [2] To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. [3] I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day…”
There is life in measure and also life in fullness. The life in this verse is an endless life. Paul did not only have a good conscience, something more was worked in him. He had received the sprinkling of the blood of the everlasting covenant and as such, his conscience had now become pure. At this season, Paul was seeing God (Matt. 5:8). He was both in love with God and with the brethren, with a pure conscience (1 Pet. 1:22). He had gotten to the point where He could constantly remember Timothy without ceasing (2 Tim. 1:3). This is what is called ‘unfeigned love’. It is a work that does not come by mere practice or imitation.
Similarly, Paul commended Timothy about naturally caring for the state of others (Phil. 2:19-20). This is how the Lord wants us to be because it is the nature of a highly spiritual man. Anyone who is like this is already partaking of the things of the Father because this is an attribute of a fatherly stature and the everlasting zone. This is how we ought to fervently exercise the love of the brethren until we unknowingly break into the Most Holy Place.
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
God has not given us the spirit of fear. There is a fear of what to eat or drink and the fear of tomorrow (Matt. 6:31-34). Then, there is also a fear that is against the promise of life, which those who want to take ownership of life must do away with. This is because this fear makes us subject to bondage throughout our lifetime (Heb. 2:15).
There is a level of fear that is dealt with by the milk of the word. When one loves all the saints (a learning from the milk of the word), the fear of demonic operations is dealt with. However, the milk of the word cannot take away the fear of tomorrow; it can only alleviate it. The learning of Christ deals with the fear of the power of darkness through the activity of faith, unto charity (Col. 1:13, 13:13). Fear is highly spiritual because it is peddled by evil spirits. It is their property; and they have worked them as learnings and laws into the souls of men such that they cannot obey God.
God deals with fear by giving us understanding because fear is a life that is peddled by the rulers of the darkness of this world, and the other spirits that are below their level (Eph. 6:12). Fear is tied to our lives. Evil spirits mostly sell fear to us so that we can be hasty, unable to wait on and to obey God. They want us to fear that God will respond too late, that Christ is not being formed in us and eventually, to doubt the reality of things eternal. However, we should know that fear is a torment (1 John 4:18). It has made men abandon the path of life. Its voice is very loud and it makes men struggle with light, so that they are unable to resolve things.
Psalm 27:1
“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?”
The Lord will take us to zones wherein we must not fear, so that He can take away the strength of fear from us. It is good that we understand the word; but we must also undergo some experiences in our lives that will take away fear from pour souls. Then, we can look back at them with the assurance that we cannot be destroyed in our present challenges.
2 Corinthians 4:8-9
“We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; [9] Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.”
The enemy troubles us in some seasons to scatter that which the Lord is resolving in our hearts, so that our hearts will not be single; but Christ wants to make us whole. He wants to make us godly men who are wholesome. What drives men throughout their lifetime is fear.
Fear is a wisdom that runs the life of men and there are different strata of it within us. Fear is dealing with us as men; but we also have to learn to deal with it because it will hinder us from fully partaking of what God is doing in this season. The commandment of everlasting life is that we lay down our lives; but fear will not make us fulfil this commandment. It is a bondage that will make us not to be selfless (John 15:13, Rev. 12:11).
Hebrews 2:14-15
“Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; [15] And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.’’
Just as there is a type of flesh and blood that is sinful, corrupted and fallen, God also has an arrangement called flesh. Flesh is a wisdom and a way of life. It is a law of life that enters the consciousness of man and churns out things. As man became flesh, God also decided to come to humanity through flesh. He did this through His Son - Jesus, and used the wisdom of making Him flesh to absorb humanity into divinity, and divinity into humanity. This is the wisdom that humanity and divinity share.
The children as in Hebrews 2:14 are converted souls; but they have not yet ceased from the activities of flesh and blood. As long as we can still turn, we have not yet escaped that level of flesh and blood. As such, we have not come yet into selflessness. We must therefore pray to be blessed with the wisdom of how to lose our lives. This is the same wisdom that is found in the soul of the Shulamite woman, who knows how to call for her Beloved. Such a soul is in total abandonment and knows how to tend to the needs of another. This is a soul that will not turn aside to do his own thing.
The zone of selflessness is where we will lose our lives, but we must fight the fear of death. Anyone who will not overcome their fears will never live a selfless life in all human expressions, even in their marriages. Women are naturally made to be caring and thoughtful and as such, they think of others in the home first. Through this, God is showing us what a redeemed soul should look like. He wants to heal us from the fear of death and the fear of not losing our lives.
The spirit of fear in 2 Timothy 1:7 refers to the law of fear. This law was tried out of Abraham’s life through the many tests of obedience that God brought his way. There is a fear that God did not give us and there is another fear, which we should have of God. There are lots of things we withhold from God because of fear, most especially our lives. However, we are expected to not love our lives not unto the death (Rev. 12:11). That "they loved not their lives unto the death" also means they feared not for their lives unto the point of losing it. ‘The fearful’, as referred to in Revelation 21:8, are those who keep their lives. There is a wisdom around losing our lives. So, many have suffered losses but still count them as nothing; they do not take stock of what they have lost or how much they have given, for the sake of Christ (Phil. 3:8).
The leaves of the Tree of Life will heal us of our fears (Rev. 22:2). The love of our lives or fear of losing our lives is called filthiness of the spirit. God sees everyone who has fear as filthy. Therefore, fear must be yanked from us, just like the filthy garment on Joshua, the High Priest was taken off (Zech. 3:3-4). Although he had gone through the trial of faith, it was still not enough to remove filthiness from him. In the same way, the fact that we have gone through the process of faith does not mean that we cannot still be filthy.
Hebrews 12:4
“Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.”
This sin is death/corruption. It is the fear for our lives and the reason why we will not be able to lay down our lives or become selfless. Fear will not allow us to keep the commandments of everlasting life. This fear raised its ugly head against Jesus to the extent that He wished, for few seconds, that the cup of the death on the cross would pass over Him (Matt. 26:39-44). Nonetheless, He succumbed to God’s fear and laid down His life to show many the way (Heb. 5:7). This is a major key to neutralize the adversary and break the power of death.
We need to pray for wisdom because there are multiple deaths that we need to die, and each death is a deliverance from fear. We must gain the mastery of how not to love our lives unto the death, because before we can have an incorruptible crown, we must strive for mastery (2 Tim. 2:5).