Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Lekki Soul Centre (LSC)
Date: Wednesday 20th April 2022
Ministering: Pastor Tayo Fasan
“…And when He is come, He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment…” John 16:8. “The world” were men under a veil of darkness and ignorance (John 6:51). Men that had darkness or sin and death in common were called “the world”.
John 3:16 also referred to men as the world. Adam was not referred to as “the world”. Something happened to Adam. Something also happened to them that went further to uncover sin, that caused man to degenerate to another estate called ‘flesh’.
Anything of man can tempt one. So, it is important to guard one's heart. Our Father is so separated of death that the only way He can respond is by mercy. His eyes are too holy to behold iniquity or conversations of death.
There are many conversations in the course of our day-to-day activities that, when we respond to, can get our emotions and feelings entangled to unlock a darkness in us. Satan can pull us with seemingly legitimate conversations and we can either respond from a flesh that has not been crucified or, by the help of the Spirit, from the standpoint of how God responds to things.
What will handle conversations from hell and death is the true light. This was the light that John referred to, that “lights every man that comes into the world” (John 1:9). This is the light of everlasting life. We have seen how “the love of Christ constraints us” (2 Cor. 5:14): a love of Christ beyond the veil, which is the love of everlasting life.
The things that are in this world are the things spirits use to make a soul a captive (Isa. 49:25). We can come into captivity by what we love. Sin preached and brought a veil. Whenever the soul is not interacting with the unseen, it is reacting to things that have a taint of corruption. Sin resurrected a thirst and hunger for things. The Lord ordained that a secret, kept unseen from the foundation of the world, be made known. When that is not being made known, something else that will captivate men is being made known.
"I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. Yet a little while, and the world seeth Me no more; but ye see Me: because I live, ye shall live also" (John 14:18-19). The first comfort that we knew was a life that will justify and separate us from pollution until we escape the corruption that works through lust. The ministration of life deals with the hunger and thirst that sin has communicated to our souls and generates a new hunger and thirst.
“And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to Me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on Me shall never thirst” (John 6:35). We need the bread of life -- the teachings of faith -- to come to us. We journey to the place where we are able to receive everlasting life when we have received the bread of life.
"But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name…" (John 1:12). The power was Eternal and everlasting power. Hunger and thirst were judged and displaced in the wilderness as the children of Israel journeyed. To that degree, a soul can now thirst for the living waters. The meal (teachings) upon us is to help us deal with the present world, not just the things that are in this world.
God brought the children of Israel to a place where their cerebral minds were disabled, just to quench a thirst and a hunger for what was a meal to their soul; to deal with something of Egypt, so that they can partake of living waters and be prepared for the land of the living or the land of promise. Manna means “What is this?”; meaning something that is unknown. The administration of manna makes the mind to mind one thing. What the world did through the things that are in this world is to scatter the soul. Faith is what gathers souls to a place where they can begin to hunger and thirst for righteousness (Eze. 26:4; Jer. 23:4, 8).
"He that hath My commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth Me: and he that loveth Me shall be loved of My Father, and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him." (John 14:21). This commandment is faith, hope and charity. These are the commandments that will keep us from the things that are in this world, and that will deflate a love for this world. This is where the everlasting Father begins to manifest Himself to a Christ company. The giving of oneself is a blessing (Gal. 2:20). Such a soul will be blessed with a hunger and thirst for righteousness.
“For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes” (Rev. 7:17). This scripture talks about the multitude of them that were harvested after the 144,000 had been sealed. These remnants were gathered in the Outer Court. The verse also talked about how the Lamb would feed the remnants and lead them to fountains of living waters. The world limited them with darkness, thereby resurrecting a hunger and a thirst that came from the light of the sun. The fountains of living waters are men who have been led; just like Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. We are also being prepared to become fountains.
“The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.” Ps. 121:6. This is a light that is available to someone that is in the outer court. Such a person has not been sealed with the covenant of life and peace. Zion must receive peace before it can take the journey to Jerusalem. The source of the light of the sun and moon has a negative everlasting context. Those multitudes in Revelation 7 have to drink from those fountains to address the limitations or curses that came their way when they partook of the lights of the sun and the moon. When a Christ company has been raised, they still need to be healed.
“But unto you that fear My name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in His wings...” Mal. 4:2 The light of everlasting life is arising to heal us of the inconsistencies that limit us from walking circumspectly; according to the true light which He ordained for every man that comes into the world (John 1:9). The effect of our exposure to the light of the sun is what we are still being healed of, even in the season of everlasting life. The sun governs. So, the presence of that light, which is a darkness, will only be judged when it has become natural for us to live by the true light
John wrote to little children, young men and fathers that they should not love the world or the things that are in the world (1 John 2:12-14). For them to be little children, they must have overcome the things that are in the world. The reference to a new commandment, was to bring them to a place where they could be sealed; where they could no longer love the world or the things that are in the world (1 John 2:7-8).
“The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory” Isaiah 60:19 What induces hunger and thirst for sin is a light. It creates an appetite for an adventure; just like it did with Adam and Eve. Immediately they heard those words from the serpent, they “saw” (Gen. 3:5-6). Whenever Satan is preaching to a young believer or a son, he plans to resurrect a thirst in them; but before Satan opened his mouth to preach, there was no hunger for the fruit.
One of the things this teaching will do is that it will unlock strengths that we never knew we had. The way some energies of faith unlocked our souls to disobey the things in this world and the lust therein, is the same way the teachings of everlasting life will energise us and unlock the reserves of our souls to disobey death. Many of the wrong desires we find in the youths were moved from being a knowledge to being a law; and as a result, are persistent. If it was just a knowledge, they would be able to repent easily. Many of them often go back to those acts after being corrected because it has become a writing in them.
In like manner, when these words of everlasting life become a writing in us, its laws will begin to control us. These laws will unlock the energies of souls. This was what happened to Paul and the apostles. The waters of life had moved to regions in their souls; regions where they had profited by fetching a life from those waters such that it had become a law in them. That was why Paul said, “neither count I my life dear unto myself” (Acts 20:24). He had seen that it was non-negotiable for him to drawback. The light and the brightness resurrect a hunger and a thirst (Isa. 60:19).
When we have drunk of the waters of faith, the effects of these lights may not have been completely dealt with in the soul. The soul still needs to be healed by the Sun of righteousness. Demas’s soul, for example, had not been healed even though he came into that season (2 Tim. 4:10). He still had a hunger, a desire for adventure. It is possible to get to a place where we will hunger and thirst no more. This can only become a reality when we use the new commandment to journey to the beginning. Until we are living by the true light, we have not been free from the effect of the governance of sin.
“And when He is come, He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment…” John 16:8 For Him to reprove the world of sin, He first has to bring true comfort to the soul. The world has its comfort. It comforts men with a light called darkness. It tells people things about themselves, and it teaches them how to make a name for themselves. The world comforted people like Cain until sin was found lying at his door (Gen. 4:7).
The mystery of the Son and the Father are comforts that will cause our hearts to be knitted. As the waters of this life flow into recesses of our heart that can still thirst for the world, those grounds of our heart will be taken.
“And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.” Rev. 1:22-23 If there is a reference to what was obtained in the Outer Court (these lights, the light of the sun and the moon, come as far as the outer court), those who stopped using this light moved into the holy place. Then they use the light of the menorah and ate the shew bread, which is to raise them to become a branch that will now be pruned to bear forth much fruit.
“And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of His roots: And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him…” Isa. 11:1 It would take the ministry of the Spirit of the Lord to raise those in the Outer Court as branches in the Holy Place, while they were escaping the use of the light of the sun and the moon. It will take a branch to relate with the Spirit of the Lord. Also, it will take the light of everlasting life–the light of the true light–to fully heal them. It means even our Lord Jesus grew, as every believer would, to become a branch (John 15:1-2).
“…and He shall not judge after the sight of His eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of His ears…” Isa. 11:3 Those are judgments that lust can use. Whenever we are judging with the sight of the eyes and with the hearing of the ears, we are judging with the light that is not that of the Lord. That is not that of the true light; the light that is meant to lighten every man. This means as a branch, our judgment cannot really be admitted.
“Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.” 1 Cor. 4:5 This means judge nothing until you are a judge. Judge nothing until you have the true light that is meant to lighten every man. Meaning that is a time when the branch has profited with the judgement of everlasting righteousness. The judgment that will perfect a Christ company is that which the Spirit of the Lord wants to bring to such a branch. It is in the presence of these things that They will prune such a branch.
“But with righteousness shall He judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and He shall smite the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips shall He slay the wicked.” Isaiah 11:4 This judgment is what is going on in our midst. This is the judgment They will use to measure someone who is poor in spirit until he comes to that estate where he is contrite. Then They will bring judgment to someone who is contrite. They will now bring him to a place where he can tremble at His word (Isa. 66:2): where he is one of those meek fellows of the earth, like Moses was; or where he will come into an everlasting status or have a status in the spirit of an everlasting man.
“And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.” Rev. 21:23 The category of men that we would have in the world to come are those who have used the true light to live; until they could relate with God; or could keep faith with the message of Eternal Life. That was how they journeyed to be a part of the city. Meaning outside the city, we had some who were the kings of the new earth and the nations of them that are saved. This means that what will be healed in the nations of them that are saved is the estate of their soul, when they used the light of the sun and of the moon (the light of sin and death), the light that smites.
So, in the churches of Revelation chapter 2, the Laodicean church, we saw how that light; the light from the moon and from the sun was still able to smite them because they had not settled for the true light. Those who had settled for the true light like the Philadelphia church had used the true light to deny things; even to deny their life. That's why a door was set before them. They had used the true light to acquire nature.
“I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept My word, and hast not denied My name.” Rev. 3:8 The name has its demands. What Adam denied was that name. Adam was an everlasting man. His soul was raised in the divine nature or in salvation. Adam was meant to use commandment like this church, to deny the promise or painting that Satan was bringing to them. They were to use it to shut down the desire for adventure that Satan was resurrecting before them. That's the challenge for every son.
“That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.” Gen. 6:2 There was still something they could adventure, unlike Noah. They had journeyed to a place where they stopped journeying. Like Reverend said; they “hands down”. They stopped a good fight. A good fight which for us is meant to enable us lay hold on something and then be sealed.
“Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.” 1 Tim. 6:12 There is a fight that has raised us as a company to where many are in the sanctuary. Many have that tie that Christ had in that veil. Many can now relate with most holy things. The good fight of faith here is a fight for most holy things. The good fight of faith is a fight beyond the veil. It's a fight that will enable you hold eternal life. It's a fight for the good tidings of good things. Timothy has used faith to become a man of God; which is a man that has a constitution of the doctrine of Christ (1 Tim. 4:6). He will keep faith with the use of the true light. This is a fight for the doctrine of God or for the gospel of God.
“How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with Him.” Acts 10:38 That “good”, bothers on doctrine: the teaching of the doctrine. We're in a season where we should be fighting a good fight. What I have seen is that why we are fighting the good fight. We are fighting to take a ground in our soul that would see us no more hunger and thirst.
“For the bread of God is He which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world. Then said they unto Him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to Me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on Me shall never thirst.” John 6:33-35 A believer who has come unto him can still hunger and thirst. The process of coming to him is actually the process of an escape from things that are in this world. What Jesus is saying here is that such a person still needs to believe on Him because there are things in him. Daddy once said, there is faith in him and there is an everlasting degree or measure of life in him. By God's grace we're in a season when They are now dealing with a hunger and a thirst. Whenever that thirst and hunger have not been fully satisfied, God knows that a work hasn't been done.
“Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him.” Heb. 10:38 The Hebrew company described were men; they were holy brethren who were meant to partake of their heavenly calling. The just shall live by faith. By living by faith, such a person becomes a man; but a man that is still lacking. That man still needs to drink of the living waters before he can thirst no more. He still needs to believe on the Son. The enemy can still bring offerings his way and still get him to draw back. He has to live again by that new commandment. John’s goal was for his audience to get to a place where they sin not (1 John 2:1); to get to a place where they have the divine nature; where they are saved; where they can naturally live by the true light; where they hunger and thirst no more. It is only when a believer gets there that he can relate with the glory of God like the city. The city was made after getting to such a threshold: having enough glory to ignore those things most of the churches in Revelation chapter 2 did not ignore; and to relate with the open door, which was the throne.
“Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in Him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.” 1 John 2:8 This means a time would come when we would have lived this light; like we found the commandment of charity new and found grace to live it. Some things that we found peace doing, we no longer find peace doing them. Especially in the last year, there were some things that we found peace doing because we were using the light of faith and seeing darkly. For using the light of faith, God now commended a law to us. On the basis of this, He gave a higher light. For almost all our conversations that we previously used the light of faith and had peace, we would no longer have peace.
For instance, in financial dealings, we see a demand to be more selfless. Concerning your relationship with your brother, especially with the brethren, the bar had been raised. It's a season of perfection. They want a perfect conversation of what previously took place in the holy place. They are not necessarily going to change the environment. Maybe in your dealing with your wife, your brethren, your boss, that same way you previously used the light of faith that the Father didn't raise an eye brow for; in this season, you will find that you will lose your peace. This is because the Holy Ghost is convicting you of sin. This is because a higher light has come to expose what sin really is in the season of the most holy. And until you repent, a lot of times, your peace would not be restored.
“Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in Him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.” 1 John 2:8 The clause “the darkness is passed” witnesses to the fact that everlasting life can be used to journey to the beginning. When we journey to the place God stepped out of to relate with man as the Father, which is called the beginning, then darkness is passed. This passing away means the present world becomes a past tense i.e., we have seen the end of the world. It can also be said to be that one has overcome the world and can now have dealings with the throne. It is in the course of dealing with the throne that a soul experiences reconciliation. Just as the person had moved from being a fellow of faith, a fellow of hope and of Christ, to being a fellow of the Father; such a one has now become a fellow of Eternal Life. This is why such a person will make it to the city.
We have learnt to use the light of faith till it has become very natural and less costly to us. As a result of this use, we can bask in it and build a tabernacle there. However, we are being requested to come use a higher level of light so we can count those things we previously counted as loss, as dung. This is a responsibility. There is a provision of mercy from the Lord when one has a sincere heart; when one finds help to respond to the dealings of the Spirit. Now there are increased activities of the dealings of the Spirit because of a higher light. The path is now narrower. The path from the holy place to the Most Holy is narrower.
Due to the former light level that we had access to, we were not reproved for certain things; even though they were not approved by God. But we are now being exposed to a higher light. This higher light, and the demands and leadings that accompany our access to this light, will cause a pruning. This pruning refers to changing dealings over our lives. A higher response is now demanded of us in our daily conversations with some persons.
“Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints…” Eph. 1:15 In this verse, “all the saints” does not refer to all believers. There is a critical number of believers that we ought to use the milk level of faith and love with; to get to a place where we can hunger for more. For example, God might bring just an individual our way; for others it might be five brethren. They represent those that God expects that we should relate with, using the true light. After relating comfortably with them with the life of faith, we have peace. As we grow in the light of God’s word, the Holy Ghost will not allow some things that He permitted in the past. When do them, even in the level of thoughts, we lose our peace. It is in this period that we ought to talk to the Lord. Most persons pray about natural things, instead of praying to the Lord about our infirmities. This attitude shows that there is a life we still love. This is the life that limits us from having access to the fellowship of the Son and the Father. This life is what prevents us from comprehending Eternal Life when being declared. This is the life is what we need to talk to the Father severally about.
There is a count of those that represents all men. There is a count of those that heaven expects us to keep some commandments with at a particular point in time. These always include your spouse, if married; those in the place of spiritual authority; and those of lowly natural estate, whom we can easily despise. Job said “God is mighty and despiseth not any…” (Job 36:5). Until a believer has the might that is present in God, that believer will continue to despise people on many occasions.
When these easily despised individuals act inordinately, we can either respond as men or as someone who is being taken from among men (light). In my case, a lot of the time, I hear in my spirit, “Suffer it to be so for now”. That arrangement you want, if you fight for it, you will take thoughts; you will open gates for evil spirits to ruffle your emotions; you will experience defilement in thought. Then, you will begin to speak guile or speak out of a nature that has not been remitted. However, if you act differently, you will begin to see them in another light. For example, if a believer begins to see them with the eyes of faith, there are some things that can be gleaned from them. When you begin to use the eyes of love to see men, compassion will well up in you. You will recognise your indebtedness to them.
“To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.” 1 Cor. 9:22 Paul who was speaking in these scriptures was in the season of everlasting life. He was a man who had been trained, and had also used all the contradictions that came his way, to grow. The instruction in Corinthians was not a commandment of faith. It came when the Lord Jesus had loved Paul and given Himself to him. Here, Paul was using the true light to respond to men. This nature is one of the things everlasting life will do in us. In the season of Christ, there is an experience of weakness and foolishness to respond to men. This is what makes up the wisdom of Christ. The wisdom of Christ is limited to handle some conversations that originate from death. Thys, you will need the true light to respond in such a situation. Then, you will become weak and foolish again.
Moreover, Paul was not responding in this light for ministry alone; he was patterning his life for the Holy Ghost to be able to convict men through him. Although the ministry of the word influences the flock, everyone that is a faithful follower of truth is also usually backed by what the Holy Ghost has been able to do through the lives of such vessels. “To all men” did not speak of all those at Rome or Jerusalem. Instead, it implied that the commandment sounded loud in his spirit towards a critical number of people; and he found grace to keep it. In keeping the commandment, he allowed life to flow through him towards them.
The empowerment of this gospel is revealed in the fact that a lot of things are becoming natural. That light is meant to find its way into a believer’s flesh; it is meant to be a new norm. The occasions where a believer ought to profit from the commandments that will give him that life, are the occasions that he is tempted to despise the most. We see that after Satan tempted Jesus, he departed from Him for a season. Yet it took time before it was recorded about Jesus that “…the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in Me.” (John 14:30)
This verse was recorded because from Jordan to this occasion; Satan had come through men. There were some levels of the commandments of everlasting life that Jesus needed to keep on those occasions. Even with a forward disciple like Peter, someone that would betray Him like Judas, the Pharisees, Scribes and Sadducees, Satan wanted to use them to bring Jesus out of a circumference of life within which He existed. But by keeping the commandments of everlasting life, Jesus had acquired life. They kept crowing that life per season by giving Him glories. When He completed the course of obeying these commandments, He could now ask the Father for glory which He had from the beginning (John 17:5). At key thresholds where Jesus had prospered with the commandments of everlasting life, He was given the glory that was commensurate with that level of life. The Father responded, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again (John 12:28). We will experience this same thing.
I once had the opportunity of being betrayed by a believer who was extremely close to me. If such a person should betray one, that it will take God’s help for one not to respond in the flesh or be offended. However, when it happened, I saw that heaven wanted to archive a conversation with me. I saw a response influenced by the pain of the betrayal; like it was for David when Ahithophel betrayed him—a man that they once took sweet counsel together (Psa. 55:14). Some of us have not come to this point of betrayal because God knows we would not be able to bear it. When temptations of betrayals come, they are from this present world. “Woe to him through whom offenses come” (Matt. 18:7). When it is a betrayal that could get one offended at the Lord or offended to the point where it will be difficult to heal from, then it implies that that believer is in a season of keeping faith with the light of everlasting life that has come his way. In that season, the believer has a choice to make.
In my season of betrayal, one of the things the Holy Ghost brought me was a verse of the scriptures as comfort. If the Holy Ghost cannot comfort a believer with scripture, then that believer is on his own because the believer could be tempted to fight and win a battle that was meant to change a season over him in the spirit. Before heaven would permit betrayals like that of Job, They must have seen a lot of experiences or walk pertaining to that believer and know that it would only seal or crown a season and bring blessing over him. The Holy Ghost was indeed faithful to me in this season by the comfort He brought through the scripture. He knows that such a season in the life of a believer is a rare occasion to be blessed. They only come once in a number of years.
The scripture He used to comfort me was “Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good” (Rom. 12:21). I immediately saw that Satan only found a vessel through the person. I was able to take my eye off the person. I saw that I was in a warfare with an evil spirit and if I would win it, it would be with keeping faith with what was written in the scripture. So, I made the choice to count the loss. I knew I found grace to not repay evil with evil but to overcome evil with good. It was meant to help me overcome a spirit that drew close like Ahithophel drew close to David. I found grace to relate with this person like nothing happened.
Such experiences await every one of us: if we would overcome evil and do so naturally, we would fetch the life that would come from the comfort of the Holy Ghost. Prior to that occasion, I had received a comfort of truth. So, heaven knew I could bear it. I could respond with a coming forth of the Holy Ghost that has come my way by reason of many teachings. The Lord wanted to judge an evil that was being pioneered by a spirit. But there was a nature in me that would be remitted, in a shadow, by keeping faith with what is written concerning that temptation. In the episode of Jesus’ betrayal by Judas, the Bible recorded that Jesus said unto him “Friend do you betray Me (Matt. 26:50; Luke 22:48). There are one thousand and one kinds of response that Jesus could have said. I just saw that Jesus is no more a man.
“And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him. And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus and took Him.” Matt. 26:49-50 What Jesus would say would matter. If Jesus had said any other thing, guile would have been found in His mouth. See His response to this temptation, which was the height of temptations He experienced. The use of “Friend” showed how much He had been separated from death. Here, death came so close to Him, yet death could not pull Him. So, when He prayed that God should glorify Him with the glory that He had with Him from the beginning (John 17:5); the Father had to respond because He had fulfilled the obedience of becoming a begotten Son (John 12:28).
Jesus said that in Nathaniel was found no guile (John 1:47). This meant that his conversation was aligned with the ground he was standing. This was the same testimony with our Lord Jesus, He was aligned with where he was standing in heaven (John 3:13) and that’s how He became the Author of eternal salvation. The book of Revelation also recorded a company that in their mouth was found no guile (Rev. 14:5). They had come to the point where they had been taken from among men. They had made their calling and election sure. They had come to the place where they had become the priests of God. There was a ground they were standing on. No matter the temptation the devil brings their way, they won’t respond the way men would because they’ve been redeemed from the earth and from among men.
During the tail end of Peter’s walk on earth, he was tempted to be crucified. Many of us cannot relate with the pressure of thought that he went through in it. And he could defend himself not worthy to be crucified; but his response according to church history was that they should go ahead and crucify him upside down. This response was of one who had partaken of the New Testament; his blood had been captured. He had stood in a lot, journeyed to the land of the living and from there communed with the True God. And I believe he earned the kind of testimony of “those that loved not their lives unto the death” (Rev. 12:11). There was nothing else Satan could tempt with anymore.
This is the beauty before us this season—that a time would come where the joker that Satan used to tempt us would have expired. There is a count of temptation, we saw it in Job and also in our Lord Jesus. “In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly” (Job. 1:22). Job sinned not during his temptation even when Satan used his wife (Job. 2:9). Guile was not found in his mouth because of a testament. He responded to death like someone who had being separated from death. This is where God is leading us to: where God made an open show of principalities and darkness of this world (Col. 2:15). This is what God will do especially when we begin to prosper with this new commandment of everlasting life. Principalities and powers would come to see that not only our Lord Jesus, Paul, the apostles, some known and unknown handful of overcomers that can be counted all through the ages; but now a company in their hundreds and thousands will repeat this conversation. They will become witness of everlasting life. They will witness a good confession like Jesus did before Pilate (John 18:36). They will love not their lives unto the death of their lives. This is what the Husbandman is waiting for. That is what makes this age and decade different. And by God’s grace we would not fault.
Bullet Points
1. New commandment in the season of everlasting light refers to the shining of light on the gospel of everlasting life. By this new ommandment, we can now fetch the divisions of the teachings of everlasting life.
2. When we use the new commandment (which is the true light) to journey to the beginning (an everlasting realm in God), we would get to a place where we will hunger and thirst no more for the effect of the governance of sin.
3. The things that are in this world are the things spirits use to make a soul a captive (Isa. 49:25). We can come into captivity by what we love.
4. The Lord ordained that a secret, kept unseen from the foundation of the world, be made known. When that is not being made known, something else that will captivate men is being made known.
5. New commandment brings us to a place where we can be sealed; where we would no longer love the world or the things that are in the world.
6. When a Christ company has been raised, they still need to be healed.