Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Lekki Soul Centre (LSC)
Date: Wednesday, 26th October 2022
“For it became Him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.” (Heb. 2:10). The intent of God is that Christians come into glory. In the program of redemption, the thought of God is essentially to bring men into glory. To be glorified is to fulfil God’s purpose (Rom. 8:28-30). The purpose of God is for man to come into glory. The glory the Church knows is the glory of this world. It is what the world defines as glory that is in the subconscious of a born-again Christian. It takes some time for God to wean such from that definition and cause them to see the destiny that is in God.
Before a man can come into glory, such first has to be justified (Rm. 5:1-2). We are justified by faith. Justification brings one to a place where he can hold the hope of glory. The hope of glory is Christ in you (Col. 1:27). If Christ is not revealed in a man, there is no way he would have a place for the glory of God. You cannot awaken the hope to God’s glory. Christ has to first be revealed in you before you can have access to God’s glory.
The Jews are the offspring of Abraham in the flesh while the rest of the nations are Gentiles. The Gentile nation that has been called to God however has a mandate. Paul was given the mandate to preach the destiny of the Gentiles to them (1 Tim. 2:7; Eph. 3:6-7). This calling is the specification of the apostolic grace that was on him. If Paul is instructing us, then it means Gentile churches have been ordained for glory.
“To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus…” (Col. 1:27-28). To preach Christ unto people until they become perfect in it is to give them the hope of glory. Every believer after the new birth should be handed the gift of “the hope of glory”. This gift is found when men agree to align themselves to become a blessing to generations, for Christ to be formed in them (Gal. 4:19). The Father is also a message. The Father is also a Being. After preaching Christ, the Father would be opened up to be preached.
When Jesus was on earth, He did not preach Himself; rather He preached the Father (John 6:44, Matt. 11:27). It should be our desire that the Father has to give us the Son so we can find Him out. Satan does not want men to see the intent of God for man. After engaging in evangelism and other Christian activities, we still find ourselves empty and this is so because the hope is not being preached to us. It is only the Father and the Son that can satisfy an empty soul, but Christ would first have to be preached.
“O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?” (Gal. 3:1). Christ being crucified means Jesus was made known to them. When a person does not minister Christ and evidently set Him (His crucified life) forth among the hearers, the world will still be existing in people. Preaching Christ and His crucifixion is nailing the world to the cross in people. Even after being born again, the genetics of the world will grow in people if Christ being crucified is not taught to them.
The killer of the world in men is Christ. God wants Christ preached for men to hope for the glory that is in Him because the world also offers glory. The world is blindness. Satan blinds men by what he offers. When Christ is preached, people are being justified by faith. If Christ is not preached, people will not be born into faith. Faith is more than believing in God for things. When we preach the very life, the conduct of living, to reveal who Jesus is and how He lived on earth, His person can be translated as living on earth. When a person is able to take that life and live the life, such a one is crucifying the world.
Many people preach Christ but cannot get to His cross, so He is not preached. The cross is beyond a picture of him hanging on the cross; Christ had been carrying the cross since He came into the age of accountability while He was on earth and before ministry. There was a way He lived on earth which we have to find out. That cannot be done except by the help of revelation.
“For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.” (1 Cor. 2:2). If any man is going to be justified by faith, it has to be through the preaching of Christ. No gospel is outside being revealed to people. The actual gospel is not in what men knew before. The gospel is a fresh idea in the thoughts of men. It should be a breakthrough into the subconsciousness of people to preach a foreign light that is not here and to break the genetic code of this world. They will gain a new life by a new sight. When Christ is being preached to a man, glory is at stake.
The spirit of wisdom and revelation are workers of glory (Eph.1:17-18). There is a reason for man to be born again. To be born again is for our spirit to be raised from the dead. Not every spirit is raised from the dead. We have the dead and the quick. Those who have been raised from the dead are the quick. We then have to ask ourselves the reason for our quickening. The quick have their conversation; there is a way the quick ought to live. When a man has been quickened, it means such a one is already different.
Satan knows he cannot stop the dead from being raised but he can ensure they continue in the dead conversation by reason of understanding. Lack of understanding can keep a man in dead conversations (Prov. 21:16) such that a man can have life and not be empowered to live it. Lazarus was raised from the dead but was still bound with grave clothes until Jesus gave a command for him to be loose (John 11:44). Likewise, a person can be born again and still be bound by grave clothes. Clothes are where a person’s thoughts come from. A man can have a brand-new spirit but possess an old mind from the grave – graveyard mentality. This is the gospel (what it is supposed to deliver a man from).
"The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints…" (Eph. 1:18). There is a calling and it is not about ministry assignment or plans in life. Those things people call plans are actually duties. The day you were raised from the dead in your spirit is the day you got called. The devil has lied to us severally and he has raised fake callings. This has made man do a duty that heaven did not assign to a spirit. God wants us to do everything our hands find to do well. Jesus was a carpenter but never regarded it as His calling. This is not to pull down the human profession.
"This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart…" (Eph. 4:17-18). When you have your understanding darkened, you become ignorant of the life of God in you. Satan killed us by reason of Adam’s fall and went after our eyes to make sure we reason wrongly. The recovery of sight to the blind is opening the prison doors which is to make sight return. You have to keep preaching for people to recover their sights. Jesus did not only heal the blind in the natural alone, He also healed the sight of men in their souls by preaching.
If we have to offer prayers to the Father of glory for eyes to be given (Eph. 1:17), then the work that makes men blind was done by a perverted spirit of glory. They are called cherubims of glory (Heb. 9:5). It means it takes a glorious being to make eyes blind. The systematic operation of Satan’s ministry is such that when he fell, anything he covers is covered (Ezek. 28:14). By nature, cherubs are veils and it is not easy to be healed of them. What Satan did to mankind is the veil over nations and a cast over the people.
“And He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.” (Isa. 25:7). Before there can be a veil, there must be a face. Face in scripture is the place of knowledge, as it communicates knowing. They will see through the knowledge through the veil that is upon them. They did not know somethings before now, but by reason of wisdom, eyes will be given for them to now know.
We will know those riches which are tied to the glory because of the inheritance. The inheritance is glorious with a lead way to it. You have to be enriched and blessed by God to know glory. The riches are simply knowledge. We get spiritual understanding by and through these riches. We become empowered to comprehend what glory is. Preaching Christ is preaching these riches because Christ is the unsearchable riches of God (Eph. 3:8).
"To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God…" (Eph. 3:10). What Paul preached is what he prayed for. His prayers were his messages. The riches of Christ are what is preached to man. You cannot say you have Christ, and you lack what can form Him. You cannot have justification except by a walk. When God gives you the materials of Christ, then you also become justified (Rom. 8:30).
One of the things the riches of Christ does is to birth the power of justification, which is faith. We cannot make peace with God without faith. Getting born again is a preparation for justification. Justification leads to glorification.
"For it became Him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings." (Heb. 2:10). Every son has come to the justification of peace by faith (Rom. 5:1). Every Christ is a son, but God has given us materials beyond the Christos’ level. Christos is the anointed one and is the one chosen to break through to God. Like Christos, Messiah also means the way to God.
"And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem." (Isa. 8:14). Another word for Christ is stone or rock. Paul said the spiritual rock and drink in the wilderness is Christ, which followed them (1 Cor. 10:4). Christ is a concept in God for the path to God. Christos or Christ is a stone. When Peter knew who He was by revelation, and this came by His Father who is in heaven. He told him “Therefore, you are now a stone” (Matt. 16:18). So, Peter was hewn from Jesus.
When we encounter revelation, we encounter understanding. The purpose of understanding is to make us different from flesh. Winds break when they come against a rock. “Every wind of doctrines” are evil spirits. When the Church is built, these winds will break when they come against the Church.
"And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." (Matt. 16:16). This means Christ is the path to God and without Him, there is no coming to God. Jesus’s degree of sonship here was more than Christ, He was also the Son of the living God. Jesus had gone through justification and had finished it. Jesus was in glory. Jesus was in glory before crucifixion; but not all the glory. God did not crucify a Lamb without glory. The sons that are to be brought to glory must have been Christ. The kingdom of God is divided into two dimensions: the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of God.
"For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding…" (Col. 1:9). Spiritual understanding is revelation. The reason for the will is to walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, after which you become fruitful in every good work. When your eyes are being opened, it is a preparation for going into the kingdom. Eyes do not open except through the supply of understanding and knowledge. Christ is the will of God. When you know Christ, you live by faith. As you know Christ, you walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing where you bear fruit. When you bear fruit, then you can now know the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ and their kingdoms as both of them should be known. We are being offered dominion at different strata. Christ is the preparation for God’s kingdom.
The kingdom of the Father is the kingdom of glory. The kingdom of Christ is the kingdom of the justified. It is the way to the kingdom of the Father, and it sanctifies you for the kingdom of glory. Every kingdom has two things: there is power and there is glory. The kingdom of Christ is power and the kingdom of God is glory.
"For it became Him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the Captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings." (Heb. 2:10). Glory is salvation (Rom. 1:16). The intention of the Father to bring many sons to glory, to bring many sons unto salvation. Dominion is for the purpose of making men to be saved (Heb. 2:10). It is for making men escape from something. Peter was changed to a rock because he saw and knew Jesus (Matt. 16:16-18). Jesus cannot be known ordinarily. He is an Entity that cannot be seen; a Being that, when seen, changes us fundamentally. He does not show Himself to just anyone, how much more God? The Godhead is always covered from sight because They are an embodiment of blessing. Something comes out of Them when They are sighted. When our eyes see Them, we fetch something from Them. It is better we do not see Them when we are not ready to see Them. This is why They do not show Themselves to everyone.
“And I will wait upon the LORD, that hideth His face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for Him.” (Isa. 8:17). God hides until we are prepared to see Him. When God puts a hunger in a person to look for Him. It is a gift to flesh because it is not everyone that reacts that way. The day one begins to look for Him is the day he gets tired of being grass, not wanting to wither. Those who are outside the kingdom, who are not looking for God, are grasses. We were all grass before because the flesh is grass. Satan’s dominion makes people flesh (grass) but God’s dominion makes people spirit.
“That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.” (John 3:6-7). To be born again in this context is to be born of the Spirit, which also means to be born of the kingdom – for the kingdom is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost (Rom. 14:17). The Holy Ghost is the custodian of the kingdom. One can have the Holy Ghost and not have the kingdom. To have the Holy Ghost is different from entering the kingdom. To enter the kingdom is to enter the Spirit. The Holy Ghost filled us up so that we can enter into Him. Therefore, one can have Him and not be in Him. So, coming into Him, living, and abiding in Him is by revealing two persons: the Father and the Son. It starts with Christ, who is the Son of God, and then ends with the revelation of the Father.
The Father saves. He is the end of the Son. Christ is the Alpha of knowledge while the Father is the Omega of knowledge. This knowledge is not one that puffs up, neither is it a mere exercise of the mind. It is a transfusion of genes that can change one into a different entity. Gaining the life of God in people is knowing Christ and the Father. God wants many sons to be brought to glory (Heb. 2:10). It means He wants sons to be saved.
The work of salvation cannot be separated from glory (Heb. 2:1-3). It can only take the glory of God to save people. Salvation is what we are to become. The essence of salvation is to gain the genetics that God is made up of. It is to finally be like Him and have His nature. God is saying to us that what Jesus purchased for us is more than heaven.
“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. 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. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.” (1 John 2:15-17). If the things God made will pass away, then the things Satan made will definitely pass away. As a matter of fact, they are already gone but people do not know it. It is a blessing if we are among those who do God’s will. We are blessed if we hear the voice of God’s will. This is the day and age to hear the will of God. It is so-great salvation.
The highest of angels are not saved. God has not called any angel to sit at His right hand (Heb. 1:13) and He is not being partial. It is because their material make is not meant for the throne of God. Their material will defile the throne if it sits on it. Anything that will sit on the throne has to be worthy of it. Though angels are high and excellent, they cannot sit on the right hand of God. Anyone who wants to sit on the throne must have the genetics of those who can sit on it. To sit on the throne, one must have God’s things. In other words, one must be as sure as God is, or else the throne would be inaccessible. God is excellently indescribably perfect that His nature cannot be found in any. His throne is meant for His kind alone. God is the most assured personality that is worthy of His throne because no one is as saved as He is. God is so safe that He is indestructible.
(Heb. 1:6-9, 1 Tim. 3:16). When the angels saw Jesus, they saw that He was no different from the God they worshiped. They worshiped Jesus because He was an offspring of God. Jesus did not go to heaven with His Eternal body as the Word. He went as a Man, meaning the angels did not know He was the Word. God made a God out of man whom angels can worship. This is salvation.
“And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.” (Rev. 7:10). Salvation is a praise which means, ‘blessing to our God’. If God is blessed, then God is salvation. The only saved beings that we can rely upon for eternity are the Lamb and God. This is salvation. Salvation is not going to heaven because heaven will pass away. Angels are so beautiful and excellently designed. Lucifer was dressed in all manner of precious stones yet iniquity was found in him. God did not make something faulty in him. Sin and destruction happen by a person’s will. If lust could be born in Lucifer, then angels can sin. It was not just one angel that sinned; they were many (Jude 1:6). Humans and angels can sin but God cannot sin; neither can He die.
When Jesus came to the earth, He came in the flesh of a man that can sin. Jesus would have sinned if He wanted to but He chose not to until He came to a place where He could not sin. He later did not have the choice to sin because the imperfection in Him was gone. Jesus was made perfect. Though Jesus was tempted, He did not sin but He could have (Heb. 4:15). If He could not, there would have been no need to tempt Him (Jas. 1:13). Jesus came to learn our life but He did not inherit our disease. He refused to sin from the beginning till the end, showing us that a man can be cleansed.
The concept that man cannot stop sinning is a lie from Satan. When we say that, we are indirectly saying that God wasted the sacrifice of Jesus. God has given us so much to bring us to glory. Raising Jesus from the dead and making Him sit on the throne are works of glory. It took the work of glory to undo what Satan has done. Every son that will be brought to glory is brought to a place where he will be saved.
We cannot claim to be saved without Jesus teaching us how to be saved. To be saved is a communication of skill from the High Priest. The skill of keeping oneself and not being touched by the adversary is a communication of God’s glory. When we use the glory of God, we gain skill over sin. Jesus wants to teach and communicate things to us as the High Priest. There are things He knew that kept Him from committing sin. To commit sin is to commit oneself in service to sin. There was no way sin could buy Jesus over from God because He saw that Satan had nothing to offer.
“Again, the devil taketh Him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth Him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; and saith unto Him, All these things will I give Thee, if Thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve.” (Matt. 4:8-10). Satan kills by glory. Jesus’ response ended the temptations because the response did not come from an ordinary being. It came from a Person who was completely sold out to God’s course. Jesus had seen glory which aided Him to resist the tempter. The glory He saw was a joy to Him. The reason we are tempted is that we are beings that are drawn to glory. The Lord made us like that but it can be used against us. Glory was what God promised us (2 Thes. 2:14).
The birthplace of temptation is from the fallen glory of the adversary. He kills by what he offers. Temptation is Satan’s gift. However, we can overcome temptation if we know the gift of God. Glory puts us on a pedestal where we can break the strength of pulls. Glory is ‘doxa’ which means weight. When God gives us weight, it will be difficult for light things to pull us. Satan offered Jesus the kingdom of this world. If we do not know God and have not seen glory, we will follow Satan.
Glory is the capacity to resist Satan. Heaven will keep speaking glory to us. By doing so, we will gain skill and weight and we will become impossible to tempt.. After some time, John lived so well in God that Satan became afraid of him. Jesus raised men that Satan could not touch (1 John 5:18). We can be trained. We can be high in the spirit; we can be glorious. Satan gives things that can kill. But anyone who has the glory of God is securing salvation. Such a person is safe.
Blessings!
Summary
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The purpose of God is for man to come into glory (Heb. 2:10). However, before a man can come into glory, such a one first has to be justified by faith. Being justified by faith is Christ being revealed in a man.
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To preach Christ unto people until they become perfect in it is to give them the hope of glory (Col. 1:28). Every believer after the new birth should be handed the gift of “the hope of glory”.
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The killer of the world in men is Christ. God wants Christ preached for men to hope for the glory that is in Him because the world also offers glory. The world is blindness. When Christ is being preached to a man, blindness is taken away.
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Lack of understanding can keep a man in dead conversations (Prov. 21:16) such that a man can have life and not be empowered to live it. Lazarus was raised from the dead but was still bound with grave clothes until Jesus gave a command for him to be loose (John 11:44).
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Everyone born again has a calling from God and it is not about ministry assignment or plans in life (Eph. 1:18). The devil has lied to many and has raised fake callings. Jesus was a carpenter but never regarded it as His calling. Our calling is heavenly (Heb. 3:1).
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Getting born again is a preparation for justification. Justification leads to glorification. Every son has come to the justification of peace by faith (Rom. 5:1). We cannot make peace with God without faith.
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The kingdom of God is divided into two dimensions: the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of God. The kingdom of the Father is the kingdom of glory. The kingdom of Christ is the kingdom of the justified. It is the way to the kingdom of the Father, and it sanctifies you for the kingdom of glory. Christ is the preparation for God’s kingdom.
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When we encounter revelation, we encounter understanding. The purpose of understanding is to make us different from flesh. Spiritual understanding is revelation. Eyes do not open except through the supply of understanding and knowledge.
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The work of salvation cannot be separated from glory (Heb. 2:1-3). It can only take the glory of God to save people. Salvation is what we are to become. We cannot claim to be saved without Jesus teaching us how to be saved. To be saved is a communication of skill from the High Priest.
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Glory was what God promised us (2 Thes. 2:14). If we do not know God and have not seen glory, we will follow Satan. Glory is the capacity to resist Satan. Anyone who has the glory of God is securing salvation. Such a person is safe.