Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Lekki Soul Centre (LSC)
Date: Wednesday, 15th June, 2022
Ministering: Rev. Kayode Oyegoke
“Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” (John 3:3) Seeing the kingdom is not for a person to miss hell; rather, it is seeing the world where our deliverance is kept. It is seeing the provision in God as against that which corrupts us. The intent and desire of God is for all flesh to see the kingdom (Luke 3:6). God's kingdom is the answer to the deliverance of all flesh. The kingdom is the only answer to the degeneration of man.
New birth is the empowerment to get deliverance from that which degenerates. This degeneration is the opposite working in another kingdom as against what the kingdom of God will offer. In God's dominion, people appreciate; while in the other dominion, people depreciate. This force in the kingdom of darkness is called corruption. The kingdom of Satan corrupts.
If a man is unable to see God's kingdom, then the forces of Satan’s dominion are at work because the kingdom of darkness is what causes a man not to see. Enjoying continuous deliverance is to always see what God's dominion is posting. The dominion of God is not one dimension; there are several provisions in it. We ought to move from one provision of God's dominion to another. If the dominion of Satan degenerates a man, it means that his dominion is not one dimension but from one level of degeneration to another.
Jesus in John 3:3 says that for a man to be delivered from the kingdom of darkness, he has to stop seeing the way Satan posts sight. Seeing is the key to degeneration and it is also the key to appreciation. Sight promotes and demotes. Both dominions are found in the power of seeing.
For a man to embrace deliverance, he ought to be born again. When a man is born again and goes to heaven, it does not make such a one a person to be in the kingdom of God. In fact, when such a person gets to heaven, corruption is still present in his heart. This is why those who go to heaven without being delivered are kept somewhere in the heavens. Rick Joyner's book, The Final Quest, is a witness to these teachings. He made reference to the fact that the key to climbing Zion is Galatians 2:20. The faith of the Son can get one to the general assembly and to the company of innumerable angels.
There are ministers of the gospel who operate power gifts under a false or dark influence while there are others who operate those gifts genuinely. The three revelational gifts include the discerning of spirits, word of knowledge, and the word of wisdom. The power gifts include, working of miracle, gifts of healing and gift of faith. We also have vocal gifts that include divers kind of tongues, interpretation of tongues and prophecy. While these gifts are powerful, the ministry of the word is also very important.
There was a time in the history of Morning Star Ministry (Rick Joyner's ministry) when God told Rick Joyner that the ministry of the word should be prioritised. Ministries should not be built on miracles. Ministries should be built on the word. God is not against miracles and gifts of the Spirit, but He is much more interested in raising people (building them up spiritually). God is able to meet our needs miraculously even through the teaching of His word.
When you see the kingdom, it will call for a re-evaluation of your life. It will give you a different perspective to living. It would knock off the corruptible seed in you. The day you see the kingdom, you have met with destiny. That day marks the time when living actually begins. Without seeing the kingdom, our judgement concerning life will be low and wrong, falling short of glory. God wants to raise us.
The kingdom is a domain where the corruptible cannot find expression. Seeing the kingdom is not going to heaven physically. Going to heaven physically cannot stop corruption in the soul. What can stop corruption and restore sight is the preaching of the kingdom of heaven. Heaven and the kingdom of God or kingdom of heaven are not the same. Preaching the kingdom, without preaching deliverance from the captivity that has blinded the sight of men, is not a true preaching of kingdom.
Kingdom is not emancipation out of poverty. As a child of God, we should be sober and not chase after the things men chase after. We did not bring anything into the world; we will also not take anything out when we are leaving (1 Tim. 6:7). God will meet your needs and bless you and if it is His desire to bless you with riches, He will do that. Accumulation of wealth can sink a man's soul for it takes stature to handle wealth and not be swayed by it. God the Father will give us all things richly to enjoy (1 Tim. 6:17). The reason why many people want to have money is so that they will not fall short when compared to their peers. All these things are conversations in the kingdom of darkness.
One of the key secrets of a kingdom is the eye of the kingdom (Matt. 6:22-23). It is evil that invites darkness. Darkness is the after-effect of evil. Single eye invites light to the body. ‘Body’ does not refer to the outward man alone; it talks about the entirety of man. Darkness is the corrupt life. Service is done by seeing. Eye is the means by which enrolment into service and service itself is done. Immediately one sees through a single eye, service begins.
When one serves light, over time, it would take over the body. If the eye is not fitly set on light and looks at evil, such an eye would eventually serve evil and the body shall be full of darkness. Singleness of eye is the key to how the masters would get one to serve.
“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” (Matt. 6:24). It is not possible to hold on to the two masters. While one is held on to, the other master must be despised. The comparison was between God and mammon; not God and the devil. It means that the devil is not being served directly. But there is a way he has tweaked service to himself through mammon. Mammon is evil. Evil eye is an eye for mammon. It is having insight to things mammonic. A man’s master can be known by whom and how he serves. If one master is loved, the other would be despised.
“Take no thought for your life” (Matt. 6:25) means “do not live on earth for your life” or “do not exist on earth for your life.” Taking thoughts for one’s life is as a result of the evil eye. The evil eye would teach a man how to live for his life. “…Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?” (Matt. 6:30-31). When we disturb God for these things, we show that we have little faith. When we are perturbed by our lack of these things, we are of little faith. Satan has designed that through these thoughts, he would get worship from man. God knows the things that we have need for.
‘Seek ye first’ (Matt. 6:33) means ‘seek to understand’. Jesus told Nicodemus, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God (John 3:3). Anyone who is able to see the kingdom should cherish it because it is costly. No one sees the Kingdom of God without God allowing it. Seeing the Kingdom is a holy thing. Entering the Kingdom is having the pearls of the Kingdom. That a man is born again does not mean he is already seeing the Kingdom. However, it is impossible for a man that is not born again to see the Kingdom. It is only a man that is born again that can be empowered to see the Kingdom.
Everyone who is born into the kingdom is a spirit. This is not talking about the spirit man. It is talking of when the soul is now spirit. A man can be a spirit in his spirit, but the man behaves lower than a spirit (in his soul). "For ye are yet carnal" (1 Cor. 3:3): it means you are not spirit in your soul, and are not different from flesh. The purpose of the kingdom is to birth spirit. This is Jesus’ teaching and what He died for. He died for men to turn from flesh to spirits.
John the Baptist also talked about the kingdom. However, he did not teach the laws of the kingdom. John was bringing people out of darkness and preparing them to enter the kingdom of God. Thus, his ministry was similar to Jesus’. The things that turn men to flesh include mountains, valleys, rough ways and crooked ways (Luke 3:3-6). Those crooked ways are the ones that eventually make man flesh. The word “salvation” in Luke 3:6 means the kingdom of God. It is not easy for flesh to see the kingdom of God. Before flesh can see it, he must be born again. Although being born again does not mean the man is no longer flesh. The capacity to turn from flesh to spirit prepares one to receive the discipline of the kingdom. Flesh, in its raw state, will refuse to enter the kingdom. Satan killed man’s spirit and blinded his soul from seeing.
The kingdom of heaven (Matt. 3:1-2) that John the Baptist preached is still the same as the kingdom of God. Jesus was also saying the same thing (Matt. 4:17). The mandate of the kingdom is not ordinary. Kingdom to a man is not how to teach people to sit upon the throne of a natural man. Satan designed money, principalities and powers on earth to be seen as a tool of dominion. These are fake ideas of dominion; but people do not know this. The evil dominion at work in men keeps us at low life and makes us unable to come out of the captivity of flesh to spirit (John 3:6).
Jesus also said the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than John (Luke 7:28). One could be in the kingdom while on earth but people around that believer would not know. The kingdom is where decay and corruption can no longer work in the man. He is saved from what eats up a man. Men could be eaten up by corruption but they will dress up and be perceived as role models by those who cannot discern. The day we see God’s dominion and what it does to man, we will joyfully desire to come into it.
The Church, at the moment, has not entered into heavenly things; it is still earthly. These earthly things are not carnal. To enter the kingdom is earthly in God’s allocation of the seasons of the kingdom. Entering the kingdom is the starting point of God's earthly operation in dominion matters. In the future, if one wants to know those who will be kings on earth, it will be those who have entered the kingdom. No flesh remains flesh in the kingdom; it becomes a spirit. When you enter the kingdom, you become a spirit. That which is born of the Spirit is spirit (John 3:6). It is not possible to enter a spiritual realm without being a spirit.
Do not let the unspiritual dictate how you live your life. The spiritual man is more excellent than the fleshy man irrespective of the number of natural possessions the latter has. We need to take out the way Satan designs life for us. And, we should not put ourselves under that pressure; instead, we should strive to enter into the kingdom. This is not to say that believers should be unserious–no! Rather, people should press to be spiritual. To be spiritual is not to copy spirituality but to be born through the spiritual genetics of God. The genes of God are a spirit (John 6:63).
“And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.” (John 3:13). The origin of Jesus is heaven. He was Logos that became flesh (John 1:14). Jesus was telling Nicodemus that He came from heaven; although He also started on earth, He did not remain on earth. He went into heaven to minister from heaven.
From John 3:13, God’s intention is for men to ascend. One of the things that could prevent men from ascending is when a man takes thought for his own life (Matt. 6:25). “Taking thought of our life” was designed to keep men here. Ascension has nothing to do with the practice of levitation or trans-meditation as some individuals preach. Ascension comes by obedience.
Satan designed his dominion over man to keep man down so that man would be ruled upon. Any man that wants to ascend will challenge Satan’s space in the air and Satan does not want a contest. He hates for man to take the air. Meanwhile, we were made to operate from heaven and not earth. Some preachers are not even earthly; they preach from dust. Satan has occupied men with inaccurate things. So, God wants to raise earthly capacities first, then move to raising heavenly capacities.
God has been looking for men to ascend up to heaven. Adam never ascended but Jesus did. The "heaven" that He ascended into is not just the air but the heavens above the air. He was present before the Father. Jesus was operating that which would take Him there. He used all things God gave to Him (John 3:35). God gave Him the original materials for ascension; so, He could ascend. To ascend is not to lift from the ground; but to walk on earth with God's thoughts.
When God speaks earthly things, He condescends to teach man about what happens on earth in the allocation of God. So, when a man enters the kingdom, a specie of spirit that can stay on earth has just been birthed but this specie of spirit is different. He is not flesh. He is earthly, but not carnal; he is spiritual. However, the kingdom of God can do better than this. It can birth a specie of spirit higher than the earthly one; one that can occupy or ascend to the heavens.
There are many birth processes embedded in the kingdom and for each of them, a man gains genetics i.e., he changes from one spirit to another. Jesus told Nicodemus how to birth a spirit that can stay on earth (John 3:4-5). Then He moved higher to heavenly things by speaking of the One who has ascended (John 3:13). Jesus wanted to show Nicodemus the program of God for mankind.
"And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up…" (John 3:14). Heavenly things entail that a man ascends up to heaven. And to ascend to heaven is to lift the Son up. The Son must be lifted the way Moses lifted the serpent, for a man to ascend to heaven. The lifting of the serpent like Moses did is not referring to the Son being lifted on the cross but the lifting of deliverance for the people. The Son not being lifted up is to preach the Son within the allocations of earth. When the Son of God is preached in the earthly dimension, people would be earthly.
The Son will never be lifted up if there are no preachers to do so; He would remain earthly in people's minds. How preachers lift the Son depends on the eyesight with which they use to see the Son. When they still see Him as the healer, provider and so on, He has not been lifted up.
"And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me." (John 12:32). The Son cannot lift Himself; He must be lifted by those who have the job description of lifting Him up. And for these men to lift Him up, they themselves must have been raised. "Lifting the Son from the earth" is not lifting Him up from the dust but lifting Him amidst those who are in the kingdom. Then He would draw all men unto Himself.
The power of drawing men from the earth is in the Son of God. So, preachers should lift up the Son of God, that is, paint Him as He is – tell people of His stature, His glory; describe Him in His splendour. The method of lifting up the Son is in the message of the Son.
Eternal life cannot come to mankind except the Son of God is believed (John 3:15). And He can only be believed on if He is lifted up. To lift Him up is to lift Him up both by preaching and lifestyle. When He is lifted up, all men would see Him and be drawn to Him. No man on earth, no matter his pedigree, will really see Jesus and not be pulled to Him. This is the last evangelism: not one by strife but by positioning of Jesus the way He ought to be seen. Those who would see Jesus would have everlasting life– the life of the Son of God.
Everlasting life is what the Son of God gives. The message in John 3:16 has been used for getting people born again but it is not for new birth only. It is also a message to make people ascend to heaven. A man cannot have everlasting life and not dwell in heaven. Everlasting life is a heavenly thing. A man who has it must have ascended to heaven. In some years to come, men would not take so long to move from one birth process in the kingdom to another.
God is going to give birth to churches that can make people leave the earth. People would no longer be carnal. They would escape and find abode in the heavens. The only way men can ascend is by the preaching of heavenly things; and heavenly message is the Son of God.
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you…" (1 Peter 1:3-4 ). To not "fade away" is to "not perish". What would not make a man not perish is not on earth but in heaven. And because it is in heaven does not imply that it cannot be accessed. Men have assumed that when things are in heaven, they cannot come down to earth. But it is not so. If the Holy Ghost and the Lord Jesus left heaven to the earth, then anything can leave heaven. So, the inheritance described in 1 Peter 2:4 can come to earth even though it is in heaven. This is done by preaching.
The inheritance was written to be preached. When it is preached, people would not perish. When a man receives heavenly things, there is no way he would stay here on earth. By the teaching of the nature and character of the inheritance, a man's capacity is raised because it is a heavenly thing. It is a heavenly material; it would make one think heavenly – be raised as it is raised. A man cannot harbour, keep or have heaven and not be heavenly. In other words, one cannot have heaven in him and not be heavenly. When a man has heaven, he would be preserved: incorruptible, undefiled and not fade away.
To ascend is not a physical seizure or catching away experience with a corruptible mind intact, as many Christians want. For God to cause a man to ascend, corruption must have been washed off in heart and mind. Such a one must have an heavenly soul, that is, to be exactly like Jesus who dwells in heaven in His soul and spirit. This is where God is taking us to. Rising into heaven is having a superior life in the kingdom. There is a kingdom of God with earthly things and there is another with heavenly things.
Blessings!
Summary
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Seeing the kingdom is not for a person to miss hell; rather, it is seeing the world where our deliverance is kept.
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The fact that a person becomes born again, and goes to heaven, does not mean that such a person is in the kingdom of God because corruption can still be in the heart.
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When you see the kingdom, it will call for a re-evaluation of your life.
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The capacity to turn from flesh to spirit prepares one to receive the discipline of the kingdom.
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The spiritual man is more excellent than the fleshy man irrespective of the number of natural possessions the latter has.
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To be spiritual is not to copy spirituality but to be born through spiritual genetics of God.
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To ascend is not to lift from the ground but to walk on earth with God's thoughts.
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When God speaks earthly things, He condescends to teach man about what happens on earth in the allocation of God.
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When a man receives heavenly things, there is no way he would stay here on earth.
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Rising into heaven is having a superior life in the kingdom.