Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Writing the Vision (April Edition)
Date: Saturday, 23rd April 2022
Speaker 3: Pastor Thompson Ehima
The world (not the things that are in the world) is a teacher of love; it indoctrinates souls with love. However, before you can love the world, you must have used some of its things. One of such things is the love of money which is the love of what money can do. The world is a teacher of love. It is after you have loved the things in the world that you can now love the world.
The opposite of loving the world is to love the Father (1 John 2:15). However, you cannot arrive at the Father if you have not journeyed using the Faith of the Son. The love of the Father is the life of the Father; it is the will of God which is His delight.
“And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.” (1 John 2:17). The love of the Father is packaged in His will. This will is the vehicle to reach Him. Jesus Christ was a doer of the will (John 4:34) and He got to the point of loving the Father by doing what the Father delights in. Thereby, He inherited His things. The will of the Father is His kingdom and dominion; it is about accessing the reign of life.
The Father’s kingdom is His will. This will is about what He loves. For the love of the Father to be in a man, he must do the will of the Father. However, many men are doing the love of their father – the devil (John 8:44). The will and love of the devil are in his lusts and these lusts are given to men by the princes of this world. You cannot have the love of the Father without the will of the Father. The same goes for the lust of the world. This world wants to raise lovers. It wants men to fall in love with it. This love is wickedness.
The way the world indoctrinates is by using the wisdom of the princes of this world. It teaches men to fall in love with it. When you love the world, you love Satan; but when you love the will of the Father, you love the Father. There are things you do when you want to show that you are in love. This is because there can be no love if you do not do some things. As such, you cannot love the world without doing its things. It is when you do a thing that you make a thing abide or remain in you.
In the realm of everlasting life, there are a lot of high doctrines which aim to seduce or entice men (1 Tim. 4:1). We cannot love the world except we have been taught by princes (evil spirits). This love also refers to judgments. Judgments are discernments; therefore love is discernment. Discernment refers to an ability to prove something.
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable a service. [2] And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” (Rom. 12:1-2). There is a provision for the mercies of God, but there are things that can cheat or prevent you from receiving them. When you conform to this world, it can prevent you from receiving the mercies of God. This world wants to conform you to its image because the world is an image and a teacher of love.
“And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.” (1 Cor. 7:31). Satan aims to conform men to this world. This conformation happens in the mind and heart (Rom. 12:2). Satan starts conforming a man from the mind and then moves to the heart. One cannot use this world if one is not carnally minded. Thus, Satan wants to conform minds to this world by giving them wrong imaginations and thoughts. These are the same things Satan blessed Cain and Nimrod with.
These are the operations of (wrong) teachings and doctrines, to expose the mind to the world, and Satan uses such to train souls. He does not bless a soul with such things if it has not used lust. This is because he wants to also receive men into the fellowship of what he has designed. This world is an offshoot of Satan. Just like God wants to father us, Satan wants to father men with this world. His governors and teachers by which he will do these are principalities.
“Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience…” (Eph. 2:2). There is a course (learning) of this world that has to do with its lusts. Yet, there is another level which is according to the prince of the power of the air. The spirit of the antichrist is an operation that seeks to produce a work which will teach and raise them into becoming sons of perdition. Thus, the wisdom of the prince of this world is to raise sons of perdition. These are men who have been conformed to the world and its wickedness.
There is an image Satan has in mind for every man – he wants every man to look like him. The seed of satan is incubated in a man when he comes in union with him – the prince of this world. Satan’s desire is to exalt his throne above the stars of God. He also desires that man would partake of the image of the beast. The essence of the image of the beast is to conform men to be like Satan.
The judgement of the princes of this world seeks to conform men into a kind of lifestyle and then, make them into gods. This was the same idea Satan sold to Eve, when he lured her to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil so that she and Adam would be as gods (Gen. 3:5). Satan opened the imagination of Eve, just like he did to Cain and Nimrod. These men were given to reprobate minds. This is what the world does to the souls of men. Satan trains men into becoming beasts.
Today, we see men with awkward imaginations and desires. These are expressions of the image and idea that Satan has for men. Satan seeks to alter man into his desire. He wants to tamper with man’s nature from the soul and ultimately, to his body.
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God” (Rom. 12:2). To be conformed to this world means to live after its design. This world raises men who are ordained for the wrath of God and destruction. Hence, God is blessing us with judgement in this season.
One thing the ministry of the Son does is to execute judgement (John 5:22). To execute judgement is to bring in everlasting righteousness. When the judgement of God is upon the earth, its inhabitants will learn righteousness (Isa. 26:9). The Father gave the Son judgement. Before any man can come to the Father, he must have been taught everlasting righteousness.
"I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?" (Luke 18:8). Faith would be found on the earth if men live by the life of the Son of God. When one receives the life of the Son of God and has used it, then there is a need for His judgments. These judgements are the things of the Father. Faith frees a soul from sin and death, while the judgement of the Father delivers a soul from the bondage of corruption.
To come to the Father is to be conformed to the image of the Son. We can only come to the Father by measuring up to the standard (image) of His Son. This is what it means to grow up spiritually. When a man is learning righteousness, he will not be conformed to this world. We can attain the judgements of the Father by not conforming to this world.
Men are being visited with righteousness and they are learning it. Therefore, God will stop men from being conformed to this world and the princes of this world by delivering judgement to them. Anyone who would go to the Father must learn righteousness. God brings His righteousness to us as thoughts and discernment.
This world is an array of judgements, which are crafted by a high wisdom. It is an arrangement of doctrine and it is fashioned in a manner to make men love it, but we should not.
Blessings!
Summary
1. The world is a teacher of love. It is after you have loved the things in the world that you can now love the world.
2. (1 John 2:17) The love of the Father is packaged in His will. This will is the vehicle to reach Him. Jesus Christ was a doer of the will (John 4:34).
3. There are things you do when you want to show that you are in love. This is because there can be no love if you do not do some things. As such, you cannot love the world without doing its things.
4. (1 Cor. 7:31, Rom 12:2) Satan aims to conform men to this world. One cannot use this world if one is not carnally minded. Thus, Satan wants to conform minds to this world by giving them wrong imaginations and thoughts.
5. This world is an offshoot of Satan. Just like God wants to father us, Satan wants to father men with this world. His governors and teachers by which he will do these are principalities (Eph 2:2).
6. (Luke 18:8) Faith would be found on the earth if men live by the life of the Son of God. When one has received the life of the Son of God and used it, then there is a need for His judgments.
7. Judgements are the things of the Father. Faith frees a soul from sin and death, while the judgement of the Father delivers a soul from the bondage of corruption.
8. When a man is learning righteousness, he will not be conformed to this world. God will stop men from being conformed to this world and the princes of this world by delivering judgement to them. Anyone who would go to the Father must learn righteousness.