Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Revelation Hour (RH)
Date: Saturday, 9th October, 2021
Speaker: Pastor Tayo Fasan
“For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” (Rom. 8:6). A man who can mind life and peace is one who is spiritually minded. Therefore, the measure of a man who is spiritual is based on how far his mind has been tattooed with the laws of Christ, and how well he can respond from that realm or virtue called life and peace. However, God does not just want to bring the measure of life and peace (the life that is calibrated in Christ) into our humanity; He also wants to bring divine nature into it.
“Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them" (Mark 11:24). God started training us through the exercise or discipline of faith in the level of milk. He began to use our natural affairs (which we could relate with and trust Him for) to train us to desire and mind one thing. Part of the training included being able to hold on to a word, which the Holy Ghost may quicken in our hearts at times, to deal with doubt. This would then help us deal with double mindedness (Jam. 1:8).
What makes us doubt, either in natural or spiritual things, is because we can fall back to our natural minds. This faith was however designed to crucify our natural minds so that we can fully depend on one thing (God). Satan has scattered the soul of man through the many things that he throws at it, but the experience of the milk faith will train the mind to begin to mind one thing.
"A double minded man is unstable in all his ways." (Jam. 1:8). A double-minded man is one who can shuttle between the spirit and the flesh. He is a man that cannot absolutely stay in the faith. As such, a man is double minded at any moment he can be found outside the faith. There are times when we fall back to the mind that is contrary to the spiritual mind. When we do not have absolute peace in our hearts, when our peace is not full or has been punctured, it is because we have begun to mind that which we are not supposed to mind.
”Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them." (Psa. 119:165). One who is spiritually minded appreciates (increases) in peace. Another way to describe being spiritually minded is being able to observe spiritual things. At every point in time, the mind has to continually be on the search for spiritual things because there is always something that righteousness has to say by the hour.
"This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success." (Josh. 1:8). Doing all that is written is a function of observing and when you constantly observe, it will become natural to do commandments. Then, peace will emanate from what you are observing to your soul. However, when a man observes lying vanities, he loses this peace. This will tamper with the flow of waters in his soul and his fellowship with God. The key to observing is meditation which is what we do with our eyes and minds.
"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: [20] Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen." (Matt. 28:19-20). We cannot profit from any teaching or baptism without minding the things that came from them. The reason why some have come into a place where they have a covenant of life and peace is because they minded the things that came from the baptism or teaching of the name of the Son.
"For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ." (1 Cor. 2:16). The mind of the Lord describes the mind of the Lord Almighty or the mind of the Father, which will instruct the mind of Christ. The mind of Christ is a spiritual mind that can take instructions from the mind of the Lord. Many have come to a place where they can mind Christ (life and peace) by being separate and not touching the unclean thing (2 Cor. 6:17).
There are many times that the Holy Ghost wants to amplify some words to us. We would only be able to fetch substances of faith which will bless our hearts with a measure of life and peace, when we mind them. Many of us have done this to a point where the Father can now begin to speak to us. When He speaks to us, He gives us higher instructions, so that He can give us things. In the season of salvation, the person who shows up is God the Father, and he begins to speak to sons and daughters concerning what they should mind. When the Lord Almighty is speaking to sons and daughters, they will be converted from being ‘a people’ to being ‘the people of God’. They will move to a season where God can dwell in them and walk in them, and then, they will be His people and He will be their God (2 Cor. 6:16).
“And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters: [23] And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: [24] And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.” (Gen. 5:22-24). Before Enoch got to the place where he walked with God, just like Noah, he first came to the season where he was just and perfect. He first came into a state where he had minded the covenant of life and peace (spiritual things) before God Almighty began to instruct Him. He did this until he came into a separation. He so pleased God till the point when God took him or translated him. This is for us a demonstration of how we would get to a place where we cease from being men. Hebrews 11 is therefore an account of those who, in a shadow, ceased from being men to become another kind of men.
Without minding one thing, it is impossible to please God because the journey, even of Old Testament saints, was to prove that with God, all things are possible. The goal of our journey is to get to a place where we can mind Eternal Life, which is God. When a soul is endowed with everlasting works, his mind will be raised to a point where he can mind this one thing.
The end result of the knowledge of God is to bless us with the laws of God where we can fetch every instruction from that knowledge. Instructions always come from every teaching that comes to us. If we will profit with this knowledge, we must be able to fetch out those instructions and live by them. Then, they will culture our minds. Instructions hedge in the soul, constrain and narrow it down to a spot.
God wants to bring us to a point where all that will be found in our minds will be the conversation of the Father. This will be a time when our imaginations will be after the good and perfect light continually. A time is coming when we will not find the fear of death in our souls anymore (Heb. 2:15). The laws of everlasting life will bring us to a place of perfect love that would cast out all fears from our souls (1 John 4:18). It is by the law of God in the inward man that all fears would be cast out (Rom. 7:22).
Knowledge first comes as truth to a man, but the goal is to make that knowledge become a law in his soul. Every knowledge that is outside the knowledge of salvation is surrounded with fears. Therefore, to deliver the soul from fear, the knowledge of salvation has to be brought to him. For the law of everlasting life to be evident in the soul, the man has to desire and observe it. He must also want to know and own it.
When a man can bring so much pleasure to God, bear the name of the Father and inherit the judgement of everlasting life, other men will also be able to look up to him (Isa. 4:1). The time is coming when the least amongst the company of believers will be a manner of man who has everlasting works.
The unveiling of everlasting life is the unveiling of the conversations where nothing is impossible. The essence of the giving of everlasting life is for us to come to God who is Eternal Life. We must believe in the works of everlasting life. Those works open up things possible to those who have ceased from being men. The reason why we see some things as being impossible is because we are still men.
“But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” (Heb. 11:6). “He that cometh to God” refers to a company of men who have become like Christ and will engage a chapter of salvation which is another pleasure that would be brought to God, by virtue of the manner of men that will be raised. Hebrews 12 talks about men who took joyfully, the spoiling of their goods, knowing in themselves that they had a better and enduring substance (Heb. 12:34). “Better and enduring substance” refers to Eternal Life. These men had the hope of Eternal Life. They were being motivated by something that was better - Eternal Life.
It was by faith that they were able to take joyfully, the spoiling of their goods. The judgement of faith had separated them from worldly goods. Faith separates us from our attachments and the value we place on worldly goods. One who has the judgment of faith will not be ashamed of the gospel of Christ when the privileges he has in the world are taken away, because it is only in those moments that some comfort around the mystery of the Father will be brought.
The ministrations that are being brought our way have a better substance than we previously had; higher judgment is being communicated to us, to bring us to a place where we are no longer mindful of every conversation that is taking place in this present world. One who is living by the faith of the Son will not be afraid of taking the fall, or be concerned about how they would look before men.
The people spoken of in Hebrews 11 had emptied their minds of something and filled it with something else. Abraham was full of faith and was persuaded, hence he was able to receive what he sought. Abraham was not double-minded; the double-minded man will not receive anything from the Lord (Jam. 6-8). The judgment of everlasting life is to bring us to the place of minding one thing, and we must continue minding that thing until we receive all things. The Father must not find us minding or expecting something else; our expectation must be everlasting righteousness.
“But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.[4] For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.[5] 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. 4:3 -5). We ought not to judge anything before time -- without the judgment of Christ and everlasting life. Apostle Paul was saying that he did not have all judgment and so he could not make any conclusion about himself. By doing so, he was constrained to always mind the Lord and fetch instructions from the Lord. The only time we can conclude about ourselves or another person is when we have the judgement of salvation. This is when the Lord comes to instruct those who have the mind of Christ with the mind of the Lord. He is coming to bless us with wisdom and knowledge.
“O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! [34] For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?” (Rom. 11:33). Those with the mind of Christ will be instructed with the mind of the Lord so that they can have all judgment, and then they can judge rightly. We should not judge anything until we have this thinking cap. Sometimes we still find ourselves judging darkly, using the light of faith and not everlasting life. Hence, we should not be quick to judge but wait till the Lord comes. The Lord comes in meetings-- when we trade with the instructions we receive in meetings, we will be able to profit with the revelations that come our way and become wise; we will be built up.
God has opened a season to us when we would begin to mind, observe and delight in the instructions that accompany what we are hearing. Anyone who profited well with milk faith will see the directions/instructions that came with it. For example, Reverend Hagin’s books show us directions and instructions to live out the milk faith. Likewise, in the word of righteousness, there will be directions and instructions to live out this life – the instructions of righteousness contained in the dispensation of Christ and everlasting life.
To express the commensurate faith, we have to delight in the demands by counting losses. The revelation knowledge that comes our way is to empower us to count losses. That is the only way you can count what is actually gain, and then win Christ (Phil. 3:8). The reason why Jesus responded that “with God nothing shall be impossible” (Luke 1:37), is because man has a definition of treasure which can be traced to this life. The knowledge of salvation is to bring man to a place where he knows true treasure. Money is not a treasure; any treasure that agents of corruption can come against is not treasure.
“Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: [20] But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:” (Matt. 6:19-20). As long as what we seek or are mindful of are not things that are kept in the realm of the invisible, we are not yet free from fear. We ought to live like Jesus lived, owning nothing. Jesus instructed us to live without having attachment to anything, such that even when we have abundance, we are so separated from them and are not driven by them. It is to bring us to a place where those things do not think through us or give us a sense of security or edge. The only edge we should have should be over spirits, in order to be free from their grip and be received into everlasting life.
“To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,” (1 Peter 1:4). Any wealth we have that is not reserved in heaven is not real wealth. As far as heaven is concerned, monetary value is not wealth to them. This is why the Lord Jesus, when asked for money for tax, told His disciples to get money from the mouth of a fish. This shows that He was secured. We are meant to embody everything Jesus embodied. We would keep minding the incorruptible inheritance given to us to a point where it becomes settled in our hearts that our treasure is the Father. To do so, we must be prepared to live how Jesus and the Apostles lived. In so doing, heaven will bring some dealings our way so that we can see the conversations of our Lord Jesus, and notice how He responded. Jesus’ mind was always full of the Father because the Father was His treasure.
The words we are hearing will bring us to a place where we can respond from the invisible. There is an atmosphere of life and peace now, but They want to load it with the atmosphere of the Most Holy -- the energy of joy and the judgement of everlasting life -- so we can judge with righteous judgement. There is a level of judgement that is still darkened even with the light of Christ, but if we are able to pleasure the Father well, in all holiness and godly conversation, then we would escape every snare. There are some temptations God cannot bring to us now because we do not yet have a manner of sound mind that the judgment of everlasting life wants to culture.
“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). Jesus was victorious because of where He was operating from. We do not have these kinds of works because of where we are operating from; but life is being measured out to our souls to come there. A time is coming when the conversation of everlasting life will become a norm; salvation will be common just like faith is now common. Everlasting judgment will be readily available. Men would have gathered enough substance to believe in God for the invisible; a time when bodies will be changed, like it was for our mother and father, Sarah and Abraham.
“Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.[19]And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:” (Rom. 4:18 -19). Abraham was to journey in a manner where he would end up dying in faith, holding a promise. Abraham held a promise, which was a shadow of what we would also hold. We are going to keep journeying until we are able to hold the tangibility of this same promise that Abraham held in a shadow. Abraham’s mind could not relate with death; his mind had come into consecration. Abraham considered not his own body now dead (Rom. 4:19). This was an everlasting sense in a shadow. Abraham considered (minded) something, which he delighted in; this brought into his soul a kind of mind that made him not consider the deadness of his body. The law of God was upon Abraham’s mind and this is why he was called a friend of God.
“He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;” (Rom. 4:20). Abraham was strong in faith meaning he was strong in his rapport with the invisible. Such conversation was a glorious conversation, so he could offer glory to God. No one can give glory to God unless he has trapped everlasting life. Everlasting righteousness has its glory, even as the season of Christ had its glory. This is why the Lord told the church in Hebrews that if any man draws back, His soul shall have no pleasure in him (Heb. 10:38). This means there is a pleasure we must give God. We are on a course to give God pleasure, and any man that gives God that pleasure will sit on the throne.