Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Tuesday Prayer Meeting (PM)
Date: Tuesday, 19th October 2021
Ministering: Rev. Kayode Oyegoke
With the instruments of Urim and Thummim, we will be able to teach Christ better and have a better and accurate judgement of the Holy Place. Aaron was not just a teaching priest but a priest with Urim and Thummim. One cannot handle the instruments of Urim and Thummim without having been a teacher (Heb. 5:12). A teacher here is a priest that should have the ability to turn people from sins and iniquity.
“The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity. [7] For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.” (Mal. 2:6-7). A teaching priest is one that can be accepted into the Holy of Holies because he has learnt how not to touch the unclean things.
“Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing ; and I will receive you, [18] And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.” (2 Cor. 6:17-18). One who is separate is one who has completed the course of the Outer Court. One needs light to separate between the clean and the unclean, so as not to touch the unclean. When one is not touching the unclean, he has exercised his senses to discern both good and evil by reason of use. (Heb. 5:14).
The Holy Spirit wants us to have mastery of spiritual things. Without learning the law of life, one can never be a priest. One can never be a priest of peace without learning the law of peace. The covenant of life begins before one gets to the Outer Court. You learn from one level of righteousness to another, until you come into holiness (Rom. 6:19).
It is in the kingdom that one is made holy and that is the realm where one is made separate. This separation is not from the Egyptians but from corruption. It means that one is no longer being corrupted and decaying. Faith is the measure of work against corruption – against sin. The day one beats corruption or becomes separate is the day one enters into the kingdom of God.
“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” (Matt. 6:33). Jesus instructed us to seek first the kingdom of God because the other things that people seek after also constitute a kingdom. Seeking something other than the kingdom of God does not necessarily mean going to hell but the soul being corrupted. One could seek another kingdom and still make heaven because heaven is not the kingdom of God. For example, the thief at the right hand side of Jesus on the cross is in heaven right now (Luke 23:43).
The righteousness of God precedes seeking the kingdom. One who is not seeking the righteousness of God cannot seek the kingdom of God. “All other things” are the means by which another kingdom is propagated. It is darkness that makes people seek other things; it makes other things take priority in the heart of man over the things of God.
(Matt. 6:24-25). The agenda of Satan which led to the degrading of man into flesh was to make man seek mammon easily. A natural man cannot obey the faith of the Son. What Jesus presented to the centurion was a faith higher than "O ye of little faith"; it was a crucified lesson (Matt. 8:10). Anyone that would follow Christ must be ready to live a crucified life. The reason you are able to obey God and obey faith is because of God; it is not of your strength but of God.
The things to be added are the things that the other kingdom fronts/preaches (Matt. 6:33). God knows that due to the damage done to the soul of men, people will not come for His kingdom at a high price, so He put the price at nothing.
“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.” (Matt. 6:22). The eye is the tool for participation in a dominion. The eye sees the kingdom while the body is the means for entrance into the kingdom.
“Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” (Matt. 7:14). This means one must do just one thing to enter into the kingdom of God and not many things. However, the evil eye wrought in us by the kingdom of darkness makes us seek many things. The evil eye is an eye for the broad gate.
“But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!” (Matt. 6:23). This scripture shows that some people have darkness while some have great darkness. This means some are deeper (have greatness) in the kingdom of Satan than others.
“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; [10] That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God…” (Col. 1:9-10). For one to walk worthy of the Lord, such a person has to be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, because it is guided by power. The reason we are to walk worthy of the Lord is so we can gain entrance into the kingdom (entrance into dominion). Any man that can truncate this work has grounded to a halt the power that will save him from corruption.
Darkness is powerful; it is not the extraction of light, rather, it is a state in the spirit, a way of life. It is called "dark" to God. It will take spiritual intelligence for someone to say a man is walking in darkness. It is a dark power that is in charge of a way of life that has to do with the seeking of natural provision: food, clothes, shelter etc. A man that seeks these things is under the power of darkness. If you have not stopped using darkness as a man, you are still in the kingdom of darkness, even as a child of God.
Acts chapter 2 to 9 was a heavy dose of the former rain moderately (milk of the word). The milk of the word was strong so that Christians would discern when crossing from darkness to light. The milk of God’s word got Christians in the book of Acts to a state of being able to deny this world; it was not ordinary milk. They were made ready for Paul's revelation – the revelation of Christ.
Paul came and preached the allocation of "Christ" in the Word and then "Christ Jesus". There is “Jesus” who is “Christ” and there's also “Christ Jesus”. These are all allocations of the word. Christ is preached to a place, and then Jesus is presented-- Jesus the Son of God. In the book of Revelation, the "Testimony of Jesus" is the Son of God. There is Jesus who is the Christ, then there is Jesus who is the Son of God.
Darkness is a form of light (Matt. 6:23). Here, the eye is operational but it is an eye for darkness. It can process dark properties, dark things, dark sight; and a man using this dark sight is convinced that he is using light. What brings conviction is understanding, so when the eye is involved, understanding is inevitable. Men have used darkness for a long time, they are at home with it, they trust it and they like it. They love it and wonder why God wants to yank it from them and teach them "nonsense".
Matthew 6:24
"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." You cannot serve God and mammon. You cannot mix the two services together. If you mix them together, you are still serving Satan. The defeat of the first dark service is the unveiling of Christ, the teaching of the Anointed One. The teaching of the Anointed One opens the eyes to see a new hope.
The reason why people are committed is hope. A powerful church is a church that paints hope that is not in this world. To make people spiritual is to deliver people from carnality, to make them rate things spiritual above things that are carnal. "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." (Matt. 6:33). Satan made the addendum the first choice but spirituality will make you rearrange the thinking and re-orientate your value system. A powerful church is one that can remove men from the power of darkness; it is one that will establish people on the pedestal of the spiritual plane, finding the foundation that makes one spiritual.
The first entrance into becoming spiritual is that you have life. “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.”(Romans 8:6) A spiritual man is a man that has come into life and peace. A godly man is an overcomer in this world; he has gained greatly, that is why he hates this world.
"For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men."(Titus 2:11) Denying ungodliness is to deny the peace this world gives. Denying worldly lusts is to deny the life this world gives.
There are two promises this world gives; its life and its peace. The New Testament refers to it as ungodliness and worldly lust. Worldly lust or ungodliness has nothing to do with clothing, it is a peace. Many men race for the peace this world gives. This peace is the foundation; by the counsel of the ungodly, men have gotten to a place where nothing can tamper with their life on earth.
Satan is harvesting service from souls. As a result of the soul commitments of many, life is burned out. It is a soul discharge that Satan knows how to get. He dangles the trophies of this world before men, who for fear of missing out and love, chase after these things. These things are neither innocent nor ordinary; there is a danger of seeking these things. Jesus is saying we should seek Him and not these things, He can add them and our souls will be kept (Matt. 6:33).
God told Abraham He wanted to make his name great (Gen 12:2). Abraham walked by faith and these things came into manifestation. The focus on seeking other things is a discharge of soul power that Satan is getting. As he is getting strength from the soul, the soul is being corrupted. Satan is doing that through worldly lust and ungodliness. Ungodliness is a high lust, it has a high pull.
Ungodliness is a high settled life. "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid"(John 14:27).
An ungodly man is a secured man that will refuse to learn the laws of God; such a man cannot be subject to learning Christ. Satan uses life to corrupt a soul and this is what the beast is coming to sell. There is an offering coming that men who are unable to overcome the world will not be able to reject. Natural things can come to you but the issue is the way they come. Satan has raised them to stop you from going to God, worshiping God as you ought.
"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful."(Psalm 1:1) Unclean is ungodliness. When something is ungodly, it is unclean. Satan has done so much to make people break rules in the spirit and avoid being blessed of God. He did this by offering promises without seeking God.
The end of seeking God is incorruption, not the natural. What seeking God gives is higher than what seeking God will add. Satan makes men go after the natural and they still end up not getting those things, rather, they get corruption. Satan is not offering those things; he uses the natural as a bait to drag men into his dominion so they can come under decay. One who is decaying and has the natural, may not stand a chance of escape.
The rich young ruler was one who had come into the peace that the world gives (Lk. 18:18-23). He used the law to acquire the natural but he was not free from the natural, which was why he could not relinquish them. Those things had become his life and they made him ungodly. The power of corruption kept him from entering into the kingdom. Nothing will prevent one from entering into the kingdom of God except the kingdom of darkness.
"Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth."(John 17:17). By His word, we are washed and delivered from this world.