Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: School of the Spirit (SOS)
Date: Thursday, 27th 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.” (Hebrews 2:10). The word “Him” here refers to the Father. This tells us that there is the captain of our salvation and there is the Father. Also, “all things” here are for and by the Father. These all things work or help the Father. These things are the things that the Father uses; they are relative to Him. These things are not things of this present creation (the heavens and the earth); they are things higher than creation.
“All things” are things hidden in God before the foundation of the world. There are things created and things uncreated. The Godhead had related with things uncreated before creation. This dimension of the uncreated things is the beginning, port, or junction that the Godhead landed when they stepped out of eternity.
These “all things” are the things that the Father wants to freely give to us (Romans 8:32). These are the things that are important to eternity. They work for Eternal Life. “Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.” (Isaiah 62:11). The works come first before the reward. The works are the “all things” that work for the reward, so the works are for the Father. There is no way a man can access these things without Him. Whenever the Father gives these things to a man, He wants the man to be by Him and for Him. These things play a very important role in the scheme of the manifestation of God.
Glory can never be disassociated from these things that are for and by the Father. So sons cannot be brought to glory if they do not understand the things that work for God. When God steps out of Eternity, there is no landing space for God outside these things. When God is stepping out of Eternity, He cannot put His legs on things of this present creation. Creation are things as well. What makes creation (heaven and earth) are things.
Creation is made of things. God first saw things, and then made heaven and earth out of those things. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” (Heb. 11:1, 3). So the actual creation are things which do not appear or that we do not see. So what God gave to angels are things which do not appear. The kind of things that a being is handling tells the strength of his make-up.
For example, angels are not holding physical water but they hold things that made the water. For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.” (Heb. 2:5). If the world to come is a spoken word, then it does not need to appear. As far as God is concerned, if the world to come can be spoken, then it is already present. The world to come is encapsulated in words/teachings and this is because they are things.
In the world to come, there are new things and all things. New things are things of Christ, and Christ is not of this present world. Jesus was given all things of the world to come (heavenly and earthly things). These are the things Jesus was speaking. Jesus spoke earthly things to Nicodemus and he could not comprehend them (John 3:10-12). Nicodemus was a lower personality in the present; he did not have access to the things of this present creation. Those who have access to this present creation are men like Adam, but that era is gone. The Old Testament does not even fall into the category of the present; they are a type and shadow of the present things (Heb. 10:1).
The school of glory is a professorship course in the Spirit; it is many things put together. It is very complex. It is the manifold wisdom of God. If you know and learn these things, you will have a complex mind—the mind of God. The mind of God called the mind of Elohim. A man with such a mind will know how God sees things. It is a blessing to have the mind of Christ, and much more, for that mind to be rebranded into the mind of God. God is busy making minds. When God is done raising a man, his mind will be God’s kind. However, a man cannot have God’s mind if he is carnally minded, he has to be spiritually minded. The carnal mind cannot learn the things of God because such is not subject to the law of God (Romans 8:7).
The worlds were framed from the word of God. All things proceeded from the word of God. So, God can create another word out of His word. “For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward…” (Hebrews 2:2). It means many angels spoke “one word” not “many words”. It is not a dissemination of utterances but rather the speaking of nature, or a line of thought. What God gave angels to speak is not many but one word, and inside that one word are things.
“How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;” (Hebrews 2:3). The Lord also came speaking something called a word. One of the ways that word can be expressed is through the mouth. God framed utterances for word; He designed vocal capacity so that words can come out. It is possible that words can come out via many other means. This tells us that “speaking” is not what was first referred to as “word”. A minister of the gospel can be saying many things and yet he has not spoken a word that is of God. Many ministers sound high but they say nothing because they do not have the seed of the word of God that ought to be spoken. Satan himself does not waste words because he has a seed to sow (Matt. 13:25).
To teach man glory, God had to do things (or works) of glory so that man can come into it and learn it. God is passionately in love with man so that man can learn of His glorious things. The desire of God for man is that he would end in His glory. Man is meant for glory. Glory is man’s destiny and the Father desires that many sons will be brought to glory (Heb. 2:10). This tells us that it is not all or every believer that can be brought into glory.
The raising of glorious men is a tedious course for souls. The Church of Hebrew was about to be transited into the world of glory, but they became weary and began to faint in their minds. They wanted to go back to the milk of the word or to the elementary principles of the doctrine of Christ (Heb. 5:12). They wanted to go back to things that are not gloriously challenging to the mind. Glorious subjects are tedious to souls. It is only a soul that has been trained with the doctrine of Christ that can endure the discipline of God’s glory (Heb. 5:14).
The discipline of glory is the chastisement for glory. A wandering soul cannot learn the glory of God. The discipline that a soul must attain to learn glory is not easily imbibed. Many men doubt the process of glory and fall short of the glory of God because there is a contention in man against his glorification. Satan fights against every person that ought to be glorified; he hinders the work of glory in people. Satan can weary souls who are on their way to be glorified; he can make men faint in their minds.
Many ministers and believers talk about the glorious Church, but they know nothing about God’s glory. The world of glory is concealed; it is a matter that God hid. The Church cannot see the glory of God if the door is not being opened to her. There is a glory laid up for the Church, but we must be humble and meek to come to this glory.
There are things, attitudes, manners, or characters that heaven refers to as glory. These things must be shown to us. A man who has glorious thoughts has life. God wants us to become glorious entities and behave gloriously. This tells us that glory is a conversation. There is what is called glorious conversation or lifestyle. There are certain things that the everlasting God will not condone in the season when He is expecting us to behave in a way that is accepted of Him. When God expects us to bear fruits of glory and we are not doing so, we are displeasing Him (John 15:8).
At River Jordan, Jesus went on to be glorified and He had bore some fruits. There are three levels of fruits in every doctrine: there is the thirty (30) fold, sixty (60) fold and hundred (100) fold. Jesus bore thirty (30) fold fruits when He was 30 years of age. Later, the voice came back again on the Mount of Transfiguration when He had borne sixty (60) fold fruit. And every time the voice came, it was said that Jesus was receiving glory (2 Pet. 1:17). Jesus was receiving glory without dying physically. This tells us that a man can be receiving glory while he yet lives in his body. Jesus conducted Himself or lived gloriously.
“Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.” (John 12:28). The name here is the life that the Son was living. The Son of God was using glory to live, which was the revelation of the Father to Him (Heb. 2:11-12). The book of Hebrews is a crucial point because the Church had reached the realm of glory where the Father’s name should be declared to them.
The Father glorified the Son. We cannot tell exactly when Jesus entered the Sanctuary of heaven. However, we know that Jesus grew from earth into heaven and stood in the Holy Place. Then the Father revealed His name to Jesus. If not, Jesus will not have said that He is giving us the name that the Father gave Him (John 17:26). This means that the least expectation of conversation from the Church is everlasting life. This means that the Church should be in everlasting life when Jesus is coming back.
“And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.” (John 17:26). Jesus declared the Father’s name not just by words, but by His lifestyle. The disciples saw how Jesus lived. The Father’s name is glorious. Jesus declared the glory of God to the disciples, especially those who God gave Him out of the world. This love here has to do with the commitment of God to Jesus, demonstrated by how He gave Jesus His things. The things that God gave to Jesus were out of love. Name came out of love, and that name is a life that comprises many things. God taught Jesus a life of glory because the Father’s name is a life of glory.
The Father is called the Father of glory (Eph. 1:17). The Father’s name is nothing less than glory. The least of God’s name is the Father. Name speaks of the manifestation of God or what God can be. God can be a father. That God is a Father means that He is a life to people. As a Father, God can teach you of Himself and impart His glory on you.
The least of the glory of God is the revelation of the Father. The Father is yearning to relate with sons that will be brought to glory, so that they can interact with Him. “Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.” (Isaiah 59:1-2). God cannot behold iniquity. Men are not getting into salvation because there is distance, and this distance is death. So, we can only pass from death unto life when we have loved the brethren (1 John 3:14). The brethren are the springboard out of death into life; that life is called glory. A man can have the opportunity on earth to taste glory and live it out. A man has not scratched his destiny if he has not touched glory. Man’s predestination is not unto (becoming) Christ but unto glory.
The least of man’s predestination is to glory. “Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.” (Romans 8:30). Every child of God has a predestination to glory. However, God knows that some men will never allow themselves to be led to glory. However, when God sees an iota of a sign that a man can gain glory, He will do anything to make sure he gets it. It is the Father’s joy that a man experiences the glory of God on earth before the world to come.
The day a man enters God’s glory, he would be grateful for the opportunity of experiencing glory on earth. There are many things Satan has put in place that will not allow men to be glorified by God. This is because of the pathway of sacrifices or the things that must be denied to gain God’s glory.
To gain Christ, which is the life that leads to the realm of glory (Col. 1:27), one must deny ungodliness, worldly lusts and then live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world (Tit. 2:12). This means that we must live contrary to things that are prayer points to many believers and ministers of the gospel. In Churches, pastors preach another calling and hope to believers. They claim that Christianity must be relevant to this present life. Many ministers and believers blindly labour in prayers to attain these worldly lusts that must be denied to come to glory.
Many people say that Christianity must be relatable in this present life. For example, they say that the Church should have participation in earthly governance or that the Church should be present in politics of nations. Satan has painted a glory that is making men see pastoral ministry as local and mundane.
Those who gather at the United Nations to deliberate on issues of the nations are fallen men, and those deliberations cannot help the earth. Those who should be discussing gloriously about nations is God and gods (Psa. 82:1). These gods are the ones that God called “My people” (Ezek. 11:20). They are the ones who carry the conversations of God and live it out. They are the ones that the Father will communicate a glorious lifestyle to. Types and shadows of these things are in scriptures. Many Old Testament patriarchs touched this realm; they got to everlasting life. Everlasting life is the life that demonstrates the glory of God. Satan does not want this generation to end up in glory and he is doing everything to see to that. Glorious things were communicated to Jesus and He maintained His steady development until He fully attained glory.
The heart that can enter glory is called the heart of flesh. It is the heart of a particular sacrifice that is acceptable to God. “For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: Thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.” (Psalm 51:16-17). A heart of flesh is one that is described as a broken spirit. This means that spirits come out of such a heart. Brokenness and contriteness are attitudes of the heart. These attitudes are incense to God; they call God. God’s glory will reject any man who does not have a broken spirit. The broken spirit is a program or a script that a man can possess. When that spirit is in a man, the man acts brokenly. Such a man can easily be reached by God. Some men can never be reached by God because they are not broken, and they are not allowed in Presence.
When God is admitting people into His presence, He checks them from afar if He can open the door to them or not. God resists the proud from afar and gives grace to the humble. If a man has pride, God will do a work that will resist him and such will not be able to come into presence. It is sacrifice that takes a man into Presence.
God despises some things like a haughty spirit and proud look. The heart is the gateway to Presence. A broken spirit and contriteness are the things of a heart of flesh. It means that a heart of flesh can give spirits. Before a man gets a heart of flesh, he will firstly acquire a new heart upon which a new spirit will be written upon (Ezek. 36:26).
The heart is what justifies a man in God’s presence. A man can have revelation or mysteries without heart. Real knowledge is not information, it is sacrifice. Knowledge may not yet be a sacrifice; it may just be information. A man can have light but refuse to walk.
A spiritual man ought to go from glory to glory (2 Corinth. 3:18). There is thirty-, sixty- and hundred-fold manifestation of glory (Matt. 13:8). The best picture to capture this is to see the realm of fatherhood in the Old Testament. When God met with Moses, He introduced Himself as the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob (Exodus 3:6). These fatherhoods are not the same; they are three distinct fathers to Moses. They are three patriarchs. They are steps in God. God is the God of these categories of fathers.
Abraham gave birth at hundred (100) years old. Jacob gave birth at sixty (60) years old, and Jacob gave birth at around thirty (30) years. Those are folds of fatherhood in God. 100-fold glory for Jesus was in his death because Abraham died to himself. Abraham got to a place where he reaped glory from death. The end of a man is death. To come into glory is not to die physically and go to this present heaven, but an elevated life of wisdom in God that commands His presence on earth. A man can attain God’s glory in the days of his flesh. The door of God’s glory can be opened to a man.
Blessings!
Transcript Summary
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The school of God’s glory is a professorship course in the Spirit; it is many things put together. It is very complex. It is the manifold wisdom of God. God had to do things (or works) of glory so that man can come into it, learn it and become glorious (Heb. 2:10; Isa. 62:11).
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Man is meant for glory, and the Father desires that many sons will be brought to glory (Heb. 2:10). Those that will be brought into glory must have grown from being carnally minded to being spiritually minded (Romans 8:7).
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A wandering soul cannot learn the glory of God. Many men doubt the process of glory and fall short of the glory of God because there is a contention in man against his glorification. Satan fights against every person that ought to be glorified; he hinders the work of glory in people.
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The least of the glory of God is the revelation of the Father. The Father is yearning to relate with sons that will be brought to glory so that they can interact with Him. Men are not getting into salvation because there is distance, and this distance is death (Isa. 59:1-2).
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Loving the brethren is the springboard out of death into life; that life is called glory. So a man can have the opportunity on earth to taste glory and live it out.
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A man has not scratched his destiny if he has not touched glory. Man’s predestination is not unto (becoming) Christ but unto glory (Romans 8:30). However, God knows that some men will never allow themselves to be led to glory because of the sacrifices required.
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To gain Christ, which is the life that leads to the realm of glory (Col. 1:27), one must deny ungodliness, worldly lusts and then live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world (Tit. 2:12).
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Everlasting life is the life that demonstrates the glory of God. Satan does not want this generation to end up in glory and he is doing everything to see to that. Glorious things were communicated to Jesus and He maintained His steady development until He fully attained glory.
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Brokenness and contriteness are attitudes of the heart. These attitudes are incense to God; they call God. God’s glory will reject any man who does not have a broken spirit.
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To come into glory is not to die physically and go to this present heaven, but an elevated life of wisdom in God that commands His presence on earth.