Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: School of the Spirit (SOS)
Date: Thursday, 30th June 2022
“Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:” (Luke 12:8). There is a chapter of a believer’s life that makes up a great confession. The word “great” is a measure of life that the Father measures out to every company of Christ or those who have become godly. The Lord will divide the spoils with the great (Isa. 53:11). They are those whom the Father has foreknown from the foundation of this world and who will keep faith with His words until they will love not their lives to the death of it. They will partake of a spoil that will make them great. The spoil here is everlasting life which culminates in a reward called Eternal Life.
We made a confession when we got born again. The reason why many are born again and still remain carnal is because they do not yet have the confession of faith in their heart and mouth (Romans 10:10). Nicodemus came to enquire of Jesus by night because he saw something captivating springing from His heart and being authorised by His mouth. We are responsible for carnal believers around us, to make them dissatisfied with their waters of carnality by our conversation. Some measures of charity have not been embodied in many of us, and so the Holy Ghost cannot use us as scriptures to convict carnal believers.
We should become epistles that carnal believers read. The light in us should shine to an extent that makes a carnal believer uncomfortable with his darkness. Carnal believers who are around us or have dealings with us frequently, should be able to ask us of the hope we have, or the seed in us, or what we worship.
A time has come for the confession of faith to be found on our feet and in our walk. There are two feet of the gospel: the feet of the gospel of peace and that of salvation (Isa. 52:7). The gospel of peace has its beauty; it is a beautiful thing for sin and death to be made history. It is a beautiful thing for a ruler of the darkness of this world not to be able to think through us.
The path of most men has been mainly characterised by sin and death, conversations or walk that can be traced to the course of this world (Eph. 2:2). Most men are products of sin and death, even though some of them graduate into hell and death. Family background, exposure, upbringing are some of the avenues through which our souls married another kind of grace called sin. Sin is a grace of flesh and it is promising. Satan slays men by breaking into the holy place of men through sin and death. “Sin and death” is the grace of an angel; it is the perverted state of a once gracious faith life of an angel which can now be found on the spiritual feet of men.
Despite marrying sin and death, and the consequences still remain in our flesh by the allocation of God’s mercy, He is relating with us like we never sinned. God is not accounting to us things we did in ignorance. But when light comes, we are no more ignorant and the coming of light is meant to bring a confession to our feet.
We wrestle with fallen spirits by our confession or our conversation. The vital ingredients that we add to our faith are the conversations that we use to wrestle down principalities, powers, and rulers of the darkness of this world (2Pet. 1:5-7). These additions to faith are how the soul is made more beautiful than a believer who is not adding these vital ingredients to his faith. This is how sin and death is displaced from the soul. These conversations or process of addition is how we will come to a junction where mercy will press out grace for us to relate with the Most Holy Place.
One reason it is easier to raise a Christ company who will be adorned with everlasting life is because it is easier to raise companies of brethren in underdeveloped countries where men do not develop outwardly to great extents. It is difficult to raise a Christ company when men develop outwardly without developing inwardly. Satan has set up the Church and has brought limitations her way so that Christ companies can hardly be raised. When a church places little or no emphasis on everlasting life or the hope of glory, it is a sign that a Christ company has not been raised amongst them.
We can have the things of Christ without abounding in them yet. What the Lord wants to deal with in the season of abounding is our will. The will of man is a gift that God has given to us, which we should not touch. Whenever we touch our will, we lose life. Jesus was afraid of that will and He recognized that as long as He had not yet been fully possessed, He could fall back if He did not have the anthem, “I can of my own self do nothing” (John 5:30).
Jesus knew that one thing a man should not trust is himself. The judgment of everlasting life comes to displace a man’s eyes so that he will not see himself. For example, there are spoils that come with visiting nations as an apostle, but Paul was separated from the confidence or comfort that such things give. Death and iniquity can still use such things. Therefore, as long as our Lord Jesus Christ and Paul were concerned, the exploits that they did were by grace.
Our eyes should always look unto Jesus and not on our exploits. It is possible that Adam beheld his exploits of naming creation on earth. The Holyghost knew the thoughts that Satan brought his way. Around such thoughts or exploits is our will and if we touch it, we will lose life. We should always have a frame of insufficiency. Whenever we spring from a confidence of what God has enabled us to do in previous seasons, our sacrifices will not be acceptable because they do not come from a posture of brokenness. The reason why the service and sacrifices of Paul were pressing out life was because they were proceeding from brokenness. Death was working in him, but life was being pressed out.
There are times when God has the legal ground to withhold the incorruptible seed. But when we begin to abound in charity, God will have to give it (2Pet. 1:8,11). It is possible for God to withhold the understanding of everlasting life if the required obedience has not been fulfilled. God cannot allow us to take the incorruptible seed without having done charity well, because He will not perfect things that are corrupt.
Just as principalities, powers and rulers of the darkness of this world could no longer think through us at certain seasons, God wants to bring us to a place where spiritually wicked spirits can also not think through us. This is because the judgment of everlasting life is meant to make us resolve thoughts from the heights that God wants us to reclaim; thoughts of a higher heaven than the heavenly place that makes up Christ (Eph. 1:3). When there is a change of heaven over us, it is because we have overcome a spirit we have not previously overcome. Whenever we gain some breakthrough into thoughts of life, it is because we have shed some weight of flesh.
A confession or conversation has been found on the feet of many and they can now walk contrary to the course of this world; thus, their ‘christos’ is in place. When this happens, an alarm sounds in the spirit and angels will bring some kind of seeds to such people. The grace of salvation must be brought to all, as it is only by that grace that we can keep the first and last works of God (Titus 2:11). In the season of the Most Holy, we would be required to love the brethren we have previously loved in the sanctuary with a higher light.
The righteousness of faith expressed in the Holy Place can be counted as unrighteousness when it comes into the Most Holy Place, because of a higher light. Some of the things that are referred to as unrighteousness in the Most Holy Place, were once righteousness in the Holy Place because of seeing darkly. Because the Father has not yet brought His gifts, He is not yet expecting first and last work (James 1:17). When the Father brings His gifts, He would be expecting first and last works.
A believer who excels in the Holy Place will be invited to take a seed of higher worth (Matt. 13:12). The incorruptible seed will be committed to anyone who has profited with charity. The Lord will bring the seed of the sower to whosoever has used the seed of the sower to a point where he has a good ground. A good ground is a heart of flesh or a heart having the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. God will then bring something else which also has its commandments. As we continue in doing those commandments, we go against the arrangement of our souls. What is limiting us from doing commandments well, either in the Holy Place or Most Holy Place, is our human arrangements.
Anyone who has charity seated in his soul will be given the judgment of everlasting righteousness. The ungodly will not stand in judgment (Psalm 1:5), but the godly would stand to receive the judgment of everlasting righteousness. The seven Churches were meant to apply the judgment of everlasting life given to them, until they deny what they had not denied in the Holy Place--iniquity. One place where iniquity is revealed is in the course of service because it came while a high angel was serving God.
The righteousness of faith awakens us from a slumber and, much more, everlasting righteousness wants to awaken us with judgment. If we do not do service the way Jesus did, the Father will not give life. Men may praise and applaud us for certain feats we have accomplished, but the Father may not have seen them. The only conversation that the Father sees are the conversations in the secret (Matt. 6:6, 18).
In everlasting life, we need to be awoken again (1Cor. 15:34). The judgment we are receiving is to awaken us again. There are some awakenings that does not come by the knowledge of the truth that is in Christ, but by the knowledge of the truth that is in the Father. Those judgments are meant to awaken a sense in a Christ, because iniquity is still present in his humanity. Christ is not perfect because his humanity is not yet divine.
It is in the place of service that we discern iniquity. We should be orderly in the spirit. Our relationship with men who are spiritual authorities over us are the things heaven will check to see how we will relate with God. Charity does not behave itself unseemly (1 Cor. 13:5); that is, charity is orderly. This orderliness is also required of us when it comes to relating with earthly government.
While serving, we must make sure that we are not seen, but that those who sent us are seen in all that we do. That is the only way we can win iniquity and serve the Lord acceptably. Jesus was not using our appraisal of Him to live. Paul said, ‘we have no confidence in the flesh’ (Phip. 3:3). This is the only way we can worship the Father. If it was possible for Jesus to preach without being physically heard or seen, He would have chosen that path because His aim was always to reveal the Father. Anytime the Father is not being exalted through us, we will reveal something else that is of flesh.
The goal of everlasting righteousness is to teach and train those who have prospered in the faith of the Son, how not to do anything of their own strength. If we can get this right, iniquity can be dismembered from our souls. The conversation of not behaving oneself unseemly or disorderly is a critical ingredient in Christ. We know this because that was the problem of a fallen angel (Lucifer) who desecrated his sanctuary, his faith and love tabernacles (Ezek. 28:18).
One area where Jesus defeated sin and death was in his ability to be subject to Joseph and Mary; men whom He created. That was an expression of a high power. Hence, God could bear witness to Him in the declaration that came forth at Jordan, because They had tampered with His humanity. Also, when He was subjected to 40 days of fasting, Satan was allowed to tempt Him and He passed the test. Satan came to run an errand, like he did during the days of Job.
God will grant abundant entrance into the everlasting kingdom to everyone who has made the conversations of 2 Corinthians 13:4-8 their anthem. Because it is an abundant entrance, doing the conversations sparingly is not sufficient; one must do it well, to partake of the grace of salvation that will enable him to excel in the Most Holy Place. The goal of everlasting righteousness is to teach and train those who have prospered in the faith of the Son, not to do anything in their strength so that they can end up overcoming iniquity that hides in our humanity.
One way to expire iniquity is to raise the humanity of Christ. “But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.” (James 1:14). ‘Lust’ here does not emanate from ‘sin and death’ but from iniquity. Iniquity can be traced to soul inheritance, not necessarily upbringing, exposures, family backgrounds etc (Psa. 51:5). Hence, we are required to overcome it while using everlasting righteousness on those same occasions that we once used the righteousness of faith. That is how we would please the Father and that is how He would see such works. Whatever works the Father sees, He will reward (Matt. 6:4).
There are many things the Father does not see; because they are not of a righteousness that can last forever. When you are not using a righteousness that lasts forever, you cannot gather enough patience to wear out spiritually wicked spirits. There is something known as ‘the patience of the saints’ (Rev. 14:12). Sometimes, what is required of us in some situations is to be patient and not do anything of our own selves. There is a patience that brings one into the season of Christ; that is, being translated into His kingdom from the kingdom of darkness. But there is ‘all patience’ that comes when you cannot do anything of your own self (Col. 1:11,13).
It is while in this state of being unable to do anything of your own self, that you are able to see what you previously did not see and then you can act it out. And by so doing, you disobey death. Jesus knew what death is and disobeyed it. Death is a very high righteousness; hence we need everlasting righteousness to discern death. There is always something in death for us that can gratify our humanity; that aspect of us that has not been redeemed from the earth. Hence, the need for us to, not only to be redeemed from the earth or have the meekness of the new earth, but to also have the meekness of the new heaven.
Hence, we must be redeemed from amongst men; that is when our humanity is taken from us. When this happens, Satan can no longer tempt us or have a ground against us. Then we would have proved to heaven that we love not our lives unto death.
In the season of Christ, we still loved our lives unto death. Death, iniquity, ‘hell and death’ are loveable. Else, the Churches in Revelation 2 and 3 would not have had issues with them. Denying the conversations of hell and death is not natural to us; hence, we have to be given substances of life. The Philadelphian Church did not deny His name, this implies that they did not deny what was declared to them. They had kept the commandment (Rev. 3:8).
When you have fetched the life from a commandment of Christ, it will no longer be grievous to you, but a delight. The commandment becomes yours because you have embodied it in your flesh. Then, a higher commandment will be brought, the commandment of everlasting life. Those who keep the commandments of this season will gather the life of it, which is everlasting life. Like Paul, such persons will delight in the law of God.
To go bound to Jerusalem was a very high obedience for Paul to fulfil (Acts 20:22-24). He had fought the fight of faith but it was required of him to keep it (2 Tim. 4:7; Gal. 2:20). Paul had lived by the faith of the Son, and by it, Christ had been formed in him. Therefore, he was given a life which he now warred to keep and he had sworn not to deny that life. Those are true Jews in the spirit, who would worship the Father in spirit and in truth.
Paul was not afraid of afflictions. We are afraid of afflictions because the image of God has not yet been formed in our souls and we relate with them from our unsaved humanity. Because Paul delighted in the law of God, his heart responded to those afflictions without fear and he did not count his life dear to him (Acts 20:24). This life speaks of his humanity. The tabernacle of iniquity is our humanity. That is what God wants to save a Christ from.
Without wrestling, we cannot take our inheritance; we would only be hearers. What was committed to Paul was the glad tidings of good things. Paul used the goods of everlasting life to wrestle down wicked spirits. By making the statement, “that I may finish my course with joy…” (Acts 20:24), Paul was saying that he would finish his course with an everlasting sense and be made wiser than iniquity. Paul had been possessed in a good way and that is why he could make those confessions even in the face of a prophecy that should be worrisome. In the same way, God want to re-possess us and buy back everything that can be traced to the fall, and finish the unfinished business of Adam.
Luke 12:8 says, "Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God:" To confess Jesus (as a beloved Son) is to be able to manifest or unveil what the Father unveiled through Him, especially in the last years of his life. A reward has been prepared for those who do so. What Paul received, he warred with, and by so doing was able to save himself, save those who heard him and confess Jesus before men.
The Son of man will also confess, before the angels of God, those who confess Him. The world to come has not been committed to angels (Heb. 2:5); but He is committing it to man by the speakings that we are receiving. God wants to shift headquarters into men who can successfully become a tabernacle for Him. The deliverance of the earth is in these men. If men can inherit a nature that is superior to that of angels, angels will submit willingly to such men. Thus, angels must see some things in men that they do not have, because they are custodians of the present.
Therefore, before the present world can be set aside, an obedience must have been fulfilled to summon a world that is in God. God wants to download the world that’s in him to men. The angels are willing to serve men in that world to come. If we can carry the glory that heaven wants to give, angels are willing to serve us. One way to know a believer who is making progress spiritually is if there is a continual change of rank of angels that serve and minister to/with him. A man like Daniel had an angel of high ranking come to minister understanding to him. All the teachings that are coming to us are meant for us to use them to keep tuning our hearts. Daniel’s heart was tuned to the point where he did not count his life dear to him (Dan. 1:8).
Everlasting life will take from us a life that the dealing of faith may not be able to take. When that life of ours is no more, there will be no more fears. Iniquity is a programme of fear; fear of the unknown. Some things have not yet come to light, because they are in the so called “tomorrow”, and they are called hell and death. When we have cast out all fears, having acquired a frame of love, we will invite God to embalm it with mercy and perform an oath upon. Jesus, the Son of man, who partook of the image of God in the days of His flesh, will come and witness concerning such men.
There are some things in the life of believers that the Holy Ghost must witness to, else, the Father would do nothing about it. The Holy Ghost has been sent into all the earth and He is checking out postures in the spirit and how we are relating with this season. Amongst us, there are some who are denying His name; while there are others who are finding help not to deny His name, but to bring that daily confession that finds faith to walk in the light of what is being said.
The Lord Jesus will witness to the fact that angels of the world to come have been raised in us (Rev. 3:5). We have to prove to angels that man can embody the life of the Father, just like our Lord Jesus did (1 Tim. 3:16). There is a joy the Father awaits. We must prove to angels that we can successfully bring His life into our flesh. By then, Jesus would have become our example and we would also come into the same things as He did. Then, the cloud of witnesses would not have waited in vain.
Blessings