Date: Thursday, 2nd December 2021
Powered by: Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: School of the Spirit (SOS)
Minister: Reverend Kayode Oyegoke
Jesus is the bread of God. This means that Jesus was crushed into flour to be offered. Flour is baked to become bread. “Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.” (John 6:32). If we do not understand how bread is made, we will not be able to partake of or eat the bread that Jesus is. Therefore, the bread must be broken down into absorbable little substances before we can chew it.
Just as the children of Israel were baptised into Moses in the wilderness, we were baptised into Christ at the New Birth (1 Cor. 10:14). Thus, our spirits have put on Christ. Christ is Abraham’s seed. It is only one who has become Christ that can be an heir to the promises of Abraham (Gal. 3:16). If the seed was already everything that God wanted, there will be no need to give promises to the seed. The use of the word “promises” tells us that they are more than one; they are everlasting life and Eternal Life.
The seed God gave to Abraham was Christ. Therefore, a man cannot claim to have the promise if he has only attained the stature of Christ. The promise belongs to Christ but that does not mean that the promise is in him or that he has received the promise. Even Jesus had to blessed by God. A man that is blessed is a man that has received blessings (Eternal Life).
“Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.” (Gal. 4:24). The word “allegory” means patterns or examples. The word “Sinai” in Arabia is called Agar, which is the name of the bond woman. Agar was the mountain around where Moses had the experience of the burning bush (Gen. 3:2-3). This shows that Moses was a prophet of Agar.
Abraham’s walk with God gave birth to two covenants. Abraham did not consider Isaac or Ishmael as covenants, as he was just looking for children in the natural. Abraham’s house was no longer an ordinary place because of his high pedigree in the spirit. Abraham had the covenant of the Almighty, so anything that would come out of him as an offspring will be established.
Abraham, through Ishmael, birthed a carnal covenant and that is why the covenant was in the body, not even in the soul. God through Abraham interpreted the promise in the light of the law – He interpreted the spiritual in the physical. Everything we see in the law has its connotation in the spirit. God was explaining Himself to the Israelites through the law. However, they practiced the law without gaining anything. As such, the real answer was in the promise.
“But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully…” (1 Tim. 1:8). This does not mean that those bondages that the law brought were good, but the intent of the law was good. Using the law lawfully can never be done without grace. When one has grace, one will adopt the law and use it lawfully.
The old covenant is a law from the mountain of Sinai, which is Agar. The two children of Abraham epitomised the covenants. As such, Israel had to obey both covenants. The Israelites first obeyed the law of the firstborn of Abraham. They had to pass through it and expire that law to come into the second law through the child of promise (Gal. 4:28). The promise came through Isaac. Isaac is not the seed, but the seed came through him (Gen. 21:12).
The lot for bringing forth the seed fell on Jacob. As such, the seed was looking for who amongst the twelve sons of Jacob to pass through. Anytime blessing is proclaimed on offsprings, it passes down to the next generation. The seed appeared to settle on Joseph but it eventually settled on Benjamin. It initially settled on Joseph because he was his father’s favourite; he was the one that Jacob really blessed. Jacob blessed all the tribes but God put the seed in one.
Jacob did not pray for any grandchildren except the sons of Joseph (Gen. 48). It was Joseph’s sons that Jacob engrafted into the tribes. As he laid hands on all his sons, he also did so on the two sons of Joseph. Jacob blessed them like he did to the twelve tribes and initiated them into the tribes. He knew that the two grandchildren would each replace Levi and Joseph.
Shiloh settled in Ephraim throughout the season of the judges. Joseph preserved the tribe and they carried his body upon their shoulders while leaving Egypt and buried him in Shechem, where the children of Joseph took as an inheritance (Josh. 24:32).
The ark was taken to Shiloh, but was then taken to the land of the Philistines and was not returned to Shiloh (1 Sam. 5:1). As such, the ark and the tabernacle were separated. During this period, the great day of the feast did not occur, as no one could enter into the Most Holy Place. Worship became stifled as a result and when Saul was made king, he did not restore worship. Saul was meant to return the ark to Israel, but he did not inquire about it and left it in order to subdue priesthood and expand his own household.
The tabernacle was without the ark and nothing was done about it until David came. God’s will was for Saul to be made king, but he was self ambitious. This was unlike David whose only ambition was to do God’s will in his generation (Acts 13:22). David’s heart desire was to institute worship back to God. God saw that heart and gave David revelation on how to restore worship to Israel.
Those revelations God gave to David are mercies. David did exploits in the things of God and realized that God can be worshipped with the tabernacle of the ark alone without needing the Outer Court and the Holy Place. David found a breakthrough and established a new manner of worship. David’s bread became stronger than the Levitical bread and he enjoined Israel to the ark by the feast.
The ark of God smote a whole nation, but David built a tent for the ark and nothing happened to Israel. The Israelites must have been watching the ark to see if it would react negatively to David but it did not. The presence of God welcomed David’s order. David was raised by God to reveal the Most Holy Place and to institute the grace of the Most Holy Place in Israel. David was a man with a great covenant – the covenant of Everlasting Life. David took the covenant from the hands of Benjamin.
All that David was seeking was He who is between the Cherubims. This ministry is the ministry of the throne of God. “He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David…” (Luke 1:32). David was given the throne of God because of the things he did. The fact that one is born for something does not mean such a person will have it. Some people were born into an inheritance but have lost that inheritance.
Everlasting life and Eternal Life are birthrights. The birthright of Benjamin, Ephraim and Manasseh was the throne. However, Ephraim could not be given the throne because he was joined to his idols (Hos. 4:17). Therefore, God chose Benjamin instead, but he also had an idol that he inherited from his mother, Rachel (Gen. 31:19).
It was Ephraim, through Joshua the son of Nun, that led Israel to the promised land. These things that are written in Bible are not ordinary, they were determined. It was the determination of God’s counsel to choose who from the tribes will perform a particular task. The ark stayed in Ephraim for a long time until the high priest in Ephraim broke his neck. The neck is the disengagement of the head from the body. This was a sign that God had departed Ephraim and He never returned there.
The ark stayed for a long time at Bethshemesh where nobody went near it (1 Sam. 6:21). Saul had the capacity to inquire of the Lord about the ark but he was not interested. However, David had a desire for Israel to worship God again. David loved worship much more than the governing of God’s people. David desired that the King should take over the affairs of the Kingdom; he loved God’s involvement in Israel.
David loved the priesthood; he arranged them in order of service (1 Chr. 24), unlike Saul who killed some priests. Saul’s heart was against the priesthood because they disturbed his agenda. There should be a counsel of peace between kings and priests but Saul murdered it. The kingly ministry should come out of a priestly lineage but Saul did not want that because he loved subjugating and subduing the people. Saul eventually died and the kingdom of Israel was taken from him and given to David whom the Lord anointed.
David was a man after God’s heart who did all of God’s will. Our problem is doing all of God’s will. There is a great temptation in flesh not to do all of God’s will, rather, we want to do things that will puff up our flesh. The greatest hindrance to ministry is that men do not want to do things that only God would take glory in. Men have turned the act of benevolence into vainglory; they look for what to do that can attract people and bring them glory.
We do not like to do things that will not give us praise among men. Flesh loves the praise of men. Men always seek to do things that will make them famous. There is something in man that wants to do things that will put him in the spotlight and that was the problem with Saul. Some people do not want sheep’s clothing, for it is too dull for them. Rather, they want a bright garment, which was the kind of garment that Satan put on Joshua (Zech. 3:3).
There is too much at stake to sacrifice. There is the inferiority complex that the glory of this world casts on the church and the church ought to be stronger than it because there is nothing in the glory of the world. Some pastors will not be satisfied if they have not had a chance to interact with men of earthly status. Jesus was not trying to be accepted by Pontius Pilate. He witnessed a good confession and not a corrupt confession before Pilate because He knew that His Kingdom was not of this world (John 18:36).
What God wants to really give the world is everlasting life so that the world will not perish (John 3:16). Everlasting life is sure and there is a key to attaining it. Everlasting life is what will save the world.
“[39]And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.” (John 6:35-39). There will not be a program of the last day without the doctrine of everlasting life being taught to men. What will initiate the end is the teaching of everlasting life. There is the gospel of everlasting life and we are in that season wherein the everlasting gospel is to be preached (Rev. 14:6). This means that all nations will hear the everlasting gospel and will be taught of God.
“And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have Everlasting Life: and I will raise him up at the last day.” (John 6:40). What God can raise up to Eternal Life is everlasting life. This raising at the last day does not refer to the raising of our physical bodies from the earth, but the raising of our souls. God wants to raise people up. To raise a man up is to give him access into Eternal Life. The man whom God will raise up is one with everlasting life.
The making of bread is not ordinary. Apart from killing the flesh of animals, there is also the offering of grains which are turned into powder and mixed with oil; both are meat offerings. When you kill flesh and break bread, flesh is transferred into grains. This is the moving of a physical body to a spiritual body. To kill an animal is to offer something which has flesh and blood. However, flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God (1 Cor. 15:50). Thus, where bread will get to, flesh will not be able to go there.
Bread will go into places that flesh cannot come into. This is because, in God’s sight and judgment, botany is holier/higher than zoology. The botanical world was created with the first light in Genesis including herbs, trees and grasses (Gen. 1:11-12) unlike the other creatures (flesh) which were called forth under sunlight (Gen. 1:20-25). In coming to God, the sun and moon are not permitted. Any animal that uses the sunlight and moonlight as its light cannot enter into a higher light. However, bread, plants and herbs on the other hand can go far.
Bread is from plants. Plants are stationary; they are not walking and looking for food, unlike flesh and blood which go around to find food. Although work is done by both of them, one is lesser than the other. One is stationary and does not work while the other works by moving around. The one who does not move around is more powerful than the one that goes around doing things. The issue of rest is found more in the botanical world. This is why God created trees as a garden for Adam because the tabernacle of rest is vegetational.
When there are no woods, there will be no rest (Ps. 132:3-8). Woods are entities that have learnt rest. Woods will cast a shade against sunlight so that the sun will not heat up the ground. Woods operate with the original light from God. God dwells in a place without sunlight or moonlight. Woods have the ability to shade out the sun. One can be so covered by some woods that underneath them is darkness.
The sunlight is a ruler; it is a ruling light and a light of servitude. Adam was not created and made to serve the sun, for he was kept away from the sun and hid in the garden. The garden was designed to shade them away from the sunlight. If one has not arrived at everlasting light, such a person will not come to the privilege of the light that is not sunlight.
“And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: [4] And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.” (Rev. 22:3-4). Those who will be raised to serve God eternally must have everlasting life. The purpose of the bread that we will eat is for us to become everlasting bread or for us to be saved. Everlasting bread is the meat of salvation.
“And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.” (John 6:40). It is the perfect will of God that we eat this bread. Jesus was not preaching something that was to occur at that time but He was teaching the unveiling of the everlasting gospel for a time to come.
“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). This tells us that there are two dimensions to glory. The first is that you must see the Son of glory that will make you everlasting and you will then be raised to see the eternal Son.
The will of God for man is nothing ephemeral. Things that are ephemeral are not God’s will but God’s choice. A will is a manifesto, a program or an agenda and God will then give a man a means to help him fulfil that program. Will is knowledge. The will of God is mysterious and cannot be understood except by revelation, but it should be understood. God wants every man that the Father has given Him to see the Son. It is not easy to see the Son – God has to give one the ability to the Son. One who perpetually preaches earthly messages has not seen the Son because one cannot see the Son and preach something else. The level of our sight determines what we speak. The message you bring forth shows your level of understanding.
“[51] I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” (John 6:47-51) The bread of the living God is the living Son. A son is the bread of God. God is bread and as such, He will give birth to bread.
“These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: [2] As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.” (John 17:1-2). Jesus is the kind of flesh that can attain Eternal Life. The ministry of Jesus commences when one is due for Everlasting Life. Leading is important in finding entrance into the ministry of Jesus. To be led by the Holy Spirit is a commandment of the Father so that you can be given to Jesus to be raised.
Eternal Life will not be given to one immediately; you need to journey in the spirit to attain it. Eternal Life did not come down to earth but the living Bread did (John 6:51). It was the living bread that came down from heaven, not the eternal bread. You need to get to a place to attain Eternal Life. This does not refer to a physical departure but realms of understanding. Eternal Life cannot come into the realm of carnal men; it cannot travel through the understanding of a carnal mind.
Everlasting life cannot also come into the understanding of carnal men. As such, carnal men have to be raised to becoming spiritual before Jesus can commence His everlasting and eternal ministry in them. Jesus is the Minister of the Sanctuary and of the true Tabernacle (Heb. 8:2). Jesus takes sons from the Sanctuary into the true Tabernacle and from there into the Eternal house. There is what Jesus is doing which requires His appearance (unveiling). This appearance is for the sake of everlasting life; it is the priestly ministry of Jesus. There is a work that Jesus does – He gives everlasting life and Eternal Life.
Everlasting life does not mean that one will not die physically, rather, it speaks of partaking of everlasting understanding. It is possible for one to be alive in the body, yet, be dead in the soul. Giving life to many is not to make the outward bodies live forever but to make the soul live. The outward man can perish but the inward man/soul is renewed day by day (2 Cor. 4:16).
Death works in an everlasting man (2 Cor. 4:12). We should be showing the Lord’s death in communion (1 Cor. 11:26). Death here does not speak of the death operating in Satan, but a kind of death that will kill the operations of Satan in our body and soul. The living bread came down from heaven with an intention. When one keeps eating the bread, the end is death because bread is death. Bread is like a coffin; it is a body of death and is lifeless. One who is lifeless is a hater of iniquity. Such a person has gone beyond resisting iniquity to abhorring it (Heb. 1:9). One who is serving bread is dying.
Daddy Oyegoke said certain tongue has come to him severally saying, “Eat oath hate”. That oath is a bread and when you eat it, you will hate. To hate is to die; death is hate. There is a hate program in everlasting life. The last arm of everlasting life is the arm of hate that comes in the season of the last work. God Almighty has things that He hates and if that hate is not in one, such a person is not yet born of Him.
You must be completely dead with no possibility of response at all before Jesus can raise you up. A hater is an overcomer. The beast overcame God’s call by cursing Him; he cursed what God stood for in heaven (Rev. 13:6). The devil is about to teach men against God by giving them a life that is against the life of God. Anyone who eats what Satan serves will eventually hate God. We should hate the world because the food of hate against God will come from her.
Eternal Life is a higher life than everlasting life, which we will be raised into. Eternal Life is a bread that we will eat and never hunger or thirst again, for it will quench our thirst and hunger. Hunger in the soul is the movement of the law that teaches, suggests and inspires one to have an earthly status. Every man is hungry for earthly status and that seed must be killed. When a minister is being tempted with a desire to have a big platform, the adversary is raising him to a high mountain (Matt. 4:8-9).
Satan knows that every son of God has something that others do not have, which is why he looks for them. The final lesson of a son is the agreement to hide. One thing that incorruption does is that it hides. Sons possess the quality of the hidden man of the heart, but Satan wants to tempt them out of their place. Everlasting strength is needed to overcome such temptations.
The last temptation of Jesus was when Pilate asked him what truth is (John 18:38). That was Satan hiding in Pilate, but Jesus remained quiet because He had mastered everlasting life and Eternal Life. We are being called into high righteousness. Vaunting and wanting to be known is in every man. It is in our blood and it is not easy to resist unto blood. However, we must resist unto blood by the blood of the Lamb (Heb. 12:4). That is when you will become an overcomer, for it is such men that Jesus will raise up on the last day.
We do not yet have Eternal Life even though we confess it. The church should pray to have it, but there are doctrinal patterns the church needs to obey to have it. God is saying that we will be made so wise until we are wise unto death. God will give us divine wisdom for piercing the corridor of death.