Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Revelation Hour (RH)
Date: Saturday, 26th March, 2022
Ministering: Rev. Kayode Oyegoke
“For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, [12] Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee.” (Heb. 2:11-12). Those who are sanctified are those who are called brethren. Brethren are characterized by their ability to comprehend scriptures. This is beyond just having Bible knowledge because things can be misinterpreted by carnal reasoning, if we are not properly taught. Sanctification is beyond the new birth experience because we are not sanctified at new birth. Sanctification is a continuous process for a believer because it cannot happen at once.
“But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption…” (1 Cor. 1:30). Sanctification means to come into Christ because Christ is our sanctification. We cannot claim to possess the wisdom of Christ at the new birth. We can only attain righteousness, sanctification and redemption through wisdom. This is why wisdom is the principal thing (Prov. 4:7). Wisdom is the first gift of the New Testament. It is the key we need to break into the truths of the scripture. When one is not wise towards the truth of the New Testament, he would not understand or comprehend what is contained in the testimony.
Wisdom is the compass to navigate the rest of the materials of blessing that are stored up in Christ. Christ is the embodiment of wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. The evidence of redemption is when one has the wisdom of Christ. It takes wisdom to see righteousness. Any believer who does not have wisdom will not walk righteously because the door to righteousness is wisdom.
This righteousness negates the understanding of righteousness that the world has. The righteousness of God are the standards of alignment in the scripture. Wisdom first sounds an alarm and alerts us, to make us realize that righteousness is beyond what we think. We therefore need to be wise to discern what righteousness is all about. It takes wisdom to respond by a way of life in the spirit, which God calls life. In the spirit, there is that which God calls right. Righteousness is not just about doing external activities, it is rather about living. It is a standard of life that God sees as the right life.
Christ is life but we cannot find this life, which is the right life, without wisdom. This is why the Spirit of wisdom and revelation must come into play in our lives. The righteousness that God expects of us is not the one that has been imputed to our spirits but the righteousness that a soul would manifest as a result of the revelation of Christ. Christ is righteousness; Christ is the standard way that is acceptable before God for a man to live on earth. Without the life of Christ, a man cannot be holy.
Holiness means separation. We will not attain the level of separation that God wants if we do not live righteously. We must show to God that we can live. Many however fall short of God's standard of righteousness because they are ignorant. The righteousness that God wants to receive is not the one that the world knows. Righteousness is the beginning of wisdom; it is the trumpet that wakes a soul from the dead to live rightly. While wisdom instructs, understanding shows us how to live.
Through the fallen life, Satan killed the soul of man. However, he has not finished the killing or destruction process. As a result of this, men have been living against God's code of life. It is not easy to know a soul that is dead. A soul that is not living is not usually aware of his state. It takes the Holy Ghost to know whether a soul is living dead.
Although something has happened in the Spirit or man, the soul still lacks understanding of what the spirit has come into. Therefore, scripture says that he who wanders out of the way of understanding shall remain in the congregation of the dead (Prov. 21:16). He who lacks understanding is living in the realm of the dead. Anyone who forsakes understanding would go back to the congregation of the dead.
“This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind…” (Eph. 4:17). Works form conviction in the mind. Work is not fully done if the mind is not captured. The reason for the way Gentiles conclude things or live in vanity is because of darkened understanding, for the hearts of all men were blinded by the devil. The heart is deeper than the mind because of what was written in it. Christians are not automatically free from the darkened understanding at the new birth; they can only be free when they have been taught wisdom. Unfortunately, many churches are still operating by this darkened understanding.
The new birth is not strong enough to conquer darkness in the soul. The faith and love in Ephesians 1:17 is not strong enough to overcome the vain life that Satan sold to man. Darkness put its imprint on the heart of man and became a resolve in his mind. As such, man has concluded it as his life. What many call life and success in the church is actually vanity. What motivational speakers call success is actually vain but men usually think that anyone who is not following after this vain life is wasting his or her own life.
The vain life is very strong upon the face of the earth and it is hard for many to relinquish it. Many do not want to give up the vain life because it has been anointed by Satan and there is a praise to it. This is why anyone who would choose to go against this vain life is always attacked and faces many oppositions. The spirits in charge of darkness are not the demons we cast out. The spirit at work in the children of disobedience is not a demon; it is Satan (Eph. 2:2). He wants to stop those who want to align with the standard of God's righteousness.
It is easy to do vanity but standing in the righteousness of God’s reality does not go without contentions. When a man wars in Christ to become godly, he puts on the helmet of salvation to war on the evil day. God wants to remove the evil day over our heads.
Wisdom and revelation play the part of making us understand by enlightening our eyes in the spirit. God ensures that we are taught light or are educated in the spirit, so that we can defeat our ignorance. We must receive light on that which cripples our minds and makes our inward man impotent because it will hinder us from attaining understanding. Understanding sharpens a man’s countenance.
There is a great need to be enlightened (to know Christ) because we are yet to truly know Him. It is only by wisdom that we can know Christ. We do not come into the person or understanding of Christ by quoting letters. Without the Spirit of revelation dawning upon a man’s heart and perfecting its course, he would not be able to see Christ. Many do not receive the activity of the Spirit of wisdom and revelation because of vanity. This is because it hinders the work of wisdom. We must therefore allow the Lord to deal with it, so that we would not perish by ignorance.
Veils are dangerous, therefore, many rituals (processes of death to remove wrong natures) have to be done to take away the vain mind from the soul. The vain mind needs the special visitation of wisdom. The way Satan worked vanity into the mind of men ran so deep that it would take visitation, encounters of God on men and also the visitation of angels to rescue us from ignorance. The abode of many evil spirits is the way men think. Therefore we need the visitation of light to free us from vanity to displace the evil spirits.
If believers knew that evil spirits (fallen angels) taught men the vain life so that they can remain in this world, they will take them (the fallen angels) more seriously. These fallen angels understand conversation; they know the correct interpretation of what life means. As such, they can blind a man and stylishly substitute what his soul has for what they want it to have. Man has been living this darkened life for many years but this life is a gate of brass that hinders us from praising God (Psa. 107:15-16).
Evil spirits use conversation to bind people. What is called “curse” is the conversation of this world. This conversation is not just an exchange of words but the adaptability of a soul to its habitat here on earth, for Satan planted a mannerism for life here on earth.
“Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others” (Eph. 2:3). There is something about the mind and imaginations. Evil spirits know how to teach men how to live through imaginations. These imaginations hold promises that can give the heart a pseudo rest. In the same way, when God is promising a man something, He brings images to help him see, imagine and be free.
Righteousness is more than a conduct. What is required of us is not just a conduct but a conversation that must be stronger than what evil spirits gave to men as a way of living. The faith life is also not just a conduct. Although it can be used as a conduct, it is not limited to it. What is contained in the energy of life force is tangible when one is spiritual (Matt 16:25). We must allow faith to take the place of our imaginations of what life should be.
Many go to church but are so attached to this world. This is because they have not seen Christ and God. God has a standard of righteousness and He will not compromise or change it. This righteousness is God’s requirement for anyone who wants to touch the real holiness in Christ Jesus. There is what is called true holiness in Christ Jesus; it comes after righteousness. Righteousness refers to the things we ought to do–the life a man should live that separates him.
“For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.” (Rom. 1:17). There are many just men and women who are not living by faith. There is no way we can live by faith without revelation. The righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith. Revelation comes by wisdom. That “faith cometh by hearing" means that faith must be revealed.
God wants to remove vanity from men. However, the church has not yet completely come out of the dark age because our minds are not yet fully enlightened. The least person among us should be able to defend the faith; this is what makes us Christians. We must do what is in Christ, which is built around the framework of faith, hope and charity. These things are not habits but are a formula for life. They are evidences in the spirit against the life in fallen angels. Habits are the fruits of the tree of ungodliness and unbelief in fallen angels; they are without hope or charity.
Sanctification is not abstinence but the injection of a high-powered life which puts one on top. It is the completion of the cycle of holiness. Holiness comes after righteousness. We will begin to be holy after we have lived by faith. The day we begin to become holy is the day we enter the kingdom of Christ (Eph. 5:5). The kingdom of Christ begins with holiness.
We can do righteousness until we escape corruption. In entering into the kingdom of Christ, we escape into a place that is free from corruption. Although the kingdom of Christ is not corrupt, it is not also incorruptible. It is holy but Satan can still get someone who is not in incorruption.
There is a difference between “corruption” and “the corruptible”. “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.” (1 Pet. 1:23). Many believers have not touched the corruptible seed because they do not know it. It will take corruption to get one to the corruptible seed. The corruptible seed is a destructive seed; it is a seed of perdition and the seed of great death. The incorruptible seed on the other hand is the seed of great life. It is stronger than Christ's life. It is the seed that can combat the corruptible.
Satan trains people to receive the corruptible seed, and it takes time to do so. But God also delays humanity from entering into the corruptible. Anyone who has learnt Christ and begins to transgress it may be affected by the corruptible, if care is not taken. This is because such a person has been exposed to an energy that is true. When he goes against it, he exposes himself to something else.
If one has lived righteously and entered into holiness, he would be able to see sanctification ahead. Holiness is the first kind of sanctification. He who is sanctified is he who is able to do charity. Charity is a deep content of life that explains the reason why someone is so set apart. Those who walk in charity are those who do not touch the unclean thing (2 Cor. 6:17) because it takes charity not to touch the unclean thing.
“Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” (John 3:5). Being born of water and the spirit is not something that happens in one day; it is a continuous process. “Water” is the word of Christ while “the spirit” has to do with being led by the Holy Spirit. This washing continues until one is completely clean from corruption. The day one is cleansed from all corruption, such a person becomes holy. Then, that person can enter into the kingdom. These are those who have been healed of corruption.
After one becomes separate, a higher commandment comes to such a person to touch not the unclean (2 Cor. 6:17). To be separate is to come to a state of remaining while to be received by the Lord is to be brought into the realm of the incorruptible. The incorruptible seed is the seed of the Father. It is a higher truth than Christ and it is the word of God which liveth and abideth forever (1 Pet. 1:23).
God does not want us to be pure only but also to be immune. To be cleansed is to submit oneself to the laws of cleansing until one is rid of corruption. Then, the soul can go into a state where it is prepared for immunity. This is gotten in the Holy Place, for it is here that one is given a character that can absorb corruption. We learn the attitude to keep the incorruptible state in the sanctuary.
Where the cycle of the communication of the incorruptible is not fully completed in a soul, such a soul can relinquish it. This word is not just a teaching but a translation of nature and person. Our natures and personalities are being redesigned because there is a transfer and renewal of genes in the soul. Satan fights saints so that they do not complete the process of regeneration in their souls and so that the term of full birth is aborted.
When a saint can keep himself undefiled, he is a master in the spirit. There are senses that are communicated from the transfer of genetics from the seed and there is also a wisdom of what to do to be kept. Being incorruptible is a way of life and the Father will communicate the things that a soul needs to become perfect, as the heavenly Father is (Matt. 5:48). Jesus is asking us here to copy the incorruptible One.
Perfection speaks of the incorruptible nature of the Father, who sends rain both on the just and unjust (Matt. 5:45). Do not suffocate your enemy when he is hungry. This is a high level in the Holies of All. When you do things like the Father does, it means you are like Your Father. As you continue doing so, you master how to profit with the seed; you keep changing until you learn to obey every demand the seed requires. As you obey, you are changing until you become incorruptible. Then you will not fade away (1 Pet. 1:4).
By nature, grass fades away but God wants to teach us how not to fade away. Some people do not want to fade away but their reason is so that they can immortalize their names on earth. Some would even kill and do all manner of things to be remembered on earth, but this is a corruptible crown. Crown speaks of mastery. The corruptible crown is dangerous if it is not handled rightly. If God gives a soul a ‘corruptible’ crown, He must have worked humility in that soul secretly. God can either give you stature to handle the crown or make you oblivious of it, such that you will not know when you are wearing it.
“For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren…” (Heb. 2:11). The High Priest is the Sanctifier. The purpose of your sanctification is to be given to Him, just the way Hannah gave Samuel to Eli (1 Sam. 1:24-25). According to the law, all first male children in Israel should be tithes unto the Lord, so that there would be meat in His house (Mal. 3:10). Although money plays a role in tithing, there are also tithes of people. The essence of giving these children as tithes to God was so that there could be priests who will keep the word.
“And here men that die receive tithes; but there he receiveth them, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth. [9] And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.” (Heb. 7:8). Tithes and offerings are not actually money. This does not mean one should hold back from paying his tithe; it only means that true tithing is the giving of oneself unto God. The Church has to begin to make vows to the Lord, to release men who would be Nazarenes unto Him. They would be men who are groomed by the seven spirits of the Lord.
The church should breed men who would have no other purpose but for God and His throne. They would be men who would serve the throne completely, not having their own minds. These are the one hundred and forty-four thousand (144,000) and they would be exactly like the four living creatures. These men will have the Throne poured into them and they will do nothing but serve it.
The wonder spoken of in Revelation 12:1 will not occur until men have been given to the Lamb and God is raising such men. God seeks for ministries that Jesus would own completely. Ministry is a mother where people are given birth to; but God seeks for a ministry where children would be raised for Him.
Doctrines are not mere words just for training; they are waters. They are waters of natures (genes). If you allow any kind of water into your soul, you will tamper with formation. We are no longer in the days of the Apostles, so we need a lot of wisdom to balance things. We need to keep ourselves from what Satan has inflicted the body with.
Everyone in the body of Christ is special, although, not all will respond to the things of God at the same level at once. We should not see ourselves as better than other believers even though we separate ourselves for the purpose of staying pure. We should be full of compassion to know that God will bring the rest to the knowledge of the truth. God is seeking for sons who are exactly like Jesus Christ. God will help this work and strengthen all of us to carry out His will to the end.