Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Lekki Soul Centre (LSC)
Date: Wednesday, 27th April 2022
Ministering: Pastor Emeka Egwuchukwu
The ministration of the spirit differs; though not in relation to ministers as they are all vessels. According to Paul, he that planteth and he that watereth is nothing; it is God that giveth the increase (1 Cor. 3:6). The difference is with respect to places in the Spirit, from where speakings come. Ivory palaces are realms in the spirit that house treasures which are released to us through words (Psa. 45:8). A door of utterance is entrance into such dimensions (Col. 4:3).
“He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: He that cometh from heaven is above all.” John 3:31 These earthly things are different from carnal things; they were John’s own witness that he came to bare. Jesus did not receive witness of men. What John was bearing as witness had to do with earthly things.
(John 3:12). Earthly realms are places a person can speak from. This is not the same as the carnal realm. There is the spiritual earthly realm. These are places where things Adam could have fellowshipped with would be. A person cannot be called a prophet without having such a place in the spirit.
The spiritual earthly realm is still earthly but it is spiritual in the sense that it is not exactly of this earth. Earth was created by God. The fact that He made it visible does not mean it does not have invisibility. There is the visible and the invisible of every realm: both earth and heavens (Col. 1:16). The invisibility of every realm is for sons; that is where sons appear. The person that will always contend against man getting to those places is the enemy of God. This is because he is aware of those places being advantage points; and any one that comes there is a son. There are realms in the heavenlies called ivory palaces, from where these things come.
Paul in Hebrew talked about the tabernacle where angels were. Angels were familiar with it and talked about it. They carried the aroma of that tabernacle because they are vessels of that tabernacle; which is a show of how heaven is arranged. One of the things about those realms is that they are also realms of knowledge. You cannot describe any of those realms without being given knowledge.
"What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that Thou visitest him…" Psalm 8:4. There is a more superior realm that is given to man. That which is given to man has not yet appeared (1 John 3:2). What we shall be like and what that place is, is tied to our change and our conversation. This 'changing' is how we look for and hasten for the day of the Lord (2 Pet. 3:12); not for the destruction of the present but for the promise of the new heavens and the new earth (2 Pet. 3:13). It is a promise that God made. We can hasten it by our change.
You need to also learn this order of the visible and the invisible. This is one of the major reasons why angels come. They will come more often as we change. We will encounter them and receive ministrations from them. The ministrations we receive from them are 'help'. The angels do not know the realm which is to come, because it is not put in their subjection (Heb. 2:5).
"Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation…" Hebrews 1:14. God sends angels. Their coming is also God visiting man. When they come, they are also coming for us to learn their world. Their world is a shadow of that which is to come; for even their world has a divine order or ordinance. This means that their realm is arranged to show things divine.
While it may have not yet appeared what we shall be like (1 John 3:2), the Person of that realm is around and well established. Jesus is not just having the spirit and soul of that realm; He also has the body. He is a complete Man of the world to come. He wants to minister it to people who do not even know anything about this present world. When the Lord resurrected, the spirit, the soul and the body that He had was not that of angels. He has a complete representation of that which is to come.
In the world to come, He is the highest. He is fairer than sons of men (Psa. 45:2)--men that have inherited the world to come, that is, He is better than them all. Jesus also has the best name in the world to come. It means that He has the best place in that realm; far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come (Eph. 1:21). He is a minister of that realm because He is the God of the world to come.
“Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an High Priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens…” Heb. 8:1 The substance of every realm is its righteousness or its standard. To know the standard, one has to receive the substances through knowledge. This is the work of the high priest. Aaron, as a high priest, had knowledge in his lips: the knowledge of God revealed in that testament (Mal. 2:7). The job of the high priest is to bring the substances of a realm and make its standards clear. And because we have a High Priest, we also have substances. It means that the new heaven and the new earth can be received. The world to come can also be received (Heb. 12:28).
“For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God” Eph. 5:5. There is the kingdom of Christ and there is the kingdom of God. The two kingdoms are for us to inherit. They are dominions. When one has dominion, he has gotten mastery. Dominion is not about looking for who to dominate. Dominion simply means mastery. Dominion of life is mastery of life. This is what is represented as the crown of righteousness (2 Tim. 4:8).
Dominion is the mastery of a world. Another person that does not have this mastery will not be able to participate in that world. Worlds are invisible; they are kingdoms. When a person is called an authority in a field, it means such a person has dominion or mastery in that field, and can be consulted because that field is his world. When he is consulted, one comes under his dominion. When he gives instructions on how to go about things, he is giving out the righteousness of his dominion. Without having righteousness, dominion is impossible. The righteousness has to be learnt until it becomes a skill. It is the skill that brings one into dominion.
(Heb. 5:1) A high priest is ordained for things pertaining to God, to offer up gifts and sacrifices. Every high priest is taken from among men. When he comes into mastery and dominion, he also has the authority to take others from among men. So, we have a High Priest that is taking us from among men. He does this by giving us things (of His realm).
“…A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man” Heb. 8:2. The Lord pitched the tabernacle with words. A minister also pitched. To pitch is to testify. The Lord is pitching this tabernacle and sanctuary inside our souls with what He has seen and what He has heard John 3:31. But no man can receive this testimony because they are not for man; they are high. Firstly, you need to be taken from among men, and then taken into the kingdom which is of Christ, for you to receive His testimony. This is because the things which He has seen and heard are too high for man.
"And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony" John 3:32. The testimony he was hearing here was the testimony of God: the testimony of the Son of God. Man cannot receive it. You have to have received the testimony of Christ for you to stop being a man. The testimony of Christ will make you spiritual. When you have become spiritual, it means you've been taken from amongst men (Heb. 5:1).
Christ is a world. He is a conversation. He's a world of spiritual men. Spiritual men are Christ men. Christ being a world is being a kingdom. It is also Christ being a dominion. “For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.” Eph. 5:5 This is what makes up the kingdom of Christ and of God.
"Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son." Col. 1:13 Carnality is a kingdom because it has a life and authority. It has a righteousness which is not from God. That is why Jesus said we should seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness (Matt. 6:33). This means the kingdom of God has a righteousness that is peculiar to it. So, we need to seek His righteousness.
The righteousness of the kingdom called Christ is faith, hope and charity. Charity is the holiness of that kingdom. Charity is the crown of it. Charity is the authority. Charity is the bond of perfection. So, when you come to charity, They have filled you up and set a seal upon you; because he who has received His testimony has a seal (John 3:33). So, when you come to charity, you receive a seal. Charity is the peak. Faith, hope and charity are the constitution of a spiritual man. They are the things that will make you spiritual. They will make you leave the domain of men. The domain of men is a domain of darkness.
“For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.” Eph. 5:5 There is a kingdom of Christ and there is also the kingdom of God. One precedes the other. A believer needs to enter the first before the other. We are supposed to inherit these kingdoms. The kingdom of God is higher.
“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.” Matt. 6:33 The righteousness of the kingdom of God is an everlasting righteousness. Christ is long-suffering. Being 'long' is Christ. Everlasting is the Father. If the charity of Christ is long-suffering, the charity of the Father is everlasting. A believer finishes long suffering so he can enter into everlasting suffering.
(Acts 14:22). If the tribulation is much, then it is everlasting. A believer will have to not just suffer long but also everlasting. It is when he is suffering long, that he has to make up his mind that this is it and it would not offend him again. This is the point where the believer makes peace with it. God uses brethren to teach us long suffering for entrance for the everlasting kingdom. So, we should praise God anytime we see suffering, because entrance is the gate of praise (Psa. 100:4). Entrance is being ministered to us when we suffer; we should not run away from it especially when it is brethren.
The season of everlasting life is the season of the expression of the kingdom which is of God. And one of the things that is desired of us is oath. God will teach us how to swear. The doors that will open to a man in the season of everlasting life comes by him swearing. To speak the world to come, you must have the substances (Heb. 2:5). The world to come is given to us to be spoken. If not, this present world would st=
What is giving this present world sustainability is not just the disobedience of men, but because something better has not been brought in. This present world is a world of disobedience. It teaches men disobedience. But disobedience alone is not what is sustaining it; the prince of the power of the air with his substances (his word and righteousness) are the ones sustaining it. So, we need to import substances of the world to come, and speak it. We should not just speak it, but work it. These substances are a higher conversation. When we import them, Satan's conversation begins to weaken.
Heb. 1:6-9 Jesus loved righteousness and hated iniquity. This righteousness He loved is an everlasting righteousness not the righteousness of Christ. Iniquity is the everlastingness of sin. Everlasting righteousness is the substance of the kingdom of God.
"And, Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of Thine hands: they shall perish; but Thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment…" Heb. 1:10-11
"To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you…" 1 Pet. 1:4
These scriptures (above) are a comparison of the personalities of the world to come and this present. One would fade while the other remaineth. Heaven and earth are an inheritance. Adam was an heir of this earth before he fell; while angels are heirs of heaven. Our Lord Jesus is an Heir of the new heaven and the new earth. And it is so because a man cannot inherit new heaven and new earth without its world. The world is the dominion. We need dominion to inherit. So, Jesus has the world of the new heaven and earth.
The world is the key to inheriting a heaven or an earth. Another word for the world to come, asides dominion, is "righteousness" (Matt. 6:33). When a man has the righteousness of a heaven and an earth which is that which constitutes the world, he has the world of the heaven and the earth. He has it as an inheritance. When he has it as an inheritance, all that he is waiting for is the physical manifestation of that world.
"They shall perish; but Thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; And as a vesture shalt Thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but Thou art the same, and Thy years shall not fail." Heb. 1:11-12 Remaining and not fading is the inheritance. 'Incorruptible', 'undefiled' and 'fadeth not away' are the constitution of the kingdom of God or the world of God. When a man has the things of the world to come, he has inherited the world to come and is just waiting for the physical manifestation of the world to come.
Summary
1. Christ is a world. He is a conversation. He is a world of spiritual men. The righteousness of the kingdom called Christ is faith, hope and charity. Charity is the holiness of that kingdom
2. (Eph. 1:21). Jesus is a minister of the realm of God because He is the God of the world to come.
3. We have a High Priest that is taking us from among men. He does this by giving us things (of His realm).
4. The job of the high priest is to bring the substances of a realm and make its standards clear. It means that the new heaven and the new earth can be received. The world to come can also be received (Heb. 12:28).
5. There is the kingdom of Christ and also the kingdom of God. We are supposed to inherit these kingdoms.
6. The righteousness of the kingdom of God is an everlasting righteousness. (Heb. 1:6-9) Jesus loved righteousness and hated iniquity.
7. To speak the world to come, you must have the substances (Heb. 2:5). The world to come is given to us to be spoken. If not, this present world would stay.
8. God uses brethren to teach us long suffering for entrance for the everlasting kingdom (Psa. 100:4). Entrance is being ministered to us when we suffer.
9. Incorruptible, undefiled and fadeth not away are the constitution of the kingdom of God or the world of God.
10. When a man has the things of the world to come, he has inherited the world to come and is just waiting for the physical manifestation of the world to come.