Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Tuesday Prayer Meeting (TPM)
Date: Tuesday, 27th September 2022
The word of God has its first name as “the Beginning”. One who has come into the realm of the beginning has been born into the eternal realm. “For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.” (Hebrews 2:5). The world to come is the world of God and the first allocation of that world is the beginning. It is in that world that the dimension of the everlasting was revealed; it was in the world of God that the Lamb was slain.
The Lamb of God was slain in the everlasting realm of the Creator and not creation. We need mercy to find access into that conversation and that dimension is the activity of the work of the Father. It is in the realm of the beginning that chastisements take place. It was chastisement that led to the Lamb being slain.
The process of the Lamb being slain was as a result of the administration of chastisement that the Father opened to Him. God knew that sin came from an everlasting creature and it was needful that something higher was brought to deal with it. As such, the Lamb that was slain as an offering for sin was not a spiritual Lamb, but an everlasting Lamb. The spirit, soul and the body of Jesus had partaken of everlasting life as a result of the obediences that He fulfilled while He was on earth.
“The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.” (Deut. 33:23). The everlasting arms are the beginning (of the Creator) and it was in that domain that the Lamb was slain. The Lamb that was slain was an everlasting Being. He only had to journey physically journey in the days of His flesh for Him to fulfill the prophecy/script written out for Him.
“But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.” (Isaiah 53:5). The dealing of the Father upon Jesus was captured as chastisement by Isaiah. The taking away of our sin is divine healing. Divine healing is to heal the soul of a man. “Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed” (1 Pet 1:24). Malachi confirmed this healing as righteousness which the Sun of righteousness brings in Malachi (Mal 4:2); Jesus also referred to this healing in Matt 13:15. So making an end of sins, finishing transgression, and making reconciliation for iniquity is divine healing.
One cannot enter into the world of God without being a partaker of chastisement. The whole chapter of Hebrews 12 was the season of the raising of sons by the Father. The essence of chastisement is so that one can partake of His holiness, which is the separation of the Father into everlasting life. Everlasting life is a separation of the soul from the Holy Place into the Most Holy Place.
“But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.” (Hebrews 12:8). The wilderness is a training which is different (lower) from the training of the Father. The training of the Father is called chastisement and anyone who is not a partaker of the chastisement of the Father is a bastard. Even though one has been born of water and of the Spirit (Christ), he is still a bastard to the world of God because he has not been born of blood. The three witnesses upon the earth (water, Spirit, and blood) are operations of chastisement (1 John 5:8) which will enable a man to be born into the world of God. It is this world where the Lamb was slain that every little child must partake of.
(1 John 2:13) What the little children know of the Father is the chastening in order for them to partake of His holiness or the world everlasting. It is in the partaking of the world of the Father that sins are forgiven or taken away. “I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake”. His name is His Holiness
“My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: [2] And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.” (1 John 2:1-2). The advocate with the Father (Jesus Christ) has what is called propitiation; the administration of propitiation is through chastisements so They can make an end of sin in us. Sin has given the soul age. The calibration of ‘ever’ is in ages. Jesus gathered an age or stature within thirty-three and half years that Adam could not gather in his lifetime on earth. When he was thirty-three years and a half, heaven looked at the beginning and compared it to what Jesus had gathered on earth, and They knew that He could fulfil that part of the prophecy of being slain. Jesus had been chastised all His life up until His death. He was a man of sorrow, acquainted with grief (Isaiah 53:3). Thus, it is good that a man endures grief for righteousness sake (1 Peter 2:19).
There were things that Jesus Christ endured. For example, He must have been enjoying the euphoria around the amazement of the people in the temple when He was answering questions of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law at age 12. So, he must have had grief when he was called to go home; He was being chastised by the Father, though He was in the house of His earthly parents. At age 12, He must have attained a level of Christ because He kept talking about His Father’s business (Luke 2:49).
The children of Israel did not know that the Lord was training them in the wilderness, and so they grumbled, thereby missing a training that would have helped them. Many times we have aborted a journey or process, just to see what we seek for that is not too far off.
To partake of His holiness is to partake of the nature of the Lamb, that is seperation; not just separation from the world but from evil or second death. The holiness of the Lamb is what separates one eternally to God. The word “separation” is a working on a person that makes such a person so separated that he is unable to turn back to death. “Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall…” (2 Peter 1:10). We are being brought into this state where we shall never fall. When we come into this realm, we will not fall into any temptation that comes to us. What we saw in the days of the flesh of Jesus interpreted and showed forth how He was chastened.
The brothers and sister of Jesus never believed in Him; He must have been reprimanded in some instances. Thus, He had to endure grief at times. The things He went through were necessary to make Him weak and raise a soul that can be offered to God. With the anointing Jesus had, He could have healed everyone on the earth, but He healed only selected people. Those were chastenings He had to endure; they were part of the rigorous training of God for Him to be made weak. The reason for our dealings is to bring us to apoint where we will be made weak, just like Jesus.
Many things will be used as tools to train us and we must fulfill obediences in them. If Jesus did not pass those trainings, He would not have been a worthy Lamb. “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” (Romans 8:28). The essence of all things working together for good is so we can be conformed into the image of the Son of God.
Jesus Christ was carrying grief around. Sometimes, we do everything we ought to do, yet, we need to carry a reproach. The journey of being made weak starts from the cross (faith unto charity) but it climaxes at the chastening of the Father (the season of everlasting life), which every son must partake of. The Lamb that was slain had to go through those chastenings. The Lamb had no sin but He was being trained to overcome the temptations. He had to record those victories in His flesh to stand as a testimony and a witness of things that will be spoken hereafter, for those who will be heirs of the same salvation.
Jesus Christ went through rejection and was despised also (Isa 53:3). This is another way we are made weak and humble. Rejection is used to train us. Therefore, we have to get used to it, for it is the test of everlasting strength. A sign that we have everlasting life is that we can handle rejection with joy and yet, honor those that rejected us. Rejection is chastening and we have to bear the grief.
These are the things that were packaged for Jesus. There is a version of Jesus that men like and accept, which was made and tailored according to their idols. However, they cannot accept the standards of God in Christ. Ministers hewn idols, which is a kind of Christ image they have in their minds, that is not the true Christ. They are ashamed of the true Christ.
We must be conversant with these chastenings. The realm of everlasting life has many things embedded in it. In the season of everlasting life, people would still struggle to love the Lord. (Rev 20:7-9).
Many would count Jesus as a deceiver. The physical appearance of Jesus is not the solution for the hostility to the gospel. It is better He goes away and men should know Him by revelation (John 16:7). The knowledge of God must come by revelation, for we cannot know Christ after the flesh. It is better for men to appreciate the indwelling of Christ than see His physical appearing. The best way to reveal Jesus is by revelation. The apostles had a weak physical presence but their letters are powerful.
When there was division in the Corinthian Church, Paul wrote to them to correct them of their error and they received the word with power (1 Cor. 3:3). Paul's physical presence was contestable and weak but his letters are powerful. He can be easily despised but his weakness is the power of God in his life.
Jesus was despised and rejected. These are the things that God uses to birth us into His world. He uses these bitter situations to chasten us. Nobody likes chastening and many times we fight, but we must learn to yield to the Lord.
Before the Israelites entered the promised land, they had to be circumcised. This was to teach us a principle in the spirit, that God was cutting away the strength of a man. That was the wisdom of God. Those were the kind of men that were sent to fight the battles. The essence was so that they will not make a boast that they got the land by their strength.
We cannot enter into the land of the living by our strength, but by reason of the working of great grace where we will find dealings. This is so we can be born into the world of the beginning of life everlasting, being converted into little children. Our strength will be taken and be replaced with that of God, and the excellency of earthly strength will still not prevail (Gen 49:3-4)
This beginning of strength refers to he that sinneth from the beginning, for Satan sinneth from the beginning (1 John 3:8). His beginning is not of God, but an inverted everlasting beginning and might which is sin, because sin is a strength. The law is the strength of sin (1 Cor. 15:56); it is the law that powers sin. However, when a higher law is introduced, sin is weakened and broken in the souls of men
Blessing!
Summary
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The world to come is the world of God and the first allocation of that world is the beginning. It is in that world that the dimension of the everlasting was revealed; it was in the world of God that the Lamb was slain.
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It is in the realm of the beginning that chastisements take place. It was chastisement that led to the Lamb being slain.
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God knew that sin came from an everlasting creature and it was needful that something higher was brought to deal with it. As such, the Lamb that was slain as an offering for sin was not a spiritual Lamb, but an everlasting Lamb.
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One cannot enter into the world of God without being a partaker of chastisement. The essence of chastisement is so that one can partake of His holiness, which is the separation of the Father into everlasting life.
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(Hebrews 12:8) The training of the Father is called chastisement and anyone who is not a partaker of the chastisement of the Fatheris a bastard. Even though one has been born of water and of the Spirit (Christ), he is still a bastard to the world of God because he has not been born of blood.
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To partake of His holiness is to partake of the nature of the Lamb, that is seperation; not just separation from the world but from evil or second death. The holiness of the Lamb is what separates one eternally to God.
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Rejection is used to train us. Therefore, we have to get used to it, for it is the test of everlasting strength. A sign that we have everlasting life is that we can handle rejection with joy and yet, honor those that rejected us.
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(1 John 3:8). Satan’s beginning is not of God, but an inverted everlasting beginning and might which is sin, because sin is a strength. However, when a higher law is introduced, sin is weakened and broken in the souls of men