Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry
Programme: School of the Spirit
Date: 23rd September 2021
Minister: Rev. Kayode Oyegoke
“For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.” (Hosea 6:6). The interpretation of this scripture is beyond God’s desire that we show mercy to people. Mercy is a permission granted to a creature to have access into a plane that is impossible for him to come into. Mercy is a realm beyond creation. Mercy is extended to a man as help when he has reached a dead end, and his thoughts concerning a thing cannot climb higher. The thoughts of mercy are higher than that of the natural man. Mercy is the gate opened by God to a man in order to elevate or increase him in the spirit.
The reason why sin is still having dominion over men is because the sense of sin is still higher than humanity. The dominion and operation of sin will cease in the soul the moment we can take thoughts higher than sin. It can only take someone who has been blessed with a capacity above that of the enemy to overcome sin.
God says He desires mercy more than sacrifice. Anything a man does as a sacrifice that is not given to him by mercy cannot really please God. God used the pattern of sacrifices and offerings in the Old Testament to explain either mercy or knowledge. The offering of burnt offerings typifies a man who is responding to God via the deposit of the knowledge that has been given to him. Firstly, one needs to be filled with the knowledge of God’s will and spiritual understanding (Col.1:9). Then he uses this knowledge and understanding to walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing; this is his burnt offering to the Lord (Col. 1:10). Our spiritual walk is our offering to God; it is more than just praying. Prayer is a means to ask God for knowledge, so that we can respond to God or offer what pleases Him.
In the New Testament, the animal of offering is the knowledge of God that the soul has acquired. A man who has knowledge has what to kill or burn to God as offering. A man who has obtained mercy has been enlightened to see something costly that he can sacrifice to God. It means God has shown the man kindness to be able to do what can reach Him.
The purpose of a temple is to offer sacrifices or gifts to God, such that will please Him. Iniquity or sin that Satan committed was a negative burnt offering because it came from knowledge and mercy. The evil tree is called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If it has knowledge, then it means that the purpose of that tree is for Adam to make sacrifice.
“Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.” (Psalm 50:5). When a man is responding to God by the ingredients of knowledge, wisdom and understanding, he is cutting covenants with Him. Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding are ingredients of offering and sacrifices.
There are all manners of mercy, but there is a mercy for doing things that please God- it is the mercy for help (Heb. 4:16). God raised a very high vessel of mercy who will help and teach us how to please God. Our Lord Jesus was glorified by God and called a high priest (Heb. 5:4-5). Sin cannot be completely dealt with outside glory. The answer to sin is glory. Anybody who is ready for God’s glory is about to learn how to undo sin completely.
In the Old Testament, the Outer Court, the Holy Place and the Holiest are houses where sins are dealt with. Each realm represents the manifestation of God’s glory from the least to the highest. If glory is not manifesting, there won’t be forgiveness of sins. The end of the Outer Court is that a man’s sins are forgiven, and he becomes a child (1 John 2:12). The aim of the Holy Place is to deal with uncleanness, while the aim of the Holiest is to deal with iniquity (Romans 6:19).
It is a glorious thing for the eyes of a man’s understanding to be enlightened (Eph. 1:18). An enlightened man is one who can be converted to become like a little child, that can enter the Kingdom (Matt. 18:3). However, even after a man has entered into the Kingdom, sins are still being dealt with until he gets to the end of the realm of hope (i.e., Holy Place). Then, such a man will be made godly in the realm of Charity (i.e., Sanctuary). It cannot be said that a man has overcome sin when he has not come into the Sanctuary. To overcome sin is to overcome the world. The world is an embodiment of sin layers; the height of the world is uncleanness. Uncleanness is a dimension of iniquity in the Holy Place. One needs a complete light of Menorah to deal with the world, but you need more than the Menorah light to deal with iniquity.
No earthly law understood certain sins. These sins are laws that are above the natural human laws, and they exist in the spirit. So a man must move into a different dimension before he can see those laws that are higher than the natural mind. The beginning of this is that eyes of understanding are opened. When a man’s eyes of understanding are opened, he is about to be taught of the Lord.
Satan has put men under him because men are ignorant. What man knew as sin was what Satan taught mankind to call it. Actual sins are what constitutes the power of Satan, and it can only be understood and overcome by the power of God (Acts 26:18). However, man knew nothing about the power of God. The constitution of sins in the person called Satan is more than those that are constituted in his power.
The power of Satan is a sin; it’s a knowledge of sin. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil is a high school in the spirit. There is a school that is already prevailing on earth and Satan doesn’t want that school to be stopped, it’s the school of the power of Satan. When the true understanding of scriptures is given, men will know that the spectacular powers we see all around are not the only powers available. The way we know and hold the miraculous power is what will limit us from understanding the actual power of God.
The power of Satan does not refer to demonic powers. The power of Satan is the law of a wrong life. This life has prevailed in the souls of men for a while until Jesus came to enlighten men against it. “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” (John 3:19). Darkness is a way of life; and it has a link to power. This power of darkness is an ability of spirits that was birthed by Satan. Satan gave that ability (of sin) to evil spirits, and they lived it. The powers of these evil spirits were not originally Satan’s power; they were powers of God. God created principalities, powers, might and dominion. They were created by Him and for Him (Rev. 4:11). These powers once served God but Satan hijacked and perverted them. Satan began to use what God made for His pleasure.
However, God did not use angelic power to deliver mankind from sin. Rather, he used another power that is superior to the first creation--the power of the new creation. The new creation is a specimen of God’s power called Christ (2 Cor. 5:17). The new creation speaks of the principalities, power, might and dominion of the new earth, towards the new heavens. Our spirits became a new creation when we became born again but the soul did not inherit the new creation. Spiritual status is measured according to the status of the soul not the spirit. In the world to come, reward is given to men according to the work that they have allowed God to do in their soul, not according to how God created their human spirit at New Birth (Rev. 22:12).
There is a wrong notion of grace that some believers have. They wrongly interpret what Paul meant saying that our salvation is not of works (Eph. 2:9). They do not understand that the works he was referring to are works that a man does outside grace. Grace is needed to do any work of the New Testament.
“Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.” (Eph. 2:9-10). We are not created to be left alone but unto good works. We are supposed to put our souls to work. A believer cannot appropriate the fullness of what Jesus did on the cross without engaging his soul in works. God has ordained every believer to work; our souls have to do work.
The whole book of Revelation was written because some of the Churches were not doing work. The angel that appeared to the Churches rebuked them because they were not engaging their souls in work. The angel didn’t even say, “I know the works God is doing in you”, rather he said, “I know your works” (Rev. 2:2, 9, 13). It means that we are ordained to work. Any believer who goes to heaven without working with his or her soul will appear there empty. No believer will stay in heaven forever because it will be destroyed, and there will be a new earth and new heavens. A believer who has decided not to walk in the good works of the New Testament will find himself in the least places of the new earth.
Jesus’ parable of talents talked about a man who buried his one talent, saying that he does not need to work (Matt. 25:24-29). If we don’t invest the new creation reality of our spirit, we won’t get anything in the end. And it may even be taken away from us if we are not careful. We were raised to work; God did not create man not to work. Jesus said, “…My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.” (John 5:17). There are grace energies that have been made available in the New Testament for us to work.
The power of Satan is the strength of darkness. The power of Satan is the alignment of evil spirits from principalities to powers, and to rulers of the darkness of this world. Satan and spiritual wickedness in high places are above that power (Eph. 6:12). Christ is enough to handle the power of Satan, but it can only take the ministry of the Son of God to deal with spiritual wickedness in high places (Acts 26:18, 1 John 3:8).
There are places in the realm of wickedness. These places were not originally wicked places. In the beginning, it was a realm of God’s judgement for man. It was Adam’s place; that was the realm where Adam dwelt. That was the place that was a little lower than the angelic realm, but it has now been infested with evil spirits. The place is no longer what it used to be in the beginning; it is now negatively stronger than how it used to be. Right now, the place has so much power to stop high angels of God from penetrating the earth (Daniel 10:12-13).
The high places of the heaven of the earth are arrayed by wicked spirits, and Satan is found at the top of them. These wicked spirits are the beings that fought against Michael and his angels. “And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.” (Rev. 12:7-8). That place is what is presently referred to as “places” as seen in Ephesians 6:12. It’s only Jesus who has the wisdom to deal with the evil angels of these places. On the other hand, Michael and his angels are the good angels that bring the appearance of Jesus. We are entertaining the visitations of these angels because of what this realm of everlasting life entails. The realm of everlasting life cannot be manifested without appearances.
Believers need to develop a sense more than what the devil is doing. God designed Nigeria in a unique way. The actual warfare of Satan is against everlasting life; he knows that the purpose of Nigeria is to bear the fruit of a life that will go all over the world. The Churches of the rest of the world are waiting for the nation Nigeria. Nigeria will teach nations. However, our minds need to be renewed. The agitation coming from the North is not really from the people, evil spirits are the ones behind the agitation of men. Satan wants to vex the people; he wants to vex the nation and the saints. In Rwanda, the saints lost hold and became vexed and after a while, saints started killing each other.
Christ is stronger than any tribal blood; and it will be proven in Nigeria. Our blood will be that of Christ. Actual freedom is to be free from nations and kindred (Rev. 5:9-10). There is no amount of unity symposium or conference that can deliver men from their nations and kindreds. The answer to reconciliation is the everlasting blood of the Lamb. It is this ministry of reconciliation that made Paul to be free from tribal prejudices; Paul could talk to the church at Ephesus and there won’t be any resemblance of an Hebrew man talking to a church. We must understand that it was God who created all men, including the Chinese. God will not send a minister to go all over the world if his heart has not yet been enlarged to accommodate all nations in sincere love. The ministry of reconciliation needs to have been done in the soul of a minister before he can be sent into all nations.
The problem of the Church in America is that their love is not yet done or perfect, there are still some dichotomies and sentiments. Until the love of Christ tears down every resentment, prejudices, and accusations of nations, the Church cannot fulfil God’s purpose for her. In Nigeria, the Northerners are resisting integration (or unity) but God wants to bring that to pass. There is a gospel meant to unite nations together, and if that gospel is not allowed to do that work, the antichrist will do it (Rev. 2:26-27/13:2).
“Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” (Heb. 4:16). The help that those who come to the throne of grace will receive is the offering for their sins. The duty of the High Priest is to have compassion on the ignorant and on them that are out of the way (Heb. 5:1-3). It’s not the High priest who is needy, we are the one who should be needy.
“Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked.” (Psalm 82:4). To deliver a man out of the hand of the wicked here is to deliver him from spirits of wickedness. However, it’s not just any man that can be delivered from such but the poor and the needy. The poor here does not refer to those who are materially destitute or that lack the goods of this world. The poverty being referred to here is a state in the spirit that Jesus called blessed. “Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” (Matt. 5:3). The poor are those to whom the kingdom appertains. Poverty here is a state of emptiness; the poor is someone who lacks an attainment in the spirit and recognises that he needs to be filled. It takes the power of God to convert any man to a poor man.
Jesus is a composition of an offering that called for God’s eternal glory. Jesus bargained and bought what was costly for God to release. If Jesus never offered Himself, that eternal redemption will not come out from God. “Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.” (Heb. 9:12). Jesus obtained eternal redemption for us. Jesus was already redeemed but glory demands that He offers life for redemption. All that God did was to raise a man with a capacity to receive or obtain eternal redemption for mankind. This eternal redemption is a spiritual high eternal energy which a man cannot appropriate when given to him raw. It can only take Jesus to break this redemption down for man to gradually take it.
“In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace; Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;” (Eph. 1:7-8). According to the wisdom given to Apostle Paul, redemption is forgiveness of sins, and it is in accordance with the riches of the grace of our Lord Jesus. However, believers should not just stop at confessing that they have grace because it will be meaningless if we cannot appropriate or use the grace. We must understand how grace can be tapped for usage.
Grace is the cloud of rain over your head, but the cloud ought to saturate so that it can turn into water. A man can easily understand the use of water. As water is to a plant in soil, so is grace to a man. The water will fall as rain; rain refers to teaching. So when this rain is falling, it will affect your mind and you will inherit the gene that the rain is bringing (Isa. 55:9-10). It’s only the High Priest that has what it takes to offer in order to get clouds of rain from God, then He will administer it. The status of Jesus as a Minister of the Sanctuary and of the True Tabernacle speak of different status of teaching according to glory.
Rains from the Most Holy Place are the impartation of God’s judgement; it is the giving of the mind of God. Inheriting how God thinks is our salvation from the thinking pattern of Satan that we have inherited. “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he…” (Prov. 23:7). A man has become one with thoughts when they flow out of him unconsciously. It means that the thoughts of the heart and of the mind has become the natural flow of the man. So if a man gets to a place where he naturally thinks the thoughts of God, such is a glorious man. This is what God has promised to do. This is what Jesus meant by saving us to the uttermost (Heb. 7:25). When a man is thinking the way God thinks, he is free from the adversary. A time will come when we become wiser than our enemies and know more than our teachers (Psa. 119:98-99).The teachers here refer to Satan and his evil spirits.
God is not just giving us life, He wants to give us everlasting life. The life that lasts is a monster of thoughts that a man will be locked up in and will not be able to come out from. Just like in Genesis when some men came to a point where their thoughts and imagination became evil continually; contrarily, our thoughts will become God continually (Gen. 6:5). We will be thinking nothing but what God is thinking because we have been taught by Him.
When evil thoughts are taken out of a man’s heart and mind, he has been saved. Anyone who is thinking at the capacity of salvation and prospers in it has received judgements; he has the ability to sit on the throne of God. Such a man can rule. This tells us that the Bible can make one a ruler. If carnal books can make men rulers here in this present earth, how much more the holy book—that contains eternal words--would make us rule. What God wants us to rule over are not earthly thrones rather thrones that are above the earth. But we must rule ourselves first! Rule yourself first!
When a man has hacked into how the Godhead thinks, he can tell between the unclean and clean, and between evil and good (2 Cor. 5:7, Heb. 5:14). A lot of men on earth cannot tell the difference between these things; it will take a high lesson from our Lord Jesus to be able to differentiate between evil and good.