Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Writing the Vision (April Edition)
Date: Saturday, 23rd April 2022
Speaker 5: Pastor Emeka Egwuchukwu
“For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him” (John 3:34). There is One who speaks the words of God. This word of God is not the same as the word of Christ. We have come to a place where we are being prepared for the full measure of the Spirit, by reason of the season of the word that is upon us. Our Lord Jesus received the Spirit without measure because He had the stature for it. The Man upon whom the Spirit rested at Jordan was not Christ but an everlasting Man (Luke 3:22). Therefore, it is in the season of everlasting life that one can speak of the full measure of the Spirit.
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace” (Isa. 9:6). The giving of the Son is the giving of a Person to the Church. This will be impossible without the activity of the Holy Ghost. Jane Leade in her prophecy spoke about a total and full redemption: “There shall be a total and full redemption by Christ. This is a hidden mystery, not to be understood without the revelation of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is at hand to reveal the same to all holy seekers and loving inquirers”.
The "total and full redemption" are actually kept in the season of "everlasting life". The prophecy called it “the redemption by Christ” because it begins with Christ who has been made unto us redemption (1 Cor. 1:30). There is a redemption in Christ but that redemption is neither full nor total. This redemption (that we talk about now) is in everlasting life and is embedded in Christ because Christ is the everlasting Man. The redemption has to be by Christ because no one will get there without passing through Christ.
We are at the season of the total and full redemption. This is a redemption from the world and everything that has to do with it. He has redeemed us from men, but we have to be redeemed from the earth (Rev. 14:3-4). He that is of the earth is earthy (1 Cor. 15:47). We are yet to come to the fulness of redemption. Redemption was completed in the book of Revelation, which is the fulness of redemption and this is marked by songs of redemption (Rev. 5:9).
Redemption will be completed when it reaches the body (Rom. 8:23). This redemption will get to the point where our bodies will inherit something. However, there is a pathway to it. Our body will not inherit what our soul has not yet walked in. This walk is to bring about redemption in the soul.
The evidence of receiving the initial baptism of the Holy Ghost is speaking in tongues (Acts 2:1-4). That tongue was a teaching/doctrine at that level. By speaking in tongues, we are speaking a mystery that the Holy Ghost will send ministers to teach as doctrines. God will raise and anoint ministers who will bring forth the substances of the tongues we speak and these substances will be taught. By doing so, we will begin to see a manner of life that soon defines a community for us and we will learn the person that is allocated at that level of the milk.
This is similar to what happens in the season of Christ – as we are being taught the doctrine of Christ, our tongues change. The doctrine of Christ refines the tongue because it is actually speaking forth mysteries that we must afterwards learn. That tongue is a sign of His person. In the season of Christ, another measure of the Spirit is measured out to us for the purpose of revealing the personality of Christ. This is why we actually break through doctrine by tongues and it is a work of the Holy Ghost.
“But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. [10] But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.” (1 Cor. 2:9-10). What God has prepared are personalities that are to be delivered to the church. As we spoke those tongues in the season of Christ, the doctrine of Christ began to come to us. We would have been unable to break into that doctrine without the leading of the Spirit. This is why we should not forbid tongues and prophecies (1 Thess. 5:20).
The season of Christ was also a season of tongues. However, when we began to break into the next allocation, we did not know the syllabus of salvation as it is laid in the scriptures (1 John 3:1). “For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.” (Isa. 28:11). The stammering lips that are common with the expressions of this work are not fabricated. There is a kind of demonstration that is present everywhere where this rain is falling. When we yield to that Spirit, initiation and baptism follow. If we resist tongues, we will not have understanding. By doing so, we resist that which is supposed to help one break into a realm.
In the season of the declaration of everlasting life, which is the season of our total and full redemption, one thing that characterizes this season is the opening up of tongues and this cannot be done without the Holy Ghost. Just as in previous seasons, those who refused the infilling of the Holy Ghost never enjoyed the allocation of faith towards God and love for all saints (Eph. 1:15). They were not malleable and so could not move with the Spirit. As such, they could not journey further and the world eventually caught up with them. You need to align with the next activity of the Spirit to escape this world because this world is also a spirit (Eph. 2:2).
Those who were able to cross into the charismatic move and were able to receive the tongues and manifestations of the Spirit were able to progress in their journey with the Lord. One of the things Jane Leade spoke about in the prophecy, that would characterize the season of the virgin church is this demonstration of the Holy Spirit. The ministry of the Comforter is clearly seen in the season of the giving of the things of God.
“Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. [13] Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.” (1 Cor. 2:12-13). There is a spirit of the world and there is the Spirit of God. The things that are freely given to us are of God because this is the season of the speaking of the wisdom of God in a mystery. Anyone who doubts the speaking of the Spirit in everlasting life has not drank of the Spirit well enough in the season of Christ.
There is a particular work that would be accomplished in those who received the Spirit well in previous seasons. It is these men that can speak these things, not of man’s wisdom, but by the Holy Ghost, who is the teacher of the things of God. Hence, the need for ministers to wait on and allow the Holy Spirit to minister through them, rather than what they had planned to teach. It is the Holy Ghost that teaches. Hence, Jesus said, “...take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak” (Matt. 10:19). To speak of your own accord or will does not produce life. Likewise, those who are hearing must yield to the Spirit for understanding to be received.
Yielding to the Spirit comes in different manners. One of the ways we yield to the Spirit during teaching for instance is speaking in tongues or manifestations as the Spirit wills. Doing so makes the mind alive to the thoughts of God and so when understanding is being given, such a person can receive it. Spiritual mindedness makes you fluid in your thoughts and able to live. Such a person is able to live and is alive unto God. To be alive to God is to be alive to His thoughts. Thus, when understanding is being given, such a person can access the thoughts of God. Hence, we must be sensitive to the Spirit, to yield appropriately.
“And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; [17]Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.” (John 14:16-17). The Comforter teaches us how to live and then, how to abide. The Comforter is both with us and in us. However, the world cannot receive Him because they cannot receive Christ. To receive the Comforter is to receive the Person He brings, which is the doctrine/truth He brings about that Person.
The aim of whatever the Holy Spirit does is to reveal a Person. It is possible for one to be filled with the Holy Ghost and not receive Him(the person of the Son). The presence of the world in us is what prevents us from receiving Him. Hence, He has to reprove the world of sin (John 16:8). The world gives a sight that makes one unable to see Him.
“But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me…” (John 15:26). The Comforter is from the Father. Just as the Son proceeded from the Father, the Comforter also proceeds from the Father. The Holy Ghost will testify of Jesus as the Son of God or as the everlasting Father. To testify is to bear witness. The Comforter does not speak of Himself, but of the Son. Jesus only does what He sees and hears from His Father (John 15:18). As such, Jesus is also a Comforter.
“Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. [8]And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment…” (John 16:7-8). The word ‘reprove’ connotes that there was an understanding we had of sin at a level, but we now need a better revelation of sin. Until we are reproved of sin, we would not be free of this world. The world must be reproved of judgment also because the prince of this world is judged (John 16:11).
“I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father” (1 John 2:13). What made Cain of the wicked one (1 John 3:12) is what the young men fought and overcame. The aim of the world is to turn men into wicked ones. This happens by the implantation of the seeds of the wicked one and this occurs via thoughts.
A thought might come to you, but if you do not fight it and you allow it play on your mind, it will develop and begin to fashion your thought pattern and then becomes your manner of life; and eventually make you a wicked one. However, these young men fought it and overcame it. As such, we must fight wrong thoughts.
Those who have the seed of the world hear the world and it hears them. Those who have overcome the wicked one have the seed of God, which is the word of God abiding in them. We need to hear the word of God until it becomes a seed. This will not occur in one meeting or one year, but we must keep hearing until the word becomes a seed–a life gem. One who does not have the seed of God will not be able to judge the prince of this world.
The prince of this world is judged when one can discern thoughts that are not of God. The temptation of Jesus was one for an everlasting man. However, such temptations cannot be brought to us because we do not have the stature for them. One must overcome the temptations of an everlasting man to abide.
“The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.” (Ps. 10:4). This is the definition of the wicked one that we ought to overcome. The wicked have pride as a countenance. The wicked do not seek God because they do not like/love Him and would rather seek other things. The thoughts of God are not fully in the thoughts of the wicked. As such, every son must fight to retain God in his thoughts (Rom. 1:28).
Thoughts come to us everyday and we must trust God for skill to war accurately and wrestle down evil thoughts. Just as sin lied at the door of Cain (Gen. 4:7), everlasting life must be seen lying at our doors and gaining entrance continually, allocation after allocation, until we come to its full measure.
In this season, God does not want us to give room for sin in our thoughts. God wants to be in all our thoughts all the time. This is possible with the Comforter because Jesus has told us that He will remind us of all the things He has said to us (John 14:26), and much more than that, He will tell us of things to come (John 16:13). Thus, our thoughts must be able to accommodate all the things the Spirit of truth is come to say. We need so much help in the area of our thoughts because sin begins from the thoughts.
“Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes” (Ps. 119:155). Salvation here speaks of God's thoughts and judgements. We can retain God in our thoughts all the time by seeking after His thoughts, judgements and statutes. To seek after God's thoughts is to meditate on them. Stay on the word, throw yourself into it, so that at any point in time, all that would come forth from you will be God's word. In the same vein, stay on everlasting life, get your mind preoccupied with it so that whatever comes out of you will be everlasting life and by so doing, your profiting can appear. This is the ministry of the Comforter – to bring to pass the things we are hearing.
We are going to be breaking into thoughts of God. This is what it means to hope for the grace that is to be brought to us at the revelation of Jesus Christ (1 Pet. 1:13). That revelation is thoughts. There are thoughts we will break into, with the help of the Comforter, such that certain thoughts that have hitherto held us captive will lose their strengths. Thoughts that have held us captive will be judged. People are being set free from the captivity of thoughts. Thoughts are dwelling places and the Comforter will come to dwell with us. A new abode is being made available for us. A breakthrough into God’s thoughts is coming upon us.
Blessings!
Summary
1. In the season of the declaration of everlasting life, which is the season of our total and full redemption, one thing that characterizes this season is the opening up of tongues and this cannot be done without the Holy Ghost.
2. The Man upon whom the Spirit rested at Jordan was not Christ but an everlasting Man (Luke 3:22). Therefore, it is in the season of everlasting life that one can speak of the full measure of the Spirit.
3. To be alive to God is to be alive to His thoughts. Thus, when understanding is being given, such a person can access the thoughts of God. Hence, we must be sensitive to the Spirit, to yield appropriately.
4. The thoughts of God are not fully in the thoughts of the wicked. As such, every son must fight to retain God in his thoughts (Rom. 1:28).
5. The prince of this world is judged when one can discern thoughts that are not of God. One who does not have the seed of God will not be able to judge the prince of this world.
6. Thoughts come to us everyday and we must trust God for skill to war accurately and wrestle down evil thoughts.
7. We can retain God in our thoughts all the time by seeking after His thoughts, judgements and statutes.