Powered by: Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministries (EGFM)
Programme: Tuesday Prayer Meeting (TPM)
Date: Tuesday, 26th April 2022
Ministering: Pastor Thompson Ehima
There are two ministries that are key to everlasting life in the last time – the ministry of angels and the ministry of the Holy Ghost.
“Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into” (1 Peter 1:12). The things the angels desire to look into are the matters of everlasting life, which is salvation. These things are hidden from the eyes of men and are being taught by the Holy Ghost (1 Cor. 2:9-10). The Holy Ghost does not teach of Himself, for it is not the spiritual order for Him to reveal Himself. He is responsible for the revelation of the Father and the Son.
The contents of the epistles are not about the revelation of the person of the Holy Ghost, but of Christ, the Father and God. Although there are measures of the revelation of the Holy Ghost, they are by the permission of either the Son, the Father or God. This is so that man can know that the Holy Ghost is a helper; He is the help of God given to man. One of the helps before the Throne (Heb. 4:16) is the activity of the seven spirits; they are the seven lamps of fire burning before the Throne.
(Rev. 7:9-17) Those before the Throne still needed to be led to the fountain of the living water, which is the water of everlasting life. To be before the Throne is different from being in the midst of the Throne. To be in the midst of the Throne speaks of Eternal Life, but to be before the Throne could either mean being before the veil in the Holy Place or beyond the veil.
(Heb. 2:3, 12:25) The Son is still speaking, even from heaven. While He was on earth, He spoke in a measure of the Holy Spirit; but after ascending to the Throne, He spoke in a greater measure. But although Jesus had the Spirit without measure while He was on the earth, the people to whom He spoke were limited in understanding. This is because they were yet to be given the Spirit of truth, and as such, they lacked the inward facility to receive such words. This is why it was necessary for Jesus to go away (John 16:7).
The Spirit of truth is an enabler. The Holy Ghost helps people bear the communication and teachings of the Son. Even though the Spirit is now come, Paul could not speak to a church in a measure because they were carnal (1 Cor. 3:1). There are measures of the Spirit among babes (1 Cor. 3:1) and also among them that are perfect – spiritual (1 Cor. 2:6). It would take the spiritual man to judge all things.
The Corinthian church had the Holy Ghost in a measure but they could not receive the higher measure of the Spirit that Apostle Paul wanted to bring them into. The Holy Ghost can condescend to carnal believers, but they may not be able to access deeper realms of His expression.
The Spirit can manifest as the Spirit of judgement and the Spirit of burning (Isa. 4:4). Jesus spoke to the seven churches from heaven, not directly but through the Spirit. The Son speaking from heaven is speaking things of Himself.
“And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father” (Gal. 4:6). God has sent forth the spirit of the Son into our hearts. The operation of the spirit of the Son is still in the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost can be sent forth at different levels with different operations. God commissioned the Holy Ghost at different levels of the word. We need to handle the full essence of the Father to see the Holy Ghost because He is the Spirit of the Father.
(Heb. 12:25). He that speaks from heaven speaks from above because He is Eternal Life. Men cannot receive the testimony of the Son because they do not have the facility to comprehend His realm of thoughts (Isa. 55:8).
“Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him. [29] He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.” (John 3:28-29). When Jesus was speaking on earth, it was only John the Baptist that could hear Him, as no one else could process Jesus’ thoughts. John the Baptist was the friend of the Bridegroom; he could hear Him while He was on earth because he also had a measure of the Holy Ghost from birth (Luke 1:15). John the Baptist had fullness of joy because he heard the Bridegroom. This rejoicing was an activity of the Holy Ghost.
The dimension of the Father of all (Eph. 4:6) is greater than the present heaven; it is the realm of ‘the above’. David referred to this realm as the hill of the Lord, which are everlasting hills (Gen. 49:26). David lifted up his eyes to the hills because that is where a particular dimension of help can come from, and not the heavens (Ps. 121:1-2). “Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.” (Ps. 2:6). The holy hill is the Throne and it has bounds. Everlasting dimensions are hills and they are calibrated into three – incorruptible, undefiled and fadeth not away (1 Pet. 1:4).
“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. 33:27). To be above all is to be above all the calibration of the everlasting hills. We need to pass through the everlasting hills to arrive at the Eternal God. Sin came from the midst of the everlasting hills (beings) of the present. As such, one cannot use the knowledge of the earth to deal with it because it came from the heavens. Therefore, one must seek help from a higher place, which is above.
“And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.” (John 3:32). No man could receive His testimony because the testimony is from above. “He came unto his own, and his own received him not.” (John 1:11). His own could not receive Him because they lacked the facility to do so. We cannot receive the Son without the help of the Holy Ghost. Jesus, while He was on earth, spoke everlasting and Eternal things because He had access to them (John 17).
“Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.” (1 Timothy 6:16) A man that can access these things (everlasting speakings) is a man that has everlasting honour and power. The Lord would have altered that soul and it would have passed from darkness to light, which is an exit from death to life. Such a man has finished the curriculum of everlasting life and can receive the testimony.
"Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth." (1 John 2:8 ) The shining of the true light is the shining of Eternal Life. The essence of the Holy Ghost is to communicate sight to see far. There is what we are going to receive from a far away country–those things are eyes that can travel far (Hebrews 11:14-15). Entering into the everlasting kingdom is a far country; these are places where we are counted. We have to be cleansed to get there but the facility we need is the Holy Ghost.
In the teaching of Christ, the Holy Ghost becomes the seven spirits. The seven spirits are teachers; they are also masons which means that after teaching, a process of making or conversion into what is being taught starts, which causes the soul to profit in life. The operation of the Holy Ghost as the seven spirits is firstly teaching, and an helper for us to apply our hearts to wisdom. The role of the five fold ministry is to teach doctrine and not the operation of the seven spirits of the Lord.
"For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him" (John 3:34). God gave Jesus the Spirit without measure because it was a commision. The Son went through many commissions. Jesus heard beyond everlasting things–He heard Eternal things.
We are warring against Satan who has designed a structure to put men under bondage. It will take the adoption of sons to free men from that bondage–it will take the revelation of the Father and the Son. When you escape the elements of the world, the world is still there to hold you down. So, we should not sleep away during these teachings. If you don’t learn Christ and God here, you will still learn it in the world to come. The only difference is that there is no reward for it in the world to come. It is a compulsory learning. The Holy Ghost will aid us to know things that are freely given to us; He is the one that drops it in our spirits for us to know (1 Cor. 2:12).
"The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John…" (Revelation 1:1) An angel was sent to Apostle John here, but angels do not operate by themselves– there is a Spirit (the Holy Ghost) that is always upon them. They serve with the Holy Ghost because they are fluid and can easily yield to the Holy Ghost. They are spirits but man has a limitation (Psa. 104:4).
As the angel was showing things to John, it was the Holy Ghost who was speaking because He can only speak and signify through beings that have the capacity of spirits. We must be configured well with the Holy Ghost so that we would be able to yield the way the angels were yielding in the book of Revelation. It was easier for them to join forces, move and demonstrate what the Lord wanted to minister because they are spirits.
The Holy Ghost was designated to reveal the revelation of Jesus Christ that God gave to Him–what Jesus had heard and seen, and is saying. He had heard, seen and became what He was saying but He had to be given permission by God to show the revelation to His servant – John (Rev. 1:1). The revelation was meant for servants but the servants were not ready to handle it (Jn. 3:32), so He had to send and signify it by His angel. He could have directly by the Spirit spoken to the servants but they could not handle it yet.
The Holy Ghost is close to us, living inside of us but angels are also a help to us. When God wanted to bring things in the book of Revelation, He assigned two kinds of ministries–spirit ministries: the ministry of the Holy Ghost and the ministry of angels. Angels are spirits, they serve under the Holy Ghost to help us. The prophecy that came in this meeting said "two"-- in other words, the help for man is two: the help of the Holy Ghost, and the help of angels who are spirits– because no man can receive the things of God (Jn. 3:32). God is not a man. So all the operations of help (Holy Ghost and angels) around us are mercy from God.
The ministry of angels would increase so much in these last days, God's servant, Rev. Kenneth E. Hagin, prophesied it. As the Holy Ghost is stepping up His ministry to the saints, they will need them to also strengthen and help us. We need angels to strengthen our bodies. Daniel had a vision and his comeliness became very weak, but God wanted to make him understand a matter. Because of this, God had to minister strength and girt him up to be able to receive what God has brought to him (Dan.10:7-11). We need these ministrations much more because man right now has further fallen.
"He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches" (Revelation 2:29). The angel was indeed signifying, but it was really the Spirit (Holy Ghost) that was speaking to the churches (Jn.16:15b, Jn. 16:13a). A man may not agree to this truth in the book of Revelation because the angels were mentioned everywhere and they can work seamlessly with the Holy Ghost considering who they are. But angels are to train us to be able to have the capacity to receive from the Lord. This capacity is what the Holy Ghost has to build in us by the substances that we are receiving. When the Holy Ghost is revealing, He is teaching (1 Cor. 2:13).
"It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." (John 6:63) In every word or testimony is spirit because the testimony of Jesus is spirit. The Holy Ghost is a Being. He came down on the day of pentecost, rested, divided Himself into many and stayed. Even though He divided Himself into many, He didn’t diminish in person as One. He came on the 120 and everybody was filled but the entity of His person was still very intact, complete–not diminishing in strength. This shows the Godhead have something in Them: They can replicate/share.
"For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God." (1 Corinthians 2:11) The Spirit of God is the one that takes the things of God and shows it unto a man. When a man takes these things of God and they enter into him, his volume of measure of the spirit increases. This is what it means to buy oil. Some have oil in their vessel but others don't have it, so they are admonished to buy (Matt.1-10) because there is a measure of the spirit that can hear the voice of the Bridegroom and enter to meet the Bridegroom (Jn. 3:29). John called this oil "an holy unction" (1 Jn. 2:20); and it was required, not because he does not know the truth but for him to be taught more truth. The holy unction is a law (Heb. 8:11). It is a measurement of the Spirit which only comes when the word of God is revealed
When the word of God mixes with faith in a man, it generates spirit in him (Heb. 4:2). And to do this, God often times generates commandments, instructions or orchestrates a leading; while sometimes, troubles are allowed around one. The essence of this trouble is to grow the measure of the spirit inside of a man. The prophets of old grew in this manner–trouble was allowed around them. Some were put in prison and by this, God grew the spirit of Christ that was in them. In other words, God was increasing the capacity of the spirit that was in them (1 Pet. 1:11).
Summary
1. Two ministries that are key to everlasting life in the last time are: the ministry of angels and the ministry of the Holy Ghost.
2. The Holy Ghost is the help of God given to man. He is responsible for the revelation of the Father and the Son.
3. There are measures of the Spirit among babes (1 Cor. 3:1) and also among them that are perfect – spiritual (1 Cor. 2:6). It would take the spiritual man to judge all things.
4. Everlasting dimensions are hills and they are calibrated into three – incorruptible, undefiled and fadeth not away (1 Pet. 1:4).
5. To be above all is to be above all the calibration of the everlasting hills. We need to pass through the everlasting hills to arrive at the Eternal God.
6. (John 3:32) No man could receive His testimony because the testimony is from above. (John 1:11) His own could not receive Him because they lacked the facility to do so. We cannot receive the Son without the help of the Holy Ghost.
7. (1 John 2:8 ) The shining of the true light is the shining of Eternal Life. The essence of the Holy Ghost is to communicate sight to see far.
8. (Revelation 1:1) Angels do not operate by themselves–there is a Spirit (the Holy Ghost) that is always upon them. They serve with the Holy Ghost because they are fluid and can easily yield to the Holy Ghost.
9. Angels are to train us to have the capacity to receive from the Lord. This capacity is what the Holy Ghost has to build in us by the substances that we are receiving.
10. The holy unction is a law (Heb. 8:11). It is a measurement of the Spirit which only comes when the word of God is revealed