Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Lekki Soul Center (LSC)
Date: Wednesday, 11th May 2022
Ministering: Rev. Kayode Oyegoke
“That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life…” (1 John 1:1). Apostle John was writing to a set of believers who had reached a dimension of walk in the spirit. This was a new dawn in the advent of Christianity in the first century. A season came when some elders who were also stakeholders in the things of God moved into the realm called “beginning”. They fellowshipped in “the beginning” for a while, after which they began to call the general church into that realm. Jesus gave them the mandate to do this. The realm of the “beginning” is not a commonly accessed realm.
We are in a crucial time because Satan is just about to be dealt with again. Although Jesus had destroyed him, there is a feast of taking Satan down in people. God always prepares the feast amidst the people and upon the mountain (Is. 25:6). The purpose of this feast, as seen in Isaiah 25:7, is to destroy the face that is cast over all people. A face operation can only be destroyed with a face higher than what has caused a cast over all people. The face over all people is the face that weakens all people— the face of the adversary. The New Testament opens the technology of the feast.
Marrow and fat things (Is. 25:6) are life, while wines are graces. There is a wine that is on the lees, and there is another wine on the lees well-refined. The last wine has a better age than the first because the refining of wine has to do with its age. When this feast is done, a generation would have been helped. No generation is free except the covering cast over the people is completely taken out. People can enjoy healings, miracles, mass evangelism, and all these can raise a people zealous for God, but the covering cast is not yet taken out. This is because Satan came from the beginning and cannot be easily dealt with, except God raises us as beings that would also learn of the beginning and enter the beginning.
Death is not swallowed up until a feast is made (Is. 25:8). Death was created on the mountain through a kind of feast. It was the feast of a cherub, a face-feast. When Satan was polluting heaven, he needed beings who would take him. These beings who took him were high-powered seraphims that he taught what was perverted. Those were the people he first showed the new face he created. Although he had a face before, he changed the emission of the face such that instead of the face to minister what God wanted, it began to minister iniquity; then he gave it to the seraphims who went with him. Some of these seraphims that left are the spiritual wickedness in heavenly places now (Eph. 6:12).
The Church of the firstborn ought to take the feast (Heb. 12:22-23). They are the ones that will do the feast of charity. This does not mean that they are just learning charity, but that this was what charity gave them the opportunity to access. They are those whom the Son of God will give a new face for the destruction of the face of the covering cast. This Church of the firstborn is on the mountain. They are not earthly church people, but they are written in heaven.
Jesus speaking to his disciples in Luke 10:20, told them not to rejoice because demons are subject to them but to rejoice because their names were written in heaven. This was not to say their names were already written, rather, he was saying that the time for rejoicing is when their names are written in heaven. In Hebrews, a church of God was described, which was written in heaven (Heb 12:23). God is the Judge of all because God will judge amongst them. Being the Judge of all does not refer to being a judge of different people but refers to possessing all the parameters of what is called judgement.
The New Testament is learnt on Mount Zion. A church is needed to ascend the holy hill of the Lord and stand in His holy place to learn, and receive of righteousness and of salvation (Psa. 24:3,5). The blessing to be received on the holy hill is the blessed hope—everlasting life. Righteousness means that they will make reconciliation of their iniquity (Dan. 9:24).
We need God, the Judge of all, and we need Jesus, the Mediator of the New Covenant. Covenants are the reason for the mountain. Covenants are not made below the mountain. Moses received the tablets of stones on the mountain, and when he broke them, God told him to cut the stones, and come out the following day. He wanted to make a covenant on the stone, and they made it again at the top of the mountain. We also have a mountain in the New Testament, not a physical Sinai. Instead, it is a spiritual ascension called Mount Zion, and there are ways by which we climb up to Zion. We must journey to Zion. At New Birth, we were not near Zion at all. We journey unto Zion by the gospel of Christ.
“For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh, but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.” (Rom. 8:5). Things of the Spirit are not just letters— you can read letters, but you cannot pick things (of the Spirit) from them. The Holy Ghost moves things to us when the ministration of the word is on. These things are blessings; these things are not just resident in our heads, they are kept in our hearts until they become a part of us. They cannot become a part of us except we allow them by obedience. The end of these things is that they mix with blood in us; they become a part of our members.
The physical things (benefits) that surround us are not the real blessing. Such things can surround anybody. It is not a sign of being truly blessed. Those things can surround both the spiritual and the unspiritual people. Spiritual things transcend our existence here on earth.
“He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.” 1 John 3:8. While Satan was still on the mountain in the beginning, he was sinning and God did not exterminate or remove him immediately. Iniquity is when a person begins to show forth and project himself instead of those who sent him. We can foul the spirit by our intentions. The first sin of Satan was complex (inferiority and superiority). He felt insufficient and began to limit the light of God. He was supposed to mirror God to the mountain. This was not a physical hill. The beings that Satan was ministering to were quite high. He wanted worship for his own profit— he wanted to feel good. God is not like that; He is love. When you worship God, He is so pure and selfless that He wants to give you something, and it is only worship that can call those things out from where they are kept.
Lucifer became unfaithful. He wanted worship. We have the ability to bless God when our souls rise to Him. When our souls touch God, we make Him give us more. Heaven cannot trust a man who projects himself higher than his superior. The reason God puts a man under authority is to try him and see whether he will be faithful to the authority. If such is not faithful to authority, it will be difficult to be faithful to Jesus. A soul can get used to the presence of God. When that soul gets used to it, such a person would make mistakes and fall into destruction. God is gentle, but He has a terrible destructive side (2 Pet. 2:4). God is mighty, and we should fear Him and look to fear Him more.
God’s dream for His children is that we come to the land of the living: this land is the beginning. Cherubims are exclusive because of this edge called the beginning. They are beginning beings and they are in cadres; there is the least and there is the greatest. Satan is a high-powered beginning vessel. Beginning beings are gods. They interact with the substance called the beginning. The beginning dimension is meant for high priestly beings. It is a school of high priests, which Jesus is overseeing. Jesus and the Father are the teachers of this school.
Angels were created and raised in this order. Lesser angels have no clue of what goes on in the beginning realm. The beginning interaction was among God, angels and their fellows – their fellowship. God could come down and fellowship with them. They had access to fellowship. Fellowship is communion. God told Moses that He would meet him and commune with him between the cherubims (Exo. 25:22). If cherubims are guardians of communion, it means they are creatures of communion. All that cherubims do is to commune. Communion is instituted in their midst. When they gather together, a season of communion begins.
Commandments often come out from communion (Exo. 25:22). If God is not communing with a person, His commandments cannot come to such a person. Cherubs get commandments from communion in the Most Holy and they do them (Psa. 103:20). God helped Moses to prevail in God’s presence and have the ability to commune with Him. Communion means fellowship at a certain wavelength that no one else has access to. The veil was always closed behind Moses when he communed; no one could access it. The same communion took place on the mountain when God came down to fellowship with Him. God did not call Joshua or Aaron up; He called Moses. Moses communed for 40 days and nights. God was showing Him things and he forgot food (Exo. 34:28). He was not fasting. He was suspended in a realm because of communion.
The major duty of a man is to cooperate with God to remove his sin. What gives Lucifer occupation in our universe is the presence of his things in us. God cannot take us with Him if we still have Lucifer’s things. However, a time is coming when some people would break Satan's genetics: they will be wiser than the genes of Satan. God dreads this season – He is careful about it, but He also expects and desires it greatly. It is a season where He might lose sons because they have to face the adversary before they can cross over. This is why God takes His time to form us.
At first, all that was in the universe were beginning creatures. Angels have beginning minds. God is saying that He wants to awaken men and bring them to the order of the beginning. The beginning is a place of honor and glory. It is a school of making disciples. God has brought some people to learn under Him. God loves it when men are the ones that are coming in. It is God’s pride and achievement that men can think more than angels. If a spirit could say he knew Jesus and he knew Paul, but did not know the sons of Sceva, it means there are levels of thoughts (Acts 19:11-20). Those sons of Sceva were priests because they were sons of a priest. They were looking for glory by proxy but they had nothing of themselves.
There are different seeds. The words spoken by angels are angel seeds (Heb. 2:2). Satan turned the incorruptible seed of angels. He checked the level of wisdom in the seed and used it to corrupt his wisdom. By corrupting his wisdom, he also corrupted his word; for they speak by their wisdom. A child of God can speak in tongues and not be able to fight this seed that was corrupted by Satan. The word of God is a manifold wisdom of God. So there is no way you will say you will deal with Satan if God has not given you something higher than angels. This word we have will give us so great salvation. Anyone who has it can become it, and God can rest assured to give the responsibility of the world to come to anyone who has become it.
“For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come, whereof we speak.” (Heb. 2:5). Adam was not fully a speaker of this present world. He only spoke earth, not the heavens. The world to come–something God gave to man–was superior to that which He gave to angels. Angels have more authority than men in the present. So what they speak can move the present, but God did not put the world to come under the subjection of angels. When Adam was made, he was set over the works of God. He was in charge. All things were put under his feet, yet we see all things are yet to be put under his feet. In Genesis, when God started with Adam, it was just the beginning of the project.
God will not put all things under your feet when you are not saved. So, “so great salvation” is the key to God's committing the world to come under your feet. When Jesus said; “Seek first the kingdom...” (Matt. 6:33), He was not saying people should not work, what He was saying is that we change priority: make this word a priority, and then, other things will follow. The reason God is bringing everyone into salvation is that God is looking for people whom He will commit the world to come into their hands, not people who believe in this present world.
The kingdom of God in cherubims is their cloud. The cloud around them is a dominion; an insignia of dominion. Jesus had His own cloud when He was living on earth, but what Jesus has is greater than what the angels carry. The children of Israel also had a cloud in the wilderness. It was the house of an angel and was responsible for provision and protection for them. Moses was raised to walk with the angel that dwelt in the cloud.
The purpose of fellowship is to make light available (1 John 1:4-7). It takes place in the Holy Ghost as the door to the word is the Holy Ghost. There are three things that make up fellowship: the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit (2 Cor 12:13). The love of God was what Jesus had for the Father to fellowship with Him (Jn. 3:35). Jesus had constant access to the Father. His prayers were not our prayers, as Jesus was not praying as many believers pray. Prayer was communion to Jesus. He would talk to the Father and the Father would respond. The commandments Jesus obtained from the Father were gotten via the fellowship. There are things that the Father will say and also wants to say that will give the believer progress and prosperity. It is only the Father that knows how to prosper the believer. Giving a believer progress is to provide him with the impartation of life.
Although believers pray the 2 Cor 12:13 prayer, it is yet to be answered in the body. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is not the grace of Christ but that of the Son of God. Then the love is that which God loved His son. If these things are not in place, then the communion of the Holy Ghost will not come. The Holy Ghost is invited upon a believer in order to create the kingdom sphere for these things to operate within him. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ talks about the access Jesus has, and this access will kickstart the activity of God’s love that He received. In doing so, we as believers can access the love of Christ for the blessing of God that fellowship births. One of the major reasons believers should fellowship with God is to deal with hindrances to life because the face of the covering cast should be destroyed. Death is an ingredient of communion. Hence, it can only take communion to destroy it.
When a cherub moves, it has communion -- its cloud is the house of communion. In like manner, the cloud over Satan was the home of his communion. From this place, he generated iniquity. That cloud became a spirit, the spirit of this world, not of God. That spirit is not the Holy Ghost, but a spirit God gave them. The anointing on Satan was not the oil of God, but another spirit God uses in anointing angels. This same spirit in Satan was also transferred into the antichrist (Rev 16:13). The spirit also divided itself into false prophets. This was the “spirit within” Satan. But there is another one who is the “authority without”. It is a spirit and not a demon. It is a garment. Satan corrupted his sanctuary and everything about him was corrupted. Hence, there is also a spirit of fear (2 Tim 1:7). Because Satan stood in God’s presence, he wore many things. Those things are spirits.
Satan had garments as he was an angelic high priest, such that every dressing God gave to him became bad. Those spirits, instead of transacting for God, did evil. Satan could not send them to nations as veils that cover nations. These spirits are from him and they are his garments. Satan communed with himself to make sin because he has a communion table. Satan could generate thoughts, and God would hear because God sees and hears thoughts. Majorly, communion is transacting or fellowshipping with thoughts.
“That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life…” (1 John 1:1). Believers need to hear the word and then see it with their eyes. These men in 1 Jn 1:1 had seen the word when they saw Christ. They saw different levels of the word and had now been granted access to see the word in the beginning. It is in this beginning word that the Father and the Son are present. In the seed called Christ, access to God is limited. The believer does not have all access. However, in the beginning word, a believer has all access. In fact, Christ is the door or enablement for access in this place.
“In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.” (Eph. 3:12). Access is in Him but it is through faith. By faith in this scripture does not mean practising the faith for receiving. Once access is granted, then the believer can enter fellowship to join the company of “we”. God causes us to hear and this call to hear is a call to fellowship. Hearing is also a call to the beginning.
What did John mean when he said that which our eyes have seen and ear heard? The hearing speaks of opening that world to a believer. This is because a believer hears first by understanding– a sudden occurrence of something new at another plane, of which he was not previously aware. When something comes freshly to a believer which is beyond the believer’s level, then he has been called up. Before a believer says he has heard, there must be revelation to say that.
“And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven” (Matt. 16:16-17). Peter heard, and by doing so, he was called. Peter was called by the things he was inspired to say. Jesus knew he did not say those things of himself; someone (the Father) said them to him. Speaking is revelation. What is called hearing is not an audible voice, instead, it is a blast of lightning. When God sends lightning to a believer, He is sending flashes of thoughts. When lightning comes, thunder follows and then understanding breaks in. As lightning calls the believer, voices begin to open what was said to that believer.
After hearing, the next phase is for the believer to begin to see. The inward man should be seeing. Immediately a soul is seeing, God knows. A believer can hear but not see, invariably not transcending into vision. It is therefore good to get to the “seeing” dimension so the things heard can be picked up. This is because it is possible for the believer to forget what manner of man he was (Jam. 1:24).
Seeing should then transcend to “looking upon”, until the hands can handle. These things take place in the fellowship forum. The forum is the school of light where children of God are trained to handle light. They (believers) must not leave until the word is in their hands. Moreover, when the word is in the believer’s hands, he will not break fellowship with God. That which a believer is looking upon is the word of life.
The word of God is the mirror the believer should look at. The word of God is not “letter”. There is something in the spirit called the word of life, and it is also called the mirror of God. This means within the word is a spiritual thing or particle where God can read. It is a slate in the spirit with which one can see God. Looking upon it will help one to see, understand and know God. In the beginning, John called Jesus Logos and Logos is a real person. His name is the Word. He has a form of God but is different from what they handled in 1 John 1:1.
Fellowship begins with beholding the word of God. The first two (hearing and seeing) according to 1 Jn 1:1 is a call to fellowship, the second one (looking upon) is to be drawn to fellowship while the third one (handling) is to come to fellowship itself. Fellowship really begins in “looking upon”– when the word draws a man closer and the man draws closer (Jam. 4:8a). After a man has successfully drawn near, God wants him to behold– he should look upon the word of God and keep at it until his hands handle the word of life.
In the New Testament, our Lord Jesus was raised to be looked upon and become One we can worship, but the anomaly/evil Satan did was that he also raised himself to be an object of worship. However, our Father raised Jesus to be worshipped. The activities around Him (Jesus) were activities around one who can be worshipped, because He was the only One granted among men for men to look like. He carries the power to be looked upon.
The Holy Ghost can raise the communion of Jesus up for a man to behold. A man can however be seeing the world and not the word of God. In the natural, when a man beholds a mirror, what he sees is the image in the mirror. The mirror can be likened to the word of God, and what it is carrying is the image of the Son of God. This is what we are supposed to be looking upon.
Eternal life is not an idea. Eternal life is a person; we have to look like Him to see Him. The first projection of the Son of God is to see His entire image as one. The subsequent beholding is to carefully study Him because if we are not beholding Him and seeing Him, there is no fellowship.
The Father has ordained that we should see the Son and in the Son, there is liberty from iniquity. The Son is written up against iniquity. He is an image God tattooed/put together to break iniquity. As we see the Son, we will have light; we will have understanding and as understanding dawns/progresses, we begin to see reasons why disengagement from iniquity should take place; then we become disinterested in iniquit. The appetite for iniquity breaks/becomes weakened because we are seeing another with a different world, who is a new meaning of life to us. Beholding is a ministry that we have (2 Cor 4:1-2). The ministry is the word of God and it is the mercy we have received.
“But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” (2 Cor. 4:3-4). Every child of God that is not aware of the gospel is lost. To be lost is different from not going to heaven. It is not to be found in the activities of life that God is transacting with men (Gen. 3:9). The light of the glorious gospel of Christ is the light of the image of God. What it preaches/transacts is the shining of the image of God.
A man has to keep fellowshipping until everlasting life becomes Eternal life because the aim of fellowship is to get a man into Eternal Life.
Eternal Life is also fellowship but it starts with everlasting life. In other words, fellowship begins with the Father (God) and then ends up in God (the great God). Fellowshipping with the Father is when we settle our scores, remove our iniquities and hindrances to prepare us to be sinless. The fellowship of the Father should be with an end that the Son of God will appear. In fellowship, the Son of God appears; we see Him and after some time, we see His Father. The Father sent the Son, first of all, with intention to later come Himself so we can see the proper perspective of the word we are transacting with.
The things of God, the word that the Son is made up, of are members of an image. God has members, and it is in the Spirit God breaks them down as His members (Himself) for people to learn. Each of the things of God are not ordinary: they are things of honour, of praise and of glory. The glorious gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ speaks of the high life of God– the life of God beyond reproach; one that ought to be praised, one that is undefiled, completely free from contamination, holy, raised, highly separated; the life of God in the heights, one that is incorruptible, the life of praise that is unfading.
These are the things that make God’s life glorious, so we will have a sense in communion to begin to exchange fakeness for reality. In it, lies are detonated and Satan is discovered with all the lies because they are not included in the fellowship. We will see all Satan has provided are substandard. This is why when a man is in fellowship, the blood of Jesus cleanseth him (1 Jn. 1:7). It removes wrong things, weakens things in us that has brought our former hold/stand of some things, making one war to relinquish them for better things.
A soul does not move from inferiority if something superior is not brought to him. God is superior. His life is supreme. The reason the church is not preaching His superiority is because of this world’s pomp– because something was in Satan: the ability to pump life. Satan lies and people do everything to get what he offers, but for anyone to reject what Satan has placed on the earth and not see it as a formula for living, he needs to go into the tabernacle, fellowship and hold the word of life. It is possible to come to a point where you see nothing in what Satan has to give– to overcome him. To overcome Satan is to not bend to his offer, nor to be pulled by what he brings.
These things of God can only come by impartation. The Spirit of God has to come upon a man. Once He is with a man (Jn. 14:17), that man is ready for communion. The Holy Ghost has been given commandment by God to kickstart the communion of God. He is the One conducive for the communion of God. When communion starts in a man, he should do everything to keep it. He should not allow anything to take it away/leak it out. Instead he should grow in it, enter into it because it is his access to greatness. God makes a man great from the “in” (within). The blessing of a man is on the “in”.
Summary
- The purpose of this feast of God (Isa. 25:7) is to destroy the face of the covering that is cast over all people. No generation is free except the covering cast over the people is completely taken away.
- The blessing to be received on the holy hill is the blessed hope— everlasting life. It is this blessing that makes for the reconciliation of iniquity.
- At New Birth, we were not near Zion at all. We journey unto Zion by the gospel of Christ.
- Iniquity is when a person begins to show forth and project himself instead of those who sent him. Heaven cannot trust a man who projects himself higher than his superior.
- Commandments often come out from communion. If God is not communing with a person, His commandments cannot come to such a person.
- God will not put all things under your feet when you are not saved by everlasting life. “So great salvation” is the key to God committing the world to come under your feet.
- The purpose of fellowship is to make light available.
- The word of God is the mirror the believer should look at. The word of God is not “letter”. There is something in the spirit called the word of life, and it is also called the mirror of God.
- In fellowship, the Son of God appears; we see Him and after some time, we see His Father.
- Every child of God that is not aware of the gospel is lost. To be lost is different from not going to heaven. It is not to be found in the activities of life that God is transacting with men.