Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Lekki Soul Centre (LSC)
Date: Wednesday, 18th May 2022
Ministering: Rev. Kayode Oyegoke
Everlasting life is a very high knowledge of God. It is referred to as the first-owned knowledge of God. Those whom God would commit the world to come to would not be lazy concerning knowledge of the things of God. It is my joy that both those who are educated according to the earthly system of learning and those who have no access to such learning are called to learn God. The uneducated on earth can know God. John was a fisherman who never went to school.
“Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.” Acts 4:13. Jesus chose unlearned and ignorant men and they stayed with Jesus till the end. Peter and John after so many years stood in front of the Sanhedrin to speak, they could not call them unlearned and ignorant. Yet this was their starting point. By the season of the Epistles, these men had morphed into something spectacular. To be ignorant is not to know God. A person can know many things and not know God. Before God, a professor and a fisherman are the same. They have only learnt so much but their vanity still remains. What we get from the knowledge of God, are things that will make us endure–incorruptible things.
“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; (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that Eternal Life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.” 1 John 1:1-3. Without the declaration of the things they have heard, seen, looked upon, and handled with their hands, there is no way they can have fellowship with them.
“That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ. And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.” 1 John 1:3-4. John was saying here that he wanted them to have joy to the full. According to Psalm 16:11, joy is not full without presence. Presence is fellowship. What one gets from fellowship is fullness of joy. There is a life called joy, a life called righteousness, and a life called peace. The life called joy is the life in presence. There is another life called ‘pleasures’. These two lives are under a definition of a particular life. Paul calls it gladness. Inside gladness we have joy, and the highest form of glad life is pleasure.
“But unto the Son He saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of Thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even Thy God, hath anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows.” Hebrews 1:8-9 If what Jesus had on Him after resurrection was the anointing that God is anointed with (the name of that ointment is the ointment of gladness), His fellows will also be anointed with the same oil. It will be of the same quality and nature, but Jesus would have it more than all His fellows. A person cannot be anointed with this oil of gladness without having hated iniquity.
Before the oil is poured upon a person, it must have been seen that such a person has passed the school of hating iniquity. In this learning, one is able to love righteousness. Loving righteousness and hating iniquity is a season before the anointing. Jesus loved righteousness. Righteousness is also defined as life. Righteousness varies: there is a righteousness which is life and there is another which is everlasting life.
Everlasting life is everlasting righteousness. Iniquity stands against righteousness. This shows us that iniquity is in the same frequency of everlasting righteousness. Before now, this iniquity was righteousness. It belonged to angels because the iniquity operated in the sphere of presence. It came from presence (presence means beginning). This was where Satan “sinneth from” (1 John 3:8). Iniquity is corrupting the life of God and making it one’s own.
“Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in Thy presence is fulness of joy; at Thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.” Psalm 16:11 Joy comes before pleasure. Joy as a material is lesser in nature than pleasure. Pleasure is the rest of rests. When you break into presence, you have access to two kinds of lives: joy and pleasure. Pleasure is at God’s right hand but you cannot have pleasure without joy. Presence houses joy. When you come into presence, all that you are supposed to get is joy. Then, you need joy to enter pleasure.
If joy is not full, there will not be a breakthrough into Eternal Life or pleasures forevermore. Pleasures forevermore is the high content of gladness. The first gladness you meet with is joy. In the book of Hebrews, Jesus was anointed with the oil of gladness (Heb. 1:9). Jesus was not anointed with the oil of everlasting life. Jesus was anointed with the oil of Eternal Life because He had become Eternal. He had the oil of joy on earth. Even though He was suffering, He was joyful.
“Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.” Psalm 45:7 Another word for iniquity is wickedness. Wickedness is twistedness. It is from the word ‘wick’. No wick of the lamp is straight. The wick of the lamp is twisted to make the flow of oil slow; so, it would burn slowly. Satan twisted what he had and turned righteousness into wickedness. He does not have anything original. It was what God kept in him that he turned. He squeezed it to produce another thing. Those laws were no longer straight so the rule of law was no longer straight in him. Anything twisted means the same as in-equity or iniquity or wickedness.
There are three levels to righteousness: life, peace and joy. What we get in the presence of God is joy. Life is the righteousness in the first dimension of the kingdom; the next is peace and the last is joy. All of them are righteousnesses. But joy is a dimension of righteousness different from the ones outside. We call it joy because it is everlasting or everlasting righteousness or everlasting life. It is joy because you are called into a high place that is joyful. Here, you learn things few people can know. When God is giving you judgement, it comes with so much sweetness. There is joy in this habitation because God is present and can be found. Things you do not know will become clear.
“And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!” Romans 10:15 The gospel of peace is the gospel that ends in the sanctuary. Another word for glad tidings is joyful tidings of good/peaceful tidings. Isaiah said that good tidings publisheth peace; glad tidings of good publisheth salvation (Isa. 52:7). The end of it all is salvation and salvation is joyful (Psa. 51:12). When you have joy, you have salvation. With joy, we will draw waters from the well of salvation (Isa. 12:3). When you have fullness of joy, you have full salvation. The real gladness is salvation.
“Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.” Isaiah 51:11 Sorrow is death. There is a distinction between gladness and joy. Gladness is higher than joy. Mourning is less than sorrow. You must have joy to come to gladness. Jesus was anointed with the oil of joy. Jesus’ anointing must have kept increasing. Anytime the Father proclaimed Jesus as His Son, it was always a time of anointing. They kept anointing Him. Jesus received the final anointing when He was raised from the dead. That anointing was of the oil of gladness.
“Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, Thy God, hath anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows. All Thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made Thee glad.” Psalm 45:7-8. Gladness is not a ‘happy’ state; rather it is a redemptive state. Gladness is an attitude that surrounds the Eternal promise. Eternal Life is a thing of gladness. Eternal Life is pleasure forevermore. All the things of Eternal Life to an overcomer are pleasurable gifts: white stone, name written which no man knows, tree of life in the midst of the paradise of God, and so on. Paradise means pleasure land. This means the tree of life is not a tree of the fruit of the spirit. It is not a character fruit tree- it is not gentleness or longsuffering. Eternal Life is not love. Eternal Life is pleasure. It is a tree with a different fruit entirely. Eternal Life is mercy. Out of mercy comes love.
“But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us…” Ephesians 2:4. God is rich in mercy. God brought love out of His mercy. There are things in mercy. Love is an announcement of what mercy is. It is an heralder of mercy. Though God is love and everlasting life, God who is ‘pleasure’ is different from God who is ‘joyful’.
They (the Godhead) pick anointing from eternal land, eternal trees and eternal things. “…out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.” Psalm 45:8 There are realms of majesty. The reason for these botanical spices is to make the Eternal Son of God glad. They are not ordinary. They are from the ivory palaces. Ivory palaces refer to realms that are majestic.
“Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an High Priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens…” Hebrews 8:1. Jesus is set where they pick those pleasure plants from. The Bible says we should set our affections on things above and not beneath. Above is where Christ is seated at the right hand of God (Col. 3:1). This is the realm of majesty. These are the ivory palaces where Jesus is seated. Right hand means the east. East is eternity. In Hebrew, Eternal means East; everlasting means North or height. Eternal means ‘take a detour’ to where you cannot be found.
To have joy is to have a breakthrough into presence. Presence is costly. God is the One making His presence and bringing us in. Satan will claim that if you are in presence, you should not lack money but Jesus never had money. Jesus was raised from the dead with an empty pocket. He had no bank account.
“The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: Thou maintainest my lot.” Psalm 16:5 We need to maintain our lots. To maintain your lot is to keep your lot. To keep your lot is to keep your life. Your life is the Lord’s. The Lord is that portion that you are meant to inherit. Your soul is the cup that gets filled. The content for the cup should be the Lord. What should fill your cup is the Lord. Your portion, which is the Lord, should be given to your soul. The portion is not just a place to stand in, it should be a thing that stays in. “The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; Yea, I have a goodly heritage.” Psalm 16:6. The goodly heritage is everlasting life.
“I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons. I have set the LORD always before me: because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.” Psalm 16:7-8 This Psalm is a messianic one. These were the things Jesus was saying when He was about to die. He was glad, even when He was about to die. He endured the cross that was set before Him. He despised the shame. He is now set down at the right hand of the throne of God (Heb. 12:2). That place is a majestic realm; it is a place of gladness and pleasures forevermore. To sit at the right hand of God is not a physical activity. A man can be here on earth and be set at the right hand.
“And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!” Romans 10:15 Glad tidings refer to the everlasting gospel. The everlasting gospel is gladness. Jesus was anointed with the oil of gladness above His fellows. There is a glad dimension in Eternal Life; there is also a glad dimension in everlasting life. The gladness in the everlasting realm is the joy of the Lord which is salvation. It is also called glad tidings. Good tidings of good are tidings of joy. The gospel of salvation is the gospel of His presence. Presence is fellowship.
“Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; And take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; And uphold me with thy free spirit.” Psalm 51:10-12. A clean heart is a Christ heart. The right spirit is the spirit of righteousness. Once a person has the right spirit, such is in presence. It is possible for one to be cast out of presence. The holy spirit is the communion of the Holy Ghost. The free spirit is the spirit of liberty; it is also the spirit of salvation (2 Cor. 3:17). It is in presence that God saves. Anyone that Eternal life is communicated to has to come into fellowship – the fellowship of the right Spirit, the Father and the Son.
No child of God is in the presence of God at new birth or after being baptized in the Holy Ghost because the heart still needs to be cleansed. A clean heart is needed for God to write the right spirit upon (Jer. 31:33). A clean heart is a heart of flesh; it is higher than a pure heart. It is a high heart for the right spirit. ‘Renew a right spirit within me’ simply means God should put His Spirit upon your heart. Once this happens, such a person will not be cast away from His presence.
David prayed to God not to take His Holy Spirit from him. Some believers think that this is just the Old Testament and that believers already have the Holy Ghost. The Spirit being referred to in Psalm 51:11 is not the same as the Holy Spirit that we have in us as believers. This is the Spirit of presence; it is the Presence itself. He is the One that makes presence. Without this Spirit, God would not appear. The Holy Spirit has to create an ambience that is conducive for fellowship.
Joy is the DNA of the life called salvation. Salvation is a life that is joyful. When a person is full of joy, he would overcome the dragon. Joy is gotten from fellowship. To be called into fellowship is to be called into the fullness of joy. “And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.” 1 John 1:4. Joy here can be replaced with salvation. Full salvation is complete salvation of the soul (1 Pet. 1:9).
There is a way to receive salvation: it is by being called into presence. A man cannot be saved without presence. The Father and the Son have to be there. Then the Holy Ghost has to create the environment for such a man to enter. This is what it means to enter into the kingdom. There, the man would be taught the substances of joy that the soul would inherit. To inherit these things means that they would be used for salvation.
The power of being filled with joy makes one endure temptation (James 1:2, 12). We are to use the tool of joy to endure diverse temptations. The realm of diverse temptations is the season of inheriting everlasting life. Salvation comes by joy. Joy is the incorruptible seed that should be used for salvation. When temptation comes, the fruit of joy would be used to overcome temptations. Satan comes to tempt but the gifts of God have been given to us. The gifts of God are the gifts of joy; the lights of joy are joyful (James. 1:16). Joy is a buffer; it is a strength. When temptation comes, you endure. Joy is not the state of being happy not the state of sweetness in your heart only. A person can be sorrowful and still be joyful. Joy is high peace in the spirit – it is confidence and boldness.
When temptation is taking place - temptation is a pull to iniquity - iniquity would begin to preach itself as the ultimate answer to life. However, joy is the ultimate strength of God. The everlasting joy of God will keep you from refusing what Satan is offering. After a while, God allows diverse types of temptations to come so you can do many “refusings”. When you have done many “refusings”, it becomes an inheritance. Practice makes perfect. After some time, you will be perfected. It is in temptations we learn. If there are no temptations, we will not be perfected.
“Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.” James 1:12 “Tried” means that such a man has learnt the process over time. He has gathered experience on how to handle and refuse what Satan brings. The crown of life means mastery of life. Mastery of life does not occur if there is no inheritance. Inheritance here means properties. Thus, refusing temptation becomes genetic. It is in your gene. You have just known how to just refuse. A time will come when you will refuse everything that Satan stands for. Then Satan will not know how to tempt you anymore. It means one can get to this state.
It is good for us to know that during this temptation, the Father is watching and Jesus is interceding for us. God would not allow a temptation that is higher than us to come. We have an advocate as against an adversary who is pressing charges against us. Jesus is saying that as long as He beat Satan to the game, man can still beat him. He will train many who will beat Satan. So, who are fellows? Fellows are those who have been tempted, whom Jesus succour. Jesus is coming back for fellows: those who have passed through temptations, succoured and endured temptation (Hebrews 2:18).
(For He saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) 2 Corinthians 6:2. The day of salvation is actually the day of temptation. It is not being tempted with works of the flesh. It is a training that sons go through to be finally vindicated or made just.
Satan was a fellowship being. He was not an ordinary being. He was a fellow who betrayed the order. He knew what many cannot know; that's why he is shining. He will lie to people and deceive them until someone who knows where he came from appears. It will take a fellow to expose a fellow. Satan was in heaven. What gave him boldness was that he had access to holding 'secret' with many. And they were all beings of the beginning - angels. Angels are men. They are men that God shared 'secret' with. They access that place where secret is being unearthed.
The Most Holy Place is a terrible place. It is a place of the testimony. It is a place of the testament or the new testament or the actual testament. It is the testimony itself. There are angels that have the testament. It is not all angels that have testimony. Seraphims don't have testimony. It is only cherubims of glory that have testament. Cherubims are the ones that keep testimony. One met John and said, "I am also of them your brethren, the prophets that have the testimony of Jesus" (Rev. 19:10). The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
The seed that God placed in angels cannot be called incorruptible because Satan corrupted it. It is the everlasting seed that they were keeping. God gave it to them. If you have that seed, you have all things. When They commit seed to beings, they become fathers. In Genesis 12, God gave the seed to Abraham, he became a father of it. The seed was a seed of Abraham; and also, the seed of David. So, they were fathers. In other words, anyone that has that kind of seed can beget. To begat is not to give birth to children the way man does. It means to produce image by talking or by saying.
Adam was a carrier of an image. This was why Adam was in the presence of God. You cannot be in the presence of God unless you want to have an image or you already have an image. So, presence follows image. The arrival of presence is either for to witness image or to make image. In Eden, Adam had image, so presence was there. God gave Adam image so he can have an idea of what God really wants him to be. You cannot be the son of God the way Christ is. God does not give birth to a son the way He raised angels. To give birth to a son, the man must choose whether he wants to be a son of God or not.
The presence is the place of image-making. However, we have seen that Satan also comes for his image. Jesus said, “the prince of this world cometh and found nothing in Me” (John 14:30). The prince of this world was looking for his image in Jesus. Some believers might be wondering, “if Christ has so purged us, am I the image of Satan in my soul?” No, but we are carriers. The believer has not yet come into the image. It is in seed form -- Satan sowed it. God does not want us to come into Eternal Life with it. Everlasting life is the sanctuary of Eternal Life. It is where They remove the thing that the adversary secretly kept in people.
Satan always likes to plant something in secret. When men slept, the enemy sowed (Matt. 13:25). Satan can wait for his seed for thousands of years because he knows what he has kept in people. The believer is not his completely. From the onset, it is not easy to train a man to obey the seed. The demand of the seed is higher than the height of men to respond to such temptation. So, the seed is lying there for a time to come when the seed will be revived.
Therefore, the end of days or the last days is not an ordinary time. It is when Satan will begin to call his seeds out of men. The reason we are Christians is to refuse the seed. The purpose of fellowship is to expose the seed. The believer has to do a refusal for the seed to go. It is one seed, but it is gradually depleted.
“This then is the message which we have heard of Him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of ourselves Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive, and the truth is not in us.” 1 John 1:5-8. The true test of fellowship is that the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses one from all sins. This tells us that removal of sin cannot be done in one day. It does not go out at once; it is gradually being taken out. When truth comes into a believer, God sows His own seed.
Immediately God brings truth, which is the word of God, into a believer, sin is revealed. Then a believer realises that this sin has been present, though unknown to him. Man is ignorant of the activities of the adversary that is at work in him. Satan does not leave the believer alone, even when he is a baby. He plants the seed, knowing a time will come for it to grow. A man can live and die without knowing that sin. A man who is not born again could also live and die without committing that sin. To commit that sin is to be committed to it. This is what John meant when he said that he that commits that sin is born of the devil (1 John 3:8).
Satan kept the seed there so an individual can be born of him. It is possible for Satan to birth people when they are not even born again nor aware of God. If a man is left to be without God’s guidance, Satan will move him quickly to hold the seed. What God has been delaying on earth is man realising what Satan has placed in him. Cain saw it, but Abel refused it. This is what John is telling us. It is in fellowship that we come to the awareness of what Satan is doing.
Image is not the way a man appears. It is the virtue God built in our Lord Jesus. Righteousness is image; holiness is image. Hence, image is not a cut out; image is the storage of persons inside. A man is therefore a vessel of image. As a vessel, the soul is conformed to inherit the image. It drives, carries or expresses the image. So also, sin is a man. The man of sin means that sin is an image. God knows who is His image and what is not of Him. Heaven is making image. It is in presence that They bring and install these things. Then They will teach us how to reject substances that are of the enemy.
Man is tempted when he is drawn from his own lust (Jas. 1:14). Those lusts are the devil’s things. Your lust is different from worldly lust. It is an everlasting deposit that is ingrained deep down. Those things are not revived until a season. They will be revived by two means: Satan bringing a conducive atmosphere or God bringing it out. When God is bringing it out, He does so with the intent to destroy what Satan has planted. Image is life. So, it will take testimony to make a believer not to love image.
“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.” Rev. 12:11. “To the death” is when the life is completely gone and they have no pull to it, as it has been removed from them. Then we can say Satan is expired from a person. It is possible. We are in the final lap of dealing with the devil and it is God who will do it.
This is the season that heaven has been waiting for. Jesus’ ministry in heaven has just fully resumed as a High Priest. The Church is about to sing from the book of Hebrews. These are songs out of understanding. For this to happen, books would have to be opened. Genesis to Revelation are books: “And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation… (Rev. 5:9). These are songs of redemption.
Blessings!
Summary
1. Presence is fellowship. What one gets from fellowship is fullness of joy.
2. (Hebrews 1:8-9) After resurrection, Jesus had on Him the oil of gladness. A person cannot be anointed with this oil of gladness without having hated iniquity.
3. Iniquity is corrupting the life of God and making it one’s own.
4. If joy is not full, there will not be a breakthrough into Eternal Life or into pleasures forevermore. Pleasures forevermore is the high content of gladness.
5. (Romans 10:15) Glad tidings refer to the everlasting gospel.
6. Salvation is a life that is joyful. When a person is full of joy, he would overcome the dragon. Joy is gotten from fellowship. To be called into fellowship is to be called into the fullness of joy.
7. (James 1:2,12). We are to use the tool of joy to endure diverse temptations. The realm of diverse temptations is the season of inheriting everlasting life.
8. The true test of fellowship is that the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses one from all sins.
9. Image is not the way a man appears. It is the virtue God built in our Lord Jesus. Image is the storage of persons inside. A man is therefore a vessel of image.
10. Heaven is making image. It is in presence that They bring and install these things. Then They will teach us how to reject substances that are of the enemy.