Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministries (EGFM)
Programme: Lekki Soul Center (LSC)
Date: 23rd June, 2021
Ministering: Rev. Kayode Oyegoke
Text: John 5:19-25
God can never be sure of a person if the person is not able to come into everlasting life. It is the commandment of God that everyone should come into life everlasting (John 3:16). This should be the norm, though it has been a strange thought to the Church. It is not easy to find one with everlasting sense. The thought of God is everlasting. It is referring to the measure of everlasting standard. Jesus was fortified with everlasting life. The Father never sent Jesus as Christ into ministry; He sent Him as an everlasting personality.
Jesus was not just armed with the power of God unto salvation, which is the gospel of Christ (Rm. 1:16); Jesus was more raised than that. It was an everlasting man God sent into ministry. God didn’t deck Jesus completely with the everlasting glory on earth. Jesus died as an everlasting man but didn’t attain all the glory laid down for Him on earth. Adam was an everlasting man, but he couldn’t partake of the fruits of the tree of life. God couldn’t place the burden of everlasting life on any other life asides from the life of Adam.
Jesus fully carried the burden of everlasting life. Jesus attained everlasting life in His soul. Eternal life is the reward of everlasting life. “Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.” (Isaiah 62:11). When coming to meet God, what you meet first is His work. No unlearned man can understand the issue of work except mercy is shown. The work of God comes before that which is with Him. Anywhere God is, His reward is there. Anything God does in eternity is reward while anything done before reward is work. Reward comes on the work to bless it.
“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.” (Deuteronomy 33:27). We have both the Eternal God and the Everlasting God (Is. 40:28). The job description of the Everlasting God are in the realm of work. The Everlasting God increases strength to them that have no might and He giveth power to the faint. “But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.” (Isaiah 40:31). Waiting upon the Lord is for everlasting life. The Hebrew church got to this point but they became weary. When a man gets to the junction of everlasting life, Satan can war with a man to cause him to faint. The cross over into everlasting life from Christ life is not easy. A perfect Christ man can still faint; such can still be weary.
Underneath the Eternal God are the everlasting arms (Deut. 33:27). The Eternal God is the habitation and underneath Him are life everlasting. Everlasting life binds you up for eternal life. God comes into everlasting realm to raise people unto eternal life. A child of God is not born again with everlasting life. Everlasting life is an inheritance while eternal life is the promise (1 John 2:25). Everlasting life are the exceeding great and precious promises (2 Pet. 1: 4).
There are seals upon scriptures; and the removal of these seals is what brings understanding. When understanding comes, life follows. Life is what authenticates a soul. The soul is a seeker of life. What the tree of knowledge of good and evil keeps is a lie, which is not easily irresistible. The tree of knowledge of good and evil came to oppose the tree of life. Both trees (tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil) were loaded with promises. The tree of knowledge of good and evil kept talking till it had its way with Adam and Eve. Eve fell for the wisdom offer of the tree.
The divine nature is God’s work. God wroughts divine nature through promises. Godliness is profitable. “According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue…” (2 Peter 1:3). The divine nature is not just the power of God, which is Christ (Rm. 1:16). The divine power is that which pertain unto life and godliness. Divine power can reside in a man; it is the power for secret things. Satan is not afraid of a miracle worker but a man who has attained stature in the spirit. Jesus can make a man a principality; this is possible through the epistles. A man can be a principality, power, might, dominion in the flesh. Divine power is the power to get the divine nature.
Divine power is converted into things and when we learn and do those things, we come into life and attain godliness. When you attain life and godliness, it means you have the power to enter into divine nature. Life here is the righteousness of God that is revealed from faith to faith. For a man to live, he must do faith curriculum. Jesus told Paul to turn men from the power of Satan unto the power of God. That power is the life in Christ.
A soul that cannot do faith is not interested in living. The first teaching in the spirit for a soul is faith. For the soul to practice life, he must live by faith. This is bringing such soul to an inheritance of life. There are two inheritances in the divine power: life and godliness. When a man has life, it means his sins have been forgiven him.
“To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.” (Acts 26:18). There are two things we must receive: forgiveness and inheritance. The first (forgiveness) comes by receiving life and the second (inheritance) is godliness. Forgiveness of sins ends in the Outer Court. Sanctification is a higher dimension of sins being forgiven, which takes place in the Holy place. The Court is holy, the Sanctuary is also holy. The Court is called righteousness.
Everything in the Court is called life. That is the first point of righteousness. The righteousness of the divine power brings us into life and establishes us in godliness. “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, [12] Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world…” (Titus 2:11-12). The Holy Ghost is the One that makes a man sober. When a man wants to attain life, he must have soberness.
When you are learning to acquire life, the shame to fight the gospel comes. But you must keep saying to yourself “…I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ…” (Rom. 1:11). Satan wants man to be ashamed of deliverance. The first deliverance is to be delivered from the power of darkness or the power of Satan. This power of darkness is arrayed in these folds: principality and power, rulers of the darkness of this world, spiritual wickedness in high places (Eph. 6:16). Rulers of the darkness of this world used to be angels with the covenant of godliness.
Angels have a copy of everything we see as promises in the Bible. There are angels with a copy of godliness as a nature. Rulers of darkness are the ones in charge of men having a form of godliness but denying the power (2 Tim 3:5). The angels we are warring with are in opposite alignment to our promise or inheritance. What we are to become is what we are being designed against. The form we had picked in the world is a feed from fallen angels. A minister can be anointed and yet is doing evil against the gospel.
It is good for a man to be empty before he is called into ministry. Such is easier led. Jesus met several sets of people when He was on earth: the republican, Pharisee, harlot, tax collector etc. Evil spirits did a lot of work (formations) in men before Jesus came. Husbands and wives ought not to have rights in marriage; none should be too strong to be able to bend for the other. Evil spirits are the ones that show rights and teaches men to have rights.
Coming into life is attaining righteousness, while coming into godliness is attaining peace. A godly man is a man that has made peace with God. Life and peace are covenants and these make a full priest. Levites have the covenant of life but the Priest has the covenant of life and peace (Mal. 2:4-5). We engage with the fear of the Lord in the sanctuary. The fear here means high, holy reverence. Priests are made out of Levites. Those who have strong life as Levites will enter into the Sanctuary to become Priests. In the Kingdom , the least are they that are in the Court (Levites). A Levite in the New Testament is higher than John the Baptist.
God can only share everlasting life with a peace- making being. You must have lived soberly, righteously and godly in this present world before God gives you everlasting life. When you are godly, you have overcome the rulers of the darkness of this world. To overcome here means you are better than these rulers. No one should draw back in this season. God has so much invested in us as a people.
All the evil spirits we fight also have different kinds of life. Rulers of the darkness of this world were formerly Mights and Dominion. They used to be godly spirits. They used to be peace beings and that is why they fight your peace with God. That is why we have been given divine power; to have life and godliness. The corruption in the world through lust are vomits of evil spirits.
Righteousness is what turns into holiness. “I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.” Romans 6:19). The day righteousness becomes holy, you enter the Kingdom. The first holiness to be done is life. All the Kingdom of God is holy; priestly. The first holy people are Levites. The cloth of the Levite is righteousness. It means the Levites have life.
The righteousness that turns a man into holiness is life. Holiness talks about separation. In the Court, the forces of corruption are at bay. To fully overcome the world, you need to learn the godliness of peace. The world also gives a kind of peace. The highest form of Christ life is godliness. A godly man has power to enter divine nature. “Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.” (2 Peter 1:4). The promises for entrance into divine nature are exceedingly great and precious. Anyone who has overcome the world fully has passed from death to life.
You can overcome sin and not overcome death (ungodliness). You need life and peace to overcome sin and death (Rom. 8:6). The love of the brethren is needed to pass from death to life (1 John 3:14). A lover of this world cannot love a brethren because brethren are not worldly. You can hate a godly man because of the life he is living, which is against the life that you love. If you can love a godly man, you can pass from death to life.
“When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory…” (Matthew 25:31). The angels here are His servants. Before God will roll the world away, His angels (servants) will be seen on earth working. These angels will be the yardstick of judging the earth. The angels are also His brethren, who have served Him.
“For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: [36] Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me” (Matthew 25:35-36). The life Jesus painted here and what the people responded to is Christ life. The prison is being restricted. Jesus appreciated them for all they did for the people. Jesus saw all they did as it being done unto Him.
Passing from death to life is passing from this world to life. The love of the brethren is what is measured out to those that love the Lord. God doesn’t want people who will get to heaven and start hating brethren. God is a greater brethren. “If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen…” (1 John 4:20). If you do not love the brother you can see, how much more God that you cannot see?a Many do not know God or love Him and so cannot bear Him.
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” (John 5:24). Apostle John had the secrets of God. John really depicted who and how Jesus was on earth. To believe on God is not the same as to believe in God. Jesus was sent by God. The idea of Salvation is not just Jesus’ thing, it is the idea of God. The book of John portrays the divine nature which was not portrayed by many of the Apostles. You cannot see He who sent Jesus and not pass from death to life.
“And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. [18] And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. [19] And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” (Matthew 16:17-19). Binding is not only praying. We can bind and loose by teaching. Keys are used to set people free. Many only use this verse to pray but it is a doing and a teaching verse. Churches are built by teaching and not just praying. The Father, through Peter, revealed the blue print of building and this template is “Christ, the Son of the Living God”.
This rock that everlasting life is built on is Christ. Christ is the foundation that can carry everlasting life. The first key of the Kingdom is Christ, the next is the mystery of the Father and the last is the mystery of God. All these keys are for building. We need the keys to open the gate. Without these keys, people cannot be built. When you believe on Christ, you will then believe on Him that sent Christ.
“My word” in John 5:24 is not in the same capacity as the faith which brings forth the righteousness of Christ; but the word that those who have passed from death unto life will get. Those who have passed from death to life have everlasting life. Any one who has passed from death to life will not pass unto condemnation.
“For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.” (John 3:17). The intention of God is to give everlasting life to the world but if it is refused, the world wouldn’t be saved. “He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” (John 3:18). He that believeth on Him is he that believeth on the Son of God. To believe in Him is to believe in Christ but to believe on Him is to see Him. Believing on Him is not talking about New birth. It takes life and peace to believe on Him and also to escape condemnation.
Everlasting life is a sure place in the spirit where condemnation is off every man. You cannot condemn a man with everlasting life. Jesus actually taught Nicodemus everlasting life. In John 3:18, the only begotten is Christ at the right hand of God.
Any thing everlasting means there is a seal on it for it not to be able to go bad. Only God has this ability to give this. Satan spoilt himself and also wants to spoil others; but God has a balm in Gilead to stop any form of Satan's spoiling.
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