Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Lekki Soul Center
Date: Wednesday, 20th October 2021
Ministering: Reverend Kayode Oyegoke
Although Jesus became as a man, He had a glory that was as of the only begotten of the Father (John 1:14). However, this glory was not the very glory of the Father. Jesus was full of grace and truth. He attained the stature of Christ and then, the stature of the Son of God (John 20:31). These states are not the same—Jesus the Christ is the power of the Son of God. As such, in Him are personalities or graces. If He was not first made Christ, He would not have been made a perfect example for us.
There is no way an unbeliever can comprehend everything about the man Jesus when he first gets born again. To comprehend or know Jesus means knowing the work that God did in Him. Jesus is the work of God and also a manifestation of this work. This work does not however refer to the work of creation. Satan is also a work, therefore, it will take a manifestation of God's work to destroy Him (1 Jn. 3:8). Jesus’ manifestation as the Son of God was not just to die on the cross; He also had to do works which destroyed the works of the devil.
The work of Satan is not to make a man kill or commit adultery; his work is his nature. The prophets addressed lesser works and could therefore not destroy Satan. The only person that can destroy Satan is One who is a work that is higher than him.
"Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil…" (Heb. 2:14). The power of death is a work. He is a person and he was a son (a high angel). You cannot destroy death without destroying him. Death is his enshrined frame; it is the stature of his being. He used to be God's work because God worked him to be a son however, he turned. He was a thief: he stole himself from God because he did not own himself. He knew and understood the work that was done in him but decided to use it against God. He moved himself from where God placed him and broke the alliance of life. Then, he died because he sold himself to death.
Death means to turn against God, and this is what its power can do. As such, Lucifer did not just turn away from God but also against Him. The angels could not overcome him because of the work that was done in him, they could only resist him, like Michael did (Jude 1:9). It is only one who is a new Son (Jesus Christ) that can overcome him.
The way men on earth protest and fight for their rights is a symbol of what happened in heaven, the day Lucifer went against God. Satan induced the angels to demand for their rights from God because they wanted to come into a higher estate. This is why none of such occurrences on earth can shake the heavens. When those angels revolted, God did not do anything contrary to the law—He allowed them to make up their minds to do what they wanted to, for they had become strong willed.
God hates oppression and hates people being enslaved. He demonstrated this by redeeming a whole nation of Israel out of slavery. However, we should be very careful about also being enslaved by the devil, through the disguise of protesting for our rights. The things we call rights are a false judgement that the devil has sold to us; they are not actually ‘rights’. When anything comes from the realm of spiritual wickedness in high places, it is a twisted gift. Satan does not give anyone a free gift.
God defends people's rights and He is at hand to break anybody who will oppress people. However, He has His own way of doing it. God knows how to take out a government that is oppressive in nature, even if they think they have all that it takes to establish themselves for a long time. However, God wants to inoculate our minds against Satan's lie. Those angels believed a lie; a “right” was sold to them, and they moved with anger against God. They were vehement and became too violent. As such, scriptures recorded that Satan filled his midst with violence (Eze. 28:16).
What guarantees our freedom from Satan is submission to the Father and the Head of the Church (Jesus). Therefore, we should be conscious of Them and adhere to Their instructions. If Satan could make angels fall, it is not hard for him to do the same to man; he is still destroying men today. The fact that you are a child of God does not mean you are free from him. He has found his way into the church. He even likes men who have a calling to be in the ministry because such people can be good tools in his hands, on the negative. Satan can overcome such men because he has a higher anointing than men—their anointing is earthly but his is heavenly.
Jesus was not as anointed as Satan while He was on earth, but He had more stature than Satan. Jesus grew into an everlasting nature, but He was hidden and made to be humble by reason of the authority He was brought under. Jesus was anointed at a level that was less than His stature. “But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.” (Heb. 2:9). The most difficult person to teach is Jesus. He will remain a mystery to the church until we begin to learn of Him. Jesus is a work that we ought to study. The body of Christ should continually feast on Jesus until we are completely fortified, otherwise, there is no salvation or escape from Satan.
“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” (John 1:14). Jesus’ glory while on earth was not the exact glory of the Father but was “as” God’s glory. If this was not so, the Bible would be contradictory in saying that after Jesus had suffered, He entered into His glory (Luke 24:26). Jesus had a certain glory as Logos in the beginning, but when He became flesh, He was given a lesser glory. Although Jesus was flesh, He grew from flesh to being a spiritual man and then, a divine man. Jesus was made perfect at the end of His life because He completed all obedience.
God made sure that Jesus did not come into glory until after the nature of man in him had been completely removed. He came into an everlasting stature by which He overcame Satan, who had the power of death. God did not reward Jesus with the glory of Everlasting Life on earth, although He had the capacity to receive it. He left Jesus with some level of humanity, so that He could be submissive to God and dependent on the ministration of angels.
God did not take away the limitation of flesh from Jesus. Jesus did not also step out of the limitation by Himself. He had to wait for God to remove the limitation and put a new nature in Him. It was on this nature that God could confidently put His glory on. Jesus did all obedience to remove the limitation of the frame of flesh; He obeyed God to the utmost. Satan on the other hand did not allow himself to submit to and be raised by God. His weakness was in the fear of eternally staying under God.
God will raise His men. Some people will try to raise themselves by carnal wisdom because men are hasty and lack the patience to wait on Him to put their insignia on them. Some people can work out their resurrection because of the fear of not being raised by God. The greatest temptation of Jesus was for Him to die, but He was not afraid of death. Satan must have lied to Him at some point in time that God will not raise Him from the dead. The lesson of resurrection is the answer to the angelic anomaly, which is the sin problem. The sin problem is that of trust.
Jesus was made sin on the cross, and when He dies, it was not just His flesh that was taken to hell. His spirit and soul were also taken there. This was the sign He promised to show to the children of Israel when He said, "…there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas…" (Matt. 12:39). Jonah was in the belly of a fish for three days and nights and was eventually vomited by the shore of Nineveh. The sign of Jonah was at work in Jesus' death. The Jews did not see Jesus for three days and nights because He went deep into hell; Jonah called it the deep or belly of hell (Jonah 2:1-3). The conversion of the men of Nineveh was not done by miracles, but by word because Jonah operated a resurrection power. This was a sign of Jesus in the Old Testament. The power Jesus operated after He was raised from the dead was not ordinary.
The Bible is complete. Everything had been finished in the Old Testament, but the reason why God allowed the New Testament to be written is for us to understand the Old Testament. Jesus did not need the epistles to live, while He was on earth. He lived by the writings in the Prophets—Isaiah, Jeremiah, Psalms, Malachi, etc. He taught resurrection with the Old Testament. As such, people who do not count the Old Testament as part of the Bible do not know the Bible. What the epistles do is to train one to understand the Prophets because it takes time to understand those books. You must have some stature and skill to decode the Prophets. Jesus had to come personally to Paul, to teach Him the prophets, so that He could fetch out The Faith of the Son.
Jonah was in the belly of a fish for three days; this typifies how Jesus was also in hell for three days. The depth of the sea signifies hell while the fish signifies death. Death took Jesus to hell, but on the third day, He overcame death and hell. As such, He could say that He had the keys of hell and death (Rev. 1:18).
"Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah. [11] Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction? [12] Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?" (Psa. 88:10-12). The land of forgetfulness is the place of oblivion. Hell is a place of forgetfulness. No one, not even the greatest government or nation or weapons of warfare put together can deliver any man from hell, if he goes there. Hell is called "the dark". Nobody should go there or keep things that come from there in his soul. Things like anger, malice, backbiting, jealousy, strife, envy are examples of things from there.
Hell is real, but if the pulpit of many churches carry the power of God, hell will suffer. The more engaged we are with God, the more depopulated hell will become. Many of us are fighting hell; we war with angels that fell from heaven, even spirits that used their minds to war against God. God threw those fallen angels down to hell (2 Pet. 2:4). However, when Adam yielded to the temptation of the serpent in the garden of Eden, they came out of hell. Satan has a right of way to tempt man, so he could tempt Adam.
Hell is the home of sin and death; this was where Jesus eventually descended to, after He was crucified. By doing this, Jesus took sin and death back to where it came from and then, destroyed it there. Jesus wants to teach all creation that we can wait for Him and can trust Him; this is the secret in the lesson of Jesus' ascension. Jesus came to teach the universe that God can be trusted, even though Satan lies to us that we have been forgotten. Before men can unlearn Satan's ideologies, ways, power, and his hold on men, we must learn to trust God and be able to wait.
At Jesus’ resurrection, God raised both Christ and the Son of God. If Jesus did not become the Son of God, He would not have overcome the devil. Christ is a work against sin, while the Son of God is a work against evil.
“No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.” (John 1:18). There are two manners of believing in the Son. The initial one is the believing that makes one become born again (John 3:16), while the second is believing which cannot be done except one is aided by God. At this stage, it is not the faith of a man or grace that will be at work, but the man’s stature. The title—The only begotten Son—is the highest title of the Son of God. This title is higher than just being begotten. Jesus learnt on earth to become the begotten Son, in that, God developed Him.
Jesus obeyed in all the realms—in heaven, on earth and even the law of Moses. This was because He had the intention to free the Jews from the law. If He did not constrain Himself to obey God to the utmost, there would not be freedom for all. Jesus did all that He did with eternal principles in mind. The law was like a mother to Jesus because He was kept in the womb of the law, just like the man child was in the womb of that woman (Rev. 12). However, the man child was born of a woman with a lesser law compared to that of the only begotten Son of God.
Many people who started on this path of righteousness have veered off because they refused to stay where God kept them. They came out of the body and attacked it, and this exposed them to Satan. When you come out of where God has kept you, you will break the law and thereby, not fulfil all righteousness like Jesus.
The baptism which Jesus partook of was not that of the New Testament but the baptism of John. He partook of it and humbled Himself to fulfill the law (all righteousness). To fulfill all righteousness is to fulfill the guidelines for the redemption of humanity. Jesus was born under the law by a woman. He was an Old Testament Prophet and was relating to the Jews in that manner, so that He could save them. Jesus did a lot of things together and He never failed in one. What kept him safe was the key of meekness and humility. He did not exalt Himself above where God put Him (Phil 2:5-8).
“For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?” (Heb. 1:5). Jesus did not accredit anything to himself but waited for the Father's declaration. The law guiding promotion in the spirit is that—he who exalts himself shall be abased and he that humbles himself shall be exalted (Matt 23:12). This promotion is also known as resurrection. The angels that fell were looking for resurrection, for they sought to be raised to a higher status. However, we are not meant to seek such.
“For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.” (John 5:20). Jesus had Everlasting life but prior to this, He had life and peace (Christ). God showed Jesus all things till He was thirty years old. After learning them, He had to also do them. As such, Jesus learnt and finished all things that were pertaining to everlasting life. The Father's life is not Christ; the life in the Father is Everlasting Life.
"For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself..." (John 5:26). “The Son” in this verse is Christ. He is the one who can have Everlasting Life. Jesus did not enter the ministry until the Father gave him Everlasting life. With the life of Christ, Jesus overcame all evil spirits that fought Christ's life. Spirits have regimentation, they do not wage war with spirits beyond their reach. There are spirits that war against Christ and there are spirits that war against Everlasting life.
As Jesus overcame, the Father committed more to Him. It was not while doing ministry that Jesus overcame the world, He overcame the world prior to that time (at the level of Christ). God then gave Him Everlasting life as a reward for overcoming the world. Jesus learnt Everlasting life to a great degree before the God proclaimed about Him saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased"(Matt. 3:17).
Jesus received the last glory of a man. He was close to the cross, so God gave Him all the glory of a man. It is the best of man that should be killed or sacrificed for other men. This is why it is the fatted calf and not the emaciated one is usually used for sacrifice. The One who would take away the sins of the people must be a sacrificial Lamb. If He had the ultimate glory while on earth, they would not have been able to kill Him. Jesus was led as a lamb and was learning Everlasting life until He trapped it. This implies that man can have Everlasting life, even in a weak body. A more sure word of prophecy is a word that would come to us for Life Everlasting (1 Pet. 1:19).
The stature of Everlasting life is meant to eradicate iniquity. In scripture, fullness is usually used to refer to everlastingness. A man cannot have eternal life without its fullness. One must have the fullness of Eternal life to get Eternal Life.
Jesus was full of grace and truth while He was on earth. Without fullness you cannot touch the devil because he also has fullness in another dimension. What Jesus had attracted Satan, and as such, Satan was seeing a work in Jesus that could destroy him. His temptation technique was to turn Jesus to Himself (make Jesus see the work that was done in Him and become conceited). He wanted to bring Jesus out from under God, so that He could explore in the flesh. Satan came prepared with scriptures to tempt Jesus in the wilderness. These were the same scriptures that he had used to fall other men in the wilderness in time past (the Israelites). He allowed them to be hungry and then, tempted them. But they failed and cursed God.
Satan showed Jesus all the glories of this world because he wanted to turn Him. The temptations of Jesus were from a high peak and no preacher has comprehended it yet. We need the teaching of everlasting life to understand all those glories and the pinnacle which Satan showed Jesus. What Satan tempted Jesus with were things that can pull a man at the level of sonship. The intention of Satan was to destroy the work which God had wrought in Him.
“Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.” (Eze. 28:17). Satan corrupted his wisdom. This wisdom is not an earthly possession, it is grace. He had fullness of grace; this was why he was in Eden. At the age of ten, Jesus was full of wisdom, for He grew in stature. What is responsible for wisdom is grace. Inside Jesus was grace that was stored in another energy. Before Jesus began His ministry openly, He had an everlasting wisdom that could stand against the enemy, who had an ancient everlasting wisdom.
Wisdom is grace, and it is better than weapons of war (Eccl. 9:18). Wisdom is also strength (Prov. 24:5). It is grace (a skill) that can sharpen the edge of an iron. Sin is also grace, therefore. the works of the law cannot handle it. We need a higher strength and wisdom to delete sin. If wise souls are not raised, gracious souls will not be raised. It is souls that are loaded with grace that can combat this other grace (sin). If sin is not gracious, it will not tempt us. Sin is a negative grace energy and its strength is hidden, for it is not natural.
If sin was a natural strength, a man like Samson should not have fallen. It was the hidden wisdom of sin that gave him Delilah. There was something in Delilah; she was favoured and wise enough to pull any man down. The Bible never recorded any sexual intercourse between Samson and Delilah, but she had the strength to bring Samson down. This was because Samson found a home in her. This is how every woman should be towards her husband. She should have grace and know how to talk to him, for it is one who has grace that can deal with evil spirits.
Satan has fullness but he turned it, therefore, God gave Jesus a better fullness. Fullness can be measured. You can have it in a measure but not in full. Each level of fullness is a grace energy to the highest point. All the measures of grace also have their works and works have to be done for grace to appear. As such, God gave Jesus His works for Him to come into fullness (John 5:17). The work that the Father was doing were grace works, so that Jesus would wisely take the step of everlasting life. For every work done, there is a walk involved. You cannot take steps unless a work has been done in you.
“Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.” (Eze. 28:14). When God prepared every workmanship in Lucifer, He set him upon the holy mountain. This means that he was supposed to administer to the mountain by the reason of that which God wrought in him. Satan was not just walking in the midst of the stones of fire, he walked according to the program of works in him. However, he broke free from God and became a radical. He was the first to break off from God, and then, he taught many to be like that. Each of his moves were intentional. He began to use the energy God put in him to kill angels. He then came to earth and began killing men also, until he met his match (Jesus) in the New Testament.
God raised one man and blessed him with the fullness that angels do not have. In the same way God worked in Satan to produce tabret, He also worked in Jesus until He had fullness against evil. Having worked on Jesus, He could then be sent to the world. Jesus’ ministry is not just about healing the sick but to destroy Satan. Jesus came with God's own fullness.
The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. This means that it took Jesus, the Christ to trap grace and use it to destroy he who has power of death. When God works in you it will be difficult to separate that work from you. This is why it is called inheritance. The gifts of God are without repentance, therefore, God will not take them back (Rom. 11:29). When something is wrought in you, He will work it out it in your person and it will become your DNA. It is in this place that God stores things.
We can overcome Satan by knowing and destroying his fullness. The fullness of Satan is a wisdom of evil. Therefore, Jesus prayed for us to be delivered from evil. Entrance into the eternal kingdom is the deliverance from evil. The acquisition of everlasting life is a deliverance from evil. Everlasting life is the antidote to perishing. What makes a man perish is evil; it is called evil work.
God is bringing preservation upon the earth because evil work is yet still coming upon it. However, we will be saved from it. What we are hearing are more than earthly possessions; they are substances of preservation for life that are more than money.
Jesus obeyed complete fullness, then He was given the eternal dimension. This made him become the only begotten, after he had finished the begotten program. When God is begetting a man, He is giving him everlasting life and immunizing him against evil works or wickedness. He is delivering him from spiritual wickedness in high places.
The spirits that fight Christ are principalities and powers, and rulers of the darkness of this world but the spirits that fight against everlasting life are spiritual wickedness in high places. God will bring the church into a deliverance against the spirit of wickedness in high places. Everlasting life has its levels. As we overcome spiritual wickedness, we gain everlasting life. The work of this spirit is to prevent men from lasting. They are the architects of the idea of making man perish, decay and to be in extinction.