Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Lekki Soul Centre (LSC)
Date: Wednesday, 30th March 2022
Ministering: Pastor Emeka Egwuchukwu
The things of great importance such as these things being spoken may sometimes look unannounced, uncelebrated and unassuming. The apostles never knew they were going to become foundation stones of the heavenly Jerusalem nor did they know about the bishopric till much later. However, they found grace to follow; despite not seeing the presence of anything economically viable nor any natural hope attached.
The Lord in Matthew 19:28 said to His disciples that they would judge the twelve tribes of Israel. That is, they were being brought to a place of judgement. At the point this was being done, it did not look as though anything was going on because all that Jesus did was to teach them. It was through the teaching that kingdoms were appointed, graces landed, bishopric came upon them and they became precious stones in the heavenly dimension of the world to come.
There was nothing about heaven's economy that corroborated with what was happening at the time; but a lot of things were being handed over through teachings and the word. We do not know how privileged we are. So, we are encouraged to continue; because things are being given and eternal destinies are being rewritten, defined and handed over.
We are encouraged to keep hearing and keep growing. God is making us come to comprehension and understanding.. The greatest prosperity is that a soul has been made to understand God. (Jer. 9:23-24) True prosperity is that we know Him. There is no way we can know the Lord if we do not understand Him. Understanding is something the Lord is causing to come our way in great measure and at this time: understanding what everlasting life and Eternal life is (John 17:3).
Understanding is what the Son of God has come to give us (1 John 5:20). That understanding is everything; it is a doorway to access things of God. The discussion between Jesus and the woman at the well according to John 4 was to give an understanding of a thing that she did not know of because the woman had toiled and laboured as a result of an inner quest, inner dissatisfaction and inner disillusionment that she had. Her coming to the well to fetch was physically playing out what was happening in her innermost being.
“…If thou knewest the gift of God, and Who it is that saith to thee, Give Me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of Him, and He would have given thee living water.” (John 4:10). The gift of God is 'He'. (Rom. 6:23). When Jesus was talking about the gift of God to the Samaritan woman, what He was referring to was Eternal life. The reason the woman could not ask of Him is because we cannot ask of what we do not know. Our asking is based on what we know.
(John 4:11). The Person standing before the woman had so much joy for drawing waters, not from her well but the wells of salvation (Is. 12:3) but the woman was ignorant of this. Her well was deep; but as deep as it was, it had never brought her satisfaction. No well is deeper than God. He is deep and wide. It is not everybody that can draw from that well but the One who was speaking with the Samaritan woman had the ability to draw from this well and to give the gift of God.
Death is a wage for which people serve sin. Sin paints a hope that it has a wage that it can pay. Men serve sin because sin is profitable. Sin is a kind of life that men live by, which will profit them here on earth. With sin, Satan sells wisdom. An example was how Satan preached the hope of the evil tree to Eve and she was able to see the rewards or the wages of sin; but it did not look like sin.
Before Satan approached her, she had never “seen” the tree. By Satan's preaching, her eyes were open to see the possibilities (Gen. 3:6). Death is a whole arrangement of living a life called death. The peak of that life is anti-God. So, it is another god. Another god or another hope was being preached to them.
“If thou knowest the gift of God…” Jesus was the One that opened our eyes to the gift of God. The gift of God is the Eternal life through Christ Jesus. “Who it is that saith to thee”, is He that has capacity to gift us the gift of God. What we are hearing at meetings is He; but sometimes, it takes us time to come into a place where we can understand who He is. This places a limitation on us from receiving. If we do not see Him in the capacity that He is coming with the gift, we will not receive the gift.
"For I say unto you, Ye shall not see Me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord." (Matt. 23:39). This means that we cannot receive from Him if we do not discern Him. In a very little way, this is also true with the ministers of the gospel. When you are close to a minister of God, one thing you must be careful to do is to be humble before them because you can misunderstand them.
Ministers of the gospel are shrouded in disguise. Some of them are clothed in meekness such that we can easily despise them to our detriment and this can put us in a position where we cannot receive any good thing from the person spiritually. A heart that despises the servants of God will despise the Lord Himself.
The Lord comes in His servants. Blessed is he who cometh in the name of the Lord. When we despise, we miss out on blessings. Familiarity can prevent us from receiving the gift of God. You cannot receive Eternal life except through Christ Jesus. If it will come through Christ Jesus, then it will come through a vessel that has been raised; for Jesus also was a vessel.
John was a burning and shining light (John 5:35). Jesus recognised that John was a man sent from God. God will always send a man. (John 1:6). The light of John was meant to open the eyes of those that have fellowshipped with it so that they would thereafter be able to see the Lamb.
Most of Jesus’ disciples were disciples of John. They fellowshipped with the light of John, which was why they were able to discern the Messiah. If a man rejects John, he will not see Jesus. John was the messenger that was prophesied about, who was sent to prepare the way (Mal. 3:1).
Jesus needs to be understood as the living Son and not just Christ because it is the living Son that has the capacity to deliver the gift of God (John 4:10). The gift of God is an everlasting Man, who is the Son that is living. There was no way the Samaritan woman would have been able to discern who Jesus was. When Jesus revealed a little of Himself to the Jews, they sought to kill Him.
In this season of everlasting life, we need to know the One who is speaking. There was a time He spoke from the earth; He is still the same that will speak from the heavens. When He begins to speak from heaven and we still see Him as the One that speaks from the earth, we would not receive heavenly blessings.
The speakings of everlasting life are speakings of heaven. They are speakings of the right hand. Without understanding who it is that is speaking amongst us, it will be impossible to discern Him accurately. If we do not discern Him, we will not receive the gift of God.
There is what is called the fullness of Christ, the fullness of the Father and the fullness of God. The fullness of Christ is charity – it is the perfectness of Christ (Col. 3:14). Christ begins from faith to hope, and then to charity. Hope purifies a person so that he can come into the unfeigned love of the brethren, which is the peak of Christ. A man at charity is a spiritual man but he does not yet have the fullness of the Father.
“For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fulness dwell…” (Col. 1:19). The fullness in this regard is the fullness of the Father. It means that the Father wanted the fullness of everlasting life to dwell in Jesus. There is still the fulness of the Godhead (Col. 2:9). Our Lord Jesus is full in all these realms; He is not lacking in any of them. He has come into the perfection of these realms. To come into the perfection of these realms is to have the crowns of these realms. He has the eternal crown; and He can also give it.
When Jesus says “Give Me to drink” to a man, it is not because He wants to take from a man. Rather, it is because He wants to give the man life. He wants to stop death in him. He will take that which was not able to satisfy the man, and give him that which can satisfy. Sometimes, we want to keep our death by not releasing our cistern. Our cistern is our vessel. We keep our death by not releasing our lives to Him.
To discern He that is speaking is to discern the One who can give the gift of God; that is, the living Son. He is the One who is everlasting life. Christ is a gift; the Father is a gift and God is the gift. We need the two prior gifts to get to the gift of God. If any man rejects a gift at any level, then he is rejecting the ultimate gift.
These gifts are not physical; they are spiritual gifts and they cannot be seen with naked eyes. They are gifts that a carnal man will not be able to appreciate (1 Cor. 2:14). There is a need to discern to receive gifts. We need to discern everlasting life because, without discerning everlasting life, we will not be able to receive the gift that is in everlasting life, which is Eternal life.
“Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and His arm shall rule for Him: behold, His reward is with Him, and His work before Him.” (Is. 40:10). His work is everlasting life; without which one cannot receive the reward. The reward, which is the gift of God, is Eternal life. Jesus did not give the woman living water because she could not drink it. What He gave the Samaritan woman was the water of the Holy Ghost, which was the operation of the word of knowledge in that scenario (John 4:17). This water was enough to turn her into an evangelist.
If the water of the Holy Ghost was able to turn this woman into an evangelist, such that she went into the city to herald the Messiah, then the living water will be able to do much more than that. She was able to discern just because of the water that was given to her. Living water would have been too high for her to drink because she had not even drunk spiritual water; which is Christ (1 Cor. 10:4). Spiritual drink (water) prepares one for living water; it makes one spiritual.
What spiritual drink will do is to make you spiritual. No one will drink living water who is not spiritual. Living water is not for carnal men. You need spiritual drink to first of all renew your mind. You need the word which is Christ to wash off that carnal nature for to prepare you for living water. The reason why some people draw back when they come to living water is because they have not yet been washed by spiritual water.
There is a prototype of living water in Genesis chapter 2. Everything you find in Eden was everlasting. From Eden, man was supposed to find Eternal life. So, while they were describing the water, they described the resources of that water or the resources of the land (Gen. 2:8-12). You can't talk about land without river.
The word Pison means increase. So, when a man has been watered by everlasting life, you will increase. Where you begin to see multiplication is in everlasting life. Real increase is in everlasting life.
(Gen. 2:13). Gihon is to burst forth. Now you need the energy of everlasting life to burst into Eternal life. Everlasting life has a thrust that makes you burst. Another word for burst is spring. You know Jesus said to her: But whosoever drinker of the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life (John 4:14). Wells are properties of fathers. Wells are inheritance fathers leave for their children. Wells are possessions of life that fathers pass to their children.
Jesus has the ability to make well–not on the ground but inside you, a well of living water. Another word for well is spring. It means it will burst springing up into everlasting life. So, Jesus was saying “I will give you a well first, then the well will spring into everlasting life”. Everlasting life is also a well; a well of living water that will spring you to Eternal life. So, you need a well spring from within you. A well has to be springing all the time.
“And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria.” (Gen. 2:14). The third river is Hiddekel. It means rapidly, swiftly, speed. Those are the resources of the land of the living. You can't get the energy that will break into Eternal life if you don't have the rapidity that everlasting life gives. Everything about everlasting life is increase, multiplication, bursting forth rapidly. It means it's going somewhere.
The last one is Euphrates. It means fruitfulness. If we put all of them together, it means “increase, bursting forth rapidly into fruitfulness”. You are not fruitful if you've not laid hold on Eternal life. These are the portions that are in the land of the living. What makes the land of the living is the living water. The land is the soul. The soul can be thirsty; the soul can die. How fruitful a land can be is the kind of water that is provided for the land.
It is inthe season of the Father that you hear "short work". Those are the things of the short work; bursting forth, removing limitations and removing barriers. Then you will find yourself faster and rapid; you will begin to bear fruits unto Eternal life. The fruit that is needed for one to enter into Eternal life is the fruit that a man would bear in everlasting life. A man cannot bear fruit in everlasting life if his ground is still dry.
The man's ground needs to receive water; it needs to partake of the rivers in Eden: Pison, Gihon, Hiddekel, Euphrates. They are all meant to be in a man's soul. These rivers in Eden were one but it parted into four heads when it entered the garden. So, when it enters a man's soul it will also part and then begin to work on the soul.
The water this world gives has the ability to make a man thirst again (John 4:13). But the water that Jesus will give, will become a well in man and then spring up into everlasting life and further into Eternal life. The type of the living water is the river described in Eden (Gen. 2:10) but another is described in the book of Revelation (Rev. 22:1) – the type of living water described here is called "pure river of water of life". It is Eternal, not everlasting. It is a thronic water. What issues/flows out of the Throne is Eternal life. This water is not from behind the Throne, it is from He that sits upon the Throne. He is a pure river.
The life of a land is its river. Eternal life is a river. It is also a fountain because it founts from He that sits upon the Throne. So, Jesus would create a fountain in us called Eternal life. To understand Eternal life, we have to understand the river of water of life. If a man does not understand the living water, he cannot understand Eternal life, the pure river of water of life.
God's servant, Rev. Kayode Oyegoke, once described the water of life in the book of Revelation as different from the one in the book of John. He describes the former as higher. To know how pure a river is, access the head where the water is springing from. It is where the water in its purest form is gotten. Because as water flows from the head, it carries things alongside.
The river that issues from the throne (Rev. 22:1 has a street– it creates paths as it goes; it charts course and tributaries. Everlasting life has a path. Eternal life also has a path. It has a street because it creates its own course. The things around the river, like the tree of life, were distributed by the river.
Eternal Life is going to be in the soul. The soul of one that has inherited Eternal Life is one who has the Throne. And out of the Throne of the Lamb and God in him, the wonders described in Rev. 22:2 will be issued. These wonders like trees are not going to be seen physically in the soul; they are conversations, thoughts, life expression and thinking that will see pathways where no one is seeing it, and thinking of life where no one sees life.
Fruits are the reward of life (living). A man has to live and abide. God's servant, Rev. Kayode Oyegoke, said there is 'living' and 'abiding' in both everlasting and Eternal life. But the one in Eternal life is of a higher expression. Fruit is a sign that one has lived; because a man has become a tree, and a tree is living and abiding (Psa. 1:3).
A man who has Eternal life has both the garden and Eden. Eden is the garden of God. God wants to also make a garden in man, so He described man as His husbandry (1 Cor. 3:9). So, anyone who has Eternal life has a garden inside. He has both Eden and the garden.
The garden is eastward of Eden–it is everlasting life planted eastward. In other words, the garden planted eastward means it is designed to propel one to Eternal life. So, if a man is in the garden of God, he must go to Eternal life. The garden is where God Himself can come and eat fruits.
The issuing of Eternal life will happen in the days of our flesh not when we get to heaven. Jesus would make man a garden and build His Throne in him. This is what is called the work of God. After His work, He will then reward man.
The gift of God is God Himself. God will come into His garden (house) and rest. Man will also come into God and rest because He is our rest and we are His rest.
Summary
1. Understanding is what the Son of God has come to give us (1 John 5:20). That understanding is everything; it is a doorway to access things of God.
2. The Lord comes in His servants. You cannot receive Eternal life except through Christ Jesus. If it will come through Christ Jesus, then it will come through a vessel that has been raised; for Jesus also was a vessel.
3. No one will drink living water who is not spiritual. Living water is not for carnal men. Jesus needs to be understood as the living Son and not just Christ, because it is the living Son that has the capacity to deliver the gift of God (Eternal life).
4. The speakings of everlasting life are speakings of heaven. They are speakings of the right hand. Without understanding who it is that is speaking amongst us, it will be impossible to discern Him accurately. If we do not discern Him, we will not receive the gift of God.
5. When Jesus says “Give Me to drink” to a man, it is not because He wants to take from a man. Rather, it is because He wants to give the man life. He wants to stop death in him. He will take that which was not able to satisfy the man, and give him that which can satisfy.
6. The water this world gives has the ability to make a man thirst again. But the water that Jesus will give, will become a well in man and then spring up into everlasting life and further into Eternal life.
7. There is what is called the fullness of Christ, the fullness of the Father and the fullness of God. The fullness of Christ is charity – it is the perfectness of Christ. The fullness of the Father is Salvation or Everlasting life. The fullness of God is His gift – Eternal life.
8. There is 'living' and 'abiding' in both everlasting and Eternal Life. But the one in Eternal life is of a higher expression. Fruit is a sign that one has lived because a man has become a tree, and a tree is living and abiding (Psa. 1:3).
9. The garden is eastward of Eden–it is everlasting life planted eastward. In other words, the garden planted eastward means it is designed to propel one to Eternal life. So, if a man is in the garden of God, he must go to Eternal life. The garden is where God Himself can come and eat fruits.
10. The issuing of Eternal life will happen in the days of our flesh not when we get to heaven. Jesus would make man a garden and build His Throne in him. This is what is called the work of God. After His work, He will then reward man with Himself (His gift-Eternal Life).