Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Lekki Soul Center (LSC)
Date: Wednesday, 23rd November 2022
The Spirit births spirit and flesh births flesh (John 3:6). The new birth is the birth of the human spirit — the spirit of one’s tripartite being. Man is a spirit, he has a soul and he lives in a body. The new birth is the recreation of the spirit of a man. Then entering the kingdom or being born of the water and of the spirit is for the soul (John 3:5). God desires the soul to be a spirit just as the human spirit was recreated.
The receiving of the kingdom is the bringing in of the soul into the same sphere as the spirit. The Kingdom is in the hand of the Spirit (Rom. 14:17). Without being in the Holy Ghost, there cannot be a rebirth of the soul. The soul has to go into the Holy Ghost in order to partake of that rebirth experienced by the spirit. The Holy Ghost is an expression of the maternal side of the Godhead; He's the One that births. The Holy Ghost is the deity entity in the Godhead that interprets their intent.
“And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.” (Gen. 1:3). Light is not just a word; it is a thing. In the beginning of creation, it was only the Holy Ghost that understood what light meant in God. The Holy Ghost brought brightness. Light could only have been interpreted by the Spirit who was moving upon the face of the waters. The Holy Ghost broods upon the waters to interpret what God would say (Gen. 1:2). God has kept the kingdom in the Holy Ghost. To have access into the kingdom, a man should enter the Holy Ghost.
The Holy Ghost, though not seen, can give entrance anywhere. He is magnificent and full of His own wonders; He can send spirits to you. He can also send Himself, with the Kingdom inside Him. We can all enter the Holy Ghost individually by portions. The Holy Ghost can divide Himself into different individuals in different measures. “The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: Thou maintainest my lot.” (Ps. 16:5). This portion is where one ought to occupy. The portion is kingdom. The Holy Ghost can be my drink and can also be my portion. The cup is the soul where the Holy Ghost can be in and be upon. Our inheritance is Spirit.
“That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” (John 3:6). Spirit is a colony of kingdom: those who are kingdom species. The Holy Ghost will give birth to you and put in you the properties of the kingdom. God kept the Kingdom in the Holy Spirit. He kept righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost (Rom. 14:17). Righteousness is not just a knowledge but a spirit a man comes into. It is a spiritual portion.
Learning righteousness through knowledge is awesome but we also ought to have an experience of it. The experience of it is in the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost will give you the kingdom. As you enter righteousness, you are being born of the spirit. So, God routed righteousness through the Holy Ghost. The birth is not just character formation. The properties of the Holy Ghost are also embedded in us because it is a mixture of nature. This is why it is not about having a form of godliness but having an authentic experience. Children of the Holy Ghost are like the Holy Ghost; they will be nothing less than Holy Spirit. At a measure, the Spirit is measured out to them. This is not just learning the character of righteousness but interpreting righteousness the way the Father wants.
Only the Holy Ghost can tell what the kingdom is. Those in the kingdom are spirits. For example, someone in the righteousness of the kingdom is a measure of the spirit. Another measure of the spirit is called peace and the highest dimension of the kingdom is joy. This joy is not just about laughing or being happy; it is a spiritual language or nature. It is associated with a joyful being. A man who has attained the joy of the kingdom is a man who is in the kingdom of God. This is more than learning a lesson. It is a work of God in men.
God is very committed to us because the adversary also births people. The word "flesh" does not refer to the body, it speaks of a kingdom. The flesh is also spirit. Once a man enters it, he is flesh and staying too long in the flesh makes one unconvertable. So also, staying too long in the Spirit makes one a being that cannot return to flesh. This is called glory or salvation (Luke 3:6). Isaiah said, "all flesh shall see it (the glory of God)" (Isa. 40:5). To reveal the glory of the Lord is to raise the standard of the Holy Ghost, which is glorious. It also means revealing the dominion of joy. What saves is the revelation of God’s glory. Salvation in this dimension is entering into glory. When a man is not spiritual, he will be unaware of a dominion over him.
"Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience…" (Eph. 2:2). There is a spirit that works in the children of disobedience. The Father of flesh is the spirit or prince of the power of the air, and he works in the children of disobedience. What he does is to make men flesh. Lucifer has lost it and he cannot give birth to spirits. To heave out his kingdom, he birthed flesh. When Jesus said, “that which is born of flesh is flesh... (John 3:6)”, He was not referring to a man. It cannot be a man versus the Holy Ghost. It is the Holy Spirit versus another spirit (the spirit that works in the children of disobedience). It is another spirit that produces flesh.
To stop Satan, one needs to stop what he does in people, and this can only be done by offering people entrance into the kingdom. Therefore, the kingdom of God is an escape from flesh. If he is a prince, then he has a kingdom and wisdom. If he has wisdom, it does something; the wisdom is employed to make men flesh.
Man was a living soul at the beginning (Gen. 2:7). However, He became flesh in Gen. 6:3. There were only eight persons who were not flesh on the earth and he needed to save them. The purpose of the water and the ark (Gen. 6:13-21) was not to wipe men out but to save the eight from getting spoilt. You use water for separation. God poured water on earth because He knew that flesh will sink and spirit will float. This singular activity pained God, but He needed to do it, so He does not lose the eight.
Satan understood the principle that "when something is flesh, God cannot relate with it". When God cannot reach it, it is destroyed. Satan will destroy a man so that God cannot have him. But in the latter days, God vowed not to destroy the earth with water (Gen. 9:11). God placed a rainbow so that flesh will remember that God will do everything as He promised.
When man had become flesh and completely weak, what God did was to follow another principle. God did not bring water. Instead, He sent His Only Begotten Son and made Him flesh (John 1:14). He made Him flesh and allowed Him to dwell among men, learning their ways and growing supernaturally to show that He can work out salvation. When Jesus came and grew among men, He understood all our problems and infirmities (Heb. 4:15). Those infirmities are the things responsible for converting men to the flesh. Jesus said He was able to take them away from us. Those things are not physical; they are spiritual, albeit evil. In the spirit, when God looks at Satan, He sees flesh. Satan is a spiritual flesh. Flesh is the nature of the adversary and Satan is their Father. Satan cannot father the least of the spirit in the kingdom of God. Satan births flesh, for he can only father flesh.
When you get born again, you become a child of God in your spirit, but God has to contest for space in your soul. What God is doing now is to take the word into our space so we can live together. When you get born again, your spirit is born again. But there is nothing good in the outward man. The majority of the soul is also old. The spirit has been the soul's friend; now it is a new man. The soul then follows the spirit. Hence, the only way to bring the soul to church is to get the spirit born again. God raised pastors to work on the soul. Pastors will confront Satan’s nature in people. The issue of salvation is important because Satan is contesting for souls relentlessly.
With every life you gain, you dethrone a dimension of Satan’s kingdom. There is an amount of life you gain and you will be able to destroy the works of principalities and powers, after which there will be an assault on you from the rulers of the darkness of this world. Do not give up because they will do anything to stop you from changing nature from flesh to spirit. You need to keep wrestling spiritually. The wrestling is not for us to fight for natural things, but for us to remove ourselves from the hold of darkness (Eph. 6:12). After winning the war over the rulers of the darkness of this world, spiritual wickedness will take the center stage. We should keep on engaging. We must war and not give up until we take those high places.
“That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.” (Joel 1:4). There are four worms over the flesh mentioned here. They eat man and the things that make him real. God projected this in terms of agriculture but it is more than that. Corruption is God’s enemy, not His great army. These four stages of devouring are not ordinary. Worms are diseases of evil spirits from their corrupt nations. Satan has worms. When observed closely, he is being eaten up. If not, he would not have become old. These worms are the powers of death that he has. The Scripture talks about worms in hell (Mark 9:48).
Herod was struck by an angel and worms instantly came out of him (Acts 12:23). The worms did not come from the angel but from Herod’s inside. The sword of the angel only revealed them. Herod was the one who killed James and wanted to kill Peter (Acts 12:1-5). At a point, he became elated and proud, and while addressing the Jews one day, the Jews began to refer to him as the voice of God (Acts 12:22). This made him swell in pride but an angel was waiting for him.
The operation of angels with swords from the Old Testament is still active. The quickest way to provoke this operation to kill is pride. It will cause God to break through the spirit into the physical. Nebuchadnezzar’s heart was lifted and God judged him instantly (Dan. 5:20). God responds to and judges pride very fast because it reminds Him of Satan. Another character that reminds God of Satan is betrayal. This was present in Absalom, and Judas who betrayed Jesus.
God is restoring everything that has been eaten from us. This is the restitution of all things. Jesus will not come back until this restitution comes to pass (Acts 3:21). The world ought to be waiting for the times of the restitution of all things which is redemption to man. It is the process of giving back things that have been earlier taken but in sevenfold. If Satan takes a man’s heart from him, God will give in return not just his heart, but God’s own kind of heart. God has promised to return everything that Satan has stolen from us. Satan spoilt the things he took from us, so we cannot get them back. Jesus then obtained the eternal redemption (or restitution) of these things from within the tabernacle.
“If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but He that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.” (John 3:12-13). From verse 13, we see that Jesus immediately began to talk about heavenly things. No man has ever ascended to this type of heaven because it is God’s heaven, not the one that Adam occupied. Satan is in the same heaven that Adam fell from but Jesus ascended higher than that. He did so in the days of His flesh. The temptations in the wilderness were to stop Jesus’ ascension. That period was the season of His coronation and ascension, and Satan wanted to pull Him down. Jesus is the One who came down from heaven; now He is in heaven.
“And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up…” (John 3:14). If we want to hear heavenly things, the Son of man needs to be lifted from the earth into heaven. This lifting is done by preaching. There is an earthly preaching of the Son of Man. The teachings that are prevailing today are not even earthly at all. Jesus has taught us what earthly teachings are: how to get born again, see the kingdom and enter the kingdom. A person who enters the kingdom is still earthly but is a spirit that can travel because such a one has been born by water and spirit.
When we get born again, we are no longer flesh; when we move into the spirit and the kingdom, we are away from flesh. However, we have not left the world, the zone where flesh can be found. We become highly separated from flesh when we engage peace. Peace is a realm in the kingdom where we must have done a lot of pleasing which makes us admissible into God’s world. We do not come to God directly. The process is to first do things that God can attest to. Having done Christ over time, Christ brings us to God. That was why He said that if we are ashamed of Him here on earth, He will not speak concerning us when it is time to deal with God (Mark 8:38). Christ will deny a person who has not done Him because such a person would not be trustworthy. God can only trust Christ.
“And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.” (John 3:14-15). This is further raising of Jesus’ status quo in the realm of the spirit. It is not possible to believe Jesus being lifted up if one did not believe Him while He was a Son of man. While He was here, He was preached in a way that gets people born again and makes them enter the kingdom. Jesus was communicating heavenly things to Nicodemus.
Heaven is waiting for a generation when everything on earth will be preached and will move into heaven — heavenly things that He spoke to Nicodemus (John 3:12). Those who will move into heaven are the people that will lift the Son of man up. The greatest harvest on earth talks about the mass turning of people from other religions to God. This harvest cannot occur except the Son of Man be lifted.
“And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me.” (John 12:32). The lifting of Jesus did not happen on the cross. Christianity is not to be made an earthly thing. We ought to take it up because it takes might for a man to agree to lift Jesus up out of earth. We still depend on strategies to draw men, but Jesus can draw men. We just have to, first of all, lift Him up from the earth. Lifting Jesus up means a lot of things. It connotes Jesus being the goal of every man’s life.
There is a warfare from the adversary of making Jesus not to be relevant in all. He made it such that Jesus is not worthy of seeking. He wants us to seek things and seek Jesus, but Jesus wants to be separated from things. We need preachers who are not afraid to lift Jesus up with their lives, not just with their voices. We are not meant to confront men with Jesus. Rather, we ought to live for Him. The greatest evangelism is not just by preaching, but much more by life. This is how God will draw all men to Himself. We all need this training so that people can see nothing but Jesus alone in us. By so doing, we have lifted Him up.
We need heavenly power to live for God. We also need divine things to help us lift Him up. The lifters must have the power to lift that cross up. They must have eaten enough to lift Him. Simon the Cyrene lifted the cross with Jesus (Matt. 27:32). After some time, Jesus had to carry it Himself. When Jesus is lifted, we will see Him as the Son of God.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16). Entering the kingdom stops corruption. Moving into the heavens stops perishing. There are two dominions: one is heavenly and the other is earthly. The two dimensions are the kingdom of Christ and of God respectively (Eph. 5:5). That of Christ is God’s earthly realm of God’s dominion while that of God is the heavenly portion of the kingdom.
All the kingdoms are called the kingdom of heaven. There is the earthly dimension of the kingdom of heaven which pertains to those who are young and cannot handle heavenly things. We begin from the earthly dimension till we become spirits. It is only a spirit that can travel the road of heaven. The purpose of becoming a spirit is to ascend into the heavenly terrain. When we enter heaven, we wear heaven and become heaven. It is not going to a physical heavenly plain; rather, it is about inheriting heavenly things.
Blessings!
Summary
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The new birth is the recreation of the spirit of a man. Then entering the kingdom or being born of the water and of the spirit is for the soul (John 3:5). God desires the soul to be a spirit just as the human spirit was recreated. The receiving of the kingdom is the bringing in of the soul into the same sphere as the spirit. Without being in the Holy Ghost, there cannot be a rebirth of the soul.
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Learning righteousness through knowledge is awesome but we also ought to have an experience of it. The experience of it is in the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost will give you the kingdom. As you enter righteousness, you are being born of the spirit. This birth is not just character formation. The properties of the Holy Ghost are also embedded in us because it is a mixture of nature.
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(Eph. 2:2). There is a spirit that works in the children of disobedience. The Father of flesh is the spirit or prince of the power of the air, and he works in the children of disobedience. What he does is to make men flesh. To stop Satan, one needs to stop what he does in people, and this can only be done by offering people entrance into the kingdom. Therefore, the kingdom of God is an escape from flesh.
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(John 3:14). If we want to hear heavenly things, the Son of man needs to be lifted from the earth into heaven. This lifting is done by preaching. There is an earthly preaching of the Son of Man. The teachings that are prevailing today are not even earthly at all. Jesus has taught us what earthly teachings are: how to get born again, see the kingdom and enter the kingdom.
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“And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me.” (John 12:32). The lifting of Jesus did not happen on the cross. It connotes Jesus being the goal of every man’s life. There is a warfare from the adversary of making Jesus not to be relevant in all. He made it such that Jesus is not worthy of seeking. He wants us to seek things and seek Jesus, but Jesus wants to be separated from things.