Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: Revelation Hour (RH)
Date: Saturday, 9th April 2022
Ministering: Pastor Kenneth Eyanohonre
God is taking us to a place where we can understand Him clearly. There are allocations in God but they come in measures, season after season. God designed it so that we receive them bit by bit, until we receive the fullness. This is why we can only receive Eternal Life after we have received everlasting life.
When Jesus came to the earth, He began to show man another aspect of relationship with God. Before Jesus came to the earth, the entire nation of Israel knew God as Yahweh. They also had an awe and dread for Him. However, Jesus Christ talked about Yahweh as His Father and showed them this by teaching them how to pray to Him (Matt. 6:9-13). This did not even capture the full definition of the Fatherhood of God but they still could not relate with it.
The Jews were angry at Jesus for referring to God as His Father, but Fatherhood has become a reality that we have in God because Jesus embodied it while on earth. As such, we can find help, hope, and assurance in God as Father. He can speak calmness and assurance to our hearts, give us direction, bring us great hope, and we can find strength in Him. As Jesus taught about God as Father, He was manifesting different phases of divinity and bringing it closer to man at every phase.
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. [7] Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgement and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.” (Isa. 9:6-7)
Truly, Jesus carried the government of the Kingdom of God on His shoulder, as Isaiah prophesied. He taught the wisdom of the kingdom of God in parables to show us a way to understand God's government, and the wisdom by which the government will find expression in man. God's government was not conventional and was not intended to overthrow the government on earth physically. It was rather intended to grow and operate in parts of a man.
Although Jesus Christ had spent a long time with His disciples, they did not understand the nature of His government. Therefore, they asked at His resurrection, “Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?” (Acts 1:6). Many of us are like this — we still come short of understanding some things about God, even when we feel we understand them already. This is why God usually has to stay on a matter for a while.
The mind still tries to interpret and rationalise the things of God, and bring it back to the physical. But God in His mercy keeps bringing understanding on a matter until He is able to knock things in us that hold us down. He is a very competent Saviour. He stays with us through our seasons of childishness, which many times takes a long time, until His wisdom is midwived in us. Every stage and season with God is very definite to help us cross to the next level.
When God referred to Jesus as the “everlasting Father”, it was much more than relating with Him as a Father; it was a position that Jesus needed to come into for our sakes. There were some realities in God that He intended to bestow on our Lord Jesus to make Him an everlasting Father. Jesus could not have come into them at once, He had to come into them in portions, allocations, and season by season. We should trust God to give us understanding, so that we can relate with Jesus as our everlasting Father.
“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.” (Deut. 33:27). The everlasting arms is a provision that we will come into, in God. It is a realm that is available for man beneath the realm of the Eternal God. These "everlasting arms" are an allocation of God’s eternal nature in the realm of man, at its peak.
“Now consider how great this man was, unto whom even the patriarch Abraham gave the tenth of the spoils.” (Heb. 7:4). God is helping us to consider how great our Saviour is. He is not just our Saviour who died for us; He is a great God. He is the great God and the brightness of God’s glory. He carries the weight of God’s glory and is the express image of God’s person (Heb. 1:3). It was when the angels saw Jesus that they discovered a reality in God, which they had not known before.
Jesus has the genes — the very operations and nature of the Father, to the extent that the Father has extended all of that level of authority to Him. In spite of this, the Father is not challenged to call Jesus the everlasting Father. This is because something is at stake. Jesus carries the divine nature and glory of the Father. So when God decorated Him, He decorated Him with glory. He carried a level of glory so that He could taste death for every man (Heb. 2:9). He also had a level of glory at this point that was evident. The essence of this glory was so that eternal provisions and realities can come to man.
“Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, [21] Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.” (1 Pet. 1:20-21). The essence of all the allocations of great glory that Jesus came into was because God wanted to raise a people who would walk on the face of the earth and carry the reality of faith and hope. These people will believe in God and would be able to walk on the face of the earth because of the glory of Jesus that they were beholding. God gave him that glory to provoke a level of faith and hope in men.
The glory Jesus carries is visible in the realms of the heavens (in the realms of the angelic). This glory is also our allocation because we must do faith, hope and charity. All that is at stake, in terms of God commanding us to a greater provision of Him, is because God has decked His Son with glory. This glory is the glory as at when He was raised from the dead, and God kept multiplying glory on Him when He told Him to sit at His right hand.
The root of Jesus's words and the works he did was in what the Father did or is doing. Jesus told His disciples that even if they could not believe in the reality of His union with the Father (John 14:11), they should believe Him for the sake of the works. Jesus was teaching everlasting things and also doing miracles, but these were just part of the works.
Jesus demonstrated divinity in so many practical ways to His disciples; like through his teachings or by the definite kinds of works He did. Even at that level of works, He was presenting to them to believe that those were not all of the works that the Father had set out to do. Jesus was relating closely with the works that the Father had done (John 5:17). The works of the Father are in eternity but they flow into a natural realm which Jesus, while working in the natural realm, was able to capture its reality. He was able to capture the level of the endless works of the Father and could relate with it while He was on earth. This means He had an understanding of the Father's works and was replicating it at a certain level on earth.
Part of the very profound expressions of Jesus as Lord were that He led us, saved us, presented God to us, and took the fall. However, when He began to talk of the Father's work, He was seeing something that even His disciples were not seeing. There is a provision called the Father’s works. These works are works that a natural man cannot capture or see. As such, the disciples only got a glimpse of the works of the Father. When Jesus said, “believe me for my work’s sake” (John 14:11), it was not because He did anything extraordinary that was more than what Moses did, in terms of visible works.
However, God had designed that He would make a kind of work available, which Jesus grew up learning; and when He grew to a point, He began to speak the works. As He spoke of the works, He was living, conducting His life, and also appropriating seasons out of the reality of the works. He even defined and created seasons, but that was borne out of the strength of the works of the Father, which He captured.
One of the strong realities of Jesus as the everlasting Father is that God has put Him in a place of authority, and now, He fully and completely understands the works and programs of the Father. God has also expressly vested the authority to do the works on Him. So, He is standing in that role as everlasting Father with the authority and commitment of God, and does not lack at all in the understanding of the works of God in all its details. It is from this point that He is speaking, establishing and ensuring that the works of the Father are being done.
The realm everlasting is the realm where God is interfacing with man and bringing him to His most exalted positions. By doing eternal or everlasting works as the everlasting Father, Jesus is doing a work in humanity that will endure because He fully understands and is aware of the prototype. He saw the works and came into that reality, and He is sitting in that realm today. God has committed all the reality of doing those works to Him.
By declaring Jesus as the everlasting Father, God wants to set a new connection of believing in our hearts. This realm of everlasting is about salvation in its very definite forms and also about God dealing with and exterminating the strength of sin. Jesus is set to do works that are everlasting and will put an end to sin; this defines Him as an everlasting Father. From the point of Fatherhood, He stands in a place of authority. But He first stands in a place of understanding and commitment.
“For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, [12] Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee. [13] And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.” (Heb. 2:11-13). One character of fathers is that they beget or bring forth. They carry a certain mandate to do work. A father is a source and a sustainer; he has the ability to procreate. As the Everlasting Father, Jesus has been graced by God. He has an understanding of God’s requirements and what He wants to do. He has the template of the works of God.
Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? [29] Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.” (John 6:28-29). Our pathway into doing God’s works starts on the pedestal of believing. Therefore, God first begins by sending us words that would capture the reality of a realm, and expects that we believe them. God graced Jesus with glory, so that by that glory, we can believe. Works are wrought in us by believing. At every point in time, there is always an elevation of believing. This means that believing is not just an action done at the experience of the new birth, but something we must continuously engage in to access all the works of God, which our Saviour and King embodied. If we do not believe, the works will elude us.
God worked in Jesus and gave Him glory in order to provoke faith in us and set us up on our journey to God. Therefore, we ought to keep believing and responding to faith. As the words of God come to us, He broadens our understanding, not just for us to be able to relate with it but to first build up faith in our hearts. The works God wants to wrought in us are enduring works. Therefore, Jesus as an everlasting Father will do works of precision, which will not miss the very purpose of God. One of His major targets is to eliminate sin.
Jesus is standing by and staying through with a tenacity that cannot be defiled. He is looking beyond how far you are from the plan and is seeing you in the plan. He exists as the everlasting Father because of us. Fathers have the capacity to bear weight; God can trust them to finish what He has started. Therefore, God trusts that Jesus can finish these works. God wants to elevate faith in our hearts. He wants us to believe Him because these works are coming down to take a posture of salvation that will make men transit to the next level. The works of God are everlasting works; they are works from the beginning (1 John 1:1).
“But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.” (John 5:36). The greater witness is on the premise of greater works which Jesus has become one with. Our Lord Jesus did a measure of work on earth but He still has a greater responsibility. These works will bear witness of Him and turn us into a product of His works.. A definite work is being done in us, and these works will bear witness that Jesus is consecrated forever as the everlasting father.
Fathers bear seeds; they can be represented by their seeds. God raised Jesus as the everlasting Father to carry seeds. This seed is the incorruptible seed that liveth and abideth forever (1 Pet. 1:23). The Father is sowing, incubating and growing seeds in men and He is going to replicate Himself through the power of those seeds. These seeds have a definite intent to raise us up to God — to make us abide. We will then have abiding minds that can carry the strength of the divine nature because Eternal Life would have found the right of way into our minds by reason of our minds acquiring its energy. As such, we will be able to resonate at the frequency of Eternal Life.
We are all stakeholders in the program of salvation because God has us in mind and sees us in the plan. Through the incorruptible seed, we will take up a living and abiding nature. We will be raised up unto God as sons of God, and thereby fulfil God's dream. God's dream is hanging and the execution of that dream is the everlasting Father.
Eternity is about God's vastness, and like Jesus trapped all of these, men will trap all of it. The everlasting Father will replicate Himself on a large scale, with quality and precision, and He will make this nature accessible. The competent Saviour is going to produce many sons unto glory (Heb. 2:10). He will save us to the uttermost, for He has a program to ensure we become what God expects of us. Then, God will be all in all.
Summary
1. Jesus is an Everlasting Father for the sake of man. God bestowed some realities on Him to make Him come into this state. He was given a level of glory by God so that He could taste death for man (Heb. 2:9), and so that eternal provisions and realities can come to man.
2. Jesus has the genes — the very operations and nature of the Father (Heb. 1:3), to the extent that the Father has extended all of that level of authority to Him (Matt. 28:18). In spite of this, the Father is not challenged to call Jesus the Everlasting Father.
3. The essence of all the allocations of great glory that Jesus came into was because God wanted to raise a people who would walk on the face of the earth and carry the reality of faith and hope (1 Pet. 1:20-21).
4. By doing eternal or everlasting works as the everlasting Father, Jesus is doing a work in humanity that will endure. This realm of everlasting life is about salvation in its very definite forms and also about God dealing with and exterminating the strength of sin.
5. Our pathway into doing God’s works starts on the pedestal of believing (John 6:28-29). Works are wrought in us by believing. Believing is not just an action done at the experience of the new birth, but something we must continuously engage in to access all the works of God.