A transcript of the Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM) from a teaching by Pastor Emeka Egwuchukwu in Writing the Vision Prayer Meeting (WTVPM) on Wednesday, 16th of October, 2024.
Transcript Excerpt
Yesterday, we looked at the City and two things that make for a lamb. When a person says he is a lamb, we have to check if he has the temple. If he has the temple, then he has the order of worship. The second thing to check is if he has the light of the City. There are different levels of lambs, as seen in Arnion and Amnos. Those two are not small lambs in the ranking of lambs; they are the high revelation of the Lamb of God, which is the Son of God.
The Life of Worship of the Lamb
The reason for the temple is worship. So, to have the temple is not just about having the tabernacle on the inside; although the tabernacle is a constitution of a kind of life. No one would be able to follow the Lamb through without having this temple completed within. That was how the City acquired the temple—God and the Lamb. God and the Lamb are the life of that City. That City is constituted by lambs. If the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple, then the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the life. This means They have a life of worship.
The kind of worship that is being demanded of us in this season is not as we have previously known. It is a high level of worship that can only be taught by the Lamb, and we cannot come into this order of worship until we have been made true. He is the High Priest of the Sanctuary and the true Tabernacle (Heb. 8:2). The Sanctuary is the first state that one must have entered before going into the true Tabernacle.
When a man comes into the true Tabernacle, such a one has been made true and can be called a true worshiper who would worship the Father in spirit and truth (John 4:24). The Father has been seeking for those who would worship Him in this manner. He had a desire for this kind of worship and only got it in the Lamb—our Lord Jesus. The life of Jesus on earth was a life of worship. So, when the scripture says, “that it might be fulfilled that which was written”, it means what was written was tailored after a pattern of life that worships God.
By the time our Lord Jesus got to Jordan, He was a Lamb. It was while He was approaching Jordan for baptism that John was able to discern Him as the Lamb of God (John 1:29). He was already the Lamb of God before He got to Jordan. He had gone through the process of becoming a Lamb before getting to Jordan. This means there was something our Lord Jesus was doing in the days of His flesh which no man saw, but by the Spirit, we can tell what He did. One might be thinking of that which He did as something supernatural, but all that He did was live by the Spirit. He lived and became a Lamb. His being called a Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world was not just a prophetic declaration, there must have been things that He did to be called so.
Mark 1:11
“And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
The voice did not say “with whom I am well pleased” because that would mean something different from what was said. The phrase “In whom” means there is a constitution in Him; whereas “with whom” speaks of Him in an ongoing process, such that the Father is pleased “with” what He is doing. However, to say I am pleased “in” you’ means that I am pleased in your person. Nothing pleases God except that which He has wrought. This also means Jesus has done things to constantly please God, until he arrived at well-pleasing. This Lamb of God is a well-pleasing entity. He had pleased God. He had done some things—He had lived. It was in living that He pleased God. There is something that made Him a Lamb; those are the things He had been doing before coming to Jordan.
Submission, a Secret of the Lamb
When Jesus was at the age 12, as Reverend Kayode Oyegoke taught, He was a child of the Holy Ghost. That was an Holy Ghost man. At that age, the Bible tells us that He went home and was subject to His parents (Luke 2:51). In the season of being subject to His parents, He acquired a lot of things. It means we will acquire a lot in the spirit by being under. One of the secrets of the Lamb is that He is always under. The Lamb was never seen alone; He was recorded in scripture as always being with God. We always see God and the Lamb—“the glory of God did lighten the City, and the Lamb is the light thereof” (Rev. 21:22-23). Many of us are tempted to go out of being subject (under spiritual authority); but these are sacred principles in the realm of the Spirit.
Ministry is a thing of the heart, and the Lord wants ministers to always search and set their hearts in order to position them rightly. Sometimes, the heart may want to go out of position, but one needs to deliberately bring it back. As new and young ministers, we should know that the Lord would do much more with us being under rather than standing out. Though this may have its effect on not having testimonies as one's peers in the ministry—as not being at par with them in the natural—but the Lord would do much more with us being under than standing out. It is important to be under, but this is difficult for younger ministers. With growth, however, things are viewed differently, which would produce a different response to life.
This does not come without warfares. One of such warfares is to protect your heart from some association with people whom you know may say things that can affect your heart and devotion to obeying the instructions the Lord has given you. We should not be overly concerned about influencing others, rather, we should be more particular about winning the warfare going on within. When you associate yourself with such people, you end up fighting unnecessary wars of thoughts that could have been avoided. And because words are fuel, they can fuel us. Some speeches can bring one to the realization of (wrong) “potentials” in oneself.
The Lord went back to Nazareth and was subject to His parents. This was one of the things He began to do, as demanded by the Father through leading. And the parchment of that leading is with the Spirit. These are the things noted in the scripture of truth. It may not be literally written in the scripture, but it is present, as we are not yet seeing all that is written in the scripture.
There was an ongoing conversation which Jesus began to show in the house of Mary and Joseph—His parents—and all His siblings. Jesus must have faced confrontations even from His siblings—just like some ministers—and the Father must have demanded some level of response from Jesus in those seasons. By the time He got to Jordan, He had no sin in thoughts or words. If we were the ones, we might have thought of ways to get back at those who spoke ill and confronted us after God has defended or vindicated us.
The description of the Lord as a sheep led to the slaughter who opened not his mouth (Isa. 53:7), was a life conversation that He must have learnt over a long period of time. He must have had to keep quiet and not think evil when faced with confrontations and harassments from His siblings. For John to refer to Him as the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the whole world, He must have had no sin. His coming to be baptized by John is still a part of the conversation of the Lamb. We will see the life of the Lamb more; this is because the message is to ‘behold the Lamb of God’.
Beholding the Lamb of God is not about seeing Him physically; rather, it is about beholding His conversation—the things that made Him up. Jesus did not go to be baptized for the cleansing of His own sin, though John baptized people for that purpose. He had to be baptized in Jordan, despite having a higher testimony (testament) than that which John was officiating. Having a higher testament, He had a higher ministry. Your ministry in the spirit is seen in the testament you handle and the extent of the pedigree to which you handle it. Jesus was the Testator and Mediator of the New Testament. It was by inheritance that He obtained a more excellent name.
Examining the Conversations of the Lamb
Hebrews 8:6
“But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.”
The covenant that He made us come into with God is a better one because of a better ministry that He handled, which was established upon better promises. He had a ministry better than what John had. Not many people who have better testaments would give themselves to be baptized by one who has a lesser testament.
The Lamb can be a member of a church and not be a preacher. He can join a department and may not be the head of that department (HOD). The Lamb can have wonderful ideas and be gifted in many ways, but would not raise his head above his leader or usurp authority; He would rather exalt the person. Can you give your HOD an idea and separate yourself from it? Can he share the idea as His own without mentioning your name as the originator? The Lamb may not be the lead pastor; He may be one of the associate pastors. How would you feel if they greet other pastors and do not greet you?
Sometimes, the Lord can make the minister forget to greet you so that the things that are in your heart can be revealed. Oftentimes, the things our hearts rejoice over are the things that will make us show off. It takes a higher judgment to see that when we are despised or neglected so to say, it is an opportunity to be like the Lamb. No matter what goes on inside of you, if you are able to master or tame that wind and still it, you will become more lambish.
One of the reasons the Lord would have gone to be baptized was not just to “help” John’s ministry; that would have been a wrong thought. Someone may be in a ministry or local assembly and does not participate or add to the assembly, but only waits for his own time of “showing forth to Israel”. When you are zealous in a ministry/church, more responsibilities will keep being added to you. We often tend to be afraid that when such responsibilities are added, we would not be able to go where we want to go. It means we do not have faith and do not trust. It is a sign that the other ministry you have in mind is your own; but if it is not your own, sow it, bury it and let it die. If it resurrects, let it be that it is the Lord that resurrects it. It is much better and safer for you to submit it and leave it.
Someone might reason that he will need to give an account of his calling when he stands before the Lord. This teaching is not directed to anyone but simply meant to show us the Lamb. You may have downloaded a ministry vision, mission, operations, etc., but when the Lord wants to bring you into it, He may go another route. It means that if truly the assignment is the Lord’s and not yours, it calls for trusting the Lord.
Sometimes, the path the Lord wants to take you through may be completely different, and that is what He originally has in mind for you. I used to tell some young men that it is possible that what you saw was based on your level of knowledge at a particular time, maybe one at the level of drinking ‘milk’. It may be that the Lord showed it to you as an encouragement for you to move on in your journey. But is the Lord not Lord? Does He not have the authority to change what He had given to you initially?
Jesus coming to be baptized under John was submission; He came under John’s anointing, grace and ministry. That account of Jesus’ baptism was not the first time He was listening to John. He must have been listening to John’s teaching, even though He may not have been one of John’s disciples. He was in the crowd while John taught; that was how John spotted Him. So, it was not that Jesus went to help John’s ministry; He had to submit to John even when He had a higher ministry. Jesus said, “...Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness…” (Matt. 3:15). It means there were some righteousnesses He had been fulfilling, and being baptized was one of the righteousness that the Father demanded to also be fulfilled—the righteousness of pleasing God.
So when the Father said, “...This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” (Matt. 3:17), it was not because He was called the Messiah but because of a life that He lived—He obeyed God in a manner. Another reason Jesus went to be baptized by John was that He was showing us a pattern. He was able to identify that the baptism of John was of God. He asked the chief priests and scribes when they demanded of Him by what authority He did the things He did: “The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?” (Luke 20:4). And they could not answer Him because they were seeking trouble. Jesus was able to identify that John’s baptism was of God and therefore, there was a righteousness in it that needed to be fulfilled.
Jesus kept fulfilling righteousness. “All righteousness” will make you a lamb. There is no one who becomes a lamb who has not fulfilled righteousness. Righteousness are the right standards of God—they are what the book of Psalms calls ‘statutes’. You must be seen with standards; you must not be someone through which everything and anything goes. God has standards; His standards are righteousness. These standards are what constituted Him as the Lamb of God. Jesus was showing us the pattern to follow; He was showing us how to come to God.
If there was anything like baptism for sin, Jesus would have wanted to identify with His people, not like the Pharisees who were very critical. Jesus would identify with publicans. He is a Lamb, we could see that in His ministry. When a Lamb ministers, it is different from when a Pharisee ministers. They asked Him why He always mingled with the publicans and sinners (Matt. 9:11-12). His response was that of a Lamb – “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” (Luke 19:10).
The Lamb would identify with the lowly. He was able to empathize and sympathize with them; He knew what the problem was. The Pharisees were different; they were vipers – that is the nature the Pharisees had in their souls. They can strike someone’s heel. It is evident in how the Pharisees constantly attacked the Lamb (Jesus). But only the Lamb could successfully bear their assaults. The Lamb did everything well. He suffered much assault from the Pharisees, which the Bible refers to as “contradiction from sinners” (Heb. 12:3). It was Satan using them, seeking an opportunity for Him to get offended and disobey God, but He did not.
By the time Jesus was getting to Jordan, He was already a Lamb; He had all the qualifications to be called the Lamb of God. It was after Jesus’ baptism at Jordan that we began to see worship as a life. We could see One who had the temple and light. The light Jesus used here was the light of the temple, which is the light of the City. Jesus did not begin to use the light of the City after resurrection; else, we all would also have to wait till after resurrection to begin to use the light.
During the last three-and-a-half years of Jesus’ life on earth, He was using the light of the City, which is the light of the world to come. In those three-and-a-half years, Jesus collapsed time. During that period, Jesus fulfilled what no prophet or any man could have fulfilled; He finished the parchment of worship. Jesus did what John went to the Island of Patmos to collect in three-and-a-half years. Jesus could not teach it; He could only preach it.
Jesus got the testimony; else, He would not have said, “...This cup is the new testament in my blood…” (Luke 22:20). And the Father would not have said, “...This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” (Matt. 3:17). There was something the Father was seeing in Jesus that pleased Him. What pleases the Father is testimony. This is why the Lamb is a well-pleasing entity.
The light that the Lamb used for the last three-and-a-half years of His life on earth is the light of the world to come. One of the things I notice when I consider the life of our Lord while He was here on earth was the fact that He was living in a time when His people—the Jews—were under severe hardship. Someone may think that because Jesus is the Son of God, He did not have any challenge with that. No, He had the flesh of the Jews, and there is no way the things that were happening to the Jews would not affect Him. It would affect Him because He had their flesh. He had parents and siblings. Jesus was there when the Roman empire was oppressing the Jews, crucifying them at will.
During that time, once the Roman soldiers noticed any disturbance from the people, they went into their villages, apprehended the young men, and crucified them, just to keep them under. And Jesus knew what He could do. It was Satan instigating such assaults in order to bring Jesus to take the wrong step. It would take a Lamb to overcome such a temptation.
Living by the Light of the World To Come
Jesus was not only a Lamb; He was using the light of the world to come to live on earth. For instance, it takes the light of the world to come—morning light—to live in Nigeria right now. This is because Satan will use your political leaders to provoke you, and we will be making a mistake if we speak evil, think evil, and imagine evil things of them.
We need morning light judgment in this season; else, we will err. That is what will make some people go into politics when God has not called them to. However, this does not mean that you cannot go into politics if the Lord calls you to; but do not go as an activist. How was Jesus able to live in that hostile environment? Not only the Roman empire, even the Pharisees were constantly taunting Him, asking Him questions, wanting to put Him into trouble with the Roman empire. They asked Him, “...What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?” (Matt. 22:17). Questions like this were aimed at bringing Jesus into trouble with the Roman empire so that they could accuse Him. How was Jesus able to live in such a hostile community? If we were in Jesus’ shoes, we would have become activists. How was the Lord able to manage all those contradictions, yet without sin? That is a worshiper! He had His eyes fixed on God’s purpose and agenda. He finished what God called Him to do.
Some people think that pastors and ministers of the gospel should speak up about the wrong deeds of politicians in the society; it is only Satan using them. Ministers are not sent to talk politics; they are to preach the Bible and stay with the Bible, not to give political speech. When the news of Herod mingling the blood of some Jews with their pagan sacrifice was brought to Jesus, it was Satan who instigated it in order to fire up Jesus (Luke 13:1-3). How did He respond? He said, “I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.” (Luke 13:3). Jesus was able to separate Himself from that situation. Even though He felt the pain of His people being killed, He had to use a higher light to respond to the situation. It was that light that separated Him from whatever was going on.
For the last three-and-a-half years that Jesus lived on earth, He worshiped God. He followed wholly; He fulfilled God’s demands and finished it. Satan can instigate ridicule. For example, he can say, ‘look at you, you call yourself a servant of God or a lamb of God. What kind of ministry did you do? Or how many schools and orphanages did you build? You are supposed to be giving scholarships, building schools, and not riding exotic cars.’ That is Satan! Satan is angry when ministers of the gospel ride exotic cars. The celebrities in the society ride something higher and no one condemns them, or tells them to sell it to build schools; in fact, they are celebrated. But if it were a servant of God, people begin to raise accusations.
One can imagine why the Pharisees were angry that Lord was riding on a donkey into Jerusalem. It was good for them that He was walking on foot. The Pharisees were wicked. The fact that Jesus rode on a donkey got them angry. And to worsen the matter, people hailed Him, saying, “Hosanna in the highest heaven.” (Matt. 21:9). They would have preferred that He continued walking on foot. The Lord had been walking on foot all this while, but they got angry when He rode on a donkey. That is Satan! And in the midst of it, He was able to manage His heart; He did not get offended, nor did He miss His step.
It is only this life of the Lamb that can escape every sword of the enemy and snare of the fowler; it can escape every ditch. If Jesus, as the Lamb, was able to escape “brood of vipers” (Matt. 23:33), it was as a result of the mastery the Lamb has. Although He looks helpless, He actually has the key to escape.
The Well-Pleasing Life of the Lamb
Hebrews 13:20-21
“Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, [21] Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.”
It would only take one who has been a sheep to shepherd the sheep. The Bible calls Jesus the great Shepherd of the sheep. His greatness as a Shepherd is in Him being the Lamb of God. The everlasting covenant is the covenant that He officiates; it is the covenant with better promises. The word ‘perfect’ in verse 21 means ‘complete’. Everything Jesus was doing while He was on earth were all recorded in His blood. That blood is the volume of the book; His blood is not empty. This talks about His life (blood) as a volume. Every step Jesus took and every obedience He did was registering something in His blood. That blood acquired the status of everlasting covenant and the testimony. So, that blood passed to the point where it became the blood of the everlasting covenant—which means that all the testimony is in that blood.
This is the manner in which we will follow the Lamb. The Holy Ghost will instruct and direct us according to the blood; He will make us fulfill what is written in the blood. When the scripture says, “to fulfill that which was written”, it is not just referring to what was written in the pages of the Bible but what was written in His blood. It is a life that has already been written, and He acquired it by obeying it. This is how He trapped it in His blood. And it is ‘through’ this blood that the Holy Ghost ministers to us. The Holy Ghost will be interpreting the things in the blood and leading us accordingly.
Without the blood of the everlasting covenant, we will not be complete. Trapping what is in the blood of the everlasting covenant is what will make us lambs. To make us complete is to make us a lamb. “...in every good work to do his will…” (Heb. 13:21). What is in the blood is His will – “...I come to do thy will, O God…” (Heb. 10:9).
“...Working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight…” (Heb. 13:21). This scripture is synonymous with, “...This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” (Matt. 3:17). ‘Well-pleasing’ is the nature of the Lamb of God. The pleasing has to be in His sight, not that of someone else. The only thing that pleases God is the Lamb.
Jesse Duplantis had a vision where he was taken to heaven. He saw some of the patriarchs, and also Paul. Then he was called to the throne-room where he saw the Father seated. Many of us desire that kind of experience. However, that kind of experience will not make you, but obedience will. He said he saw the Father seated, but He was difficult to describe. It was as though the whole creation, both visible and invisible, stemmed from that seat. There was a powerful force field around Him. There were cherubim round about Him also, and that when they cried, ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty’, it was not just words being said as in a routine, but a response or reaction from what was oozing out of Him who sat on the throne.” That reaction is just like what we experience when we have the presence of the Lord or the manifestation of the Spirit in our midst and someone screams.
He also said that he saw one of the little fingers of the Father move, and one of the mighty angels who was around the direction of His finger was hit by the power that came from the finger. The power lifted him, he fell under the anointing, and began to cry and cry. Imagine such a sight! So, falling under the anointing did not begin here on earth; angels also fall under the anointing. John and Daniel also fell under the anointing. Jesse Duplantis said he saw the force field and that everything, both visible and invisible, revolved around Him who sat on the throne. We can imagine how magnificent this God is, and the only thing that pleases Him is the Lamb. This is because only the Lamb can participate in that expression of Him.
The Father is looking for those who will participate in that expression of Him. God wants to share responsibility with us. That is the reason He is seeking lambs. He wants to share the responsibility with sons who are lambs. Imagine how pleasing it would be to Him when He finally gets many lambs. May we please God. Our desire should be to please God. Nothing else is well-pleasing to God except the Lamb. This does not mean that we have not been pleasing God, but there is also a ‘well-pleasing’ He expects from us.
The Father kept saying He was “well pleased” concerning Jesus. At Jordan, He said, “... This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” (Matt. 3:17). Then when Jesus increased in worship, the Father said again, “...This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.” (Matt. 17:5). Jesus kept on pleasing God, and He is still pleasing God till today. As He is seated at the right hand on the throne of the Majesty on high, He is giving God pleasure. May we give God pleasure. Amen.
Blessings!