Eternal Glorious Fountain Ministry (EGFM)
Programme: School of the Spirit (SOS)
Date: Thursday, 7th April 2022
Ministering: Pastor Tayo Fasan
The conversation of everlasting life is higher than Christ conversation. We are privileged to be hearing things that are meant to give birth to a conversation that is higher than the one which has been previously birthed amongst us. The previous conversation that has been birthed among some is that of Christ; that is, the conversation of the new man or of a man who has escaped the corruption that works in the world through lusts (2 Peter 1:4). The conversation that is upon us is one that should enable us to confess that Jesus is the living Son of God (1 John 4:1-4). This confession and conversation are higher.
Confessing that Jesus is the Son of God is the conversation that was laid bare before the everlasting sons that Apostle John classified as little children, young men and fathers. “Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.” (1 John 4:15). The indwelling of God in man is the end of the conversation that is in the Son of God.
In Genesis 2, God breathed into Adam and he became a living soul. God could not start that way with Abraham. God could not communicate that everlasting breath into Abraham; therefore, He first had to communicate a kind of breath that would separate him from a carnal state. To be carnal is to judge with the sight of eyes or by the hearing of ears. To be carnal is to judge without the righteousness of faith in the economy of the New Testament.
Abraham, the patriarchs and Old Testament saints mentioned in Hebrews 11 came to the end of the conversations of their faith. Hebrews 11 showed how those Old Testament saints used faith for a most holy experience of their walk with God. Scriptures tell us that faith is the substance of things hoped for; this means that faith could be used in the Holy Place as well as in the Most Holy Place. Faith in the season of the most holy is what is referred to as the Most Holy faith, and the Hebrews 11 saints had their own experience of this faith.
When the life of Abraham is calibrated, we would see the time when God brought a kind of redemption his way. Similarly, Job said that “I know my redeemer lives” (Job 19:25). This tells us that God has been carrying out works of redemption even in the Old Testament. When God spoke to those saints, His words were communicating life to them, by which they were being cleansed.
The activity of remission of sins had taken place in the Old Testament to a measure. God remitted Abraham’s sins until he became a friend of God. The appearance of the Lord Almighty unto Abraham in Genesis 17, can be likened to an appearance that is unto salvation. Thus, previous appearances were to raise Abraham to be able to relate with salvation. “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,” (Titus 2:11). To relate with this grace of God that brings salvation, we need to firstly deny ungodliness and worldly lusts. Abraham was taught to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts in a shadow.
There is a grace of faith and there is the grace of salvation. “Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;” (1 Peter 1:13). The grace here is the grace of salvation. However, there is a grace that must build a soul to relate with the season of salvation. This is what apostle Paul referred to as the word of His grace which will build a soul to receive an inheritance (Acts 20:32); which is to relate with salvation.
(Rom. 4:16-20) We do not know what it means to be in Abraham’s shoes. God had to first load him with substances of faith before He could talk to him about having a son. This was what made him to not consider the deadness of his own body nor of his wife. This means that God had disabled the sight of the eyes and hearing of the ears. When evil spirits speak and you have not gathered enough substances, you will doubt. This tells God that you are not yet full of faith. This is why Abraham is still referred to as the father of faith. Abraham used faith to live.
Abraham used faith in a shadow to deny ungodliness and to shun youthful lusts. He lived soberly, righteously and godly in a shadow. It was on this basis that the Lord Almighty appeared to him that he should walk before Him and be perfect. Abraham was a kind of those who will look for the Son of God, unto whom He would appear unto salvation. Abraham had died to what he was previously looking for; he had a kind of a Christ formation, and was looking for salvation. He had been emptied of what would make him look for anything else but the Father. In a shadow, God gave the Old Testament saints a foretaste of what we would partake of.
Abraham came into a season where he would be relating with a kind of salvation or divine nature. “(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.” (Rom. 4:17). The Father has to first raise the dead. While such men are dead to the things that are in this world, they are still alive to some things and can still be tempted. This was why John was writing to sons in everlasting not to love the world, that is, the glories of this world.
To raise the dead is to minister everlasting life to those who are Christ in their soul or who are dead to the things that are in this world. However, until the soul is quickened, it will still be alive to the glories of this world. Jesus had no lust when he was tempted by Satan at Jordan. Even though He did not have lusts, He still needed to gather everlasting substances to come into perfection. He still needed to be furnished with the good and perfect gifts or lights. He needed to not just be a burning light after the order of the New Testament but also a shining light.
Faith is needed in every stratum of heaven. The fight to lay hold on Eternal Life is a good fight; that is, a fight to gather good substances or better and enduring substances. A man who gathers these substances is an everlasting man. You must have everlasting life to hold Eternal Life.
Abraham also did not stagger at the promise of God through unbelief. This unbelief was what the Hebrews church were being prepared to war with. To war with this unbelief, you need the word of God. The spirits promoting unbelief at this point are wicked spirits and are different from the spirits that do such in the season of faith when a believer is carrying the seed of Christ.
To offer up Isaac, Abraham needed higher substances in his soul than what he used to conceive Isaac. Abraham needed to, as it were, be perfect. The revelation that the Lord Almighty gave him to walk before Him and be perfect is one that continued until mount Moriah. The man that sacrificed Isaac is one that is able to process the judgment of everlasting righteousness; he has capacity to think like God.
Abraham took Isaac up the mountain to worship God. This means that he understood what it means to worship. What everlasting sons offer up is born out of the judgment of everlasting righteousness. It is after sons (or Christs) have been purified, that they can offer to God. The period during which Abraham waited on God for Isaac was a period of purification, so that he can offer a particular sacrifice. This is what is called worship. Worship is a sweet-smelling sacrifice that is acceptable to God. It is a sign that the earth is responding in alignment to heaven. The earth becomes safer when trees are raised.
Abraham was strong in faith and gave glory to God (Rom. 4:20). Faith is Christ. It is only Christ that God perfects. Therefore, we must never downplay the stature called Christ. There is Christ the Beloved Son and Christ the Begotten Son. The latter is Christ who has been perfected and has become the Son of God. Abraham was giving glory to God because he was in the season of everlasting life. The conversations of everlasting life are conversations of glory.
While we often desire a change of estate in the natural, God is sometimes looking for ways to use such seasons or estates to help our souls to appreciate more in salvation. A lot of times, God will not change some seasons around us not just because of us but those who are tied to our loins naturally or spiritually. So many times, God will only change the season over us when those tied to our loins have profited with what the Lord is doing in that season.
One of the things that the light of everlasting life has come to do is to show us the cost of getting God. “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.” (Matthew 13:44). We are all on a treasure hunt, and the treasure is Eternal Life. The cost that God wants us to count is a life we had before we began this treasure hunt. The land where we are embarking on this treasure hunt is the land of the living.
The goodly treasure is everlasting life and the man in search of it is Christ (Matt. 13:44). A man who is Christ is only looking for one thing because he has lived soberly, righteously and godly in this present world. The lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and pride of life can no longer pull such a man. A Christ is in search of only the Father who is in the land of the living.
The Father has a treasure hidden in the land of the living. The man on this treasure hunt had joy because he realized that there is everlasting life to be inherited. Therefore, he begins to labor in the land. We labor to enter rest; that is, to cease from our works. Just as people labor for the meat that perishes, we are laboring to be able to break down each of the strands of strong meat of God’s word. Each strand carries judgements of everlasting righteousness.
Christ has something to search for in the land of the living; something that God will use to beautify him. When God is bringing the light of everlasting righteousness, it is aimed at adorning a soul that is Christ. It is the appearance of salvation that will be used to deck a Christ formation in the soul. Hebrews 11 saints were prophets of their day and this is why Paul said that the world was not worthy them. They did not overcome the world the way New Testament saints are being called to overcome the world. They did not have the substances of New Testament everlasting righteousness, yet they wrestled with the world. They demonstrated what it means not to love one’s life to the death in a shadow.
The good report that these saints attained is a high report in the spirit, not a testimony of acquiring ephemeral or carnal things. These saints by good report were made witnesses, waiting for those who will obtain the promise. They had to wait because Eternal Life was not available in their day as Jesus had not yet embodied it. They are thus waiting for New Testament saints who will be witnesses.
K wants to bring goodly pearls to the soul of man. Salvation wants to make a peace feet to become beautiful. That is what is referred to as perfection. There are some conversations we cannot resolve because we still have not yet gained the mastery of the revelation of everlasting righteousness. We are not yet adorned with some of the judgments of everlasting righteousness. Our Christ testimony still lacks some judgments; therefore, we still open our mouths to defend ourselves in certain situations when we should do otherwise.
If a believer is attached to his worldly goods, he would respond to situations that are supervised by evil spirits the way Jesus would not. When we do not defend ourselves in certain situations the way evil spirits will want us to do, the Holy Ghost will oftentimes use that obedience to go after the person through which the offence is coming.
Whosoever is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man (1Cor. 2:15). Whenever men around us can conclude us or explain our goings, it is because we are still carnal and still share something in common with them. They understand our response to situations or our conversations. Men or fallen spirits will be unable to judge or discern us when we respond with the conversations of faith, hope and charity or with everlasting righteousness.
It can only take a kind of man to look for goodly pearls. There is something hidden in the land of the living. This is why a Christ must labor to comprehend the present speaking over us as a people. The man who is looking for goodly pearls is Christ. He sold all that he had so that he can buy the field where the treasure is hidden. Many times, our dealings of faith are to separate us from many things we are attached to. When we have been separated from things we have been attached to, we would always put brethren life ahead of our perceived ideas of perfect life.
Brethren are brethren of the Lord’s, and when they are sharing our things with us, those are Christs using our things. If we want to acquire the full age of Christ, we should pray and trust God for grace to keep every commandment that borders on our relationship with our brethren. We should be blind to their infirmities, else, we will not keep the love commandments between us and them. We will also not be selfless in our affairs with them.
There is no believer or brother of the Lord who cannot change. A lot of times, heaven is only counting on us to keep commandments that govern our rapport with them and not necessarily that they should change. When we do that to a measure, we would have grown, appreciated in humility and would have acquired life. When we are detached from ourselves and from our worldly goods that we have attachment to, especially when our brethren are sharing them with us, the Holy Ghost will use that obedience to avenge a disobedience or to convict them later.
Therefore, a man who has become a Christ is one who can count the cost of seeking everlasting life. The light coming our way is to help us redefine life. There is a judgment that sin and death or darkness of this world used to define life to us. This is why we can still be pulled by the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and pride of life. But when we have a redefinition by light, those pulls will lose their appeal to our souls. We will understand that what we have been holding as a light is actually darkness.
There are some things we still love and that can still earn our affections. Some young people are eager to get married but we must understand that the reason for marriage is so that we can lay hold on Eternal Life. When we eventually get the things that we crave for, we will realize that there is something else in our souls that cannot be satisfied. Many things we think will satisfy us do not bring satisfaction. This is because God has not come to dwell in those things.
There is a satisfaction that marriage brings, but we must understand that there is a higher joy than what we are looking for in marriage. When we know this, we will be able to allow God to lead us the way He wants to concerning who we should marry. God cannot lead some brothers and sisters because of some mindsets that they still possess. When you have everlasting judgment, you will think differently. If we can transfer some of the everlasting age that we would have acquired in the next ten years into the present, we would think differently than we are doing now. We will plan differently, will embrace things differently and refrain from things differently because we will have developed a fatherly mind that resolves thoughts properly.
Whenever we cannot judge with the Father’s good and perfect light, we come behind. The more judgment we are loaded with or the more of the Father’s truth we possess, the more we are detached from our life and more things can no longer pull us. That way, we will move from being a man who no longer loves the things in the world as well as the world itself (1John 2:15-16).
These ministrations are coming by the sacrifice and labor of God’s servants. Jesus is also seated as an eternal sacrifice interceding for us to pace in a manner that will make us gather these waters of everlasting life. Therefore, when our hearing is not accompanied with sacrifice, we get only little out of what we hear. Many of the things that are limiting us from spicing our hearing labor with sacrifices are legitimacies. This is why Paul said that all things are lawful but not all things are expedient (1Cor. 10:23). When we are careless about legitimate things, we will be brought under their power.
Children are those who can love the things that are in this world. As long as we have an attachment to our worldly goods, a principality, power or ruler of the darkness of this world can tempt us. This is why God wants to firstly separate from us all our attachment to worldly goods, and then from ourselves. There is a higher spirit that tempts sons who have overcome the season of being tempted with worldly spirits. A Christ can love the world if he has not been loaded with everlasting judgment.
The world in its real state has its fatherly expression. Lusts of the flesh, eyes and pride of life are offsprings of this world. They are not the world itself but its offsprings. Therefore, after a man has overcome them, he still needs to overcome the world itself. “For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.” (1 John 5:4). ‘Our faith’ is not the same as ‘your faith’. There are certain things that need to be added to ‘your faith’ for it to become ‘our faith’ which overcomes the world.
To overcome the world, one must be believing Jesus for everlasting and Eternal Life (1John 5:5,13). John wrote his epistle to men who were believing God for everlasting life in various measures. The fathers for example, believed Jesus the living son for them to become fathers.
The goal of the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and pride of life is to deny the soul of carrying the incorruptible seed. They intend to prepare a soul to carry the corruptible seed. He that would carry the corruptible seed is a man that would have successfully loved the things of the world and developed capacity to now love the world herself. The things of the world are the things that would bring the soul to the world.
“Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.” (1 John 2:22). The antichrist is someone who has knowledge of truth but later denied it. The young men and fathers that John was referring to would become liars or antichrist if they fall away as described in Hebrews 6:4-6. Judas journeyed from loving the things that are in the world to loving mammon (John 17:12). Satan entered into him, because he had acquired works of negative everlasting life. Judas lived and abided in a lie, just like Demas who forsook Paul because of his love for this present world (2Tim. 4:10). In a season when the likes of Demas were meant to settle for divine nature, he chose to settle for something else because he wanted his own name.
Many men want to use Christ to love the world; that way, they become false prophets. They are prophets but are false. When a man is Christ, there is the suffering that he must go through to come into glory. When a man has become Christ, it is not negotiable for him to become an everlasting son because when a Christ turns back, there are beasts waiting to devour him.
The glory we are meant to carry is meant to cause kings of the earth to disdain the glory of Satan. Satan wants to acquaint men with a kingdom that will help them to complete their course of perishing. One of the ways God will show mercy is by raising trees of righteousness. Our peace feet will bruise the world, after which our beautiful feet will bruise the head of the kings of this world.
Summary
1. In Genesis 2, God breathed into Adam and he became a living soul. God could not communicate that everlasting breath into Abraham; therefore, He first had to communicate a kind of breath that would separate him from a carnal state.
2. (1 Peter 1:13) There is a grace of faith and there is the grace of salvation. The grace of faith is a grace that must build a soul to relate with the season of salvation. This is what apostle Paul referred to as the word of His grace which will build a soul to receive an inheritance which is to relate with salvation (Acts 20:32).
3. Abraham came into a season where he would be relating with a kind of salvation or divine nature (Rom. 4:17). The Father has to first raise the dead. While such men are dead to the things that are in this world, they are still alive to some things and can still be tempted. This was why John was writing to sons in everlasting life not to love the world, that is, the glories of this world.
4. To raise the dead is to minister everlasting life to those who are Christ in their soul or who are dead to the things that are in this world. However, until the soul is quickened, it will still be alive to the glories of this world. Even though Jesus did not have lusts, He still needed to gather everlasting substances to come into perfection.
5. One of the things that the light of everlasting life has come to do is to show us the cost of getting God (Matt 13:44). The cost that God wants us to count is a life we had before we began this treasure hunt. The land where we are embarking on this treasure hunt is the land of the living. The goodly treasure is everlasting life and the man in search of it is Christ.
6. Many times, our dealings of faith are to separate us from many things we are attached to. When we have been separated from things we have been attached to, we would always put brethren life ahead of our perceived ideas of perfect life.
7. The light coming our way is to help us redefine life. There is a judgment that sin and death or darkness of this world used to define life to us. This is why we can still be pulled by the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and pride of life. But when we have a redefinition by light, those pulls will lose their appeal to our souls.
8. The world in its real state has its fatherly expression. Lusts of the flesh, eyes and pride of life are offsprings of this world. They are not the world itself but its offsprings. Therefore, after a man has overcome them, he still needs to overcome the world itself.
9. To overcome the world, one must be believing Jesus for everlasting and Eternal Life (1John 5:5,13).
10. The glory we are meant to carry is meant to cause us to disdain the glory of Satan. Satan wants to acquaint men with a kingdom that will help them to complete their course of perishing. One of the ways God will show mercy is by raising trees of righteousness.