Excerpts

The Lighthouse Apostolic Centre  

Wednesday, 23rd October 2024

(Day 3 – First Morning Session) 

The Consecration of the High Priest

by the Word of Oath

Pastor Dimeji Elugbadebo

1. Swearing goes with promises. If God is going to give us a promise, it must be backed by an oath. The promises of God are tied to His oath. Without an oath attached, no one can get His promises.

2. The Word of the oath is the oath of God. The Word of oath is what raised our Lord Jesus as an abiding High Priest. This Word of oath is what made Him and constituted Him; it is the oath that makes us abide.

3. The High Priest is many people in one; that explains why He has twelve stones, which means ‘many stones’ on his breastplate, representing the tribes of Israel being embodied by one man. A high priest is a multiplied man. That is what God wants to make every individual of us – a people. ‘A people’ is a man who has been made many on the inside.

4. There are times that if God wants to cut certain covenants with us, He will lead us to a place where it is only our Isaac (what we love) that remains and when He comes, He comes after that thing. It took sacrifice for God to cut a covenant with Abraham.

5. Jehovah Jireh is a place. (Gen. 22:14) We cannot know Jehovah Jireh if we have not sacrificed our ‘only’. Jehovah Jireh is a revelation that Abraham knew because He sacrificed his only son. Jehovah Jireh is preceded by sacrifices. The revelation of Jehovah Jireh is God providing Himself, making Himself available. God is not providing things, He is providing Himself. Jehovah Jireh is the full revelation of God making Himself accessible (Gen. 22:15-17).

6. God can give a promise but it might not yet be backed with an oath. We need to receive an understanding that can enable us to make a covenant that will bring us to swearing (oath).

7. The promise becomes a life through obedience. Obedience is what connects a promise and makes it an inheritance or reality (Gen. 22:18).

8. It was the word of oath that consecrated the High Priest and sustained Him, and it is still the word of oath that is sustaining Him. Anything that will sit on the throne must be a being of oath; they must be consecrated to God's oath. The oath is tied to the throne. We cannot be entities of the throne without being beings of oath, and things of God’s oath are majestic things.

9. The journey of salvation is a long journey that needs faith and patience; it is a journey that will narrow your options. God will unseal our sealed plans. That is why we need patient endurance because it is a journey that the High Priest rules out.

10. Heirs of the promise are the seed of Abraham, and the seed are those who have put on Christ; not just those who believe in Christ. To believe in Christ is one thing, to put on Christ as our life is another. If we want to be an heir of promise, it is beyond the new birth experience. We must learn Christ and put on Christ. Baptism into Christ is the baptism into the experience of Christ.

11. The peak of the milk teaching is the name of the Holy Ghost. Baptism is by teaching. When the milk of the word is taught, we will be brought into the baptism of the Holy Ghost. That is why we need teaching in the church. Supernatural life is the life of the Holy Ghost and we need it. When we are taught and are sealed with life, we become naturally supernatural. It is an inheritance in the Holy Ghost and without it, we cannot carry Christ's life. The end of the doctrine is the baptism of the name of the Son. To put on Christ is to be baptized in the name of the Son.

12. Heirs of promise are christs, which are also called seeds of Abraham or Holy brethren. Immutable things are things of oath, these are also the invisible things of God (Rom. 1:20). These invisible things are shown to heirs of promise, even the holy brethren.

13. The reason for the oath is so that God would not change His mind. God can change His mind, and the only way He will not change His mind is when we keep the laws that warrant the conditions for Him to fulfill that promise.

14. The two immutable things are things that the Son of God is made up of; they are things invincible: the Eternal power and Godhead. Immutable things are what deliver God’s promise.

15. If God will give things eternal and everlasting, they must come with an oath, even through the immutable things of God (unchangeable things). The opposite of immutable is mutable, something that can mutate and perish. Everything connected to God is immutable, but there are laws and commandments that will qualify us to receive that immutability. God does not give perishable things; what He gives is Himself. The nature of God is Himself. We do not have this when we just get born again.

16. At the new birth stage, God has not given the things of the majesty; The High Priest cannot speak to babes, there has to be some facilities in place to prepare us to receive the speaking of immutable things. We must be heirs of the promise, even the seed of Abraham (men who have put on Christ). Putting on Christ is the condition for receiving majestic things.

17. The Tabernacle is an everlasting pattern; it is not an archaic concept of the New Testament. It is an everlasting pattern for our journey to God.

18. God used doctrine to craft the Heavens; the present Heavens are patterned after the Tabernacle model. There is the outer court in Heaven, the Holy Place, and the Most Holy Place. The Heavens is an arrangement of priests.

19. Jesus is the forerunner; if this is so, it means there should be other runners. Jesus ran into God, He did not run into Heaven. Jesus ran into God as a man. He was God and He became Man, He was Man and He ran into God back. The forerunner is now in God and God is His refuge; God should be our refuge too (Prov. 18:10).

20. The presence of God is the True Tabernacle. The Most Holy place is where majestic things are revealed. To be a king of righteousness and peace, we must come into the covenant that gives us righteousness. All of the dominions are tied to covenants. We cannot be kings without cutting covenant and how we cut covenant is by obeying the law that keeps that life. Every dominion has a law. All these dominions are promises that make for a life. To come to the promises, we must obey the law.

21. The king of righteousness and the king of peace are the dominions in the kingdom of Christ. In the full kingdom of God, it is first Christ and then God. The kingdom of Christ is Life and Peace; for righteousness is life.

22. The Priest of the Most High God is the kingdom of joy. The end of full joy is that we become worshippers; The High Priest has come to raise worshipers who will worship the Father (John 4:23).

23. Sin is a genetically coded work; they are hidden in the blood. They are hidden things of dishonesty wired in our genetics. There are some codings in the soul that need to be unwritten; some of our genetics have to be tampered with to alter the conversation of life.

24. The abiding priest is the full stature of the Son and that is what the High Priest has come to do; to also raise priests that will abide. Majestic things are things to deliver salvation as an inheritance. When we get born again, we begin the journey of salvation.

25. Faith begins salvation; we cannot claim to be saved just by giving our lives to Christ, we would be deceiving ourselves. Our souls must be taken throughout the journey of obedience to be continually saved until we come to an end; that end is what the Bible calls the Most Holy faith. At each court there is a faith; there is faith, there is the Holy faith and there is the Most Holy faith. The end of the faith is the faith that produces a saved soul.

26. The Father is a sanctifier just as the Holy Ghost sanctifies. The Father deals with sins that are not visible in the sanctuary. The sanctuary works with the menorah light; there are sins that cannot be seen. The menorah exposes darkness, but not completely. The solution to the salvation of our souls is to keep journeying. The day we lose our journey is the day our darkness remains.

27. Majestic things are slippery things. Apostle Paul was warning the saints that they should ensure that the word they are hearing does not slip away; in an environment where there is so much word, it is possible for a soul to waste word (Heb. 2:1). It is possible for majestic things to slip because they are spoken in abundance. It is possible that it is in the environment where there is much word that people are not giving heed to.

28. Great salvation is the speaking of majesty; in the gospels, they were called ‘the Kingdom’. The gospel of the Kingdom is how we can be saved; this is not for the new birth. The Kingdom is salvation; it is incorruptible, undefiled, and unfading.

29. The sons of God who will redeem creation must be redeemed before they can redeem creation. They cannot deliver those tied by the bondage of corruption if they themselves are subject to corruption.

30. The angels that excel in strength do not think, they just do; they have the capacity to be swift in obedience. That is why Satan committed a high sin; it was a contradiction of His law.

31. The closer we get to God, the more spirits we become and the more stable we become. We know the dominion of angels by their names. Every angel has its salvation, and their salvation is their dominion.

32. There is a word of so-great salvation. Every word is a seed; the Bible has many seeds. There are seeds of carnal men. What makes a carnal man are seeds (1 Cor. 7:31). Carnal men have their dominion in different orders. For God to change our world, we have to be given a word. We are products of our words. Satan twisted his own world and perverted it. He had a world (Ezek. 28:14). Satan’s world is a perverted Heaven, a twisted Heaven.

33. Transgression is to break the law of dominion. Transgression is to break down what has been built. If word is what breaks down work, it will also take words to raise a building (Gal. 2:18).

34. The warning of transgression comes when a work has begun. When words form a work, that is when God begins to warn us not to transgress. The High Priest is coming to do the work of building. The Majestic things will raise us to make us a dwelling. It is only a High Priest that can build a house in which God will dwell because He is the one who knows His specifications.

35. The new covenant makes us by giving us revelations of understanding and these are wisdoms. The new covenant is to build. Priesthood is tied to building. The High Priest is a building of God.

36. Laws precede covenants; covenants are what precede dominion. Covenants enforce dominion of life.

37. The Majesty on High is the voice of the covenant. Majesty is what brings the covenant of the Most High, which is Everlasting. There are ‘all people’ and there are ‘a people’. A people are a peculiar treasure. God will cut a covenant with a people that have obeyed Him to the end (Exo. 19:5).

38. Before God makes us a people, He would have broken the covenant of ‘all’ that makes sin stay in us as a nature; we love this world by agreement. The High Priest will teach us to unlearn it. When the High Priest enters the sanctuary He ministers as a priest and He ends sins; those sins are the sins of worldly lusts and ungodliness.

39. A people of God will be totally sanctified and freed from the influence of sin and death. A people of God will be raised who are without spot and wrinkle, even those who are blameless before Him in love for these are the people that can sit on the throne of the Majesty and reign with our High Priest.