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The Lighthouse Apostolic Centre

Watch Of The Lord April Edition -Day 1

29th April, 2020

Pathway To Everlasting Righteousness

Pastor Precious Gabriel

God Was Able To Raise One Man That Overcame Sin In His Body, I Want Us To Exalt Him So That He Will Draw Us To Himself.

Hebrews 2:8

Thou Hast Put All Things In Subjection Under His Feet. For In That He Put All In Subjection Under Him, He Left Nothing That Is Not Put Under Him. But Now We See Not Yet All Things Put Under Him.

We See Jesus; God Created Man In His Image And Likeness, So That He Will Have Dominion But Sin Came And Reigned But We See Jesus.

Hebrews 2:9-15

But We See Jesus, Who Was Made A Little Lower Than The Angels For The Suffering Of Death, Crowned With Glory And Honour; That He By The Grace Of God Should Taste Death For Every Man.  For It Became Him, For Whom Are All Things, And By Whom Are All Things, In Bringing Many Sons Unto Glory, To Make The Captain Of Their Salvation Perfect Through Sufferings.  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,  Saying, I Will Declare Thy Name Unto My Brethren, In The Midst Of The Church Will I Sing Praise Unto Thee.  And Again, I Will Put My Trust In Him. And Again, Behold I And The Children Which God Hath Given Me.  Forasmuch Then As The Children Are Partakers Of Flesh And Blood, He Also Himself Likewise Took Part Of The Same; That Through Death He Might Destroy Him That Had The Power Of Death, That Is, The Devil;  And Deliver Them Who Through Fear Of Death Were All Their Lifetime Subject To Bondage.

Prayer: Thank You For Giving Us Hope

There Is A Joy That Should Fill The Heart When We Hear Jesus Is Coming Back For Us.

1 Peter 1:8

Whom Having Not Seen, Ye Love; In Whom, Though Now Ye See Him Not, Yet Believing, Ye Rejoice With Joy Unspeakable And Full Of Glory:

How Many Of Us Have Seen The Lord Jesus? Yet We Believe; We Are Like These Brethren Apostle Peter Was Writing To; Every Sighting Of The Lord Is By Faith, Even If You See Him In A Vision That Is Not The Seeing They Are Talking About.

The Joy Of Salvation Cannot Be Compared To The Joy Of Seeing His Face. 

When He Told His Disciples He Was Going, Sorrow Filled Their Hearts. Whenever We Say The Lord Is Coming, It Shouldn’t Be Sorrow Filling The Hearts Of Believers, The First Thought Should Not Be I’m Not Ready; We Should Experience The Joy First. Imagine A Courtship Where The Fiancé Is Abroad And The Woman Is In Nigeria, And She Got A Call From Him That He Is Coming Home; She Will Put Herself In Shape After The Call, But The First Thing Will Be The Heart Bubbling With Joy; But How Come We Hear The Lord Is Coming And Our First Thought Is What Does It Mean? 

They Are Not Saying You Should Not Be Dressed Well When He Comes But First Rejoice. 

He Said 'I Am Going To Prepare A Place For You So That Where I Am, You Will Be Also' (John 14:2-3), He Is Not Talking About Heaven; He Is Talking About The State Of Life He Is Living. If He Doesn’t Come For Us, We Can’t Be Where He Is.

2 Timothy 4:7-8

I Have Fought A Good Fight, I Have Finished My Course, I Have Kept The Faith:  Henceforth There Is Laid Up For Me A Crown Of Righteousness, Which The Lord, The Righteous Judge, Shall Give Me At That Day: And Not To Me Only, But Unto All Them Also That Love His Appearing.

He Did Not Say 'I Have Received'; He Said 'my Reward Is Now Laid Up', He Had Some Peace That He Had Fought The Good Fight. Maybe The Lord Told Him, He Wasn’t Talking Out Of Presumption Because They Had Dealt With Him; He Wouldn’t Say He Is What He Is Not. For Him To Make Such Statement, The Lord Would Have Said To Him ‘well Done Paul, You Are Done And You Will Soon Join Me’ And When He Was Told Such, He Must Have Asked For His Reward And The Lord Would Have Told Him, ‘don’t Worry, When I Come; I Am Coming Soon’ 

Apostle Peter Told Us That The Longsuffering Of The Lord Is Salvation. If The Lord Jesus Had Fulfilled That Promise (of Coming Soon) 500 Years Ago, Where Would We Be? 

It Is Not Because God Is Slow Or As Though He Doesn't Have What It Takes To Fulfill The Promise, It Is Not That He Could Not Send Jesus To Come 1500 Years Ago, But He Is Thinking Of Us.

2 Peter 3:9

The Lord Is Not Slack Concerning His Promise, As Some Men Count Slackness; But Is Longsuffering To Us-ward, Not Willing That Any Should Perish, But That All Should Come To Repentance.

The Promise That God Has Made, He Is Able To Fulfill It. 

The Lord Made A Promise To His Disciples That They Should Not Sorrow Though He Is Going, He Is Coming Again. It Wasn’t Really Looking Like A Hope But Two Angels Appeared To Them To Tell Them That 'He Will Come Back As He Went Up' (Acts 1:9-11).  

It Is Not Because God Could Not Fulfill This Promise Years Ago But Peter Said 'it Is His Longsuffering' (2 Peter 3:15). 

They Shouldn’t Tell Us That 'He Is Coming' And Our Thought Is; 'what Does That Mean'? 

The Early Church Believed That The Lord Would Come In Their Time And They Lived Like That, It Was Easy For Them To Be Pilgrims. The Saints In That Time Were So Convinced About The Hope And They Were Seeing The Day As Though It Was Close.

If We As The Last Day Generation Don’t Have A Heart Posture That Resembles Theirs, Something Is Wrong. 

Something Makes Me Feel That We Live The Way We Live Because The Reality Of What They Are Saying To Us Has Not Dawned Yet. There Is A Way The Ear Can Hear And The Brain Too Can Give Assent But It Has Not Really Entered The Heart; If It Enters The Heart, That Person Will Live As A Pilgrim, Not Wanting To Accept Anything That Will Make One Feel At Home Here, It Will Influence All Decisions. 

When The Scripture Says That 'they Had No Permanent Dwelling Place' (1 Corinthians 4:11), It Is Not Just That They Did Not Build House; It Reflected In Everything About Them, Every Choice They Made: Who To Marry, What Job To Do, Where To Stay. 

What Should Be Affecting The Conversations Of (our) Heart Is The Expectation Of His Coming. 

The Lord’s Coming Is Not Just Near; We Are In The Season Of His Coming. Whatever It Is That Will Make A Believer Hear This And Be Like ‘what Does It Mean?’, Such Heart Is Already Coming To A Place Of Rest In This Life. There Is Nothing In This Life That Should Bring Satisfaction To The Heart Of The Bride Of Christ. 

Solomon Was So Blessed That Whatever His Heart Wished Or Whatever He Imagined, He Did Not Prevent His Heart From Getting It, But At The End, He Said Vanity Upon Vanity; All Is Vanity (Ecclesiastes 1:2). 

Everything In This Life Is In The Realm Of Vanity, The Best Things In This Life Are Expensive Vanities. 

One Thing The Holy Spirit Is Ringing Is That He Doesn’t Want The Heart Of The Bride Of Christ To Be Overcharged (Luke 21:34). 

He Doesn’t Want The Heart To Be Overcharged With The Things Of This Life. 

Paul Also Wrote To Timothy That 'no Man That Wars Entangles Himself With Civilian Affairs'. 

2 Timothy 2:4 (NIV)

No One Serving As A Soldier Gets Entangled In Civilian Affairs, But Rather Tries To Please His Commanding Officer.

The Kind Of Heart Posture The Lord Is Expecting To See In Us This Season Is The Type That Can Interact With This World But Does Not Allow The World To Shape Him In Its Mold. 

Paul Told Timothy To Endure Hardness (2Timothy 2:3). 

We Have To Be Rugged; That Word Is Used For Soldiers; Soldiers Know Something That Is Called Hardness.

There Should Not Be Anything That Will Make The Heart Overburdened. You Must Be Rugged To Fight A Good Fight Of Faith.

Luke 21:34

And Take Heed To Yourselves, Lest At Any Time Your Hearts Be Overcharged With Surfeiting, And Drunkenness, And Cares Of This Life, And So That Day Come Upon You Unawares.

'Lest At Any Time' Means That There Should Not Be Any Situation In Our Lives Whereby Our Heart Comes To A Place Of Being Overcharged. 

'Unaware' Is To Come As A Thief In The Night.

Matthew 10:22

And Ye Shall Be Hated Of All Men For My Name's Sake: But He That Endureth To The End Shall Be Saved.

Any Believer That Cannot Endure Hardness Will Not Endure To The End. Every Believer Must Have Grace To Suffer, We Cannot Follow The Lord Without Partaking Of His Shame.

Hebrews 12:2

Looking Unto Jesus The Author And Finisher Of Our Faith; Who For The Joy That Was Set Before Him Endured The Cross, Despising The Shame, And Is Set Down At The Right Hand Of The Throne Of God.

Satan Knows That Man Hates Pressure, So He Will Allow Some Pressures To Come As In The Case Of Job. 

One Of The Things We Will Meet On This Path Is Suffering.

Matthew 16:24

Then Said Jesus Unto His Disciples, If Any Man Will Come After Me, Let Him Deny Himself, And Take Up His Cross, And Follow Me.

There Is No Coming After Jesus Without A Believer Knowing Suffering (the Cross). When A Believer Goes Through Some Sufferings, The Devil Will Bring Some Suggestions That Will Make The Heart Overcharged.

It Will Be Easier For The Heart To Be In Shape When We Know That We Can’t Follow The Lord Without Carrying Our Cross

Matthew 6:25

Therefore I Say Unto You, Take No Thought For Your Life, What Ye Shall Eat, Or What Ye Shall Drink; Nor Yet For Your Body, What Ye Shall Put On. Is Not The Life More Than Meat, And The Body Than Raiment?

The Definition Of Life To A Natural Man Is What Is Embedded In This Scripture (what To Eat, Drink And Put On).

There Is A Life That Does Not Exceed Meat And There Is A Body That Cannot Be Clothed With Any Other Thing Rather Than Raiment But There Is A Life In Him That Is Greater Than Those Things (is Not The Life More Than Meat, And The Body Than Raiment?)

Interpretation Of Tongues

“Heart Must Come To A Place Of Following God, To Hear Him. Vain, Veil, Vain Heart, I Teach Your Heart True Life, For There's A Life That Is False But There's The Life That Is The True Life; And This Life Can Only Be Seen By The Reason Of The Light That I Now Shine.”

“I Call You Out And Redeem You From The Walk Of Gentiles, Who Walk According To The Vanity Of Their Minds. For Man Is Designed To Look Up, Kill For Up, Looking Up. See Up, Just Look Up, Set Your Heart And Your Affections On Things Above, Even Above From Whence Your Lord Shall Be Revealed.”

“For The Only Force That Can Dispel Vanity Is The Force That Looks Up; When You Look Up, Vanity Will Die. Just Look Up, Just Look For Me, Seek First My Kingdom And My Righteousness.”

“For You See, There Are Veils Of Vanity That Have Made Heart Sickly, But I Call For Opening Of The Heart. Only Opening Of The Heart Can Cause The Veil To Be Turned, For If A Heart Be Turned To The Lord, The Veils Shall Be Taken Away. Therefore I Bring You To A Place Of My Lordship That You Might Follow To Drop The Veils Of Vanity, Follow My Lordship And The Veil Of Vanity Will Drop; Just Follow And Look Up.”

“The Heart Of Man Should Seek No Other Thing, The Only Thing That The Heart Is Worthy Of Is Me And Me Alone. Relinquish Hope And Gather Your Heart To One Thing, Just One Thing Even To See The Face Of The Lord Of Your Salvation.”

Message Continues

The Words Of Jesus Are Everlasting; These Words Are More Important Than Heaven And Earth.

We Must Allow Our Hearts To Be Purified By Faith. The Heart Is Like A Magnet, Its So Easy For A Natural Man To Worry Over Many Things.

The Soul Has Diseases; Fear Is A Disease Of The Soul.

Psalm 103:1-3

Bless The LORD, O My Soul: And All That Is Within Me, Bless His Holy Name.  Bless The LORD, O My Soul, And Forget Not All His Benefits:  Who Forgiveth All Thine Iniquities; Who Healeth All Thy Diseases;

Part Of The Administration Of The Salvation For The Soul Is The Healing Of The Soul Of Its Diseases.

Malachi 4:2

But Unto You That Fear My Name Shall The Sun Of Righteousness Arise With Healing In His Wings; And Ye Shall Go Forth, And Grow Up As Calves Of The Stall.

We Must Take Serious The Words Of The Lord Jesus, We Must Know That He Is Raising Us As Priests And A Priestly Heart Is Not Anxious. 

We Are Occupants Of The Holy Place; The Occupants Of The Holy Place Are Not Levites But Priests. 

We Can’t Stand In The Holy Place With Diseases In The Soul.

We Can’t Be Purified Without Sufferings. There Is No Circumcision Without Pain; There Is No Cutting Off Of Flesh From Us Without Pain.

The Heart Must Come To A Place Whereby It Will Begin To Go In The Right Direction. We Must Come Into A Place Where All The Virtues Are In Place.

There Is Something In Us That Is Called Self; That Self Love Must Be Crucified With The Cross.

Matthew 16:24

Then Said Jesus Unto His Disciples, If Any Man Will Come After Me, Let Him Deny Himself, And Take Up His Cross, And Follow Me.

We Can’t Say We Know The Cross If We Have Not Fellowshipped With The Suffering Of The Cross. We Must Know The Leading Of The Lord; Knowing The Leading Of The Spirit Will Help Us Go Through Without Accumulating Excess Fats (in Our Heart).

Another Thing We Must Know About This Season Is That Our Hearts Should Come To A Place Where We Don’t Have Fear; A Heart Full Of Fears Will Not Be Fit For The Work Expected Of It.

John 6:27-28

Labour Not For The Meat Which Perisheth, But For That Meat Which Endureth Unto Everlasting Life, Which The Son Of Man Shall Give Unto You: For Him Hath God The Father Sealed.  Then Said They Unto Him, What Shall We Do, That We Might Work The Works Of God?

When The Soul Is Laboring For Meat That Perishes, It Won’t Be Fit For The Work Required. 

Our Processes Of Being Ready Will Be Faster If Our Souls Are Being Rid Of Other Things.

The Faith Of The Lord Jesus Is To Bring Us To A Place Where Sin And Death Can Be Dealt With But This Can't Be Done Outside Of Self Denial.

There Is No Bringing In Of Everlasting Righteousness Without Putting An End To Sin (Daniel 9:24). There Is No Finishing Sin Without Us Playing Our Role In It.

2 Peter 3:10-14

But The Day Of The Lord Will Come As A Thief In The Night; In The Which The Heavens Shall Pass Away With A Great Noise, And The Elements Shall Melt With Fervent Heat, The Earth Also And The Works That Are Therein Shall Be Burned Up.  Seeing Then That All These Things Shall Be Dissolved, What Manner Of Persons Ought Ye To Be In All Holy Conversation And Godliness,  Looking For And Hasting Unto The Coming Of The Day Of God, Wherein The Heavens Being On Fire Shall Be Dissolved, And The Elements Shall Melt With Fervent Heat?  Nevertheless We, According To His Promise, Look For New Heavens And A New Earth, Wherein Dwelleth Righteousness.  Wherefore, Beloved, Seeing That Ye Look For Such Things, Be Diligent That Ye May Be Found Of Him In Peace, Without Spot, And Blameless.

Hebrews 6:11-12

And We Desire That Every One Of You Do Shew The Same Diligence To The Full Assurance Of Hope Unto The End:  That Ye Be Not Slothful, But Followers Of Them Who Through Faith And Patience Inherit The Promises.

To Inherit The Promises, We Need Diligence. We Need To Come To A Place Where We Are Not Slothful. Diligence Is Doing Something. 

When The Lord Returns, He Must Meet Us In Peace, Blameless And Spotless.

2 Peter 3:14

Wherefore, Beloved, Seeing That Ye Look For Such Things, Be Diligent That Ye May Be Found Of Him In Peace, Without Spot, And Blameless.

Coming Into That Place Of Peace Is Coming Into Full Sanctification, Where A Soul Cannot Turn Again.

Jude 1:23

And Others Save With Fear, Pulling Them Out Of The Fire; Hating Even The Garment Spotted By The Flesh.

The Only Way We Can Come Into Full Sanctification Is By Giving Heed To The Water Of The Word (Ephesians 5:26).

To Take Away Flesh, We Must Go Through 'borning' (produced By The Spirit; John 3:6)

To Be Blameless Is To Be Innocent Of Evil; Evil Is Iniquity

Romans 16:19 (HCSB)

The Report Of Your Obedience Has Reached Everyone. Therefore I Rejoice Over You. But I Want You To Be Wise About What Is Good, Yet Innocent About What Is Evil.

The Doctrine Of Christ Is So Powerful That It Can Make The Soul White And Blameless.

Without Diligence, We Will Not Arrive In This Place.

2 Peter 1:10-11

Wherefore The Rather, Brethren, Give Diligence To Make Your Calling And Election Sure: For If Ye Do These Things, Ye Shall Never Fall:  For So An Entrance Shall Be Ministered Unto You Abundantly Into The Everlasting Kingdom Of Our Lord And Saviour Jesus Christ.

They Can’t Bring In Everlasting Righteousness When There Are Still Spots. What They Want To Do Is To Finish Sin And Then Bring In Everlasting Righteousness.

Prayer: We Will Be Blameless And Without Spot At His Coming. We Come Into A Place Of Self Denial.

Pastor Tosin Continues

The Day Of Christ Is Upon Us. We Have Been Told That We Should Be Diligent, Be At Peace With Him, Be Spotless And Blameless. Peaceful, Spotless, Blameless; All These Things Are Proceeds Of Obedience. Our Diligence Should Be In Obedience. 

The Lord Jesus Christ Is Doing A Great Work And This Teaching Is The Prerequisite For Receiving Everlasting Righteousness.  This Is Pathway To Everlasting Righteousness; The Summary Of This Teaching Is Total Sanctification. 

I Perceive That Most Of Us Have Been Sanctified To A Great Extent But They Are Demanding For More. If You Are Not Sanctified, You Cannot Be At Peace With God, You Can’t Be Spotless And You Can’t Be Blameless.  

If You Love Self, You Can’t Be At Peace With God; What God Is After Is To Dethrone Self. There Is A Peace From The Holy Spirit; That Peace Is For You To Hear What He Has To Say. 

We Need To Get Peace; Peace Is The Right Atmosphere For The Lord To Speak.

When The Lord Is Leading Us Against Ourselves, We Will First Come To Conflict, Before We Come To Peace When We Start Obeying. 

Jesus Told Peter That 'when You Are Young, You Will Go Wherever You Want; But When You Are Old, Another Will Lead You Where You Don’t Want To Go' (John 21:18); That Is A Man That Is At Peace With God, A Man That Can Receive Everlasting Righteousness. 

Inside Everlasting Righteousness Is Everlasting Peace And Everlasting Joy. 

You Must Have Been Led Against Yourself And Obeyed The Leading Against Yourself Before You Can Be At Peace With God. 

An Unconverted Soul Will Not Like This Message But This Is Prerequisite For Receiving Everlasting Righteousness.  

The Day Of Christ Is Upon Us.

Malachi 3:1

Behold, I Will Send My Messenger, And He Shall Prepare The Way Before Me: And The Lord, Whom Ye Seek, Shall Suddenly Come To His Temple, Even The Messenger Of The Covenant, Whom Ye Delight In: Behold, He Shall Come, Saith The LORD Of Hosts.

He Will Come Suddenly; Unexpectedly.

Malachi 3:2

But Who May Abide The Day Of His Coming? And Who Shall Stand When He Appeareth? For He Is Like A Refiner's Fire, And Like Fullers' Soap:

What About Those Who Delight In His Coming? 

This (kind Of) Teaching Is To Make Us See The Weight That Is Behind Receiving Everlasting Righteousness.

Malachi 3:3

And He Shall Sit As A Refiner And Purifier Of Silver: And He Shall Purify The Sons Of Levi, And Purge Them As Gold And Silver, That They May Offer Unto The LORD An Offering In Righteousness.  

The End Of That Sitting Is Righteousness; This Is Where They Bring In Everlasting Righteousness After Purging, This Is Where Some May Turn Back; It Is He Who Is Seeking The Kingdom Of God And His Righteousness Only That Will Abide And Stand. 

There Are Invisible Idols In The Heart Yet To Be Opened But The Refiner’s Fire Will Bring Them Out Because He Has Eyes To See What Man Cannot See. 

Fear Of The Future Is A Terrible Principality, Worry Is Filthiness Of The Spirit; All These Things, The Refiner’s Fire Will Purge Them. 

These Things Are Not Far Away; Bringing In Everlasting Righteousness Is Upon Us; They Are Waiting For Souls That Can Be Diligent.