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The Lighthouse Apostolic Centre

Kingdom Advance Summit 2019

Theme: THE ETERNAL ADOPTION: Bringing Many Sons To Glory

Day 2 Morning Session 1 (29.10.2019)

Topic: The Pathways To Eternal Adoption-Part 2

Pastor Tosin Gabriel

Romans 8:19

For The Earnest Expectation Of The Creature Waiteth For The Manifestation Of The Sons Of God.

This Manifestation Is Not What It Is Been Thought As, It’s Not Manifestation That Is Believed As When We Do Power. This Manifestation Is Not First Of All What We Do, It Is What Is Done To Us. Creation Is Not Waiting For Us To Do Something Rather It Is Waiting For Something To Be Done To Us.

This Manifestation In Greek Is The Word Apokalupsis Which Means Unveiling. Creation Is Waiting For The Unveiling Of The Sons Of God.

Romans 8:20-22

For The Creature Was Made Subject To Vanity, Not Willingly, But By Reason Of Him Who Hath Subjected [the Same] In Hope, Because The Creature Itself Also Shall Be Delivered From The Bondage Of Corruption Into The Glorious Liberty Of The Children Of God.  For We Know That The Whole Creation Groaneth And Travaileth In Pain Together Until Now.

All Of Creation Are Groaning And Travailing In Pain Together. Creation Isn’t Only Things We See, They Are Also Things Not Seen; They Are Both Things That Are Seen And Unseen.

Colossians 1:16

For By Him Were All Things Created, That Are In Heaven, And That Are In Earth, Visible And Invisible, Whether [they Be] Thrones, Or Dominions, Or Principalities, Or Powers: All Things Were Created By Him, And For Him:

Everything Made Is Creation. The Visible And Invisible Are Groaning Together In Pain.

Romans 8:22

For We Know That The Whole Creation Groaneth And Travaileth In Pain Together Until Now.

This Whole Creation Are In Heaven And Earth. Some People Think Heaven Is A Place Of Enjoyment And There Is No Groaning. The First Sin And Death Was Committed In Heaven. Sin Originated From Heaven Not The Earth Because One Being In Heaven Sinned; Before God Created Man Sin Has Been Existing.

Isaiah 14:12

How Art Thou Fallen From Heaven, O Lucifer, Son Of The Morning! [How] Art Thou Cut Down To The Ground, Which Didst Weaken The Nations!

When We Say ‘in Heaven, Visible And Invisible’; Men And Animals Are Visible They Are A Part Of Creation But There Are Some Creation Not Visible, They Are In Heaven. Whether In Heaven Or On Earth Groaning Is Still Taking Place.

Ezekiel 28:14

Thou [art] The Anointed Cherub That Covereth; And I Have Set Thee [so]: Thou Wast Upon The Holy Mountain Of God; Thou Hast Walked Up And Down In The Midst Of The Stones Of Fire.

Anointed Cherub Is An High Ranking Angel.

The Stone Of Fire Are Spirit Beings, Not Just Mere Stones. They Are Seraphims Which Are Another Level Of The Angelic Being.

Ezekiel 28:15                 

Thou [wast] Perfect In Thy Ways From The Day That Thou Wast Created, Till Iniquity Was Found In Thee.

He Was Perfect From The Day He Was Created, He Is Also A Creature, And He Was Created As Man Was Created. Sin Took Place In Heaven And When It Happened This Entity Didn’t Just Sin He Also Made Others Sin With Him (falling Angels).

There Is A Groaning Of All Creatures Waiting For The Revelation Of The Sons Of God.

Romans 8:23

And Not Only [they], But Ourselves Also, Which Have The Firstfruits Of The Spirit, Even We Ourselves Groan Within Ourselves, Waiting For The Adoption, [to Wit], The Redemption Of Our Body. 

We Are Waiting For The Adoption, We Already Have First Fruit Of The Spirit. Neither Angels Or Powers Or Thrones Has Earnest Of The Spirit (Holy Ghost). We Having Holy Ghost In Us Is An Advantage Over Creations And That We Have Holy Spirit It Shows That We Are Potential Sons That Can Be Adopted.

If The Whole Creation Is In Pain And The Church Is Not Groaning Within Then The Scale Is Not Balanced Because Creation Is Interceding For Us To Grow And Be Manifested But We Are Not Seeing It.

The Essence Of Our Groaning Is So That We Can Come To The Adoption.

2 Timothy 4:8

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.

What Is Done In That Day Is To Bring Many To Adoption Whether In Heaven Or On Earth As Far As They Are Matured And Ready For It.

At New Birth We Have An Adoption (Spiritual Adoption) But There Is Another Adoption We Are To Get (Eternal Adoption).

Romans 8:15-16

For Ye Have Not Received The Spirit Of Bondage Again To Fear; But Ye Have Received The Spirit Of Adoption, Whereby We Cry, Abba, Father.  The Spirit Itself Beareth Witness With Our Spirit, That We Are The Children Of God:

There Is An Adoption With God At New Birth Which The Holy Ghost Bears Witness To That We Are Now The Children Of God, Where We Can Say Abba Father But Never The Less There Is Still Another Adoption.

In The Jewish Culture Adoption Doesn’t Happen Until When The Person Is Matured. When He Comes To Maturity Is When His Father Publicly Gather People And Lay His Right Hand To Declare Him, In This The Son Has Access To Inheritance And The Father’s Authority Because He Has Been Acknowledged Publicly By His Father.

What God Did To Jesus Is What The Jewish Do To Their Sons (Matthew 3:17). It Is Not All Sons That Get To This Point.

This Is The Perspective That Is Spoken From About The Adoption.

Ephesians 2:1

And You [hath He Quickened], Who Were Dead In Trespasses And Sins;

At New Birth We Don’t Deserve To Be Called Sons Of God.

1 John 3:1

Behold, What Manner Of Love The Father Hath Bestowed Upon Us, That We Should Be Called The Sons Of God: Therefore The World Knoweth Us Not, Because It Knew Him Not.

The Word ‘son’ Is From The Greek Word ‘teknon’ which Means ‘infant’. To Be Called A Child Of God Is A Lot.

At New Birth We Are Adopted As Children But There Is Another Adoption The Father Is Waiting For, He Wants To Adopt Us As Sons.

The Father’s Greatest Joy Is When We Are Adopted As Sons Not As Children.

Galatians 4:1

Now I Say, [That] The Heir, As Long As He Is A Child, Differeth Nothing From A Servant, Though He Be Lord Of All;

To God As Long As An Heir Is A Child He Is Not Different From A Servant. No Father Will Celebrate A Child That Remains A Child Forever.

God Wants Us To Become His Sons (that Have Become Matured). They Are Supposed To Commit All Things To His Hand But Because He Is Still A Child In The Eyes Of The Father He Is Still A Servant.

Galatians 4:2

But Is Under Tutors And Governors Until The Time Appointed Of The Father.

Even Though He Is An Heir He Is Placed Under Tutors.

God Has To Handle Ignorance In The Church, People That Claim That They Are Sons It Is Because Of Lack Of Understanding.

Romans 8:16-17

The Spirit Itself Beareth Witness With Our Spirit, That We Are The Children Of God:  And If Children, Then Heirs; Heirs Of God, And Joint-heirs With Christ; If So Be That We Suffer With [him], That We May Be Also Glorified Together

We Are Children But We Have Not Yet Inherited But We Are Heirs And Because Of That We Will Be Subjected To Tutors Until The Time Appointed Which Is The Time Of Adoption, When He Will Come For His Sons.

There Is An Eternal Order Of God And There Is Also Spiritual Order Of God. The Spiritual Order Of God At New Birth Is To Grow And Mature Us Until We Get To The Point We Can Be Adopted To The Eternal Order Of God.

Ephesians 1:3

Blessed [be] The God And Father Of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Who Hath Blessed Us With All Spiritual Blessings In Heavenly [places] In Christ:

In The Spiritual Order Of God We Will Be Raised From Being A Child To Matured Sons.

There Are Tutors And Governors Which Are The Fivefold Ministries And The Seven Spirit Of God. You Can’t Go To Eternal Adoption Without Pastoral Oversight Because You Must Be Under Governors.

You Can’t Claim To Go To Eternal Adoption Without A Church Life Because That’s The Ordination Of God In The Spirit.

God Has Ordained It That We Will Be Under Spiritual Order Then After That We Will Be Raised And Brought To Eternal Order.

Ephesians 4:11-13

And He Gave Some, Apostles; And Some, Prophets; And Some, Evangelists; And Some, Pastors And Teachers; For The Perfecting Of The Saints, For The Work Of The Ministry, For The Edifying Of The Body Of Christ:  Till We All Come In The Unity Of The Faith, And Of The Knowledge Of The Son Of God, Unto A Perfect Man, Unto The Measure Of The Stature Of The Fulness Of Christ:

The Time Appointed By The Father Is When We Have Come To The Unity Of The Faith. We Must Prioritize Spiritual Maturity In This Season. Get The Spiritual Blessings To Come To Spiritual Maturity.

Jesus Is Not Coming For A Church That Is Not Yet Matured, The Second Coming Of Jesus Will Be Based On A Matured Church. When We Have Come Of Age Then We Can Come To Maturity.

God Is Helping A Crop Of Believers To Press Unto Maturity.

After We Have Fulfilled The Season Of Spiritual Order Of Adoption, God Will Begin To Open The Eternal Adoption.

Eternal Order Of God Is Consistent In Two Things.

Eternal Means Time Doesn’t Have Existence In That Place. In Time God Raised Spiritual Order, In Time We Have Seen The Fivefold Ministers, Church Life Which Are All Spiritual Order, But Before Time What Was It?

The Eternal Adoption Is Bringing Us Beyond Time. God Is Taking Us To The Order Of The Beginning. Eternal Order Is The Order Of The Beginning Before Time Begun. Before Time Began There Was No Angel, Heaven, Earth, Nothing Was Created.

Titus 1:2 (HCSB)

In The Hope Of Eternal Life That God, Who Cannot Lie, Promised Before Time Began.

This Is Different From Genesis 1:1 Where Time Began.

Genesis 1:1

In The Beginning God Created The Heaven And The Earth.

John 1:1

In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was With God, And The Word Was God. 

This Beginning Is Also Different From Genesis 1:1 Which Is The Beginning Of Time. There Is Another Beginning Which Is The Beginning Of The Beginning Where Nothing Existed Except Father Word And Holy Spirit. The Only Thing Present Here Is Eternal Life.

Time Has Always Been As Soon As God Created Heaven And Earth. Heaven Is Subject To Time, It Is Not Eternal Neither Is Earth Eternal.

In Time There Is ‘aging’ But God Is Ageless Because He Is Not Subject To Time, He Is Eternal. Before Time ‘I Was’ Wasn’t Used For The Godhead Because They Were In ‘I AM’ State. They Are Perpetually The Same.

John 8:58

Jesus Said Unto Them, Verily, Verily, I Say Unto You, Before Abraham Was, I Am.

Malachi 3:6

For I [am] The LORD, I Change Not; Therefore Ye Sons Of Jacob Are Not Consumed. 

Heaven And Earth Is Subject To Time. Heaven Is Waxing Old And It Will Perish. If It’s Eternal It Will Be Constant.

Hebrews 1:10

And, Thou, Lord, In The Beginning Hast Laid The Foundation Of The Earth; And The Heavens Are The Works Of Thine Hands:

Before This Time When He Created Heaven Where Was He?

Hebrews 1:11

They Shall Perish; But Thou Remainest; And They All Shall Wax Old As Doth A Garment;

They Are Waxing Old Because Time Is On Them.

Eternal Adoption Is Our Adoption Into The Eternal Order Of God That Is Before Time. The Content Of The Eternal Order Of God Is Eternal Life. At New Birth We Were Adopted To The Spiritual Order So It Can Raise, Mature And Present Us Worthy Of The Order Of God.

1 Corinthians 3:1

And I, Brethren, Could Not Speak Unto You As Unto Spiritual, But As Unto Carnal, [even] As Unto Babes In Christ.

The Best We Were At New Birth Is Carnal Because We Were Babes In Christ. Carnal Christians Can’t Handle Eternal Things Of God. Because We Are Carnal And Therefore Babes They Have To Find A Way To Grow Us From Been Carnal To Been Spiritual. What A Carnal Christian Seek For Is Not Eternal Life, His Hope Is Making Heaven. It Is Possible For A Believer Not To Touch Eternal Life In His Lifetime.

Nobody Is Born Spiritual, We Are All Born Carnal And At New Birth We Are Carnal.

The Hope Of A Carnal Man Is Christ, The Hope Of Christ Is God. It Is After You Have Learnt Christ That You Can Talk Of God As The Hope. We Need To Be Moved From Carnal To Spiritual. It’s Only Christ That Can Hope For Eternal Life And Press Into It.

Matthew 6:32

(For After All These Things Do The Gentiles Seek:) For Your Heavenly Father Knoweth That Ye Have Need Of All These Things.

A Man Can Be Born Again Yet Have A Gentile Soul That Seek These Things. The Emphasis For Which Many Became Born Again Isn’t Attached To Eternal Life.

Matthew 6:33

But Seek Ye First The Kingdom Of God, And His Righteousness; And All These Things Shall Be Added Unto You.

God Add Things When Kingdom And Righteousness Are Your Pursuit.

We Need To Be Moved From Being Carnal Christians To Being Spiritual Christians. To Be Carnal Is To Be Worldly. Worldliness Isn’t About What You Wear It’s What You Pursue. We Need To Be Moved From Being Carnal To Being Spiritual. When A Man Is An Infant He Is Worldly.

The Essence Of The Spiritual Order Of God Is To Learn Christ. As Infant When We Were Brought To The Spiritual Order It Is To Learn Christ And To Come To The Stature Of Christ.

What Are The Content Of The Eternal Order Of God?

Titus 1:2

In Hope Of Eternal Life, Which God, That Cannot Lie, Promised Before The World Began;

There Are Two Administration In The Eternal Order Of God.

The First Is His Eternal Righteousness/ Sinlessness Of God. It Is Impossible For God To Sin, He Can’t Be Pressured To Sin, And It’s His Nature. He Is Eternally Righteous, He Is Eternally Sinless.

1 John 1:8

If We Say That We Have No Sin, We Deceive Ourselves, And The Truth Is Not In Us.

When We Are Adopted To This Order We Are Entering A State Where We Will Be Sinless. This Order Is An Order Where We Are Eternally Sinless, When We Do Not Know How To Sin. In This Order We Do Not Try To Keep Ourselves Away From Sin Because We Can’t Be Tempted, What Makes Us Respond To Sin Is Not In Us.

The Second Content Of This Order Is Immortality.

God Is Sinless, God Is Deathless, And He Cannot Sin Or Die.

When We Were Brought To This Order Of Life (eternal Order) We Have Victory Over Sin And Victory Over Death.

2 Timothy 4:7

I Have Fought A Good Fight, I Have Finished [my] Course, I Have Kept The Faith: 

These Things Are Done In The Spiritual Order Of God. We Must Know How To Fight A Good Fight, Run The Race And Keep The Faith.

2 Timothy 4:8

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.

Crown Of Righteousness Is What Will Be Given, It Is Not Yet Given. It Will Be Given At The Adoption When We Are Adopted As Sons.

Crown Signifies Kingship, It Means Dominion It Is When You Have Become A Master Of Righteousness, And Your Content Is Righteousness. This Is An Estate Of Life.

When You Are Crowned With Righteousness Anything You Do Is Righteousness. It Can Be Possible That Your Impulsive Reaction Is Righteousness, You Don’t Try To Do It, You Are Naturally Doing It, That’s A Crown You Are Given Which Is Part And Parcel Of You.

1 Corinthians 15:50

Now This I Say, Brethren, That Flesh And Blood Cannot Inherit The Kingdom Of God; Neither Doth Corruption Inherit Incorruption.

1 Corinthians 15:51-54

Behold, I Shew You A Mystery; We Shall Not All Sleep, But We Shall All Be Changed, In A Moment, In The Twinkling Of An Eye, At The Last Trump: For The Trumpet Shall Sound, And The Dead Shall Be Raised Incorruptible, And We Shall Be Changed.  For This Corruptible Must Put On Incorruption, And This Mortal [must] Put On Immortality.  So When This Corruptible Shall Have Put On Incorruption, And This Mortal Shall Have Put On Immortality, Then Shall Be Brought To Pass The Saying That Is Written, Death Is Swallowed Up In Victory.

Incorruption And Immortality Are Significantly Mentioned As Part Of The Seventh Trumpet. Incorruption Is A Reality Of The Soul, An Incorruptible Soul Is What Will Wear Incorruptible Body. The State Of The Soul Will Determine The State Of The Body, Mortality Will Put On Immortality.

Immortality Is Not Just That You Don’t Die Physically, It’s A Perpetual State Where You Don’t Age Anymore.

Immortality Is Firstly The Deathlessness Of The Soul, How You Can Be One With God And Can Never Depart.

This Is The Glory, It Is The Glory Of Eternal Righteousness And Immortality.

1 Timothy 6:14-16

That Thou Keep [this] Commandment Without Spot, Unrebukeable, Until The Appearing Of Our Lord Jesus Christ:  Which In His Times He Shall Shew, [who Is] The Blessed And Only Potentate, The King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords; Who Only Hath Immortality, Dwelling In The Light Which No Man Can Approach Unto; Whom No Man Hath Seen, Nor Can See: To Whom [be] Honour And Power Everlasting. Amen.

He Is The Only One That Has Immortality. This Statement Made Here Is For A Carnal Man That Can’t Approach God. The Only Man That Can Approach This Light Is Christ. The Labor Is That We Can Be Partakers Of This Light.

What We Should Aspire For Is The Formation Of Christ. You Will Deceive Yourself If You Don’t Allow Christ To Be Formed In You, And You Don’t Give Yourself To The Learning Of Christ. If You Find Anywhere That Christ Is Taught Stay There.