Meeting: Season of the Spirit (Day 2)
Minister(s): Pastor Tosin Gabriel
Tongues and Interpretation 1
There is a breakthrough even over you tonight
Even the Lord Jesus has opened the door of access
Even the atmosphere over you is open
It is time to be ushered into a new dimension of life, into a new order of life
Even a fresh feast, even a fresh banquet for you to feed on
For this year has been declared a year of feeding
For I have prepared even a table before you
It is a banquet table
For the access door is open.
Pastor Tosin Gabriel
We need to be on alert this season and all through February. We should not approach this season casually and with unbelief in our hearts, because our God is a God that can do the impossible. He once parted the Red Sea and can do the impossible again in our lives if we believe. Unbelief in our hearts is a limitation to what God can do and we must fight every unbelief. We need to condition our hearts and minds to believe him: “Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.” (Mark 9:23). This year will bring new seasons, new beginnings for all of us.
“But to the Son He says: “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of gladness more than Your companions.” (Hebrews 1:8-9).
“Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.” (John 5:19).
There is a burden in God’s heart which is also the burden in the heart of the Son. The Father and the Son, their hearts are one. Jesus, the Son of God seated at the right hand of the throne does not do anything except what the Father does: “But to the Son He says: “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You With the oil of gladness more than Your companions.”(Hebrews 1:8-9). “Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort.” (2 Corinthians 1:3). Jesus is not lawless, He is a Son and a God but yet under God. He is eternally under God. Jesus is consistently positioned to receive ceaselessly from God.
The glorious appearance of the Father and the Son must be a great hope or burden in our hearts. This is a burden in their heart and they are eager to appear to us. We must desire the Spirit of this message not just the declaration or letter of it. When the Spirit is present we will be able to embody the message. Without the Spirit of God, we will get stuck.
“He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.” (John 14:21)
The principle of their appearance is the commendation of the love of the Father to a man. The Father must love first, then Jesus will love and manifest Himself or appear to him.
On earth, Jesus did nothing to show or manifest Himself, throughout His earthly sojourn He was revealing the Father and the Father revealed the Son – “He saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.” (Matt. 16:15-17) “And there was a cloud that overshadowed them: and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.” (Mark 9:7). Jesus was not so manifested when he was on earth. It was the Father that was manifested. Jesus’ manifestation began when he was glorified.
The operation of the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ is a love project. It is for lovers. Jesus’ manifestation is birthed by love. Only lovers will receive the appearance of the Son of God.
The sole purpose of the manifestation is not to see Jesus’ body in the flesh but to see His soul’s configuration and embody it or become exactly like Him. We can be trapped carnally or religiously to seek the physical or bodily showing of Jesus but this appearance we are to seek is to see what made Him up, to see how and what God configured His soul with. Jesus’ soul is the expression of God’s soul – “For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power” (Colossians 2:8-10).
“Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;” (Hebrews 1:3).
To see what God is configured with, we can look at Jesus who is the express image of and an exact representation of what God’s soul is configured by. God raised Jesus a quickening spirit but He has a soul. This quickening spirit is the texture of His soul. God wants to make our souls become spirits, to give us a quality of life, not to make us spooky or pass through walls.
Nobody will see Jesus’ bodily configuration who has not seen His soul. The appearing is to unveil His soul, to understand that configuration, and to come into all of these configurations also in our souls. This is how men will become the express image of the person of God.
“This is now the third time that Jesus shewed himself to his disciples, after that he was risen from the dead.” – (John 21:14) Jesus appeared to his apostles bodily or in the flesh to bear witness beyond reasonable doubt that He rose from the dead. (John 20:27-28) – “27 Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. 28 And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God.” When Thomas who doubted touched the body of Jesus, he touched beyond the body of Jesus, he touched something more, he touched the soul of Jesus – which led him to confess “my Lord and my God.”
The business of manifesting himself to us is for us to see not just his body but his soul. Paul saw the soul of the Son of God. He saw all Jesus trapped in his soul, he saw all Jesus trapped of God. Like Paul, we must do likewise.
“Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.” (Hebrews 10:38-39).
As believers, we must be firmly established in the understanding that God, though He is a Spirit, has a soul. Our salvation is therefore tied to seeing His soul, to seeing what makes Him up and becoming like Him.
“He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.” – (John 14:21) God is a being of love. He loves all His creation. There is a love however that we must earn for Him to commit His things to us. This love is not a generic or universal love to all creation but a love of commitment. There are men Jesus can commit or manifest himself to and there are those whom He can’t manifest Himself to – “But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men.” (John 2:24). The manifestation of Himself to us is a project of commitment, He wants to commit His things to us.
The appearance of Jesus to us is conditional, that is, the Father must love you first. For the glorious appearance to be opened up to us as a church, we must have “hath and kept commandment”. The Father is the birther of the love that commends the permission for Jesus to appear. Jesus will not appear if the Father has not first loved a man.
Love is keeping their commandments: “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.” (John 14:21). Jesus’ definition is to have his commandments and keep them. We must be keepers of commandments. Having their commandments is their first commitment to us. It comes through the ministry and the preaching of the gospel of Christ.
“For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world.” (Titus 2:11-12).
“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)
There is a grace that heralds salvation however there is a grace of salvation itself. Commandments come through the teaching of grace. Grace is a teacher. Grace is not frivolous. Grace means training and also scolding/chastening. It is both a teacher and a chastener. Grace does not pamper.
Grace commits commandments. Commandments come through teachings. Grace is a teacher of Truth. You can’t seperate Truth from Grace. “14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. 15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. 16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.” – (John 1:14-16) There are layers of Truth and Grace. There is a grace of salvation and grace that brings salvation. Grace that brings salvation will teach us the Truth that brings Salvation. We can’t have commandments without Truth being taught. Anything we don’t get by Truth is not from him. “20 But ye have not so learned Christ; 21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus.” – (Ephesians 4:20-21).
“Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently.” (1 Peter 1:22) Unfeigned love of the brethren is borne from the truth. You can’t love outside truth. Love not borne from truth is false, it is obedience to truth that produces love. Truth is not facts. Anything that can change is not the truth, it is a fact. Anything subject to vanity that cannot last is not truth. Truth is a commodity in the Father, the Son and the Holyghost (Spirit of Truth) – “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.” (John 16:13). Outside of them, there is no other place to find truth.
This present world is fading away because it is not built upon truth – substances that can last. Many men including believers are building their lives upon a world that is passing away, that is subject to vanity and can change. What Grace is teaching us is the truth to expire this present world.
The gospel of Christ is the word of His grace. It is the teaching of the grace of Christ – “And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified” (Acts 20:32). Grace is a builder. The building up of the believer is through the training of grace.
“To hath” is to understand what Grace is teaching – “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.” (John 14:21). When you understand what Grace is teaching, you have it but they also expect us to do it or obey it. To keep is to do or obey. Keeping is in doing. (Psalm 119:144) – “The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.” Doing or keeping is how we live, it’s how we come alive. Living or doing is how we will live righteously, soberly, and godly.
Grace and sin do not go together. Grace loves a man but frowns at his sin and is not afraid to chastise or scourge to rid us of our sinful natures – “For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.” (Romans 6:14). Grace has the power to deliver men from sin. To overcome sin we need grace. A man under grace is taught of grace how to escape and be delivered completely from sin.
“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.” (Hebrews 2:9) – Jesus was under grace. His death was by grace. Grace does not cover up sin, it destroys sin. Sin is afraid of grace and it lies to men that when they sin, grace covers them and has forgiven them rather than have them seeking grace to be delivered of those sins.
Christ is the first commitment of God to man – he was committed to us by teaching and understanding given to us. Christ’s teaching is summarised in the love of the brethren. What keeps us from loving the brethren and doing charity well is worldliness.
“For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.” (Romans 6:14).
Grace will teach truth to expire sin in us, to rid us from the dominion of sin. Freedom comes through the administration of truth. Freedom is being free from the hold or grip of sin – “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32) “For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.” (Romans 8:2). No man can overcome the world without the first commitment of God to man – the preaching of Christ. Anyone who will not obey Christ is not a lover and will not go far with God.
The life of faith, hope, and charity found in Christ is expressed in living soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world. Not everyone can receive the glorious appearance not because He doesn’t want to appear to all but because they don’t have the capacity to receive him – “He came unto his own, and his own received him not.” (John 1:11). They will reject him because they do not understand this program of appearance.
Tongues and Interpretation 2
You need to hate ungodliness
You need to hate ungodliness
The first appearance of grace is to deny ungodliness
You need to have a heart that has a perfect hatred for ungodliness
This world is not a geographical location but an arrangement in your soul, in your person and you need to hate your person
For it is the hatred of your person that will prepare you to take my person
The first teaching will teach you to hate this present world in your person
It is your person that connects to this present world
It is he who carries his cross…It is a cross and you must deny
It is when you hate ungodliness that you can live godly
Hate your person, hate ungodliness
I want you to hate your person so you can take my person
Message Continues…
There are two types of souls: the ungodly soul and godly soul, and they are both awaiting appearance. This appearance is where we cut covenant completely. The ungodly or worldly soul is the soul at peace with Satan’s life. This soul has been made ready to take the higher life of Satan.
The world is a life. It is a life we have and we must hate it – “He that loveth his life shall lose it, and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.” (John 12:25).
If a soul does not obey the commandments of Christ to live righteously, soberly, and godly in this present world, when the Lord appears to such a one, he will hate Him. The breakthrough for us as a church is to raise godly souls.
“Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.” (John 14:30) – Like Jesus, God wants to remove every trace of sin in us. God wants us to hate our life, this life is a life of Satan that he kept in us. To keep his reign, Satan kept a life in us but to expire his reign, we must expire his life in us through grace.
The second commitment of the love of the Father is given to a man who has shown commitment of love by obeying Christ or becoming a godly soul. The least of life God can handle is a godly soul.
An ungodly soul is a stature of carnality who exercised himself in carnality over time. Not all men are ungodly, some are unrighteous but some are full of carnality, they have become ungodly. This man loves the world. He is compatible with the life of Satan, he is a man of peace of Satan – “7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.” (Romans 8:7-8).
The love of commitment we can show/give the Father is to become godly. The godly soul is at peace with God but an enemy of Satan and vice versa. As we keep God’s commandments, the life of God is being formed in us.
A godly man is a holy warrior against this present world and its offerings. Godly men and ungodly men are always hostile towards one another. A godly man is hostile towards covetousness, greed, etc. Even the world would be hostile toward such a man, creating arrangements around him to cause such a man to stumble. Sometimes Satan positions carnal brethren to cause us to stumble but God wants to take us to a place where we can’t be pulled, where they cannot cause us to offend.
We must long for a higher state to call for that glorious appearance. To call for salvation which is that final liberty, to become incorruptible such that no matter the pull, the pressure, the weight, our love is immovable – “For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.” (Hebrews 4:15). The frustration of the godly is that he continues to be pulled by sin, or fall under pressure. We must run to that higher life, that incorruptible life. The glorious appearance is to bring us to the fellowship of the Father and the Son, a fellowship of the incorruptible life – That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. (1 John 1:3).
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