WHY DO WE PUT ON DRESSES THE BACKGROUND

WHY DO WE PUT ON DRESSES? THE BACKGROUND A Teaching Delivered ON Sunday 21^st January 2024 AT

THE VOICE OF GOD STUDIO Bridal Lodge, Nsugbe Anambra State, Nigeria BY Apostle Peter Odoemena

THE SON OF MAN The LORD God Almighty

Transcribed by Bishop David Mbah, Students’ Fellowship, MOUAU, Abia State.

^[11]If the Jewish priests and their laws had been able to save us, why then did God need to send Christ as a priest with the rank of Melchizedek, instead of sending someone with the rank of Aaron—the same rank all other priests had? ^[12-14]And when God sends a new kind of priest, his law must be changed to permit it. As we all know, Christ did not belong to the priest-tribe of Levi, but came from the tribe of Judah, which had not been chosen for priesthood; Moses had never given them that work. ^[15]So we can plainly see that God’s method changed, for Christ, the new High Priest who came with the rank of Melchizedek, ^[16]did not become a priest by meeting the old requirement of belonging to the tribe of Levi, but on the basis of power flowing from a life that cannot end. ^[17]And the psalmist

points this out when he says of Christ, “You are a priest forever with the rank of Melchizedek.” ^[18]Yes, the old system of priesthood based on family lines was canceled because it didn’t work. It was weak and useless for saving people. ^[19]It never made anyone really right with God. But now we have a far better hope, for Christ makes us acceptable to God, and now we may draw near to him.^[20]God took an oath that Christ would always be a Priest, ^[21] although he never said that of other priests. Only to Christ he said, “The Lord has sworn and will never change his mind: You are a Priest forever, with the rank of Melchizedek.”

Hebrews 7:11-21, Living Bible.

A Saviour can only be sent to bring back something that is lost. And the Voice said, “I am sent to come and restore man back to his lost estate. Back to his lost estate. They are turning things up-side-down.” The Voice said, “Do not run away from Me yet. Be courageous because I am involved. I am your Leader. I am in front. Are you married? I am married. Do you have children? I have children. So, relax your mind.” Amen.

THE SON OF MAN

GOD OVERHAULING FAMILIES VOL. 2; Preached on Sunday 21^st July 2013 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 49 vs. 40 – 41

TRAIN YOUR CHILDREN WHILE THERE IS HOPE

Now, I want to speak to you on a very dicey topic relevant to the hour because our children are growing every day.

This Faith took off by our calendar exactly on 30^th December 1992. So, all the children we were privileged to get from God from that date till now– one who was born in 1992, how old is that one? This is 2024. That person should be about 32years.
Somebody who is about 32years of age, is that person a kid? That person is not a kid. One that was born in 1993 is 31years. Somebody who has clocked 31, is that person a kid whether man or woman alike?
So, you can now begin to see the situation THE SON OF MAN has found Himself. I am bound to do something. If I do not do something, parents have already misled their children. Some have already misled themselves because of their wrong interpretations of honest Messages. Moreso when they were given the privilege to use their initiative to decipher for themselves certain things without somebody coming to pull you by your nose.
So, follow Me gradually. You must know the reason why I am sounding the way I am sounding. Get all translations of the Scriptures ready. The moment I take off, I will begin to excommunicate.
Put down the Scriptures as I have quoted it. When you go home, use your mp3 devise. Plug it there. Listen to it all over and listen to yourself as you join in the reading of the Scriptures. In the reading of the Scriptures, I have no exemption, provided you can read very well.
Hold on to one translation. I do not want anybody to hold two translations [I mean] that are the same. Make sure the one you are holding is different from the one your Brother or Sister by your side is holding.
Do not hold the Living Bible and Amplified version onto yourself alone. No! Hold one!
When I am quoting, I know where I am quoting from. I hope you are hearing Me. If you want to read, let there be a microphone around you. That is why this Studio is furnished with different microphones that have the capacities to pass the Message across.
Remember, from where you are sitting, we are reaching the entire universe. Those who are fellowshipping with us today, you are privileged. You have joined in the salvation work of God. You are now co-labourers with THE SON OF MAN in the same Vineyard.
You are not called to come and sit down and be moping. No! You are called to work. You must work. Young or old, you must work. And what is that work. It is the work of helping people to know the truth.
[INTERLUDE] My friend, I do not want to see you here. Birds of the same feather.
So, follow Me as we go to the Scriptures immediately. Anyone who misguides Me by reading where I never quoted will never go unpunished. For that reason, cleanse your eyes very well. Do not be quick in jumping into reading. Be sure that where you are reading is where I quoted. Even if the Scriptures are joined, separate it immediately.
1 Corinthians 13:11-13, King James version. After King James version, the next will be Amplified version of the Bible.
¹¹When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
¹²For now we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. ¹³And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. Which is Love.
I want somebody to read Amplified. Lucky cannot read. You are on your way out. Who gave him that copy? I stopped him. Your name is already there. I stopped FearGod. He is equally on his way out. He knows the reason. Lucky knows the reason why he is out.
1 Corinthians 13:11-13, Amplified version.¹¹When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child,…
Little children, pay attention. The young must grow. One that is a child today must become a young man or a young woman [a lady] tomorrow. There was a time when I was a child. There was a time your parents were like you.
There is no adult today who never grew up from childhood. Is it a lie Brethren? When somebody has become an adult and he is behaving like a child, like these two names I mentioned, will the parents be happy with them?
Moreso when they have spent time training them, encouraging them, living a shining example for them to copy and they have bluntly refused to change.
The only thing you will do is to fire them, lest they will infect the Camp. When a branch of a tree is diseased, what do you do? Cut it off. Otherwise, others may be infected with that same disease.
NO SIN IS AS INFECTIOUS AS UNBELIEF. And it is BECAUSE YOU DO NOT BELIEVE. FOR THAT REASON, YOU CANNOT PRACTICE IT.
Whatever you believe by conviction because it is right and it is approved by God, do you have difficulty in practicing it? Thank you!
¹¹When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child,…
Do you know that children have their way of sleeping? They can sleep endlessly until their mothers will begin to wake them up, “Wake up! It is time. Let us go and pray. Go and take your bath. Wake up! It is time to go to school. I want to take you to school. I am going somewhere.” That is a child.
Will the mother or the father continue that way forever? A time comes when the grown-ups will be helping the junior ones also. Before you know it, parents will stop taking them to schools. They will be going on their own and coming back on their own to show you that they are developing very well.
A man must grow above urinating on his bed because he fell asleep. But if, at the age of adolescence, somebody is still minding his bed, does not know the time to prepare for school or prayers or anything, he is only good at eating, and will even forget to take his bath, is that person growing very well?
As adolescents, you will be smelling. You will be reminding him of basic domestic chores that he or she should undertake before leaving the house.
It is just like we can see this little girl coming up. She is now a helpmate to the mother, for most of the mother’s responsibilities are now shifted to the daughter because she is growing very well.
And the mother will be pleased. The father will be pleased because she is assuming some domestic responsibilities within her age. Very well.
Some even grow above their ages in domestic chores. And that gives joy to the parents. If mere domestic developments, somebody lacks it—the basics, the basics– at the age of adolescence you still tell the person, “Do not do this. Do not do that,” I mean, that goes to show that there is no hope. I say, there is no hope.
That is why the Bible said, “Make sure you train your children when there is hope, for a time is coming when your training will be baseless and useless.”
When a yam tendril has developed and stiffened, any attempt you make to bend it will break the tendril. It is only when it is still young and soft that you can direct it on how it will climb the stake whether to the right or to the left.
If you miss it that time for the person to start learning new ways at old age, is it possible? And any effort anybody is making to reform this errant individual will be misinterpreted to mean hatred.
The person will say that you are wicked and then begin to distance you and also start racking up his sense about how he will come against and nullify your reforms simply because the person never learnt it in his or her childhood. The person never grew up with the ideal lifestyle.
A child that is left to have his or her way in everything [1] must disappoint himself or herself, [2] disappoint the parents’ expectations and [3] disappoint all that will pin their hopes on him. True or false?
Any child that is left to have unlimited freedom and live the way he or she wants, Brethren, that child is like yam seedling that is planted in the soil without any stake for the tendril to climb and all the vine and leaves will be spread on the ground, is there any possibility of the farmer harvesting anything reasonable from that yam? It can never bear any good fruit. That is the semblance.
You will raise a good-for-nothing human being. And that is what has pervaded the society today. All our families are flooded by good-for-nothing human beings simply because the parents shared their irresponsibilities with their children.
I handled a Message, PARENTAL IRRESPONSIBILITIES. PARENTAL IRRESPONSIBILITES. Careless and carefree attitude to everything because of the pursuit of money and other useless things, neglecting the most important thing.
TRAIN YOUR CHILDREN VERY WELL WHEN THEY ARE COMING UP SO THAT AT YOUR OLD AGE, YOU WILL HAVE PEACE. YOU WILL HAVE REST.
Parents that neglect the training of their children or sacrifice the training of their children for academic education or any other pursuit in life, right now, most of them are ageing, and they are not having rest. They are not having peace.
Their children have turned out to be a threat to their existence. And they can do nothing because they have become old. Children now trample upon them. I do not want to go there, but I must touch it a little.
What can we say about children who do not want to obey the parents who are all out to train them in a godly way, but the children refuse to accept that training, thinking they are favouring the parents. Little will they realize in the end that they have destroyed themselves and their future.
Every training you are receiving from your parents is for your own good. Nobody loves you more than your parents if they are godly. But if they are ungodly, they hate you the same way they hate themselves.
This is because a sinner hates himself. An unbeliever hates himself and hates his family, for he will transmit the whole thing into their lives.
Have you not seen drunks producing drunks? Am I making sense? Drunks produce drunks. Ardent smokers introduce smoking into their families, even to their wives. What I am telling you is truth.
Fathers help a lot in spoiling their children, but mothers play the worst role. Fathers help in spoiling their children, they help a lot, but the worst remain the mothers who are godless. Godless mothers raise godless children because wherever the hen is, there the chicks will go.
So, we go back to the Scriptures. I quoted 1 Corinthians 13:11-13.
¹¹When I was a child,…Was there a time you were a child? Can you differentiate that time from the hour you are in now. Can you look at where you were coming from and what you were when you were a child?
When you were a child. That statement alone has proved that you are no longer a child, for the young has grown.
The person you call your mother today was somebody’s daughter and was a child brought up the same way she is bringing you up. The person you call your daddy, your father was a child, had his own father and had his own mother. Now, you are his own for continuity of life.
That is why an Igbo adage says that when a woman grows to maturity, she remains in that state of maturity for her daughters to grow and mature to that stage.
Another adage says that a woman must experience that which her mother experienced in life. A man must surely experience that which his father experienced in life.
For that person who is often advised, encouraged, rebuked and even chastised, but he or she refuses to listen nor change, when it will be too late and you are stranded, that is the time you will know that the world is not a bed of roses, for the world is not what you think it is. Do not paint a rosy picture of the world.

Do you know what Christ is all about? Christ is the Anointed One, the Messiah, theSaviour. Is it not true? God has always been in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself. ……. That is where I am standing at the Door. I told you that I am going ahead of time. You are meeting Me at the Door. Without Me, there is no salvation for the Gentiles. I am the Door. I am holding the Key, “The Symbol of Authority.” For unto you, Peter, I have given the Key. Whatsoever you bind here on earth is bound in Heaven.

THE SON OF MAN

AS WE WAIT AT THE GATE OF PARADISE VOL 1; preached on Wednesday 30^th March, 2011 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 47 vs. 30 & Pg. 51 vs. 47 – 48

WE ARE NOW IN THE REALITY WHO IS CHRIST

1 Corinthians 13:11-13, Amplified version.¹¹When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child;… Amen!

There are ways children reason. A child reasons childishly. A child behaves childishly. That was when you were a child. All those attributes and what other children were known for Must be traceable to your habits. You are growing. You are coming up.
And as you continue to come up, there will be a principle of elimination in your life. All those childish behaviours will be gradually eliminated. Am I making sense at all?
Is the person happy who begets a child that does not grow in reasoning? That child is an imbecile, growing in stature, but not growing in knowledge, in wisdom and in reasoning.
…now that I have become a man, I am done with childish ways and have put them aside. … I have gotten rid of all childish ways, childish behaviours, childish characters.
Why am I sending these two great unbelievers out of My presence, out of My Family and out of the Faith of Christ? It is because I have taken time to admonish them. They were living with their parents for many years.
Some were born in the Faith like FearGod about 30years ago the father married and so on. He is more than 20years of age.
Then finally, I brought them into My house because I do not believe that somebody is lost until I have tried that person. Let Me bring them into My own holy presence in My own house and find out where their problem is coming from, whether it is from their parents or from them or there is one called a devil who does not exist, but exists in them.

YOU ARE EITHER FORMING OR BREAKING A HABIT

THE DEVIL THAT IS TROUBLING YOU IS EXISTING IN YOU. A devil you have not recognized cannot trouble you. The devil is in you. Check man. Man is the creator of all circumstances that turn around against him.
All situations that turn around against the individual, find out very well who is responsible. You will notice that the individual that is being tormented by that situation or circumstance created it.
You createD it. Then it turns around to be your torment. You formed the habit that has become difficult for you to break becauseat any point in time, you are either forming a habit or breaking a habit.
If you notice that the habit formed is not good, you will attack that habit and liberate yourself, for before the Almighty God, every habit is breakable. If a habit can be formed, it can be broken. If a habit can be formed, it can be eliminated. it can be dropped. true or false.
Is there anyone born with an alcoholic drink in his mouth? Was anyone born with cigarette in his mouth? Was anyone born and evil infused into that person? No!
You came out pure, immaculate and perfect, but with your brain which you cued negatively, you began to foment what is now tormenting you. Formation is not done in one day. Breaking cannot be in achieved in one day.
…now that I have become a man,… Now that I have become a full-fledged man, a human being I am done with childish ways and have put them aside. ¹²For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim (blurred) reflection…
That was AD 70. Saint Paul was admonishing his own members—followers, not THE SON OF MAN.
¹²For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim (blurred) reflection [of reality… —It is not perfect— as in a riddle or enigma], but then [when perfection comes]… When what? When Perfection comes. Has Perfection come?
From 1993, precisely March 5, the LORD declared, “This is a perfection ministry. I am not here to deal with sin. Sin had already been taken care of long long time ago. I am the resurrected body. I am no longer Jesus Christ who came for your sins. No! I am the son of manWho was promised to come.
Nobody has visited you but God Himself—Adonai Himself. In Me is the Divinity. With your eyes, you will see it. Before all of you, I must call down the Godhead. When I want to magnify Myself in the midst of My people, I will remove My earthly dress and show them My Original Body. And that is when you must have attained perfection.”
Look at the perfection of the Saints when you are clothed with this white garment that can never fade away.
[The LORD pointing to His visitation to the Saints in His Original Body on 19^th August 2012 at GTC Onitsha.]
That is the righteousness of the Saints, for both He that sanctifies and they that are sanctified, they must wear the same dress. It is one uniform. You cannot wear white and another one wearing black.
It is this white garment that can never go threadbare. And when you put it on, nobody knows who is male and who is female.
… but then [when perfection comes] we shall see in reality and face to face! … Sure!!! We shall see what? We see in reality and you also see God face to face.
Hence, they were singing in their song: [Just any day now, our LORD is coming. He’ll be returning for you and me. And I’ll be waiting. And I’ll be watching. Just any day now, His face I see.]
One day, we shall see Him face to face. Face to face with Christ. Dreams vanished. Shadows vanished. We are now with the Reality, and the Reality is Christ. We are now with Him Who was promised to come. He is here.
He has come to fulfill all that were written concerning Him aforetime in the holy Scriptures by all the holy Prophets and Apostles. He has come to bring all to pass.
REFERENCES: [1] THE FIRST BOOK OF ADAM AND EVE by Rutherford Platt; Chapter 14 [The Earliest Prophesy Of The Coming Of Christ] verse 3 through 5.³Again said God to Adam, “All this misery that you have been made to take on yourself because of your transgression, will not free you from the hand of Satan, and will not save you.
⁴But I will. When I shall come down from heaven, and shall become flesh of your descendants, and take on Myself the infirmity from which you suffer, then the darkness that covered you in this cave shall cover Me in the grave, when I am in the flesh of your descendants. ⁵And I, who am without years, shall be subject to the reckoning of years, of times, of months, and of days, and I shall be reckoned as one of the sons of men, in order to save you.”
[2] Job 19:25-27, AMP. ²⁵For I know that my Redeemer and Vindicator lives, and at last He [the Last One] will stand upon the earth. ²⁶And after my skin, even this body, has been destroyed, then from my flesh or without it I shall see God,
²⁷Whom I, even I, shall see for myself and on my side! And my eyes shall behold Him, and not as a stranger! My heart pines away and is consumed within me.
[3] Psalms 40:7, KJV. Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me,[also found in Hebrews 10:7]
[4]Hebrews 1:1-2 AMP. ^[1]IN MANY separate revelations [ each of which set forth a portion of the Truth] and in different ways God spoke of old to [our] forefathers in and by the prophets, ^[2][But] in the last of these days He has spoken to us in [the person of a] Son, Whom He appointed Heir and lawful Owner of all things, also by and through Whom He created the worlds and the reaches of space and the ages of time [He made, produced, built, operated, and arranged them in order].
[5] Hebrews 2:14, TLB. ^[14]Since we, God’s children, are human beings—made of flesh and blood—he became flesh and blood too by being born in human form; for only as a human being could he die and in dying break the power of the devil who had the power of death.
[6] BHAGAVAD GITA by Sri Swami Sivananda; Ninth Discourse [The Yoga of the Kingly Science & the Kingly Secret] verse 11. ¹¹Fools disregard Me, clad in human form, not knowing My higher Being as the Great lord of (all) beings.
COMMENTARY: Fools who do not have discrimination despise Me, dwelling in human form. I have taken this body in order to bless My devotees. These fools have no knowledge of My higher Being. I am the Great lord, the Supreme.
[7] India’s Gracious Gift to Mankind by Crystaqueous; Chapter 7 [THE REALITY] Page 66, Paragraph 2.The Hindu says: “If God wants to hide, God would choose man to hide in.” That is the last place man would look for God.”
[8] TafsirAraisul Bayan, Vol. 1, p. 262.Before pondering over these traditions of the Holy Prophet, peace be upon him, regarding the advent of the Messiah and Mahdi, it must be kept in view that the Holy Quran as well as the traditions of the Holy Prophet are unanimous in their verdict that Jesus, son of Mary, has died his natural death. Further, the Holy Quran and the traditions of the Holy Prophet both are in unison that the dead never return to life in this transitory world of ours.
Hence when it is narrated in the traditions that Jesus son of Mary will come, it should not be taken literally but rather to be understood in the metaphorical sense as has been interpreted by a scholar of great repute and regenerator of his century, Mohyyud Din IbnArabi, when he says: “His descent in later ages will be with a DIFFERENT body.”
[9] Zephaniah 3:17-18, TLB.^[17-18]For the Lord your God has arrived to live among you. He is a mighty Savior. He will give you victory. He will rejoice over you with great gladness; he will love you and not accuse you.”
Is that a joyous choir I hear? No, it is the Lord himself exulting over you in happy song. “I have gathered your wounded and taken away your reproach.
[10] 1 John 3:2, TLB.^[2]Yes, dear friends, we are already God’s children, right now, and we can’t even imagine what it is going to be like later on. But we do know this, that when he comes we will be like him, as a result of seeing him as he really is.
[11] Revelation 21:3, TLB.^[3]I heard a loud shout from the throne saying, “Look, the home of God is now among men, and he will live with them and they will be his people; yes, God himself will be among them.
And then when you come to Him face to face, that is perfection. That is what? Perfection, for he is the epitome of love. In Him is the love of God made perfect.
you do not need to struggle to attain God’s righteousness anymore, for he will be your righteousness, for he is the righteous branch.
he will be your holiness. he will be your sanctification. he will be your baptism. you do not need to be struggling to go to the water for mechanical baptism.
No more! That one is all over. You do not need to be praying to the Father and He will say, “I will tell the father.” No! for he will reveal who the Father is, for the father is no other person but the same person. the two are one.
Through Him, you will see Christ who cannot be seen. Through the son of man, you will see God—Adonai, Who cannot be seen. Is it not Scripture?
REFERENCE: [1] Colossians 1:12-21, TLB. ^[12]and always thankful to the Father who has made us fit to share all the wonderful things that belong to those who live in the Kingdom of light. ^[13]For he has rescued us out of the darkness and gloom of Satan’s kingdom and brought us into the Kingdom of his dear Son, ^[14]who bought our freedom with his blood and forgave us all our sins.
^[15]Christ is the exact likeness of the unseen God. He existed before God made anything at all, and, in fact, ^[16]Christ himself is the Creator who made everything in heaven and earth, the things we can see and the things we can’t; the spirit world with its kings and kingdoms, its rulers and authorities; all were made by Christ for his own use and glory.
^[17]He was before all else began and it is his power that holds everything together. ^[18]He is the Head of the body made up of his people—that is, his Church—which he began; and he is the Leader of all those who arise from the dead, so that he is first in everything; ^[19]for God wanted all of himself to be in his Son.
^[20]It was through what his Son did that God cleared a path for everything to come to him—all things in heaven and on earth—for Christ’s death on the cross has made peace with God for all by his blood. ^[21]This includes you who were once so far away from God. You were his enemies and hated him and were separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions, yet now he has brought you back as his friends.
Colossians 1:15-20, MSG:^15-17We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God’s original purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels—everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment. And when it comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body.
^18-20He was Supreme in the beginning and—leading the resurrection parade—he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he’s there, towering far above everything, everyone. So spacious is he, so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe—people and things, animals and atoms—get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the cross.
[2] Isaiah 9:6-7, AMP. ⁶For to us a Child is born, to us a Son is given; and the government shall be upon His shoulder, and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father [of Eternity], Prince of Peace.
⁷Of the increase of His government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from the [latter] time forth, even forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
So, if you are waiting to see God elsewhere, you are a devil among us. You are not even a hypocrite. You are a devil.
If by now, it is not certain– it is not clear to you as to where you are, whose Voice you are hearing or He that is standing before you, I say that you are a devil.
The devil is better than you, for the devil knows Me very well. The devil calls Me by My Name. The devil honoursMe wherever I go. There is no city I will step my feet into without the devil fully bowing down and giving way. It is after My operation that the devil will come out. All of them will go into hiding until I am through.
… but then [when perfection comes] we shall see in reality and face to face! We shall. Future continuous tense. We shall see who? God. We see God in reality. We shall see Him also face to face.
The Prophet said, “Nobody is saved until you have been privileged to see God face to face. You talk to Him. He will talk back to you. You will have your own experiences like your Apostles and Prophets of old. You will have something to tell the whole world that you ate and drank with Him. You slept with Him. You had everything in common with Him for He was not different. He will not be different. He will be like you.”

Glorifying Him (The Son of Man) means going back to where He came from. That is going back. You proceeded from God and you are all going back to God. I have reconciled you unto God. You are no longer enemies and as long as I am here, you cannot go ahead of Me for you do not know the Way. If I did not tell you that we have come to the end, do you think you would have known? You know events that will mark the end. Now we have hopefully arrived at the end.

THE SON OF MAN

I AM THE CONSOLATION OF THE BRIDE; Preached on 31^st December 2011 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 53 vs. 8

LAVISH LOVE IS WHAT WE ARE ENJOYING FROM GOD

When we shall see Him, what shall He look like. 1 John 3:1-3, Complete Jewish Bible.

^[1]See what love the Father has lavished on us… See what love Adonai the Father has lavished on us. Lavish love. That is what people that do not believe are abusing, and they want us to follow them. No!
Do not follow the errors of the wicked. Separate yourself immediately.
^[1]See what love the Father has lavished on us in letting us be called God’s children! His own special purchased people.
Elders who were here last night heard My Voice. I read from the Scriptures and they were weeping. All of them wept last night. They could not walk out of My premises, for they provoked Me and I provoked them.
I returned the ball to them as well, for they kicked it on Me and it bounced back. They never knew that before they came, the LORD had already prepared Me. And they got it as express Message.
^[1]See what love the Father has lavished on us in letting us be called God’s children! Is it not lavish love that we are enjoying?
Who are you to have that testimony that with your eyes, you have seen God? Who are you? Is it by your merit? Is it by your act of righteousness which you have done? Is it for any good thing you have done?
For that is what we are. Children of the Most High God. Sons and daughters of God. That is why if you happen to be in the number, you refrain from iniquity. Whatever God says do not try, do not go there so that you will retain His love. Any day you begin to disobey, you will not abide in His love.
The reason the world does not know us is that it has not known him. … The world does not know who we are because they do not know who God is.
^[2]Dear friends, we are God’s children now; and it has not yet been made clear what we will become. We do know that when he appears,…
We know this that when He appears– so He must surely appear. When He appears, we do surely know. We are convinced. We are certain about it. He will surely appear.
We do know that when he appears, we will be like him; because we will see him as he really is. We will see Him as He really is. We will also be like Him. A human being like us. Any contradiction?
^[3]And everyone who has this hope in him continues purifying himself, since God is pure. Since God Himself is what? Pure! If you have this hope of sojourning with God, you keep on purifying your heart. Keep on purifying yourself. How can you do that? By believing God and obeying.
You are sanctified by the Word He has spoken to you, but there are many among you that do not obey. And for that reason, they cannot be sanctified. Amen.
I am still reading 1 Corinthians 13, from verse 11 through 13. Let us continue. ¹²For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim (blurred) reflection [of reality as in a riddle or enigma], but then [when perfection comes] we shall see in reality and face to face!
Now I know in part (imperfectly), but then I shall know and understand fully and clearly, even in the same manner as I have been fully and clearly known and understood [by God]. Period!
¹³And so faith, hope, love abide [faith–conviction and beliefrespecting man’s relation to God and divine things;… Respecting man’s relationship with God and things that have divine orientation. Anything that has its origin in God. Anything that is of God. You have respect for all of them.
…hope–joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation; love–true affection for God and man, growing out of God’s love for and in us], these three; but the greatest of these is love. Amen!
That is the climax. His love made manifest. That is why He does not believe He has achieved His best in a man until He has done His best. If I have done My best in you and what you were is what you are now, if I declare you lost, I am not making a mistake.
This is because if God does not have the power to correct you, to make you a very reasonable human being before Him, who else has that power? That goes to show that you are a Serpent’s seed. You are an unconvertible seed.
Remember conversion can never take place until you begin to desire it. Jabez, first of all, recognized his awful condition; His useless condition wherewith he was born. He began to desire a change.
From that desire for a change, he went to God in prayers. And the LORD saw his heart that it was penitent. He was sincere with his request. The LORD stooped low and held him by the hand and changed his condition.
Anybody who is in a very bad condition and he sleeps over it, does he want a change? Thank you! God sees the heart of every man.
See those who appeared for the first time today. They had already desired it. They asked for it, but their request could not be answered.
They continued mounting pressure but no way. They sent their children to make the request on their behalf, but no way. On the behalf of their children, no way. They resorted to prayers. They continued praying. They did not bother Me anymore.
When they had lost every hope– when they thought it will be impossible– when they never anticipated it, the LORD sent for them.
They did not go to God. God was the One that sent for them and said, “I know you are through with your Fellowship, today being Sunday. Come now! Do not take your bath nor change your clothe. Come as you are.”
Immediately, they responded, not knowing the reason why they could be called at that odd hour. The Elders were still here with Me. We had already spoken concerning them. Perhaps, the things we know spiritually about them, neglecting the flesh for the flesh profiteth nothing.
When I mentioned the reason for their call, both the Elders who never knew the reason, but they were nursing it as a premonition, knowing that My recommendation went forth that they were likely to receive good news and not bad news.
But whatever the good news might be, they never knew until I opened My mouth and said, “This day, have I adopted you into My Family worship as members of this Family. This day, you and your children…”
They rolled on the ground weeping and crying, with such tears rolling down their eyes, for God gave them the yearnings of their hearts.
They were having their Fellowship, but they knew it was incomplete. They knew something was lacking.
What is more? If My own biological children could lament that they are missing something and that they are desiring to be here continuously, where the action is.
If they are feeling that way that mere hearing from their handsets or any other means of communication was not satisfying their heart’s desire, who then is that fellow who will not be desiring to be in the centre where the action is.
At least hearing from Me, seeing My face, seeing Me, seeing My demonstrations, seeing the countenance of everybody, joining hands in the searching and reading of the Scriptures and any other thing, I mean, nothing satisfies the heart more than that.
You cannot say, “Somebody told me”. Rather, you will say, “I was there. I am an eye and earwitness and also a partaker.”
The difference had always been there with people who saw the light of God. The Great light which is the Shekinah that came here. Though the Shekinah is here, even now, but that day, He came for a purpose and allowed us to use human eyes [physical eyes] to see Him operate in the house.
That was on 29^th August, 2021. An indelible date in the memory of all who belong to this Family. He came as a transporter to Heaven and then transported His maidservant before My eyes and many people here.
We have a sure anchor that we cannot even shift one bit from our conviction. Who has a God that answers prayers more than us? Is God not lavishing His love upon us? Lavish love is what we are enjoying.
The same lavish love, others are abusing it. When you abuse it, automatically, it must be withdrawn. Amen.
When we were infants, young young people like these youngsters here, little did we know that we must grow to adolescence and become responsible people manning our homes. And that from there, we shall be raising our own children that will be called ours.
We begin to suffer those things our parents suffered. Then we will now begin to know what it takes for a man to forsake his parents when he has become an adult or to disappoint the parents. Then you will know the painful side of your misbehaviour.
When you will own a family, if your children will treat you the same way you are treating your parents, will you complain?
Of all the human beings on earth, no one should pray that he should have a useless child.
Do you know that academic attainment does not make for a man? Academic knowledge differs from intelligence. Take note of what I am saying. There are foolish doctorate degree holders. So, take note of what I am saying.
There is no academic attainment that can reform a man’s character or behaviour or attitude towards life, even belief. Academic attainment does not reform belief. That is why you see PhD holders that are still bowing down to statues. True or false?
They go to church. They read the Bible. But with their knowledge, they could not discover God. That is why Job said, “Can a man through reading of books see God?” He said, “Never! You cannot, through the reading of books, see God.”
Which means, God must surely come live, face to face to anybody He wants to save.
How I wish Pastor Chizoba noted the testimony of My visit to the northern states. I would have called you to go and bring that book now, which was kept there. If you noted it, I equally wrote something there, “MY VISIT TO THE NORTH.”
So, I want to go to another Scripture.

²⁸God can give unimaginable instructions to test the loyalty of His servants to Him. The success of every true servant of God depends on his ability in obeying God at His Word. ²⁹At times, some of these instructions will run contrary to our long-established life styles. This is why every true child of God must be flexible because God is flexible.³⁰If God is ‘Rigid’ in His ways. No man will be saved. This is why the Scriptures conclude that with God all things are possible. There is nothing impossible for God to do and that is why He is the Almighty. ³¹He can do all things because He is a flexible God that can change His decision at will and nobody questions Him for that.

THE SON OF MAN

The GREAT SERMONS and THE HOLY SPIRIT inspired REVELATIONS and EPISTLES, Revised Edition 2019 (First Published in the Year 2001)

Pg. 85 vs. 28-31

YOU HAVE TO TRANSIT FROM FAITH TO FAITH

Somebody can read Hebrews Chapter 6 from verse 1 through 6. Let us use Amplified version all through.

Chibuko, if you are a Deacon and you are not a Deacon of the Word, I will fire you. If you do not find the time to read the Bible in your home, you make yourself lazy and your wife lazy. Did you not know you were coming to Fellowship.
Deacon Chibuko: I have ordered for my eyeglasses.
Until you get it do not come here again.
Deacon Chibuko: It will come on Tuesday sir.
You are saved.
Deacon Chibuko: Thank you sir.
Hebrews 6:1-6, Amplified version. ¹THEREFORE LET us go on and get past the elementary stage in the teachings and doctrine of Christ (the Messiah),…
Pay attention! We have the elementary stage– introductory stage. Fundamentals! A man who is desirous of building an upstair, if he makes the foundation for the building, has he completed the work.
Is the ordinary laying of foundation or using blocks to fence the land the reason why you purchased the land? You are only laying a foundation for a building that will be constructed. You have not constructed it.
If you begin to jump up and down, “Oh! I have laid a solid foundation for My building. I have finished with the German floor. Oh! Glory be to God.” Brethren, have you built the house? Have you packed in?
So it is with the Faith of Christ. We have elementary stage—infant stage. In other words, as we have stages of human development, so we have stages of development of Faith. Faith grows.
That is why the Bible said, “We should grow from faith to faith.” If you are not growing from faith to faith, you will miss the transition. You must transit from the faith of Moses to the Faith of Christ. True or false?
Remember that the faith of Moses was the faith of Joshua. They are not two different faiths. But the faith of Jesus Christ was different from that of Moses. So, you have to transit from faith to faith.
As you grow from faith to faith, the interpretation means transiting from one faith to another because the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith unto them that believe.
There is a revealed righteousness of God in every dispensation. Whenever a Messenger is sent to a dispensation, a revelation of righteousness that accompanies that dispensation will come forth. I hope you are hearing Me.
REFERENCES: [1] Hebrews 1:1-2, AMP. ¹IN MANY separate revelations [ each of which set forth a portion of the Truth] and in different ways God spoke of old to [our] forefathers in and by the prophets, ²[But] in the last of these days He has spoken to us in [the person of a] Son, Whom He appointed Heir and lawful Owner of all things, also by and through Whom He created the worlds and the reaches of space and the ages of time [He made, produced, built, operated, and arranged them in order].
[2] Hebrews 7:11-13, AMP.¹¹Now if perfection (a perfect fellowship between God and the worshiper) had been attainable by the Levitical priesthood–for under it the people were given the Law– why was it further necessary that there should arise another and different kind of Priest, one after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one appointed after the order and rank of Aaron?
¹²For when there is a change in the priesthood, there is of necessity an alteration of the law [concerning the priesthood] as well. ¹³For the One of Whom these things are said belonged [not to the priestly line but] to another tribe, no member of which has officiated at the altar.
That is why, what constituted evil in the previous generation may be righteousness in the next. Did you get the Message?
What you were holding as your righteousness in the first dispensation with the Messenger of that Age, if you do not transit to the next one who has come with His own revealed righteousness, all from God, for you are growing from faith to faith– the aim is taking you to perfection.
You must run the seven steps to perfection. And anyone you have crossed, you throw it behind and look forward to the one that is ahead. Did you get the Message now?
Elementary stage means a foundation Message. Those who believed in Moses were given the Torah. And the Torah contains the Ten Commandments.
Then those who observed it thought they will live, but they noticed that observing it means death and they did not know until God told them that in anger, due to provocation, He gave them laws that could not save life. And therein they perished. So they were holding death and they knew it not. Did you get the Message?
Just like the Jews were rejoicing. Israel asked for a king and God gave them a king after their choice. They rejoiced, “Now, the one that arrived was king Saul, who will lead us to war like other nations. A handsome man, lanky, fair to look at.”
They were rejoicing but the LORD spoke to them, “In anger, I gave you a king. In anger, I removed him.” One who receives a package in anger and resentment, was the person given a gift? In anger, God removed that same king Saul.
Due to provocation, God also gave them laws that could not save life. They decided to keep and uphold the laws and all of them perished. None survived.
You see why we fear God. When you are walking with God, pin your eyes on the ground. Pin your eyes on the ground. Find out what is happening around Him, for that is where the action is. Know when you are getting God’s perfect will and when you are getting permissive will.
Permissive will was given to Balaam, and Balaam rejoiced and went to Moab. There he perished because God had already said no several times and warned him. Persistently, he demanded permission. God said, “Now, you can go.”
Know when you are given permissive will and when you are given the perfect will of God. When you are in God and you have the virtues, you will know that which is perfect in His eyes. You will discern all. You will know when God does not mean it. Yes!
It was God in the prophet Michaiah– God desirous of deceiving Ahab so that he will be killed. God permitted Michaiah to tell Ahab, “Ahab! Let me talk to you. Go to war. You will win, you and Israel.”
But before then, Ahab knew that he was the only mouthpiece of God in Israel. Israel had 400 Prophets who prophesied good goodgood to Ahab.
Jehoshaphat, knowing that the prophets of Israel are liars enquired, “O King Ahab, you are ruling 10 tribes of Israel. Is there no Prophet of God in your land anymore. Why should all these prophets be saying the same thing, and you want us to go to war? Is there no Prophet of God in Israel?”
Ahab said, “There is only but one, but I hate him.” Why do you hate him? He said, “He does not speak good of me. He is a Prophet of doom to me.” Jehoshaphat said, “Do not say so. Let us consult him.”
The chief liar among the 400 prophets went to him and said, “O Prophet of Judah, Prophet of God, the mouthpiece of the people of God in Israel. We have spoken to the king. He has paid us o. We have shared the money. We know you. When you go there, tell him what we told him. We have told him that he will go to war and win. Say the same thing we said. If you do not say it, all of us will be on you.”
Michaiah replied, “O prophet, I have heard you. Whatever He has put in my mouth, that I will declare.” The chief liar retorted, “Your God will put it in your mouth, and that you will declare?” He slapped him [Prophet Michaiah], “As introduction, having slapped you, you will know what we shall do to you if you say contrary.”
An evil man knows that his character is evil. Is this prophecy that is paid for a prophecy at all?
Today, people pay huge sums of money to so called prophets and prophetesses to receive prophecies. People pay to receive prayers. You pay to get the interpretations of dreams.
There is one that announces it in the radio. He has a ministry interpreting dreams. He will tell you how much it will cost you with the instruction, “Send your dream across and the money.” He will give you the account number shamelessly. shamelessly!
Prayer, money! Anointing, money! Vow, money! Everything, money moneymoneymoneymoney.
But look at this man. The only Voice. When he went there, he looked at the King and said, “O king Ahab, your people have told you to go and you will win. What else do you want me to say? Go! God has given you victory over your enemies. Go!”
Ahab turned around and looked at Michaiah, “Prophet of God, have I not been warning you from time to time? Regard not my hostility. Regard not my kingship. Each time I come to you to enquire of the LORD, tell me the truth. Do not look at my face. My countenance should not scare you. Tell me the truth and nothing but the truth.”
Jehoshaphat adjusted himself for he knew that the LORD was about to speak. Then he [Michaiah] said, “Okay. Be it known to you O king Ahab. If you go to this war and come back, know that I am not a prophet of God in the land of Israel, for I saw Israel scattered and slaughtered in the front and the king killed.”
He was infuriated by the prophecy. He told the rest, “Lay hand on him, keep him in dungeon, feed him with the food of affliction until I go and come back. Then I will show him that I am a king over Israel.”
Then the Prophet retorted, “O king Ahab, if you go to this war and come back alive, know that I am not a Prophet of God in the land of Israel.” One in a million!
Today, we have over one million prophets in Nigeria, but there is one Prophet of God. The world over now, there is only but one Prophet Whom the whole world have tuned their ears to.
As I am talking to you now, a place that is known for prophets is Israel—the land of the Jews, there is no Rabbi– there is no Prophet except one. And that one is speaking to them from the Gentiles, only paying them visits.
They have seen Him. They have acknowledged Him. That is why, in spite of the war, they are there to know what He is saying concerning them and the war, waiting for the day He will make a final return—final unification of the east and west.
Then the two sticks shall be one in his hands. No Jews. No Gentiles. And that is where we are heading to. Even as I am talking to you now, you do not need a Prophet to tell you.
It will take Pastor Chizoba’s wife to narrate her experience last week. You will see that too many people are desiring to be in this Fellowship. They held her hostage, desiring to be here and even pleading with Me when I came out.
I do not know how long they were there because I did not hear them at the gate. They were over 20. They condemned what they were doing as occupation.
To show you that they are not happy, they said with their mouths, “We are not happy that we are doing yahoo. We are not happy that we are doing this. Daddy look at us. So we are dying. Do you want us to die like this? Daddy, please we want to be in your church to worship God with you. You pray for us and change our condition.
We will marry from among you. Your daughters are doing good. Your church is doing good with everybody looking good. They are beautiful. They are good mannered. We see them. We want to pick a wife from them.
We want to be part and parcel of what you are doing. We hear your Message. We hear them. We are not happy that we are doing this thing.”
Their principal came and said, “Daddy, did you hear what they are saying? Have you seen that, with their own mouths, they are confessing to you all that they are doing?”
Even your own junior brother Chikwado was equally here. He just held My hand like this that day.
Who will tell Me that God has not won the whole world? Look at them. They have believed, only that I have not opened My Gate. They are desiring. They do not want to perish.
But look at somebody that is being lavished with the love of God. He is abusing it. Does that fellow know where he is? Not knowing Who is talking to you. Not knowing where you are, thinking I will beg you. Beg you for what?
In your righteousness do I gain anything. The life you are living do I gain anything from there. They all belong to you. They are all for your own good. Take note of what I am saying.
Where did I quote before? While you are still holding unto it, look at Michaiah. Prophet Michaiah won the battle with the 400 false prophets.
Do we have false prophets today? They are everywhere. False preachers? They are everywhere. Counterfeit is everywhere. So, be very careful.
And they are trying to find their ways into our midst. That is why God is not resting until He has spotted all of them out. Do not worry. By the time this week will be over, they will receive their letters as individuals and as families.
I am not leaving anything to chance. The best thing that has happened to you is to come before the LORD God Almighty so that He Himself will screen you alive.
If you have passed God’s screening– God’s biometric screen– this is a spiritual biometric exercise being conducted by God Himself.
If you have passed through it safely, He stamps you with an everlasting stamp, Screened! Approved!” One way! You do not need to go for any other screening because you have been screened.
The Bible said, “If we can judge ourselves with the Word of God now that we are alive, God will not judge us again on the judgment throne, for what we are having here is God’s judgment.”
If you can submit yourself very well, allow God to examine you, try you, test you and then justify you, you are justified forever. Yes! Whoever that passes God’s test, which one will he fail? It does not exist.
Now, look at that man, king Ahab and the Voice [the Word] of the Prophet although is one, to him was the voice of death. To Jehoshaphat, it was the Voice of life. True or false?

Do you know who God is? Nobody knoweth the Father but the Son. Nobody knoweth the Son but the Father and to whomsoever the Son shall choose to reveal. I am in the bosom of the Father. And HE that is in the bosom of the Father knows the mind of the Father. If I declare you lost, you are lost. If I declare you saved, you are saved. Do you know the safe ground? Have you gone this way before? Do you know it is an act of stupidity for somebody to find fault on the road he has never trailed before? Is that not what killed those that left? You are saying the Son of Man is wrong. Have you gone this way before? How can you find fault with your Leader when you do not know the way?

THE SON OF MAN

THE ESSENCE OF worshipping (SERVING) THE LIVING GOD; preached on 22^nd January 2012 at the Household of God, Onitsha;Pg. 70 vs. 31 – 34

THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IS REVEALED FROM FAITH TO FAITH [1]

Give Me Living Bible there. 2 Corinthians 2:16-17. I want to balance what I said. ^[16]To those who are not being saved,…

To those who are not going to be saved, they are allergic to My Message—to My Word. They are discomforted upon hearing My Word. Anyone God is not going to give eternal life, there can never be a time when he or she will not be allergic to the Word of God. Such a fellow can never find rest in the Word of God.
But to all those whom the LORD has decided to give eternal life, they are not suspicious of the Word of God.
^[16]To those who are not being saved, we seem a fearful smell of death and doom, [Good!] while to those who know Christ we are a life-giving perfume. [Good!] But who is adequate for such a task as this?
^[17]Only those who, like ourselves,are men of integrity, sent by God,… Not self-acclaimed, not ordained by any denomination or appointed by man, for he that pays the piper dictates the tune.
Only those like us who are divinely sent, who are divinely oriented, they are the only people that have the capacity to tell you this truth. Others are just talking rubbish to win your favour so that you give them money.
^[17]Only those who, like ourselves, are men of integrity, sent by God, speaking with Christ’s power, with God’s eye upon us.
We are not like those hucksters—and there are many of them—whose idea in getting out the Gospel is to make a good living out of it. True or false?
We do not pretend to be your friends so that you give us money. Such sharp practices, we rebuke.
What is that thing you will do so that you will not die? What is that wealth or money which you will return to God in His Kingdom? What will you benefit from this world that will prevent you from coming to the Judgment Throne of God?
All we are trying to do is to avoid going to God’s Judgment Throne, for nobody goes there and comes back without being condemned. Before God will take you to judgment, you are already condemned.
Whoever that believes and obeys will never come to judgment. Is it not Scripture? If you are not coming to judgment, will there be condemnation? So, there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ already. You have passed from death unto life. And you are not afraid of eternal condemnation.
Hebrews 6:1-6, Amplified version. ¹THEREFORE LET us go on and get past the elementary stage in the teachings and doctrine of Christ (the Messiah), advancing steadily toward the completeness and perfection that belong to spiritual maturity. Fine!
Let us not again be laying the foundation of repentance and abandonment of dead works (dead formalism) and of the faith [by which you turned] to God, ²With teachings about purifying, the laying on of hands, the resurrection from the dead, and eternal judgment and punishment.
[These are all matters of which you should have been fully aware long, long ago.] Is it a lie Brethren? Why should I be laying such a foundation again.
Only infants here will benefit from that thing, but to you who are matured, you are now adults, having thrown away– having been done with all childishness, you should be reasoning with mature minds.
You will know when somebody wants to exploit you or to deceive you and when somebody is honest towards you.
You are in a position now to differentiate between God and devil, between true believers and hypocrites, between those that worship God in spirit and in truth and those that are just paying lips service to the Faith.
They are in the majority. And they are in every family, starting from the husband and wife down to their children. As you are, so your family is, unless God has pull you out of
If God has not pulled you out, you must wear the same dress—the same spirit with your family, for you cannot grow spiritually more than your parents.
³If indeed God permits, we will [now] proceed [to advanced teaching]. … We will now proceed to what? Advanced Teaching. So we have elementary Teaching, and we have advanced Teaching.
In the Book of Peter, it said, “When we were infants, we were eating soft meat. We were eating fat. When we became adult, we started eating the real flesh. When we became real men, we began to eat bones.”
There is a type of bone you will give to a child and that child will throw it away. The father or the mother will take the bone from the child and chew it and tell the child that the bone of a goat is not strong to chew. But to the child, if he or she dares try to chew that bone the teeth must fall off. An adult will chew that bone and nothing will happen. Is it a lie Brethren?
Soft food is for an infant. Pap is meant for infants. There is a stage the child will get to and he or she will start swallowing food. There is another stage the child will develop to and he or she will be eating any type of food. That child has then become an adult.
So it is with this Faith. I am not laying a new foundation for repentance or telling you to repent or perish, just like Lucky Eze and FearGod, “Repent! Wake up from your slumber. Do this! Do not do that.”
I do not have time for it for it any more. For over two years now, I have nurtured them here in unbelief. If they wanted to believe, they would have been like others. But they have made up their minds the way they will go.
And I have tried to enquire of them, “Tell Me why you are here with Me. If you need My help, tell Me the area. If I have the capacity, I will help you and you will go away.”
I have even ordered them to leave My house several times. They refused. Now, they are getting My letters which will post them out eternally. I had earlier warned before now.
Whatever God does is eternal. Nothing can be added nor subtracted from it.
If they had obeyed the number of times I ordered them to take their bags and leave My house, they would have had the opportunities to come back again. But now, they are going with a certificate.
So, I go back to the Message. Put down the Scriptures. At your own convenient time, you can read them.
⁴For it is impossible [to restore and bring again to repentance] those who have been once for all enlightened, who have consciously tasted the heavenly gift and have become sharers of the Holy Spirit, ⁵And have felt how good the Word of God is and the mighty powers of the age and world to come, ⁶If they then deviate from the faith and turn away from their allegiance–[it is impossible] to bring them back to repentance, for (because, while, as long as) they nail upon the cross the Son of God afresh [as far as they are concerned] and are holding [Him] up to contempt and shame and public disgrace.
So, I go back to the Message again. Put down the Scriptures. At your own convenient time, you can read them.
John 4 from verse 23 through 26, Amplified version.²³A time will come, however, indeed it is already here,… A time will come. Indeed, that time is already here. Why? Christ was there. A new Tabernacle, a new cathedral, a new Synagogue made without hands was already on the scene.
The moment he appeared on the scene, he has condemned the past. That one will be let go. Is it not true? It waxed old. It decayed. It was done with.
Remember you grow from Faith to Faith. When you transit from the faith of Moses, you transit into the Faith of Christ. Those who could not believe in the Moses of their day could not believe in the Christ of their day.
Then, from the Christ of your day, you transit to the days of the Prophets and the Apostles. From the time of the Prophets and the Apostles, you transit to the days of THE SON OF MAN. True or false?
For the Prophets and the Apostles laid the foundation of the Church. The Church is built upon the foundation of the Prophets and the Apostles, Jesus Christ being the chief cornerstone.
And no other foundation can any man lay than that which is laid already, which is Christ. Up till this day, it is still Christ. Christ in you, the hope of Glory.
And we have seen Him with our eyes. We have seen Him that existed from the very beginning. True or false? We are talking about Christ who is Himself God and eternal life. Is there any other person?
We are talking about Adonai. We are talking about the Great God Who came with the vindication of the Divinity which is the Cloud. The Cloud revealed the Great God, Adonai.
I have shown you the Scripture, even using Complete Jewish Bible [CJB].
REFERENCE:Tehillim (Psalms) 95:1-3, Complete Jewish Bible.^[1]Come, let’s sing to Adonai! Let’s shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation! ^[2]Let’s come into His presence with thanksgiving; let’s shout for joy to Him with songs of praise. ^[3]For Adonai is a Great God, a Great King greater than all gods.
So, if you are in doubt, you are in doubt with yourself. I say, if you are in doubt, you are in doubt with yourself, not with God. Truth removes all doubts from one that has acknowledged the truth. But where truth is not believed, doubt will remain there.
Daughter of Philip, are you hearing what I am saying? This is because this is what is killing your family. Your family does not believe in God. They do not believe in the devil.
He who does not believe in God and does not believe in the devil, what do you believe? You believe in yourself. You will save yourself.
You must believe either God or devil. But when you do not believe in God and you do not believe in the devil, establish your faith and let us see where it will be. Establish it.
Your parents are not churchgoers and they are not believers. What are they? That is why whenever there is a problem, nobody knows how to address it.
Anybody who is lukewarm must be spewed out of the mouth of God, for he is a bat who is neither a terrestrial nor a celestial animal. That is a worthless animal. A bat is a worthless animal. It is not a terrestrial animal. It is not also a celestial animal.

Remember, there are only but two ways. The Bridal way or the worldly way. Christ’s way or the devil’s way. It is either God or Satan. You are either in the Bride or you are outside. The whole world is now on one side [and] Christ on another side. In addition, the Son of Man is the Link. You cannot come to Christ without Me. There is no way. I am the link between God and anybody that will be saved. I am the link to the truth. No other way. The world is on one side, but God is on the other side. The sonof man is reconciling men unto God on a daily basis. I am the point of reconciliation between God and man. Believe it if you can.

THE SON OF MAN

I AM THE WORD EXPLAINED VOL 1; Preached on Sunday 27 April 2014 at the Household of God, Onitsha;

Pg. 96 vs. 7 – 9

THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IS REVEALED FROM FAITH TO FAITH [2]

John 4:23-26, Amplified version.²³A time will come, however, indeed it is already here, when the true (genuine) worshipers…

Once there is genuine, there is false. False exists somewhere. If you have genuine worshippers, you must have fake worshippers. When we have genuine currency, we must have fake currency. For there to be anything fake, the original must be somewhere. Without original, there is no faking.
Something must appear. Something must come up first before faking will begin– before counterfeiting will begin. I hope I am making sense.
So, there must be the genuine Faith—Apostolic, Christ. This is the Bishop and Apostle of our soul. He has the revealed Faith which vanished when Saint Paul was eliminated. During the Inquisition by Roman Catholics, Faith vanished from the whole earth.
Reformers who were drawn from the clergy– they were all reverend fathers until it came to Martin Luther. All of them were reverend fathers.
They came with the little light God gave them for they had pure hearts. There were many that were left out there like the man reverend father Francis of Assisi who played a key role also in the reformation.
It was reformation. It was the period of renaissance. They were trying to wake up from slumber. They wanted to come up because during that period of Inquisition, the entire universe rolled into the period of dark Ages.
It was in the dark Ages that all these reformers came. Look at the years they appeared.
They continued from Europe and Asia minor until finally God ordained also a clergy man, a Baptist pastor, William Marrion Branham.
A pastor from the Southern Baptist Mission who borrowed a cue from Martin Luther King Jr who was murdered in the pulpit because of the prophecy he prophesied which was a dream he saw.
He saw a dream where their children as black Americans—Negroes will no longer be persecuted because of the colour of their skin. I saw a dream. “I have a dream that one of these days, our children…”
That is Martin Luther Jr. a Baptist Minister in the Southern Baptist Mission, America. There also, William Branham featured as a Baptist Minister.
Even Billy Graham and all of them. Baptists! T. L. Osborn and all these great great minds in the Pentecostals. All of them emanated from Southern Baptist Mission in America except ReinhardBonke who came from Germany.
Martin Luther [the Angel Messager to Sardis, 5^th of the seven angel messengers] moved to Germany because of Inquisition. He was not a native of Germany. He was not a German.
So all these reformers, God used them as angel Messengers to their own Ages. They had their preachings which they could not even preserve till today, but THE SON OF MAN left something behind.
What I am saying is that you must transit from one Faith to another so that you can be always found in the present truth.
For example, in the Faith of Moses, observance of Sabbath was an act of righteousness. Am I making sense? Sabbath. Was it true? Was it true? Then in the Faith of Christ, whoever tries it has committed atrocity.
During the laws of Moses, there were rituals, sacrifices for the atonement of sin. Everyday man and woman will be killing cow, killing goat and things like that. Every day, sacrifice for sin, but when Christ came, that one ceased.
What can you say about the other aspects of the law? They all stopped when Christ came, for they were shadows of the main thing. They were active– They were in operation until Christ came.
When Christ came, we are no longer under those useless rules. We are now in the reality, and no longer in the shadow. I hope you are following Me. You will know those that constitute shadows in your day which people are still pursuing. And they are using it to distress the faith of others.
If you are not willing to obey, please, go away. Do not disturb others. Do not distress the faith of others. And I have noticed that the distress is coming from people I have already abandoned. Because they abandoned Christ, the son of manabandoned them. They abandoned the truth. They abandoned the way of life.
In a Local Assembly where no soul was returned and saved by God, God used a type of drone. And then you see people condemning their fellow members in that place.
HOW CAN A CONDEMNED CRIMINAL CONDEMN A CONEMNED CRIMINAL? You are condemned and awaiting execution and you are equally condemning somebody who is condemned with you.
Do you not know that the one that is condemned has the right to live the way he wants. Although he is under check by the prison warders, that does not mean that he will not be killed.
The moment God has let you go, He does not care what happens around you. That is why you do not trouble me with people that are not in the Faith.
They are not in the Faith of THE SON OF MAN, and you know that they are not. You are equally not in the Faith. Why then do you trouble Me?
John 4:23-26, Amplified version.²³A time will come, however, indeed it is already here, when the true (genuine) worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth (reality); for the Father is seeking just such people as these as His worshipers.
²⁴God is a Spirit (a spiritual Being) and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth (reality). ²⁵The woman said to Him, I know that Messiah is coming,…
I know that the Saviour is coming. So, it was not another news. She was aware of it being a Samarian woman, for the Gospel of the Kingdom must be preached first in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and then to the uttermost parts of the earth. So, she knew the Messiah would come.
Remember that under the laws of Moses, it was an abomination for a Jew [Jesus Christ] to stand there and have conversation with a Samarian woman. It was a crime punishable by death under the Torah.
²⁵The woman said to Him, I know that Messiah is coming, He Who is called the Christ (the Anointed One);
[INTERLUDE] Something happened to your waist that you cannot stand up. Now, go and stand up there. You will remain standing until I will tell you to sit down.
Too much sitting down can make you to be lazy because you now have children, and you will be ordering them about. You cannot even get up to pick ordinary broom by your side until you call your daughter.
All these lazy habits are gradually developed. It may come to a point where there may be water in the fridge and you cannot get it at your age. If you are a Deacon, you will remain standing until the Fellowship is over.
John 4:24-25, Complete Jewish Bible.^[24]God is spirit; and worshippers must worship him spiritually and truly.” ^[25]The woman replied, “I know that Mashiach is coming” (that is, “the one who has been anointed”). …
Anointed by Who? Anointed by Adonai. Remember the Scriptures, “How Jesus was anointed by God– How the Man Jesus was anointed by the Spirit of God and He became Christ.” He became Adonai. He became the Messiah. He became the Saviour, the Anointed One.
It is there in the Acts of the Apostles. We better know Scriptures so that we cannot be deceived too easily by people.
^[25]The woman replied, “I know that Mashiach is coming” (that is, “the one who has been anointed”). He has been anointed.
In our midst is One Whom the Pastor wanted to anoint. By the time he approached where He was kneeling down, he [the Pastor] saw oil dripping down from His head, and he could not lay his hand anymore.
He [Pastor] lifted His Bible and wanted to bless His Bible, but the Bible turned itself several times. And that Bible is here. Look at it there. This is the Bible, not like other ones.
It is this Bible he wanted to consecrate, with “Apostle Peter Odoemena, THE SON OF MAN” written there. This is what he wanted to anoint. He collected it from My hand to anoint it for Me to use.
By the time he came closer, the bottle of olive oil in his hand could not even be opened again. He saw what was dripping down from My head to My clothes. This happened before many witnesses.
I am not sharing My testimony. I have the greatest testimony.
Then He lifted this Bible to bless. The thing rolled in the hands and wanted to fall down, but he collected it and then returned it to Me.
Why did he not continue. His power could no longer hold it, for greater than him was there.
Then immediately, the Voice went forth, “I have anointed you with my spirit. I have anointed you with My power.” Then we began to hear too many other things.
I do not share My testimonies. My testimonies share themselves. If you want to know My Teachings and everything, go and see people that have heard from Me. I have graduated many.
^[25]The woman replied, “I know that Mashiach is coming” (that is, “the one who has been anointed”). “When he comes, he will tell us everything.”
Is He not that promised Holy Spirit—Holy Ghost—the Spirit of Truth? When He shall come, He shall lead you into the knowledge of all truths. He will not speak of Himself, but whatsoever He heareth from Me, that He will declare unto you.
Can you imagine? The woman knew that One was coming to tell them all things. That One came and also transmitted his spirit into another called THE SON OF MAN Who will come and then bring that Faith to reality.
He told them, “I have too many things that I would have told you. But because of your little faith and because of your unbelief, you cannot bear them now. Nevertheless, One is coming after Me. When He will come, He will declare those things I could not declare. But you Peter who is a stumbling block, be very careful. The devil wanted to snatch you out of My hands completely, but I prayed for you that your faith fail not. Peter, any day, any time you are converted, strengthen your brethren.”
Till the Master left, he was not converted. And the Bible said, “Repent and be converted that your sins may be forgiven.” Peter was the one who even used the preaching. Yet, Peter was not converted.
Since he was not converted. Who is he expecting to be converted? Do we have such preachers? They are among us. They are everywhere in all the families, preaching something they do not believe– preaching something they do not practice.
Saint Paul who himself was a practical believer said, “As I believe, so I preach. So I practice. Therefore, imitate me.”
The LORD God Almighty was not only a Preacher. He was also a practitioner of His Message. True or false? He did not only preach Grace. He practices Grace.
^[26]Yeshua said to her, “I, the person speaking to you, am he.”Yeshua said to her, “I, the Person speaking to you, I am He.” I AM HE. H-E.
Are you convinced? The woman was convinced. It was an encounter between the Messiah and the woman. Only the disciples were there as witnesses. Then the rest were the passersby. Some stopped.
The woman ran to the village and declared the good news. Who said a woman should not even talk. You will hear from Me today.
She had exchange of communication with the LORD Jesus the Messiah. She ran home and told her people, “Come and see the man that told Me my past, my present and my future. Could He be any other person other than the Christ we are awaiting?” They came.
The people came. They saw everything and heard everything and then took Him home. He abode with them till the following day, after which they said, “Indeed, we believe. You are the Messiah. If another Messiah will come, will he do or say more than anything that we have heard? He cannot do anything better than what we are seeing. What else will he do? Is he coming to bring down the heavens to touch the earth?”
Are you convinced to that extent? Are you saying that you are a woman and for that reason, you are a non-performer? Where are you then expecting your reward? Is it not from your works that you are expecting your reward?
The reason why I do not blame many is that opportunity has not yet been given to them to perform. But if opportunity has come your way, and you refuse to perform, you become a non-performer.
This is the final bus-stop. It is either from here to heaven or from here to hell. Once you are sacked from the presence of God, You are sacked completely from life.
The life you are going to live from now will be absolutely useless for you—miserable life, for you have earned your reward.
John 4:23-26, Amplified version.²³A time will come, however, indeed it is already here, when the true (genuine) worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth (reality); for the Father is seeking just such people as these as His worshipers.
²⁴God is a Spirit (a spiritual Being) and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth (reality).
²⁵The woman said to Him, I know that Messiah is coming, He Who is called the Christ (the Anointed One); and when He arrives, He will tell us everything we need to know and make it clear to us. ²⁶Jesus said to her, I Who now speak with you am He.
²⁷Just then His disciples came and they wondered (were surprised, astonished) to find Him talking with a woman [a married woman]. However, not one of them asked Him, What are You inquiring about?
This one defined it very well. He was not only discussing with a woman, but a married woman. And not even one attempted nor tried to ask Him, “Why are you discussing with a married woman?” They held their peace.
Let us continue.

I am posted here for a purpose. You are the purpose for which cause I am here. I am here to get you reconciled with God. That is why I came with the message of reconciliation, opening your eyes that you may know the truth. If you like, get offended. No apologies for speaking the truth. I know the way. I know where I am going. I know what I am doing. I am making no mistake.

THE SON OF MAN

BRIDAL WATCH (NO PLACE TO HIDE) VOL. 6; Preached on Sunday 24^th April, 2016 at the Household of God Onitsha; Pg. 78 vs. 35 – 36

THE ONLY UNIFORM WE HAVE IS FAITH IN CHRIST [1]

Titus 1:2, Living Bible.^[1-2]From: Paul, the slave of God and the messenger of Jesus Christ. I have been sent to bring faith to those God has chosen and to teach them to know God’s truth—the kind of truth that changes lives—so that they can have eternal life, which God promised them before the world began—and He cannot lie.

Amplified version.²[Resting] in the hope of eternal life, [life] which the ever-truthful God Who cannot deceive promised before the world or the ages of time began.
So, you are resting in the hope of eternal life which God Who can never change His mind, Who has never told lies and will never tell lies, Who never lost in any battle has made a solemn promise and He can never change it.
He will do according to His promise, and that is if we remain faithful till the end, for whosoever that endureth till the end shall be saved.
I have come to bring Faith. When the son of man shall come, shall He find faith on the earth?
When saint Paul came, He established his own faith. Now, you are transiting from the faith of Paul from the Ephesian church age with Paul as its Messenger.
You transit from the Age of Paul to Irenaeus, Irenaeus to Martin, Martin to Columba, Columba to Luther, Luther to Wesley, and Wesley to Branham. Now, have you transited from Branham to the son of man?
Remember that the LORD Jesus Christ came and preached circumcision, for He was born a Jew and circumcised on the 8^th day according to the customs of the Jews. Did you get what I am saying? That is the LORD Jesus.
REFERENCES: Romans 15:8, KJV.Now I say that Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers:
But saint Paul came and said, “Away with circumcision. It is unprofitable.” Did you get the Message?
REFERENCE: 1 Corinthians 7:18-19, AMP.¹⁸Was anyone at the time of his summons [from God] already circumcised? Let him not seek to remove the evidence of circumcision. Was anyone at the time [God] called him uncircumcised? Let him not be circumcised.
¹⁹For circumcision is nothing and counts for nothing, neither does uncircumcision, but [what counts is] keeping the commandments of God.
If you are counting on circumcision, and the observance of the Jewish laws to save you, He said, “Christ will never save you.” Now, that which was the righteousness of the Jews became their unrighteousness. I hope you are following.
REFERENCES: [1] Galatians 5:1-4, AMP.¹IN [this] freedom Christ has made us free [and completely liberated us]; stand fast then, and do not be hampered and held ensnared and submit again to a yoke of slavery [which you have once put off].
²Notice, it is I, Paul, who tells you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no profit (advantage, avail) to you [for if you distrust Him, you can gain nothing from Him].
³I once more protest and testify to every man who receives circumcision that he is under obligation and bound to practice the whole of the Law and its ordinances.
⁴If you seek to be justified and declared righteous and to be given a right standing with God through the Law, you are brought to nothing and so separated (severed) from Christ. You have fallen away from grace (from God’s gracious favour and unmerited blessing).
¹It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. ²Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. ³Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. ⁴You who are trying to be justified by law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.
[2] Hebrews 7:18-19, KJV.¹⁸For he testifieth, Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. ¹⁹For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
You must grow from faith to faith. Otherwise, you will remain as infant. You will remain reciting unscriptural, baseless and unprofitable Roman Catholic fallacies about trinity and Mary the mother of Jesus. That is where you will be stagnated. Stories! Endless stories that have no basis scripturally and morally.
Is there any moral implication in all I recited now as they have it in their rosary? They are just social stories. Fairy tales!
To crown it all, they will add music so that everybody will be dancing. Another step is that they will give uniform to differentiate between one church and another– from one belief to another. They have their uniforms.
And inside that church they will have their groups. Every group is demarcated by their uniform. You have one group this way and the other group that way. Uniform! With the uniform, you will know where they belong to.
Even in the priestly order, with the uniform of the priest, you will know the order they belong to. The Claritin order differs from the Jesuit order. So they have their different groups, even in the sisterhood. In the brotherhood, they have their different uniforms. So it is in Anglican.
In all denominations, they use uniforms to make a demarcation. And each order believes it is higher or much more superior to the other until they will arrive at the monk. The monks have their own. The order of saint Stephen. They have their own. Amen.
So, we do not have that nonsense.
I have come to bring Faith, not uniform. If there should be anything uniform, it should be Faith. The only uniform we have is Faith in Christ.
Jude 3. Contend earnestly for that Faith which was once for all delivered to the Saints. To those that have obtained that common Faith with us, the epistle of God is sent to them to walk in unity, maintaining the bond of unity in the Faith of Christ for we have only but one Faith, one baptism, one Christ, one God, one hope, one eternal life. So, our uniform is Faith. Amen.
I am coming to something. And once I lay the foundation, I will give you the topic. Follow the foundation very well. We are growing. We are maturing.
Remember I am using the Bible to lay the foundation because it is a divine book. 1 Thessalonians 2:4-8, Living Bible.^[4]For we speak as messengers from God, trusted by Him to tell the truth;… We speak as what? Messengers of God. Trusted by Who? God! …we change his message not one bit to suit the taste of those who hear it;…
We do not change the Message to suit you, not even one bit. We do not tell you what you want us to tell you. We tell you what God has put in our mouth. We speak as oracles of God, not as pleasing men, but God.
Judge for yourself whether what you are hearing from the mouth of THE SON OF MAN since you got acquainted with Him is the Word of God or the word of man. Find out why He is God’s delight, and why God has found it necessary and convenient to make Him His Tabernacle. The only One chosen throughout the whole world. Yet, in simplicity, He hides Himself
But there are too many today who have received little or nothing, and you see them making a hell of noise on the streets. Empty barrels make the greatest noise.
Even if I am located inside the deep of the ocean, Elect of God will trace Me there.
^[4]For we speak as messengers from God, trusted by him to tell the truth; we change his message not one bit to suit the taste of those who hear it; for we serve God alone,…We do what?we serve God alone, who examines our hearts’ deepest thoughts.
Who does that? God! He examines our hearts’ deepest thoughts towards you who listens to the Word of God. Do you think that God can just support falsehood? God knows the Vessel He has sent at all times.
When God sends a man, He backs Him up. God is always in the Vessel He has sent.
^[5]Never once did we try to win you with flattery,… Take note! Never once have we attempted winning your heart with flattery, telling you that you are faring well when you are not doing well. We have always been talking to you straight to your face, telling you what you are.
And our assessment is honest assessment. We do not have any impure motives. But there are too many who are parading themselves to be your friends so that you will give them money, give them gifts or give them whatever whatever.
They pamper you. They encourage you in evil. They approve things that God disapprove for you. If God will say no, they will say yes because they know what they will get from you if you will obey them. They support you in unbelief. People like KelechiEze, James Nnachor and so on.
^[5]Never once did we try to win you with flattery, as you very well know, and God knows we were not just pretending to be your friends so that you would give us money!
Have you heard it? God knows very well we are not merely pretending to be your friends, “We love you. We care for you”, so as to gain undue advantage. We are honest. We are straightforward.
We never pretended to be your friends so that you will give us money, dash us yourself or dash us this and that. Never!
So if you are coming here, thinking that we are going to flatter you, you have failed. Better move away. You are coming here thinking you can bribe the conscience of anybody? No! You have missed the track.
We are standing on equal platform. Only people that are desirous of eternal life are at peace here in this Studio. They will be at peace with themselves. They will be at peace with one another. Yes!
This is because there is no peace with the disobedient. The disobedient is the wicked one and will never see peace.
So, all of you who are mothers here, and fathers also, enrich yourselves with this wisdom. Enrich yourself for that is the essence of separating you from where you were and bringing you into My own Family where you will be in My presence.
To other Local Assemblies, I gave them supervising Ministers, but to this particular one, I am here, live 24hours. And you know what it means.
This is My own family. And I regard any soul that is here the same way I regard My bloodline, aiming at raising you to the same level I raised My bloodline. No more. No less.
If I did not pamper My bloodline, why should I pamper you. If you are saved by the blood of Christ, I am saved by the blood of Christ. If you are born again by the spirit and blood of Christ, and I am born again by the spirit and blood of Christ in the same way, are we not the same bloodline?
That is why we have one DNA. Our DNA is Christ. That is our identity. My identity is Christ. Your identity is Christ. Christ in you– Christ in Me, the hope of glory.

God is found in the East and not in the West. That is why I am not a Christian. Have you heard why I am not a Christian? Ok! I am a child of God. I am the Eastern Star. I am a child of God posted here for a purpose. Posted here for a purpose, as the Great Eastern Star shining in the Gentile world for the sake of the Elect to get you reconciled, for you wandered away. If I am not sent, you will not come. I came and then released the Word. The Word magnetized all that belong to Me, for no man can come to Me except the Father brings him to Me. I know My sheep, My sheep knoweth Me. My sheep heareth My Voice, and I call them by their names.

The son of man

BRIDAL WATCH (NO PLACE TO HIDE) VOL. 6; Preached on Sunday 24^th April, 2016 at the Household of God Onitsha; Pg. 47 vs. 6 – 10

THE ONLY UNIFORM WE HAVE IS FAITH IN CHRIST [2]

1 Thessalonians 2:6-8, Living Bible.^[6]As for praise, we have never asked for it from you or anyone else,… Have I ever demanded your praise? Praise Me for what? What have I done that I should deserve the praise. Even when you praise Me, you know I get offended. I do not delight in taking praise from anybody.

My praise comes from He that sent Me. If I do His good pleasure– His good will, He will commend Me. Whoever goes about seeking men’s commendation is a fool.
If you seek commendation, seek commendation from God by doing that which is right in His eyes at all times, making sure you are in right standing with God. You will earn God’s commendation.
Let the whole world condemn you, but let God alone commend. Let the entire world hate you because of your faith in Christ, but let Christ alone say, “Welcome My son! Welcome My daughter!” Let all the commendations you will receive come from God alone.
If you are expecting people to speak good of you, you are gone. It is better for a wise man to reprimand you than for fools to sing your praise. Often times, people that sing your praise are destructive.
Yes! You cannot destroy someone without, first of all, praising him. Praises can blind. Praises are like gifts. Gifts can blind one that is not spiritual. If you are not spiritual, you would not know when you are receiving carnal gifts and spiritual gifts that are spiritually motivated.
Once your gift is spiritual, it becomes an act of worship. It becomes an act of service to the LORD. Because of Who He is to you, you do not care how the other person looks at it. After all, it is an individual matter.
To another person, he can be devil, but to you, he is God. To another person, He can be a destroyer, but to you, He is a Saviour. It is on the basis of Who He is to you that worship starts and obedience to His Word starts.
This is so that when he corrects you with hot displeasure, you will not run away. You will know that His hot chastisement is for your own good, for as a father chastises his son he loves or his daughter he loves, so God corrects anybody he wants to save.
If He has saved you, it does not mean you will not err. If you err, He will rebuke you. He will correct you. That is the love of God. The love of God is corrective. Any love that is not corrective is not from God.
It is not when someone is eating and drinking and dining with you with “I love you. I love you”, He will not see any fault again. He will be encouraging you in evil because he is gaining the fruit of unrighteousness. He is rejoicing.
It takes God to reprimand evil. Whatever that will query evil in a man’s life is God, for the devil cannot query the devil. Amen.
We are not like those chip chat hucksters whose idea in getting out the gospel of Christ to you is to make a good living out of it; who will pretend to be your friends, paying you unnecessary visits to encourage you in evil pretending to be friends while they are targeting your pockets.
Reference: 2 Corinthians 2:17, TLB.^[17]Only those who, like ourselves, are men of integrity, sent by God, speaking with Christ’s power, with God’s eye upon us. We are not like those hucksters—and there are many of them—whose idea in getting out the Gospel is to make a good living out of it.
They have impoverished many for they are many in the society. With what we are reading in the scriptures, how many pastors today are free? How many ministers are free? Is it not what is prevalent everywhere?
There are places you will go and you will give offering more than twenty times. I went to a renowned knight of saint Gregory, a papal knight here in Onitsha. A knight of saint Mulumba and knight of saint Gregory. A multimillionaire.
I went to his house with some Brethren. He was making horrible confessions together with the wife. And the wife said that she has stopped going to church because of the rituals and too many offerings.
She said, “Daddy SON OF MAN, can you believe that even footballers give offering. They have one for Man U. They have one for Chelsea. They have one for every other club. If you buy a motor, you will give offering for motor. If buy a new dress, you will give offering. In a day, when you come back from church, no kobo will be in your pocket. If others are dancing and you do not go with them, they think you are stingy. So, they make sure every kobo is finished. And now, they have installed ATM machines.”
You can no longer tell them that you do not have money. Every bench has a POS in the church. Every pew! Every pew! If you have 200 pews, 200 POS machines are there. All the people in each pew will line up to go to their own and do the transaction.
Some even go there to cheat them. They print something and then, nothing will enter. I mean, many horrible confessions.
He said, “Nothing is holding me there except my investment. I have invested my money a lot there. That is what is holding me. I think it is better to invest there than to put the money in the bank, for they give me returns every month.”
For that reason, he is there, but no longer for worshipping God. Do they go there to worship God at all? God is not worshipped in the churches. God is worshipped in the home by individuals in spirit and in truth. Church is in the heart according the people of old.
I was telling some people the other day when they were talking rubbish. I said, “Look! From the very word go, I preferred the native doctor in front of My house to anything church. I gave him support to establish. I love his own. He came out to do whatever he is doing, and we are seeing him. He is better than the pastor who is hiding and committing all kinds of crime.”
I said, “Instead of having a pastor near Me here, I love this man. I love what he is doing. I am seeing it with My eyes. I have not seen anything yet that will make Me to rise up against him. I like him more than pastors. I like him more than reverend fathers.”
And without pastors and reverend fathers, he would have closed. They come here. They go other places.
My in-law said it before he died. I mean the musician, OzoemenaNsugbe. Many of you do not know that he is My direct in-law. You do not know that. He is a Prophet.
He was the one that prophesied long ago that one day, Nsugbe will be like Onitsha, and Onitsha will be like Nsugbe and that there would not be any difference again. People that will be living in Nsugbe will be Onitsha. If they die, they will either be buried in Nsugbe or at Onitsha. So it will be in Onitsha. Today, has it not come to pass?
He is the one that said that there is no difference between church and African trado-religious practices. And that without the patronage of church members, all the native doctors will die of hunger.
Today, do you not see what is happening? He has gone to obtain power. Where did he obtain the power? Of what use is that power?
Better say this truth because we are arriving at something any time from now. Have you seen why I recalled My Family? Let them come, know the truth and let Me sanctify all. Then they go.
And then, among them shall be friends and well-wishers I cannot afford to miss in Paradise, who are willing, not everybody. You can be My friend but you are not willing. Will I grab you?
You can be wishing Me well, but when it comes to eternal life, you are not there. I say, you are not there.
[INTERLUDE] Forget about the man, do not open the Gate. I do not know him, but I know that there are people that have heard My Voice.
My neighbour told Me that each time I mount the pulpit, they switch off their radios and everything. He said that they will remain in Fellowship until I finish.
Brother ChibuzoUkasanya came and said, “Daddy, there in our yard, they are known for drinking and playing football every Sunday, but they said that from Now, until they finish with the fellowship with Daddy, no entertainment. Nothing!”
Once this place is open, all of them will come out. They are in their fellowship now. And you think that they do not know you. They know you.
You see why, if you identify with the son of man you dare not misbehave yourself. I hope you are hearing Me. You are like a city that is seated on a mountain. You cannot be hid anymore. And you cannot light a candle and use bushel to close it. The light will not shine.
So, I am appealing to all of you. Let your light so shine among all men. Let them see your good deeds and begin to glorify your father which is in Heaven. You are the light of the world. Do you believe that to be true?
You are the salt of the world. when salt loses its savour, ordinary sand is better than it. You are the salt that gives taste to the world. When salt loses its savour, sand becomes better than salt. So, retain your saltiness. Retain your saltiness.
Remember that salt is a seasoning. Salt is also used for preservation. Do you believe this to be true? Fine! And we use salt to purify water and many other things.
1 Thessalonians 2:6-8, Living Bible. ^[6]As for praise, we have never asked for it from you or anyone else, although as apostles of Christ we certainly had a right to some honour from you. ^[7]But we were as gentle among you as a mother feeding and caring for her own children.
^[8]We loved you dearly—so dearly that we gave you not only God’s message, but our own lives too. Amen!