RESURRECTION REVIVAL PART 2

Resurrection revival Part 2 Preached ON Sunday 13^th October, 2024 AT THE VOICE OF GOD STUDIO Bridal Lodge, Nsugbe Anambra State, Nigeria BY Apostle Peter Odoemena THE SON OF MAN The Resurrection and LifeTranscribed by Bishop David Mbah, Students Fellowship, MOUAU, Abia State, NigeriaFAITH IS THE TAPROOT AND FOUNDATION OF EVERY SEED OF GOD¹¹For both He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause He is not ashamed to call them Brethren, ¹²saying, I will declare Thy Name unto My Brethren, in the midst of the Church will I sing praise unto Thee. ¹³And again, I will put My trust in Him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given Me. ¹⁴Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; ¹⁵and deliver them, who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. ¹⁶For verily He took not on Him the nature of angels; but He took on Him the Seed of Abraham. ¹⁷Wherefore in all things it behooved Him to be made like unto His brethren, that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. ¹⁸For in that He Himself hath suffered being tempted, He is able to succor them that are tempted.Hebrews 2:11-18, KJV⁴For He spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all His works. ⁵And in this place again, If they shall enter into My rest. ⁶Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: ⁷again, He limiteth a certain day, saying in David, Today, after so long a time; as it is said, Today if ye will hear His Voice, harden not your hearts. ⁸For if Jesus had given them rest, then would He not afterward have spoken of another day.⁹There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. ¹⁰For he that is entered into His rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from His. ¹¹Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.¹²For the Word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. ¹³Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with Whom we have to do.Hebrews 4: 4-13, KJV⁵¹Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, ⁵²in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. ⁵³For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. ⁵⁴So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. ⁵⁵O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? ⁵⁶The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.⁵⁷But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁵⁸Therefore, my beloved Brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.1 Corinthians 15:51-58, KJV.¹⁹Having therefore, Brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, ²⁰by a new and living way, which He hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh; ²¹and having a High Priest over the House of God; ²²let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. ²³Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; for He is faithful that promised; ²⁴and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: ²⁵not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. ²⁶For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, ²⁶but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.Hebrews 10:19-26, KJV²⁴God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that He is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; ²⁵neither is worshipped with men’s hands, as though He needed any thing, seeing He giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; ²⁶and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; ²⁷that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after Him, and find Him, though He be not far from every one of us: ²⁸for in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring. ²⁹Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.³⁰And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: ³¹because He hath appointed a day, in the which He will judge the world in righteousness by that Man Whom He hath ordained; whereof He hath given assurance unto all men, in that He hath raised Him from the dead. ³²And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter. ³³So Paul departed from among them. ³⁴Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.Acts 17:24-34, KJVThat we do not sorrow like people who do not have hope. Who are those in the grave? Those who died in this Faith. From the time Christ died and resurrected, all those that have died in this Faith of Christ are still in the grave till today. Do not worry yourself about them. Leave them there. We are all resurrecting on the same day. We are all rising on the same day. Do not sorrow for the dead. Leave them. They have hope.THE SON OF MANSIGNS OF OUR TIME Volume 1, Preached in the year 1993, Pg. 34 vs. 19-20

WHO ARE YOU BEFORE GOD? (1)

By Pastor Chizoba Udochukwu

Moderated by THE SON OF MAN

Any day we wake up and discover that we are still alive, it is an opportunity from the Almighty God which He has extended to us so that we look into our lives– we look into our faith– we look into what we say we believe.
Even as the Scriptures enjoins us, let us read 2^nd Corinthians Chapter 13 from verse 5, TLB.⁵Check up on yourselves. …
Check up, check up, check up. In medical terms, they will always recommend a period of time that every human being should go for a check up whether you are suffering from any sickness or not.
It is recommended that from time to time, a person should go and check his or her body because a working engine sometimes starts breaking down, but may not reflect immediately.
And then, it is better and easier to discover such a thing earlier enough. And then, it is always said that prevention is better than cure.
Now, God is enjoining us to do the same thing on our spiritual life– to carry out a spiritual check up. A regular one.
⁵Check up on yourselves. Are you really a child of God?…The purpose of checking up is to know if I am really a child of God or I am not.
Or I am pretending to be what I am not.
Two things are involved. It is either one is a child of God or the person is pretending to be a child of God when the person is not a child of God. This is the essence of the check up.
… Do you pass the test? Do you feel Christ’s presence and power more and more within you? … These are the indicators by which one after that check up, knows whether you are really a child of God or a claimant – a pretender. One that claims to be a child of God. One that pretends to be a child of God. A churchgoer!
One that associates with a child of God but is not a child of God. A church man. A church woman. A church child. One that knows God, knows His teachings, but does not obey.
. Or are you just pretending to be child of God when actually you aren’t at all? … In actual sense, you are not a child of God at all.
And you know you are not. You are merely making pretenses. That is, using God as your cover. Using God as a cover up. Using going to church as a cover up.
Church can cover you from your wickedness in the sight of men, but will never cover you in the sight of God. There is no amount of churchgoing that will cover your sin or covers your sin or blots out your sin.
It is the Word of God received and obeyed. Obedience to the Word of God takes care of all human weaknesses and imperfections. This is because obedience means doing the will of God and doing that thing God delights Himself in. That is a simplified life. The easiest life to live is a life of obedience to the truth.
If you are asked to correct your life, do not begin to think of what you will do or what you will not do. The simplest answer or remedy is obedience, total obedience, total submission to the truth from God as you receive it. Automatically, your life changes for the better
There is no other way anybody can better his life in the sight of God and obtain favour if not through obedience to the truth.
If you watch your life and your life is not giving you what you are expecting–That is you are making honest effort to live right before God, I bet you, you are using your muscles. You are doing mere physical exercise trying to avoid this and avoid that.
I mean, you begin to evolve a way you want to be relating with people, talking and this and that. No! You do not need to do those things. They are unnecessary.
All you need is to listen to the word of God, understand it and obey. Everything will be straight. everything concerning your life will be straightened immediately.
That which you cannot achieve by your own effort, obedience to the truth does it for you. Do you believe that? That is why, the fear of God leads to obedience to His Word which is the beginning of your wisdom.
Those who understand this amazing truth from their childhood, they prosper in life. They have little or no difficulties coping with human beings. They have no difficulties at all because from their childhood, they were introduced to the truth.
They do not need to be fearing A or B. Anywhere they find themselves, they feel ok because they are what they are. You cannot change them anymore.
Just like I am here. There is no amount of preaching– there is no amount of force that can make me to be what I am not. I have come to stay. I say, I have come to stay.
That is how it should be for all of you. No circumstance can change your decision, your conviction, your character. You know that character is a product of conviction.
If you are not convinced that what you are receiving is the Word of God that is able to sanctify your life, stabilize your life and give you a place among those that are sanctified by the faith of Christ– you can live your life the way you want.
If you know anything better life that is not found in Christ, examine that place where you think it is found. Have a second look at that place because it might be death masquerading itself in the name of life. I say, it might be death masquerading itself in the name of light.
That is why, many things people do and think they are enjoying life, they end in death. All the ways that seemeth right in the sight of human beings, the end thereof is death.
You better re-examine that thing that gives you joy. That thing you delight yourself in doing, have a second look at that thing. Have a second look at that thing.
As long as it is opposed to the truth, but agrees with your lifestyle, be it known to you that you are heading to death. You are heading to hell.
Whatever that opposes the truth from God, but agrees with your own lifestyle, I say, put a question mark there, for that is what the devil paints before your eyes, making death to be friendly as if death is life.
Life is only friendly to those that know the meaning of life and also know the value of life. If you do not know the meaning and value of life, you will end your life in disaster, for you will think that all that give you pleasure means life.
Whatever you take pleasure in doing, may not contain any iota of life. It may be death that you are toying with. It may be death that is giving you joy. True or false?
Watch all these young men and young ladies everywhere. Check what they are indulging in. Check that with which they are priding themselves about. Men and women. Young and old.
Watch them very well. Use the eyes of the Scripture to watch them. Use the eyes of faith in Christ and watch those things they are indulging in that is giving them joy. You will see that they are already in hell and they know it not.
If you watch somebody who indulges in smoking Indian hemp or hard drugs, or who indulges in excessive drinking and orgies of different kinds, he thinks he is enjoying life. Is it not true?
Watch wherever they gather. Watch the songs they sing to themselves to the glory of he that gathered them. Somebody gathered them to destroy them. And God has gathered His own people to save them, but the devil gathers His own people to destroy them.
God has the weapon of mass salvation, while the devil has the weapon for mass destruction.
REFERENCES: [1] Surah 7 verse 16 to 17, Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri Translation. ¹⁶He (Iblis) said: since you have led me astray, (I swear that) I will also sit on your Straight Path to waylay the children of Adam till I cause them to deviate from the path of truth. ¹⁷I will assuredly approach them from their front, from their rear, from their right and from their left and consequently you will not find most of them grateful”
[2] Surah 15:39, Sahih International.³⁹[Iblees] said, “My Lord, because You have put me in error, I will surely make [disobedience] attractive to them on earth and I will mislead them all.
[3] Ephesians 6:10-18, KJV. ¹⁰Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. ¹¹Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
¹²For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
¹³Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. ¹⁴Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
¹⁵and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; ¹⁶above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
¹⁷And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: ¹⁸praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all Saints;
[4] Surah 7:19-22, Hilali-Khan Translation.^19.“And O Adam! Dwell you and your wife in Paradise, and eat thereof as you both wish, but approach not this tree otherwise you both will be of the Zâlimûn (unjust and wrong-doers).”
²⁰Then Shaitân (Satan) whispered suggestions to them both in order to uncover that which was hidden from them of their private parts (before); he said: “Your Lord did not forbid you this tree save you should become angels or become of the immortals.” ²¹And he [Shaitân (Satan)] swore by Allah to them both (saying): “Verily, I am one of the sincere well-wishers for you both.”
²²So he misled them with deception. Then when they tasted of the tree, that which was hidden from them of their shame (private parts) became manifest to them and they began to stick together the leaves of Paradise over themselves (in order to cover their shame). And their Lord called out to them (saying): “Did I not forbid you that tree and tell you: Verily, Shaitân (Satan) is an open enemy unto you?”
And what the devil will use in destroying you is what you delight yourself in doing. The devil will never use something you hate to tempt you.
Whatever you like– whatever you desire, that is where the devil operates because you cannot say no to it. He uses that which you cannot resist the urge. That is why, if you are gifted to making money by all means, truly speaking, you will be rejoicing that life is flowing, but you do not know that death is carrying you along.

If we believe that Jesus died and resurrected again, which we know to be truth, if Jesus did not resurrect from the dead, our faith is useless nonsense; All those that died have all perished. If our expectation is limited to this world, we are supposed to be pitied. If our hopes and the reason for being part of this Heavenly race is limited to this world, our hearts are broken already, because we rejected the world, we never profited thereof and, in the end, there is no Paradise. We will be heart-broken till eternity. We are to be pitied. But we know very well that our Christ rose from the dead and became the first of all those that resurrected from the dead, and as many as have a part in Him, they will resurrect from the dead again in the same way. ……. In the same way, all those that have slept in death in Christ, not those who died without having Christ; those that have the promise of this first resurrection, were those that died in Christ. They will resurrect from the dead. God Himself will, by His own hand, raise all of them from the dead.

THE SON OF MAN

SIGNS OF OUR TIME Volume 1, Preached in the year 1993, Pg. 35 vs. 23-25 & 27

WHO ARE YOU BEFORE GOD? (2)

By THE SON OF MAN

Check very well, all the social lives and all social activities today. What are they generating? Fake joy! Fake happiness.
If living contrary to the truth gives you joy, you are toying with death. Not ordinary death. Eternal death. You will die here. You will equally die in the hereafter.
Check whatever that gives you joy. The pleasurable things that give you joy. Whenever it comes your way, you are ready to mortgage your conscience, provided you get as much as you can.
Number one is money. Number two is social life. Socialization and sophistication backed up by money. Influence, self-ego, competition and every kind of thing.
Check all of them. Check all that people pride themselves about and know whether they contain any truth.
This very morning, I do not want us to begin to have our minds and our hearts somewhere else. Narrow your mind, your heart and assessment to yourself.
If you are privileged to have one million human beings as your children, the one million people have one million identities. There is no one here whose child has his identity.
If you know your child that has your identity, mention that child. If there is not even one that has your identity, your identity is that which God will use to recognize you. And that is your thumbprint.
Who are you? Put your thumbprint, the LORD will know who you are. If your father comes, his own is different. The LORD will not see you through your parents. He will not see your parents through you. Are you understanding what I am saying?
“Like father, like son” in the flesh does not mean the same thing spiritually. Spiritually, “Like father, like son” means that when you put your thumbprint and it is recognized, if you are a child of the devil, you will be identified. If you are a child of God, you have been identified.
This is because two human beings appeared, Cain and Abel, all from the loins of Adam and Eve. Some, from the righteous side and others from the unrighteous side.
The moment your thumbprint touches that screen, you are visible with everything you are made up of. So, where you belong to is very clear.
And you do not belong to any other place than that place you love most. Whatever type of life that you are living that is giving you joy, thereunto you are born. Thereunto, you are ordained.
To push you contrary, means wounding you. You will be grumbling and grudging. You will be complaining and murmuring. You will be hostile. And there is no way you will meet God’s righteous demands in that condition.
But to those who are born of God, who originated from God, there will be no difficulty. Hearing the Word of God is a relief to them. Hearing and believing the Word of God, they see it as the greatest favour coming their way because every true Seed of God is in bondage in this world until the Word of liberation comes his or her way. Are you getting what I am saying?
Every true Seed of God is crying, “LORD, how long will it take You to deliver us from this sinful world?” Therefore, when God is marking for salvation, He will mark all that are not happy with what is happening in the world. They are not a part of the evil. They are not happy living in the midst of that evil. He will mark all of them whose hearts are sore as a result of all these ungodly developments everywhere.
Remember, what is upsetting you is giving some pleasure and joy. I hope you are hearing Me. When we cry against war, there are some individuals that enrich themselves with war. So, when we pray that the war should stop, they will pray for the escalation of the war so that their means of livelihood will keep on increasing.
This particular evil condition we are in now is enriching some groups of people. Like corruption is in every home now, all who are benefitting from the over flowing and over spreading of evil, they are enriching themselves through it. Are they praying for its abolition? You can only pray for the abolition of that which is discomforting to you.
When you are feeling comfortable living in the world, you are a part of the world. Every true Seed of God is uncomfortable with events in the world. And God knows all who are uncomfortable, who are feeling insecure and they need security in Christ, for that is where it can be found.
Check what is giving you joy. Whose interest are you serving by doing it? All these liars that are everywhere, which is number one step to corruption, the moment you are corrupt, lying becomes your hobby. I say, the moment you are corrupt, lying becomes your hobby.
The moment your system, handset or laptop computer gets corrupt, it begins to give you false information. True or false?
Experiment it. Let your handset be corrupt. It will give you false information. It will begin to hide useful information where you cannot even locate them again. Most of the useful files will be missing, but the useless ones will not be touched.
I am telling you, whenever your system is corrupt, check very well. All corrupt pictures, all corrupt messages and all corrupt information will be retained, but the whole useful information in your system will vanish.
Whenever any will be traced, it will be incomplete. It will be half and half. But those evils you stored there– all of them, nothing will happen to them.
Sometimes, you will receive inflow of information you never subscribed for. They come in the form of pictures of human beings, flowers. They come in the form of messages. You never subscribed for any. Before you know it, they will be surcharging you for something you never subscribed for.
And to delete false information has always been very very difficult.
If you have never seen any false information, pray that it will come to your handset. To delete it is very difficult, but to install it is the easiest. The moment you touch any button, it marks “Booth”.
But watch the useful one you want to install. You will try to install it over and over, but it will remain there watching you. So it is to delete false information, bad information and destructive things you have in your handset. You can hardly remove it with ease. It gives you sleepless nights.
Hear Me very well. It is easier to err than to walk right. It is easier to disobey than to obey starting from infancy. From this kindergarten stage of life, they find it difficult to obey, but very easy to disobey. Nobody is taught on how to disobey good instructions.
And experiences have proved to all mankind who are sincere to their consciences that we obey more readily destructive information than useful ones.
To obey the truth that saves life is given a second thought, but nobody gives a second thought to obey destructive false information readily available at your doorstep. People swim in that ocean.
That is why to eradicate evil, it takes God. We have overspreading of evil, but there is no where in the Scriptures where God recorded overspreading of righteousness. Check your Bible. Check the Holy Qur’an and all ancient manuscripts.
There has never been any generation that appeared and God said, “There was an overspreading of righteousness.” Never never!
Rather, you will see God saying, “All claim to be righteous, but a faithful fellow, God could not see.” They make mere claims to be faithful, to be righteous, to be honest, to be this and that.
They even swear national oath. They make their pledge to be honest, loyal and things like that, “So, help me Lord.” You watch that oath they swore. Who keeps it.
Check the oath of office they take every day including magistrates, high court judges and supreme court judges, lawyers, doctors and nurses. They take oath. We call it oath of office.
Watch all the governors. They swore oath of office. How many! How many can stand and say, “I kept my oath of office”? Do you have any record?
That is why I love the words of a politician who was upbraiding the courts and the journalists who were making a hell of noise over corruption in politics. A former governor, Ganduje. I think that is the ex-governor of Kano State.
He said the nation hates him for telling them the truth. That nobody joins politics or becomes a politician to go to heaven or Paradise. He said that nobody does that.
“If you want to go to heaven or Paradise”, He said, “Go and establish a church. Be a general superintendent. Dictate the way you will worship God or be an Imam in the mosque, but do not ever come to politics and expect you are going to heaven. Politics prepares people for hellfire. Politics does not prepare any soul for heaven.”
Then you begin to wonder about the fate of all these reverend pastors and reverend fathers [I mean] who are kingpins in all political parties today. Begin to wonder about the fate of so-called Christians and Muslims.
Here in the south east, do you have anybody who says he is a Christian and who is not a politician? They are all inclined to one party or another. Politicians even campaign in their churches for votes.
Every church belongs to a political party. Wherever the general superintendent is aligned to, all the members of the church are aligned to that party.
That is why they now believe that when they succeed in getting too many churches to their parties, they are likely to win their votes. Is it not true?
For that reason, they lavish gifts to the churches. They volunteer money for the expansion of those churches, even in the rural areas, which means expansion of political offices, campaign offices. Oh no! How I wish you can follow Me this morning.
By those things, what do we see? Over-spreading of evil. How many of them can volunteer one kobo to the spreading of the Gospel of Christ. But wherever Christ is will be greatly despised. Greatly despised!
This is because wherever Christ is, truth must be there. Truth must be there, and no politician will go where truth is, for a politician himself knows that he is a man of many words with empty promises under oath.
Let us be very very clear that we are not politicians. Remember that church and politics are one. So, if you are a churchgoer, you are a politician.
Although your life is filled with charisma. That is, you want us to acknowledge you as one of us by pretending to be one of us when you know you are not.
You begin to depict characters that are not your nature. What God wants to see as your character is your nature. Did you get what I am saying?

We will not resurrect before those who died in Christ long ago and we cannot prevent them from resurrecting from the dead. They will resurrect from the dead before us. When they resurrect from the dead, they will move round this world. For twenty-four days will they move round the earth. When Christ resurrected from the dead, he did not go to Paradise as soon as he resurrected. When He resurrected from the dead, what happened? He moved round the earth for twenty-four days. In these twenty-four days, who were the people He was showing Himself to? His disciples. Wherever they are gathered, He will show them Himself. There is a type of body He had which human hands could not touch. That was why when Mary Magdalene wanted to touch Him, He said, “No, for I have not gone to My Father.” That is the body which can penetrate barriers and come into the Fellowship even when the doors and windows are tightly closed. You would not know where He came from. This is the same body those that will resurrect will resurrect with. When they shall resurrect, they shall fulfil the Word of God. They will move round, visiting us in our various houses, one by one and even be with us in the Fellowship.THE SON OF MANSIGNS OF OUR TIME Volume 1, Preached in the year 1993, Pg. 42 vs. 43-48

WHO ARE YOU BEFORE GOD (3)

By THE SON OF MAN

Nature can never be bleached out. If you put white inside the bleach, it will shine brighter. Did you get the Message? If you put black inside bleach, if black is not the original nature, black will be bleached out and the original colour of that cloth will be made manifest.
So, the Word of God is a bleaching agent. Whatever it bleaches is something that is not natural. It is not inherent in you. It is something that is foreign. Alien!
If you tie a cloth and give that cloth many colours, remember you tied it with your ink with different colours. Are you getting what I am saying?
Look at our Sister there, Amarachi. She did it in the school when she was doing her IT. She did it. Everything about chromatography, she knows about it, including pigmentation. She can colour your white to Adire even right here. She can purchase the ink and then give you a very nice Adire. Locally made!
There are some that you blend using computers. You make up your diagram and then paint it the way you want in the system. Some take it to the factory where it will be processed, put it inside a film and then make a mold with that design. You see it coming out like these ones you are wearing here.
We call it synthetic. Synthetic fabric with synthetic decoration, but it is not the original. That is why if you bleach it with bleaching agent two or three times, the original colour will come out. This is because as the ink fades away, the original colour comes out.
I am saying that anything that is not original must fade away with time. Whatever that is that counterfeit character must fade away with time. If you remain steadfast hearing the Word, obeying the Word, the Word will keep on bleaching you, bleaching that cloth until it becomes whiter than snow.
SONG: [Whiter than the snow. Whiter than the snow. Wash me in the blood of the Lamb, and I shall be whiter than the snow.]
That is the bleaching agent that bleaches sin. Sin is a foreign body to a child of God. That is why sin discomforts a child of God. Sin is like wearing a dirty cloth by somebody who is neat.
Somebody who is always dirty may not notice that you are uncomfortable wearing that cloth. To you, what you are wearing is smelling. You find it difficult even to come near people, lest they will perceive the odour coming out of your cloth.
But one who is born dirty is admiring your cloth and will not perceive the odour coming out of your body. He may not know that you are not comfortable and that you want to rush home and change your cloth– Wash your body and change your cloth. Am I making sense?
One who will go, sweat it out and still wear that dress that is smelling without noticing it is born dirty because a pig does not perceive any odour. Everything is good and neat to a pig, but it is not so with a dove.
You can never see a dove in the dustbin. A dove has nothing to do with rotten animal– carcass! Never! A dove has no room for that. A dove is born neat and remains neat. Am I making sense at all?
So, if anything dents the body of a dove at all, it will remain uncomfortable until it sees anywhere there is a little percolation of clean water. It will go there and then swim. And that thing will be washed off immediately. It becomes white again.
So it is with the child of God. He feels very very uncomfortable when he sees himself in a condition he never thought he will ever find himself. Not every condition is suitable to a child of God.
But to the devil, everywhere is convenient to the devil, except where the Word of God is handled unadulterated. That is the uncomfortable zone of the devil. The devil can never abide in it.
So, I am feeling somehow better now. I am feeling better talking about this good old Way. I do not know how you are feeling, for the devil is not happy when I am talking about this good old Way wherein God puts people in right standing with Himself, not by going to church.
I say, it is not by going to church. It is not by lengthy prayers. It is not by giving alms, acts of charity, corporal works of mercy. They were there before you were born. Nobody has ever gained salvation through it.
These are the things that you will do after. These are the fruits of your righteousness. True or false? There are fruits of righteousness. You must be righteous before it will begin to bear fruits, and not bearing fruit before righteousness. That is bribe. I say, that is bribe.
If I help you and you appreciate My help, did you bribe Me? But where I gave you a condition for helping you, and you meet it, have you not bribed Me.
So it is with God. He does not accept bribe. If you are a part of God, you are a part of whatever God is doing. Remember that all the promises of God are real and they belong to those who belong to Him.
No child of God is given a condition to obtain God’s mercy. Only foreigners that want God’s mercy are giving stringent conditions that push them away. Cost of discipleship is given to those who never proceeded from God so that they will know that you cannot pick it on a platter of gold.
That is why, through your thumbprint, God knows whether you belong to Him or not. As we sit down here, God is seeing, not our faces only, but our hearts.
We differ in our faces. We differ in appearance. But the Spirit operating in us ought to be one. The Spirit must be one without any colour.
You cannot call it black spirit or white spirit, barbarian spirit or Greek spirit, Israeli spirit or Jewish spirit. No Gentile spirit. The Spirit is one, but the faces may be different. The languages may be different, but the spirit must be one.
REFERENCE: 1 Corinthians 12:12-13, KJV. ¹²For as the body is one, and hath many members and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. ¹³For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
We are wearing different dresses here. Our colour – the colours of our skin differ one from another. Our heights differ one to another. But concerning the spirit, the spirit is one. The colour is one. The height is one. The size is one.
That is why when you are asked to measure yourself, your weight, your height physically speaking, you look for a scale. You go to a scale and measure your height. You go to a scale and know your weight.
But when God wants to measure your height or measure your weight, He measures your spiritual height and your spiritual weight. What do you weigh?
That was what God used in weighing Nebuchadnezzar who was a king over the whole world in his own day. God weighed him in His own balance. Nebuchadnezzar weighed nothing. A good-for-nothing human being.
And God made him a beast for seven years. He learnt his lessons, after which he confessed that the God of Israel is the only God that is worthy to be worshipped, and must be worshipped by all flesh throughout the whole world.
The God of Israel never gained His fame anyhow. In Egypt, He used Pharaoh to cause His fame to be heard all over the world. True or false?
In Babylon, He used King Nebuchadnezzar to advertise His fame all over the whole world.
That is why I pray every day, “Never use Me as a Pharaoh who You used, after which You destroyed him. You humiliated him inside the Red Sea. Never allow Me to be like Nebuchadnezzar who learnt his own lesson in the hardest way by becoming a wild animal for seven years before he could acknowledge You. Let Me acknowledge You now in My youth and grow up with You to adolescence, so that at old age, I will have no difficulties bowing low before You as I join My ancestors.”
REFERENCES:[1] Daniel 3:28-29, KJV. ²⁸Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
²⁹Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill; because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.
[2]Daniel 4:28-37, NIV.²⁸All this happened to King Nebuchadnezzar. ²⁹Twelve months later, as the king was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon, ³⁰he said, “Is not this the great Babylon I have built as the royal residence, by my mighty power and for the glory of my majesty?”
³¹The words were still on his lips when a voice came from heaven, “This is what is decreed for you, King Nebuchadnezzar: Your royal authority has been taken from you.
³²You will be driven away from people and will live with the wild animals; you will eat grass like cattle. Seven times will pass by for you until you acknowledge that the Most High is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and gives them to anyone he wishes.”
³³Immediately what had been said about Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from people and ate grass like cattle. His body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird.
³⁴At the end of that time, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven, and my sanity was restored. Then I praised the Most High; I honoured and glorified him who lives forever. His dominion is an eternal dominion; his kingdom endures from generation to generation.
³⁵All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth. No one can hold back his hand or say to him: “What have you done?”
³⁶At the same time that my sanity was restored, my honour and splendour were returned to me for the glory of my kingdom. My advisers and nobles sought me out, and I was restored to my throne and became even greater than before.
³⁷Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, because everything he does is right and all his ways are just. And those who walk in pride he is able to humble.
[3] Deuteronomy 11:2-4, NIV. ²Remember today that your children were not the ones who saw and experienced the discipline of the Lord your God: his majesty, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm; ³the signs he performed and the things he did in the heart of Egypt, both to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his whole country; ⁴what he did to the Egyptian army, to its horses and chariots, how he overwhelmed them with the waters of the Red Sea as they were pursuing you, and how the Lord brought lasting ruin on them.
[4] Romans 9:17, NIV. ¹⁷For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
Check those that had difficulties in death. They had difficulties bowing before the LORD in their strength. Now in their weakness, you want them to bow.
God will say, “No! Let your neck remain stiff.” Yes! So that you pass through the torment of the grave before the final thing will happen to you.

THERE IS NO CONVENIENT TIME TO OBEY GOD

The Message is titled, HAVE FAITH IN GOD, NOT REASONING. I cannot remember when that Message was handled. I have not read it, but I know that whatever that is there must agree with where we are standing now.
I wanted to allow us this morning to feast on our own Family Altar of Friday, for I was sharing the testimony following that Friday.
It has exposed members of this Family more than any other, vindicating the statement I made at the beginning of that Meeting on Friday.
We dismissed precisely 24minutes after 8pm. I commanded them to listen to it again in the morning of Saturday because of the rich contents of that Teaching.
This is because, for a very long time now, I avoided their Family Altars so that they will be ministering to themselves.
And all I said in that Message, on Saturday morning, they were all confirmed that I am having people in this Family, serving My interest and their own interest and who are selfish to the extent that they cannot even know their spiritual condition. They desire and love earthly gratifications more than eternal life.
If you love eternal life, you must be found in obedience to the truth at all times. The fear of God must dominate your life. That is the only way to convince God about your seriousness.
But when you are handling the Word of God and His instructions causally– I say casually, obedience will only be at your own will. When you want or when the opportunity comes, is that what God said?
God said, “When it is convenient and when it is not convenient. At all times.” That is why God has no convenient time for doing good. There is no convenient time for disobeying God.
There is no convenient time for doing evil. There is not convenient time for good. Every time is convenient for good as far as God is concerned, for you must be found in Him doing good at all times. There is no convenient time for disobedience to God’s Word.
Even if you are giving up your breath, but at the dying minute God speaks, your duty is to say, “Amen LORD.” There is no convenient time for disobedience. There is no convenient and approved time before God for making His Word of non-effect.
REFERENCES:[1] John 11:21-24, KJV. ²¹Martha then said to Jesus, Master, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. ²²And even now I know that whatever You ask from God, He will grant it to You. ²³Jesus said to her, Your brother shall rise again. ²⁴Martha replied, I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
[2] Acts 24:24-25, AMP.²⁴Some days later Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess; and he sent for Paul and listened to him [talk] about faith in Christ Jesus. ²⁵But as he continued to argue about uprightness, purity of life (the control of the passions), and the judgment to come, Felix became alarmed and terrified and said, Go away for the present; when I have a convenient opportunity, I will send for you.
Man has convenient time for God. He has inconvenient time for God. That time that is inconvenient to you to serve God and to obey God, who are you obeying that time? Who are you employing that time for?
I knew why God moved us to go to the Message handed by Okey Paul– Bishop Okey Nwamkpa which was preached in November 1998.
No second chance! He said, “That opportunity you omitted will never come your way again.” It is better we have a glimpse of it as we journey along, for our Pastor had already marked too many things there. This morning we opened it.
Opportunity lost can never be regained. God does not give any human being a second chance. You are the one creating second chance that does not exist.
That opportunity that comes your way and it eluded you due to your carelessness or your reasoning, or your way of sharing your own time, but you do not share the time you will die.
I am telling you the whole truth. You can keep up appointments with everything you may have scheduled, but to keep that one with God is very difficult for man. Very difficult for man.
Man will always have reasons he will give. If it is not sickness, it is trouble or this and that. You are wasting your time. God knows that you are a stark heathen for God has no convenient time. Every time is convenient for God.
That is why the Bible said, “If you are waiting for a convenient time to do anything, you will do absolutely nothing.” This is because, to a sinner, no time is convenient except the time he is using for materialism, for self-seeking and for self-aggrandizement.
Check what I am saying. For an unbeliever – a pagan, any time that hampers or comes between the convenient hour for him to enrich himself, to foster his own goal and selfish purposes, whatever comes in between that, if you say, “Almighty God said”, that is your business, for the Almighty God, before that person, is absolutely useless.
And that is why that person can never be a self-sacrificing worshipper, for God knows what you are doing at every moment in time. And it is that time that God needs you.
Will you pass that test? That is what we are doing here. Will you pass that test? What will you forgo that the Word of God may stand, for obedience to the Word of God means forgoing something– forgoing something for the sake of God. Did you get the Message?
REFERENCES:[1] Jeremiah 6:16-17, AMP.¹⁶Thus says the Lord: Stand by the roads and look; and ask for the eternal paths, where the good, old way is; then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in it! ¹⁷Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hear and obey the sound of the trumpet! But they said, We will not listen or obey.
[2] Jeremiah 44:16-19, AMP.¹⁶As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not listen to or obey you. ¹⁷But we will certainly perform every word of the vows we have made: to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings to her as we have done–we and our fathers, our kings and our princes–in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of food and were well off and prosperous and saw no evil.
¹⁸But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine.
¹⁹[And the wives said] When we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out drink offerings to her, did we make cakes [in the shape of a star] to represent and honour her and pour out drink offerings to her WITHOUT [THE KNOWLEDGE AND APPROVAL OF] OUR HUSBANDS?
You can say you will not drink because of your health. Is it because of God? You can say you will not drink, you will not do this and you will not do that for the sake of fostering your self-ego, your popularity and things like that, has it anything to do with God.
Hear Me very well. Anything that is not done as a result of your faith in Christ, check it. It is sin. I say, it is sin.
The compelling factor for every obedience is Faith. You are here because of Faith. Are we not here because of Faith?
That is why we call ourselves Brethren in like precious Faith. And now, we belong to the same family of Faith. And because of this Faith, we are paying the price for Faith.
If I want to go out to Onitsha now, who will stop Me? But for the sake of Faith, I am here. Did you get the Message? There must be something you will forfeit.
I do not know what I am doing, but I know I am doing something. I say, I do not know what I am doing. But I know I am doing something.
Christ must cost you something. Your faith must cost you something. Do you know many things Christ forsook? Oh no!
Let Me just read from the Bible. Any translation is okay. Hebrews chapter 12 from verse 1 till I tell you to stop.
The Living Bible.^[1]Since we have such a huge crowd of men of faith watching us from the grandstands,…
This is what eludes our knowledge. We do not believe that we have men and women of faith watching us from a grand stand because you do not believe that those that are in the grave are having their eyes on you.
If we never read the Holy Qur’an, we would not have believed that Prophet Muhammad [pbuh] proclaimed it that those that will be in the grave, by the time THESON OF MAN will be on the scene as the Mahdi, that they will be there watching Him as He moves along with the Elect of God, bringing them straight to Paradise.
He said, “We will be cheering Him on.” He did not say, “We will be on His way”, but He said, “We will be cheering Him on.”
REFERENCE: Kastamonu Addendum, Page 99. In the end times, the true owners in the broad sphere of life, in other words Hazrat Mahdi (AS) and His disciples will come by Allah’s will, and broaden that sphere and those seeds will bloom and we shall watch from our tombs and give thanks to Allah.
You do not know the Hosts of angels that are behind the son of man cheering Him on and telling Him to go ahead.
Amidst all oppositions, all odds, misinterpretations,[I mean] cruel mockery, scandals and so on, He is undaunted. Is it by His own power? No!
God is solidly behind Him, cheering Him up. Moreso, when the supernatural vindications are there, empowering Him to continue that He is on the right track.
Hebrews 12:1-2, The Living Bible.^[1]Since we have such a huge crowd of men of faith watching us from the grandstands, let us strip off anything that slows us down or holds us back,…
They are those things that slow you down from total obedience to the will of God. You can never disobey God’s instruction without something slowing you down– without something distracting you or holding you down.
And check that thing. It must be something that has to do with worldly gratification, worldly riches, worldly advancements that can never give you eternal life. These are the things that have nothing to offer you other than grief, pain, agony.
Sometimes, that hour you disobey, that is the hour you are disobeying to please a heathen. Do you know that people sacrifice their time pleasing heathens that God will be displeased, provided money will come out? They are ready to indulge in different risks. Some risk their lives to make sure that heathens are happy with them.
How many risk their lives so that the Word of God will stand true? How many risk their lives so that the Word of God will continue [I mean] unadulterated.
Check the risks you have been taking all your life and all this while. Check what has been moving you into taking those risks.
It must be worldliness, worldly fame, self-materialism, self-aggrandizement, popularity and things like that. Have you ever taken a risk to serve God for one day?
Because of the risk, many close their mouths. They do not confess their faith because of the persecution that will follow, but they take risks in stealing. They take risks in doing every kind of nefarious things.
How many people take greater risks even in making money? Fraudulent money! Something that will put them into prison for life, they will indulge in it. They do not care whether they go to prison or not.
Who has ever persecuted you for righteousness? In what way have you been persecuted for righteousness? The same people you are serving are the same people that persecute you. Check them. They are the heathens. They are the same heathens.
There is no way God can take you to worldly court to try you for anything. The same people you are trying to please, they drag you to court. They drag you to the village square. They carry you everywhere. They seize your money. You do everything to get the money, but you cannot go to the police because they know you profess godliness. Yet you want their money.
You call them devil. You call them pagan. But you have your eyes on their money. You will not get it anyhow. They will use it as a trap. That is why most of their appointments with you will clash with God’s own hour of worship. What I am telling you is pure truth.
Before you know it, you have excuse. To satisfy the curiosity of the pagans, you neglect the truth. You neglect instructions.
Oftentimes, you neglect yourself and neglect your civic responsibilities even towards your children and to the family to make sure heathens are pleased. What are you getting in return? Money.
And then, when heathens call you good names, you begin to rejoice. You do not know that you are dancing to the tune of the heathens. The heathens are approving you, but God is disapproving of you.
That is why whatever you see such people do, they aim at getting applause from the heathens. They are clapping hands for you. They are cheering you into hell.
The people that will cheer you up are these heroes of Faith who are on the grandstand seeing you taking sides with God and everything in Christ.
But if God said, “Do everything in the Name of God– in the Name of Christ, giving glory to the Father, One that knows everything.”
REFERENCE: Colossians 3:17, amp.¹⁷And whatever you do [no matter what it is] in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus and in [dependence upon] His Person, giving praise to God the Father through Him.
Many do not even know when they are glorifying the devil in the Name of God. When it comes to that area, their faith has no limit.
These are the people that pretend that they are the children of God when inwardly, they are not. Outwardly, they mingle with the children of God and have everything in common with them. I am telling you God’s truth. I lie not in Him.
But remember that God is not justifying you in the flesh because that spirit that is in you and is leading you away from God, is that spirit the right spirit?
Be very very careful, all of you here. Otherwise, that day, you will say, “Had I known.”
Remember, the devil knows exactly what you need. He knows what you want. He knows your cravings. And that thing which you are desiring earnestly, that is what he is an expert in placing before you, and then, he will give you a condition for taking it.
The devil can never give you anything without giving you stringent conditions. The devil can never give you a unique condition. All the conditions of the devil are all trial.
If you take the first step, he will tell you, “You are welcome, but this is not the real thing. You have about two steps.” You will be encouraged.
And the ways of the devil are full of ungodly sacrifices. The costliest is disobeying God to obey the devil. That is the costliest – mortgaging your soul to the devil. Remember the devil is not a human being you can see in your house.

If there be anything you know God has spoken concerning the signs with which we will know the end of the world which has not come to pass, say it to Me now. Only one thing remaineth. What is that thing? The resurrection of the dead saints. What will make them to resurrect? This small Ministry in your midst will wake them from the grave. When we will enter into the third pull, that is when you will know what is about to happen, because the Third Pull will not open until the D-day.

THE SON OF MAN

SIGNS OF OUR TIME Volume 2, Preached in the year 1993, Pg. 71 vs. 1-2

For the elect, it must be the spirit of christ ALONE

Hear Me very well. The Word of God said this, “We are children of God. the rest of the human beings around you are under the power and control of the devil. Have you heard it? So, do not look for the devil in the sky.
You are the only one that knows who God is. You have the fear of God. You are the only one that offends God and fears the awful consequences.
But to those people out there, they are cannon fodder. And God has slated a day in the which He will judge them in righteousness.
And to you who is being judged daily, how will you escape it if, after knowing the truth, you begin to serve diverse lusts. You have known the truth.
It is just like I told the Brethren about what happened to Me this morning. I think that is why many of you are still here. And God made Me in a way because He knows what is in Me. He called Me to order. He showed Me where I am coming from and how I lived My life from childhood.
I saw Myself even from crawling because I placed Myself at the judgment bar. I judged Myself. I know I am a Judge, and I cannot judge anybody and condemn that person for something I am guilty of. I cannot do that. That will make Me an unjust Judge.
So, first, a judge will judge Himself, meet the righteous demands, acquit Himself, and then be in a position to be an unbiased judge.
If you are a Minister of the Gospel of Christ, one thing is clear. You are facing God’s judgment every minute of the day. If you do not have that revelation, you are bound to make shipwreck.
So it is with a woman. Remember, the condition for a man of God is a condition for every child of God. The condition for a man of God– the condition for a Bishop, a Pastor, a Deacon, an Elder, Evangelist and so on is the condition for every true child of God.
That was what helped My wife more than any other thing. So, do not say, “I am not the Bishop’s wife. For that reason, this is where I will act in my life. I am not a Pastor’s wife” as if you became a Pastor’s wife without first of all, being a child of God.
If you use your Bible parlance, you must be a Christian before becoming a pastor. Is it a lie Brethren? You must be a Christian first before you become a deacon, elder, evangelist, Bishop.
I say, you must be a normal human being before you are assigned an office. And a normal human being is the one that has the Spirit of Christ.
If you do not have the spirit of Christ, you are mad. You are abnormal. You are not even a human being. You are not worthy to live. You are not worthy to die. You are unprofitable in all things. In every work, reprobate.
Who are you obeying? Whose voice has strength and why? Why? If we do not answer these questions rightly from this morning, watch what will happen this week. Many of you will pick Satan’s offers, thinking that God is behind it.
It is because of what you are looking for that will make you to be blind, and you cannot decipher when God is with you and when God is not with you.
There are too many opportunities that come your way that God has nothing to do with. And God has no hand in them. You think it is a blessing, but watch what follows it. Watch what follows it.
If you are sincere, from the first day to its final day of execution, it gave you no rest. Sometimes, you will run that business at a great loss.
If you are an artisan, when you present your finished job, it will be condemned and returned to you. If you amend the returned work, it will still be rejected.
To save your face, you will use your own money to buy the same material in the market and start all over again. On the day the client will come for collection, if the job is not ready, you will be held down in the office that day. Payers will hold you hostage. Am I telling you a lie!
If a pagan has 1,000 dresses, they mean nothing until that particular one is ready. She is ready to sleep at the tailor’s office. If she has gone to do her hair, she will sleep there. Both herself and the hairdresser will be held down on the seats until her husband will come looking for her with lantern so as to bring her home. She will forget and forgo all her domestic responsibilities as if the woman who packed her hair all by herself does not have any beauty to present.
In those good old days, mothers plait the hair of their fellow mothers. You plait me. I plait you. But today, there are specialized agencies where different styles are plaited, sometimes for 48 hours.
It has become so notorious that the devil decided to help them by plaiting it and then putting rubber. So their duty is to hang. What are you hanging? Do you know the implication of that thing you are hanging? Do you know the material they are using to weave it together? Who weaves it together.
You know, people do not know that all that move on the face of the earth are not human beings. I am telling you. Spirit human being plait these things for them.
All these styles you are seeing, where do you think they were evolved? They all came from the spirit world, knitted together, beautify you with it and you become an agent to seduce God’s children.
All these decorative man-made things and everything, who do you think is behind them. The devil decided to invent all these things and then make them very very alluring, fanciful and attractive.
They are of different types, even the one that you will hang and it will be touching the ground.
You begin to ask yourself, “What does it profit? I hung it on my forehead, and it touches the ground.” It becomes fashion. Who is noticing you? The whole thing is to create attraction. The whole thing is aimed at creating attraction so that when you move, all eyes will turn.
But the wearer gains nothing but to attract millions of demons to himself or herself. It has come to the point where there is no difference between men and women. Women wear it. Men wear it. They call it unisex.
If you want to talk, they tell you, “Americans! Germans! Expatriates!”Are they God? Are they God? Why not give godly example.
If youR example is drawn from the heathens, you are a heathen. You are a commendation letter of heathen ministry.
Children of God are commendation letters of Apostolic Ministry. Children of the world are commendation letters of heathen ministries.
That is, you are written epistles read by the world that you belong to the world.
REFERENCES: 2 Corinthians 3:1-4, KJV.¹Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? ²Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: ³forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart. ⁴And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward:
TLB. ^[1]Are we beginning to be like those false teachers of yours who must tell you all about themselves and bring long letters of recommendation with them? I think you hardly need someone’s letter to tell you about us, do you? And we don’t need a recommendation from you, either! ^[2]The only letter I need is you yourselves! By looking at the good change in your hearts, everyone can see that we have done a good work among you.
^[3]They can see that you are a letter from Christ, written by us. It is not a letter written with pen and ink, but by the Spirit of the living God; not one carved on stone, but in human hearts.^[4]We dare to say these good things about ourselves only because of our great trust in God through Christ, that he will help us to be true to what we say,
How I wish I can go there. “Love not the world, nor the things that are in the world. If you love the things of the world, the love of the father is not in you.” What sinful men desire, that is what you are desiring. What they die for, that is what you are dying for.
When you look at those things they are wearing, some steal while some go into prostitution to get them. I am telling you. They are very expensive. Some of them are sold for more than five million naira, especially the human hair.
It has come to the point now where they are named after countries. If you want Singapore, you will get. You want India, you will get. You want Slovenia, you will get. And they vary according to quality and prices. All for beautification.
Who are you beautifying yourself for? Satan using you as an instrument and you know it not.
A destructive instrument in the hand of the devil is a human being. Who is the devil using as object of provocation? Is it not a human being that submits to the will of the devil. He becomes a powerful instrument.
Be very very careful and know what you are promoting. You may be promoting evil conveniently, but when it comes to the promotion of righteousness, you are found wanting. And you cannot be promoting evil and godliness at the same time. It is impossible. You are either godly or ungodly.
Yet, you will be religious o. You will pay your dues, give your offerings, do all charitable works, sing and dance, preach the Gospel and mingle with the Brethren. Yet, you are evil.
You see why if to depart from evil is hard for you, you are a born evil fellow.
In every house of God, there is not only ornaments of gold and silver. There are also ornaments of wood and clay. Some to honour and some to dishonour.
But whosoever that purges himself of those evils, the same are made acceptable in the sight of God. The same are equally made vessels of honour.
Are you a vessel of honour or dishonour in the house of God? Are you a vessel of honour or dishonour in the sight of God?
Remember, Every sight you are creating– every sight, every sin you are creating has a spiritual undertone.
Whatever that dresses an individual is in his or her heart. Whatever that clothes an individual is in his or her heart. Whatever that takes you away from the face of God is in your heart. Is it a lie Brethren?
My duty is to tell you the truth. I live by the truth. But where you find the truth, believe it to be true, but refuse to live by that standard, you have yourself to blame. Period!
Have long have I to live here on earth? How long have I to live from now? How long do you think you will live from now? Some of your mates have died. Do you know whether you will be the next to die?
There is no age God said sin is convenient. No! Sin has no age. Righteousness has no age. Sin has no infant version. Neither does it have an adult version.
Is there a version of death for infants? Is there a version of death for adults? Is there a version of life for infants? There is no version of life for infants. There is no version of life for infants. There is no version of life for infants. There is no version of life for adults. There is no version of godliness for infants. There is no version of godliness for adults.
That is why before the Throne of judgment, which He said that they will come as found in Revelation 20, it is for both great and small, young and old. These are the people that shall appear before the judgment throne. All of them!
Reference: Revelation 20:11-12, KJV. ¹¹And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. ¹²And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
If you say that the person is a child, when you were breast-feeding, does the child not focus on your countenance? Does the child not get angry when you are angry? When you offend the child does the child not reject breast-feeding.
Does the child not bite you on the nipple? When you bring food, the child will knock the plates off the table due to anger. The child does not talk but is very angry. Am I making sense? And you say the child does not know anything.
You will then start pleading and pacifying the child so as to calm down. When you see the baby breathing furiously while calming down, it will seem as if the baby fell down from a height.
That is to show you the level of anger boiling within the child, to the extent that if the arms were powerful enough, the child will give you a devastating blow on the mouth. You will see the child panting until calmness is restored.
After a while normalcy will be restored. When the child sees that you are laughing, the child will also laugh and rejoice. When the mother pulls out the breast, the child will readily suck the breast.
But before then, if you dare bring the breast close to the child, the breast will be furiously pushed away and face another direction, crying and sweating profusely. You will then see the level of rage boiling within the child. And you say the person is an infant. You say the person is an infant.
Somebody who was shaped in iniquity, born in iniquity from the mother’s womb, came into the world full of iniquity, graduated in iniquity, and you are still defending such a fellow. Who told you.
Take the blood and go to the screen and see what it will read.

“I am He that liveth and was dead, and behold I am alive forevermore. Come unto Me all ye nations and be saved, for I am He that liveth and was dead.” Let somebody say Amen. Even if you do not believe it, I am the Resurrection and the Life. Even if you do not believe it, your unbelief has nothing to do with this Truth.The son of manINTRODUCTION OF THE HEAVENLY COMMANDER OF GOD’S ARMY; Preached on 16^th June 2001 at the Household of God; Onitsha; Pg. 28 vs. 41 – 42

What influences the choices

you make?

Hebrews 12:1-2, The Living Bible.^[1]Since we have such a huge crowd of men of faith watching us from the grandstands, let us strip off anything that slows us down or holds us back, and especially those sin, that wrap themselves so tightly around our feet and trip us up; and let us run with patience the particular race that God has set before us.
So, there are sins that wrap themselves around you and around your faith, and hold you back. And you will be looking for a convenient time.
When it comes to the devil or doing evil, no convenient time. When it comes to stubbornness, no convenient time, but when it comes to God and the things that pertain to godliness, you will be looking for a convenient time. Apologies and reasons will be coming out. What happened? What happened to it?
^[2]Keep your eyes on Jesus, our leader and instructor. … So you have a Leader and Instructor – Jesus the Christ, the Anointed One, the Messiah, who liveth for ever and ever, who said he will return and He has returned and who is in our midst in a new name according to His Word of life in the person of the son of man, Who is a continuation and consummation, vindicated and confirmed by the Almighty to be true and Who holds the Word of eternal life. What then is our problem?
Let Me tell you. If obedience to Him was made easy in His first advent, in My day, it will be easy. Obedience to the truth has always been difficult for people that do not belong to God.That is what they are known for.
What spoilt Israel was mixed multitude. Another thing that spoilt Israel was their dispersALto all the Gentile nations where They mingled with them and learnt their wicked ways and became idolaters.
But to bring them out of idolatry is made easy by God appearing. Has God not appeared? Have you not seen Him? Can you now begin to think that the Godhead is like silver or gold? It has become clear to you so that you will understand what I am saying.
But one thing is to know Him and believe in Him. Another thing is to treat Him as God, serve Him as God and obey Him as God. How do you do that? Give Him the first Place in your life. That is where God belongs to.Anybody that has God as secondary is already perishing.
Even in the Message Bible it said, “Let God have the prime place– occupy the first place in your life.” Is it a lie Brethren?
In the beginning, God. In the beginning, God. He said He is a jealous God, “Thou shall not have any other god besides Him. Serve Me with all your life, with all your strength and everything you are made up of. Is it not scriptural? What is wrong with human beings?
REFERENCES:[1] Exodus 20:3, KJV. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.
[2] Mark 12:30, KJV. “And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.”
Who has ever exhausted his strength serving God? But your strength is always exhausted in serving the cause of the devil. In serving the heathens, you exhausted all your strength to the point that you can even go without food to meet the demands of the devil.
Provided the devil will give you money, you sell your conscience. You sell your liberty. You sell even your time. You sell everything. You market everything marketable, and even market your family. I am telling you the truth.
Too many have marketed their kitchens just because of money, “Buy me, buy kitchen!” When the person buys you, he also buys your services, buys the services of your children and buys everything. You employ everything you have to serve the devil.
There was one I asked a question, “If money is everything, do you think we would have met money here?” Do you not know why you met money on the scene? Whoever that leaves the scene abandons money. This is to show you that nobody owns it.
Do you not take what belongs to you when you are going away? Why do you have money on the scene? Whoever leaves this earth, abandons money on his or her way out. Why is evil piled up till today? Whoever finishes with evil, leaves it behind.
Why is godliness so scarce? Everybody leaves with his or her godliness. And this has led to the scarcity of righteous people here on earth. You leave this earth with your righteousness.
So, let it be very clear to you as I explain this so that it will be clear to you. That thing which you ran to and met it in great abundance, the reason for its abundance is that the people of old abandoned it here. You will still abandon it. I say that you will still leave that thing behind.
You are leaving this planet earth with only one thing. And that thing is righteousness. You have left all your evils for your children here. The things that men do, not only follow them here, but also follow them in the hereafter.
The legacy you left for your children becomes evil. They follow after you. When they leave the scene, their own children will continue from where they stopped. They will now start answering for their own evils. You will be answering your own, while they answer their own.
Nobody answers any question for righteousness. The Righteous goes home with joy. His followers are the children of righteousness. Children of righteousness!
They follow after the righteousness of their parents and the example that had been laid for them. And they also live their lives with joy.
Watch the homes of the wicked people. Wicked people leave nothing but sorrow, poverty, agony and pain. And their children inherit it.
^[2]Keep your eyes on Jesus, our leader and instructor. He was willing to die a shameful death on the cross… He was willing to die a shameful death on the cross as a result of His faith in His Father. Is it a lie Brethren?
… He was willing to die a shameful death on the crossbecause of the joy he knew would be his afterwards; and now he sits in the place of honour by the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:2, KJV.²looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. Amen!!!
If you want to serve God, take your cross and follow Him. You must have your own fair share of the sufferings of Christ. We are not only called to believe in Him, but to suffer with Him. If we suffer with Him, we shall reign with Him.
You cannot reap where you did not sow. When you are sowing your seed in the world in wickedness by promoting wickedness, causing overspreading of evil, encouraging things that God stands against– there are too many things God stands against which should not be named among us.
When I gave you the Message in those days titled, VOCATION, I told you that there are too many occupations. The choice is yours. The choice is yours.
And what is that thing in the choice you will make? It is your Faith. Your faith will determine the one you will take and the one you will not take. Did you hear My Voice?
If God tells you, “Thou shall not swear in His Name or by anything in heaven and on earth and beneath the earth– Let your yea be yea and your nay be nay”, anything that cometh after that is devil. It is devil.
Then, God has concluded that.
If while making the choice of your vocation, you choose where you will be taken to the court to swear an oath, you carry the Holy Bible or the Holy Qur’an or traditional machete or dane gun to swear publicly to enable you work, have you not made a wrong choice? Have you not made a wrong choice?
You think God does not know why He exposed it for you to see. Can you not see that when you go to the law court, you will swear an oath in the Name of God before the entire world. That oath which you have sworn, when you go to your place of work, can you keep it? From the day you picked that vocation is the day you became guilty.
Check all that picked that vocation – law. You can never be a judge if you are not a lawyer. You cannot even be a magistrate. Even if you want to be a judge in the village court [I mean customary court], you must know some elements of the law.
You cannot be a judge over a law you do not know. You must be conversant with customary law. And you must be taken to that chief magistrate or the chief justice of that state who will administer the oath. He will administer the oath of office.
So it is with all these honourable members of the state and national assemblies. How honourable are the honourables? AM I making sense? Brethren, how honourable are the honourables? How excellent are the excellencies?
That we call them excellencies, does it make sense at all? In what facet of human life is he excellent? He is ‘excellent’ in opposing the truth. He is ‘excellent’ in doing harm to the people he is governing. He is ‘excellent’ in corruption. His excellency, the governor is ‘excellent’ in corruption. He is ‘excellent’ in evil. ‘Honourable’ in evil. Starting from his campaign to his election, was he honourable? What is honourable in the honourable?
Do you really ask yourselves questions. How many people are serving God’s interest? The more I explain this matter, the fewer you will be in number.
If I narrow it to your own occupation, you will see that, by your occupation, you are marked out of God’s salvation, for any occupation that God condemns, whoever indulges in it will never get justification.
Otherwise, the too many lawyers who embraced the Faith of Christ would have continued in the legal practice. Not even one would have escaped it.
Even Barrister Venas never practiced it one bit. Luke the physician never practiced it again. How can you practice something that is accursed.
REFERENCES: [1] Colossians 4:14, KJV. Luke, the beloved physician, and Demas, greet you.
[2] Titus 3:13, KJV. Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their journey diligently, that nothing be wanting unto them.
Cursed be unto you lawyers! Caused be unto you doctors! And you go there? You go there to change the will of God?
REFERENCES: [1] Luke 11:46 & 52, KJV.⁴⁶And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. ……. ⁵²Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
[2] Mark 5:25-26, TLB.^[25]In the crowd was a woman who had been sick for twelve years with a hemorrhage. ^[26]She had suffered much from many doctors through the years and had become poor from paying them, and was no better but, in fact, was worse.
Check all the people that are dying here and there, who are responsible for their deaths? Illegal imprisonments and troubles in all the earth, who are those causing them?
In no distant time, lawyers will outclass every other profession in the whole world. The number of lawyers is almost half the population of Nigeria right now.
Somebody who uses trouble-making to make money. You are trying to avoid trouble, but he is pushing you into trouble more and more.
I am praying that God should heal me of sickness, but doctor is praying that everybody should fall sick. Did you get the Message? No doctor prays for the recovery of any patient.
My hospital is crumbling. What is your article of trade? Oh! There is nobody in my hospital? What merchandise did you display for sale? What merchandise did you display for sale?
That is why ungodly ones go to native doctor to prepare concoctions which they use to poison patients so that they will stay longer in the hospital. Do not doubt Me. I am telling you the truth. You do not know what is happening in hospitals.
There are too many hospitals that people are now avoiding. I would not mention names. There are some maternity homes, specialist hospitals where if they deliver 20 children, check! 15 will die. Only 5 will go home with their own. It becomes a ritual.
There are some that are flourishing through mortuary. That is why I warned, “Any hospital that has a mortuary, do not go there”, for it is better for them to put you in the mortuary than to help you to recover.
If you die, doctor will charge you. In his mortuary, he will charge you. So, he will collect from the two ends. So, any hospital that has a mortuary, avoid it. That doctor will not give you his attention in treating you. He will be careless because he does not incur anything loss.
An Igbo adage says that a deer with an enlarged testicles is great profit to the hunter. The bill for the dead is the same with that of a patient who recovered.
When it comes to mortuary, if you will not deposit the corpse, carry it away. Even before you will arrive, he has already put the corpse in the mortuary.
That is why some of them [corpses] will be there, recover and come out, to show you that they were dropped there alive. Have you not heard it?
Was our former Deacon, Us man, not in the mortuary for three days? Then he came out. The moment you faint, doctor will declare you dead and put you there. So, may God help all of us.

Sunday School(Book review)HAVE FAITH IN GOD, NOT REASONINGBYTHE SON OF MAN… Note it. I am not Jesus, but the whole world must acknowledge that I am Christ. Jesus was a man. God anointed him with the Holy Spirit of Christ. That is why it was the Spirit of Christ in him that made him God. Hence, in him dwelt the fullness of God bodily in his own day. He gave way. Messengers continued to come bearing His (God’s) Name. I am He that moved in the midst of the seven golden candle sticks. I have come to wind up the history of Faith in Christ. Believe in God, resurrection from the dead, putting of immortality, dwelling with God eternally. In Me, eternity is revealed. Even if you do not remember any other thing, do not forget “Every bush is fire. Every Rock is a fountain of water. Every Star is a pillar of fire. Every Cloud points us to God.” Follow the Cloud. Do not follow the Son of Man. Do not follow Peter Odoemena. But the moment you follow the Cloud, you will know that I am He. I believe it.THE SON OF MANEVERY CLOUD LEADS TO GOD; preached on Sunday 9^th October 2011 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 114 vs. 1 – 4

BE ALWAYS FOUND IN CHRIST DOING HIS WILL(1)

HAVE FAITH IN GOD, NOT REASONING, preached by Apostle Peter Odoemena on 30^th April 2016 at THE SON OF MAN’s Family Altar.
To God be the Glory. Of all of you that are here now, there is not even one that was with Me by 2016 when I handled this Message, HAVE FAITH IN GOD, NOT REASONING.
That is to show you how I prepared My family. That tree that produces good fruits has a source of water.
Chapter 1 – The Year of Disaster: A Bloody Year. ¹ToGod Be the Glory. As we see the day approaching, when we see prophecies fulfilling, it goes to prove that we are on the right track. That is number one, number two, the time of the fulfillment of the prophecies will equally tell you the hour you are in.
Just like we are seeing prophecies fulfilling in our day rapidly. So, we should know the hour we are in.
³“… anybody that does not discern the hour he is living in surely must be taken unawares.” Sure!!
⁴As we see the troubles narrowing down gradually you will remember what God had told you concerning the hour when you see the trouble narrowing down at our door step, …
Are we not seeing them now? It started in 2012. This is 2024.
⁷“I am expecting something anytime from now, there is going to be a very big trouble in Nigeria and this trouble is around us.” ⁸But God says nothing stops the Federal Government from shooting the Igbo land this year and God named the states that would be victims. … And it fulfilled to the letter.
⁹Now we see the Boko Haram coming claiming to be cattle rearers, … What? ⁹Now we see the Boko Haram coming claiming to be cattle rearers, …
True or false? I mean now. That time, it was gradually rearing its ugly head. Today, we are with them.
¹⁶What I’m I trying say, you and I have been slated for slaughter. I told you time without number that there is going to be a great trouble here and the moment it starts it will never go down again. Take note!
²²I am saying that the fire has engulfed the whole Nigeria the same way the fire has engulfed the whole world.
True or false? As at that time, it was rearing its head. Today, are we not sitting on a time bomb? We are now sitting on a time bomb.
³⁰… We are seeing signs of troubles. We are seeing every kind of epidemic. They are all coming worldwide. And we can see the world passing through untold hardship as never experienced since the history of the world. It is not peculiar to Nigeria.
³¹God said that there is going to be noisy and violent demonstrations at the highest levels, we can see for almost three weeks now, there have been demonstrations upon demonstrations with people barricading the national assembly. And Buhari is confused. Up till this very morning, the Appropriation Bill – the budget – has not been signed …
And God said, “Anyone that is initiated will never go back again.” How many months has Tinubu lasted in the office? Has he rested. Has his administrative office not being surrounded by demonstrations of all sorts, until we are having the one they call “Hunger demonstration”?
Hunger demonstration! Fuel price hike! Electricity tariff hike! Bicycle hike! Gas price hike! Stove hike! Garri hike! Everything hike hike! Nobody is biking. We are hiking.
³¹… up till this very morning, the Appropriation Bill – the budget – has not been signed and nobody is interested, but the labour are asking. Up till yesterday, the workers are agitating for increase in their salaries to enable them go to work. … Yes! It is initiated.… Government is also borrowing money to finance the budget for there is no money.
³³When you watch the way things are going, go back to prophecies. God said we shall get our fair share and we are getting our own gradually.
He told us from that day, “Expect nothing better. Expect worse times ahead” that as we journey along, things will get worse until it gets to the worst – unbearable estate. Look at where we are now.
Page 34. Chapter 2 – Be Found in Him Always. Be found in Christ Always.¹You buried Deacon Dan Chukwuemeka yesterday. How did he die? He was alerting the family—according to the report reaching Me. From time to time, he will be telling the wife and children that from all indications, he is seeing death. He is seeing death every now and then.
²He will draw their attention to it, but they thought he was kidding. He came to fellowship in Onitsha, just the second week after the burial of the Late mother, brought wine and all of us drank. He went back home. The next thing we heard was that he went to bed and died. No fever, no headache, nothing nothing. He just slept in the same bed with the wife, and that was all. Everybody got confused.
Any lesson to learn? Any lesson to learn? We behave as if we hold our lives in our hands or that we will determine how long we are going to stay or that we will determine when we shall die and how long we shall live.
Yes now! Since we know the hour that is good for us to disobey God or to do the will of God and the time that it is not necessary at all to mention God.
Somebody told Me over the phone that this God God of a thing, that I should hold it. He said that for now, all he is out for is how to make money and alleviate his poor estate. I said, “I wish you the best of luck.”
Three days after, the wife called Me and said that he was near unto death on the bed. I said, “Ah ah! What happened to him?” She started talking rubbish. It was amazing grace that brought him back to life and not his money.
And when he called and started thanking Me, I said, “That is warning you received. You do not own your life. Be mindful of wild comments. Do not open your mouth wide because you are breathing.”
³… Any day you wake up from the bed is the beginning of your life. ⁴When you are asked the day your life starts, don’t begin to mention the day you were born. Sure!!! You are born this morning…
Is it a lie Brethren? I was born this morning. I am one day old. That is, if I finish today.
SONG: [How old are you now? How old are you now? How old are you now? How old are you now?
I am one day today. I am one day today. I am one day today. I am one day today.]
One day today! Yesterday is gone like the dead. Yesterday is gone like the dead. Yesterday is dead. To the living, yesterday is dead. The memory of yesterday lingers, but it is not yesterday.
Memory is something that you are recalling to mind of what happened before. Am I making sense at all?
Some people think that yesterday can be today. Never! Yesterday is dead like the dead. And it is also buried for you cannot see yesterday again. Even the Almighty God cannot change the past.
All references to yesterday are now past. Past tense. The Bible said that sufficient for the day is the trouble thereof. So, I am born today. I am one year old today.
⁵You came to existence this morning, whatever you can make of life today will determine what your end will be. …Is it a lie Brethren?
It is not what your past life was that will determine what tomorrow will be, but what today is determines what tomorrow is likely to be. If you do not have a today, you will never have a tomorrow. Did you get the Message?
⁵… Any new day you see yourself as one that is born that day and whatever you make of that day will determine what the end will be.
If you do not see the short distance between your beginning and your ending, definitely you can never take the word of God seriously.
And the distance is the shortest in a human plan. Is it not true? It is the shortest in human life. You can plan what you will do in the next three hundred years to come, and God will cut it short today. Is it a lie Brethren?
The person that died this morning, does the person not have plans for today and tomorrow. But where is the person now?
You see, it gives Me joy that many many things happen and we do not learn our lessons. My wife had too many clothes, enough that could be shared. They were all in her boxes and in her wardrobes.
When she died, we had to go to her seamstresses to ask whether she left some clothes unsewn. We were able to recover some unsewn clothes. I wanted the women to buy them, but they said that they will not buy. We then brought them back. Did you get the Message?
Find yourself in whatever profession or occupation you like. Be it known to you that you are not the first that engaged in that profession or occupation. And you will not even finish it. You must surely abandon some of the jobs and die completely. Is it a lie Brethren?
Did the drivers that died in road accident, lift all the passenger that were available? Did their death stop vehicles from plying the highways? Better and more modern cars that are better than the ones they drove are being built everyday.
How we ought to pray that God should give us wisdom to handle the affairs of this present world.
References: [1] Psalms 90:10-12, AMP.¹⁰The days of our years are threescore years and ten (seventy years)–or even, if by reason of strength, fourscore years (eighty years); yet is their pride [in additional years] only labour and sorrow, for it is soon gone, and we fly away.
¹¹Who knows the power of Your anger? [Who worthily connects this brevity of life with Your recognition of sin?] And Your wrath, who connects it with the reverent and worshipful fear that is due You? ¹²So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.
[2] Colossians 3:2-4, TLB.²Let heaven fill your thoughts; don’t spend your time worrying about things down here. ³You should have as little desire for this world as a dead person does. Your real life is in heaven with Christ and God. ⁴And when Christ who is our real life comes back again, you will shine with him and share in all his glories.
I have witnessed where professors died and were buried. I have heard, and I believe it is true because I do not see them anymore. Heads of states, presidents of nations abandoned their countries where they were lording themselves over and died, and were buried by those people who they were lording themselves over. Memories forgotten. Nigeria continued. Those countries continued.
Go to the Message entitled, THE WORLD WILL CONTINUE WITHOUT ME. This world will continue without you. No matter your pride. No matter your position.
Whatever might be your pride, somebody prided himself there. Somebody occupied that position before you. You might not know them.
Life is likened to a fashion. When a fashion reigned and was fazed way, a new generation of people appears, only for that fashion to reappear. To them, they think it is a new innovation – a new invention.
It will take the ancient mothers and fathers to tell them while they were coming up in life, how that fashion reigned. So, there is no new fashion. There is no new fashion.
He that died because of the things he met here on earth died in vain. If you kill yourself because of the things you met here on earth– the riches of this world will make you not to have the fear of God– you did not worship God because you believed that worshipping God will hinder you from amassing the riches of the world, you died completely.
The reason why people cannot give their holistic allegiance to serving the LORD is because they feel– It is a feeling that if they should serve God the way God wants, they will not be rich. They will become poor. They will no longer be popular. Then, they will be ridiculed.
The LORD Jesus was able to bear the ridicule, the shame, the reproach and everything. He suffered all, for there must be exaltation after trial. Will you pass the test?
Go back to that place where I quoted.2 Corinthians 13:5-8, TLB.^[5]Check up on yourselves. Are you really a child of God? … Check yourself, while I check myself. Keep on checking.
SONG: [Query your heart, while I query my heart to know whether you will follow God into the Kingdom of Heaven. Query your heart, while I query my heart to know whether I will follow God into the Kingdom of Heaven.]
SONG: [Now the LORD has come to take His people home on that glorious day as He has promised. “Will you go with Him?” is a life question for you. Answer, My dear Brothers. Answer, My dear Sisters.]
The question is for us all. It is a question we must answer. You will answer questions concerning yourself while you are still alive. Ask yourself the question and give an answer to the question while you are still alive.
Are you making mere pretenses to be what you are not? A hypocrite! What will it profit you? What is the hope of a hypocrite?
… Do you pass the test? Do you feel Christ’s presence and power more and more within you? Or are you just pretending to be a child of God when actually you aren’t at all?^[6]I hope you can agree that I have stood that test and truly belong to the Lord.
^[7]I pray that you will live good lives, not because that will be a feather in our caps, proving that what we teach is right; no, for we want you to do right even if we ourselves are despised. ^[8]Our responsibility is to encourage the right at all times, not to hope for evil.

You want to honour God? Honour the Son of Man. The person Whom He has sent to you. Not only sending Him, He came and vindicated Him. He came and confirmed that He sent Him, for when God sends a Man, He backs Him up. He will give Him people that will believe in Him. He will also give Him people that will fight Him. He will also give Him people that will work with Him. Do we have that Son in our midst, with supportive evidences that the Father sent Him to us? Yes! Any basis for unbelief again? No! ……. In fact, it is here. It was a prophecy, but today, the prophecy is fulfilled. Look at the supernatural photograph of the Supreme Judge. Can’t you see the Resurrection and the Life standing on two feet in the midst of His Church? Right now, He is here.THE SON OF MANIT IS FINISHED; Preached on Sunday 16^th September 2012 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 160 vs. 34 – 34 & Pg. 161 vs. 38

BE ALWAYS FOUND IN CHRIST DOING HIS WILL (2)

Have faith in God, not rasoning. Page 37 from verse 6.⁶If there is a time we will begin to appreciate what God is doing, the time is now because I remember, in the beginning, this Ministry lasted for more than ten years before the day God said, “Now, we are grown in number. The number is swollen. ⁷From now we will be dying. Death is death.”And it is picking up one by one at different points. …
He said so, and Elder Ozor of Enugu opened it at a very ripe age of over 100 years. We were in this Faith for more than 10 years and we never buried even a child.
People started thinking that we will not die again. Even among us, they were having that feeling that we will not die. For more than 10 years, we never buried a corpse, not even a child.
Those who tasted death, God brought them back to life saying that we do not have the capacity to bury the dead yet. But in 2010, we had already grown to a size. And then, God said, “We will be dying.” We started dying. That should be year two thousand and something.
From 1992, add 10. That will give you the exact year we buried the first corpse.
⁹The most important thing is the beginning of your day which will determine the way you will end it. ¹⁰Thus, whatever you are, hold fast to it, be sure you are found in Him doing His will, because there is now a very short gap between where you are and where you will stop. [Sure!!!] It can be by any means. Make no mistakes about it.
When John Abba left from the Fellowship, you were told to behold him as he was going away with great rage, and that he will not come back again.
Was it not the same place I sat when I made that proclamation that I was sitting when there port came that he was dead?
We were still on that same spot when He left with rage simply because he was told to apologize to Kelechi. He climbed his motorcycle and went away. I said, “Look at him. He is dead.” Look at him. He is dead.
The wife was there. The children were there. They were all there. They heard the Voice, “See him! He is dead.”
I was signing documents and attending to people when the news came that he has been crushed at the express way by an on-coming vehicle. By the time we ran to the hospital where they kept him, he was dead.
Just like we heard yesterday that Augustine of Ogbunike had died and had been buried. Augustine of Ogbunike is dead, and he has been buried. Was it not in the night that we heard it?He was John Abba’s colleague. Augustine is dead and buried, and we knew it not.
¹¹Hear me well. Any community that has been privileged to see Fulani cattle rearers, either now or in the past, crossing their road or in their farms, is a marked area. That area is marked. The area is what? Marked! One day they will remember that area and then ravage it, bear it in mind.
¹²While I was going home last week, all my life I have never seen cattle rearers in my area at all. Sure!!! I only see one or two cattle may be purchased from Umuahia, the butchers will be taking them to their place before they will slaughter them.
¹³But surprisingly last week along Ogborr road, that university side,… That is Ogborr Road, around Imo University area – My hometown. We saw a ranch.
…I saw cattle numbering over two hundred with the Fulani herdsmen and their bags with their big caps on the road. …
This is something we have never witnessed in My area, for we do not have any vegetation that will attract them. Do you know that from that time till now, it has become a way of life? Even this Nsugbe. There was a time when we came in here in 2014, people were running helter-skelter. They said that they saw Fulani herdsmen with their cattle. They said that they filled this area and even behind the school. Vigilante people came out en-mass. I did not run away. I remained here. They carried their cattle through this empty land and off they went.
I learnt they clashed, but whatever that happened was not My business until we arrested some who broke shops and stores and carried Indomie noodles in cartons and many other things.
When we arrested them, they confessed that they are Boko Harams. It happened here. They were arrested with their motorcycles. They confessed that they were taking those things to their camp where they camped.
The police took over the matter and then went there. When they got there, police easily misbehaved. They overpowered the police like they did also at Aguleri. They overpowered the police at Aguleri. In Igbariam also, they overpowered them and killed all.
They are everywhere around us o. Who do you call these people? Was it not in My yard that one came to help us and amend our dresses. While he was trying to do something, his ID card fell off. Lo and behold, that was a sergeant in the army. I collected it and asked, “My dear, how manage?”
Even there at Upper-Iweka, it happened. Soldiers were invited and they came, carried the young man, a cobbler who is equally a sergeant. They went to the army barracks and army confirmed that he is a soldier.
So, when you are moving about, be very careful. From the time we fought them at Head-Bridge, when they brought their young men who were well-trained, they changed their dresses to look like you.
Things are happening. Be very careful wherever you are.
… They were crossing from one side of the bush to another side and they barricaded the road for few minutes.
¹⁵Here in Nsugbe, I have seen them in many places. Our fellowship area at Onitsha, we have been privileged to see them. …Is it a lie Brethren.
Were they not the people that barricaded the road when we dismissed from Fellowship and we could not go again until all of them passed? And it happened immediately after the Police station.
… I remember one day we were coming from Fellowship. They were crossing from one side of the GRA to the other side, I hope you saw the trick, they now rebranded these people.
¹⁶You know they are operatives in the hand of God to execute this judgment upon the earth. … They are what? … operatives in the hand of God to execute this judgment upon the earth. God’s judgment is already upon the earth. God’s judgment is already upon the earth. And do not ask me the way God will do it. He will do it the way He deems fit and you do not know when it will be your turn.
¹⁸What I’m saying is that the gap between us and where we are going is very short and narrow. …
So, there is only but one step left between you and death. Is there truth in it? If somebody knows where he or she will go and meet death, will the person go there? The person that died on his way to Ose [market] was it his intention to die on the way?
The people who were coming back to Nsugbe were almost home after crossing obele mmili [little stream]before they perished. That was where they cooked their dinner and everything. They ended it there. Did they have death in mind?
I mean, it happened live. Both the driver of the Keke NAPEP tricycle, the woman, her daughter and some others in the Keke all gone.
The other person who was going from here to buy somethings at 3-3, and a trailer carrying cement crushed him at obele mmili, was his intention to die? The trailer knocked him into a ditch and also fell on him there.
Nobody knows where death will meet him or her. For that reason, please be ready at all times. Be always found in Christ, doing his will.
Just like I was addressing one of our daughters yesterday. And that is the daughter of Bro Onyema Eze who secured admission to study in ESUT [Enugu State University of Science and Technology].And she was volunteering to see Me. And eventually, she came with the father.
I addressed her, “Know that the school where you are heading to is the headquarters of cultism together with Abia State University, Uturu. They are known for that. And their normal victims have always remained fresh intakes. They will intimidate you. They will harass you. If you are giving yourself to them, you are gone. If they initiate you into that cult, you will die. If they do not initiate you, you will die.
What will save you is [1] The fear of God. Let the fear of God dominate your heart. Be a true seed of God. Pray always. Do not joke with the Messages. Tell your father to give you his own copies of the Messages he reserved for you – do not forget your career transporter and then PRESERVE YOUR YOUTH AND ACHIEVE YOUR DREAM. Study them before you will leave next week. That is number one.
[2] Dress decently. Most of the troubles that befall our Sisters and our youth is as a result of their improper dressing – indecent dressing. Nothing attracts hoodlums and bandits, both men and women, more than indecent dressing. If you dress in a manner as becoming a child of God, they will respect you. They do not go near them. They know the counterfeits. They know the originals.
The reason is because they are under a vow. They are under a covenant that banned them from touching certain set of people. Number one they are banned from outright are the true children of God. If you are a true seed of God, you dress decently.
Of course, you know that you must be polite. You must not be holding your head high.
If you are twisting your buttocks as you move about, they know you are a counterfeit. That you do not put on earrings, they are rubbish. They know too many people that do not put on those things.
So, go and ask you mother what it means to dress decently. Do not ever go to school with anything gown that does not cross your knee. Do not ever go to school with anything that will not cross your knee.
Anything that is torn sideways or at the back or in front, do not ever wear it and go out. And do not insist that it must be body fitting. Whatever you will wear that will show your whole body and your whole shape will put you into trouble.
Then be mindful OF the way you look. You glance at something, and then continue. Even if they are holding your friend on the ground and raping her– Even if they are stealing or doing any other indecent thing by day or by night, they know that you have seen them. Go your way.
If they salute you, salute them. If they do not salute you, do not salute them. Once you cross that place, make sure you do not turn back. If you turn your eyes back, they will ask you to turn. They will invite you.
If you resist, they will go after you. They will drag you to the scene to come and explain why you turned back and what you were trying to see, which you did not see when you were passing.
Finally, bridle your tongue. Bridle your tongue. If you are fond of being flippant, whatever your eyes see, you will talk– whatever your ears hear, you will talk, be sure they will kill you. And the way they kill people like you is a miserable killing. They will drag you to a nearby bush and all of them will rape you to death.
They will just use their black band, tie your mouth and allow your eyes to be seeing them, for they know you will die. They will rape you to death there. This is because where you might be talking bla bla bla might be where their members are. They have their members, both males and females.
Do not have any friend. Do not have any enemy. If you befriend one who is a member of a cult, one who is from the opposing side who has his yes on you will come after you. You befriend one who is a Bagger, that is one who is called an initiate when they are having their eye on you, both you and that your boyfriend must go down. They must kill that boy to snatch you away.
So, the moment you hear them saying, “Capone! Capone! Badoo! Badoo!”, off your eyes and find your way.
If it is possible, buy that small scarf. Instead of wig, weave-on or whatever, cover your hair with a scarf. Then go with your small Bible. Do not ever go without it. Go with your small Bible in your hand. When you are walking along. Make sure you are singing hymns.
They will call you “Sister”, and you will call them “Brother”. They will say, “Sister, how now?” Your reply will be, “Brother God is great.”They will say, “Okay, God is great. Anything for us?”You say, “Brother, I do not have anything o. Bear with me.” They will say, “Okay, but next time you will have something.” And you will reply, “By God’s grace.”
Any other time you will meet them, there is no other thing they are expecting from you if not that salutation. And they will protect you. They will never allow anybody to harm you. They will be recommending you to their folks.
But if you are the one that is flippant, they call you a gossip. Through those that are already with them– they might be your female friends, she will lead them to your hostel and show them where you are living. In all your outlets, they will waylay you. If you happen to be living alone or with somebody, if they come to you for help, which is nothing but food, “Ah! Sister! I am hungry o. Any Indomie? Anything eatable?”Your reply should be, “Brother, come now! Sit down.” If you know anything you have that is eatable, give him. He will drink water after eating, and tell you, “God bless you. God bless you. Pray for us o. You know our lives are in danger. Nothing will harm you in this campus. Trust me.”
If you are coming back late, they will guide you back to your hostel. They dare not touch you. But when you will fix your eyes to the sky and shaking your buttocks, looking back after some steps to know whether anybody is looking at you, you are invitation to tender. They must tender.
If any one of them ever succeeds in getting you, you are gone for good. All of them must war against that person, and you will become from hand to hand.”
I groomed her the much I know. “And let it be known to you that not all that went there were able to come back. Another thing you must avoid is school friends. It is in that Message, PRESERVE YOUR YOUTH AND ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS.
Control your appetite. Do not allow your appetite to put you into trouble. From all these packaged drinks and foods, run away. Even if your girlfriends are serving, tell them that you do not take them.”
Apple juice, juice, juice, juice and you drink. After drinking, you sleep off. You will be carried like a little chicken into the bedroom and all your clothing will be soaked in a bucket of water. Then, you are lost. And that is if you will leave there alive.
In some cases, the cloth of the victim is used to clean her blood. They mutilate your body and use your cloth to wipe off the blood, both man and woman.
He will tell you, “Let me take you out for sight-seeing”, and you will foolishly follow him. You will sleep off on the same place you are seated drinking the juice. You will be carried into the car and driven off.
The owner of that joint does not see it as anything because they are used to it. They have their centers where they normally get these boys and girls. Victims are found mainly among people that are led by his or her stomach commands. Others are the covetous who cannot withstand the alluring of money.
They always bring out bundles of money and count the money in your presence. You will not know that that money is counterfeit. You will think that it is genuine money, not knowing they are all fake note. New new currency. Any time he passes around you he will be quoting millions anyhow.
He may, because of you, go and hire a car in the street and come into the campus with the vehicle in the company his colleagues. You will think that he is a reasonable human being, not knowing that you are his target.
Due to your incontinence, you will collect his money. The moment your hand touches that money your brain is gone. You can be carried from Umuahia to Asaba, and you will not know.
The one that they killed here in Nsugbe at Ugo hotel that time, the wedding that led to that was held at Oguta Road. From Oguta Road they brought that victim to this Nsugbe and murdered the person. The victim collected money and lost consciousness.
But the victim was mutilated and they left the remains of the body parts which they do not have need for. The people that discovered where the body was buried went to Oguta Road where she was taken out.
Take me out and take me in has killed many. Excessive eating, excessive drinking and too much loitering. No one ever gets drowned without going into the river. No one ever gets drowned without going into the river.
Uncle! Auntie! Every man is uncle. While every woman is auntie. Uncle, uncle! Aunti, auntie! I am happy that one of such victims who escaped never escaped from the hands of people outside. She wrote us a text saying, “It will be very very traumatic for her to dwell under that same roof with the person that violated her.” I gave it to the Brethren, and they read it. And I wept sore that day. I wept sore.
Things are happening in this city. You say she is a woman or that she is your girlfriend, but you do not know that you are looking for death. You are looking for death.
Could you please escort me to make some purchases there, this and that. You do not know that the person was detailed specifically for you simply to lure you out. When it happens, if you look around, you would not see the person that lured you out anymore. He would have vanished by then.
When he pretends that you are being pursued. He takes off, and you follow him, thinking that the two of you are being pursued, but that was what was planned. In the process, you will be captured.
When the person that was allured gets to a particular point, he will start shouting, “We were pursued by some people but this person and that other person have been captured.” All lies! He collected money for the job.
I spoke at length to her, “When you get home, tell your parents the much I could offer you. Go!”
I called Bro John’s child who is there so that they will help in getting her an accommodation. He told me that the father has already called him for that. God so kind, her father equally confirmed to Me that he had already called. Bro John also called.
So, be very careful. Whoever that is training his or her child should train the child very well, male and female alike. You will reap the outcome of your training.
You will reap the outcome of your training. When you train and have a good product, you enjoy the rich benefits, but when you fail in your training, you will suffer for it.
I know why I am saying it. By the time I was through with giving all these instructions, little did I know that Peter Abba came with his wife. Peter Abba never came to Me. It was his wife that reported to Me. His children have all strayed away
The daughter has run away and from there became pregnant. The last of his boys has taken off with his baggage. None of them knows his where about. Remember that his first son had run away a long time ago. Is that the way to train children.
We are talking about these things happening in Onitsha among the people who are expecting to go to Paradise, dancing more than every other person and always present at every occasion.
We have Brethren whenever we have gatherings, but Brethren in the Word of God and Brethren in Christ– Brethren, let Me say that I am yet to register one or two I can trust. Do not ask Me how or why.
Yesterday night, I spent time to go through a write-up from Pastor Chizoba. He was compelled by circumstance, compelled by what he heard and by the Source of that information to write. And when I went through, I saw too many things and then closed it again. We must read it together.
Why must it come now? What delayed it up till now? That is what we have to think about. Where am I today? Before I anticipate tomorrow, where am I today?
Am I in Christ or am I in the devil since I cannot be on my own? I am either in Christ or in the devil. You are either siding Christ or you are serving the devil. You cannot be in the two at the same time.
And these two have nothing in common. They promote going to church. Any evil that promotes going to church can hardly be checked. Godliness promotes going to church. Ungodliness promotes going to church. Who then will save us?
You see why Christ is not a church man. Check all the activities in the church. They have become so attractive that there is no discrimination again. Traditional rulers now feature. Every kind of person features. All of them are church activities. All of them are church activities.

You may meet Him on the way without knowing Him. You may eat and drink with Him, transact business with Him, yet you do not know Him. They will point you to His residence, “This is where the Man is living” and you will say it is a lie. The highest you can call Him is a bad man or a good man. Finish! You will not know Him beyond that: either a bad man or a good man. You will be told that He is more than good; He is more than bad. Look at what He is: GOOD AND BAD ARE IN HIM. LIFE AND DEATH ARE IN HIM ALSO. FAILURE AND SUCCEESS ARE IN HIM TOO. WHAT IS MORE? NIGHT AND DAY ARE IN HIM. HE IS THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE.THE SON OF MANI AM THE LADDER TO HEAVEN; Preached on Sunday 9^th June 2013 at the Household of God Onitsha; Pg. 57 vs. 8 – 9

Without God, I can do nothing

Have faith in God, not rEasoning. Chapter 3, Page 37 from verse 1. ¹BRETHREN, AT A TIME LIKE THIS WHAT WE NEED IS A STRONG ANCHOR. … A strong what? …ANCHOR. IF YOU ARE NOT ANCHORED IN CHRIST, IF YOU ARE HYPOCRITICAL, IF YOUR SENSE IS DECEIVING YOU, INSTEAD OF DEVELOPING YOUR FAITH, YOU ARE DEVELOPING YOUR SENSE,DEFINITELY YOU WILL RUN INTO TROUBLES ANY TIME FROM NOW.
²God is telling people to develop their faith. Instead of developing their faith, they are developing their senses. …
That is pure truth! That is pure truth! Instead of developing their faith, they are developing their senses which they will use to beat down faith.
Anybody who is developing his sense is always on the opposing side of truth because anything that does not agree with his own personal reasoning, his way of thinking, his philosophy, he will fight against it. Is it a lie Brethren?
The basis of controversy in our Faith is reasoning contrary to Faith. FaitH and reasoning are two enemies. Faith and reasoning, do they work together? One is opposed to the other.
What reasoning will bring out is the impossibility. Reasoning will always show you the impossibility. Faith will show you possibility, while reasoning will show you impossibility.
⁶That is why I normally ask the question when people come to me and begin to make statement. I will ask: “Are you serving God by sense or by Faith?”
¹²… If Abraham had reasoned, do you think he would have offered Isaac,… Never!
¹³What is hindering people from obtaining the promises of God, the same thing also will hinder them from entering paradise,… Amen!!!
²⁰This is how a true Seed of God follows God, having proved God to be real– having proved God to be the One having dealings with us. God having displayed all His supernatural attributes which can be verified in all forms, what else do we need?
²¹I am saying from henceforth, “Who will survive? Only those that anchored their faith in the Spoken Word. Only those that will anchor their faith in the Spoken Word of God. … Which is the Original Word …These are the people that will survive the holocaust. But as many as walk by sight, definitely, they must be swept off guard.
³⁴Today, many are walking by sight when you see the pressure around us. The squeeze is around everybody now. God said, “Look away from it, but consider what God said concerning the hour. Off your eyes from that your condition. Off your eyes from what you are passing through.
Fix your minds– fix your eyes on what God said concerning that thing for there is no condition you will find yourself today, which God never made a statement concerning it ahead of time. Is it a lie Brethren?
³⁵Even these troubles we are now witnessing, did God not say something concerning them ahead of time? What did He say should be our attitude when these things will begin to happen around us? Concerning the hard times, did God not say it ahead of time, even far back 1993 when many of you have not even enlisted in the Faith that government must surely increase our hardship in diverse ways?
Brethren, has it fulfilled? When we see all these things, our duty is to watch out. Look up, for your salvation draweth near.
A situation where you will have money, but you go about hungry. Very soon, you will enter the market, but you will not buy anything. You will enter the market with money, but you will still come back with the money because what you want to buy is not in the market.
You think it will not happen. You go to market with money, and still come back with the same money. It is not because of the high cost of commodity you intended to buy, but because the commodity is not in the market.
³⁶He told us what we should be expecting and that whatever goes up can never come down again, that it will be increasing and increasing until every Tom, Dick and Harry be groaning in pains. Brethren, has it fulfilled? 1993.
Chapter 4, Page 62 from verse 1. ¹Please, if you notice that your pastor is worshiping God by reasoning and not by faith, talk to him. …Is it only the Pastor? Your Brother, your Sister, your son, your daughter, your wife.
This is the problem of Enugu. They were telling Me yesterday that they had addressed the issues. I said, “Okay o, I wish you the best.” But until I receive a report from their Pastor. Let Me see whether a collective agreement can yield fruits in the sight of God.
Did you not hear the voice of the one who called Me and was thanking Me that I have brought him back to life again with many others and not him alone.
The Pastor said that all of them fell away from the Faith without any exemption, but they are parading themselves and making contributions to something they have nothing to benefit if not in death.
Any day this Faith of Christ revealed by THE SON OF MAN becomes a social club, you are all doomed. Social club in the sense that only people that are seeking social security will identify with you.
This is because you will give them social protection and not spiritual protection. What Christ promised us is spiritual protection. Then, physical protection is secondary and not the main aim why we come to God. Thank you!
¹… The Prophet said that Deacons are policemen in the Church. They arrest Pastors. They arrest the Apostles. They arrest everybody. They put them back to the Word. They arrest families and put them back to the Word.
But we do not have Deacons again. In Onitsha, do you have Deacons who can do that? Do you have any? We have Deacons by nomenclature as a scheme of naming. We have Deacons as titles and not Deacons of the Word.
So it is in all the Local Assemblies. Look at Enugu. All the Deacons there are dead – spiritually dead. Deacons that cannot even control their families.
Let us go to the Book of 1^st Timothy. Look at 1^st Timothy chapter 3. Use King James version first where Deacons were specifically made. Other translation call them helpers. Who are they helping? Helper help yourselves.
1 Timothy 3:1-13, KJV.¹This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a Bishop, he desireth a good work. ²A Bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
³not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, ⁴not covetous; one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; ⁵(for if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)
⁶not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. ⁷Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
⁸Likewise must the Deaconsbe grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre; ⁹holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.
¹⁰And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a Deacon, being found blameless. ¹¹Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.
¹²Let the Deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. ¹³For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
1 Timothy 3:1-13, TLB.^[1]It is a true saying that if a man wants to be a Minister he has a good ambition.^[2]For a Minister must be a good man whose life cannot be spoken against. … Have you heard it? We are simplifying it.
… He must have only one wife, and he must be hard working and thoughtful, orderly, and full of good deeds. He must enjoy having guests in his home and must be a good Bible teacher. ^[3]He must not be a drinker or quarrelsome, but he must be gentle and kind and not be one who loves money.^[4]He must have a well-behaved family, with children who obey quickly and quietly.
But what if their mother does not obey quickly and quietly? Where will the children learn to obey quickly and quietly? This is because according to an Igbo adage, “As the Nanny-goat chews the cud, the kid goats learn.”
^[5]For if a man can’t make his own little family behave,… If he cannot make his own little family behave well, …how can he help the whole church?^[6]The pastor must not be a new Christian because he might be proud of being chosen so soon, and pride comes before a fall. Sure!!! (Satan’s downfall is an example.)
^[7]Also, he must be well spoken of by people outside the church—… People who are not in the Faith, but who are round and about him must give good testimonies concerning him.
…those who aren’t Christians—so that Satan can’t trap him with many accusations[Sure!!!]and leave him without freedom to lead his flock.
^[8]The Deacons must be the same sort of good, steady men as the Minister. They must not be heavy drinkers and must not be greedy for money.^[9]They must be earnest, wholehearted followers of Christ,… A believer!…who is the hidden Source of their faith.
^[10]Before they are asked to be Deacons, they should be given other jobs in the church as a test of their character and ability, and if they do well, then they may be chosen as Deacons.
^[11]Their wives must be thoughtful, not heavy drinkers, not gossipers,… They will drink, but they must not be heavy drinkers.…but faithful in everything they do.^[12]Deacons should have only one wife, and they should have happy, obedient families.
^[13]Those who do well as deacons will be well rewarded [Amen!] both by respect from others and also by developing their own confidence and bold trust in the Lord.
1 Timothy 3:1-13, AMP.¹THE SAYING is true and irrefutable:… Irrefutable! Incontestable!… If any man [eagerly] seeks the office of bishop (superintendent, overseer), he desires an excellent task (work).
²Now a bishop (superintendent, overseer) must give no grounds for accusation but must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, circumspect and temperate and self-controlled; [he must be] sensible and well behaved and dignified and lead an orderly (disciplined) life; [he must be] hospitable [showing love for and being a friend to the believers, especially strangers or foreigners, and be] a capable and qualified teacher,
³Not given to wine, not combative but gentle and considerate, not quarrelsome but forbearing and peaceable, and not a lover of money [insatiable for wealth and ready to obtain it by questionable means].
⁴He must rule his own household well, keeping his children under control, with true dignity, commanding their respect in every way and keeping them respectful.⁵For if a man does not know how to rule his own household, how is he to take care of the church of God?
⁶He must not be a new convert, or he may [develop a beclouded and stupid state of mind] as the result of pride [be blinded by conceit, and] fall into the condemnation that the devil [once] did.
⁷Furthermore, he must have a good reputation and be well thought of by those outside [the church], lest he become involved in slander and incur reproach and fall into the devil’s trap.
⁸In like manner the deacons [must be] worthy of respect, not shifty and double-talkers but sincere in what they say, not given to much wine, not greedy for base gain [craving wealth and resorting to ignoble and dishonest methods of getting it].
⁹They must possess the mystic secret of the faith [Christian truth as hidden from ungodly men] with a clear conscience. ¹⁰And let them also be tried and investigated and proved first; then, if they turn out to be above reproach, let them serve [as Deacons].
¹¹[The] women likewise must be worthy of respect and serious, not gossipers, but temperate and self-controlled, [thoroughly] trustworthy in all things. ¹²Let deacons be the husbands of but one wife, and let them manage [their] children and their own households well.
¹³For those who perform well as Deacons acquire a good standing for themselves and also gain much confidence and freedom and boldness in the faith which is [founded on and centers] in Christ Jesus.
This is the main qualification for paradise. Any one that is falling short of this should count himself out completely whether man or woman.
If you are a woman, you are a wife of a Minister. Once you are a Sister, the qualifications for the wife of a Minister are the qualification for every Sister.
Qualifications for Ministers are the qualifications for all Brothers, whether you like it or not.God does not have double standards.
Those who are ministers already and who are featuring, you may have been featuring in the pulpit, but you cannot be featuring on the bench and in the pulpit at the same time.
Every person in the Church of Christ is a Minister in one way or the other. There are diversities of gifts. There are diversities of administration.
While the men give themselves over to the preaching of the Word, will they be there doing the domestic work?
There were too many Minister that followed saint Paul and other missionaries. Whoever that is preparing food is also a Minister. Whoever that is sharing is a Minister. Whoever that goes to market for purchases is a Minister. There are diversities of gifts. Everyone in his own order and in her own order.
WHEN YOU SWAP YOUR OFFICE, YOU MAKE A MESS OF YOURSELF AND YOUR CALLING. OUR PROBLEM IS THAT WE HAVE NEVER FOR ONE DAY SAT DOWN TO THINK OUT OR REASON OUT OR BELIEVE GOD TO THE EXTENT OF KNOWING EXACTLY GOD’S DEMANDS FROM US AS HIS SONS AND DAUGHTERS.
Who should be given first priority in our lives and in our life activities? What should we be doing and what should we be found doing at all times.
You can do everything too much, but you cannot serve God too much. And there is no time devoted to Christ that is a wasted time. Do you know that Christ takes 100% of our time?
The service of God takes 100%, for without God, you can do nothing. He that is sustaining your life twenty-four hours, is He not with you twenty-four hours?
Who is giving you the enabling power, the strength, the courage, the patience, [I mean] for undertaking any task? Who gives you that intelligence, that brain, that sound health? Who gives you that?
Even the food you are eating today, who gives you that food?
In short, we have never for one day thought about our relationship with God – the merits and the demerits. Aside God, no human being achieves anything meaningful.

Christ has appeared to take us to the Promised Land. Where did He appear? In the midst of the Bride. Who and who are His witnesses? You and I. I mean, who and who are both eye and ear witnesses? You and I. I have fought a good fight. I have finished My course. I have kept the Faith. I am not saying like Paul because, if THE SON OF MAN never appeared, there is no way Saul or Paul will resurrect. There is no way he can be clothed with this white garment, for this white garment is the Ministry of THE SON OF MAN. I have brought all of you to equal status with Paul, but you are better off. Paul is waiting for His own in the grave, but you are numbered among the people that will not see death.THE SON OF MANIT IS FINISHED; Preached on Sunday 16^th September 2012 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 188 vs. 64 – 6610MINISTERS MUST BE MINISTERS OF THE WORD (1)

Have faith in God, not rEasoning. Chapter 4, Page 62 from verse 1.¹… The Prophet said that Deacons are policemen in the Church. They arrest Pastors. They arrest the Apostles. They arrest everybody. They put them back to the Word. They arrest families and put them back to the Word.
But here, the Deacons do not know anything called the Word, even when they are always found wanting. They are always lying down on their beds or found in drinking bars or parlours, eating fiestas. You only know them in merriments.
We are no longer talking about merriments among ourselves. We do not have time for merriments among ourselves, but they have now evolved merriment centres with the heathens.
Is it surprising that some of them are members of some clubs where they call recreation clubs. If you ask them what they are doing, they will say “No! No! No! It is not recreation centre. It is a Gym.” What is Gym? Gymnastics. You go to a Gym. You want to tell Me what a Gym is all about? What do you do there?
If you want to do anything physical exercise using all those machines, why not bring them into your house? A workout is enough for you in your own compound.
They tell lies in hypocrisy. They only patronize those centres to make friends with the world and then to exchange their complimentary cards with their prospective business associates. I am telling you the truth. I lie not. I catch many of them in these urban centres, notably Enugu.
Nobody is serving God at Enugu except that little minority God severed. And they are being ridiculed and laughed at. They are despised because they are not compromising one bit. And I love the way they are taking their stand so that My effort in Enugu will not be a wasted one.
Do not mind all those synthetic flowers there. They are raging winds without water. Do not worry. I am waiting for them. I am using Enugu as illustration of an evil omen to come. It does not mean that Enugu is the worst.
I have mentioned some centres. And in all those centres, they have celebrated office holders like Owerri. We have celebrated office holders there. Yet, there is no believer there.
So it is in almost all the places, but when we want to have gathering for ceremony, we will have members. We have physical members, but concerning spiritual members, we are in the minority. We are handpicked.
But our physical members are everywhere. There is no particular hall that can accommodate them. If you want to know them, organize a feast tomorrow and then put it across so that they will know about it.
Even those that do not have money will have money for it to showcase themselves as members of that useless Bridal club. I call it Bridal Social Club.
But I have few members in the Bridal Spiritual Club. Birds of the feather club together. Thank you!
²He said, “When you see them walking astray, catch them. Arrest them and put them back to the Word.
But what if the Deacon does not know anything? What if the Deacon is walking by sight or walking by reasoning, and he does not know his left from his right,… And he has not even arrested himself. His family is in chaos. In chaos in the sense that Christ does not have rule over that family.
… do you not know that it is just like the blind leading the blind? All of them are bound to perish.
³God said that every office is the Word office. …
If you are a husband, you are a husband of the Word. A wife is a wife of the Word. Children are children of the Word. Which Word? The Word of God.If you are a Teacher, you are a Teacher of the Word.
Whatever might be your occupation or your vocation, if Christ is not there, the devil is there. If you cannot use your vocation to serve the interest of Christ, you will use it to serve the interest of the devil. Is it a lie Brethren?
Anybody who does not serve God with his or her vocation must use it to serve the devil. If you are a student, if Christ is not in your academic pursuits, the devil is there.
Whatever vocation you like practice. If it is not practiced in the fear of God, it is all in the service of the devil. Any vocation or work where there is no honour and respect for God, is it a good vocation? Whoever that bought a machete for a thief, has empowered and sent him to steal.
⁵You must have the word for the hour, the word that worked for us many years ago cannot work for us today, for God speaks to us daily according to the circumstances surrounding us and in us.
⁶What worked for us in the year 2000, cannot work for us today,… Is it a lie Brethren?…for the condition in which we found ourselves in year 2000 was better than the condition we are now. True or false? That is why, if you want to survive, fix your eyes and your ears on Him. Do what? …fix your eyes and your ears on Him.
From the year 2000 and in 2019, we were worshipping at GTC. It was a collective worship, but today, it is individual worship.
⁷Your fellowship is incomplete until you have heard what he has said for that day. What? ⁷Your fellowship is incomplete until you have heard what he has said for that day.
Then what happens to people that do not listen to the Messages who are completely cut off? It is not that God cut them off, but they cut themselves off. What is their fate?
… Whatever you are feeding in your fellowship is stale manna, not fresh manna. …. Sure!!!
… There is no day we go to fellowship even at home without God saying something. … Is there truth in it Brethren?
… This was what helped Bishop Ebenezer to obtain express ticket to Paradise even when he was sick,… To obtain what? …express ticket to Paradiseeven when he was sick,…Sure!!!
Just like Elder James Nnaemeka whom God is using to surprise his entire family. This is true because he has a religious family that is being run by his wife. Yes now! So, it is religion versus Faith. I hope you have seen the fruit thereof?
I praise God on behalf of Elder James Nnaemeka who, because of his Faith and his obedience to the truth, the much God has enabled him, caused his children to obey and to follow him. Only a few followed their mother.
… This was what helped Bishop Ebenezer to obtain express ticked to Paradise even when he was sick, when he never ceased from asking brethren one pertinent question, “How was the fellowship, what did God say concerning me?”
When he was even down, his major concern was to know what God said everyday. All of us saw how he died. On the day of the burial, you saw what took place.
⁹A real man of God doesn’t rest until he has heard from the mouth of God on a daily basis,… Amen!!! …because He is not guiding us on a weekly basis. It is on a daily basis.
Reverends, bishops, churchgoers, everybody, clergymen in Irete testified that they thought that Ebenezer was mad. They never knew he was in the true Faith. They clustered around us and they were coming with their jotters.
That was where I emptied My life when I saw the interest clergymen were showing in our Faith. I opened the Scriptures beyond their imaginations. Heaven came down, and the glory of God covered the casket when I rested My hand on it.
People were astonished. The police men wondered because what they thought would happen could not happen. God was in control everywhere. The traditional ruler came and testified that the man they thought was a mad man was a Prophet of God. who can believe this report? I mean, that one is enough to gladden My heart.
My late friend, Mr. C said he respected The son of man and His Faith because of Bob Ojijieme, a pioneer old boy of Oraukwu Boys’ High School with him. They thought he was mad.
He said that two things that caused him to respect this Faith of the son of man. [1] The Faith that has power to convert Bob Ojijieme. [2] The Faith that has power to convert Victor Ugwu. A useless person became a sensible person, married with children.
He said that he raised his hands and vowed to investigate what this Faith is all about. When he became sure, he went to his former master and friend and the two became one again because of this same Faith.
You see! When you are in Christ, people will call you mad man (A mad man! A mad woman!). But you dare not make a noise. Finish!
What is your own record? What is your own testimony? Is it milling around the son of man? We ate. We drank. We slept together. Is that a testimony? Is that a testimony? No eternal life there. I say, no eternal life there.
I want to switch over to another Message.
¹⁰You must keep your eyes open, keep your ears open to hear, and let there be the willingness to obey. Believe and obey. However, when you believe and refuse to obey, definitely, it will even be much more dangerous. It is better you never heard it all.
¹³Anything you do not remedy when you are alive, its all over, that’s why I am of the opinion that God keeps us alive everyday to enable us strengthen our records with him, balance our accounts with God.
¹⁴Yesterday is gone. The experiences of yesterday will help me more than any other thing. Hence, I am alive today to enable me address these truths for there is no day God will allow you to stay without assigning you a responsibility.
Any day God never assigned a responsibility to you, that day is a wasted day. A wasted day! Nothing can be credited to your account with God that day.
¹⁵Find out why you did not die last night. Find out why God has allowed you to continue. If you do not find out, you will give your wholesome life to pleasures of this life, to things that do not even matter. And the more you are surrendering yourself to the pleasures of this life, the more you are dying spiritually.
Drifting away from God.
¹⁶When you are spiritually alive you are alive, but when you are carnally alive you are spiritually dead. … Sure!!!
…This is the reason why as a Deacon, you must be conversant with the Word of the hour. You must! enrich yourselves with the Word of God. You must be bold to come out and display your faith because your faith is an eloquent testimony of your height in Christ – your maturity.
This is what we share as testimony, and this is what helps others more than anything.
¹⁷Tell them the mystery of your survival in this crucial time: “It is not what we are eating that is sustaining us, it is not what we are drinking.”… At all!
²³If you have not experienced this in your family, it is because God has not shown you this favour because you are always walking by sight, by reasoning. When you walk by faith you will be upset by those who will want to walk by sight – by reasoning.
²⁴If you are a man of God, having made that statement, stop there. In the end you will be victorious, your faith must surely see you through. …Amen!!!
… We get nothing from God if not by faith,…This was the matter at stake even yesterday in My house here.
… even the healing of our souls, our physical body, the strength, the wisdom, the knowledge, understanding of life, everything, even security we enjoy, we are enjoying everything by faith in God.
The survival of every true Seed of God is a mystery to the world.

When the whole world [all the nations upon the earth] shall gang up against the people of God, to exterminate Israel from the map of the world, God and His army will fight for Israel. Moreover, I told you that you will not be in this mortal flesh. You will be in the Theophany Body, appearing and disappearing. You will be flying, travelling as a thought. I, the Son of Man, the LORD will be your Leader. All of you in your chariots.THE SON OF MANIT IS FINISHED; Preached on Sunday 16^th September 2012 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 191 vs. 74

MINISTERS MUST BE MINISTERS

OF THE WORD (2)

Have faith in God, not rasoning, Page 74 from verse 25.²⁵The children that come to us periodically, they come by Faith. Going by reasoning, going by medical examination, Bro Austin, will you have a child till eternity? … Impossible!
… But you anchored in the Spoken Word. That which they said is impossible was made possible, and God used it to display faith – the power of the Spoken Word.
²⁶But it is not your victory. It is God’s victory to show you something. But do not be surprised that after that, you roll back with your old way of reasoning.
Has it not happened? And he has died and has also been buried in unbelief after receiving this favour. Austin of Ogbunike whose wife was declared barren. Before our eyes, how many children?
²⁷Do not be surprised because this is where people normally have problems. Whenever God comes your way and commends you on anything, get ready. The battle starts. The devil must surely come there to harm you on that record. The devil must surely strike. To shake that record. To test you.
God will permit him to go and test you to know whether it is ordinary surface testimony. You know we have surface testimonies. We have deep-rooted testimony. We have surface experience.
A floating experience is surface, but when God is dealing with us using the in-depth knowledge, in-depth experience that can never be explained away—
I know the wind is blowing. I am feeling the wind around Me, but ask Me the direction where it is coming from, I do not know. And I do not care to know. All I know I that I am swimming in that wind. The Source is God. Whether it blows from the east to the west or from the north to the south, I am settled in it. I fear no alarm.
²⁸That record is coming to shake you well, then if you know who you have anchored your faith in, no matter the shaking, you will be smiling for you know it is only for a little while. …
You will be doing what? …you will be smiling… Did He say you will be crying or running helter-skelter.
I love the testimony a Brother shared with Me over the phone saying, “Daddy, bless Me the more. From the day I discovered a part of the secret of your composure, why you do not have any panting of your heart, from that day, Daddy, I vowed to be like you.”
I turned to a Brother there near Me and said, “Can you hear what this Brother is saying?” He said that he heard it, and I said ok.
Our Deacon even said it that Daddy does not ever panic no matter the circumstance He finds Himself. And he went further to say that he never understood it before, for it is now that the thing is becoming clear to him why Daddy does not panic at all.
An Igbo adage said, “A child that is rebuking an elder, if he is not equipped with a potent talisman, he has either machete or gun with him.” Did you get the Message? Something is solidly standing behind and encouraging that young man.
A king cannot be rebuked without any strong support behind the person indicting the king because according to an Igbo adage, a traditional ruler is avoiding a lot of things. And indictment or publicly pointing out the errors of the traditional ruler before him is one of the things he is avoiding. Can you raise your hand in indictment towards a traditional ruler without any strong support? No! Will you be able to bring down your hand?
²⁸… That record is coming to shake you well. Then, if you know who you have anchored your faith in, no matter the shaking, you will be smiling, for you know it is only for a little while. That was why Jesus Christ was able to overcome. Sure!!!
²⁹Job knew it was just for a little while, “Even if it will terminate my life, I know I will have my life back because I have anchored my faith in Christ, who is the Resurrection and the Life,… I fear no alarm by day or by night.…thus I fear no alarm by day or by night. Is it there?
³⁰Why the devil succeeds in harming them is because when God commends them, instead of walking towards that commendation, they will relax. …The person will die thinking that he or she has reached the target. Then you become Leeeyi!
… Instead of striving earnestly to uphold that record from the onset till the end, they will think the commendation has become the end of the journey. ³¹Neither do they realize that they will not be saved until they hold on to the profession of the commendation firmly and steadfastly unto the end. That is why you hear God saying, “That was before”, simply because the record is no longer being upheld.
I said it of one Deacon at Enugu, “Even if he jumps into hell, I will go to hell and bring him out”, but recently he heard My Voice, “That was before. No longer now.”God is with you while you are with Him. Forsake Him, God will forsake you. Now, if he goes to hell, I will seal the bottomless pit with a strong key so that he will see the worst for ten thousand years there because I warned him over and over before I came to that conclusion.
God cannot disown you anyhow. Before God will disown you, He would have given you warnings upon warnings upon warnings. He would have even shown you signs. And every sign from God is a stop sign.
³²… That is why, at all times, first and foremost, wherever you find yourself, do not ever sleep until you are sure and certain that you are standing on your first love, your first zeal, that spirit. Make sure you are standing there. Amen!!!
³⁴As long as husband and wife still fix their eyes on their first love, the family will remain peaceful, the family will be progressing,…
Is it a lie Brethren? Nobody marries his or her enemy. Enmity came up along the way.
… for no man marries a woman he hates. Likewise, no woman also marries a man she hates. Oh! Is it there?
You saw the place where we got this Message this morning. I have not touched it. I never knew when it was preached. None of the verses had been marked before.
³⁵What they married in the beginning was real love. Whatever that brings division and things like that developed along the way. While the devil tested the love, instead of consolidating, they thought, “Once we are married, that love compelled us to marry. No more!” …
They do not know that there would be trials of marriage.There must be trial of every Union. and it varies from one family to another, for no two marriages are the sameexcept the one that is fused by Christ and Christ alone.
… They never knew that love could give way to hatred, if it is not protected. … What? … They never knew that love could give way to hatred, if it is not protected. Say it again! … They never knew that love could give way to hatred, if it is not protected. Thank you!
If it is not consolidated– [Sure!!!] If it is not held firmly and steadfastly till the end [Cemented! Cemented!], disaster is still on the way. Sure!!!
³⁶That is why, at this very point in time, as a result of hardship and troubles here and there, too many things – things that can cause offences – are around us. Things that can cause many to blaspheme God–Things that can cause many to backside in the spirit are around us.
Brethren, this prophecy is as at 2015. And it has escalated to where we are now. Am I making sense?
LET ME TELL YOU. WE ARE SERVING THE ALL-KNOWING GOD. HE IS ALL-SEEING AND ALL-KNOWING.
Chapter 5 – Anchor Your Faith on the Solid Rock. Sure!!! Page 81 from verse 1.¹If there is anytime your anchor should hold firmly on the Solid Rock, it is now. It is when the going becomes very tough that very tough people manifest. Soft people will give way, strong people will keep on moving,…
This is a Family Altar Message from the Family of the son of man, and not Onitsha Fellowship. And that is where you are still till today. Begin to see the standard He raised for His children. By 2016, see the standard He raised for His Family.
Knowing that these young boys must become Ministers of the Word, He started grooming them ahead of time.
³This is the time we want to see a resurgence in our heart of the spirit of Joshua and Caleb,[Amen!!!] who had another spirit anchored in the Word of God that if they could step their feet on that land and proclaim the land their own, they will get it.
Determination to enter anyhow and succeed anyhow. To draw back means drawing back unto perdition.
⁴They said, “We are able. We will eat them like bread, though they are giants, for God is able to see us through. And the Lord marked their faith for their righteousness [Sure!!!] and granted them the city. The victory! He marked their faith for their righteousness.
⁵But those that were walking by sight conspired to give evil report so as to create fear in the hearts of all. ⁶When you are walking by sight you are likely to create fear not only in your own heart but in the hearts of all. You’ll be afraid of tomorrow.
They are lazy people. Cowards! A lazy fellow is a coward and can never undertake any serious task because he or she is a lazy fellow. He or she loves to get a reward for a work not done.
⁷As long as God lives, we shall face tomorrow,… Amen!!! …not by our own strength but by His strength we shall have not our victory but His own victory, [Amen!!!] for the mouth of the Lord has spoken that we shall have victory even in these troublous times; [Sure!!!] if only we can trust and obey, walk by faith and not by sight.
¹²Your Local Assemblies are walking by sight and not by Faith. They are walking by reasoning especially Pastor Paul. …
Paul Oguzie in Jos and Elechi. All of them from Ngwa. Am I making sense? Mbaise, Mbaise, Mbaise, Ngwa, Ngwa, Ngwa! God wanted to see these two. One, Pastor. The other one Deacon. Almost all of them in Lagos as at that time were walking by reasoning.
In Lagos, almost all of them are walking by reasoning, starting from Bro Austin who is the Deacon.
¹³If you have no faith, you have nothing to observe. You are like a tree without a taproot. Sure!!! A small wind can blow you out.
¹⁴Faith is the taproot that upholds every seed of God spiritually and even physically. … Is Faith not the foundation of our belief?
¹⁴… in any Local Assembly where there is problem, watch! The Ministers and the members are walking by sight. They are walking by reasoning. That is pure truth.
¹⁷They are looking for mistakes the preacher is making, they are not believing, they are judging and they will never go home until they have spoken that which is already in their hearts. That is Enugu!
¹⁸They are all ministers. Enugu! They are all elders. Who then are the believers? If all of you will become ministers and preachers, who are you going to teach then?
¹⁹Reasoning produces unteachable spirit. Sure!!! You cannot control, and you cannot lead somebody who walks by sight and reasoning. These two things make leadership very difficult. Is Elijoe’s son hearing this one?
²⁰They are obstacles to leadership, but faith makes the journey very easy. Faith anchors in the leader, that he knows what he is doing. [Sure!!!] That leader cannot lead them astray.
²¹But reasoning will fault the leader, fault every move, fault every step, because it will be good only if he is the one, but where he is not the one, every other person is wasting his time… True or false? …and this is the spirit of Apostle Monday in Lagos. Sure!!!
²²Because you are empty as a Deacon, you do not know what makes you a Deacon. You do not know what makes you a policeman. You think that what makes you a Deacon is for you to check late comers, check dressing or handling stick to flog, organizing the children so that they won’t make noise. You are nothing but a Roman Catholic Church warden. Pure! A Roman Catholic church warden. Yes!
²³If you see a Roman Catholic Church warden, he doesn’t pay attention to what the reverend father is saying,… He will be moving about with his band hanging across his shoulders. Church leaders indeed!
²⁴… If we can be right from our homes, truly speaking our fellowship will be peaceful. The worst that will happen is for a faithless pastor to produce faithless members.
²⁵What is more? Where there is no faith there is no God. Where there is no faith there is no salvation, and there is no protection, for God will offer you all you need according to your faith, your faith in Him supplies you everything. Sure!!!
²⁸Where the human sense stops is where faith starts. Until the human sense is subdued, faith cannot anchor. Sure!!!
Before we pray, we have another addendum. Yes! Sunday School is over. Faith is still continuing.

Sermon(Book review)EVERY SIGN FROM GOD IS A STOP SIGNBY THE SON OF MANThe Son of Man has announced it today before all the Elects of God worldwide that My Mission is finished. Yes! It has produced what the Father said it will produce. Causing the Father to appear in human form, standing upon the earth among His people in these last days. Have you heard such a thing before?THE SON OF MANIT IS FINISHED; Preached on Sunday 16^th September 2012 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 186 vs. 5812Lack of knowledge kills(1)

EVERY SIGN FROM GOD IS A STOP SIGN, preached on Sunday 25th June 2017 at the Household of God Onitsha by Apostle Peter Odoemena, THE SON OF MAN, The Supreme Intelligence.
¹… Let me believe that I will see your heart and not your faces, [Amen!!!] for your faces can be deceitful. As deceitful as you are sitting down in the Fellowship. ²If all of you have believed in the Son of Man, why am I still preaching? 2017. Why am I still here? Why are you still here?
³… How can you pay the fare, collect your ticket, sit down in a vehicle and still carry your load on your head sweating? Are you not stupid? You are the burden bearer. … That is an Mbaise man! That is an Ngwa man!
He does not want people to steal his property. For that reason, he will pay for his luggage, pay for his seat and still carry the luggage on his head. The whole galloping will be shock on his head.
⁴I was showing Apostle Kelechi something. The same Bible you are holding said, “Thou shall not swear in the Name of God and by anything in heaven and on earth and everything. Let your yea be yea; and your nay be nay”.
Did we hear something like that today? And this book had not been opened. This one had not been opened. Nobody has ever marked anything there.
⁶I will tell you why many are fumbling and why many are getting lost yet they do not know. The Bible wrote it clear and wide that the only way for not breaking the Law is by not having any Law at all. And Laws are no longer for us who strive hard to be saved, transferred us from the Laws of Moses into the Laws of THE SON OF MAN Who is the Justifier of the living and the dead,… Who is what? …the Justifier of the living and the dead. The continuation of the Son of God, and the consummation of everything.
…Who even the dead are looking up to,… What? Who even the dead are looking up to… He is connected to all – in their resurrection, in their judgment, in their eternal life and in entering into Paradise. One individual.
…for without Him, they have no hope of even the first Resurrection talk more of paradise. Why? The Elohim is here, but how many believe that? Amen!!!
Last Sunday, we heard something like this in the Message FAITH. Even the one we read in our homes, the original copy explained it more. Hear it there.
⁷All of you are heathens! I will show you why you are heathens. Yes! I will show you what makes you heathens. You are behaving like your forefathers. You love the things of God, but you hate God! …
Please put it down and think about it. You are behaving like your forefathers who loved the things of God but hated God with perfect hatred. That you are behaving like them, is it a good commendation?
If I must resemble My forefathers, let Me resemble them where they performed well. May I never resemble them in their error. Like father, like son in evil, is it a good thing?
…You can appreciate My gift, but you hate Me!⁸The Cloud will remain here until I say it is all over for today. … Amen and Amen!!! …I may even go further beyond the Cloud depending on what I want to achieve today. … And we heard it. 2017. The Headstone! Was 2017 not the Headstone? I went beyond the Cloud. I went beyond the Cloud and entered into another day. Another day!
⁹A good centurion is not interested in the number of casualties but in the victory. Put it down!
A good Commander– A good commander-in-chief does not care about how many he loses in the battle, but he is conscious of the victory he will have in that battle.
Even if he achieves that victory with only two survivors, he is very happy that he never lost in the battle.
¹²Every Man of God is a risk taker. Every true child of God is a risk taker.¹³It is better for a warrior to blow off his head than for his enemy to capture him alive. That is a mark of a centurion. [Sure!]A good soldier. A trained one. How can the devil capture me? It is impossible! Sure!!! Does a human being die twice. I will employ all things within my disposal to achieve victory.
¹⁵I am not having problems with the heathens. They are not in my program for now. I am having problems with the so-called followers of God. I will like even darkness to come down in the Fellowship, so do not look at what is happening. ¹⁶The more I talk, the more it is descending upon you. …
That was what happened that day. Everywhere became tensed up. The Cloud was so thick that even to read the Bible was very difficult in the day.
… It is not coming from anywhere. It is here. I want us to sing for joy, for His presence is ever here. Sure!!!
¹⁷You do not know what happened. Solomon of all Solomons, though he was married to seven hundred wives and three hundred women-friends or concubines or whatever you may call it, according to the translation you are using, he went into idolatry by following his numerous wives to worship their gods.
¹⁸But each time he stepped into the Tabernacle –into the Temple of the Lord – what happens? The Glory came down. Thick smoke filled the Temple. Why? Solomon kept Him there. In him dwelleth the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
True or false? Nothing could change it. Nothing could change it. Even if he gave away his first son as a gift to his woman friend, Solomon remained Solomon until he died.
Solomon deliberately even walked contrary and remained there undaunted for he is the judge over himself. … Sure!!! Was this not what we were discussing upstairs? He deliberately walked contrary.
… If he wanted to go on exile he will go, but as long as he did not want to go, he remained there. Once he is there, God is there. Alleluia!
God is truly great. The definite experience I had this morning is contained in this Message, out of the Messages we brought out.
You see! God determined the one we will read. He knows what we need at all times and what is best for us at all times.
²¹I will show you something that makes you a heathen. I do not know how many people that are worshipping God here, but I can see thousands following God. YOU CAN FOLLOW GOD WITHOUT WORSHIPPING GOD. [Sure!!!] Is it not true?
²²All that followed the Prophet, were they believers of the Prophet? Some were even mockers. Among some of them were His notable enemies who were even praying that He should fail that they may mock Him and laugh at Him. Yet, He carried all of them along.
²³You have your Apostles, Teachers, Pastors and so on, but they have not for one day sat down to teach you the best way you can follow a Man sent by God, bearing the Name of God in your own day so that you will not destroy yourself prematurely, ignorantly, foolishly.
FearGod and the son of Elijoe, listen to this Message. And after, take the Message and read it privately because what is about to kill you are contained thereof.
I told you that I will not destroy you. You will destroy yourself with your own hands.
²⁴Ignorance can lead to self-destruction. Lack of knowledge kills. This is a quote. This is a quote. My people perish because of lack of knowledge.
²⁷Do you like the atmosphere in the camp? Is it making you good? It is for you. … We are under the Cloud. No shaking! A sinful soul that comes to Him, He will never cast me out.
²⁹I was telling some brethren in My house, the magnanimous nature of the God we serve, the Creator. Amen!
Page 26 from verse 5. ⁵When I got the report from the website, I rejoiced exceedingly. But unfortunately, Nigeria came second; American five thousand and something… That was that time. Now. The flood gate has opened.
Be silent and you will notice that the LORD, He is the God. Be silent and see that the LORD, He is the God.
Enquire and know Who you are dealing with was a Message preached in this Faith by Watson Fihala in 1996.
¹²If you can trace God’s way of doing things from the beginning, you will arrive where you are now. …
Have we not traced it to its finality? We have traced it until we arrived at 1951 in the Research work of Professor Sigmund Mowinckel, “HE THAT COMETH”.
And we have seen from the very beginning to where we arrived that there is no contradiction, no confusion, no distortion, no ambiguity. Everything is made plain.
So, if He is still hiding, He is hiding from the face of the wicked. The unrighteous eyes will see the man, while the righteous eyes will see their Messiah.
Unrighteous eyes will see a man, their townsman, their friend, their brother or their minister, but righteous eyes will see will behold Yahweh – will behold ADONAI, Elohim, El-Shaddai. That is what they will see.
Even if He is passing on the street, saluting people, they know Him that He has blinded them that they will not know Who this Man is. True or false?
You know, oftentimes, when I enter the market – that shopping mall, I pity people there. But they have started asking Me some curious questions.
That is why I refrain Myself from following the path I used to go. I refrained from even visiting them unless I have something serious.
This is because I made it clear that any street in the market anywhere where I have introduced Myself or where they have discovered who I am, I must avoid that place.
I avoided one place where I went with Deacon Mike Emmanuel. Where we normally buy meat from that woman. Amarachi, you know the woman.
When I went there the last time with you, you heard the questions. They were asking whether I travelled, this and that. I said that I am around. She said, “You do not come to our line again.” I said, “Yes. It is obvious. You have known Me. So, I will avoid your lines.”
The moment you know Me, if you have discovered who I am, do not expect Me to come where you are. I will vanish from that side and go over to another side where I am not known. You can only see Me that side sparingly. Sparingly!
So, that particular area where I use to buy meat from Ekene and that woman, they have known Me in that area. By the time they will see My face, they will be looking at each other. They will be communicating. Some will be tapping the shoulders of their fellow women and men, and I will be monitoring what is happening.
Only one woman had the boldness and said, “Sir! Others may not know you.” And I thank God that I was not alone that day and even the second time.
Amarachi, you were with Me. Okay! You were with Me the second time. The first time was Bro FearGod and Myself, but the second time, you were there.
You saw what happened. For that reason, I avoided that area.
I never preached a sermon. I never told them I am this or that. We only purchased tomatoes and a few things we were using to cook. But before we purchased it, they had already started talking about Me,left and right.
I laughed. I even asked one, “Do I look like a man of God? Do I look like a Pastor? A hungry man like Me. Am I wearing suit? Am I wearing any wonderful footwear? I am putting on sandals.”
One boldly came out and said, “I am a spiritual woman. I run My own prayer house. I know You. They do not know You. You are not even what they are thinking you are. They may call You man of God, but You ae not a man of God.”
I said, “What am I?” She replied, “You are higher than man of God.” It was then I told Amarachi, “I will not come here again.” The woman continued talking and I left.
From that day Kelechi Uwakwe’s landlady opened up everything, I avoided Obanye Street completely, lest she will call Me from the shop and raise alarm even with other curtain sellers.
Let us continue with what we are discussing. You know we are discussing.

Brethren, believe this Spoken Word. It is the Original Seed. If you go back to the Great Sermon, it said, “The Spoken Word can come to you in diverse forms. But the secret is this: Whether He uses telephone or whether He speaks face-to-face– no matter where you have met Him, He is nothing but what He is.” Do not begin to separate the carnal side from the spiritual side. God has only but One Side, One Nature and, He is One Entity. Do not say, “I thought He was playing.” No! you are making a mistake.

THE SON OF MAN

HAVE FAITH IN THE SPOKEN WORD; Preached on 14^th July 2013 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 104 vs. 33

Lack of knowledge kills

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EVERY SIGN FROM GOD IS A STOP SIGN, Page 28 from verse 14. ¹⁴I will show you where God has found fault with ninety-nine-point five percent (99.5%) of the members of this Faith. …Not Onitsha only!
… From the very beginning, I know that God’s people have been few and I know He will justify those He wants to justify freely, not everybody.
Some will work out their own salvation; some will have their own vested on them without working, without labouring. They will just hear, “Enter! Go!”
Did we see something like that in HE THAT COMETH? I mean, the thirteen inscrutable ways of God which our Brother quoted and chained Me.
Some will get their own because they merit it. Did you get the Message? So it will be given to those who do not have the right at all. Even if it is muted, nobody will give it to you. They never worked for it. Some will have it trusted on them free.
¹⁴… From the very beginning, I know that God’s people have been few, and I know He will justify those He wants to justify freely, not everybody.
¹⁵Some will work out their own salvation; some will have their own vested on them without working,…
Is it not thrusting on them? It is like greatness. Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some have greatness thrusted on them.
THIRTEEN INSCRUTABLE WAYS OF GOD. Try to lay hand on something. Lay hold on something that will be your anchor. After everything, you remain immovable.
¹⁵Some will work out their own salvation; some will have their own vested on them without working, without labouring. They will just hear, “Enter! Go!”
¹⁶Anybody could have worked for salvation not Zachaeus. Zachaeus heard, “Today, salvation has come to your house.”
¹⁷When he wanted to work, God said, “I do not need that. I do not need that.” He wanted to make a plea; God said, “I am not interested in your plea. I said today,” Finish!
He wanted to make restitution, “Whatever I have collected falsely, I will refund fourfold”, but God told him, “Keep it to yourself. I am not interested.” Today, salvation has come into your house.
Has this teaching been confirmed? Go back. He said, “if you can trace this your faith from the origin–follow the Patriarchs. You must arrive at where you are now.” So, your faith is comparing favourably with the faith of your fathers.
What else do you need? Is there any religious group that knows what we know? Can they fit in here? If you go out, you do not know where to start to preach. You do not know whether to tell them, “For God so loved the world…” You do not know whether you will tell them, “Repent or you perish.” You would not know where to start. After looking at these people, you just go your way. Even if you find yourself where it is preached, you will be seeing the people involved as very mad people. I am telling you he truth.
One day someone will come to you with tracts, saying, “God bless you sir. We have come to share the word of God with you. We have a crusade coming up.”
¹⁸For you to be a good driver, you must observe the road signs. Neglect the road signs and run into difficulty. That is pure truth. If you are negotiating a bend, you will see a sign afar telling you to slow down. If you are approaching a hill, you will see a sign telling you to check your brake. ¹⁹If you are approaching a market place, you will see a sign telling you “soft pedal” for a market place is a busy place.
Even a bridge, whether it is a wide bridge or a narrow bridge, there are signs ahead of all of them. You can even see a pedestrian crossing telling you that there is a school or a busy place people can run across. You see a sign saying, “Slow down!”
²²I AM A SIGN TO THIS GENERATION AND I AM THE LAST SIGN. …
Nothing can be truer than the truth. After Me cometh no other. And we have read HE THAT COMETH. The coming SON OF MAN, the Stranger, the Star of Bethlehem Who is now the Eastern Star. It is wonderful. From whatever angle you look, you will see Him and Him alone.
… The promised Sign God gave to Abraham before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was the Sign of a Man – God appearing in human form.
²³… So shall THE SON OF MAN be the Last Sign to this generation and Voice of the Age. The Voice of the Arch Angel.
²⁴Of all that God sent, there was not even one that was left with a commission to carry the everlasting Gospel round the globe. … Not even one.
²⁵Those that were divinely connected to God, hooked up. Remember that the sign that halted some, others could not even know what it is all about. …
That is pure truth. Only people who are connected to the Elohim will see the Shekinah and stop. Did you get the Message?
The Shekinah came first with the Shekinah Light. The Cloud was the Light in the night, but the Cloud in the day. True or false? This is because there is a perfect harmony in what we believe.
Then after that, the Headstone. After the Headstone, the Original Body, the Majesty and the fullness of the Elohim bodily. Oh! What is happening?
… The sign that Mr. “A” saw and stopped was the same sign which Mr. “B” saw and continued moving.
The person will be moving like the bird called swift or swallow [eneke ntị ọba in Igbo language]. The fellow can also be likened to a cattle egret walking on the ground.
Why? Because he does not know what the sign is all about… That is pure truth.…and he does not want to know. …
Is it not the people that took the photograph that were querying, “Is there nothing that can be done to wipe off the Pillar of Cloud so that the Man’s face will be seen clearly? Is there nothing that can be done to it?”
One decided to try it, but as he was trying it, the thing became worse. He then said in utter surprise, “So this thing is permanent”, and that he thought it was ink. When the rest of the pictures were brought out, he exclaimed, “The pictures are many o! They are plenty! And you collected it just like that?” He was shown all the photographs.
Does he know how many cameras that were damaged which belonged to photographers that wanted to take His photograph? He blew the thing up, even the cameras of those that came to a wedding ceremony He officiated, including those that came with it to tempt Him and those who came to spy into His secrecy. He damaged the thing, condemning the camera.
²⁶… Somebody saw this Sign and halted, took a look at it several times until he became acquainted with it– until it became his daily bread. Reason being that he saw a Sign and the Voice following the Sign. Sure!!!
²⁷I really thank God for many things. If by now you are still busy carrying the Bible about, it is a sure sign that you are a stranger to God. … Amen! Amen!! Amen!!!
Pastor Thomas said it under anointing, “If we have believed the son of man in our midst, we would have set the Bible aside long ago.” He said that he sees anybody carrying this Bible as an unbeliever, which is pure truth. Pure truth!
This is because your life is in the Spoken Word. Did you not hear it in the former Message that was read for Sunday School? He said, “Your survival in this Faith lies in your belief on the Spoken Word which is the Original Seed.”
Page 43 verse 17. ¹⁷Go to the websites. Italy is ranking two thousand plus. I mean, the home of the Pope. Can you now see the possibility of the Pope and the subject rushing there, reading everything. We have their number. Two thousand plus, Italy every week, home of the Pope. Headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church.
That was that time. Now, they are 7,000s and 6,000s. They are increasing everyday.
Knowing God, can it give us salvation. What will save us is knowing God and worshipping Him as God. Finish!
Is it scriptural? In Romans chapter 1, saint Paul met people who knew Him, but the guilt was that they could not worship Him as God. Instead, they devised for themselves something they were regarding as God.
REFERENCE: Romans 1:19-23, AMP.¹⁹For that which is known about God is evident to them and made plain in their inner consciousness, because God [Himself] has shown it to them.
²⁰For ever since the creation of the world His invisible nature and attributes, that is, His eternal power and divinity, have been made intelligible and clearly discernible in and through the things that have been made (His handiworks). So [men] are without excuse [altogether without any defense or justification],
²¹Because when they knew and recognized Him as God, they did not honour and glorify Him as God or give Him thanks. But instead, they became futile and godless in their thinking [with vain imaginings, foolish reasoning, and stupid speculations] and their senseless minds were darkened.
²²Claiming to be wise, they became fools [professing to be smart, they made simpletons of themselves]. ²³And by them the glory and majesty and excellence of the immortal God were exchanged for and represented by images, resembling mortal man and birds and beasts and reptiles.
What was the essence of knowing Who they could not worship? If you know the meaning of worship, happy are you. You can use your dictionary to know what it takes to worship. It is not late. Somebody can find the Word “WORSHIP”.
I am not saying WARSHIP the one used in warfare. No! I mean WORSHIIP. W-O-R-S-H-I-P.
²⁰Behave like lively stones. Everybody sitting down as a dummy. Did I call anybody’s name? No! Reading the Bible is not a ministry. It is not something you will say it is for ministers. … Have you heard it? Long ago! I know some people are stumbling because here, I use everybody including infants, men and women.
Yes! The Kingdom of God belongs to all of you. Men are struggling. Women are struggling, fighting their way into the Kingdom. Will you fold your arms and make yourself a woman?
You woman! God said, “Quit like men! Quit yourselves like men!” Ah ah! Quit like men. Prepare yourselves like men, for that Kingdom suffereth violence. Violent assault o. The violent will snatch it by force.
People are pushed down in the cause of the struggle. People are marched on. If a man is not willing to go, a woman will march on him and move on. If any stands in your way, push the person out of the line for the person lacks strength.
Did you get the dictionary meaning of WORSHIP? You can read it so that we could hear you. Read the meaning from different dictionaries.
Dictionary meanings of WORSHIP. [1] Oxford Languages: [i] the feeling or expression of reverence and adoration for a deity.
Synonyms of worship. Reverence, revering, worshiping, veneration, venerating, adoration, devotion, praise thanksgiving, glorification, exaltation, extolment, homage, respect, honour, esteem magnification.
The person that is destined to die must die.
… What are you? Are you a minister in eating and drinking and not a minister of the Word of God?

Who can understand God? We are not called to understand God. We are called to believe Him. If you wait until you understand, you will not believe. Nobody is called to understand God. You are called to believe God. Even if you do not understand, HE said, “Believe anyhow.” Is it God you cannot comprehend that you want to understand? You will only know Me the extent I want you to know Me. The extent I permit you to know Me, that you will know. If I did not tell you that I am He, will you know? That you know HIM, those in Benjamin, do they know HIM? It is only recently that they have started catching the revelation.THE SON OF MANBE CAREFUL ABOUT LAST MINUTE MANIFESTATION OF UNBELIEF (FOLLOW ME AS I FOLLOW HIM [THE CLOUD] REVIEWED) preached on Sunday 8^th September, 2013 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 73 vs. 19 – 21

No second chance

Deuteronomy 18:5, TLB. ²²“The nations you replaced all do these evil things, but the Lord your God will not permit you to do such things….
So, God is the God of replacement. God is the God of replacement. He will drive away a people and He will replace them with another Seed. Amen!
In other words, nobody is indispensable in the sight of God. That which you think is your preoccupation, for which cause you pride yourself about, you may be surprised that somebody better than you will be there tomorrow.
When Vashti wanted to brag, the elders joined hands with the king and sent her away and brought in Esther who is better than Vashti.
²³The Lord your God will not permit you to do the evils. The LORD your God will not permit you to repeat the evils of the people He drove away from that land.
There are too many people God has driven away from your land from among you– from your midst, because of rebellion – their evils.
Now, you have replaced them. Many of you are here by replacement.
The first one we read, our former Bishop Okey Nwamkpa was narrating how Mama Ikebude came and became a replacement for Mama Fanny Nwakobi. We read it in the morning. It is contained in the Message, NO SECOND CHANCE.
²⁶… If you are of bad specie of coconut or of pear [of anything at all] drawn from Onitsha, let it be planted in Czechoslovakia, you are the same thing. You are a bad specie….
Is it a lie Brethren? Do we have experiments using human beings? Yes! We have experiments of one who has been giving troubles in this Faith in the family and all round, and who happened to move out to foreign land, and the same character followed him. True or false?
Let us be very careful. You are the same you. The environment or country you find yourself can never make you what you are, but will highlight who you are. It will make the entire world know who you are and the material you are made up of.
…Plant it in any part of the world, the soil can never change it. In any part of the world, you are the same you. Do not think that there is a county you will get to and become another person. It is a lie! You are being fooled by the imaginations of your heart. You are the same you.
I hear people saying, “How I wish I married my wife from so so and so family.” The woman will say, “How I wish I married my husband from so so and so family.” It is a lie! Whatever you are is what you are.
There is no amount of impersonation that will last long. Masquerade yourself with dying – dyed garment, the bleach will touch it and the original colour will come out.
Pastor Chizoba: There is a saying that goes this way. If you are looking for a wife material, be sure that you are a good tailor because a bad tailor can destroy a good material.
Is it a lie Brethren? Is it a lie Brethren? That a dress is very beautiful is because of the good work of the tailor. Every cloth material is good.
A bad specie of pear, even if it is planted in Onitsha, it will remain bad. Plant it anywhere; it will remain a bad specie. The soil can never change the nature.
The son of Elijoe, are you hearing what we are saying? You know that you understand and speak English language. That you are brilliant academically, do you know this one?
FearGod! Mbaise, Mbaise, Mbaise, Mbaise, Ngwa, Ngwa, Ngwa, Ngwa. Nsugbe can never make you another person. Rather, Nsugbe will make us to know who you are.
²⁸Wherever you are, you are there with your shadow. Wherever a man is, there his shadow is. If you believe it say amen. And once there is shadow, it is a sure sign that there is light there. Sure!!! For without light, there is no shadow. Sure!!!
I am not talking about image. There is a great difference between an image and a shadow. Yes! An image will present you for what you are,… Like the photograph.…but a shadow will paint a block picture of resemblance of a human being. Sure!
Deuteronomy 18:15, TLB. ³¹“Instead, He will raise up for you a Prophet like Me, an Israeli. …
So, to us, He will raise a Gentile. And He will visit Israel in the guise of a Gentile.
³⁷Remember, He was having dealings with Israel. That was when they were in His program, before they were cut off and we now came in. …
Israel is expecting a Gentile Messiah. Did you get the Message? But unfortunately, the Gentiles are expecting Israel’s Messiah to come from the land of the Jews. I mean Jesus of Nazareth. They have missed it all. They have missed it all.
So, Israel has seen what Israel has been looking for. And then, it was announced wide, THE CLOUD HAS RETURNED TO Israel.
REFERENCE: TESTAMENT OF THE TWELVE PATRIARCHS –Chapter 3, The Testament of Levi concerning Priesthood and arrogance verse 8. ⁸… The third — a new Name shall be called over Him, because He shall arise as King from Judah, and shall establish a new Priesthood, after the fashion of the Gentiles, to all the Gentiles. And His appearing shall be unutterable, as of an exalted Prophet of the seed of Abraham our father.
³⁷… When we were grafted in, you should not be expecting Him to go and pick an Israeli to come and be a leader in the Gentiles. … No! Enmity had been there all the while. As He tabernacled in the Israeli to lead Israel, so shall He tabernacle in one of you, a Gentile Brother drawn from among you to talk to you.
Brethren, is there truth in this statement? So you better not expect the coming of the LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Expect the coming of the son of man drawn from the Gentiles, your Kinsman Redeemer.
Watch! Your Prophet who foreran this second coming was drawn from the Gentiles. He Whom he foreran cannot be drawn from the Jews. He must also be a Gentile. He [the Prophet] must be a married Man with children. He will forerun the Ministry of a married Messiah with children – no person but Elah Elohim. One who will live in His Family with His wife and children. Yet, that is the hidden Messiah. A stumbling stone. A stumbling stone.
³⁸Hence the Bible recorded that God gave Jesus Christ as a Saviour to Israel not to the Gentiles. For as at that time, the time of the Gentiles was not yet come. Yes!
³⁹The Gentiles merely heard about Him, but they were not a part of the mission, for their time was not yet come. True or false? When their time was come, there was an open door. Yes!
⁴⁰Many of you are still carrying over Jesus. Sure!!!You cannot carry Jesus and carry Apostle Peter (Blessed Be to His Holy Name). Alleluia!!! True or false?
Elijah Muhammad is a Prophet. Abdrushin, a Prophet. Sigmund Mowinckel, a Prophet.
REFERENCES: [1] MESSAGE TO THE BLACK MAN IN AMERICA by Elijah Muhammad, 1965,
[2] The Grail Message – IN THE LIGHT OF TRUTH, chapter 60 – THE SON OF MAN, paragraph
[3] HE THAT COMETH [The Messiah Concept in the Old testament & Later Judaism] Page 386 &. The whole question of the Son of Man, His nature, His pre-existence, and His coming, is a divine secret, which will be revealed only in its own time, ‘Just as one can neither seek out nor know what is in the deep of the sea, even so can no one upon earth can see my servant… but in the time of His day’.
THE MOST IMPORTANT POINT ABOUT THE SON OF MAN IS THAT HE WILL COME FORTH FROM THE PLACE WHERE HE IS SAFELY KEPT BESIDE THE LORD OF SPIRITS AND APPEAR IN THE SIGHT OF MEN. IT IS THE EPIPHANY OR REVELATION OF THE SON OF MAN WHICH ABSORBS THE INTEREST OF THE APOCALYPTISTS, WHICH THEY BEHOLD IN VISION AFTER VISION, FOR WHICH THEY LONG AND PRAY.
The message that it is at hand is what they proclaim to the righteous and elect ones who long for it. When the time is at hand, ‘the Righteous One shall appear before the eyes of the righteous’.
The change of the times is inaugurated when ‘that Son of Man has appeared’. ‘My servant the Messiah shall be revealed; when all is accomplished that was to come to pass in those parts’, ‘after the signs have come, of which thou was told before, ‘the Messiah shall then begin to be revealed’, ‘the participate of My Messiah will be revealed’.
How can you carry Moses and Jesus the Christ at the same time? You cannot be a disciple of Moses and a disciple of the LORD Jesus Christ. It is impossible. One has to give way for another to thrive. Am I making sense?
Do you not know that you are the one confusing yourself? Sometimes, you do not know whether you are believing in Jesus. You do not even know whether you are believing THE SON OF MAN.
But the Jesus you are mentioning believes in the son of man.
References: [1] Matthew 24:27-28, 30 & 44, KJV. ²⁷For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. ²⁸For where soever the carcass is, there will the eagles be gathered together. ….. ³⁰and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. ….. ⁴⁴Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
[2] Luke 17:26-30, KJV. ²⁶And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.²⁷They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. ²⁸Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; ²⁹but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. ³⁰Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
Luke 18:18, KJV. I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
You cannot carry Jesus and carry the Son of Man. He saw the days of the Son of Man, He pointed people to the days of the Son of Man.
⁴¹When The Son of Man has appeared, where is the position of Jesus? Jesus has not a position when Paul entered the Gentile world. Paul became the Christ revealed to the Gentiles in his own dispensation. You will see your condemnation as I talk.
Deuteronomy 18:15, TLB. ⁴²“¹⁵Instead, He will raise up for you a Prophet like Me, an Israeli, a Man to whom…”⁴³Did He say a woman? “…a man to whom you must listen and whom you must obey.”
⁴⁹When He went there, He went there to fulfill His word that He is crossing over there, for He had another sheep that was not of the first one. They He must bring that they may be one flock, one shepherd.
⁵⁰That He was going there to seek the lost sheep of Israel. And this lost sheep remains the only people that will see the stop sign, recognize it and halt. True or false?
My sheep heareth My Voice. They follow Me. I know My sheep. My sheep knows Me. My sheep heareth My Voice, and they follow Me. The voice of the stranger, they do not recognize. I call them by their names, and they will never perish. I give them eternal life.
⁵¹Why? They are divinely connected, divinely oriented, ordained for this salvation. And He positionally placed them. …
He positionally placed them where they will recognize Him and become a part of Him.
… He also draws them to Himself. “No man can come to Me except My Father brings him to Me”.
Deuteronomy 18:18, TLB.I will raise up from among them a Prophet, an Israeli like you. I will tell Him what to say, and He shall be my spokesman to the people.I will personally deal with anyone who will not listen to Him…
I will do what? … I will personally deal with anyone who will not listen to Him.
I will do what? I will personally handle the case of anybody no matter who you are. …
Son of Elijoe, are you listening? Wrap yourself together, you and your father. FearGod are you listening? I do not know where you preserved the strength which is motivating you to challenge God to a fight.
Repeat! I will personally… I will personally deal with anyone who will not listen to Him.
God will personally deal with you. My people perish because of lack of knowledge.
⁵⁹Ignorance is a deliberate misfortune. For you have chosen to be ignorant. That is why Saint Paul came to a point where he said, “If anyone wants to be ignorant after all these explanations, let he or she remain ignorant.” That is pure truth!
⁶⁰If after knowing the truth, you still claim you do not know the truth, because you want to have your way, remain ignorant. Amen!!!
The reason why people claim to be ignorant of the truth that is evidently set out before them which they use their mouths even to propagate to people outside, but when it comes to them, they become stammerers, they claim lack of knowledge. It is because they want to have their ways. Thank you! I am telling you the whole truth. Amen.
Some will even claim that they have not heard it or that they do not know it, telling lies against themselves and their consciences.

Let Me tell you, I have re-incarnated several times in this life. Do not think that this is My first existence. This is how I have been coming and going. There is no generation that will not meet Me. Even this generation, if it will have a preceding generation, Odoemena will be there. ……. As you remain in the Message you have received steadfast, unmovable, surely “that glorious day,” you will never say, “Had I known.” You will never regret getting acquainted with Brother Peter Odoemena. On that day, when this life is over, then you will know fully well that I AM HE.THE SON OF MANAS I THOUGHT ON MY WAYS VOL 3; preached on 24^th December, 2000 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 30 vs. 24 & Pg. 128 vs. 143 – 144.15WHO WILL DWELL WITH GOD IN PARADISE? [1]

EVERY SIGN FROM GOD IS A STOP SIGN, Chapter4 from verse 1.¹If God wanted you to have your way, He would not have given you His own mouthpiece Who you must listen to in all things. Is it a lie?
¹⁰Let Me tell you something. You want to see the proof of God speaking through Me. Is it not a Message here? By now, is anybody seeking the proof of God speaking through the Son of Man?
¹¹It means that if you are in this Faith and if you have been following, I want to say it, make it crystal clearand drum it into your ears for the last time.
Anything pertaining to God and Godliness, His attributes, His characteristics, both His visible and invisible qualities have been made known to the Bride. And all of them emanated from one man not two sources. One Source.
For that reason, you are without excuse, but unfortunately, as your fathers behaved so are you behaving.
¹⁵Now, when Moses was there, who was God? I want to show you something. Not everybody believed Moses to be God. Moses would be talking to them, instead of paying attention, they were expecting Jehovah somewhere. All their reference would be in Jehovah [even] in the presence of Moses.
¹⁶It is happening here. 99.5% here are not going to be saved because of this guilt. …
²⁷By searching the scriptures, they should have discovered what was meant for them, the type of Messiah that will come and what He will do.
But they were of the opinion that whenever the Messiah appears, their troubles will stop. They never knew that the appearance of every Messiah increases the problems of the people. Otherwise, He will not deliver them.
²⁸When Moses went to Egypt, their problems increased. The Prophet increased their problems. Daniel increased their problem in Babylon. Everybody!
Jesus came, and the problem increased. … In Jerusalem!…Paul went [to the Gentiles], and the problem increased. Both in Rome and Macedonia.
²⁹Even Paul damaged people’s occupation. [Yes!] Paul attacked people’s occupation, demolished idols, statues they were molding to make money, bringing untold hardship. In Ephesus!
Reference: Acts 19:23-27, KJV. ²³And the same time there arose no small stir about that way. ²⁴For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;
²⁵whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.
²⁶Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands: ²⁷so that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.
³⁹People that are living far from the stream strive to collect enough water from the stream that will serve their needs for some days, for they know that the stream is very far.
But somebody whose backyard is the stream takes things for granted. “It is not far from my house, whenever I want water, I will go.”
⁴⁰He will discover that in the night. Water might be needed, only [for him] to discover that the whole pots are empty, and he cannot step out that night with lantern to get water from the stream.
Have we not stopped printing Sermon Books? How many persons have it in Onitsha? We read it everyday in the Fellowship. We read it last night.
ONE DAY, MY ENCOURAGING WORDS WILL BE LIMITED TO THIS HOUSE. NOTHING WILL BE POSTED AGAIN. IF ANYBODY WANTS TO HEAR ME, HE WILL TRAVEL LONG DISTANCE AND BE HERE. HAVE I NOT SAID IT BEFORE?
HAVE I NOT SAID IT BEFORE? IT IS IN THE PROPHECY. ONE OF THESE DAYS, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO PRAY FOR AND DESIRING EARNESTLY TO SEE ONE OF THOSE DAYS OF THE SON OF MAN. THEY WILL NOT SEE IT AGAIN. AND IT WILL COME AT A TIME WHEN WHAT THEY HAVE CANNOT SUSTAIN THEM.
You are now being sustained by the stored food. How many stored it? Even those that got it free, dashed them out because they never knew the value. Those who knew the value of gold preserved it.
From the time I stopped giving the Messages free of charge to some, that was the end of their journey.
I CAN NEVER BRIBE YOU TO GO TO PARADISE. IF YOU PERISH, YOU PERISH ALONE. YOU CANNOT PERISH WITH ME. YOUR REWARD CANNOT BE GIVEN TO THE SON OF MAN. YOUR REWARD GOES TO YOU.
…If he attempts it [by stepping out], by the time he will go out at midnight and come back, the damage has been done. This is the case of Onitsha in particular. Let Me call it a name.
⁴¹Anybody that is saved in Onitsha has received the highest grace! … Say it three times!
⁴¹Anybody that is saved in Onitsha has received the highest grace! …
⁴¹Anybody that is saved in Onitsha has received the highest grace! …
⁴¹Anybody that is saved in Onitsha has received the highest grace! …
⁴³But in there, their storage tanks are empty. No fear of God. No reverential fear. No respect. No obedience to His Word. No loyalty. Somebody sang a song saying that God is asking us, “Where is My respect? Where is My reverence?” If I am God over you, where is My respect. Where is My honour?
⁴⁵If you know the Man that is wearing the mask, maybe He happens to be your elder brother. And for that reason, you refuse to give way when the big masquerade is coming.
Because you dishonoured Him, He will humiliate you. … Is it a lie Brethren?…He must surely dishonour you and treat you like a stranger. He will even be harsh on you more than on anybody else because it is a great dishonour which He can never overlook.
⁵³The Prophet William Branham said something, that if there be a Prophet of God in a city, that whatever God wants to carry out in that city, the first place of call will be a Prophet. … Sure!!!
⁵⁹I can only be where I want to be for a mission I want to achieve. … Sure!!!
⁶⁰Now, how many unbelievers do we have in this Faith? As I am talking to you now, some are having their faiths on the Cross of Calvary. Some are having their faith on the Lamb that was slain. … I am telling you that this is truth. … Only one percent here are fixing their eyes on the Resurrected Body.
He is not even mentioned among the denominations. Till today, they are still preaching Christ and Him that was crucified, including the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints.
Last week, they had their meeting in US. It went viral. The whole preaching was the crucified Christ. So, that Man that is hanging on the cross is still there.
Roman Catholics will never bring that thing down. Every Easter, Good Friday, during station of the cross, He remains hanging on the cross. They will be singing their songs pointing people to the Christ hanging on the cross.
Do you not know the song? [A Sister responded, “We know it.”] I know you will know it. Is your name not Jessica? Jessica and co in the town of Fatima. Something that never happened anywhere in this world. Cunningly devised fable that are told to children.
I am not telling you stories. I am giving you facts. I am not here to tell stories. I know who I am. I know My mission on earth. I know when I am leaving the scene.
Do you know that you are the last batch I will carry. You are the last batch that will come face-to-face with Me in worship, But how many will qualify here?
There is a great problem. If you are not strict with what I am giving to you, you will corrupt these infants by making them to believe that they are hearing stories. I am not telling stories.
Whatever I am handling here, I expect you to go home and drive it down into the hearts of your children or else you are bound to lose them.
The Prophet William Branham said, “No matter how Holy Ghost-filled parents might be, if they do not teach their children and pray for them until they are baptized with that same spirit– that same spirit, they are bound to lose them to hell.”
When Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed, was there any infant that survived? In the Age of Noah, how many infants survived? In Jericho, how many infants survived.
So, do not think your own is another one. Destruction is already on the land. Bullets do not have eyes. Bomb does not have anything insulator.
⁶²I thank God that His Presence is ever here. …Is what? Ever here! Did you get the Message? So, it is permanent. He has a permanent abode.
⁶⁹… no man can understand God without a part of the Spirit of God in him. ⁷⁰Nobody can do the work God assigns to him without that Spirit of God helping him. You can never obey the word of God without the Spirit of God helping you.
EVERY SIGN FROM GOD IS A STOP SIGN, Chapter 5 from verse 13. ¹³You see why, for any man to survive, Christ and Christ alone must remain the Author and Finisher of your faith. [Sure!!!] You must of a necessity look up to Him.
¹⁷Because of Moses weight, after a while, the hand started paining him, Joshua and Caleb rushed immediately, one supported the left hand, one supported the right hand. Why?No successful man of God ever works alone.
¹⁸Moses never invited them, but duty invited them. … What invited them? Duty invited them.
… They desired to succeed. … They desired to win the battle by all means. Did you get the Message?
Few players win the trophy, but the praise and honour go to the nation. Nigerian team is fighting. They walloped Libya the other day. The praise went to Nigeria, but a few people represented Nigeria in the field of play. Is it a lie, Brethren?
In athletics, one person will win the gold, but the praise will go to the nation.
… They desired to do the will of God which is to exterminate the enemies.[Sure!!!]
They saw the hand collapsing for the man was becoming older, weaker, for he has been labouring more than others. … Coupled with His weight!
He was like the son of man. He had a very big belle with very big body, stout legs and big shoulders. Age set in. Remember, He was 80 years when God called Him. Moses was 80 years when God called Moses.

I thank God we have gotten what it takes to go to rapture. We have turned the Bible up-side-down. We have checked within and without. There is nothing anybody can say now that will be strange to us from the Bible. Na lie! Unless I am the One that will say it. I say unless I am the One. There is only One under the Heavens that will tell you something you do not know in the Bible and I AM THE ONE. But scoffers cannot show you anything you do not know. End-time cannot show you. Can Roman Catholic show you? Who then will show you? There is only but “One Person” Who will show you a new thing in the Bible.THE SON OF MANLO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS VOL. 1; Preached on 30^th April 2000 at the Household Onitsha; Pg. 122 vs. 4716WHO WILL DWELL WITH GOD IN PARADISE? [2]

EVERY SIGN FROM GOD IS A STOP SIGN, Chapter4 from verse 19.¹⁹Many are praying that if it is possible, let THE SON OF MAN slump down and die now while talking. What He is building, they are destroying behind Him. What?
What He is building, many are destroying behind Him. That is Enugu. Enugu, Onitsha, Owerri, Obosima, Aba, Mbaise, Isiala-Ngwa in particular to mention but a few.
…Nobody can mount the pulpit now and establish falsehood while I am here. … That is all! I am a hindrance. I am that big Rock they can never push over. They are looking for My exit so that grievous wolves will come into the Faith and devour all of you.
But by the time they finish their planning, I had already dismissed everybody. I had already sent you to your various homes. Let the destroyer destroy his family. Let that destroyer begin his destructive work and deceit with his own family.
And since that time I disarmed all of them, they went to their beds. You do not hear their voices again. We have forgotten about too many of them. We only remember them when we have ceremonies, and they will appear.
This is because I studied them, and I did My home work very well. The only way to disarm them of their destructive plan was no other way than sending everybody back to their families, so that whatever weapon or arsenal they have for destruction, let them unleash it in their own families. And this is so that innocent families can be saved. Innocent families can be saved, for God must severe the righteous before destroying the wicked, and the wicked will destroy himself and his family with his own hands.
If I did not send them home, nobody would have believed that a Deacon will abandon his family. No family altar, morning afternoon and night, the Message is not for him. Audio Messages, they are not for him and his family.
It is not that he is too busy that he cannot listen to the Word, but he is indifferent to the Word. Their Elders gathered to discuss their affairs that were very boring to them. All of them gathered, but he was conspicuously absent. He was not there. He was somewhere drinking and making his merriment.
If you ask him why there is no family altar, he will retort, “What am I going to say? Son of man has finished everything. All of them.” Yet, not even a child from his family can say, “Praise the LORD.” Are they not heading to abyss?
I used that one as a typical example while almost all of them are in the same category. Does God speak in vain? No!
One who is known to speak out does not speak in vain, more especially this time when THE SON OF MAN is preparing to go home. Do you expect Me to use My last minute strength to strain My Voice talking to a people that are not willing [I mean] to believe in God.
What is more? I have already made a plan for them which they will not escape – all of them that are involved. You will hear about them. You will hear about them. With your eyes, you will see them.
A good number of them will die of starvation, for I must spoil their means of livelihood. I built them up. I will pull them down. They will run helter-skelter from now, manand woman, young and old.
Some will even regret coming into contact with Me. My punishment will begin from among you that say you believe when you do not believe. Is it not Scriptural? God’s judgment must begin with the Church.
REFERENCES: [1]Ezekiel 9:4-6, KJV.⁴and the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
⁵And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:
⁶slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.
[2]1 Peter 4:17, AMP. For the time [has arrived] for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will [be] the end of those who do not respect or believe or obey the good news (the Gospel) of God?
²⁰… Nobody can mount the pulpit now and establish falsehood while I am here. But they establish it in their houses, in their work places and on the streets. The do what?
…they establish it in their houses, in their work places and on the streets. 2017!
Remember we went home in 2020 on March 19^th, but by 25^th June 2017, apostasy had already started among those hypocrites. Apostasy – departure from the faith, false teaching – had already started among those foreign ministers who are making mere claims of their membership of the Faith.
²¹Then, they become expert preachers to those that care to listen to them. The camp is not polluted because I know whom I have chosen. What?… The camp is not polluted because I know whom I have chosen. …
Those I chose never chose Me for one day. I chose them. Reasons, best known to Me.
These things are happening that My Words will come to pass that in every local assembly, the mixed multitude, strangers are in the majority. And in every move of God, God’s people have remained few. Do not ask Me, “How many will be saved”. Strive that you may be in the number.
²⁴God saw Barnabas, yet God placed His Name on Paul. A MAN BEARING GOD’S NAME IS NOTHING BUT GOD HIMSELF. A Chosen Vessel unto God to bear His Name, Barnabas had the gut to challenge, because he had a portion of the spirit, a part of the spirit. But the totality of God was in Saint Paul.
Yet, Barnabas was in the Faith before Paul. Barnabas was the one who introduced Paul to the Apostles when they ran away, calling Him a persecutor. He [Barnabas] brought them back, saying, “He [Paul] has repented. He is no longer the old Saul of Tarsus.”
He told them that Christ has touched Paul’s life and that He now bears Christ’s Name, which Barnabas was not bearing.
Of all the Apostles, only Paul was conferred with the Name of Christ. Peter was not conferred with that Name. Only Paul. And He became the first Messenger to the first Church Age – the Ephesian Church Age.
²⁸You must reject the one on the scene for you to accept the one that is yet to come. Another imaginary one! You must reject the truth for you to believe a lie. You must reject Moses for you to accept the teachings of Balaam.
²⁹I initiated something, they killed it. Anyone I initiated, they will kill it or cripple it. Why? That the Word of God might come to pass.
God said, “A day is coming when I will flourish you with blessings, furnish you well, well. You will marry wives, have children, build goodly houses, dwell in safety, nobody troubling you again.
Be very careful that you do not forsake your God, who brought you out from the land of bondage and has made you what you are.” HOW MANY STILL HAVE GOD IN THEIR PROGRAMME? Has it not come to pass?
³⁹You see why many will succeed in helping others in entering heaven, but they themselves will be locked out. Why? They know this truth. They point people to it, when you think they are believing, you do not know they are not taking it seriously. And they now turn to Me, believing that I am God. And whatever I say to them, because they believe, so it shall happen. Amen!!!
⁴³… There are reasons why I do not share many testimonies affecting some loyalists to Me.[Yes!!!]⁴⁴I have loyalists. I do not share their testimonies anyhow…. Loyalists! Faithfuls! … ⁴⁴Their testimonies are best known to Me. …
The loyalists are called the faithfuls that are true. They are faithfuls. They are true citizens. Yes!
Look at the way saint Paul addressed them, even Peter. “Dear friends in Ephesus, ever faithful, ever loyal.”
⁴⁴I have loyalists. I do not share their testimonies anyhow. Their testimonies are best known to Me. Their performances are in My palms. Remember I call them children of consolation. Those I will see and I will be consoled and they have passed series of tests for Me to confirm their souls. [Yes!!!]And having confirmed their souls, it is everlasting.
It is what? Everlasting! Whatever God does is eternal. Nothing can be added nor subtracted, for God to tell you that you are coming nearer, “You are nothing far from the Kingdom of Heaven, but one thing remaineth.”
Does it mean you have entered? If He loves you, He will tell you that thing that remains. If you can handle that thing with success, definitely, you will cross over. And before He will reveal it to you, that thing had been reoccurring and recurring in you, in your mind that something is fishing somewhere.
There is something you have not vacated. There is something you have never vacated. Rather, you are putting something on top of that thing which would have been vacated first. Did you get the Message?
The first marriage has to be vacated before a second one comes in. If the first one is not vacated and a second comes, the two are legal. Did you get the Message?
You cannot obtain a ruling from a court when there is an existing case on that same matter pending in that court. The first has to be vacated for the second to be admitted. Did you get the Message?
There is something that is hindering many of you from crossing over, and you know what that thing is all about. Vacate it. If you do not vacate it, it will vacate you. You will either vacate it or that thing will vacate you.
I do not need to begin to mention them one after the other. It differs from one individual to another, but believe that I have all of your records with Me. I have the records of even the ones that are yet unborn. I have their records. Every one’s record is on My palm.
If you do not vacate it, there is no way you can cross over. I do not care the way you look at it or whatever it will take you. If it will take you selling your pride, go and do it, provided you owe nobody nothing but love.
If you know that useless nonsense that hinders you from obeying the Word of God fully, go and look at that thing very well. It does not have any eternal value. And it must be something that is yoking you with the heathens. And that makes you an idolater.
That thing is yoking you together with the heathens. It is compromise. It makes you an idolater. One who worships idols. You know what it is, and you know how you have yoked yourself into it. If you do not banish it, it must banish you.
Talk of the teachings and everything, the manifestation and so on, you have witnessed all. You are sure. You are certain. You are convinced that this Faith is real and not a story. Everything about it is reality. You know that very well, but you are having your fears.
As I am talking to you now, your mind and everything has gone to where your own is. Even after you have prayed, it will still go there and hammer persistently, “What can be done about this thing?”banish it! Vacate it! Else, it will vacate you.
I will help you to vacate it. Who placed it there. That thing that is holding you there, who placed it there? You or God? You will notice that you are the one that placed it there. You invited it to yourself. Whatever might be the covenant, you were the one that entered into it. Is it a lie Brethren?
You cannot allow that covenant to remain there, and then, enter into a fresh covenant with God. Brethren, can it work? Can it work?
My hands are up. I do not want to begin to mention or call your names here. As it affects you, so it affects many others.
In terms of marriage, that one has become another idolatry. That so many entered into false marriages with their so-called Brethren. I call it false in the sense that they had married before and kept it secret, but the LORD had seen all of them.
They kept it secret. They married before. Their people in their home towns can testify that they drank the wine and that they did everything they should do, but the marriage could not continue because something happened along the way.
As long as that marriage was not vacated, that marriage still subsists.
I am using this particular one as an example as it binds a man and a woman. And wherever that thing is, whatever you are placing on top of it will never stabilize. It will be shaking. Why? It is not even [balanced] on the ground. I say, it is uneven.
Place a chair on an uneven ground, and then sit down on it. You will be dancing.
I am using that little illustration to drive My Message home. Who owns it? The owner knows that he is the one. The owner knows she is the one. It must be vacated.
⁴³… There are reasons why I do not share many testimonies affecting some loyalists to Me.
⁴⁴I have loyalists; I do not share their testimonies anyhow. Their testimonies are best known to Me. Their performances are in My palms. Remember I call them children of consolation. Those I will see and I will be consoled and they have passed series of tests for Me to confirm their souls. And having confirmed their souls, it is everlasting.
⁴⁵How many are there? Few men and women. A brother called Me from somewhere telling Me something last week. Immediately he finished, I gave him the mind of God: “Look at the way it will happen. Do not go alone; pick your brother from Enugu. Tell him to wait for you on the road. When you get there, be watchful. The moment it gets to this way as I have told you, make no mistake of staying back, rush to My house.”
⁴⁶He said, “Amen”. But the impression that was given to him was that it was an easy thing. I said ‘no’. When they got there, hell was let loose. It was contrary to the voice of the invitation. All that I told them started happening.
⁴⁷They looked at themselves; the man thought they were foolish. The man never knew that they were given a sign; they were working with a sign. The man thought he was clever. It is because they kept quiet. 2017!
⁵³WE WILL REMAIN HAVING THE VICTORY AS LONG AS WE TAKE DELIGHT IN CARRYING HIM ALONG. BUT WHEN YOU WANT TO DO BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE POWER, SUFFER BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE POWER. Yes!!!
⁵⁴IF YOU ARE NOT AFRAID OF LEAVING GOD BEHIND, DO NOT BE AFRAID OF FACING THE FIRE. BECAUSE BY AND BY, THE FIRE MUST FALL.
⁵⁵Whoever that trusts the Lord can never be put to shame and will never suffer any disappointment. Because the mouth of God has already promised. Many are loyal and faithful to another god they have in their minds…
Many are loyal and faithful to another God they have in their mind where they had already compromised their oath.
Some may say that they did it ignorantly. Is ignorance an excuse? The moment it is unveiled, ignorance ceases.
⁵⁵… Many are loyal and faithful to another god they have in their mindsbut for this One in the midst of the Bride? No!

This is why we must follow this Message strictly. If you do not know the point of your perfection in Christ, you are lost. You must know; One, the point of your salvation in Christ, the point of your justification in Christ, the point of your righteousness in Christ, the point of your perfection in Christ. Only One person is perfect and that is God. No other person is perfect but God. Nobody is righteous but God. Nobody is holy but God. Hear Me very well: God is the only Saviour. Without Him, there is no Saviour. If you do not understand this Truth, definitely you are lost. If you do not know what it means to be clothed in God’s own righteousness, it then means you do not know what it means to be clothed in his own perfection.THE SON OF MANARE YOU WALKING WITH GOD OR WALKING ALONE? Preached on Wednesday 12^th October 2011 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 17 vs. 4 – 917WHO WILL DWELL WITH GOD IN PARADISE? [3]

EVERY SIGN FROM GOD IS A STOP SIGN, Chapter 6 page 92 from verse 1.¹Watch all that rebelled and I withdrew the spirit of Christ from them; I made it known to all of you, where are they today?
²I was able to withdraw the spirit because I was the One that ordained them,… [Sure!!!] gave them a portion of My spirit to enable them work with Me.
¹⁰See their children today, they only come to Fellowship to sleep and eat biscuits. They learn nothing. Even the instructions God said you should pass on to your children, they do not pass the instruction to the children at home,… Do they have the time?…they do not pass the instruction in the Fellowship.
What is more? To enable them enjoy their classes, I even purchased chairs for the little children. The day I separated them from their mothers, we started seeing the children remaining calm. But the ministers in Onitsha frustrated it. … True or false? Did it not happen before your eyes. I even established classes for mothers. From time to time, My wife was drafted there to handle the mothers until she discovered what was happening.
One day, they started fighting there, fighting among themselves there. A sure sign that it is difficult to save a woman. I can remember what transpired within that period. Stubborn stubborn women! All of them!
When you ask them a question, they will throw back the question to the questioner.
Wait! Sister Victor, did this thing that I am saying not happen before your eyes? Were you on excommunication when it was happening? Were you not guilty of it?
I have their reports ofall of them that were very very bad until the thing engulfed the Camp. Aged mothers started nagging and ranting until My wife walked away from among them.
She came down and gave her report that no woman in Onitsha, no mother is out to serve God. That was her conclusion. From that day, she recoiled. The following week, the Cloud enveloped her. The following week. I have the records here. I have the date. The following week, the Pillar of Cloud enveloped her.
It is now that they are realizing that they have made their greatest mistake. Look at them. They have lost all their children. They have forfeited all their children to the fowls of the air.
Just look at Peter Abba’s child that was born the other day. She just packed her bag and went her way without even letting neither the mother nor the father know she was going. She just vanished.
See the other one that was a toddler when her parents enlisted into the Faith. She has been impregnated. Only God knows who she is living with. It means nothing among the girls.
If anybody ventures to ask question, they will retort, “Yes! Is it a crime to be a single mother?” Another one came with her mother before the Elders. You saw what happened that day. She was just talking rubbish. The mother came to her defense, telling us that she will still repent and that her behaviour is just human.
I told her plainly that whatever behaviour she has adopted is her own business. That’s all. Am I advising you not to be rascally? Whatever you buy is what you will eat.
This is true because I laid a good foundation for proper upbringing of their families, but they thought that I was doing it because of My Family. I do not have minors in My house. I meant well to you and your families, but you and your ministers conspire against the truth. This is the truth about the whole matter.
Look at these infants. I assigned them to Pastor Thomas, and he was doing the work very well, until mothers started attacking him.
Any one whose child is corrected in the children’s class, the mother will come and warn him. Before Fellowship will end, the father will also warn Pastor Thomas for correcting his erring child. Bishop Ebenezer was going round, taking note of everything.
To the adults, I was handling them. From time to time, I will have combine classes. Adult men and adult women, come together. Let Me see whether I can have something out of them.
Please, let us go ahead. I do not want to judge Onitsha in that way.
…Other local assemblies saw that Onitsha has disbanded it, and they joined.
They joined and disbanded their own it became a national issue but few individuals initiated that nonsense, and their Pastors accepted it. Then their children went wild and started eating biscuits and groundnuts. Every Fellowship day, they will line their seats along the window, flooded with biscuits, snacks and so on.
Their mothers joined. Their fathers joined. A Brother will come to Fellowship with one bag of snacks. The moment we dismiss Fellowship, the hall will look like dustbin. Did it not happen before all your eyes? These are seasoned fathers who ate at home before coming to Fellowship.
Am I talking about those who started eating the food meant for infants? Mothers came to the Fellowship with food for the children. Deacons and elderly men went to the corner and then finished the food meant for children.
[A Sister confirmed it to be truth.] Did you say that it happened. This was something that was brought to judgment severally. One child caught Deacon Joshua where he was eating his food and raised alarm “He has finished my food!He has finished my food!” He then told the child, “Haba! Haba! You have a little left.”
He claimed that he was severely hungry. Yet, his wife was inthe fellowship, but you ate the food meant for infants.
Finish that Message, let Me go and have My rest.
EVERY SIGN FROM GOD IS A STOP SIGN, Chapter 6 from verse 12.
¹²What is more? To enable them enjoy their classes, I even purchased chairs for the little children. The day I separated them from their mothers, we started seeing the children remaining calm, but the ministers in Onitsha frustrated it. Other Local Assemblies saw that Onitsha has disbanded it, and they joined.
¹³The reason is, “THE SON OF MAN is in Onitsha. Seeing that He did not talk about it, maybe He has said that nobody should do it again.”
¹⁴None even had the gut to ask Me by phone or in person, “Sir, why are these things no longer functional?”, justto know what My reply will be. Nobody has ever asked Me this question unless from My home. And that will be My wife, who has been showing strict concern over it.
¹⁵And My answer has always been the same thing. It is their business from henceforth. I do not have a single minor in My house. An undergraduate is not a minor. … Have I repeated it now? I have no minor.
…An undergraduate is not a minor. [No!] …Seeing they want their children to be outlaws like that, hooligans, it is up to them.
And they are reaping the fruits right now. Every family is now full of vomit. More are coming o! I said, “more are coming.”
²¹They have been given ample opportunity [privileges] to shine forth. Whatever you have seen in all the ministers in Onitsha now, that is the best they have attained after over twenty years and they will never go higher than that! …
They will never go higher than that, when at the end of the day, Onitsha succeeded in producing homosexuals and rapists. Do we now begin to clap hands?
Anything I handle here as a teaching, watch Onitsha and their manifestation. I saw the spirit in operation in them. I gave them a Message which they knew long ago titled, “WHY DO WE PUT ON DRESSES?”
What I recommended for them, seeing that they are all charged, even overcharged, have you seen any applying it? [The Brethren responded, “No sir!”]Have they not twisted it? [The Brethren responded again, “They have!”]
Even one I interrogated before Pastor Chizoba, stood before Me and said, “No! I am putting it on because that is my desire, and I have been desiring it.”
Do you know that many of them bought all of them ahead of time? They were using them secretly before that thing came up. we were meeting some of them along the ways. They had already started wearing that nonsense.
But when I moderated it to suit the Faith, those ancient serpents rejoiced exceedingly. They rejoiced exceedingly, and immediately, they went to the extreme.
I enquired from that one, “This thing that you are putting on, was it what I approved for Sisters?” She said no! I went further, “Why then do you put it on?” She said, “It is my desire.”
I love that statement. I love that statement. All of them I have enquired from, asking them why, they answered the same thing. I said that they answered the same thing.
Wearing trouser as a fashion is one thing. Wearing it cannot stop people from raping you. If rapists want to rape you, your trouser means nothing. They know how to loosen everything and throw it away. Have you not been seeing it. It is happening everyday.
Well, there is something I call decency. If you are not dressing decently and in order, and your conscience is sparing you, something is wrong with you.
even mothers! Indecent does not mean wearing trousers. there are so many other dresses you may wear that may not look decent. when you look at yourself in the picture, it will mark you bad.
This is the case I have been handling over the years. If you go to family Menu, you will see it there.
In family Menu Volume 1, I handled it, but because of overspreading of evil, mixed multitudes married from here and there, and then their children that grew up in a wild manner, what do we do so that this Faith will not be polluted and so that the devil will not be accusing us before God?
REFERENCE: FAMILY MENU Volume 1 [Balanced View of Women’s Adornment] verses 10, 18, 23-24, 29-30 & 34-36.¹⁰Note: that something is good, it is because God says it is good and vice versa and no other reason should be adduced. Therefore a woman’s mode of dressing is very important. …
¹⁸Today every woman that professes goodliness must know that women who live mainly for show of their hair styles or fashion are often victims of pride, envy, status seeking, haughtiness, arrogance, stubbornness, etc which rob both the mind and the heart of a spirit of calmness, peace and produce frustration and irritability. …
²³A woman’s mode of dressing from head to toe indicates that she has a good judgement in choosing what is modest for every occasion, decent and proper for her husband so that she will not let him down.²⁴This can only be spiritually observed by a virtuous woman. …
²⁹Concerning your dresses, sew your dresses as women with right judgement about what is pleasing to God and your husband. ³⁰Long skirts, long gowns are still approved without unnecessary openings. …
³⁴Remember what you are and what you are made up of. You are a daughter of God and your whole life should reflect the life of Christ.³⁵Do not sew your dresses in outlandish styles like the heathens who do not know God. ³⁶Let your moderation be seen by all men as people that have the fear of God in their hearts and as people that respect and honour their husbands according to God’s injunctions. [https://brideofchristministryworldwide.org/the-family-menu-volume-i/]
Go and look at their children now, even infants like these ones with tight trousers. Tight trousers! They do not wear them to school, but on weekends, you see them wearing them. While going for lessons, you see them wearing them.
Why do they not wear them to schools in the day? Since it is good, let them put it on and go to school in the day. Let it form their school uniform.
WHOEVER THAT WILL PERISH WILL PERISH.Let Me just conclude this Message.Hear Me very well. Any contrary manifestation from anybody who claims to be a child of God– any contrary manifestation– by contrary, I mean any habit or character display that contradicts the teachings of Christ as we have received and confirmed to be true is an admissible evidence before the son of man to hand down judgment on that person.
You are giving Me admissible evidences or reasons why you must go to the judgment table, for you cannot be covered by the grace of God that bringeth salvation, that teaches you to live a holy and righteous life here on earth.
You cannot convince Me that you have the Faith of Christ and remain in the old way of life. God forbid!
I have come and restored the Faith that bringeth salvation. And that is the Faith of Christ that changes the life of every body that believes. You cannot believe in Christ and reflect the devil. Impossible! I say, impossible!
You cannot be in the Faith of Christ and continue in your old way of life and old way of doing every thing. Where is the change then? This means that no change has taken place.
Is it not one of the reasons why we flog our children to drive away foolishness from them? Lest they bring our family to disrepute. Lest they discredit our families and discredit our Faith.
Catch them young. Create enmity in their hearts against anything that runs contrary to sound teaching.
Even if they are being given to them by their school masters and mistresses, you see them resisting. That is how you know those that are coming up in a godly way. They do not accept that nonsense from their teachers.
Rather, they will withstand them, “Auntie, no! Auntie, no! Uncle, no!” Why? “No! Our Faith condemns it. We are children of God. We cannot live that life.”
And that is how it begins. You see them standing in defence of their Faith without inviting their parents.
So it happened to our children. Not everything that they were tempted to do. They [teachers] will threaten them, “We are going to invite your parents. We do not know what they are teaching you at home.”
But our children will reply, “It is needless to invite our parents. Just ask us the questions. Whatever we are going to tell you is the truth. Our parents can never tell you contrary.”
Some will pick up the pick up the phone and call, “Mr. Odoemena. These are the things your children told us. Is that what you teach them at home?” I will say, “Ah ah! What did he say?”
When I am told what my child said, I will reply, “Yes! What do you expect him to say? That is his Faith. Be sure you do not embarrass My children. I sent them to school to go and learn how to read and write and not to learn religion. Keep your belief to your religion. Never try to indoctrinate them.”
That is true! This is because I did not send My child to school to go and learn how to worship God. My children were already following God before they went to school. Is it a lie Brethren?
So, once they say no and give their reasons, that is all. And nobody disturbs them again.
But watch these children that are not properly groomed. They will become hypocrites. Whatever they hear, they will believe. In their homes, they are children of God, but in their schools and colleges and universities, they mingle with people anyhow.
Then you began to hear about students’ Fellowship. Which Fellowship? Who established it?
²¹… Whatever you have seen in all the ministers in Onitsha now, that is the best they have attained after over twenty years and they will never go higher than that! The same way, they are wicked to themselves!

This is the group! This is the group! This is the group! For the fact that we have Him in person as our Teacher, it is a sure confirmation that we are God’s people. Look at our Teacher. Look at the Shewbread. This is our Teacher. We have Him in person as our Teacher. This is why we are the victorious group. How can He teach us and another group will come first to collect the trophy? Remember that there is only one trophy waiting and the Son of Man is saying that we are there already. Rejoice exceedingly. It is finished. No other demand. No other requirement. The price has been paid.

THE SON OF MAN

IT IS FINISHED; Preached on Sunday 16^th September 2012 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 180 vs. 39 – 40

WHO WILL DWELL WITH GOD IN PARADISE? [4]

EVERY SIGN FROM GOD IS A STOP SIGN, Chapter 6 page 97 from verse 22.²²I studied their setup, their numerous problems among them and I personally decided, I remember that day. I used My personal money to inaugurate it.
²³I said, “You should be setting aside at least a day, one Wednesday for a special offering to beef up your financial stand, so that whenever need arises, for you will not know where need will arise, instead of running round, you simply go there, take money and solve the problem.”
²⁴It is for your own good. I am not a signatory to your accounts. I have no access to your money. Igwe Amobi and Pastor Dan are the signatories.
²⁵I monitored it and implemented it before their eyes. A time came when we had a financial problem that needed everybody to be levied but I said, “No. Do not levy anybody. Go to that your pocket. Use some money there and hire two vehicles that will take Brethren to the condolence visit and come back.”
²⁶They obeyed because enough money was there. Instead of continuing, they now frustrated it. … They flushed the account. They flushed it and frustrated it.… It does not work anymore. It is not even mentioned.
²⁷WHAT AM I TRYING TO SAY? NO LOCAL ASSEMBLY IS GOING TO BE SAVED BECAUSE IT IS CONNECTED TO ONITSHA. … What?
²⁷WHAT AM I TRYING TO SAY? NO LOCAL ASSEMBLY IS GOING TO BE SAVED BECAUSE IT IS CONNECTED TO ONITSHA. YOU ARE GOING TO BE SAVED AS INDIVIDUALS, NOT AS LOCAL ASSEMBLIES. Sure!!!
I want all of them to listen to it three times, especially Enugu.
²⁷WHAT AM I TRYING TO SAY? NO LOCAL ASSEMBLY IS GOING TO BE SAVED BECAUSE IT IS CONNECTED TO ONITSHA. YOU ARE GOING TO BE SAVED AS INDIVIDUALS, NOT AS LOCAL ASSEMBLIES.
²⁷WHAT AM I TRYING TO SAY? NO LOCAL ASSEMBLY IS GOING TO BE SAVED BECAUSE IT IS CONNECTED TO ONITSHA. YOU ARE GOING TO BE SAVED AS INDIVIDUALS, NOT AS LOCAL ASSEMBLIES.
²⁷WHAT AM I TRYING TO SAY? NO LOCAL ASSEMBLY IS GOING TO BE SAVED BECAUSE IT IS CONNECTED TO ONITSHA. YOU ARE GOING TO BE SAVED AS INDIVIDUALS, NOT AS LOCAL ASSEMBLIES.
²⁸YOU ARE GOING TO BE SAVED AS INDIVIDUALS BECAUSE YOU ARE STRONGLY CONNECTED TO CHRIST, YOU ARE CONNECTED TO THE GODHEAD,… You are connected to the Headstone.…NOT THAT YOU ARE CONNECTED TO THE FELLOWSHIP IN ONITSHA.
²⁹YOU CAN BE SHUTTLING FROM ENUGU TO ONITSHA, FROM EGBEMA, FROM PORT HARCOURT, AND AT THE END, YOU PERISH.
This is because he or she has no connection whatsoever to the Godhead– to the Headstone.
³²YOU SHOULD BE COMING TO FELLOWSHIP IN ONITSHA WITH ONLY ONE REVELATION: “I WANT TO BE WHERE HE IS. I WILL ALWAYS LOVE TO SEE MYSELF STANDING IN HIS PRESENCE. IF IT IS POSSIBLE, DWELL IN THE SAME HOUSE WITH HIM.”
Reference: Colossians 3:1-2, MSG. ^1-2So if you’re serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. Don’t shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ—that’s where the action is. See things from his perspective.
³⁵IF YOUR COMING TO ONITSHA IS NOT AN ACT OF WORSHIP TO THE KING, YOU ARE WASTING YOUR MONEY AND TIME. IF YOU ARE COMING TO ONITSHA FOR YOUR BUSINESS, OR YOU ARE COMING TO ONITSHA BECAUSE YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A WIFE OR YOU ARE COMING TO ONITSHA FOR ONE HELP OR THE OTHER, YOU HAVE MISSED THE TARGET.2017! 25^th June 2017.
³⁸Until He Himself [the LORD God Almighty] weighs you in His own balance and approves of your weight, do not rejoice. God has His own weighing scale. He scales all of us. He knows our worth. Alleluia!!! Brethren, today is another day.
⁴²I made a statement last week and it provoked many to anger. It provoked many to gossip. It is your right. I am not saying it to win your approval.
⁴³In all, no matter his human weaknesses, his academic qualifications are useless and baseless, for I never met him as a rich man. I never met him as a noble man. I met him the same way I met all of you. ⁴⁴Some of you were even better off than him.
There is nobody here in this faith that carries this faith as his own personal problem more than Apostle Ojiakor. Amen!!! Say it again.
There is nobody here in this faith that carries this faith as his own personal problem more than Apostle Ojiakor. True or false? Till this day. From the day I came into contact with Him till this day.
⁴⁶Somebody might be thinking that he doles out money. Will he dole out money he does not have? How many mouths is he feeding? He has his personal responsibilities.
⁴⁷YOU CAN GIVE OUT MONEY FOR THE MINISTRY. YET, YOU ARE NOT A PART OF THE MINISTRY. Thus, God does not use that freewill donation to judge your participation or your loyalty. Let us rewind it!
⁴⁷YOU CAN GIVE OUT MONEY FOR THE MINISTRY. YET, YOU ARE NOT A PART OF THE MINISTRY. Thus, God does not use that freewill donation to judge your participation or your loyalty.
⁴⁸You must give yourself, give your heart… You must give yourself, give your heart,.. … and give your life before you begin to give your money. When you have not surrendered your time, you have not surrendered your intellect, you have not surrendered even your personality to the Faith, surrendering your money is basically useless,… Absolutely useless!…absolutely useless. Was it written like that there?
⁵¹But every other person is selfish, all-round selfish. Concerning the ministry, it is not their headache. At all! After all, the Almighty God is there. Can Almighty God be there without His children?
⁵³In terms of Local Assembly, only one Local Assembly and that is Port Harcourt. If there be any other one, I know it not. 2017!
⁵⁶How many in this Faith have the work of the Ministry in their hearts? Forget about the Son of Man.He is a stranger…. He is what? A Stranger! … He is Almighty God. He is what? The Almighty God!
REFERENCES: [1] The Grail Message – IN THE LIGHT OF TRUTH by Abdrushin, Lecture 88 – THE STRANGER, Paragraphs 21-23, 25-27, 32-33 & 41.
^P21Now because of this Law, men too felt themselves magnetically drawn to this veiled, more powerful Stranger from On High, although often resisting with his enmity. The thick veils He wore around Him could not entirely prevent the emanation of this power that was alien on earth; while on the other hand this power could not yet radiate freely either to exert that irresistible might which it has after the falling away of the covering veils in the hour of fulfillment.
^P22This brought conflict among the intuitive perceptions of men. The very being of the Stranger was enough to awaken in those who met Him hopes of the most varied kinds which alas, because of their attitude, were always brought to merely earthly wishes, which they nourished and fostered within themselves.
^P23The Stranger, however, could never heed such wishes, since His hour had not yet come. Thereby many were often greatly disappointed through their own imaginings and, strange to say, even felt themselves deceived. They never reflected that in reality it was only their own selfish expectations which were not fulfilled and, indignant about this through their disappointment, they laid the responsibility for it on the Stranger.
^P25No one took the trouble to make a just self-examination, which would have revealed that the Stranger, living apart with different views and ideals, was the one made use of by those who crowded towards Him, but not that He had taken advantage of anyone, as the obtruders, in their bitterness over the non-fulfillment of their desires for a life of ease, encouraged themselves and others to believe. Blindly they repaid the friendliness shown them with senseless hatred and enmity, similar to the deed of Judas.
^P26But the Stranger on earth had to bear everything patiently; for it was only a quite natural consequence of His existence, so long as mankind were still living in error. By this alone He, to Whom all wrong doing and wrong thinking were entirely alien, was able to recognize what earthmen in their nature could become capable of.
^P27At the exact hour, even before the end of this arduous time of learning, the meeting came to pass with that Companion Who, as a Part of Him, was to journey with Him through earthly life, to participate in the great task according to Divine Ordinance. Herself a Stranger on earth, She joyfully entered the Will of God through Her own recognition, and gratefully merged with It.
^P32It was with grief that the Stranger on earth saw the havoc among the group of the called ones. That was one of the most bitter experiences for Him! Much as He had learned, much as He suffered at the hands of men… before this last fact He stood uncomprehending; for He found no excuse whatever for this failure.
^P33So it was that the Stranger, on meeting the first Called ones, put His full trust in them. He regarded them only as friends, who simply could not think, intuitively perceive and act in any other way than in the most steadfast loyalty.
^P41Then the Lord Called to His Servant, Who was walking the earth as a Stranger, that He should speak and give tidings to all those who were thirsting for it!
Base minions of the Darkness ventured to approach in ever increasing numbers, since they felt themselves secure, because in fulfillment the Stranger kept silent when confronted with this filth, as He had been commanded to do, and as once the Son of God also was silent before the howling mob that wanted to have Him nailed to the cross as a criminal.
[2] A SERMON IN COMMEMORATION OF THE 69^TH BIRTHDAY OF THE SON OF MAN; APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA [BBHMHN]&THE 2^ND MEMORIAL SERVICE OF THE WOMAN OF SUBSEQUENT CREATION; MUMMY NZUBECHI JOY ODOEMENA, Part 2 Volume 3, Preached by THE SON OF MAN on Sunday 14^th April 2024 At THE VOICE OF GOD STUDIO, Bridal Lodge, Nsugbe, Anambra State, Nigeria. Chapter 5, verse 15 through 16.
¹⁵You have the prophecy concerning the son of man. I have taught you that. It is documented in the Epistles. It is documented in the Sermon Books. You have that one. You have that of the Woman of Subsequent Creation. ¹⁶But the root of everything– the root of the prophecy is THE STRANGER – THE FUTURE SON OF MAN. And then, THE WOMAN OF SUBSEQUENT CREATION, Who the Almighty divinely lifted Her hand and rested it on the shoulder of the future SON OF MAN to be His partner.
[3] BE MINDFUL OF THE WORDS THAT WERE SPOKEN AGAINST YOU; Preached on Sunday 8^th January 2012 at the Household of God, Onitsha; P g. 30 vs. 27 – 28
……We are in our homeland and you know where our homeland is. As pilgrims and strangers, we have our final resting place. And let it be known to you that the Son of Man has not rested. He has been constructing. He has been beautifying. Many many things have been on. Now, He is putting finishing touches.
Some of you are aware of what I am saying. Even this moment, the work is still on. Why not pause and ponder? Have you seen a Man speaking this way before? Does He sound like a church man?
⁵⁸… Even one of the elders came to Me in My house, “God who lives in heaven knows that what I am telling you is truth.”His hands lifted towards the sky.
[Deacon Chibuko said, “I do not forget this incident.”]
Did it not happen before your eyes.
⁵⁹An elder here came to Me and I asked him, “My friend, are you speaking the truth in love? ⁶⁰“He said, “Sir, God in heaven knows that I am telling you the truth”. I said, “Okay, since God in heaven knows you are telling Me the truth, no need. Stop.”
⁶¹If an elder is standing before Me and pointing to heaven quoting that God in heaven knows he is telling Me the truth, I am now the liar. … He said that with his hand pointing to the sky.… I am the God living on earth. Does he know what it takes for God to be in heavenly places? Do you know what it takes for us to sit in heavenly places with Christ?
⁶²Do you know what it takes for one to be transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of His dear Son where you now have the privilege of calling Him Abba Father, for He is the One that has espoused you to the Father. Without Him, the Father is unknown to you.
⁶³He is also the One that espoused the Father’s name to you because he wanted to. How many unbelievers are here, men and women, how many unbelievers, how many heathens, how many idolaters do we have here?
⁶⁴On this note, I say thank you and remain blessed in Him eternally.
Nothing to add. Nothing to subtract. Deacon Chibuko, close us in a brief prayer.