WHY DO WE PUT ON DRESSES VOLUME TWO

WHY DO WE PUT ON DRESSES? VOLUME TWO A Teaching Delivered ON Sunday 21^st January 2024 AT THE VOICE OF GOD STUDIO Bridal Lodge, Nsugbe Anambra State, Nigeria BY Apostle Peter Odoemena THE SON OF MAN The LORD God Almighty

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

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

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

Hebrews 7:11-21, Living Bible.

He said, “I have carefully scrutinized, investigated this Faith, and I have come to the conclusion that our fathers inherited lies and falsehood wherein there is no profit.” At another point He said, “After a proper scrutiny of this Faith, I have come to a conclusion that there is nothing wrong with this Faith, but something is grossly wrong with the individuals. For this Faith is a Mercury Faith.”

THE SON OF MAN

He has come, He has gone; Preached on 23^rd September 2012 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 127 vs. 12

THE AIM OF DRESSING IS TO COVER NAKEDNESS (1)

Now, attention this way. Did God intend from the beginning to make anything called clothing or dressing for man? From creation? Answer Me.

From what you have heard and read from the Bible, was there anything suggesting that God intended to cloth man, and then He made a mistake by not clothing man? Is there anything suggesting that the first dress was made by God?
The first dress was knitted with the hands by Adam and Eve using fig leaves. God created man, but man created dressing. Why did he create dressing? He transgressed the law of God by eating the forbidden fruit, and then discovered that he could no longer walk about naked. Did you get the Message now?
God now came to rescue him by helping him to clothe further. As the days passed, clothing changed hands. I say, clothing changed hands. Clothing became a tradition. Clothing became a pattern—a custom for a people.
Hence, people now clothe themselves according to their tribes. We have tribal dressings. We have religious dressing. We have customary dressing. We have institutional dressing.
Did you get what I am saying? Put down what I am saying. You can now listen to the Message after.
We have our traditional dressings which vary from one tradition to another. We have tribal dressings that vary from tribe to tribe. We have colonial dressings that vary from one country to another.
We are wearing suit, long sleeves and tie because we were colonized by the British. Did you get the Message? So, it is not Nigerian dress. It is not African dress. It is purely colonial. It is purely British.
We also have traditional dress that is meant for traditional rulers. It varies from one area to another. Just like in the Onitsha dynasty, they have their traditional dresses made for the king and other chiefs. The mode of dressing varies from one dynasty to another.
Some even go as far as using tattoo on their bodies as a sign that they are traditional office holders, differentiating themselves from the common people.
We also have institutional dresses. The army has its own. The police have their own. The prison staff have their own.Even the prisoners have their own. All these distinctions are dependent on the institution. In the medicals, they have their own. True or false?
Then we also have occupational dresses. That is not institutional. The type of occupation you engage in determines what you will put on. True or false?
If you are a welder, you know what you will put on. If you are a motor mechanic. You know what you will put on. You put on your overall from head to toe. You put on your stockings. You put on your hand gloves. You put on your rubber shoes.
If you are an electrician or an electrical engineer, there are occupational dresses.
Assuming you are a woman or a man working in a morgue [in a mortuary], it is from head to toe including your eyes. What if you are a medical personnel? You are working in a laboratory or you are doing your work in the theatre? Common sense is there. It is from head to toe, including your white shoes. Nobody will even see your eyes.
In the Youth Service, that is an institution. They have their uniforms. Whether you like it or not, it is approved uniform. It is not for men only. It is for everybody. It is unisex.
Asides that, there are too many things we put on together. Your T-shirts is not female. You make it female when you buy two. One for yourself and one for your wife. Otherwise, your wife can wear your own. Is it not unisex? Your canvas is unisex. Your formal dress is unisex. There are too many things.
Assuming you are a footballer, whether you like it or not, you must put on your boots. You must put on your football jersey. That jersey is for men, and it is also for women. True or false?
Shall we condemn footballing? Physical exercise profits a little, but spiritual profits more.
REFERENCE: 1 Timothy 4:7-9, AMP.⁷But refuse and avoid irreverent legends (profane and impure and godless fictions, mere grandmothers’ tales) and silly myths, and express your disapproval of them. Train yourself toward godliness (piety), [keeping yourself spiritually fit]. ⁸For physical training is of some value (useful for a little), but godliness (spiritual training) is useful and of value in everything and in every way, for it holds promise for the present life and also for the life which is to come. ⁹This saying is reliable and worthy of complete acceptance by everybody.
Did God condemn exercise? No! You do physical exercise for your physique. Take note of what I am saying.
Now, tribally, the Igbo tribe have their own mode of dressing. When you see people tying wrapper, watch the way they are tying their wrapper. The Igbo tribe ties their own in a strange way—a peculiar way when compared to that of Edo State.
People from the Edo dynasty have their own way. Even here in Anambra, they have their own way. It varies from one place to the other. If you go to Yoruba land, the way they tie their wrapper differs from the way we tie our own. Even the make, the Asoke and so on, on the headgears, they have their different ways. When we go up north there, Oh no!
Why do we like dressing like the Yorubas among the men in Igbo land? We want to dress like the Hausas among our men in Igbo land. We want to dress like the Amanyanabos of Opobo. We want to dress like the people from Rivers State. You know them.
Our men will like to emulate all the cultural dresses and all the traditional dresses, but the women are prohibited. If the women tries any of them it becomes abomination. Why?
I gave you a Message entitled, “SAY NO TO GENDER DISCRIMANTION”. Did I preach it today? Did I preach it today? It has been there. It is in the website. Who has ever criticized it?
[The Message GENDER DISCRIMINATION / CULTURE AND RELIGION / TORMENT OF CHOICE was preached in the year 2006]
Anything any human being is fabricating is identified by differentiating name from meaning, and then placing a penalty on the meaning, and Not on the name.
Every law that is man made is lopsided because of the [let Me say it] inferiority complex women have assumed. The moment you assume to be inferior to men, get ready to receive all their impositions.
Everything they do not want, you will be the one to shoulder all. Their dos and don’ts will be centred on women, not on men. Men will be free, while women will be in chains.
That goes to show how man-made human beings can be. But in Christ, there is no male, and there is no female. You are all one in Christ and have only but one saviour.
In creation, My wife and I can donate blood one to another. True or false? Same we can do to our children. If that is possible because we belong to the same blood group and genotype, where lies that discriminatory law?
There should not be any discriminatory law against the one the LORD has already placed there, which is the law of procreation which says that from today, a woman will conceive and bear children in pains and in labour and the man will eat by cultivating the land through labour. Was there any other thing God put there? No other!
Reference: Genesis 3:16-19, NIV.¹⁶To the woman he said, “I will greatly increase your pains in childbearing; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
¹⁷To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
¹⁸It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. ¹⁹By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.”
It was because of their willful disobedience to God’s Word that He now decided to give them rules and regulations which he knew must be broken for they cannot keep it.
After handing it over to Moses, while coming down, the thing fell down and broke into two because it was not God’s intended plan, for God never intended to make any law a permanent law. Never! He is a flexible God.
Check it in your Bible. It is there that He never intended to make the law permanent, for He said, “A day cometh when I will not use the law again. I will remove it and institute a better one established on better promises.”
Reference: [1] Jeremiah 31:31-34, KJV. ³¹Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: ³²Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:
³³But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
³⁴And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
[2] Hebrews 8:7-13, TLB. ^[7]The old agreement didn’t even work. If it had, there would have been no need for another to replace it. ^[8]But God himself found fault with the old one, for he said, “The day will come when I will make a new agreement with the people of Israel and the people of Judah.
^[9]This new agreement will not be like the old one I gave to their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; they did not keep their part in that agreement, so I had to cancel it.
^[10]But this is the new agreement I will make with the people of Israel, says the Lord: I will write my laws in their minds so that they will know what I want them to do without my even telling them, and these laws will be in their hearts so that they will want to obey them, and I will be their God and they shall be my people.
^[11]And no one then will need to speak to his friend or neighbour or brother, saying, ‘You, too, should know the Lord,’ because everyone, great and small, will know me already.
^[12]And I will be merciful to them in their wrongdoings, and I will remember their sins no more.”
^[13]God speaks of these new promises, of this new agreement, as taking the place of the old one; for the old one is out of date now and has been put aside forever.
And we are now in that day. All those promises were for future generation. And then the 2000^thgeneration, He said is where we are in now. Pay attention as I address this all-important matter.
When you say “This is the dressing for a woman and that for a man”, did God make any? Was there any masterpiece? Did God say, “This is the way that of a woman should be?” or “This is the way that of a man should be?”
So, I am free to sew My own the way I want. And you are free to sew your own the way you want. No pattern was given in the wilderness. No pattern was given to any Prophet.
The son of man never received any pattern of dress for any Brother or for any Sister, for the thing he has taught from the beginning is, “Any dressing that cannot cover your nakedness is no dressing at all. Dressing is meant to cover your nakedness. If you want to cover, cover. If you do not want to cover, do not cover.”
Whether you cover it or you do not cover it, somebody somewhere must admire you, man and woman alike. It is not because of your covering, but because of who you are. Brethren, is it a lie?
The days are over when you think that what Roman Catholic gave you which you call wedding ring can insulate you from being admired. You are a liar. Is the man wearing it?
If you wear it, you have even told the people that you are the target. They will target you so that they will get money from your husband.
One day your husband will be summoned to come and bail you. He will pay money for you and they will still feast on you. He will pay them for not killing you. This is true.
So, you better know the truth about this matter. Evil does not know what you are wearing and what you are not wearing. Evil does not know that you are naked or that you are clothed.
All you have to pray is that evil should not come your way. Do not say, “I know what I will do. Let the evil come.” No!
Hear Me well. I am attacking something. Why do we cover our nakedness? Why do we dress? Any dress that is not aimed at covering your nakedness is not good for you as a human being.
And because you now have the knowledge of what is good and bad, your conscience will tell you, “It is not good for me to expose my body while walking on the road, or even while at home”, for you do not know who will knock at your door. You do not know who will come.
Then, common sense will tell you, “If you are a woman, cover yourself the much you know you will cover.” Man do same! But if you want to go naked, up to you. I hope you are hearing Me. This is because it is believed that you are now an adult.
Since God did not give us any approved pattern of dressing, man decided to make one for himself. Can man make for himself a way? Such is not a way. Can a man make for himself a god? Such is not God. It is man-made.
And man-made is done according to human stipulation. You stipulate what you want. You tell your crafty seamstress to bare it or to tear it on the back or close it. If you want it to be mini or overall, you dictate and not God.
Brethren, has there been anybody who wanted to make clothe and invited God to go to the tailor with him? You are the one to determine what will be sewn for you. When you went to purchase your material, did you go with God? Were you not the one that went and bought it? Brethren, am I coming nearer?

The soul and body of man are united in this way: When a woman has conceived, the Angel of the Night, Lailah, carries the sperm before God, and God decrees what manner of human being shall become of it–whether it shall be male or female, strong or weak, rich or poor, beautiful or ugly, long or short, fat or thin, and what all its other qualities shall be. Piety and wickedness alone are left to the determination of man himself. …….

the legend of the Jews Volume 1,

[The Soul of Man] Paragraph 20.

THE AIM OF DRESSING IS TO COVER NAKEDNESS (2)

Always have that target. The aim of clothing or dressing is to cover my nakedness, man or woman, young or old.

So, whatever I will put on, I will be aiming at covering nakedness—the part of my body I do not want to make public. Not that it will be permanent. No dress is permanent on any person’s body.
Whether you are married or not married, you must go naked before a man that is not your husband, unless you do not want to have a child.
Won’t you go for ante-natal services? Won’t you deliver your babies? Will you wear your dress and then begin to press your child to come out?
What is that thing in you which nobody will see? It does not exist. Your own is not better than that of the mad woman there or that of the mad man there who is walking naked. That one may even be better than those of some of us.
So, be filled with the spirit of truth. That is the Spirit of Christ. Your body will no longer be burning. Your body will be under your control. But when you do not have the Spirit of Christ, your body will always be commanding you. Your flesh will always be commanding you as if there is something extraordinary. It is all but one.
What are we covering? We are covering the parts we want to cover. That one you want to cover, there are others that want their own to be naked. Is it a lie?
That which you are covering with your dress, there are some who will create an opening around that area in their own dress.
Those who make these dresses are here. Is it not what the woman tells the tailor to make for her that the tailor will make? If you make any mistake, the person will tell you to pay for the material. Good! Were you sewing it for God?
God never made any dress and said, “This is the perfect one I want everybody to wear.” You make your own according to your desire and according to what you want to achieve.
But I will show you your guiding principle. When I show you your guiding principle, you will know what to do and what not to do.
Saint Paul established a guiding principle in his own day. Let Me see whether I will see it in 1 Timothy 2:9-10. It is a guiding principle. I say, it was a guiding principle. What did I say it is? [The Brethren responded in unison, “A guiding principle.”]
1 Timothy 2:9-10, TLB.^[9-10]And the women should be the same way, quiet and sensible in manner and clothing. …
They should be sensible in manner and in clothing—in dressing. Did he specify what it takes to be sensible? He will tell you his own side that as women professing godliness, you have to be very sensible.
In your character, behave sensibly. In your dressing, dress sensibly. Behave like one who has wisdom in the way and manner you conduct your affairs, for you are a woman who professes godliness.
Was there any cloth or pattern he recommended? Did he say, “Dress like Phoebe or Susanna”?
If He wanted us to have a uniform, there should be one that should be presented to us, may be Sister Phoebe or Dorcas saying, “Follow the example of Sister Phoebe in her dress”, but he should not have done that because all shapes are not the same.
The shapes of all human beings are not the same. Some are big while some are small. Some are tall while some are short. Some are fat while some are thin.
Some have hips. Some have shoulders, while some are flat-bottomed. Some have flat tummy. Is it not true? So, you will sew according to your shape. Did you get the Message?
Why am I saying it? The content of every container must have the shape of the container. You are the person. You are contained inside the cloth. Is it a lie?
You are inside your dress. Your dress is not inside you. So, your shape must be the same with your cloth. Brethren, I do not know whether you are understanding what I am saying.
Is there any long sleeves a man wears which a woman cannot wear? Since it is to cover nakedness, a woman can wear suit. A woman can wear long sleeves. Why can a woman not wear trousers to cover nakedness then?
What if the wrapper is the problem? It is not the wrapper but the way it is sewn, for wrapper can be converted to trousers. It can be converted to anything.
[To a Sister in the Fellowship] Is this thing you are wearing not wrapper. If you want to convert it to trousers, can you not do it?
You sew your dress according to your convenience. That is why the dressing for a pregnant woman is not the normal dressing she was wearing before she became pregnant. And it changes as the pregnancy progresses. It comes to a point where she will be feeling like walking about naked. Did you get the Message?
She dresses to her comfort and to her convenience. It has nothing to do with her faith. It does not touch faith, for these things are carnal. They are man-made. There is nothing spiritual there.
Decency in your dressing means: always recognize THAT your individuality means a lot. Your integrity starts with your appearance. You will be addressed the way you dress.
So, since you are sensible, dress like a human being. Do not dress like a mad fellow. Do not use outlandish fashion and something that will make you to be what you are not. That goes to show you have common sense.
I will show you something. I have taught you long ago. I documented it for posterity. I am revisiting it today because of your infants that are coming up and the renegades that are upsetting the faith of the children of God everywhere, using non-existent things like the way you dress, the way you plait your hair, the way you do this and that. These things have no value in the life that Christ gives.
Once you are spiritual, the spirit of Christ in you will guide you into what constitutes proper and improper dressing. I have no uniform I introduced. I never said for one day, “Sisters, wear bubu. The other group, wear trousers. The other one wear knickers.” But I am aware…
1 Timothy 2:9-10, TLB.^[9-10]And the women should be the same way, quiet and sensible in manner and clothing. Christian women should be noticed for being kind and good, not for the way they fix their hair or because of their jewels or fancy clothes.
1 Timothy 2:9-10, GNB.⁹I also want the women to be modest and sensible about their clothes and to dress properly;…
You have to be modest in everything you do. Too much of everything is bad. Let everything you do be within moderation. Let your moderation be known by all men, for the sake of Christ Whose identity you are holding.
And I will give you the interpretation that will help you in Romans chapter 12 from verse 1 through 2, which says that you do not copy the examples of this present world. If they are going to the left, move to the right. If they are moving to the right, move to the left.
If you have perfect understanding of Who God is and His regulations, to regulate all these things becomes very easy for a child of God who is speaking the truth in the inward part.
But one who is believing one thing and doing another thing, that is a hypocrite paying lip service to the truth. He has difficulties in his dressing and in his outlook. What he will call fanciful may be useless to somebody. The dress he esteems very highly may be window blind in a rich man’s house.
If you know that wrapper you value so much, it can be window blind in My house. The one My wife uses in the kitchen may be your most expensive apparel. I hope you are getting what I am saying. Why is it so? All hands are not equal.
Often times, we dress to defend personality. True or false. You cannot expect the president’s wife to dress shabbily, thereby dishonouring the husband in the public. She must know how to dress. She must know the dress that is fitting for every occasion that will make the husband to be a man of the day.
⁹I also want the women to be modest and sensible about their clothes and to dress properly; not with fancy hair styles or with gold ornaments or pearls or expensive dresses, ^1obut with good deeds, as is proper for women who claim to be religious. Amen!
Pay attention there. He was giving a regulation to his people because they were mistaking the Message. They were thinking that what it takes for a woman to be godly or to be a virtuous woman means outward appearance.
They were laying greater emphasis on their outward appearance than on their spiritual value. The value of every human being is spiritual, if you are a child of God.
Outwardly you are valueless, for whatever you are using as mere decoration, they are sensual. They are earthly. They will perish with the user. They cannot proceed to heaven with you. They can even put you into trouble. Yes!
REFERENCES: [1] ARCHAEOLOGICAL WRITINGS OF THE SANHEDRINS AND TALMUDS OF THE JEWS, Chapter V. Gamaliel’s Interview with Joseph and Mary, and others concerning Jesus.; Pg. 62.
I asked her if he had any worldly aspirations after money or wealth, or a great name, or did he delight in fine dress, like the most of youngsters. She said that was one thing that vexed her, he seemed to take no care of his person; he did not care whether he was dressed or not, …….. Indeed, she said he takes so little interest in the things of the world and the great questions of the day, they were beginning to despair of his ever amounting to much—much less be a king, as the angel said he would be; if so, he would have to act very different from wat he was acting at that time. …
I have told you My own pattern and I will repeat it today. So, do not think that what will make you to be useful in the eyes of people is the way you dress or the way you make your hair or this and that. It then means you are going about seeking attraction. You are placing yourself [I mean] as a public tender. No!
You do not do that if you are a woman. A man can equally do that. God hates that type of thing. You cannot tender yourself for the public to auction you. No! Invitation to tender? Not a child of God.
There are many ways we place ourselves for tender. Is it a lie? Behind your dressing, there is a spirit. When you are plaiting your hair, there is something you have in your mind.
There is a type of people you want to attract to your side, both male and female, especially women that lay greater emphasis on their hair, “Oh! your hairdo is very wonderful. Where did you plait it? You are the lady of the moment.” That’s women.
And men will capitalize on that and begin to think that there is something strange inside the body other than that nonsense. When that hair is removed, you will see nothing but a vulture.
This is one thing with people that use make-ups. We call it illusion. It is illusory. Momentary appearance. A deceitful appearance momentarily. And it changes as you change your hairstyle. Brethren, is it a lie?
There is a style you will plait and nobody will be able to see your face. It will change your face. When you change your hairdo to another style, it will produce another face. They are all illusory.
It is like people that use wall paint [wall paint] to paint their bodies, turning white to black and turning black to white. They are all illusory.
Even if you use that thing they call mask, and besides the mask, you use another man’s face, it is illusory. It is not permanent.
The question is: What is your motive? By so dressing and everything, what do you intend to achieve. Who and who do you want to admire you? What type of a picture do you want to present to the world around you. What type of a picture do you want to present to God? Is that picture the type that God will admit?
This is because your body is holy unto God. And you must present your body to God as a living sacrifice, the type He will accept very well, not the type He will reject.
For that reason, God decided to show us a standard. A standard. A pattern. I hope you are hearing Me. A pattern for women. A pattern for men. A pattern for the youth. Whether we are copying it or not, all in our hands.
If I show you a pattern, you have a right to reject it, and you have a right to accept it.

Thus, in THE SON OF MAN Heaven is made possible. Not only possible, THE SON OF MAN is the Ladder, the Link between Heaven and earth. The link between Jehovah. Look at the Supernatural photographs! THE SON OF MAN is the Link between you and the Great Personality in the whitest Robe; The Link between you and The Godhead; The Link between Heaven and Earth; The Only Person that will take you to the Father, for there is no way you can bypass Him and get to Heaven. Impossible! Being a human being like you, He placed Him before you as your Living Example, your Guide, your Leader, your Instructor, your Comforter, your All and All. He said, “Look up to Him. In Him is the Father revealed.” Now we know that THE SON OF MAN and the Father are One.

The son of man

I AM THE LADDER TO HEAVEN; Preached on Sunday 9^th June 2013 at the Household of God Onitsha; Pg. 40 vs. 25 – 27

USE THE WORD OF GOD AS YOUR CLOTHING (1)

Look at the pattern saint Paul sent to Timothy to tell them, that they should dress sensibly and decently as women that are godly. Did he make any other stipulation? Did he present one dress?

Because of what I am hearing, I am going to make a stipulation today other than the one I made before so that if you want to take, you take. If you do not want to take, leave it.
I had earlier predicted it that a day is coming when I will say it. While going through the GREAT SERMON, I said, “If not for your weakness, men and women alike, I would have introduced My own type of dressing which will help you to escape the corruption that is in the world through lust.”
But I know that women by nature do not like to be given allowance. If you make one allowance for them, they will abuse it. They must go to the extreme.
I used the hair I approved for them as an example because their natural hair was peeling off. I approved the use of wig. When they complained of wig, I approved of weave-on only on one condition.
It must be black, not multi-coloured. It must be black because you are blacks. Assuming you are whites, I will permit another colour for you, for it will be a colour that will suit your own nature here—your skin.
Remember, it is temporal. In death, you do not carry weave-on. You do not carry any artificial. You return as you are.
I took into consideration the troubles they were having while tying their scarf. I said ok. You can now begin to use weave-on as your covering, provided it is black.
If you have money, make the one that looks like the natural Igbo plaiting. The natural Igbo Plaiting or the Yoruba plaiting. They are everywhere in the market.
Instead of going to the plaiting room to die from morning till morning. Sometimes, for two or three days, buy the one that is already made. Simply put it on and it will cover everywhere.
You wear it as you wear cap. You can remove it any time you want. It will also reduce the heat on your head whenever you pull it off.
Secondly, it will enable you now to be taking your bath like your male counterpart, using soap and good water to wash your hair always so that our brain can cool down.
You reduce redness of eyes. You reduce seasonal madness which is common to all women because they do not bath their head.
Simply because she plaited her hair, she will carry it like that for two to three months without washing the hair on the head. When she sweats, the head will be smelling offensively.
For the one that is lying on the same bed with her husband, the husband will simply push her to one side of the bed with the pillow because the sweat from her hair has drained into the pillow causing it to smell. A self-inflicted injury.
Did God say you should not bath because of your plaited hair? Never! You are the one troubling yourself. You know that you do not have enough money to be plaiting it every two days. Yet, you went ahead and plaited it, moving around with an offensive odour.
After a while, it will start decaying. Afterwards, it will still be repaired in that condition with extra attachments. Then, it will become worse.
Why can you not pity yourselves? The whites not only put on the wigs and the weave-on, men put it on too, and they remove it. William Branham was wearing it until he died, together with others.
It is their tradition because there is cold in their area. And because of cold, you must cover your head. Otherwise, you will be chilled.
So it is with dressing. There are some dresses that are climatic. You dress according to climate of your own region. If you are in the arid regions where there is no water [that is the desert region] there are dresses meant for desert people.
There are dresses meant for cold climate areas. If you go there and you say you want to be a Nigerian and wear this nonsense, you will even be frozen in less than 30 minutes.
My daughter is living in Wolverhampton, Scotland. Just keep a bottle of water out, and in 24 hours, it is frozen. So you do not try it, to expose a part of your body.
If you go to Milan in Italy, you do not try it. Even in Florida in America, you do not try it. There are many many areas like that. If you go to Alaska, you do not try it. In Iceland or in Greenland, you do dare not try it.
If you come out and expose your body, any part of your body that is exposed is going to be frozen. Your blood will stop flowing.
There are cold dresses for those areas. That is why even in Moscow Russia, you have to wear all those climatic dresses from head to toe. It does not know who is a man or a woman. Does death discriminate? Does death know who is a man or woman?
You are growing from Faith to Faith and from strength to strength. I never approved any special dress for My children and another for others. And I never presented any photograph or any semblance of dress and said, “This is the uniform I have given to everybody.”
The uniform I gave is the Word of God as your full dress from head to toe—the Bridal uniform, which is your Faith in Christ.
I even drew it as a uniform behind all the magazines. Apart from that one, I gave no other dress.
Be filled with the Word of God and be filled with the Spirit of God. Use it as your clothing.
I will show you Scriptures. When you are filled with the Spirit of Christ, you do not need to bother how to dress, for God will show you spiritually what dressing is all about.
Read from one translation only. Let Me show you in the days of Peter, those who were trying to substitute outward appearance for God’s righteousness.
Your beauty as a woman is not what you wear or the way you look. Your beauty is in your heart. Your beauty is your character. And when your heart is right, your dressing must be right. You must have a perfect judgment of what you put on.
1 Peter 3:1-6, TLB. ^[1-2]Wives, fit in with your husbands’ plans; for then if they refuse to listen when you talk to them about the Lord, they will be won by your respectful, pure behaviour. Your godly lives will speak to them better than any words.
^[3]Don’t be concerned about the outward beauty that depends on jewelry, or beautiful clothes, or hair arrangement. ^[4]Be beautiful inside, in your hearts, with the lasting charm of a gentle and quiet spirit [Amen!] that is so precious to God.
It is not what you are putting on. If you like, go naked. God Who commanded Isaiah to go naked, was He not God? For three good years, a married man with children, “Go naked throughout the whole city, proclaim the Word of God.”
REFERENCES: Isaiah 20:1-3, TLB.In the year when Sargon, king of Assyria, sent the commander-in-chief of his army against the Philistine city of Ashdod and capture it, the LORD told Isaiah, the son of Amoz, to take off his clothing, including his shoes, and to walk around naked and barefoot.
And Isaiah did as he was told. Then the Lord said, my servant Isaiah, who has been walking naked and barefoot for the last three years, is a symbol of the terrible troubles l will bring upon Egypt and Ethiopia”
If you do not believe Me because I am naked before you, even if I clothe like the Aladura, you will not believe in Me.
What if you will see a man of God eating excreta or animal dung? At the command of the LORD, he can do that. At the command of the LORD, he can go naked. At the command of the lord, he can marry a prostitute so that other men will raise children for him.
That is why when you are believing God, be sure you have believed in God, for He is an expert in giving you instructions that run contrary to your long-established lifestyle.
When you come before God, be ready to take His own lifestyle. You have to be flexible like God, no longer rigid and no longer walking in your own thinking. See things with the eyes of God. Finish!
So those who thought that physical appearance, dressing in costly apparels and things like that is their beauty that is rubbish! In the eyes of God, it is inward beauty.
That man has a good heart. He has a good heart. He has good character. There is nothing else we are looking for.
If you like, be more beautiful than Jezebel but you have an impure heart, is it valuable? Even if you are as beautiful as the daughter of sea goddess, but your heart is evil, it is valueless.
May God give me a wife with a good heart and a good character, not one who is beautiful to look at but has a bad character. Not one with a beautiful face but having a filthy and impure heart. No! I say no!
Let Me just show you something here. 2 Corinthians 5:16, AMP. ¹⁶Consequently, from now on we estimate and regard no one from a [purely] human point of view [in terms of natural standards of value]. [No] even though we once did estimate Christ from a human viewpoint and as a man, yet now [we have such knowledge of Him that] we know Him no longer [in terms of the flesh].
^[16]So stop evaluating Christians by what the world thinks about them or by what they seem to be like on the outside. …
What? Stop evaluating children of God by what the world is talking about them or what they look like outside. Stop judging them by their external values. Judge them by their internal values.
You can have good external values, but zero internal value. You are valueless in the sight of God. Big for nothing! They are everywhere. Good to look at on the outside, but grievous wolves inside.
Do we have such people? They are found among both men and women. They are pretending to be good and pious outside, but God said, “Beware of such people. They are Pharisees. They are Saducees—men and women who look good in the outside, but inwardly they are grievous wolves—devouring lions.”
I think it is good that I look good inside, but look bad outside, but it is not possible. Do not wash the outside. You wash the outer parts of the cup, but inside the cup is dirty.
Do not insist on washing your hands according to the traditions of your people before eating. Rather, wash your heart, wash the inside, and the outside shall be clean. Once you are clean inside, you are clean outside. If you are dirty inside, you are dirty outside. Do you believe that to be true?
So, to one who is right in the inside, everything is right. To one who is wrong inside, everything is wrong. I will show you that Scripture today, so that you know where you belong to. You will know whether you belong to the people who are fault finders because your faith is not growing.
This is because once you are stunted, others will grow above you. You will be looking into their past and pulling their dress up to know what they are wearing inside, not knowing that they are already covered with God’s righteousness which is their real garment.
You were invited to a banquet the same way others were invited. When you all arrived at the banquet hall, all of you who are guests are mad people that were invited to the banquet. And everybody was given his or her own white garment. Everybody put on his own.
He gave me a new garment of white. I used it to cover my own tattered garment. And now, you are pulling my own garment up. If you pull my white garment up, what will you see? What you will see remains the old tattered one.
But already, it is covered. What are you looking for inside? What do you want to see? My old self or my new nature, which is after Christ.
^[16]So stop evaluating Christians by what the world thinks about them or by what they seem to be like on the outside. Once I mistakenly thought of Christ that way, merely as a human being like myself. How differently I feel now! Ok!
Now, Isaiah Chapter 30 verse 1.The prophet prophesied. I want to have King James version. I also want to have Amplified.
Isaiah 30:1, KJV. Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
Is that so? A rebellious child will insist on having covering, but not by the Spirit of God. Woe to those rebellious children who add sin upon sin by taking a covering that is not the Spirit of Christ.
If you are covered with any covering that is not the Spirit of Christ, you are a rebellious fellow. True or false? But what is the spiritual covering of a child of God?
Everything about God is spiritual. And you must worship Him in spirit and in truth, not mechanically again. The time for mechanical worship—external worship is over. It is not through man-made rules or man-made pattern of dress.
In the Cherubim and Seraphim [church], they have man-made rules. In Odozi Obodo, they have their own. In every group, they have their own. Even in the Deeper life [church] and Pentecostals, they have their turtleneck.
That you make turtleneck like our Sister here does not make you an angel. If you open it like this mother also, it does not make you a Saint. Did you get the Message?
If you like, use the whole clothe in the whole world and cover yourself from head to toe, if you do not have the Spirit of God, you are naked. You are barren. You are unfruitful. True or false?

I keep on telling you as a Holy Church, a peculiar people I love, I have been trying My best to espouse you to One Husband in holiness and righteousness, telling you to follow Me as I follow Him daily. Follow Me because I am the example God is setting here before you. Then, My duty is to point you to the path of Holiness.

THE SON OF MAN

CALLING CHRIST IN THE TIME OF CRISIS; Preached on Sunday 15^th August 1993 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 86 vs. 39.

USE THE WORD OF GOD AS YOUR CLOTHING (2)

Get Me King James version of the Bible. Let us read what we are wearing. 2 Peter 1:3-11, KJV.

³According as His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness,…
What has given us? Divine power. Remember, the divine power is Christ, for Christ is the wisdom and power of God. Do you believe that to be true? Is it Scriptural?
…through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:… Good! Who is that person? The son of man.
⁴whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises; that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
⁵And besides this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; ⁶and to knowledge, temperance; and to temperance, patience; and to patience, godliness; ⁷and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, charity.
⁸For if these things be in you, and abound,…
If these qualities be in you and do what? Abound. When these qualities have a home and live in you. …they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
⁹But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
¹⁰Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
¹¹for so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly to make you that you do not be naked, barren, unfruitful. If these things be in you. That is what I want to hear in another translation.
2 Peter 1:3-11, TLB.^[3]For as you know him better, he will give you, through his great power, everything you need for living a truly good life: he even shares his own glory and his own goodness with us!
^[4]And by that same mighty power he has given us all the other rich and wonderful blessings he promised; for instance, the promise to save us from the lust and rottenness all around us, and to give us his own character. That is your dressing!
^[5]But to obtain these gifts, you need more than faith; you must also work hard to be good, and even that is not enough. For then you must learn to know God better and discover what He wants you to do.
You must learn to know God better. That Faith is not enough. Learn to know Him better. Find out what He wants you to do.
^[6]Next, learn to put aside your own desires so that you will become patient and godly, gladly letting God have His way with you. Work with Him. Work with Him. Do not drag your feet.
^[7]This will make possible the next step, which is for you to enjoy other people and to like them, and finally you will grow to love them deeply.
^[8]The more you go on in this way, the more you will grow strong spiritually and become fruitful and useful to our Lord Jesus Christ.
We are still riding on. I am still showing you what others stipulated. Colossians 3:16-25 in the Living Bible and Amplified version.
Living Bible.^[16]Remember what Christ taught, and let his words enrich your lives and make you wise; teach them to each other and sing them out in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing to the Lord with thankful hearts.
^[17]And whatever you do or say, let it be as a representative of the Lord Jesus,… Whatever you do or say, including your dressing. You see why you must be modest and sensible in your dressing. Yet, there is no pattern shown.
But now, a pattern is going to be revealed. Anything less than that, your conscience will prick you.
…and come with Him into the presence of God the Father to give him your thanks.
^[18]You wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, for that is what the Lord has planned for you. ^[19]And you husbands must be loving and kind to your wives and not bitter against them nor harsh.
^[20]You children must always obey your fathers and mothers, You children must obey your parents.…for that pleases the Lord. It pleases God.
^[21]Fathers, don’t scold your children so much that they become discouraged and quit trying. I hope you are paying attention. It is a comprehensive package.
^[22]You slaves must always obey your earthly masters,… You apprentices, you servants must always obey your masters. …not only trying to please them when they are watching you but all the time; obey them willingly because of your love for the Lord and because you want to please Him.
^[23]Work hard and cheerfully at all you do, just as though you were working for the Lord and not merely for your masters, ^[24]remembering that it is the Lord Christ who is going to pay you, giving you your full portion of all he owns. He is the one you are really working for.
^[25]And if you don’t do your best for Him, He will pay you in a way that you won’t like—for he has no special favourites who can get away with shirking. Amen!
Shirking means dodging your responsibilities, abandoning that which you should be doing for your master. He will pay you in a way you will never like. He will take you by surprise and settle you before your time.
We are continuing. Colossians 2:16-23, The Living Bible and the Amplified version.
^[16]So don’t let anyone criticize you for what you eat or drink, or for not celebrating Jewish holidays and feasts or new moon ceremonies or Sabbaths.
^[17]For these were only temporary rules… These were what? Only temporary rules. …that ended when Christ came. …
Has Christ come? Why are people continuing in those nonsenses? You will see where you are equally guilty.
You are avoiding criticism. Criticism makes a child of God stronger. Criticize Me if you like. It will never remove My conviction. Rather, it will strengthen Me. I hope you are hearing Me. Good.
Let nobody ever criticize you because of what you eat or what you drink, the way you dress, the way you do this and the way you do that. Ah! Ah! These are all man-made.
Just like this sister that is here. She is a good seamstress. This one cannot wear it. Praise the LORD cannot wear this one. This one is for a mother. Not ordinary mother, but the mother that has weight. Can you wear this one? You will be swimming inside it. Your own is for you.
What will justify whatever you are wearing or whatever you are eating or whatever you are drinking is your motive. A man has the right to do everything, but God judges the motive. What is your intention for doing this thing you are doing?
^[16]So don’t let anyone criticize you for what you eat or drink, or for not celebrating Jewish holidays and feasts or new moon ceremonies or Sabbaths.
^[17]For these were only temporary rules that ended when Christ came. Temporary rules! They are completely over.
… They were only shadows of the real thing—… Can you imagine? How can somebody continue to chase shadows when the real thing is here and you are going about chasing shadows? I am harbouring many unbelievers.
… They were only shadows of the real thing—of Christ himself. Is Christ a shadow. Christ has appeared. Shadow has stopped.
^[18]Don’t let anyone declare you lost when you refuse to worship angels, as they say you must. [Yes!] They have seen a vision, they say, and know you should. These proud men (though they claim to be so humble)…
These proud men claiming to be so humble, when you look at their faces they will resemble the face of fearGod. They will keep a straight face carrying the Bible dressed in suit and walking holy holy.
“While I was praying, the LORD spoke to Me now.” Where did he see the LORD? Liars! Liars lying against the LORD. Liars lying against the Holy Spirit. Heaven sent me to minister to you! Look at the man. Somebody who has never known who God is, but because of money which he wants to pilfer from the hands of people.
… These proud men (though they claim to be so humble) have a very clever imagination. ^[19]But they are not connected to Christ,THE HEAD…
They are not connected to Christ, the Head. They have a very clever way of getting money from people. Their brain is always fast. They look at people’s conditions and use them against the people.
“There is a woman I am seeing here. She has a severe headache. The Lord spoke to me concerning you woman. Do not be ashamed. Come come come!”
You see men and women following. And this woman is unknown to all. Why not mention the name of the woman? He will command the men to go back, that the person he is talking about is a woman. Rubbish!
^[19]But they are not connected to Christ, the Head to which all of us who are his body are joined; [Amen!]for we are joined together by his strong sinews,…
You know what sinews is? Blood vessel! There is a blood vessel that is found in the legs of chicken. When you touch it, it is very strong. This is the aorta in the body of a man. Look at it. Once you cut it, the man will bleed to death or you amputate the leg. That is the main artery joining the head down to the feet.
…we are joined together by his strong sinews, and we grow only as we get our nourishment and strength from God.
^[20]Since you died, as it were, with Christ … And resurrected with Christ through baptism. Is it not correct? You have been baptized in the truth. Even physical baptism symbolizes death and resurrection of Christ, but that nonsense is over. It is mechanical. Now, it is spiritual baptism.
^[20]Since you died, as it were, with Christ and this has set you free from following the world’s ideas of how to be saved—by doing good and obeying various rules—…
Have you been saved from following the world’s ways of getting saved—their own ideas. Ideas vary from church to church, from pastor to pastor, from reverend father to reverend father. They have too many ideas of what you will do and get saved. And they are all useless and unprofitable.
If you have your own idea of how you will get saved, live this place. Do not ever come back here again. We are not following our own ideas. Neither are we following our own plans. We are following God’s plan, making sure that we are fitting to His own plan.
^[20]Since you died, as it were, with Christ and this has set you free from following the world’s ideas of how to be saved—by doing good and obeying various rules—…
That is the world’s idea. They think that salvation is by being charitable or through corporal works of mercy, exchanging visitations and gifts and things like that. Rubbish!
Can a man be good in the sight of God. Tell Me what you will do and be good. No man is good but Christ. You can only be good if God makes you good. And God Himself who makes you good will declare you good only in His own sight.
And at that point where God is calling you good, you are an abominable thing before the heathens. And among you, to those who are operating outside Christ, you are also abominable. You are despised and dejected. Only those who have the same spirit with you will acknowledge you to be a seed of God. The rest would not.
^[20]Since you died, as it were, with Christ and this has set you free from following the world’s ideas of how to be saved—by doing good and obeying various rules—why do you keep right on following them anyway, still bound by such rules as
^[21]not eating, tasting, or even touching certain foods? ^[22]Such rules are mere human teachings, for food was made to be eaten and used up.
^[23]These rules may seem good, for rules of this kind require strong devotion and are humiliating and hard on the body, but they have no effect when it comes to conquering a person’s evil thoughts and desires. They only make him proud.

I am not a follower of Jesus and I cannot follow Jesus’ example. Anybody that follows Jesus’ example will end it where Jesus ended it. You must know who Jesus is. Jesus never said we should be called Christians at the end. We are continuing where Jesus stopped, for we received a Message higher than that of Jesus, for so the Lord commanded us, not Jesus. We should be a Light to those that are living in darkness. That’s all!

THE SON OF MAN

COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS; Preached on 26^th April 2004 at the Household of God, Onitsha; Pg. 114 vs. 40 – 41

USE THE WORD OF GOD AS YOUR CLOTHING (3)

Colossians 2:20-23, Complete Jewish Bible.^[20]If, along with the Messiah, you died to the elemental spirits of the world, then why, as if you still belonged to the world, are you letting yourselves be bothered by its rules? — ^[21]“Don’t touch this!” “Don’t eat that!” “Don’t handle the other!”

^[22]Such prohibitions are concerned with things meant to perish by being used [not by being avoided!], and they are based on man-made rules and teachings.
^[23]They do indeed have the outward appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed religious observances,….
The person will be walking about holy holy, “We are fasting today. we are doing this and that. Keep the food for now. Later, we will eat it. Bless you! Bless you!”
Why do you obey these rules and regulations made by man? Do not eat. Do not drink. Do not touch. Do not do this. Do not do that. If you do all these man-made demands, do you not know that you will be filled with pride, “I tried so much.”
You will be boasting. You will be sharing the testimony of how you tried, “I observed all. That fasting? I did all. That night vigil? I did all.”
Who stipulated them? Man-made! Man-made! They do not save you from anything. It is self-imposed rigour. You will be suffering yourself for nothing.
It is just like what happened in Kenya in the month of April. They are now in the court. 429 human beings went to church, and they were starved to death because they want to go to heaven.
Their leader said that they should not eat nor drink, and that anybody that has courage should use dagger and murder himself and that all of them will go to heaven. So their corpses were littered in the forest and in the waters there.
Last week, it was an eyesore. Corpses that were exhumed were 429 worshippers, including infants. Who knows what the man must have told them other than heaven that could make them to starve to death?
He locked them up in the cathedral. Yet, those leaders were going out, eating and drinking. Wonders will not cease. They are now in the court.
What can you say about the one from Achina. The parents are living in Onitsha here. What can you say about reverend King. He is from Achina and those boys from CKC. The one that was killing women and also killing everybody in the church saying that God said that he should kill.
He has been condemned to death, but they do not want to hang Him. He killed many. He stripped women naked because of their breast and so on. These are churches in Lagos and Onitsha. They are everywhere.
We are talking about those that have been caught. What of those that are operating secretly, uncaught? I mean, nobody has ever found them.
That people go to church and perish there and they would not come back, who carried them? Some are buried within the church premises.
A man and his wife with the Igwe from Orlu, Chairman of the Traders of Pharmaceutical in Head Bridge. He went to Ihiala Sabbath church for deliverance where they killed the two and buried them beside the church.
The man and the woman carried the Mercedes Benz car and ran to Maiduguri. There they caught them together with the man’s money. Is it not the worshiping of God. May God help us. I say, may God help us.
You see why we are not a church. We are children of the Most High God. We worship our own God in our own way. We are here with God and God alone. Who knows that you are here? Nobody but the Almighty God.
^[23]They do indeed have the outward appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed religious observances, false humility and asceticism; but they have no value at all in restraining people from indulging their old nature. At all!
Colossians 2:20-23, AMP.²⁰If then you have died with Christ to material ways of looking at things and have escaped from the world’s crude and elemental notions and teachings of externalism, why do you live as if you still belong to the world? [Why do you submit to rules and regulations?–such as] ²¹Do not handle [this], Do not taste [that], Do not even touch [them],
²²Referring to things all of which perish with being used. To do this is to follow human precepts and doctrines. Amen!
²³Such [practices] have indeed the outward appearance [that popularly passes] for wisdom, in promoting self-imposed rigour of devotion and delight in self-humiliation…
When you see the person that indulges in these things, he or she will look like a mad person, all in the name of worshipping God. You will then be wondering whether his or her appearance is the result of worshipping God.
The person will answer yes, claiming that he or she is, by so doing, benefitting from the cross of Christ—the cross of Jesus Christ.
Did God say that if you are good-looking, you will not go to heaven? Did God say so? Did God say that if you do not starve yourself to death, you will not go to heaven? Did God say that if you want to go to heaven, you must wear tattered shoes or even go barefooted? Did God say so?
These are man-made rules and regulations from people that want to be something when they are nothing. You are nothing but whatever God wants to make you. He will make you that thing, but becoming what you are not makes you God’s greatest enemy, pretending to be good when you are bad.
Why do you subject yourself to such rules? Do not touch. Do not eat. Do not drink. The multitudes of “Don’t” has overwhelmed human beings.
If you have the Spirit of Christ, you do not have any need for anybody to be policing you about. Even the Spirit of Christ in you will be directing you on what to do and what you should not do.
To those who are counting on the laws of Moses, whether you obey all. If you offend in one, you are guilty of all. True or false?
What if you obey all, and then tomorrow, you put on the dress you think is for men? Who made it for men? Who prescribed men’s dress? Did God say, “This is a man’s dress”? Did Moses say, “This is a man’s dress”?
Please Brethren, if anybody knows the dress prescribed for men, let him say it so that we can sort it out.
I am here, live. I am not only His representative. I AM HE. I am the Justifier. I am the Main Man, Who the whole world and no longer the Gentiles, for both the Jews and the gentiles pin their hope of eternal salvation in Me. Outside Me, there is no other.
I want to know that dress outside the one I have showed you. You must be clothed with the Spirit of Christ. And I have showed you the attributes and the qualities of Spirit of Christ which you will be manifesting, that will make God to be honoured wherever you are as Christ’s representative.
You have to represent God decently and in order, sensible in what you eat, what you drink, what you dress with.
²³Such [practices] have indeed the outward appearance [that popularly passes] for wisdom, in promoting self-imposed rigour of devotion and delight in self-humiliationand severity of discipline of the body, but they are of no value in checking the indulgence of the flesh (the lower nature). [Instead, they do not honour God but serve only to indulge the flesh.]
I do not rule out the possibility of people without faith or people with low faith finding their ways among you. I will touch on them now, but first and foremost, Galatians chapter 5 in living Bible and other translations. Let us read it before I make My stipulations.
Galatians 5:1-6,^[1]So Christ has made us free. Now make sure that you stay free,… Who set you free? Christ. Who is Christ? The anointed One, the Messiah, the LORD God Almighty, the Great God with the Shekinah surrounding Him.
You can see Him with the Shekinah. You can see the Godhead where all of you are united, making it possible for Me to pull you along.
Every part of the body of the vehicle is united to the head. Without the head, the vehicle will not move. If you disconnect from the head, you will remain standstill. Is it a lie Brethren?
All the coaches in a train are connected to the head. Disconnect along the way, you will remain standstill there. You are lost because you have disconnected from the head.
And look at the Head. Look at the Personality. See the divine Being. Does He move about? Our Pastor will read that one, not Me. I am not worthy to read it. It is already contained in a Message. He has it there.
Galatians 5:1-6,^[1]So Christ has made us free. Now make sure that you stay free, and don’t get all tied up again in the chains of slavery to Jewish laws and ceremonies. ^[2]Listen to me, for this is serious:… Listen to Me, for this matter is very serious.
…if you are counting on circumcision and keeping the Jewish laws to make you right with God,… Jewish laws includes that one in Deuteronomy 22. It is included. …then Christ cannot save you. Who will not save you? Christ. Then go to Moses so that Moses will save you.
Moses is a past saviour. He cannot save the present dispensation. Even saint Paul cannot save you. None of them will save you. You are now in the dispensation of the son of man, the era of spiritual worship.
So you must know exactly what He is saying in His own day. I never made different stipulations. My stipulations are one. My Messages are consistent.
^[3]I’ll say it again. Anyone trying to find favour with God by being circumcised must always obey every other Jewish law or perish. ^[4]Christ is useless to you if you are counting on clearing your debt to God by keeping those laws; you are lost from God’s grace.
You are lost from God’s grace. I practice grace and not these useless laws. I am the end of the law and of the Prophets. For righteousness now to spring forth, which is by faith in Christ, you cannot be in the law and in grace at the same time. The law has given way because the reality is here.
The law came by Moses. This grace and truth that bringeth salvation is here [live] introduced by Christ Himself, Who is the originator of the Faith, and the One Who plants and is monitoring it. He is the One in the lead.
So you either believe Me or disbelieve Me. The right is yours. If you feel that obeying that one and the rest will save you, go there, but not in this Family. This Family is for the saved, for the Saints. No room for anything error. No room for argument. No room for doubt.
^[4]Christ is useless to you if you are counting on clearing your debt to God by keeping those laws; you are lost from God’s grace.
If you are counting on obeying– if you refuse to wear dress meant for men in the Jews, if there is any, but where is that dress which we have not seen. You are the people that differentiated between man and woman. True or false?
I do not know what you are using to differentiate because the differentiation was carried out by God even from creation, the man with his manhood and the woman with her womanhood. One cannot interchange for another. True or false?
Any other thing is outward regulation which man decided to fabricate for himself. Tell Me the cloth the Almighty God made. Where do I buy it? I will be the number one to buy My own.
But the cloth that is our covering, we purchased it without money. So if you are naked, come to Me. You will be covered by My glory.
Let the glory of God cover you. The glory of God is the Canopy. That is the covering of every true child of God which is the Spirit of truth. That is the Divinity.
And it is the presence of God which is His glory that is the righteousness of God’s own people. Whether they be naked or not, God does not care.
Watch Balak and Balaam in their attempt to place a curse on them. Did they succeed? This is because the glory of God covered them.
Reference: Numbers 23:20-26, NIV.²⁰I have received a command to bless; he has blessed, and I cannot change it. ²¹“No misfortune is seen in Jacob, no misery observed in Israel. The Lord their God is with them; the shout of the King is among them.
²²God brought them out of Egypt; they have the strength of a wild ox. ²³There is no sorcery against Jacob, no divination against Israel. It will now be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘See what God has done!’
²⁴The people rise like a lioness; they rouse themselves like a lion that does not rest till he devours his prey and drinks the blood of his victims.” ²⁵Then Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all nor bless them at all!” ²⁶Balaam answered, “Did I not tell you I must do whatever the Lord says?”
So, arise and shine if you are a Seed of God. Who can find fault with a child of God who is covered by His glory?
^[5]But we by the help of the Holy Spirit are counting on Christ’s death to clear away our sins and make us right with God.
^[6]And we to whom Christ has given eternal lifedon’t need to worry… We! We to whom Christ has given eternal life, we do not need to worry anymore as to whether we obey Jewish laws and regulations or not. They are of non-effect.
^[6]And we to whom Christ has given eternal life don’t need to worry about whether we have been circumcised or not, or whether we are obeying the Jewish ceremonies or not; for all we need is faith working through love.
Now, let Me show you what I mean. Ephesians 1:1-5, TLB.^[1]Dear Christian friends at Ephesus, ever loyal to the Lord: This is Paul writing to you, chosen by God to be Jesus Christ’s messenger.
^[2]May his blessings and peace be yours, sent to you from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. ……. ^[4]Long ago, even before he made the world,God chose us to be his very own through what Christ would do for us;… Did he say what you will do for Christ. It is through what Christ will do for you.
…he decided then to make us holy in his eyes,… in His own eyes …without a single fault—…
Is it by obeying the law? Is it by wearing men or women’s dressing of which I do not even know their pattern? I do not even know their colour. I do not know where they are found.
It is a matter of the individual. It is a matter of the climate. It is a matter of the work ethics. It is a matter of morality which has no place in the life that Christ gives.I do not know the one you are obeying. Obeying Christ means obeying the son of man, for I am here, live.
… he decided then to make us holy in his eyes, without a single fault—we who stand before him covered with his love.
^[5]His unchanging planhas always been to adopt us into his own family by sending Jesus Christ to die for us. Amen!And he did this because he wanted to!
He did it because He wanted to. Did you force yourself into Me? Did you force yourself into this Family. This is My desire for you. And this is the highest gift I can give to anybody.