YOU MUST KNOW YOUR POSITION IN THE SON OF MAN

YOU MUST KNOW YOUR POSITION IN THE SON OF MAN Preached on 22^nd December, 2013 At THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD ONITSHA By APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN “THE SUPREME INTELLIGENCE” Truth has no substitute” © BRIDE OF CHRIST MINISTRY WORLD-WIDE

I told you that the only thing you will take from here to the next world, to eternity is CHRIST, no other thing. Apart from Christ there is no other thing. Once you have Christ, you have the Sovereign Spirit, no fire will destroy you. No heat will destroy you. Clear the bush, the germ of life is there, no matter the condition, the germ of life is there.

Once it is there, the grave can never hold you captive. Whether it likes it or not, the land must crack, the grave must crack, and your grave must crack if only you go inside the grave with Christ. When you go inside grave with Christ the grave can never hold Christ captive because it is the Spirit that quickeneth. The flesh profiteth nothing. –The Son of Man

(KNOWING YOUR STATUS IN CHRIST; page 52, verse 12-13)

YOU MUST KNOW YOUR POSITION IN THE SON OF MAN

PROLOGUE

My friend, where did you come from? I am asking you a question. Have you been to a place like this before? Ok, you are not a member? Your sister? Who? From where? Enugu Ezike! Which part? Ogurte or Aji?

You are living here. Where do you come from in Enugu Ezike? Aji, Ogurte or Umuida? Aji! Brother Ojiakor! Brother Oliver, do you know him? Speak to him in your language. Speak to him in your language. Do you know Brother Oliver? Oh, you know yourselves.
Do you know this man? Do you know this man? Explanation was given about the small sister whose uncle brought to the fellowship because she cried, refusing to eat all in a bid to be brought to fellowship by her uncle (the young man God spotted out in the fellowship.) the one that brought My presence.
Is this the one born that time? Where is the one whose husband wrote off and thought she was dead for which cause I came? You mean your mother brought Me to Enugu-Ezike.
Thank God, you see connection? Without this girl, he would not know this place. Now you are in this Assembly, you can see us in plain view. You are a wise man. This person is wise. If he were a fool, he would bring and leave her alone.
But he came and stayed with his sister to know what is happening where she has been brought to, because he is the one to give account of her when questions are asked about her. You are a wise man.
Let Me tell you, God can use anything to save you. This may be the only way God has planned to give salvation to this man or to the family. Do you know that it was through the help of a maid that Naaman the Syrian got his healing?
Was it not a slave girl serving as a maid in his house that told Naaman that, “If he would agree to go to her place, the land of the Jews, that there was a prophet called Elisha. If Naaman could see him (Prophet Elisha) and do whatever Elisha would tell him, his leprosy would be cured.”
Naaman picked courage, listened to this maid, obeyed and went to Elisha. He met the man. He went to Elisha with his leprosy. Did he come back with leprosy? No!
The Bible said, he had gone to different places in search of remedy to his problem. Whoever God wants to help, He knows how to help the person. Thus, my daughter, you are welcome. My friend, you are welcome. Thank God, your people are here. I would have spoken to you in your people’s dialect – Ogrute, Umuida, Mpamute, Ikpamodo, Amachara today. This one is from Amachara.
Do you know him? He does not know you. You do not know him. Tell him your village in Amachara. The father is an ex-soldier. Brother Oliver, did you bring Me the palm wine? Your people’s wine is here. Glory be to God in the highest.
This is the family of God. We do not come to fellowship to deceive anybody. This Faith is where we worship God in spirit and in truth. Do you know this person? He is your brother. Thus, this place is filled with your relations. You do not know this person but you know this person. Did Brother Uche come here today? He did not come. Glory be to God.

know your position in the Son of Man

When you come before the Lord, sing praises to Him as lively stones, not as dead stones. We worship God as lively stones. God inhabits in the praises of His saints. Is it not true? God inhabits the praises of His saints.

Is it not a wonderful privilege? Are you not highly favoured that of all that render sacrifices, you are the only group whose sacrifices and prayers are acceptable unto God? Are you not highly favoured? To God be the glory now till eternity for His Name’s sake. Selah.
You are all welcome to this wonderful fellowship in the Name of the revealed Christ in the midst of the Bride. It is wonderful, it is marvellous, it is glorious, it is amazing that human beings, mortals will have fellowship, live, with the Immortal Being. It is hard to believe yet it is real.
Even our former Bishop Okechukwu Paul knew this truth before he left, preached it in the message titled, “You are highly favoured.” He said, “It is hard to believe that the Supreme God, the Immortal God is dwelling, live, in the midst of human beings. It is only the Bride that knows that Christ is not coming from anywhere. That Christ they are expecting is already in the Bride.”
He went further to say, “We know this to be truth.” What can make us to abandon this faith? He said, “It is impossible!” Where is he today?
You see why St. Paul enjoined his hearers or followers to be very careful. Let he that thinketh he standeth be very careful lest he falls. You must know your position in the Son of Man.
Even our former bishop made it clear that, “You can be in the fellowship without being in the Son of Man. You can be in the fellowship in any Church, yet, you are not in the faith of the Son of Man. You must strive earnestly to make sure that your calling and election standeth sure in the Son of Man.”
What is more, he mentioned His name: “The Giver of Salvation in your day is no other person but our Brother Peter Odoemena.” He affirmed it loud and clear, published it wide.
He said, “Outside the Bridal Faith, no salvation for mankind.” He said, “Anywhere you like, run to.” Where is he today? We are talking about Bishop Okechukwu Paul of the old memory.
You must make sure, strive earnestly, make sure that your calling and election in the faith of the Son of Man standeth sure. He hammered it loud and clear that you never brought yourself into this faith; that He is the One that brought you.
He said, “You cannot be in this faith without Him sustaining you. He has said it times without number that He will save anybody He wants to save and if He does not want to save you, he said that you are wasting your time.” And this is pure truth!
He registered every truth as he registered in other previous messages and even sealed his confession with an oath. That is why, when you look at this faith, you think it is a simple faith, it is not as simple as you think. Grace is more dangerous than law.
Under the law, you can see your mistake from the written word. But under grace, it is only the Son of Man that will fault you. Under grace, something is wrong because God said it is wrong. It is good because God said it is good no other reason.
That is why grace is more dangerous: That which you think if you do you die, may be your righteousness in the sight of God. That which you think if you do it, you will be condemned, may be what God is desiring from you. you see why it is very delicate for no human being can fault you under grace except God and you know who that God is.
No human being can justify you but God for He is the only justifier. No human being can confirm your faith but God. That is why, in a congregation like this, only God knows those that belong to Him.
I was told of a dream a sister had where she was messing herself up somewhere. All of a sudden, the Son of Man appeared from nowhere, carrying his wife only in His jeep, saw her. She saw the Son of Man and hid her face. She never knew the Son of Man saw her until He parked the vehicle, came back face to face and met her there. Moreover, it was along Nkpor Old Road.
The Son of Man asked her why she should be there at that hour and what she was doing. She became speechless. She wanted to run away, but she could not run. In addition, the voice said, “I have decided to erase your name from the book of life.” Then the dream left her.
She concealed this dream because of fear. She could not disclose it until she got troubled. After a while, she had to go to somebody to open up.
I told the brother: “well, You must know your position in the Son of Man before the translation. The Son of Man must approve of your faith. He must mark it either good or bad.”
Our former bishop emphasised, “Believing the Son of Man means, putting His word into practice. And believing Him means, believing Him in all things whether it favours you or not for God has no unfavourable condition.” And he warned, “Do not provoke God.” A strict warning! But today, has he not provoked God? How do you provoke God? What is unbelief? I really thank God.
I told the Brother My experience with that same sister. I told the brother that I was coming from somewhere very late. I never meant to come late for I do not drive in the night except after fellowship on Wednesdays. Nobody here can ever say He has seen Me driving in the night.
Once it is seven o’clock, My door is locked. I do not go out. Whatever will happen to Me must happen in the day time, not in the night. I am not a night marauder. No matter the emergency, it must wait till morning for I know how to sustain it.
That day, I was coming late. Late in the sense that it was around half-past-five in the evening. You see, to Me it is late. It was around 3-3, opposite Federal Girls College. I saw that same sister standing beside First Bank, trying to enter a bus alone. I never imagined what could bring her to that place. No. After all, she is a free moral agent. But I knew she missed her target. Within Me, I queried her for there could be only one business that could take her there and that will be soliciting for marriage.
A virtuous sister, a virtuous girl that is brought up in a godly home DOES NOT need to walk with her leg looking for a man to engage her. No! you do not need to do that.
Why? If you are good, somebody somewhere is seeing you. If you are bad, somebody somewhere is equally seeing you. If they are not seeing you, they are hearing about you. one day, they must come into contact with you. yes, Deep calleth deep.
thus, be very careful whether you call it dream or revelation or vision.
let Me tell you something. Once you have a dream or revelation or vision and the Son of Man appears there, underline it, You are receiving a direct message. Even if you hide it away from everybody, it registered in your mind that you had an encounter with the Son of Man.
MOREOVER, if you can open your mouth, somebody will tell you that the Son of Man haD already spoken concerning you even on that same matter. thus, let us be very careful.
We have rolled into the most dangerous period in the history of mankind. The most delicate period in the history of mankind, that is where we are. The battle that has been raging for centuries is about to be decided. All that the prophet foretold in the scriptures, all that other prophets foretold in their messages are with us.
When I say prophets, remember, they could be heathens God used. Like I tell My brethren who come around Me that every musician is a prophet. Yes, every musician is a prophet. Simply believe it. I do not care how false that person might be, at one time or the other, the spirit of truth may rest on him and he will prophesy.
Martin Luther King had a dream, a Baptist minister. “I have a dream. One day, my little children in America will cease to be discriminated against because of the colour of their skin.” In other words, the whites will sit together in the same fellowship, in the same bus, in the same hotel, with blacks. Something hitherto never occurred and that cost him his life.
As we journeyed along, in the message titled, “God in Despised Places”, the Lord spoke and I said, “Since blacks including Nigeria have started winning world trophies, defeating the whole world in sports especially football, carried the trophies, is it not a sign that God has visited the blacks?
“Now, I show you a super sign. Watch out for it. Before your very eyes, you will see a black man in the White House. It will happen in your day. It was documented in the message, “God in Despised Places.” Eleven years after, a black man found himself in the White House and he is still there till today.
Do not watch out for the fulfilment of prophecies that concern other nations. Pay strict attention to the voices that have been roaring on you. In anger, in angry resentment, because of their intransigence, a good number of our elders were excommunicated in their Local Assemblies; namely, at Enugu, Bishop Okoh, Deacon Pascal, Pastor Ejike. They were shown the way out of the fellowship on Wednesday. At Nsukka, Pastor Elijah was equally excommunicated. Here in Onitsha, Brother Shedrack Onah has been on excommunication.
Today, early hours of the morning, as early as 5:30am, after My usual prayers, I thought it wise: I weighed between the two extremes. I considered too many things especially the pleas from their families. Some came face to face, some used telephones, the tears rolling from their cheeks, I considered the fate of their children. In mercy, I allowed My love to project.
Seeing I could calm down My temper from the havoc I wanted to wreck in the families of Brother Philip of Onitsha and Brother Stephen, the welder, also of Onitsha, if I could calm down My temper, change My mind from wreaking that havoc, I should extend that mercy to all.
In mercy, I restored all. I commanded that they should come to fellowship. I received the report that Sister Ojiakor would have been excommunicated if not for My intervention ahead of time by inviting her and her husband to My house on a Tuesday like that.
Well, it is truth. Nobody should argue that. However, as far as the Son of Man is concerned, she was excommunicated the same day others were excommunicated. I do not care any reason anybody could give to that effect. It is only this morning that she is restored.
Interview her; since I came to fellowship today, she has never seen My face. She has made several attempts even while I am still here, to catch a glimpse of My face and she missed it. And if I never proclaimed her restored along side with others, it will be highly difficult for her to see My face.
You can sleep with Me in the bed in My house, staying with Me for years without seeing My face. I am a man of many faces. I am a man of many faces for God also is a man of many faces. I have shown you the many faces of God; you have photographed many of them.
It is worthy to mention that the same masquerade—the biggest masquerade ever seen in the history of mankind—that was photographed here by our Brother Emma Nnachor, the same masquerade magnified Himself in the same stature, wearing the same mask, photographed at Opi on November 13^th
If you are in doubt, you will see your copy today. In short, all that took place there were magnified for two purposes. Number one: That Apostle Sunday will believe that Pastor Goddy is a man of God. Number two: That father Abraham should humble himself before the Lord and stop ridiculing Pastor Goddy because he was in the faith before Pastor Goddy.
He that ordained Pastor Goddy to be the shepherd of the flock over there saw all of you and made His choice, laid hands on him. Who are you to despise somebody God has already approved? Thus, look no man in the flesh.
Because of what took place at Opi, I was so thrilled and moved, very much excited and I made it public. One: That Pastor Goddy of Opi has friendly, jovially, in love with dancing as a foolish man carried his flock into Paradise. While Nsukka, has used much education to educate themselves out of Paradise. Enugu used much wisdom and reasoning to reason themselves out of Paradise. But Opi used foolishness, danced before the Lord, praised before the Lord and landed in Paradise with their foolishness.
To enter Paradise with foolishness and to go to hell with wisdom, which one is better? I will rather prefer entering Paradise with foolishness to going to hell with my wisdom. If you look at Pastor Goddy and the way he danced, a dance which nobody can imitate, you can hardly believe he is a man of God.
At this point the Son of Man spotted the Supernatural photograph from Opi in the hands of a brother and queried thus: “Where did you get that photograph? Give it to ME. Who gave it to you? Where did you get it? Who gave it to you? I am tracing it. Yes, where did you get it?”
He answered, “From Brother Chizoba.” “What! From Brother Chizoba? Who authorized you to give him? Did you hear anything concerning the photograph? Did I give you orders? Do you know the people that own those photographs? Did they pay for them ahead of time? I used My money to process all. I am not indebted to anybody. What if I do not want him to have a copy? You have no right whatsoever to run before the whistle. I do not care how you love them and appreciate them, sit down until you receive instruction.”
I am training you as soldiers and you are all soldiers of Christ. Do you know that the strongest rule in the Army is that you will hold your rifle and see your enemy coming to you; you can never fire a shot unless you are commanded. If you dare try to fire because you are holding the rifle loaded with ammunitions, you have committed the worst crime in the Army. It is automatic firing squad. You will be court marshalled immediately and killed. For you have no right to touch your trigger.
Even in the warfront, you may be deployed in your own axis, that is, where the vandals might be approaching, you can never fire a single shot until the captain says fire. That is why you see them on the streets carrying their patrol vehicles, holding their rifles. They dare not fire one shot in the air because any shot you fire, you must give account of it. Before you know it, it will land you in the guardroom. It may cause your demotion in rank. It may even cause your stagnation.
The Army does not know what it means to stagnate you for one year or two. Once it is written there in your file, “stagnate this officer”, that rank you are holding is what you will hold till retirement.
This is the reason why it is only in the Army that somebody can enter as a recruit without rank, serve thirty-five years without even Lance Corporal, one pip. It is not Police. Do you know that promotion is not a right in the Army? You can never petition, you can never write to tell Army that your colleague has been moved to sergeant or to second lieutenant or captain. You cannot try it!
Do you know that in the Army, your Ph.D (Doctor of Philosophy) will only give you a uniform as a recruit? Army does not know what it means to acquire PhD. It is rubbish before them. They only believe in giving you Army training and then expose you to battles.
I was trying to intervene on a matter and I was warned seriously yesterday again by another superior officer in the Army. Thus, Brother Onyema, see Me after fellowship otherwise, you may be arrested because of your son. I told you, in Army, you have not become a soldier, your training has not started until you have passed out. The moment you pass out and you are deployed to a battalion or a brigade, you are assigned to a company or a platoon, then Army starts. Soldiers will keep surveillance over you.
And as a soldier, you have no right to dictate where you will be posted. You are serving Nigeria, not your tribe or your father or mother. Nigeria can deploy you to Yugoslavia. Nigeria can take you to Sweden, to Somalia. As a soldier, you do not expect to be deployed to a place that is peaceful.
Once you have received your initial training, the testing ground is where the battle is. Then, you go and test yourself. Without the battle, the training is useless. That is why you see them going for peace keeping under ECOMOG, or West African Peace Keeping Force or under AU (African Union).
Thus, they keep on deploying them to warfronts. Anywhere you die is where you will be buried. Your parents will only receive your picture and signal, finish. Then the mother will be asked to go to the nearest brigade head quarters to collect the final allotment.
You must know the intricacies before you enlist in the Army. That is why when you enlist in the Army, no going back. You run away, your parents will be arrested. They will remain in detention under torture until you are arrested somewhere because you are a security risk.
Let out a soldier in Onitsha, he will drive the whole of Onitsha away. For that reason, they are confined in the barracks. If you like be a Lieutenant General or a General, you must live in the barracks. You can never hire a house outside and live.
Are you not soldiers of Christ? We are! You must know what it takes to be a soldier. Remember that Joshua was a centurion and God is the Commander-in-Chief of the hosts of the Lord’s Army. When He met Joshua in the warfront, was He wearing ordinary dress? He presented Himself to Joshua as a General and Joshua humbled himself down.
America is enjoying relative peace because they incorporated military training in their school curriculum. Starting from secondary school to their higher school, which they call University. You must continue to get military trainings. While you are in the school, you may be lucky to be promoted to a General. You will be serving as civil servant with your uniform hanging there. A general assigned to a particular platoon. You can never plan coup in America because everybody is a soldier.
Who are you coming to rule? Everybody is attached to a brigade. You have your company, you have your number, you have your ID card, you have everything. It does not stop you from your normal duties as a civil servant. That is why in America, they only pay the regulars. And the regulars are foreigners.
American citizens do not collect a dime as soldiers. They only pay Nigerians they recruit which they use as cannon fodder. When they want to go to Iraq, they deploy them. They want to go to Afghanistan; they deploy foreigners with American Army uniforms. American citizen do not collect a dime because you must be engaged somewhere as an engineer, as a doctor, as a lecturer, yet, having your uniform. That is the rule.
The same way it is in Israel. True Israelis do not collect a dime as allowance. You must be trained, you must handle rifles. In the case of eventuality, everybody will begin to act.
That is why there can never be coup in America because the person that is plotting it, he is plotting amidst other soldiers. You must tell us why you want to rule us. Are you a General? I am a General. You cannot try it. You cannot try it. AMEN.

BRIDE MINISTRY IS THE GREATEST

Brethren, we are not in this most holy Faith to fool anybody. All of you who were restored today, I want to speak to you the same way I spoke to Brother Shed. I restored you not because you committed no crime. No! All of you committed atrocities.

However, you are not the worst in your local assemblies. Rather, the Lord decided to highlight your cases so that the rest may fear. Don’t ever begin to think that the Son of Man is lenient enough to have granted you amnesty.
Amnesty is not amnesia. That I have set you free does not mean I have forgotten your deeds. Your deeds are still very clear to Me. Thus, I now keep watch over you. Not ordinary watch, henceforth, I am keeping surveillance (close watch) over you. You are now under the closest monitoring eyes of the Son of Man. Let Me say it to all of you that are restored today, you have received your last warning.
Go back to the message handled by the Son of Man some years back titled, “Warning before destruction.” The moment warning comes from God and the person fails to take heed to the warning, the next thing is destruction.
For the scripture said, “He that is often reproved and he hardens his heart shall suddenly be destroyed and without mercy.” I, the Son of Man have given you your last warnings today. You are now likened to a man with one eye or a man standing on one foot.
Any careless mistake on your side and the Son of Man captures it from His house or receives it as a report, investigates and proves it to be right, that is the end of your stay in My own Ark unless I am not the Captain of the Ark.
If I am the Captain, which I believe I am, I have no provision for purgatory. No, I do not have any provision for purgatory. No! Once you are out of the Ark, you are out of the Ark because I am regarding the whole thing as an insult. A great insult on the personality of the Godhead because you cannot say you do not know the person you are having dealings with.
It was on this backdrop that I wanted to deal with Philip and Stephen ruthlessly, if not summarily. I wanted to close their chapters. And I vowed a vow before them and the elders, if they try Me and they refused to do that thing, I vowed with My life.
If I never carry out that treat, I should drop down and die instantly there. As if they knew or they heard about it, nobody spoke to them. Does it mean they have escaped? The answer is no.
A brother had a dream and many other things. I praised him and things like that; told him to expect a greater one. That is Apostle Kelechi. Do you know what the thing is likened to? I told him to expect another grievous trial–a big hurdle for your faith in the Son of Man must be refined as a goldsmith refines gold in the fire. Others can make a pleasurable ride into paradise, not Apostle Kelechi. Do not ask Me why? Of course, he knows more than that.
Today is a wonderful day. I never restored them en mass, maybe to enable them attend the little ceremony we are organising in My home on the 28^th December 2013. Far be it from Me. How can I attempt that nonsense when I am trimming down the number of people that should be there? Because I know it is impossible for Me to give you free ticket. No! It is impossible. Nobody should ever have such a dream.
Thus, it is not the reason why I should restore them. Neither have I restored them so that they can come and then lunch our calendar, far be it from Me.
I do not know what anybody in this faith can do to bribe My conscience. That is not even fashioned out in the mind of God. Dash Me yourself, it is rubbish for you are mere dust. I know I will speak to you briefly but before then, it is My good pleasure to plead that all of you should sit down quietly as we consider this message. It is unfortunate that some read our messages while few study our messages.
Paul enjoined Timothy to study to show himself approved unto God; a workman that needs not to be ashamed but rightly dividing the word of truth.”
He went further to enjoin him saying, “Until I come, give yourself over to studying and to prayers.” He said, “It is through the studying of the scripture that I came to realize that the law can never save any human being.”
What if he never gave himself over to studies? Many of you do reading instead of studying. However, the correct thing is to study. Study!
On Saturday morning, our former bishop and his friend Emma Ejimnkonye with their so-called street evangelism just adjacent our house there, mounted a faulty system that was troubling them. Nobody could hear what they were saying. They wanted to sing praise, they could not sing. They wanted to read the Bible, they could not read.
I was wondering whether they were crazy. People were just laughing at them. What was more? In spite of the trouble they were getting from the system, Emma Ejimnkonye could not read out scriptures fluently. He was trying to discourage people from believing that God is a human being.
However, look at what he ended at. He talked and talked, Emma read where he quoted publicly to the hearing of people because we were awake that morning. The place he quoted, he quoted God is a spirit; those that will worship Him will worship Him in spirit and in truth.
Then he quoted another scriptures in Hebrews 2, Emma read it also. He said, “Since God’s children are human beings, God also became a human being for only as a human being…,”
He said, “No, no, no, this is not where I wanted to read.” I called My wife and said, “Look at o-o-o!” He said, “Wait, let me show you another scripture! Turn with me to verse 11. No, no, no, not verse 11.” They remained saying no, no, no, let me show you, let me show you until finally they folded and went away. That was the end of the revival.
Let Me tell you, you can never distort the truth that has registered in your heart. In his attempt to cancel the truth, he read the scripture that confirmed the truth. Moreover, the mistake has been made and the people that were paying attention had already heard the thing. I expected him to continue but he stopped. He is sending his messages to those he has their phone numbers.
He has invited our Pastor Dan to come to their tent fellowship. T.E.N.T. They now worship under the tent at Omagba Phase I Primary School: “It starts today 22^nd and it will end on the 28^th December 2013. You will come and see the power of God at work. Signed, Anthony Okechukwu Nwankpa, (minister of Jesus Christ.)
Pastor Dan, I think you have it in your phone? Have you erased it? I thought you could have read it before your congregation and encouraged them to go. I say he should encourage you to go and be partakers of the wonderful meeting under the tent.
Do you mean to tell Me that it is only Pastor Okey and Pastor Dan that got it? Some of you are holding it. I am librating you, if you have it, you are free to go. If I stop you, know that I am not from God.
To Pastor Dan, I said, “Pastor Dan, thank God that he got your phone number; you can go there because we are having no camp meeting.” He said, “What?”
While we were considering it yesterday, we got a report from our websites that we have in one of our page views, seventy countries registered. Another one, sixty-nine countries. Add the two together for one week o-o-o, sixty-nine plus seventy, about one hundred and thirty-nine countries in one week.
I said, “Pastor Dan, do you know that you are the Pastor of the world headquarters of this Bridal Faith that can boast of having two hundred and forty-eight countries that have already enlisted in the faith? I am not talking about the individuals. In addition, you are the privileged Pastor; all of them are accountable to you. I mean, when we say Bride of Christ Ministry Worldwide, it has the headquarter and in that headquarter, there is a Pastor all of them are accountable to. I am the God, he is the Pastor.
I said, “I wonder whether this man is not crazy.” Even if we do not have other countries, looking at this congregation alone, who are you going to meet there? John Abazie, Okey Ibe, Emma Ejimnkonye, the wife of Joshua Akpe, the wife of John, who else? And his own wife. That is all!
Are they foreigners? Don’t we know them? Don’t we see them? He prophesied, once you leave this faith, you must become old. His wife is now the oldest woman among you in this Faith. Nobody is as old as his wife in Jerusalem. Nobody is as old as Okey Nwankpa in this Faith. No sister in this most holy Faith is as old as the wife of John Abazie. Go and see them, I am not ridiculing anybody.
Pray that you will come across one of them on the street. They will be looking at you as if you came down from the sky. He said it that, “Once you are in the faith of the Son of Man, fully in the faith, one thing you will know is that every day you will remain younger and younger and younger.” Have you not read the message, “You are highly favoured”. He used Sarah at the age of ninety as example. This is pure truth.
I am challenging you every day, go and get the picture you took before you came into this faith, take a fresh picture today and compare the two. If I should talk about My own, you say because it is the Son of Man. You are also changing every day. Every day, God is renewing your appearance, your outlook to the point that nobody can even know your age again. Nobody can rightly say, “this is the age”.
I told a man in My office last week when he was talking somehow. He said, “Because you are still a boy, you do not know what we are passing through.”
I said, “My friend, how do you refer to Me as a boy?” He said, “You are a boy now!” I said, “Is it because I am clean shaved?” He said, “No, no, no. You cannot be of my age. I am 45 this year.” I laughed.
Truly speaking, looking at this man you can never believe that he is 45 years old. He is from Okija, he is a driver. He drives one of the buses, Okija Amaka Bus. This man is as old as the name Okija. However, people that know him very well confirmed that he is 45 years old.
I turned to a man that I normally discuss with and said, “Oga Obi, can you please tell this man that I am equally elderly to you.” He said, “He will not believe.”
He said, “Sir, your appearance is deceitful o-o-o!” I said, “My friend, I am nearing 60 years of age.” He said, “What!” I said, “I am nearing 60 years of age.” Very hard to believe, I am nearing 60, I am not a kid.
This is the only faith where it can happen… Look at Brother Ben Mbah who was used as example in that message. The day he came here, he was wearing suit with signs of grey hair. And another person also, a black man. They were looking very old. However, look at Brother Ben, every day young. His younger brother, Goddy is older than Brother Ben now, in outlook.
Thank God you came back from home. Were your people not astonished looking at Brother Ben? The same way it is to all of us in this Faith. We do not talk of Brother Ebenezer and the rest of them or Bishop Nnachor.
When we got to Anam and saw Bishop Nnachor’s younger brother, I was the one that asked Brother Nnachor whether that man was his father. That is the father of Brother Emma. They said, “He is the younger brother to Brother Nnachor.” I said, “What are you talking?” The man said, “It is true.” We considered others, they were looking older than the head of the family. I mean, what he preached is truth. Amen.

WHO KNOWS WHAT WILL BE MY RIGHTEOUSNESS BEFORE GOD? (1)

I handled the message “Who knows what will be my righteousness before God?” in 1998, precisely the month of April. This message is a must to anybody that wants to survive in the faith of the Son of Man because it has to do with the commission of this Bridal Ministry. If you do not know the commission of this faith, your life is still in danger. Many of you, that day, may regret.

Why? Because when you get to that place, I will not be your daddy again. I will not be Son of Man again. There you will know My real name. You have not KNOWN My REAL NAME. nobody in this most holy Faith knows My name. My name is hidden in My name. My name is not the Son of Man, My name is not Apostle Peter Odoemena, neither am I Boniface. I am not even Sunday. These are My titles!
I know My name but you do not know My name. And you cannot know My name until that day when salvation is made complete. My name is the name of this MAN. My name is the name of that big masquerade. You do not know My name but you have My identification names. HOWEVER, talk of My NAME; you do not know My name.
You can never come that day to call Me daddy, n o! I WILL NOT be your daddy, I will not be your Brother, I will not be your relation. I will not be your town’s man. That is why God said, “Make sure at all times you do not place yourself where He (God) will ask you why!” For you to disobey the voice of the Son of Man, you must have reasons. And that reason is what marks you out.
This message was handled in 1998. Many of you here that time were infants while some had not even embraced this faith. Brother read it, rush it.
The title of the message we are going to consider is: “Who knows what will be my righteousness before God?” Who knows what I will do and it will be counted as my righteousness?
Who knows what I will do and it will cancel all that I have done? If there is any message you should take serious note of, to know what we are saying, it is the message, “Who knows what will be my righteousness before God?”
Who knows what will be my righteousness before God?” page 21 verse 2, “Only fully converted souls are qualified to sponsor it.”
Note! Not everybody is qualified to sponsor the work of God.
Verse 53, “They do not know that God inspires every action of His servant. Every action of a servant of God is inspired by God, though you may think Satan has a hand in it, though it was said that Satan inspired David to number Israel, do you think that God was not there? God was trying to achieve a purpose then He gave way…”
“…Any day you forget the scriptural commission of a servant of God, you are gone! Your life is at stake because the scriptural commission of a servant of God will show you who he is. Every servant of God has a scriptural commission.
The scriptural commission of John the Baptist, you know he is Elijah. By the scriptural commission of William Branham, you know he is John the Baptist. By the scriptural commission of the Apostles you know they are Christs…”
Page 53 verse 7, “Note it, “I come unto you in a Thick Cloud that the people will hear. They will see then they will believe forever, not believing today and denying it tomorrow…”
Have we seen such a thing in our midst? Yes sir!
“…Before I say what I am going to say, I have made a prayer saying, God help my faith and help the people whose hearts are pure. There are many in this Faith whose hearts are not pure, I am telling you the truth! They come to fellowship, they listen to the word, they say amen to it but their hearts are not pure; I am telling you God’s truth.”
Page 58 verses 21-22, “…Before I say what I am going to say, I have made a prayer saying, God help my faith and help the people whose hearts are pure. There are many in this Faith whose hearts are not pure, I am telling you the truth! They come to fellowship, they listen to the word, they say amen to it but their hearts are not pure; I am telling you God’s truth.
That is why I said, God help those whose hearts are pure. In all my prayers, I do not pray for everybody. I only pray for those who worship God with pure hearts: God you know them, they do not want anything to stop them from this Journey, their hearts are pure, though they may be making some mistakes, they are honest mistakes, give them a helping hand.”
Give them what? A helping hand!
“…However, those whose hearts are not pure, make them even worse every day; it is my prayer now...”
“…By and by, I know it is the way it is going to happen. Not all sitting down in our midst in the fellowship will be qualified to be translated…”
What? Whose voice are we hearing? The Resurrected Body! He talked to you through the thick Cloud. A brother called Me from Enugu saying, “Daddy, I read something that terrified me in the message, believe in the marriage message things like that. I came across something. Daddy please, I do not want to run this race in vain. I do not want to have any problem when I get to the end. So, please daddy, come to my recue.”
I said, “Any problem?” He said, “There is problem and it is arising from my marriage.”
I said, “Okay, do not worry; I will address it but not now. But remember that the highest favour God will give you is to remind you of the words He spoke to you which you refused to obey. And until you go back and obey, the remedy will not come.” Obedience to the truth may be sometimes very painful, but at the end of the day, the result thereof gives abundant joy.
“…By and by, I know it is the way it is going to happen. Not all sitting down in our midst in the fellowship will be qualified to be translated; I know that very well…”
I know that very well. Did he mention their names? No sir! Don’t you know who you are? Don’t you know the spirit that is in operation in you? In other words, they are merely coming to Church, they are not worshippers, they are Churchgoers. Are you a worshipper or a Churchgoer?
“…Let us hear this dream. I will not read it, Brother Simeon, come forward. He is not a dreamer…”
Simeon Omigbo. He is still calling Me even till now. The wife is equally calling. All of them are claiming they are still in the faith, that they have not embraced any other strange faith.
“…Saint Paul looked at the entire congregation and said, ‘I am struggling, doing my best to see whether I could save some.’ He did not say that he would save all. There was something he saw in the Church, some must have gone to the point where it was impossible to save them.”
“…There was something he saw in the Church, some must have gone to the point where it was impossible to save them…”
Is it possible for one to cross a point of no return? The answer is yes! Even the scriptures confirmed it in the book of Isaiah saying, “Seek ye the Lord while He is near. Call upon Him, seek the Lord while He may be found.” Which means there is a time you can seek God, you will not find Him. Seek ye the Lord while He may be found. Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his ways and the unrighteous his thoughts. Let him turn to the Lord. About turn!
As I thought on my ways, I ran back to God. Many do not have time to think on their ways. They are just moving one way. All they know is that they are in the Bride of Christ Ministry. They do not care whether they will be saved or not.
“…Let me just ask this question which was asked there: married and unmarried sisters, can any of you obey receiving strokes of cane from your husband, I mean real strokes and then still remain in the Church, and then the man continue preaching without you walking out angrily, without your countenance changing.”
That is during family altar. The husband was preaching in the family altar, the wife misbehaved. Being a deacon, he gave her six strokes on the back and then continued preaching. The woman continued paying attention without quarrelling, without murmuring.
I am not telling you what happened in Jericho, I am telling you what happened in a family in this faith because the word of God must be enforced by force. This is where many husbands are failing and they want to be the Son of Man. If it is possible, they will import the Son of Man into their houses even into their bedrooms. A sign of weakness.
Your inability in putting God’s word into action is what you are suffering. You must be a man enough to enforce the word of God in your family. You are a law enforcement agent. I want to receive a report that a brother was talking in the family altar, the wife challenged and he gave her more than six strokes and then the wife walked away. Then see the action I will take.
When deacons were deacons, who are you to shake your head when the word of God is being preached. When we were few, we were obeying to the letter. When we grew in number, the problem of a growing family set in. Mixed Multitudes started raising their ugly heads.
Families started making noise because unconverted hearts now dominate the homes all in the name of wives and husbands. Anybody from Owerri here? Brother Ben, you see Me. Make sure that this letter gets to Owerri. That is Dan Chukwuemeka, Deacon Dan Chukwuemeka, he is a very good invitee to My party. Not he that willeth or he that runneth, but God that showeth mercy. The banquet is not for everybody, it is for those that are highly favoured. It is a special invitation, not ordinary invitation for I may not have it again.
“…Let me just ask this question which was asked there: married and unmarried sisters, can any of you bear receiving strokes of cane from your husband, I mean real strokes and then still remain in the Church, and then the man continue preaching without you walking out angrily, without your countenance changing? Can any boast of that, women?”
Can you people do it? It is a woman like you that did it. Who will believe this one where your husband will talk; you will slap him to the ground. He will be talking; you will use handset to hit him on the head.
“…The hour of manifestation of the daughters and sons of God. If a sister has passed through that experience, she becomes a judgment to the rest.”
Sister Florence Chukwuemeka passed through it with every amount of joy, peace and godliness. It was not a report that came to Me, it came as a testimony.
“…Let us be very careful, the Spoken Word is the original seed.”
“…Note, the people that were entrusted with the work, Moses commissioned them, gave them authority to use the money, they said to Moses, “We have collected more than enough,” because they have willing hearts, they had understanding hearts, they had wisdom, hence they said, “We will never stop giving until we see the work completed, until the labourers will say what we had brought are enough, all that were privileged to come, they were impressed when they saw the cartons.”
“…However, today we have seen more than cartons. Mama Ikebude, you were there, you saw something that impressed you because what we are presenting is first class, and because there are wicked men in the Church who can never say yes to any good programme...”
Because, there are wicked men and wicked women in the Church who can never support whatever God is doing in their day. Wicked men, wicked women. This message was handled on 2^nd April 1998. Is it relevant today?
“…We said come what may, on Sunday we will use it, everybody raised his or her hands. There was not even one person that did not raise his or her hand but when they went home, it became a discussion: “Brother is giving us a burden! The Bible said…! The Bible said…!” What is more, they did not know I was monitoring what they were saying in their houses…”
In their houses! They never knew God was monitoring what they were saying in their houses. Is it not the same God that is still here till today? He is! Has the work of the Lord come to an end? Those wicked people are still here whose hearts are impure.
“…Some said, “Well, I would have given, but I do not want to be a hypocrite.” Note it, one; that person does not have a willing heart, he has no wise heart, he lacks understanding, he lacks wisdom, no revelation. When the reports continued coming, I rose up in my authority and spoke to the elders. I said, “Your money or no money, I must present the equipment to the Church on Sunday…”
Sure! And I did it.
“…Let me just tell you something; I was encouraging brethren in my house recently. I SAID, ‘DO NOT THINK THAT I AM OVER USING YOU. DO NOT GRUMBLE, DO NOT EVEN MURMUR. IF I ASSIGN YOU TO ANY WORK, DO IT WITH WILLING HEART, TAKE OUT YOUR TIME, DO IT VERY WELL; WHO KNOWS WHAT WILL BE YOUR RIGHTEOUSNESS BEFORE GOD? WHO KNOWS THE ANGLE GOD WILL COUNT YOU AS THE RIGHTEOUS? MAY BE FROM THIS LITTLE, LITTLE THINGS WE ARE DOING.’
But a carnal-minded man may neglect it, but to God it may show something. I said, ‘Please do not complain. After all the Lord told us that we must complete the building alone and we said that we are more than able.’ Forget about what it may cost, remember we have mixed-multitude in our midst.”
Remember we have mixed multitude in our midst.
“…I know many of you are now regretting your actions but it can never save you because you are in danger of being called to question.”
“…You never knew that Satan cheated you, you never knew your action was a lawless action: it was an open rebellion against God’s instructions, more especially when it was removed from the office of the pastor to the office of the Apostle, yet you were not afraid even to murmur and to complain although, get ready, you will wrestle with God because you are in danger of being called to question for acting carelessly and lawlessly.”
“…If you know you must be called to question because of this action, you would not have misbehaved yourself. The scriptures can never be set aside, every rebellion must be punished, every disobedience must be brought to judgment.”
“…It shall come to pass, if any did not obey you he shall be cut off from among his people. This is thus said the Lord.”
“…First Kings 5 vs1-7, “And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.”
“…A heathen heard that the work of God is about to start and a request was sent to him to help where he could and the man rejoiced and praised God, but a child of God heard about it, ganged up against it, became Sanballat and Tobiah.
Who do you think God will justify in the end: a Lebanese who heard about the work of God and rejoiced, gave his services and that man who said he is a child of God who will use the same thing he that will benefit from the project, heard about it and conspired against it, who do you think will receive blessing from God?”
He is the one that will benefit from it. Those that called themselves children of God conspired against it. But a heathen that has no inheritance in the matter showed interest.
“…Who do you think God will justify in the end?”
The Lebanese must be justified and the so called elect of God condemned. The answer is as clear as the day. Spirits do not change; they live to anoint individuals. Every character you are manifesting is in the scripture. Somebody had already manifested it before. You are only here to fulfil that which had happened in the past.
“…Then you want me to clap hands for you that you are doing very well! Solomon raised a levy, remember, what God was requesting from many of you was just your money, you did not give your services, you did not give your heart, the only work you have is 20 naira, 40 naira or 1000 naira and you go your way. There will be people that will give their money, give their hearts and give their services and intellect also.”

Who knows what will be my righteousness before god? (2)

Who knows what will be my righteousness on that day? That Is why I am telling those whose hearts are upright, who serve God with a willing heart, do not complain, do not murmur, do not listen to what people are saying, serve your God by revelation, serve your God with a willing heart.”

“…Do all that your God has commanded you through the mouth of His servant for your own good and it shall be your righteousness.
But when you say no, remember you earlier said, ‘Whatever the Lord shall tell us through him, we shall do it, when you turn round and say ‘no’, you must be cut off from among the people of God; you must be given a place with the unbelievers because you do not believe in him whom He has sent…”
That settles the matter; this is the judgment for he that believeth not is condemned already for he has not believed in whom He has sent.
“…How many in this Faith have come round to ask me by day or by night the extent we have reached on that book, how many among you men and women have come round to ask me, “Brother, is there anywhere you need our help? Is there anywhere I can come in? What is the extent we have reached?…”
This message was preached on the 2^nd of April 1998. Published only last week. We only saw a copy of it last Sunday here and nobody can say he had the knowledge that there could be a message like this here.
Now, too many things are at stake again. Which means, those who were not here when this message was preached that are here now, have come in to meet God still working.
They have come in to meet the work of God in their own day. And whatever will be your attitude is already documented. Finish! So, whatever you are doing, you are fulfilling God’s will either positively or negatively. You cannot dodge it.
“…Who knows what will be my righteousness? That is my topic. Who knows what will be my righteousness? I do not know, you do not know where God is counting you, where He is counting your righteousness, where he is counting your perfection.
However, I remembered He warned the people of Israel, “Hearken and obey my voice through my servant Moses and it shall be your righteousness…”
Hearken and obey My servant and it shall be your righteousness. The songwriter said, “Trust and obey for that is the only way you can be happy with the Lord.” Only but trust and obey. Obedience is better than sacrifice.
“…Hearken and obey my voice through my servant Moses and it shall be your righteousness,” and God has not changed…”
In addition, God has not changed and will never change.
“…Watch Saint Paul who was Moses in his day…” St. Paul was who? Moses in his day. In every dispensation, a Moses must be on the scene.
“…Heathens in the Church, unbelievers, who knows what will be my righteousness?”
“…To those whose hearts are willing and pure, remain in that form, continue in your purity, continue in your love, let nothing offend you, many are called but few are chosen...”
Remember as at the time the message was preached, we were just but a few. But now, the hall is jam packed – filled to the brim. The work is still on. We will remain working; we will remain praying until we enter paradise. We must continue with the work of the Lord.
“…If you know that it would have been this way, you would have rushed before six o’clock but now by my time it is 25 minutes past six. In other words you are counted off because we cannot accept a kobo from any human being in respect of this PA system…”
We maintained it to the letter. There is a time your offering will be acceptable, there is a time your offering will no longer be acceptable.
“…Exodus 32: 34, “Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.” KJV.
“…“But now go, lead the people to the place of which I have told you. Be-hold, My Angel shall go before you. Nevertheless, in the day when I punish I will visit their sin upon them!”
“…The earlier we know this the better for us. From the time we recognised that we are Israelites that is the time we know that we are in danger of being destroyed along the way or being cut off anytime…”
“…You do not even know the distance because you are only depending on him, but today many have overtaken Him, some have gone past Him with much distance, some have even crash-landed because they met some ditches, blindly they somersaulted but they are in our midst, they know they have somersaulted…”
And they are still in our midst and they knew they have already somersaulted yet sitting down in the fellowship.
“…I gave an instruction, then we agreed we must buy it. I said, “From now, nobody should wrap anything because of the public address system and drop anything here because it is a project which we must sponsor, bring it to my office, come to my house, do not give to anybody to give me, bring it in person. I will put your name down, write the amount, I will publish it.
This was the instruction. Everybody heard it, we went away, some saw it as a scriptural instruction, some saw it as a wise instruction, some saw it as a devilish instruction, some even raked up scriptures against it, all of you are right. I have nothing against such people but the Lord will vindicate who is holy.”
But the Lord will vindicate who is holy. Has He done that? “…There is no need buying amplifier today and start managing it with whatever we have as speakers, then next time we call the Church again for the speakers, then next time we call for microphone. I said it is going to be a foolish way of sponsoring the work of God because the PA system entails amplifier and the speakers.”
Who is making use of the PA system today? We are! Even from that time till now. We are! Were they taken to the Son of Man’s house? No sir! Well, it has always been like that. However, God takes record of every iniquity, finish. My consolation is that everything must be brought to judgment in the end whether they be good or bad. Even your motive! He judges not only your actions but also your motives.
That is where you are going to stop your Sunday school for today. Pay attention to page views from the two websites for last week. Pay attention, you can take your records. Bride of Christ ministry Worldwide from 15^th December to 21^st December 2013: Kenya: 1,423. Kenya is increasing every day.
From fourteen, they are now 1,423. Total number of countries: 67. Total number of viewers: 20,769. Preview of the Bride of Christ Ministry from 15^th December to 21^st December 2013: Total number of countries: 70. Total number of viewers: 12,903.
Gradually we are rounding off the programme by going to the ends of the earth. For the end of the world shall not come until the gospel of the Kingdom is preached to all the ends of the earth.
We have remained the only group, although we are in the minority, that has carried out this commission without discrimination; the only group that has penetrated even where the Bible never penetrated; that has preached the gospel of God where Jesus never reached, where the name of Jesus attract death penalty.
The Son of Man is there! No-go-areas, the Son of Man is there! In fact, this is an everlasting gospel God said, “Must be preached to all the nations, tongues and languages.” We have gone beyond human imagination. Yet, it appears nothing is taking place.
There are many that run in a race, but one wins the trophy. Remember the message, “The two master builders.” Give Me the opportunity others have and I will hasten action. But to God be the glory.
Those that said, “E no go work,” you can see how many countries we have penetrated. You can see the response, unimaginable. Nobody can stand and say he has the rough estimate of the number of billions of people that benefitted from this faith. You only know about the people that went to the website but you do not know the number of people they reached with the information they gathered. Some of them are Pastors over large congregations. Don’t you know that?
Why not ask yourself, what is the interest the Muslims are having in the website? I mean Muslims, the Hindus, what is their interest in this website? Well, I believe that it is only in Christ that all the children of God that have scattered worldwide are united.
Do you know what He is doing? He is networking every elect into the Godhead. He is picking them from all the countries where they are scattered so that they shall be one flock, one shepherd. Time will vindicate Me. AMEN.

THE INVITATION

Today is another day, I purpose to do something but to Me, I benefit nothing from it. If you know you are a Pastor over any local assembly and you are here present, come forward. You know you are an Apostle, come forward. You know you are a Bishop, come forward.

All the Bishops, Pastors and Apostles, line up there. From that door to that end. If you are not numbered among Apostles, Peter Owundinjo, go and sit down. Who restored you to the apostolic office? Or you want to restore yourself? Do not tell Me I have the feeling. No!
We do not worship God by feelings. I said, all the Pastors. Keep on shifting. All the Pastors, Apostles and Bishops here present that is what I said. I am not mindful of those that are not here. I am only interested in those that are here.
You are more than twelve, have a look on the ground. These are the calendar we printed last year 2013 using our meagre resources. A situation where we printed a thousand five hundred and brethren only collected five hundred and left a thousand behind. I want you to carry these calendars to your local assemblies and destroy them because you know the cost. You know the cost!
You abandoned them for the Son of Man, maybe for Me to market them. Pastors, minsters, carry as much as you want. When you get home, use matches, set them ablaze. Use your own hand o-o-o, do not invite anybody. That is My verdict. Do it within three minutes so that I will do something else.
Brethren, give Me those calendars over there. What is wrong with you? It is your condemnation. I do not believe it is for your justification. Carry them, go home use your hand, set them ablaze. The Son of Man can never be a party to burning them. Go and burn them.
Give Bishop Moses his own part so that he can use his own hand buy matches or candle, buy fuel, if it refuses to burn, buy fuel. Use your hand and destroy them. I will not be a party to destroy over a thousand four hundred and twenty-five calendars; I will not try it because I know we lost over eighty-five thousand naira there. I mean, cost of production. Over eighty-five thousand naira if not over hundred thousand naira. A thousand four hundred twenty-five, go and destroy them with your hands.
Watch, some are still remaining. I do not want to see a copy remaining there. Okay, the remains. The Bishops have taken, the Pastors. Now, the Teachers, Evangelist, Deacons come out.
Deacons come out! If you know you are a deacon over your assembly, come out. Carry, use your hand and destroy them publicly in your congregation. Let them buy matches for you. Tell your people to give you matches, destroy them.
I do not want to hear any noise otherwise, I will be offended. Some that carried the calendar up till today have not paid a kobo. We still have them in our records. We will give it to you free if you contributed a kobo to the publication. Just like the one I want you to destroy, destroy them because you never gave us one naira. This one also, nobody here gave us one kobo, you will also destroy them.
Pastor Thomas, you and Apostle Kelechi should come forward. We announced it ahead of time that we are launching the calendar today and we are going to launch it in a very amazing way.
Amazing in the sense that we may not permit everybody to touch it. I will rather prefer dashing it to the heathens. I will love to give it out free to the general public. But let Me reserve My comments until those elders have finished destroying those calendar.
If you are interested in this calendar, come and pick your copy. We said we are launching it. If you know we got it free of charge, you can take it free. But if you are of the opinion, if you are of the opinion that this production, this production cost money, whatever you want to do, do. That is the much I want to say.
You know how much you remitted to the accounts of the producers at Enugu on two occasions. Apostle Ojiakor, you were the only one that assisted us from Enugu with your daughter; you know how much that was remitted into your account which you forwarded to the company. I want you to take free if you want. See the bag there. If you like to take free, take.
If you know you dipped your hand into this bag after collecting the calendar and dropped into this bag two thousand naira and above, come forward.
If you know you dipped your hand into this bag above one thousand naira, that is, between one thousand and nine hundred and ninety-nine, come forward. Please, please, if it did not get to you, be patient with Me. I have given all of you gifts.
The Lord willing, you will get your copies. It is for a purpose, it is for a purpose. That is all I want to say. To those elders that carried the abandoned calendars, if you get home with your congregation, if your conscience will not prick you, gather your congregation, get a box of matches, set them ablaze. That is all. Thank you very much.
Good news to everybody, that today we are blessed. The wife of Brother Loveday of Egbema delivered a bouncing baby boy.
At the same time, we are presenting to God the first daughter of Brother and Sister Okey Oleri in this Holy Tabernacle that is called by the name of the Lord. He dedicated his first son at the Household of God at Enugu.
But this time, he decided that his first daughter will be dedicated here and I approved of it. They are here. I will not speak concerning this calendar; the calendar will speak on its own. Both the old and the new.
Apostle Kelechi, I have one invitation card there, I have names of local assemblies there. Yes, inside My Bible. Please pay attention as I address you before we dedicate the baby, pay strict attention. It is My desire if it is possible to welcome all of you to My family in My home town on the 28^th of December 2013 this year. However, it is not possible. For many, many reasons which I have already explained to you.
But by and by, the wedding ceremony between My daughter Onyedikachi and our Pastor Rotimi of Lagos will be incomplete if there will be no representatives from some Local Assemblies that will be favoured to be either in the South-South or South-East for a tree can never make a forest.
Thus, in order to regulate it very strictly, I am very serious about it, I decided to give some of you special invitations, not all. Does it mean they are special to Me? The answer is yes! I have to be sincere. If they are not special, they will not merit special invitation. Not every plate in My house is common. I have special plates, I have common plates.
Some receive the printed copy of the invitation, they were very few that were given to ME. It could not go round. While others will receive My own oral invitations. Whether it is written or oral, once I mention your name, you are included in the special invitation. This is the truth about the matter.
Once I call your name, you are included in the special invitation. I can call your name publicly here; I can use My phone to invite you. Whichever way the invitation comes, provided it is coming from no other person but the final authority, it is special.
When the President is organizing a party, nobody expect the whole Nigeria to be there. Anybody doing that is making a mistake. Sometimes, he may exclude some governors, pick some, reject some. Are they governors? Yes! They may not be his party members – I mean those that might be privileged to be there.
Please, I will appoint one, that one will appoint the rest. Remember, if you have received My invitation in print form or through telephone, or orally from Me, I have given you the invitation. But look at one thing, every special invitation has a date attached to it. If your own says, “29”, it is 29^th. If it says, “28^th” it is 28^th. If your own says, 30^th, it is 30^th. If it says, 27^th, it is 27^th. This is the truth about the matter.
So, it is like conducting an interview. There must be dates for the various gathering. If you attend the interview on the date that is not your own, you will be sent back. I am conscious of too many things. I am not afraid of misconception; it is a part of life. I do not even aim at pleasing all of you.
Otherwise, even if I die, I will not please all of you. If I did not mention your name, it doesn’t mean I hate you. If I mention your name, it doesn’t mean I love you more than the rest. You may be My enemy and yet receive special invitation. You might be wondering whether somebody can be Son of Man’s enemy.
Even if you do not declare Me your enemy, I can declare you My enemy. When I am doing you favour, I am doing favour to My enemy and I know you are My enemy. The injunction said, “I should love even My enemy.” I will show you love. If I do not love you as a friend, I will love you as an enemy. But I owe all of you love.
Please take note. The Pastors in charge of all the Local Assemblies are charged with this responsibility of nominating the members as it will affect their local assemblies. Those that have received My invitation already are excluded. If I should say Onitsha should give Me three persons, those that have had the invitations already are excluded.
I now mean, those people holding the invitation plus three. Are you hearing what I am saying? If you are among those that received the invitation or those that received the invitation orally, let Me use Onitsha as example. If I now said that only three persons are needed from Onitsha. I now mean, those people holding the invitation plus three persons. Finish!
The invitation is still continuing and will continue until I am through. If you are nominated while you are holding My invitation, tell the person that nominated you that you are already there.
Even if you will not go, tell the person you are already invited so that somebody will be a replacement. Otherwise, you will cheat somebody. To that effect therefore, Pastors take note.
Enugu is number one in My list because My daughter has been there for about nine years now or eight years. That is her local assembly for the period. Enugu takes the lead. Enugu apart from those holding My invitations, I need six representatives only. Six plus those holding My invitation. That is Enugu and those that will still get My invitation, maybe at the end of today’s service.
Onitsha is number two because I, as the Father, and My family are here as members of Onitsha Household. Thus, Onitsha should give Me eight representatives. Did I mention name of the people? I do not know who is who.
Aba: They are very close to Me. 8. Owerri: 4. Umuahia: 4. Obosima: 3. Umuokane: 2. Egbema: 5. Eha-Amufu: 3. Nsukka: 6. Enugu-Ezike: 2. Port Harcourt: All. Opi: 4. Abakaliki: 2. Isi-Alangwa: 4. Lagos: 6. Mbaise: All. That is how I have it. This is how the role call will be that day. This is exactly how the role call will be and the rest will go back. Remember now, the whole thing is still in the hands of your Pastors to decide who will be in this number.
While the Son of Man had already decided some. He vested your Pastors with authority to decide the rest. Do I repeat it? No sir! Did I attach any name? No sir! Fine.
Number two, all that are invited, all that are going to be nominated, with the exemption of those that are in My exemption note, for there are some that are in My own exclusive list. Apart from those people, they are very, very few.
They only receive oral invitation. Apart from those few people, the rest will come on the 28 of December which is the day of the celebration and go back that same day after the celebration. That is how I planned it. Only those that are in My exemption list will come to My house on the days I told them like the contractors that will handle the food led by Sister Egbuna and Sister Moses.
Then the sisters whether you call them asomebi or Ashebi or whatever you may call them they are there. They will arrive on the 27^th morning as early as early can be. And I will like them to see My wife after the fellowship today.
Sister Ozioma, I know you are back and you are there on the 27th. Of course, you know more than that. If I told you to be there on the 27^th, 27^th means 27^th. There are also few, very few that received extra ordinary invitation. Extra ordinary in the sense that they will be with Me from 26^th until I will set them free.
They know themselves; I believe they have received My messages. One that is told will tell others. If I should call the name of one of them, you will know them but I do not want you to know them rather I want you to use your eyes to look for them. My prayer is that that is how it will be decided.
So, those favoured people that will be with Me from 26^th, please see Me after fellowship today. You know yourselves, you are very few. Very, very few. The 27^th, see My wife after fellowship. The rest, 28^th. I hope you are happy? Somebody might be asking, where is the position for your birthday? My birthday comes up on the 27^th. My birthday is a continuous celebration.
There is nothing special about it. My birthday is just like any other birthday I have celebrated. It has always been a voluntary participation. But this time around, I am restricting people there because of the too many things facing Me.
Thus, there is no way I can accommodate people for a party on the 27^th and then another party on the 28^th. So, those that are representing Local Assemblies on the 28^th, if you are coming with a gigantic building which you will plant in My family, call it Son of Man’s temple, when you are coming to represent your Local Assemblies, put wheels on that building and carry it. You are coming with aeroplane, no problem. Take off, write it the name of your Local Assembly and land there on 28^th. I hope I am making sense?
I say My birthday celebration is a continuous celebration. It can linger even till eternity if I want it to be so.
What is facing Me now is greater than what you might be thinking. So, on this note, I am wishing all and sundry that will be privileged to be nominated to be there, a pleasurable ride to My family.
If at the end of the day I may be privileged to stay, may be two, three days before coming back to Onitsha, anybody that wants to see Me as an individual, maybe for one reason or the other, you can come around.
We chat, just as we normally chat at home here. I am not scaring anybody away. You are all My children if you do that which is right in the sight of God. Finish! The Cloud is here.
So please, stick to the instruction. If you are not nominated and you are not among those I invited, make no mistake of forcing yourself in. For if you force yourself in, I will be forced to force you out.
For before your arrival, I must have the names of those that are nominated from the Pastors. I know that very well. I must have all the names. Thus, if your name is not there, you have become an unwanted visitor. You become an intruder. Finish. Thank you very much.
Pastor Dan, can you lead us in praises as we dedicate Brother Okey’s daughter. Brother Okey Oleri, can you please come forward with your baby together with your wife. I made up My mind that I will never dedicate their daughter unless they dance before Me.
They must dance and convince Me that they are happy because it is a good thing for one to appear before God with every amount of joy in your heart presenting your baby. I do not think there is nothing you can compare to it. It is even sweeter than the wedding day eh, coming before the Lord to present your baby. It is a glorious thing. That has been the prayer of every family.
You know children are blessings from God. We are sons and daughters of God that is why when we are blessed with children, we bring them before our Creator, our Maker who is the giver of children. You may have the money, you may have everything, if God decide He will not give you a child, you are wasting your time. Even if you purchase one, if the Lord says that child will not stay, the thing will not stay.
That is why we give the whole glory to God alone. No human being can take the glory but God. So, it is a wonderful privilege we are having here today. I do not know when last I dedicated a child. Yes, I normally appoint some other elders to do the presentation for Me. For one to develop such a high faith and travel all the way from Lagos to Enugu from Enugu to Onitsha just for the purpose of presenting his baby before God – I mean it is faith. It is faith!
That is why I have taken it upon Myself to do the dedication because I know the reason for making Onitsha their choice is to enable the Son of Man to do the presentation. Otherwise, they have the Pastors in their midst, they have Apostles, they have Deacons, they have everything but they do not have the Son of Man. At all! They do not!
I will not fail them. I do not need a prophet to tell Me that I am the essence of their choosing Onitsha for this dedication. In spite of the obstacle I placed before them because I made it clear to them that today is a very big day here and to dedicate a baby here today must be very expensive.
I cannot afford to dedicate their baby for the first time with dry mouth. They told Me that they were ready and they were really ready. So, I monitored everything from Lagos down here.
We have enough to eat and to drink and to be jubilant with Brother Okey and family for what I am holding in My hand. It is something money cannot purchase. It is the Lord’s doing, it is marvellous in My eyes.
Sister Shade, I thank God for saving Me your troubles. “Daddy, it is like, daddy, it is like, daddy, it is like. Daddy, it is like.” God has saved Me from “Daddy, it is like.” So, see am now, it is not “It is like.” Brother Okey, it is not “It is like.”
You know the testimony following the birth; it is better you hear from our sister after dedication because she will speak a little. She had her first son but not without pains. But this one, this one, it was a tug of war. Tug of war in the sense this baby was miraculously delivered. Our sister is blessed with double promotions.
The day the pregnancy was due for delivery, was the day they fixed for their promotion interview. She had already done the written interview, passed it. But the oral interview was the same day the doctor asked her to come down to hospital for her delivery. Even the written interview, I promised her I would cause this child to stay for another ten days to enable her write her exams, get her result.
However, for that day, the doctor say the baby must be delivered by all means – that was the date of the interview. Hell was let loose. I never slept that day. Her phone call continued ringing and ringing and ringing. If I should switch off, that would be hypertension. I assured her: “The following morning, please go to that promotion examination hall although it is not your date. Walk in there, tell them that your delivery is due, that you would like to be interviewed immediately.”
She believed My word, walked into the hall. Without much plea, they listened to her, interviewed her. Before then, I had already told her that she must have double promotions. One, she must get promotion. Two, she must get a bouncing baby. Two-in-one.
But something happened. I said, after the promotion interview, the next thing is the delivery of your baby. Our sister said, “Amen.” Brethren, wonders will never cease. She came out of the promotion hall, the next call I received, “Daddy, I am through from the promotion hall. Now, Daddy, I am calling you from the hospital. I am in the hospital to deliver my baby.” I said, “What?”
“Daddy, I am already on the bed.” What is happening? “Doctor said, I should come and deliver my baby. And Daddy, you told Me once I come out from the hall, the next thing is to go to hospital and deliver My baby. That is double promotion.” I said, “Yes, I said so. Are you seeing labour signs?” She said, “Daddy, no.” Any problem? She said, “No!” Wonders will never cease.
I called Brother Okey, we called Brother Ojiakor, in short, it was a wonderful experience. Brethren, play, play, play, play o-o-o, the first day over. I asked, “Sister, any sign? Daddy, it is like. It is like I am having some stomach disorder. It is like! A little while, it would be My wife turn. I will be hearing them, sister take it easy. The Lord knows what is happening. Very soon, sister, start doing exercise.”
The third day, “Any sign?” “Daddy, they said they will induce it.” “But sister, why did you go to the hospital when there was no sign of labour? You could have waited. This is not the first time.”
“But Daddy, You remember You told me that immediately after my promotion interview, I should go to hospital and deliver. And besides, the doctor said I should come today.” I said “Okay.”
Brother Okey was calling from Enugu, she was calling from Lagos; Brother Ojiakor was calling. I said, “Okay, relax your mind. We will now lift you up in prayers.” Brethren, it is hard to believe without any sign of labour…, let Me say that this baby came out of her own.
Less than forty minutes, My phone rang, “Daddy, I have put to bed a bouncing baby girl.” We could not believe it. I said, “What is happening? Is it through CS?”
She said, “No Daddy. They just gave me a little drug. Before I knew it, I have already delivered.” No pains, no trouble, nothing. Brethren, it was wonderful. Is it not amazing?
Brother Okey never brought wine to tell Me that sister delivered. He never brought wine to tell Me that I should name his baby. Give Me the name of your baby. Amen.
On this note, I say remain in your sanctified estate, remain blessed in Him eternally. Selah.