Preached On Sunday 10th November, 2019 At The Household of God, Onitsha By Apostle Peter Odoemena THE SON OF MAN
The Supreme God that created the Heavens and the Earth is in the midst of the Bride. He is not too far from you. He is always with us, constantly with us, watching us, programming our footsteps. He is the one that has taken us to this particular point where we are now. I am saying that I am HE. Your unbelief or belief cannot change it. We are not confronting anybody, but everything is on the run. Amen.
MODERN IDOLATRY [THE INTRODUCTION] – ATTRIBUTES OF GOD OF THE BIBLE; Preached in September 2003; Pg. 72 vs. 24 – 25
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GOD IS CONSTANTLY AMONG HIS PEOPLE
Brethren, it is now a testimony. It is no longer a story. If God never intervened, sorrow would have filled our hearts this morning. Our Brethren that were coming from Enugu on a top speed to meet with the time of the Fellowship nearly ended their journey at Awka.
1. And the vehicle was carrying the whole members of the family, plus. Deacon John Onyia from Enugu coming this morning with his jeep carrying his entire family and also carrying Bro Ojiakor’s two daughters, our daughter Idimma and Iheomimi. They were all inclusive in that vehicle.
2. So, while they were coming, well, accident is accident. But there can never be a reasonable excuse, but we give God the praise. We are not interested in knowing who is at fault, who should be blamed or who should not be blamed, for we have one common enemy.
3. Whatever that happened was the enemy’s devise to cause sorrow, to cause pain, to cause anguish and to wipe off a family, but God stood there and said No!
4. So, they were coming on a top speed. The road was empty. Unknown to them, the trailer they were following was carrying a heavy load of tiles. The trailer veered to the left side of the road, giving way to the right hand side. Bro John miscalculated the movement of the trailer.
5. The trailer now veered to the right. Where it was entering the estate. So, there was nothing left. Nothing was left but death.
6. You know, somebody coming from Enugu on a top speed and unknown to him, the trailer entered his lane. So, with that speed, he bashed the trailer from his side. We have seen the wreckage. They have posted it to us.
7. He called Me from there and I enquired about the level of injuries, the wife and the little baby in front. All safe and secured. All the occupants, safe and secured.
8. You need to see the vehicle. The driver’s side was badly shattered. That is Bro John’s side, but he sustained just a light injury on the left hand. Our little daughter Iheomimi, a light injury on the jaw.
9. Bro John is receiving attention at the orthopaedic hospital there. Our Brother, Ngosike is attending to them, and any moment from now, they will be heading back to Enugu, and I would not be surprised that they will be going back in that same vehicle. I would not be surprised.
10. I almost suffered the same faith on Friday, early hours of the morning. As many as passed that route from 3-3, saw My vehicle packed by the road side.
11. I left My house as early as 5.30 am in the morning with My son Wisdom. I was taking him to Upper Iweka for a swift errand for Me at Owerri to enable him come back before 11 o’clock in the morning.
12. So, we left as early as possible to avoid the traffic jam. I did some repairs on that car because of hard-starting. The tank was dropped. After repairing it, the vehicle was moving fine together with the gear.
13. We got to, a little after the timber shed, and the whole thing tripped off, the engine stopped itself. And because it stopped abruptly, the steering became stiff. The brake pedal rose up and was standing.
14. So, I lost control. No steering. No brake. And you know the level of traffic early hours of the morning, including Keke. There was nothing left than to crush any.
15. So, My son was very strong that morning and I was equally strong. I told him what happened and he said that he had also noticed it. I said, “Ok. Join hands with Me, let us pull this steering.”
16. We continued pulling the steering while the vehicle sped up. The speed increased. I applied the hand brake, but it continued. I removed it from the gear, but it continued.
17. So, from that place, we continued and we were heading towards that hill. He helped Me and we continued pulling it off the road until finally, we succeeded in bringing it out when it entered a ditch just very close to Sam Daff.
18. You need to see where we started managing it to Sam-Daff, and then we stopped it there. We rolled it down. And there I packed it.
19. Then we chartered Keke to Upper Iweka because we were desirous of achieving our target, and we were lucky we succeeded. He came back, even before 12 noon.
20. I then called all that were responsible for the repairs. Eventually, we repaired it. It is now Okay.
21. And I was wondering, “What if I was not carrying My son, with the Busy road and about three Keke riders in front?” Definitely, I would have crushed some. But God helped us. So we keep on trusting God for His protection.
22. I told you, once you are a seed of God, you are the devil’s greatest enemy. Anywhere you are, the devil is eyeing you.
23. That is why, do not forget your morning prayers. In short, remain in prayers at all times. While driving, keep on praying. While sleeping, pray. While eating, pray. Everywhere.
24. This is because the days are evil. You do not know where the enemy is lying in wait. And you do not know the mode he will attack. It can attack you in different forms. So, do not forget your prayers.
25. We give God the whole praise.
26. This morning, please, I want everybody to give Me attention. I am pointing at three photographs. [1] The Godhead. You watch it there. [2] The original Body. [3] The visitation. Am I making sense?
27. You watch this one. Then, if you have the money, have a copy. Make an enlargement of any size. GOD’S INSTRUMENT FOR LEADERSHIP IS DIVINE.
28. Whenever you lift any sermon book, fix your eyes there. You lift up the Great Sermon, fix your eyes there. In all your meditations, fix your eyes there. For the photograph, like this one we are hanging here, this is not the one that should be here.
29. GOD’S INSTRUMENT FOR LEADERSHIP IS DIVINE. I want to see that one here. It is red in colour.
30. FIX YOUR EYES THERE, FOR WHATEVER MANIFESTATION YOU ARE WITNESSING, IT IS THAT SAME PERSON. ANYWHERE YOU COME INTO CONTACT WITH HIM, HE IS WHAT HE IS. THESE THINGS ARE STILL THERE.
31. NO MAN PLACED THIS THING THERE. THAT IS HOW HE CAME INTO THIS WORLD. HE WAS BORN WITH IT. NO MAN EVER GAVE HIM THIS. NO PRAYER. NO SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS. NO OBEDIENCE TO TRUTH OR FALSEHOOD. THIS IS HIS NATURE.
32. SO WHEN YOU HEAR OR READ, “HE BECAME A HUMAN BEING”, YOU WATCH THE HUMAN BEING. SINCE YOU DO NOT HAVE THE PHOTOGRAPH OF JESUS CHRIST, YOU HAVE THE PHOTOGRAPH OF THE RESURRECTED BODY.
33. YOU DO NOT HAVE THE PHOTOGRAPH OF ANY OF THE PROPHETS, BUT THE LAST, YOU HAVE IT. OTHERS WERE HUMAN BEINGS, BUT THE LAST OF THE HUMAN BEINGS IS THIS ONE.
34. AND THAT IS WHY THE LAST SIGN ACCOMPANIED HIM. SINCE THE WORLD BEAGN, YOU HAVE REMAINED THE ONLY GROUP THAT RECEIVED THIS VISITATION. NO OTHER GROUP. SEARCH YOUR SCRIPTURES. SEARCH HISTORY.
35. AND NO OTHER GROUP AGAIN WILL MANIFEST IT. IT MUST BE HERE, AND IT IS FOR A PURPOSE.
36. When you check the Scriptures, Judas [not Iscariot] asked a question, “Master, why have you chosen to reveal yourself to us and not to the people in the world.”
37. He [the Master] answered and said, “It is to you that is given to know the mystery of the Kingdom of heaven, but to the world out there, No! These things are spoken to them in parables, lest they will hear and understand, and their willful rejection of the truth will be forgiven them.”
38. In other words, God is still keeping to His Word, revealing Himself to the Elect, blinding the non-Elect, thereby condemning them straight to Hell. Why? Because of their willful rejection of the Truth. Deliberate!
39. That is why willful rejection of the truth is unpardonable sin. You cannot say you do not see or you have not seen the Judge of the whole earth; the Judge of all mankind who will judge from Adam to your day.
40. That He is drawn from among you makes no meaning. He has always been drawing such people from among their own people, but you see yourselves as a privileged people, that unto you is given to see what others could not see.
41. So, blessed are your eyes. Blessed are your ears, for what has been hidden from the wise people of the world, the prudent, the scholars, is now revealed to people that do not know the value.
42. I am not saying this because I am involved. Whatever action; whatever utterance; whatever your grudges, your complaints and everything, as long as you have identified with us, this is the person that is receiving all.
43. He does not require anybody to give Him any report about anybody. He monitors you. He knows where you are at any given time. He is with you there, but you do not know.
44. Even the Scriptures said, “Why shouting and calling? I am not a God that is afar. I am near you.” God is never far from His people. God is constantly among His people.
45. In this form, He fills all in all. That is why He said, “I am not a God that is in heaven or earth alone. I am in heaven, and as well as on earth at the same time.”
46. If you do not have the faith to believe, keep it to yourself and then believe that one which you think is the correct one.
47. WE ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT ARE NO LONGER SERVING AN IMAGINARY GOD. IF PEOPLE SAY THAT GOD DOES NOT EXIST, WE LAUGH AT THEM, FOR WE KNOW HE EXISTS. THE FORM HE EXISTS, THEY DO NOT KNOW.
48. Some believe that God is and He exists, but in what form? They say spirits. WE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT WILL TELL THE WHOLE WORLD, “OUR EYES HAVE SEEN HIM. WE CAN DESCRIBE HIM. WE CAN DESCRIBE HIS DRESS, HIS FACE, HIS STATURE.”
49. NOBODY CAN FOOL US INTO BELIEVING THAT GOD IS A WHITE MAN. GOD IS A BLACK MAN, AND HAS BEEN A BLACK MAN FROM THE WORD, GO.
50. THAT GOES TO SHOW, ADAM WAS A BLACK MAN. EVE WAS A BLACK WOMAN, FOR THEY WERE ALL AFRICANS.
51. What makes you a black man is not necessarily your colour. If colour is what it takes to make you a black man, Obama is a white man. Whether you are white or yellow or green, what makes you a black man is your region. Your region makes you a black man or a white man.
52. We have blacks in American. We call them American negroes. Are they blacks? Yes! Are they Americans? Yes! We have whites in Nigeria. Are they whites? Yes! Are they Nigerians? Yes! Does it make them white people? No! Bro Iyke! You are fair complexioned. Are you an American?
53. So, you better understand the truth. Amen.
Standing in your midst is the Source of whatever you are expecting. Without Him, nothing happens. If He locks the gate, no human being will open it. If He opens it, no human being will close it. Go up, Go down, you will be pointed to this Faith. Look at Him there! Believe it if you can….
UNTO YOU GOD FIRST APPEARED; preached on Thursday, 1st January, 2009; Pg. 29 vs. 5 – 6
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YOU MUST KNOW THE SOURCE OF THE MESSAGE
I want somebody who has the same spirit that is in Me to come up to the pulpit to help Me in reading one Epistle only. One Epistle only.
1. Thank you very much. I never mentioned anybody. Go to Epistle 15. Everybody, pay attention. We are reading the GREAT SERMON, EPISTLE 15.
2. Keep your eyes on the manifestation of the Deity in our midst. Saint Paul was so sure when he was talking to the Galatians, “You must believe me because you know the source of my message. And that it comes from no less a personality than the LORD Jesus Christ, The resurrected Body.”
3. You must know the Source of the Message. Remember those people did not see what we are seeing today. If they had seen what we have seen, believing will be made very easy, for that which you thought never existed exists.
4. This is the man that can wait for you anywhere and stifle life out of you and nobody will talk. This is the man that saved Bro John and the family this morning, and saved us sorrow, for He knew when they left. He knew that thing would happen. He stood there and averted it.
5. When you look at the vehicle, V8 Toyota Land cruiser, you will never believe that these people that were inside came out untouched.
6. THE GREAT SERMON, EPISTLE 15: SHOULD A MAN STRIVE WITH HIS MAKER? Change that tone immediately. If it is cracked, you come down. I will place somebody there immediately. If you are having catarrh or cough, come down. Thank you!
7. Apostle Ojiakor, mount that pulpit immediately. Take over from your son. I want you to Igbonize your English. You are highly favoured this morning. Otherwise, you would have buried your two daughters.
8. Listen! Pick two translations only, preferably Living Bible and Amplified versions. Where you do not have any of them, pick Good News or King James version.
9. 5I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:6That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
10. 8Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the Lord have created it.
11. 9Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?10 Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?(Isaiah 45:5 – 10 KJV)
12. 20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? (Romans 9:20 KJV)
13. 20 But who are you, a mere man, to criticize and contradict and answer back to God? Will what is formed say to him that formed it, Why have you made me thus? (Romans 9:20 AMP)
14. How can a man born of a woman rise up against his Maker or Creator? It is a very delicate act with dangerous consequences.
15. God, through the Prophet proclaimed woe to anybody whether man or woman, that will rise up to strive against his Maker.
16. Whoever that does that has published His obituary, sang his funeral song and attended his burial, etc.
17. God demands complete obedience and loyalty from all his children. He wants us to recognize His authority over us and also recognize that we are the workmanship of His hands.
18. By revelation, we should understand that we are ordinary clay in His hands and He is the Potter. He reserves the right to do whatever pleases Him with us and we cannot ask why?
19. No man is qualified to question God’s action, whether good or bad. He is Almighty because He can do all things without entertaining any question from any being in relation to His action.
20. As His workmanship, He expects us to do all things at His Word even if we do not understand why.
21. This is the only way man pleases God, because reasoning the Word of God or His instructions will surely produce unbelief or partial obedience.
22. 17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: 18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. (Job 5:17 – 18 KJV)
23. 17 “How enviable the man whom God corrects! Oh, do not despise the chastening of the Lord when you sin. 18 For though he wounds, he binds and heals again.(Job 5:17 – 18 LB)
24. Many feel offended whenever they are corrected by God. The attitude is very wrong and must be stopped.
25. If we admit His authority over us, we should feel very happy anytime He corrects us. Even if He gives us wounds, he is the one that will bind the wounds. He that taught us surely has the right to correct us. But when we start striving or rising up against God, we are bound to destroy ourselves with our own hands due to foolishness and ignorance that is in us.
26. I wish to warn all the Saints in this Faith that the time of this ignorance, I have overlooked and now, I am calling for a total change of mind and attitude towards the revealed Christ (The anointed One) in the Church, in whose Faith we are sanctified.
27. Whoever that hardens his or her heart after reading this epistle should be ready to bear the consequences.
28. Let us allow God to melt us, remold us and use us as objects of His praise.
29. The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 2 Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. 3 Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.
30. 4And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. 5 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 6 O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel. (Jeremiah 18:1 – 6 KJV)
31. The Lord said to me, 2 “Go down to the potter’s house, where I will give you my message.” 3 So I went there and saw the potter working at his wheel. 4 Whenever a piece of pottery turned out imperfect, he would take the clay and make it into something else.
32. 5Then the Lord said to me, 6 “Don’t I have the right to do with you people of Israel what the potter did with the clay? You are in my hands just like clay in the potter’s hands.(Jeremiah 18:1 – 6 GNB)
16 [Oh, your perversity!] You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be considered of no more account than the clay? Shall the thing that is made say of its maker, He did not make me; or the thing that is formed say of him who formed it, He has no understanding? (Isaiah 29:16 AMP)
33. 16 How stupid can they be! Isn’t he, the Potter, greater than you, the jars he makes? Will you say to him, “He didn’t make us”? Does a machine call its inventor dumb? (Isaiah 29:16 LB)
34. 16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding? Isaiah 29:16 KJV
35. The Scriptures quoted are so clear that God demands nothing but implicit loyalty from all His children. Whoever that thinks that God is taking too much of Himself is free to rise up against Him. But woe is me if I should try that with my entire household.
36. At times people talk and boast as if they will contend with God and be justified and God will be condemned. This is arrant stupidity and foolishness on the side of such haughty men and women. This hostile stand before God is borne out of pride and haughtiness.
37. 18He won’t let me catch my breath; he has filled my life with bitterness. 19Should I try force? Try force on God? Should I take him to court? Could anyone make him go? 20I am innocent and faithful, but my words sound guilty,and everything I say seems to condemn me. 21-22I am innocent, but I no longer care.
38. I am sick of living. Nothing matters; innocent or guilty, God will destroy us. 23When an innocent person suddenly dies, God laughs.24God gave the world to the wicked. He made all the judges blind. And if God didn’t do it, who did? (Job 9:18 – 24 GNB)
39. 18 He will not let me breathe, but fills me with bitter sorrows. 19 He alone is strong and just. 20 “But I? Am I righteous? My own mouth says no. Even if I were perfect, God would prove me wicked. 21 And even if I am utterly innocent, I dare not think of it. I despise what I am. 22 Innocent or evil, it is all the same to him, for he destroys both kinds.
40. 23He will laugh when calamity crushes the innocent. 24 The whole earth is in the hands of the wicked. God blinds the eyes of the judges and lets them be unfair. If not he, then who? (Job 9:18 – 24 LB)
41. Since God has power to destroy whether innocent or guilty and yet stand justified in His action, is this not enough for men to fear and honour God in all His ways and dealings with mankind without questioning Him?
42. A time came when Prophet Jeremiah became very offended at God, and he raised doubts and questions about God’s faithfulness to His promises.
43. “Lord, if I argued my case with you, You would prove to be right. Yet I must question You about matters of justice. Why are wicked men so prosperous? Why do dishonest men succeed? You plant them, and they take root. They grow and bear fruit. They always speak well of You, yet they do not really care about You.
44. But Lord. You know me, You see what I do, and how I love you. Drag these evil men away like sheep to be butchered, guard them until it is time for them to be slaughtered.” (Jeremiah 12:1 – 3 GNB)
45. “The Lord replied to me, if racing with mere men – these men of Anathoth – has wearied you, how will you race against horses, against the king, his court and all his evil priests? If you stumble and fall on open ground, what will you do in Jordan jungles?”(Jeremiah 12:5 LB)
46. The prophet thought that his question was very relevant, considering what he discovered on the land in his day. He thought that God was blind to those things which, to him, accounted to injustice in the side of God.
47. The same way we are often tempted to ask God “why?” when we notice the way things are done in our day.
48. God’s reply to Jeremiah should serve as an eye opener to all. God is not equal with man in authority. Man is finite while God is infinite in knowledge and in all things. No matter what happens, God is ever faithful to His promises. Though He delays in fulfilling them, that does not make Him a liar.
49. “Of course not, though everyone else in the world is a liar, God is not. Do you remember what the book of Psalms says about this? That God’s word will always prove true and right, no matter who questions them.”(Romans 3:4 LB)
50. I have to warn all the Elects of God. In your own interest, refrain from calling God a deceiver or a liar or else you will regret it in the end.
51. Even if God’s promises do not come to pass in your day, they must come to pass one day because God is ever faithful to His promises.
52. “O Lord, You deceived me when You promised me Your help. I have to give them your messages because you are stronger than I am, but now, I am the laughing stock of the city, mocked by all.”(Jeremiah 20:7 LB)
53. When a man is in trouble, surely, he expects God to come to his aid immediately as it is being promised in His word: “Call to Me in the time of trouble, and I will come to your rescue.” Yes, God said so. But you must find out why the trouble has befallen you.
54. Do you know if it is a trial of your faith by God? Do you know whether it is permitted by God as a result of your wrong doing as punishment? Please find out why you are passing through any kind of trouble, before you call God a deceiver like prophet Jeremiah. It is not good for a man to strive with his Creator.
55. “Who are you to question My wisdom with your ignorant, empty words? Stand up now like a man and answer the questions I ask you. Were you there when I made the world? If you know so much, tell me about it. Who decided how large it should be? Who stretched the measuring line over it? Do you know all the answers?
56. What holds up the pillars that support the earth? Who laid the cornerstone of the world? In the dawn of that day, the stars sang together, and the heavenly beings shouted for joy.” (Job 38:1 – 7 GNB)
57. “Job, have you ever all your life commanded a day to dawn? Have you ordered the dawn to sieze the earth, and shake the wicked from their hiding places?”(Job 38:12 – 13 GNB)
58. “Have you any idea how big the world is? Answer Me if you know. Do you know where the light comes from, or what the source of darkness is? Can you show them how far to go, or send them back again? I am sure you can, because you are so old and were there when the world was made.” (Job 38:18 – 21 GNB)
59. Job thought it wise to question God in his day and God gave His reply to Job calling his action sheer stupidity. Hear God’s reply to Job.
60. “Do you still want to argue with the Almighty? Or will you yield? Do you – God’s critic – have the answers? I am nothing – how could I ever find the answers? I lay my hand on my mouth in silence. I have said too much already.”(Job 40:1 – 5 LB)
61. This is the way some people out of ignorance question God over many things, even in their hearts. Some, even in the Church say it in their hearts that God is deceiving them especially those whose hearts have been biased by the baseless propaganda of our enemies.
62. If you are numbered among such people, I pity you.
63. “Who are you to judge the servant of someone else? It is his own master who will decide whether he succeeds or fails, and he will succeed because the Lord will make him to succeed.” (Romans 14:4 GNB)
64. “Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? To his own master, he standeth or faileth. Yea, he shall be holden up, for God is able to make him stand.” (Romans 14:4 KJV)
65. Some people in the Church do not realise that God is the only person that chose and called his servant and He is accountable to God, and not to any man.
66. Some make themselves judges over him instead of believing him. If he bears God’s name, do you not think that God must protect him and his Ministry for His name’s sake?
67. Even if he falls into error, will God send you to reprimand Him? This is where we will have to behave like Job, by closing our mouths with our hands on issues concerning the servant of God, or else we shall be guilty of judging the Anointed One of God, and the punishment is always great.
68. A man cannot judge his Maker. It is foolishness to do so.
69. “Oh, that there were someone who would listen to me and try to see my side of this argument. Look, I will sign my signature to my defense, now let the Almighty show me that I am wrong. Let Him approve the indictments made against me by my enemies. I would treasure it like a crown. Then I would tell Him exactly what I have done and why, presenting my defense as one he listens to.” (Job 31:35 – 37 LB)
70. When any of you is suffering hardship, sickness or any other thing in this flesh, due to your Faith in Christ, you should count it as a thing of joy, for thereunto you are called.
71. Do not start to doubt God’s promises or calling Him a deceiver. You were told of what you will pass through. When you became children of God. Read these few Scriptures to refresh your minds once more.
72. “Thou therefore endure hardship, as good soldiers of Christ.” (2 Timothy 2:3 KJV)
73. “Take your own share of suffering as a good soldier of Jesus Christ just as I do.” (2 Timothy 2:3 LB)
74. “Finally, when I could stand it no longer, I decided to stay alone in Athens, and sent Timothy, our brother and fellow worker, God’s minister, to visit you to strengthen your Faith and to encourage you and to keep you from becoming faint-hearted in all the troubles you were going through.
75. (But of course, you know that such troubles are a part of God’s plan for us Christians. Even while we were still with you, we warned you ahead of time that suffering would soon come – and it did)” (1 Thessalonians 3:1 – 4, LB)
76. “For unto you, it was given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer for His sake. Having the same conflict which ye saw in me and now hear to be in me.”(Philippians 1:29 – 30, KJV)
77. “For to you has been given the privilege, not only of trusting Him, but also of suffering for Him. we are in this fight together. You have seen me suffer for Him in the past, and I am still in the midst of a great and terrible struggle now, as you know so well.” (Philippians 1:29 – 30, LB)
78. In everything we shall learn to give God the glory instead of contending with Him, for that is the will of God for us, and is pleasing in His sight.
79. “In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”(1 Thessalonians 5:18, KJV)
80. We are sure that we must enter the Kingdom of God through much tribulations. As long as we are still living here on earth, we cannot avoid it, but one thing is certain. We cannot be the worst hit. Some heathens suffer more than us.
81. “And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead. Howbeit the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the city, and the next day, he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.
82. And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra and Iconium, and Antioch, confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must, through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.” (Acts 14:19 – 22, KJV)
83. “So be truly glad, there is wonderful joy ahead, even though the going is rough for a while down here. this trials are only to test your faith, to see whether or not it is strong, and pure. It is being tested as fires tests gold and purifies it – and your faith is far more precious to God than mere gold, so if you faith remains strong, after being tried in the test tube of fiery trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honour on the day pf His return.”(1 Peter 1:6 – 7, LB)
84. Let us not strive against our Maker because of the troubles we encounter in this heavenly race. TO CONTEND WITH GOD IS DEATH, BUT TO OBEY HIM IS ETERNAL LIFE.
85. “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter, fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.” (Ecclesiastes 12:13, KJV)
86. “All has been heard, the end of the matter is, fear God (revere and worship Him, knowing that He is) and keep His commandments, for this is the whole of man (the full, original purpose of his creation, the object of God’s providence, the root of character, the foundation of all happiness, the adjustments to all inharmonious circumstances and conditions under the sun) and the whole (duty) for every man.” (Ecclesiastes 12:13, AMP)
87. GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
……when you know the Source of the Spoken Word, that the Source of Spoken Word is the Message of God sent to you in your day, happy are you. That He has become a human being, living among you, married with children, is not deviating from the order; It has been God’s way from the beginning.
NOW I KNOW THAT THOU ART A MAN OF GOD; Teaching on Sunday 28th February, 1999; Pg. 178 vs. 14
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HE THAT IS LEADING IS STILL IN CONTROL (1)
I invite the assistant Pastor to the pulpit. The assistant Pastor, Onitsha. Brother Alexus. There is torchlight here in case you are having night blindness due to too much eating of rice like Bro Ojiakor. I want you to read this. Too much eating of rice will cause Beri-Beri and night blindness. More so, when you use more than enough vegetable oil.
1. WHY WE MUST BE CAREFUL; Why? I did not hear you. There is no network failure here, that network failure is your fear. Every Pastor is an orator. If you are afraid of your flock, who then will pastor them.
2. WHY WE MUST BE CAREFUL; Preached on 10th June 2012, at the Household of God Onitsha by Apostle Peter Odoemena, THE SON OF MAN. THE ROCK OF AGES.
3. Stop swallowing your breath. Let it out. somebody should collect that microphone from him. He is having network problem in his heart. Rescue him.
4. I hope your own will not be worse. You see. Do not worry. I will read something from the pulpit that will frighten you. God saw it ahead of time, far back in 1998, and used Onitsha youth as example. He said, “A good number of them do not belong to God.”
5. A good number of Onitsha youth do not belong to God. 1998. I will read it here. This is because, if you cannot read and you cannot pray, well, I wonder how you will be studying.
6. If you had been practicing reading and praying, with time it becomes your habit. No matter when you are called upon, you must defend yourself, your position and defend even your certificate.
7. FearGod, go and take that Message. A good number of our youth do not belong to God. This is because when you want to handle the Word of God with unclean heart, unclean hands, it cannot work. You make it of non-effect, for God can never use an impure vessel.
8. A good number of our youth do not belong to God. How many have we thrown away. Bro Chibuzor, go to the pulpit. Rescue him. A good number of our youth do not belong to God. What are you? Are you still pointing your hand. What are you?
9. If it is from the microphone, they should do something. Do you want Me to believe it is the microphone or the operators? It then means Deacon Vin is a saboteur. If it is from the system, you are a saboteur.
10. Is it not what I am using? Is this not the microphone? Are they not coming from that same amplifier? It is from the vessel. I say, it is from the vessel. Those vessels are not vessels of honour. They were not vessels of honour meant for today.
11. WHY WE MUST BE CAREFUL: Preached on 10th June 2012. Take note of that.
12. Page 3 Nuggets: IT IS TRUE I AM AN ORDINARY HUMAN BEING IN APPEARANCE. WHOSOEVER GOD SENDS IN EVERY DISPENSATION IS GOD’S TABERNACLE. HE IS GOD’S DWELLING PLACE; HE IS WHERE GOD IS HIDING. HE MUST ALWAYS BE A HUMAN BEING. HE CANNOT BE WALKING WITH WINGS BECAUSE GOD IS DWELLING IN HIM. NO! HE REMAINS A MERE HUMAN BEING IN APPEARANCE, BUT HE IS A SUPERNATURAL HUMAN BEING THE OTHER WAY ROUND, IN THAT HE CAN CHANGE SITUATIONS. Believe it if you can… -THE SON OF MAN [From the Message: NO DECEPTION IS OF THE TRUTH.]
13. Page 5 Nugget: Do you know who God is? Nobody knoweth the Father but the Son, nobody knoweth the Son but the Father and to whomsoever the Son shall choose to reveal. I am in the bosom of the Father, and He that is in the bosom of the Father knows the mind of the Father.
14. If I declare that you are lost, you are lost. If I declare you are saved, you are saved. Do you know the safe ground, have you gone this way before? DO YOU KNOW THAT IT WILL BE ONE DAY; THE SON OF MAN WILL JUST SPEAK A LITTLE AND HOLD HIS HANDS BACKWARD.
15. AND THE NEXT THING YOU WILL HEAR IS THE WHISTLE BLAST. –SON OF MAN. [THE ESSENCE OF SERVING THE LIVING GOD page 70, verse 33-38]
16. Learn to hold your microphone steady. I do not believe it is microphone. It is Deacon Vin. Collect that microphone from him and try it.
17. Page 25 verse 13 – 14. What do you think that you have which they do not have? Do you at all pause and think? Have you one day paused to think about the goodness of the Lord to you?
18. If you do not consider the goodness of the Lord, the tendency is there for you to continue to be disobedient to God’s Word. You think that the life you are living today is because you merited it?
19. What can you say about the highways? This highways that we ply on daily basis safely, too many ply the road and perished on the highway. Some perished in the river, some summersault on the road, some fell into the ditch. Page 26 verse 15 – 16. Recently, you heard it that a 608 lorry that loaded 48 passengers at Upper-Iweka, they were going to Father Mbaka’s adoration and they fell into a ditch and all of them died. Are you better than them? Why shouldn’t you be happy every day?
20. It is because you do not consider the goodness of the Lord. You consider your family and every other thing. I was hearing testimonies of things that happened to us and we survived….
21. Page 27 verse 17. Many things that you pass through as if they are nothing, people will meet them and die on the spot. Sicknesses that have stopped people will attack you and your children, yet you still remained alive.
22. I mean that too many intractable sicknesses have stopped people abruptly. Yet, we drink wine and everything as if they are nothing, and you think that it is your own doing? It is the Lord’s doing and it is marvelous in our eyes.
23. Page 28 verse 19. I then remembered one thing that happened when one of my sons had that problem at a very tender age. Both the x-ray and everything, the medical doctors concluded that there was a hole in his heart, and my wife fainted. I told her to rise up, that she should not faint for that was the medical doctors’ observation;… God has not concluded.
24. I told her to rise up, that she should not faint for that was the medical doctors’ observation. THAT IT IS THEIR OWN CONCLUSION, BUT GOD HAS NOT SPOKEN.
25. Page 28 verse 20. IF YOU LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF YOUR PHYSICIANS YOU MUST DIE,… BUT WHEN YOU LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF GOD YOU WILL LIVE. Thus, do not be another Asa who trusted in his physician rather than God and he died. If you go by doctors’ assessment, you will die. However, when you lean on God, you will live.
26. Page 29 verse 21 – 22. THERE ARE MANY CASES WHERE THE MEDICAL DOCTORS CONCLUDED THAT IT WAS OVER, YET GOD TOOK CONTROL AND SAVED THE SITUATION.
27. Let me tell you one, going by medical doctors’ assessment, going by examination reports, brother Chibuzor, the son of Sister Ogoo should not have lived beyond 24 hours.
28. I thank God that I have some medical experts who can speak. There was nothing in the report of the x-ray and the scanning that suggested that he could breath for 24 hours, but this day he is eating… He is My son-in-law now.
29. Page 29 verse 22 – 23. ….He has even started playing football. WHEN THEY SAID THAT EVERY HOPE IS LOST, GOD LAUGHED AND SAID, “WELL, THEY HAVE SAID THEIR OWN BUT THAT IS NOT SO.”
30. I do not care how the blood clotted in the brain, I do not care how the sensory nerves and neurons were destroyed and so on, but I am assuring them of one thing: if they will obey my instructions, I will keep watch over that bed 24 hours and I did it.
31. ….I kept watch over that bed for 24 hours, even right now, when all their medication failed, he is now feeding on my own prescribed drugs which no medical doctor in this Nigeria can prescribe for they do not know about it. However, it is very, very simple. Even UNTH cannot prescribe it. They could not even locate where it is sold.
32. I placed him on those drugs and told him to remain there until I will dismantle it. Go and see him, he has started reading AND EVERYTHING IS RESTORED BECAUSE HE TRUSTED IN GOD INSTEAD OF IN THE PHYSICIANS. A lecturer in the University pursuing his doctorate degree.
33. Page 34 verse 33 – 41. YOU CAN LIVE WITH A MAN; IT IS A DIFFERENT THING FROM BEING MARRIED TO A MAN. YOU CAN LIVE WITH A MAN, YET YOU ARE NOT MARRIED TO THAT MAN.
34. Drusilla was a Jewess who got entangled to Governor Felix who was a Gentile. Drusilla was never married to Governor Felix but she was living with a man. Sure!
35. If you are a daughter of God and a stranger takes you as a wife, you are living with a man… If you are a daughter of God and a stranger takes you as a wife, you are living with a man and not a husband… for you are not married to a man or woman until whenever a Jew gets married to a Jew;..
36. …then everybody will now understand each other for whatever the rat knows, the lizard knows it also. A tree cannot produce two different kinds of fruits unless if it is attached or grafted.
37. Not when you will be saying this and he will be saying that. If you are calling your own God, he will be calling his own god also. You better crosscheck yourselves, because after your salvation the next thing is your marriage. What is more, sometimes your salvation is tied to your marriage.
38. That was why when they were saying that her husband died, I told them that nobody died, that God knows how to save His people.
39. I told them that I will not say anything until after the burial of her husband. That if after the burial, she follows her people in attending Catholic, then I will know that she is not a child of God.
40. However, I am sure and certain that even if you throw her into Catholic, she will find her way out, for if she had wanted to go to Catholic, her brother is a reverend father there. Can her husband know Catholic more than her brother?
41. That is why whenever they tell Me that they want to visit their brother, the reverend father, I will give them license to follow him and then stay in Onitsha to monitor them.
42. I will send them there, give them permission to go, but I stay in Onitsha and monitor them.
43. However, I thank God that all of them by revelation have seen that, that which the reverend father is confessing is fake. It is purely fake, for THE WORST IN THIS FAITH IS BETTER THAN THE BEST REVEREND FATHER. The worst in this Bridal Faith is better than the best reverend father.
44. Do not worry. Why they are following him is for them to see whether he will help them financially…
45. ….But when you are making “yea!” yea!”, make sure that you are not guilty, for you might be the reason why he is ridiculing the faith!…
46. And that reference was going to Onyema Njom who was making “Yaa! Yaa!” and who was an expert in shuttling Enugu and Agbani, seeking help from a reverend father, seeking help from a devil.
47. He called him [the reverend father] devil with his belief. Yet, he [Onyema] is going to him for help.
48. 43…You cannot call him Devil and show interest in the wealth of the devil…. 44Hence, be very careful that you do not shout “Yes Sir!” and later go back like Jehu.
49. HE THAT IS LEADING IS STILL IN CONTROL: Who has been leading from the very beginning. The same that asked Job the question, “Where were you when the foundation of the world was laid.”
50. This is the Man that has been leading. This is He that laid the foundation of the world. This is the Source of all creations, visible and invisible. The Self-Existing One. He requires no companion. He is satisfied with His estate. HE DOES NOT NEED YOU, BUT YOU CANNOT DO WITHOUT HIM.
51. HE THAT IS LEADING IS STILL IN CONTROL: 1I want us to consider few things from our message. GOD CAN BLOT OUT NAMES; I want rapt attention as we showed when we read Epistle 15 of the Great Sermon.
52. GOD CAN BLOT OUT NAMES; page 8 verse 3: “Revelation 3 verse 5, ‘He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life…”
53. 2Note,and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life. Which means the name was there in the beginning.
54. Remember that when you go to a brother or sister and open up a discussion, whatever you are going to discuss or whatever that is in your mind must be recorded. For that moment a book of record is opened.
55. 3If you go to the INNER VOICE you will understand it better. I do not care where you are, whether you are in your private bedroom or toilet, a book of record must be opened where everything that you discussed must be recorded whether good or bad. Allah is swift in taking records.
56. 8“By the time this ministry finishes, this is the way we are going to appear…”Amen! For we shall be like Him. Why? We shall see Him just as He is. And let all that have this hope purify their hearts as He is pure.
57. 11When he was glorified; remember the Voice, “I have glorified you and I will glorify you again.” In 1996 the Voice said, “Son of Man, I have glorified you and I will glorify you again.” …
58. And that was when we saw the Pillar of Cloud in the form of a Rainbow, that surrounded Him. The Voice said, “I have glorified you and I will glorify you again.” Did He confirm it? We saw Him glorified again.
59. Then He turned and said, “WHENEVER I WANT TO MAGNIFY MYSELF IN THE MIDST OF MY PEOPLE, I WILL SHOW THEM MY ORIGINAL BODY.” Did he fulfill it?
60. 12“GOD WHO WROTE NAMES CAN ALSO WIPE AWAY NAMES THE MOMENT THE PEOPLE BEGIN TO WALK CONTRARY FROM WHAT MADE GOD TO WRITE THEIR NAMES IN THE BOOK OF LIFE.”
61. 13“Because when people hear that you are my nation, you are my people, I cannot do without you, they die if they are not careful. When people hear from the word of God’s vessel, that I have made you a king, I have made you my Church, I have made you my nation, I have made you my servant, I have made you my minister, I have made you my wife, I have made you my son, if they are not careful, they die. Why? The same God that said it can also speak against it.”
62. Can also speak against it! I want you to talk like a young man. If a Teacher cannot talk loud, who then can talk loud. You are discrediting your schools and certificates.
63. Deacon Vin! You see, you are the problem we are having. It will take somebody to go there and correct him, sitting down like a drone passively. That goes to show that you are not spiritually there. You are carnally there.
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65. While I am here, I am the Light of the world; Whoever follows Me can never grope in darkness. Take Me away, you are living in darkness and you must stumble: I say, you must stumble because I am paving the way for you. Did you get what I said? No matter the way you look at it, across the other way, you cannot hear another voice than the One you are hearing now. All that have been privileged to be taken over to the other side, they never heard any other voice than the Voice of the Bridegroom that is speaking in our midst. Are you getting what I am saying?……
66. NOW I KNOW THAT THOU ART A MAN OF GOD; Teaching on Sunday 28th February, 1999; Pg. 179 vs. 17 – 18
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HE THAT IS LEADING IS STILL IN CONTROL (2)
If you are in this Church, we know when your name has left the Book. If you say you are a member of this Church, be it known to you that spiritual people here know when you have left the Faith.
1. You might be sitting down, contributing, doing everything, but you are no longer there. Your name has been erased. God will never send any notice to you to tell you He has blotted out your name, if you know who He is.
2. 15“If you are in this Church, we know when your name has left the Book. Somebody can know because there is a Book of Life. We will see it and we will know what is that Book of Life because there are two types of book. THERE ARE BOOKS AND THERE IS A BOOK OF LIFE.
3. 16God can wipe away names. When God called Jeroboam by prophecy, God wrote his name as a king in Israel; by prophecy also, God confirmed His Presence, that He has chosen him as a king, but what happened?
4. When Jeroboam went into idolatry, the Bible said that God wiped away his name from the kings of Israel to the extent that all his children and grandchildren and anything that can be traced to Jeroboam, GOD WIPED THEM AWAY. WHY? HE HAS NEGLECTED INSTRUCTIONS THAT MADE HIS NAME TO BE IN THE BOOK OF LIFE.”
5. OBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH PUTS YOUR NAME THERE. DISOBEDIENCE TO THE TRUTH REMOVES YOUR NAME.
6. 17The whole generation, the whole lineage, that is why God said that you should be very careful that you do not commit a crime that will erase your lineage. If you go to the message titled, “We Are in Danger of Being Called to Question,” it is there.
7. 18There is a crime that you will commit and your lineage will be completely erased, and you find yourself in that thing that you were running away from and that is Hellfire.
8. Even people that worship idols. There is a crime you will commit against an Idol, your entire family will be wiped off. Achan committed a crime that wiped off his family and his lineage. Was he a man of God? Yes! Until iniquity was found in Him. Then his lineage was wiped off. I do not want to go there.
9. 18There is a crime that you will commit and your lineage will be completely erased, and you find yourself in that thing that you were running away from and that is Hellfire. Then you will go and swim in the ocean of Hell eternally. IF IT IS NOT TRUTH, THE CLOUD WILL NOT VINDICATE IT.
10. Page 47.19EVEN NOW THAT I AM TALKING, I AM THE CLOUD MADE VISIBLE IN YOUR MIDST,… EVEN NOW THAT I AM TALKING TO YOU, I AM THE CLOUD. THE SON OF MAN HAS NEVER STAMMERED FROM THE BEGINNING IN 1992 TILL THIS VERY HOUR. WHY? I KNOW WHO I AM, EVEN IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT ME. AND I DO NOT SEEK YOUR ACCEPTANCE.
11. 19EVEN NOW THAT I AM TALKING, I AM THE CLOUD MADE VISIBLE IN YOUR MIDST,in the Church. Do you know that?
12. Note that the Message “God Can Blot out Names” was preached after I handled the message titled, BE CAREFUL ABOUT WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD AND WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN, LEST THE FEAR OF GOD DEPART FROM YOU AND YOU SIN AGAINST GOD. …
13. That you do not forget what your eyes have seen, your ears have heard so that you do not sin against God.
14. Even Cain, if you read the genealogy of Christ, starting from Adam, Cain and his descendants were not there. God wiped all off.
15. 23“Can you imagine something that can cause a Bishop’s name to be cancelled!”
16. 24He was referring to Bishop Judas,… who forfeited his bishopric office and his name deleted from the Book of life. Was he a bishop? Was vindicated by God. He went about healing and performing miracles, signs and wonders.
17. And God said, “REJOICE NOT THAT THE DEVIL BOWS BEFORE YOU. REJOICE THAT YOUR NAMES ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAMB’S BOOK OF LIFE IN HEAVEN.” Before everybody’s eyes, iniquity was found in him and his name was blotted out.
18. That is why I told you to be very careful, that the righteousness of the righteous can never save him in the day of his transgression. I want you to remain sober.
19. 24He was referring to Bishop Judas, yet the spirit is still at work. If you can remember that it was in the same year, in 1994, we were returning from Abagana and I was in the same vehicle with Brother Chime, Pastor Nnamdi Ogbogu and many others.
20. 25After our encounter there, the Voice said, “SIR, THERE IS NO NEED WASTING YOUR TIME, FOR YOU WERE TRYING TO TAMPER WITH THE TAPE IN ORDER TO ERASE WHAT YOU SPOKE BEFORE MANY WITNESSES AS RECORDED IN THE MAGNETIC TAPES. IN YOUR CRAFTY ATTEMPT TO ERASE IT SO THAT PEOPLE WILL NOT KNOW ABOUT IT, YOU SPOILED THE TAPE. AND IN THE SAME WAY, YOUR NAME HAS BEEN ERASED FROM THE LAMB’S BOOK OF LIFE.”
21. Brethren, have you heard it. Did I make this statement last week? You see the Message. I will also show you where it was documented when he was sitting down. He heard it with his ears. [1] MOMENT OF TRUTH. [2] WE ARE IN DAGER OF BEING CALLED TO QUESTION Page 36.Even, My mother’s name appeared in Page 59.
22. 26Brother Chime was there. Yet he carried on until God summoned Brother Kelechi one day and said, “BROTHER KELECHI, BE COURAGEOUS FOR I AM SHOWING HIM THE WAY OUT. STEER CLEAR FROM HIM FROM NOW, FOR I AM GOING TO MAKE HIM MAD.
23. Steer clear from him from now, for I am going to make him mad. You will see it in that Message, WE ARE IN DANGER OF BEING CALLED TO QUESTION. God said, “I AM GOING TO REMOVE MY SPIRIT FROM HIM. AND THE SPIRIT OF MADNESS WILL POSSESS HIM FULLY AND HE WILL DO DISGRACEFUL THINGS THAT ARE UNIMAGINABLE AND THAT IT WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO SAY, ‘I AM SORRY.’”
24. Who can change situations? Remember the introduction. He is the Almighty in human form in that He can change any situation.
25. “BROTHER KELECHI, BE COURAGEOUS FOR I AM SHOWING HIM THE WAY OUT. STEER CLEAR FROM HIM FROM NOW, FOR I AM GOING TO MAKE HIM MAD. AND I WILL CAUSE HIM TO REBEL AGAINST THE TRUTH HE HAS PREACHED.
26. Has there been evil in the city and the LORD has not done it? He maketh good if He wants. He maketh evil if He wants. If He wants you to stay alive, you will stay alive. If He says you are dying, go and invite all your juju, you must surely die. But He does not take his decisions too easily like that. He allows human beings space of time.
27. AND I WILL CAUSE HIM TO REBEL AGAINST THE TRUTH HE HAS PREACHED, AND I WILL MAKE HIM A HATEFUL ANIMAL BEFORE ALL BRETHREN.”I will make him what? A HATEFUL ANIMAL.
28. Page 49 25BROTHER CHIME WAS THERE. YET HE CARRIED ON UNTIL GOD SUMMONED BROTHER KELECHI ONE DAY AND SAID, “BROTHER KELECHI, BE COURAGEOUS FOR I AM SHOWING HIM THE WAY OUT. STAY CLEAR FROM HIM FROM NOW, FOR I AM GOING TO MAKE HIM MAD AND I WILL CAUSE HIM TO REBEL AGAINST THE TRUTH HE HAS PREACHED, AND I WILL MAKE HIM A HATEFUL ANIMAL BEFORE ALL BRETHREN. 27There are many things that I have spoken concerning many of you in privacy…
29. 28HE THAT PENNED DOWN YOUR NAME HAS THE RIGHT TO ERASE IT. See the person that penned down your name in the beginning. Is He not here with us? Is He not here? And He will remain with us, according to His promise, till the end of the world. He has come to stay.
30. Is there anywhere you can run to without His eyes seeing you? Fly to the heavens, He will catch you. Go to the deepest hell, He will catch you. Hide in the darkest of the world, He will get you.
31. Then, if you are wise, the solution lies in “Stand Still”. Since you cannot escape by flying up and running, what do you do? Stand still. Stop dissipating your energy thinking you are escaping from the inescapable. No No No No! No No No No! No No No No! It will be better that you did not suffer yourself by running. Stand Still!
32. That is why, He that has called us, He that has taught us, has every right also to correct us and rebuke us.
33. He that has called us and has taught us has every right to rebuke us and to correct us if we err, all for our own good.
34. Do you know this way before? You have heard the testimony of the Pastor who was in charge [and] how they were doing everything in error until God appeared. Even holding the Holy Communion in error in 1992, until God appeared.
35. Page 51 30WHO WAS THAT GOD THAT APPEARED AND CORRECTED ALL THOSE ERRORS? IS HE NOT IN THE MIDST OF THE BRIDE TILL TODAY? Even till this morning.
36. Brethren, any ambiguity? Any confusion? To human beings belongeth confusion, but there is no confusion in God. God is faithful to His Word and He is steadfast.
37. HAVE YOU NOT BEEN SEEING HIM? IS HE NOT THE ONE STILL TALKING? Alleluia! HE THAT IS LEADING IS STILL IN CONTROL. NOT ANOTHER ONE. AMEN.
In our midst is the courageous man of God, who is never moved and nothing moves Him, even gossip does not move Him. He is mindful of His duty, He does not look at man, He fixes His eyes on the Father. He does not care who comes in or who goes out. If I am afraid of people I would not have carried it to this extent especially when I handled the Message, “THE BEGINNING AND ENDING OF GENTILE DISPENSATION.” The highest thing you can do is to publish a book and call Me devil
GOD HAS COUNTED ME WORTHY, PUTTING ME INTO THIS MINISTRY; Preached on Sunday 13th August, 2000; Pg. 38 vs. 56 – 57
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HE THAT IS LEADING IS STILL IN CONTROL (3)
THE SMOKING PRESENCE OF GOD: 1Okechukwu Paul on Sunday 27th April 1997, titled “The Revelation of the Smoking Presence of God,” part 2.
1. Let Me ask you, have you not seen the Smoking Presence of God? Look at it in the supernatural photograph, he caught it by revelation through the scriptures but you saw it live.
2. He preached it from the Scriptures. You saw it live. The manifestation became the interpretation. Others preached and we interpreted by manifesting it. So, by manifestation of this Truth, we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience that we are not deceivers. If we deceive you, what is our gain?
3. That which we know to be the Truth who was there from the very beginning, that we declare unto you. We preach. We allow Him to confirm.
4. I will keep on upholding the truth not minding the vessel God used. I am showing you these things so that you can see the extent God can go in using a man to fulfill His purpose, after which He will erase his name.
5. After which, he will do what? Erase his name. You see the extent God can go to use a man to do great marvelous things approved of God, after which iniquity was found in Him, for his heart was lifted up because of what God is using Him to do. His heart was lifted up with pride. Iniquity was found in him and God erased his name from the Book of Life.
6. Page 54. 3If because of the way that God has used you, you think that you have arrived, you have become something, by the way, who ordained you Pastor?
7. Have you seen where the trouble starts? Whatever you think you are, who made you what you are? Whatever blessing you have, who is the one that blessed you? If you were in the grave, will you get those blessings? A man in the grave has no ambition to achieve.
8. Who made you Bishop? Who made you whatever you are? What were you before He appeared? The moment the legs and the hands begin to rebel against the head, they become standstill. The moment the legs, the hands begin to rebel against the head, they will become stand still. You cannot move an inch.
9. Why should you be proud and arrogant even before He that has called you? Who made you what you are? If you preach any sermon that you think that brethren accepted, who preached it first? You were only using what was handed down to encourage your brethren. However, that does not make you anything but by nature Pastors are popular because they are residents with the flock.
10. 5Any minister that they do not want to accept, they will bias the hearts of their members against that minister. According to their calling they know how to go from house to house, even in the night, pretending to be friends when they are enemies.
11. 6Apostles are quiet by their nature, they are spiritual, they do not make noise and they do not mingle with people anyhow. You can hardly see them in your house. If you are privileged to have one at anytime, it is the greatest privilege that you can have for you are having God in person if you are wise.
12. Apostle Kelechi, take note! Where is Ojiakor? He went to urinate when the Message has come to his own office.
13. 7The revelation of the SMOKING PRESENCE OF GOD, why cannot you be afraid of God? That is why I handled the message titled, NOBODY IS INDISPENSABLE IN THE HOUSE OF GOD, for when you come to a point where you think that this Ministry cannot exist without you, God will show you the way out.
14. That was the time I sang my song which rang bell, “The world will continue without you, no matter your pride and position!”
15. No matter you pride and position. Great men came and vanished, the world continued. Who are you that the world will not continue without you? Were you there from the beginning.
16. This Ministry will continue without you. Even when you think you are in the Faith, what is your contribution? What impact are you making? So, you must know that you are mere ant, ordinary dust and mere maggot.
We come and go yet the ministry continues. This ministry is likened to River Niger, a big ocean that drowns somebody and remains as if nothing is inside. You are afloat because the Lord has made you afloat. This great ocean where you are now floating on top, it has drowned many. Many ships and captains were buried beneath the seabed, and your eyes cannot see them, your memory cannot catch them anymore, but you are floating on top of the water. Yet do you know what is happening? Why? Because you are wearing a life jacket.
17. DON’T YOU KNOW WHAT A LIFE JACKET IS? CHRIST IS OUR LIFE JACKET CHRIST IS OUR LIFE JACKETTHAT WILL HELP US TO SWIM ACROSS THE GREAT OCEAN. Which is the world. NOBODY CAN CROSS AN OCEAN WITHOUT A LIFE JACKET.
18. Page 58. 13CAN THE CLOUD GATHER IN TWO PLACES AT A TIME? NO. FOR GOD IS ONE AND HIS PRESENCE IS ONE. Even the environment will tell you that the supernatural is taking place. I mean the environment where you are right now;… can’t you see how dark it is? Look outside and see how bright it is? This is the Cloudy Presence.
19. 14Do you think that God will vindicate all these things just for abracadabra? Who are you? Are you up to the level of a human being for God to show you abracadabra? No, we are the favoured people of this age. The most favoured.
20. I am one of them. I do not know about you. How can I be wasting My time fooling Myself in a place like this? I thank God there is a Message that came out today titled, WHY ARE YOU FOOLING YOURSELVES VOLUMES 1 & 2. Many are fooling themselves.
21. 16Ancient men, whosoever that survived should thank God for we have reached to the point where we cannot go back.
22. Whosoever among the ancient men that is having his name retained in the Book of Life till now, and you are sure and certain that it is still there, now we have come to the point where we will prefer to be hanged on a tree, instead of recanting our Faith, for everything has been made plain.
23. It worth it all when we see Christ. So, let us bravely run the race. Now, we have seen Christ, not till we see Christ. Christ has been with us, but He was veiled from human eyes. As we journeyed along, the veil was rent into two. We are no longer beholding veiled Christ. We are now talking about the unveiled Christ.
24. He was veiled from human view. That was that time. And we were there with Him when He was veiled. No matter how He was introducing Himself, we could not behold His face, for the face was veiled.
25. But one day, He that was wearing the mask removed the mask. He said, “SEE ME.”No other interpretation. No mystery. That is the totality of the Mystery revealed. And that is, “THE SECRET OF SURVIVAL LIES IN CHRIST” who has visited us as a human being, was drawn from among us, speaking our language and having everything in common with us.
26. ONCE HE DECLARES YOU LOST, YOU ARE LOST. IF HE SAYS YOU ARE NOT LOST, YOU ARE NOT LOST.
27. The problem is not microphone. It is Vincent Obidinma. The devil is using him to frustrate this Message.
28. 16Ancient men, whosoever that survived should thank God for we have reached to the point where we cannot go back.
29. Where the glory never fails. We have crossed the riven veil where His glory never fails, for we are now standing in the presence of God.
30. 16Ancient men, whosoever that survived should thank God for we have reached to the point where we cannot go back. If we should go back, what should be our reason? Shall we say that God is not with us? Where we are, it is impossible to go back.
31. SONGS: [I will never never go back to the world; Never go back to the world anymore. I will never never go back to the world; Never go back to the world anymore.]
32. [I have given my life; my life to My LORD. I have given my life; my life to My LORD. No going back. No going back. No going back. No going back. No going back. No going back]
33. If we should go back, what should be our reason? Shall we say that God is not with us? Do I know? Where we are, it is impossible to go back.
34. 17If we die now, we die in Him,… That is as many as are still having their names in that Book and they are sure and certain, not those who are here warming the bench, helping others to see Him when they are no more here.
35. That is why he gave us the message and He said, “FROM TIME TO TIME, STOP AND THINK. FROM TIME TO TIME, EXAMINE YOURSELF. FIND OUT WHETHER YOU ARE STILL IN THE FAITH AND PROGRESSIVELY HOLDING ON TO THE FAITH AND BEARING THE FRUIT THEREOF, FOR YOU MIGHT BE THERE BEFORE, BUT YOU ARE NO LONGER THERE. YOU LEFT YOUR POSITION LONG LONG TIME AGO AND IT WAS DECLARED VACANT.”
36. That is why He gave you the Message, FIND OUT THE PURPOSE YOU ARE FULFILLING IN THIS FAITH” and then “FIND OUT YOUR POSITION IN THE SON OF MAN”, for you must occupy a space in Him.
37. 17If we die now, we die in Him. !And while we live we live in Him. They left because they thought that God is no longer with us,…
38. Those people that left, left because they thought God had left us. And they were telling people that God had left us. But did God say so? This is because there was a God they were having in their hearts.
39. There was a picture of a God they were having in their hearts. They painted a picture. So when they could not see the manifestation of the picture they painted, they left. Then, what did they present to the world? Nothing! They died there. They died there. They crippled. No noise anymore. No movement anymore. They published their obituaries.
40. They left because they thought that God is no longer with us, that was why they left. They said that God left us but God said that He is still with us,…
41. Brethren, can’t you see. Somebody who left us in 2003 that God left us, but God is still with us, even now. Then where did he point people to, where they will go and see God? He pointed them to nowhere.
42. But God said, “No! Stand still. I am still with you, for according to My promise, I will be with you till the end of the world. I have come to stay.”
43. They left because from the very beginning, they were not a part of us. So, they left that the Scripture might be fulfilled. If these things do not happen, how can the Scriptures be fulfilled.
44. We are still here with Him, we will remain with Him. No shaking. Whatever that is happening now is comforting. It is what? Comforting! So, that is the Comforter who promised to abide with us.
45. SONG: [He abides. He abides. Alleluia, He abides with me. I am rejoicing night and day as I walk the narrow way, for the Comforter abides with me.]
46. That is the basis of our rejoicing, that the Comforter abides with us and I am one of them. You are one of them.
47. SONG: [One of them. One of them. I am so glad that I can say I am one of them. One of them. One of them. I am so glad that I can say I am one of them.]
48. That is the basis of our rejoicing. Are you surprised at the weather? Whatever the weather is,is what it should be.
49. They said that God left us but God said that He is still with us,even right now, “Fear not, be ye not troubled for I am with you. I will lead you in the path that you will go.”
50. 18WHEN YOU ARE EXCOMMUNICATED FROM HIS PRESENCE YOU LOSE HIS LEADERSHIP. … Once you are excommunicated from His presence, you lose His leadership. You are on your own. You will be leading yourself.
51. The moment one is out from the Presence of God he loses the leadership of God. He becomes his own leader, his own instructor, his own teacher, he will be his own examiner: he will set his own questions, write his exams and mark his own scripts. Yes now! For he will be the one that will be justifying himself, confirming himself, not God.
52. 19Let me tell you something; we preach and we allow God to confirm. We preach and we allow God to confirm. Right from the beginning. Ancient men can bear witness.
53. I said, “I AM NOT ERECTING ANOTHER ALTAR. IT IS THIS SAME ALTAR THAT WAS ERECTED BY THE END-TIME MINISTERS. I WILL RE-ARRANGE THIS ALTAR BEFORE MANY WITNESSES. AND AFTER RE-ARRANGING IT, IF I HAVE OUT IT RIGHT, LET THE ALMIGHTY CONFIRM.”
54. Before many witnesses, I re-arranged everything and then lifted up My hands towards the sky and said, “FATHER, IF I HAVE PUT IT RIGHT ACCORDING TO THE PATTERN THAT WAS REVEALED IN THE WILDERNESS, WHAT I WANT IS YOUR CONFIRMATION.”
55. What did you see? We saw the Great Light. People shifted back. We call Him the Consuming Fire. The Enigma. So, we are not here because we want to be here. We are not politicians. We are not politicizing anything. We do not press it on you to believe what we preach.
56. So, if you came to us and we tell you how it all started, are the supernatural occurrences that happened before you not testifying to the truth we have told you? We told you that which happened when you were yet to join us. How about these occurrences which you have witnessed with your own eyes?
57. That is why He is THE SON OF MAN who supplies the needs of people in different areas. Brethren from Enugu, is it a lie? He supplies the needs of people in various places. Is it not true? Amen.
58. Bro Ifeanyi Enemmuo. You will slaughter a goat for your wife’s hip, for if not for her hip, you would not have been here. Is it not true Brethren? Yes now! Women are favoured.
59. If you are a man and you say you will not worship the God introduced to you by a woman, your life is in danger. The God a man introduces to you is money. It is the woman that introduces the One we call the True God.
60. Check the Scriptures to see that the women that introduced God to their families are greater in number than the men. Some men called God devil, but women said He is the Almighty God, and even abandoned marriage and everything and ran to God because she is sure.
61. The man will be busy probing this and that, even going to the native doctor for confirmation whether it is true or not that the person introduced to him is the Almighty God or not. The man will go to the devil to help confirm the personality of God.
62. While the man is consulting mediums, the woman is already clapping and jumping up in Fellowship with God and the Saints. Amen.