PREACHED ON SUNDAY 10th MARCH, 2019 BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN THE KING OF KINGS
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THE WEDDING BANQUET
Now, I want good readers to come in front including Pastor Chizoba. Bro. David is not around. Everybody should be a good reader, Ngozike is not around.
2. Bro. Ojiakor if you are wise and understanding you should have
a microphone there in case you will like to read. I don’t want to stay more than one hour in the pulpit oh! I will give you scriptures, you go home and crosscheck them if you wish.
3. LAST SUNDAY I TOLD APOSTLE KELECHI BY COMMAND TO COME DOWN. STOP SCREAMING, STOP SHOUTING. NO MATTER HOW YOU SHOUT AND SCREAM, THEY HAVE HARDENED UP.
4. THEY HAVE MADE UP THEIR MINDS, THE EVIL THEY HAVE CONCEIVED IN THEIR HEARTS TO PERPETRATE, THEY WILL GO AHEAD DOING IT. Was I vindicated? Thank you. Please, you will give it a topic when you want and what you want to. This is what it will be to you.
5. Follow with me as we go to the book of Saint Matthew gospel chapter twenty two. Give me the translations: Living Bible, Amplified. Gospel according to Saint Matthew chapter 22: 1-13. Yes! Take off!
6. Matthew 22: 1-13: “And again Jesus spoke to them in parables (comparisons, stories used to illustrate and explain), saying:
7. The kingdom of heaven is like a king who gave a wedding banquet for his son. And sent his servants to summon those who had been invited to the wedding banquet, but they refused to come. Again he sent other servants, saying, tell those who are invited, Behold, I have prepared my banquet; my bullocks and my fat calves are killed, and everything is prepared; come to the wedding feast.
8. But they were not concerned and paid no attention [they ignored and made light of the summons, treating it with contempt] and they went away-one to his farm, another to his business, while the others seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and put them to death.
9. [Hearing this] the king was infuriated; and he sent his soldiers and put those murderers to death and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, the wedding [feast] is prepared, but those invited were not worthy. So go to the thoroughfares where they leave the city [where the main roads and those from the country end] and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find. And those servants went out on the crossroads and got together as many as they found, both bad and good…”
10. Both bad and good, both bad and good, both bad and good, both bad and good, go ahead!
11. So [the room in which] the wedding feast [was held] was filled with guests. The room was filled with them, made up of good and bad. Pause a little, continue! I have not finished.
12. But when the king came in to view the guests, he looked intently at a man there who had on no wedding garment. And he said, Friend, how did you come in here without putting on the [appropriate] wedding garment? And he was speechless (muzzled, gagged). Then the king said to the attendants, tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the darkness outside; there will be weeping and grinding of teeth. (AMP).
13. Jesus told several other stories to show what the kingdom of heaven is like. “For instance,” he said, “it can be illustrated by the story of a king who prepared a great wedding dinner for his son.”
14. Many guests were invited, and when the banquet was ready he sent messengers to notify everyone that it was time to come. But all refused! So he sent other servants to tell them, ‘Everything is ready and the roast is in the oven. Hurry!’
15. “But the guests he had invited merely laughed and went on their business, one to his farm, another to his store; others beat up his messengers and treated them shamefully, even killing some of them”
16. “Then the angry king sent out his army and destroyed the murderers and burned their city’…”He destroyed who? The murderers.
17. “…And he said to his servants, ‘the wedding feast is ready, and the guests I invited aren’t worthy of the honour…”.The guests that are invited are not worthy of the honour. “…Now go out to the street corners and invite everyone you see’.
18. “So the servants did, and brought in all they could find, good and bad alike…”Good and bad alike. “…And the banquet hall was filled with guests… ”Two categories of people were there, good and bad.
19. But when the king came in to meet the guests he noticed a man who wasn’t wearing the wedding robe [provided for him].
20. PROVIDED FOR HIM! NOT THE ONE HE BOUGHT, IT WAS FREELY GIVEN TO HIM TO HELP HIM LOOK LIKE OTHER GUESTS, A WEDDING GARMENT. AND HE REFUSED TO PUT HIS OWN ON. WAS IT A MISTAKE? A DELIBERATE ACT. NOBODY CALLED YOU, YOU WERE NOT INVITED, NO ALERT.
21. IF YOU CAME WITH A TATTERED GARMENT, YOU WILL BE GIVEN ONE OF PURE WHITE TO COVER THE TATTERED ONE. NOBODY WAS ASKED TO REMOVE THE ONE HE WAS PUTTING ON, RATHER YOU USE THE WHITE GARMENT TO COVER THE TATTERED GARMENT.
22. THE WHITE ONE FOR THE WEDDING WAS HANDED OUT, ALL. USE IT TO COVER THE OLD TATTERED ONE YOU CAME WITH, FOR THEY NEVER KNEW THEY WILL BE ARRESTED ON THE WAY FOR SUCH A MEETING, THEY WERE TAKEN UNAWARE.
23. SOME WERE CONSCRIPTED, SOME WERE ARRESTED, SOME VOLUNTARILY HAD THE INVITATION AND JOYFULLY FOLLOWED, WHATEVER THEY WERE PUTTING ON WAS EXACTLY WHAT THEY WENT WITH.
24. COME JUST AS YOU ARE! SURPRISINGLY THEY WERE GIVEN THE WEDDING GARMENT WHICH QUALIFIES THEM TO BE THERE AND THEN EAT AND DRINK WITH THE KING AND HIS SON AND THE HOSTS OF HIS ANGELS.
25. BUT HE SPOTTED ONE, WHO REFUSED TO PUT HIS OWN ON. HE ASKED HIM THE QUESTION, WHY IS IT THAT YOU ARE A STRANGE FELLOW AMONG GOD’S PEOPLE? OF ALL THAT ARE HERE, YOU REFUSED TO PUT ON YOUR OWN? WELL, MAYBE YOU ARE THE HOLIEST. YES!
26. “…But when the king came in to meet the guests he noticed a man who wasn’t wearing the wedding robe [provided for him].
27. Which was the only king’s identification mark. The only thing the king will see, he will know that the person is his guest. In other words, the garment invites. The wedding garment invites, qualifies you to have a place in the banquet. If there should be a token you must present, it is nothing but what you are wearing.
28. “…Friend, he asked, …”
29. Did he call him enemy? No sir!
30. “…Friend, he asked, ‘how does it happen that you are here without a wedding robe?” And the man had no reply…”And he had no reply but he was holding it in his hand.
31. “…Then the king said to his aides, ‘bind him hand and foot and throw him out into the outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth”.
32. And that is where he belongs to. Go to verse 14
33. “…For many are called, but few are chosen” (LB)
34. For many are called (invited and summoned), but few are chosen. (AMP).
35. Pay attention. When you get home you can go the book of Luke, Mark. Get more information about this matter. Watch! All those that were given those white garments and they dressed themselves, used white garments to cover the old garments, all immaculate white. Check your scriptures. There was not even one that soiled his white garment from that time.
36. Even the mad people among them were conscious of spotting or staining that white. And there was no other person there that took pleasure in opening the gown so as to see what the person was wearing before. Whatever that was inside is now covered and this cover, we shall see it as we proceed.
37. I believe that what they were putting on was better preferred to what they were wearing before. And there was not even one that felt uncomfortable with it.
38. Can you imagine somebody who was wearing tattered garment and was told that the master was calling and he came, the master gave him a new, brand white garment. ‘He said, is it for me?’ He said ‘yes, Na you get this one and you are going to stay here in this banquet’. A place meant for kings and rulers of the world. ‘Yes, I invited them, they said they were coming but at last they refused to come. My party must hold’.
39. Their refusal to come has created this wonderful meeting, sit down and enjoy yourselves free of charge, I am not demanding any gift. No! Nothing, nothing, eat to your satisfaction, drink to your satisfaction. If you were among them, how will you be feeling? The kingdom of God is likened to this,But note, who and who filled that camp? Good and bad.
40. Then when they were all given that equal privilege and they were all dressed in white apparel. They met the qualification for the banquet by putting on the white garment. Was there any good person there again? Was there any bad? No sir! All of them were white.
41. Nobody was smelling again, nobody was spotted again; for the spots and every other thing had already been covered. But one said ‘I don’t want’.
42. Pay attention, I am heading somewhere. Remember my warning concerning my announcement and what will follow it today. Don’t misinterpret, in short don’t interpret. Don’t misunderstand, all for your good.
43. Revelation 19:7-8. I want to give it a name. Revelation 19:7-8. Amplified, living bible.
44. “Let us rejoice and shout for joy…”Let us do what? Rejoice and shout for joy [exulting and triumphant]! Exulted and Christ’s triumphant, yes! Let us celebrate and ascribe to Him glory and honour…” Let us celebrate and ascribe to Christ glory and honour, “…for the marriage of the Lamb [at last] has come, and His bride has prepared herself”.
45. “She has been permitted to dress in fine (radiant) linen…”Hallelujah! Yes!“…dazzling and white–for the fine linen is (signifies, represents) the righteousness (the upright, just, and godly living, deeds, and conduct, and right standing with God) of the saints (God’s holy people) AMP”. Dazzling and white linen.
46. Let us be glad and rejoice and honour him; for the time has come for the wedding banquet of the lamb, and his bride has prepared herself. She is permitted…” She is permitted. “She is permitted to wear the cleanest and whitest…” The cleanest and whitest no spot. “…and finest of linens…” And finest. Everything superlative, no imitation.
47. But look at where the illustration was given, look at where we are now. Yes! (Fine linen represents the good deeds done by the people of God) (LB)
48. I still go back to the scriptures. The book of James chapter1:27.
49. James chapter 1:27: “External religious worship [religion as it is expressed in outward acts] that is pure and unblemished in the sight of God the Father is this: to visit and help and care for the orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unspotted…” To keep one’s self what? Unspotted “…and uncontaminated…” And what? Uncontaminated “…from the world” (AMP) Amen!
50. “The Christian (child of God) who is pure and without fault, from God the father’s point of view, is the one who takes care of orphans and widows, and who remains true to the Lord-not soiled and dirtied by his contacts with the world. (LB)
51. Soiled and dirtied, amen! Unspotted! Watch those people that were given the white garments. They were conscious to make sure they where not spotted by the world because you must be presented spotless.
52. Ephesians 5:25-27. And that is where I am taking my text. Ephesians 5:25-27.
53. “Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her, so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the Word, that He might present the church to Himself in glorious splendour, without spot or wrinkle or any such things [that she might be holy and faultless]. (AMP) That he might be what? Holy and spotless.
54. And you husbands, show the same kind of love to your wives as Christ showed to the church when he died for her, to make her holy and clean, washed by baptism and God’s word; so that he could give her to himself…”
55. SO THAT HE COULD GIVE HER TO HIMSELF. I TOLD YOU THAT HE IS NOT GOING TO PRESENT HER TO ANOTHER PERSON, THE SAME PERSON THAT YOU ARE HEARING HIS VOICE. THAT THE ESSENCE OF PREPARING YOU ALL THESE YEARS IS TO MAKE SURE WE LIVE TOGETHER IN PEACE ETERNALLY. THE WHOLE THING IS AIMED AT IMPACTING MY NATURE INTO YOU.
56. And you husbands, show the same kind of love to your wives as Christ showed to the church when he died for her, to make her holy and clean, washed by baptism and God’s word; so that he could give her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or a wrinkle or any blemish, being holy and without a single fault.(LB)
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PRESERVE YOUR WHITE GARMENT
This is where I am taking my text. “PRESERVE YOUR WHITE GARMENT FROM BEING SPOTTED BY THE WORLD” “PRESERVE YOUR WHITE GARMENT UNSPOTTED BY THE WORLD”. I go further to scriptures.
2. I REMEMBER THE DAY I CAME DOWN HERE IN 1994 TO HANDLE THE MESSAGE ‘THE WILDERNESS VOICE’. I WAS HERE WITH WILD ANIMALS ALONE. I WAS PREACHING, I WAS READING THE SCRIPTURES AND RECORDING THE MESSAGES FROM MORNING TILL EVENING.
3. I SAW THIS HALL FILLED TO CAPACITY WITH HUMAN BEINGS AND THE VOICE SPOKE WITH ME AS IF I WAS TALKING TO PEOPLE THAT WERE ALIVE “SON OF MAN BE WATCHFUL, A DAY COMETH WHEN THIS HALL WILL BE FILLED TO CAPACITY, EVEN OUTSIDE, THERE WON’T BE ANY SEAT LEFT.
4. YOUR PEOPLE MIGHT BE JUMPING UP THAT TIME SAYING IT IS GOING TO BE A BIG REVIVAL INDEED. BUT WARN THEM, WHENEVER YOU SEE THIS HAPPEN THAT IS THE TIME YOUR TROUBLE STARTS.
5. THEY ARE NOT GOING TO BE A BLESSING, FOR THEY WILL BE A THORN IN YOUR FLESH, FOR MANY WILL TURN AWAY YOUR FAITH FROM GOD TO IDOLS”.
6. I WAS GOING THROUGH A MESSAGE BECAUSE OF TIME WE WOULD HAVE READ IT, TITLED “BEWITCHED”. AND GOD SAID THERE AT NASARAWA “I CAN SEE NOTHING IN THE BRIDE BUT A SOON FALL AWAY FROM THE FAITH”. THAT MESSAGE, CHECK THE DATE IT WAS HANDLED, IT SHOULD BE AROUND 2008 OR 1998 OR THERE ABOUT.
7. HE SAID “I CAN SEE A WOMAN SPIRIT IN THE BRIDE OF CHRIST MINISTRY AND THIS WOMAN SPIRIT HAS COME TO SEDUCE THE HEARTS OF THE SAINTS AWAY FROM THE TRUE GOD”. 2007! THANK YOU. BEWITCHED!
8. THE MESSAGE WENT FURTHER TO SAY “THERE IS NO OTHER WAY THIS HOLY FAITH WILL BE POLLUTED, WILL BE DIVERTED EXCEPT THROUGH MARRIAGE. FOR A DAY IS COMING WHEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS WILL BE MARRYING AS THEY WISH.
9. THEN THE MOABITES, HIVITES, PERUZITES AND THE REST OF THEM WILL FLOOD THE CAMP. STRANGERS! FOREIGNERS THAT DO NOT KNOW WHO GOD IS WILL FILL THE CAMP”.
10. HE SAID, ‘WATCH WHEN THAT HOUR COMES, YOU WILL SEE HOW GLORIOUS, HOW BEAUTIFUL WOMEN WILL LOOK LIKE. AND WHENEVER THEY COME HERE AND DISCOVER THAT WE MARRY FROM AMONG OURSELVES, THEY HAVE BECOME ANGELS, THEY KNOW THAT BY AND BY A BROTHER MUST MARRY THEM’.
11. HE SAID ‘I SHOW YOU A SIGN, PEOPLE THAT CALLED US DEVILS WILL NOW BEGIN TO APPRECIATE US AND THAT IS WHEN THE MAN IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION WILL BE REVEALED’. FROM THE DAY THE MAN FROM THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION CAME, THE BURDEN OF THE LAW WAS REMOVED; GRACE TOOK OVER.
12. CAN’T YOU SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING? THOSE THAT FOUND IT DIFFICULT TO IDENTIFY WITH US UNDER THE LAW, NOW HAVE PLEASURABLE RIDE INTO THE FAITH, INTO THE MINISTRY AND NOT IN THE FAITH AND THEY ARE ENJOYING GOOD TIMES BECAUSE THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT THE FAITH IS ALL ABOUT.
13. BUT THE SON OF MAN HAD EARLIER WARNED THAT HE DELIBRATELY ALLOWED THE LAW TO HOLD SWAY OVER EVERYBODY, USING IT TO INSTILL MORAL DISCIPLINE AMONG US SO THAT ANYTIME GRACE SHALL BE REVEALED, GRACE WILL NO LONGER BE TURNED INTO LASCIVIOUSNESS. DID YOU HEAR THAT? IS IT NOT CONTAINED IN YOUR MESSAGES? DON’T WORRY, I AM COMING TO SOMETHING.
14. In the message titled ‘The Problem of a Growing Church’. The same way God highlighted the problem of a growing family. Where is that man going to? You are not afraid, okay, go, I know when you came in, go! I never sent you away, I said go and ease yourself.
15. THE PROBLEM OF A GROWING CHURCH. THE BIBLE RECORDED THAT WHEN THE NUMBER OF THE PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH GREATLY INCREASED, PROBLEMS OF ALL SORTS STARTED REARING UP THEIR FACES AND GOD SAID WHEN THAT HOUR COMES, WHEN BRETHREN WILL BE PICKING HUSBANDS AND WIVES AS THEY WISH. THEIR FAITH WILL NO LONGER BE CONSIDERED, YOU WILL BE HEARING “I WENT HOME AND MY PEOPLE SAID”. HAS IT COME TO PASS?
16. GOD WENT FURTHER TO SAY THAT HIS GREATEST ENEMY IN THIS FAITH IS CONVERT AND MARRY, THAT GOD HATES IT. DO WE HAVE CONVERT AND MARRY? YES SIR! GOOD!
17. ANOTHER ONE GOD SAID IS MARRIAGE OCCASION BY UNWANTED PREGNANCY. THAT WHEN THAT TIME COMES, WOMEN WILL BE USING PREGNANCY TO TRAP THE BROTHERS INTO MARRIAGE. THE RESULTANT EFFECT WILL BE THAT THE CENTRE WILL NO LONGER HOLD.
18. YOU WILL HAVE CHILDREN THAT WILL NOT BE HEATHENS, THEY WILL NOT BE CHILDREN OF GOD. THEY WON’T SPEAK OUR LANGUAGE. YOUR HOMES WILL NEVER BE QUIET AGAIN.
19. From the message “Faithfulness explained”. The presence of strangers in our midst, is it an accident in the sight of God? 2008! Mixed Multitude, 1993. I will even get it, we have a copy there. Let me go to Acts of the Apostles chapter 6:1-6 amplified.
20. Acts 6 verse 1 through 6: Now about this time, when the number of the disciples was greatly increasing, complaint was made by the Hellenists (the Greek-speaking Jews) against the [native] Hebrews because their widows were being overlooked and neglected in the daily ministration (distribution of relief). Politics set in. Another translation.
21. “…But with the believers multiplying rapidly… ”When the believers multiplied rapidly. “…There were rumblings of discontent…”There were what? Rumblings of discontent. “…Those who spoke only Greek complained that their widows were being discriminated against, that they were not being given as much food, in the daily distribution, as the widows who spoke Hebrew…”
22. So the twelve called a meeting of all the believers “We should spend our time preaching, not administering a feeding program,” they said. “Now look around among yourselves, dear brothers, and select seven men, wise and full of the Holy Spirit, who are well thought of by everyone; and we will put them in charge of this business.
23. Then we can spend our time in prayer, preaching, and teaching.” This sounded reasonable to the whole assembly, and they elected the following: Stephen (a man unusually full of faith and the Holy Spirit), Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, Nicolaus of Antioch (A gentile convert to the Jewish faith, who had become a Christian).
24. These seven were presented to their apostles, who prayed for them and laid their hands on them in blessing. (LB) Amen!
25. Pay attention! WHAT CAUSED THE TROUBLE? THE NUMBER OF THE PEOPLE THAT SAID THEY BELIEVED HAS NOW INCREASED, THE NUMBER IS SWOLLEN. MURMURING AND COMPLAINTS WHICH STARTED ALSO IN THE WILDERNESS WHEN THE NUMBER INCREASED FROM SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND TO TWO MILLION.
26. STRANGERS ALSO STEERED UP REBELLION, MURMURING, COMPLAINING. WHAT WERE THEY COMPLAINING ABOUT? FOOD, DAILY DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD, FOOD THAT PERISHETH, FOOD IS CAUSING TROUBLE.
27. WHEN THEY WERE FEW IN NUMBER, WHATEVER THEY HAD WAS SUFFICIENT FOR THEM, THEY COULD GO WITHOUT FOOD FOR DAYS AND THEY NEVER COMPLAINED, EMPHASES WAS ON PREACHING OF THE WORD. BUT WHEN THE NUMBER NOW INCREASED FOOD NOW CAUSES TROUBLE, MONEY ALSO CAUSES TROUBLE, CLOTHES CAUS TROUBLE, SHOES ALSO CAUS TROUBLE. Amen!
28. I want to show you who they are. Exodus 12:37-38. Living bible!
29. “…That night the people of Israel left Rameses and started for Succoth; there were six hundred thousand of them, besides all the women and children going on foot…”
30. “…People of various sorts went with them…”People of various sorts, all kinds of people went with them. “…And there were flocks and herds- a vast exodus of cattle”.(LB)
31. I said up to 38. Stop there. When you get home, I want you to finish it. Where God stipulated the correct number, that they were two million. The children of God that left were six hundred thousand, excluding women and little children. But as they journeyed along, the mixed multitude followed.
32. Numbers 11 verse 4: And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, who shall give us flesh to eat? (KJV). Living bible!
33. “Then the Egyptians who had come with them began to long for the good things of Egypt. This added to the discontent of the people of Israel and they wept, “Oh, for a few bites of meat!”
34. You can go from chapter one to the end to know the full account and God said these things happened to them for example. They are written for our warning, for we are living at a time when everything shall come to the end.
35. NOTE! WE HAVE SEEN THEM FROM THE WILDERNESS. FIRST EXODUS, SECOND EXODUS AND THIS IS THE THIRD AND LAST EXODUS. AND THIS LAST EXODUS STARTED WITH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. THE MIXED MULTITUDES THAT STARTED WITH MOSES CONTINUED TROUBLING GOD’S CHILDREN.
36. JESUS BEING THE MOST COMPASSIONATE OF ALL OF THEM, DECIDED TO BRING BOTH THE GOOD AND BAD TOGETHER, NOT WILLING THAT THE BAD ONES SHOULD PERISH. HE DECIDED TO INPUT HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ON THEM THAT WILL BELIEVE IN HIM.
37. BELIEVING IN HIM MEANS FOLLOWING THE MESSENGERS TO THE BANQUET AND THEN ACCEPTING AND WEARING THE WEDDING GARMENT.
38. IF YOU SAY YOU BELIEVE AND YOU ARE FOLLOWING, YOU REJECT THE WEDDING GARMENT OR COLLECTED IT WITHOUT WEARING IT, ARE YOU QUALIFIED? NO SIR! Thank you!
39. Matthew 13:24-30. “Another parable He set forth before them, saying, the kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field…” The kingdom of heaven is like what? A man. If you mislead me, you know you are endangering your life. Yes! “…But while he was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed also darnel…” Who sowed the bad ones? The enemy. (Weeds resembling wheat)
40. THE ENEMY SOWED WHAT? W.E.E.D.S RESEMBLING W.H.E.A.T, COUNTERFEIT RESEMBLES ORIGINAL. IT TAKES THE BEST EYE VIEW TO SEPARATE COUNTERFEIT FROM ORIGINAL.
41. IF YOU DO NOT KNOW THE IDENTIFICATION MARK FOR ORIGINAL CURRENCY, YOU MAY FILL YOUR POCKETS WITH COUNTERFEIT, TRUE OR FALSE? OFTENTIMES THE TWO RESEMBLES EACH OTHER SO CLOSE, THAT IT IS DIFFICULT TO DIFFERENTIATE.
42. THEN, WHAT DO YOU USE WHERE THERE IS NO MERCURY LIGHT? YOU USE YOUR HANDS TO FILL THE TEXTURE OF THE PAPER, THE MATERIAL.
43. THE TWO RESEMBLE, ARE YOU UNDERSTANDING WHAT I AM SAYING? IF YOU DO NOT KNOW ACHARA NGWA PEOPLE DO EAT, YOU WILL EAT THE ONE GOATS EAT. WHY? ALL OF THEM ARE ACHARA.
44. WHO SOWED THE WEED? THE ENEMY, WHO SOWED THE TRUE SEED? GOD. WHERE? IN THE SAME FARM, GROWING TOGETHER, ENJOYING THE SAME WATER, THE SAME SUNSHINE, THE SAME AIR, THE SAME MESSAGE, THE SAME ANOINTING, SHARING THE SAME TESTIMONIES, BUT THEY ARE TWO DIFFERENT SPECIES. Yes!
45. “Another parable He set forth before them, saying, the kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while he was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed also darnel (weeds resembling wheat) among the wheat, and went on his way. So when the plants sprouted and formed grain, the darnel (weeds) appeared also. All of them looking greenish. “…And the servants of the owner came to him and said, Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? Then how does it have darnel shoots in it? He replied to them, an enemy has done this…”
46. AN ENEMY HAS DONE THIS! THE SEED IS THE WORD OF GOD. WHO IS THIS PERSON THAT IS PERVERTING THE TRUTH, MAKING IT TO PRODUCE ANOTHER RESULT? WHEN TRUTH IS PERVERTED IT PRODUCES ANOTHER RESULT,
47. A LIE IS NOTHING BUT TRUTH PERVERTED AND GOD HATES PERVERSION. THE MOMENT YOU PERVERT THE TRUTH, YOUR LIFE CAN NEVER BE STRAIGHT FORWARD AGAIN, IT MUST REFLECT IN YOUR DAILY LIFE. YOUR CHARACTER REFLECTS PERVERSION, PERVERSION OF THE ORIGINAL.
48. WHAT IS A COUNTERFEIT? SOMETHING THAT IS CRAFTILY DESIGNED TO LOOK LIKE THE ORIGINAL WITH INTENT TO DECEIVE. THE SERVANT’S SAID PERMIT US TO GO AND UPROOT THEM.
49. “And the servants of the owner came to him and said, Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? Then how does it have darnel shoots in it? He replied to them, an enemy has done this. The servants said to him, then do you want us to go and weed them out? But he said, No…”
50. He said what? No! Do you want us to go and uproot them? He said No! No! That’s the answer. Does it mean that they will be there forever? No!
51. “…But he said, No, lest in gathering the wild wheat (weeds resembling wheat), you root up the [true] wheat along with it. Let them grow together until the harvest…” Let them do what? Grow together until the harvest. “…And at harvest time I will say to the reapers, Gather the darnel first and bind it in bundles to be burned, but gather the wheat into my granary” You see, this is the parable of the kingdom of heaven and this is the third exodus.
52. Two illustrations: The banquet ready but those that were invited were not ready and the man was desperate that the banquet must hold anyhow, he now went out to gather people. Let me go back!
53. I have used the bank gate to illustrate this. What will stop you, what will tell you who you are, whether you are original or counterfeit is not the Son of Man. You will get to the place where The Son of Man will be, but you cannot see him. He will be there and allow everybody to enter. If the gate opens to you, you enter; if it says you are undesirable, you walk away into outer darkness.
54. If you will see the Son of Man there, you can kneel down and begin to cry. But because you won’t see him neither will you hear his voice, there is no need kneeling down to cry and there is no second chance. Once you are rejected and disapproved, it is final, one way! Bind him hands and feet, where? Outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, no advocate!
55. Then if the gate opens to you gloriously, you keep on singing his praise. But for now the two must grow together, bear fruits together. But in every farmland the weeds are in the majority. Weeds grow randomly but seeds are planted in a very organised way, weeds can grow anywhere.
56. Watch the illustration! The ripper will first of all bundle the weeds and then destroy all. In other words, destruction of the wicked person and the righteous will remain there and witness the destruction of the wicked and match on the ashes of the wicked, which is the consolation of the saints. Third exodus!
57. I go further to another scripture. Saint Matthew gospel 16 verse 23.
58. But Jesus turned away from Peter and said to him, Get behind Me, Satan! You are in my way [an offense and a hindrance and a snare to me]; for you are minding what partakes not of the nature and quality of God, but of men.(AMP)
59. Saint Luke gospel 12 verse 54 through 56: He also said to the crowds of people, when you see a cloud rising in the west, at once you say, it is going to rain! And so it does. And when [you see that] a south wind is blowing, you say, there will be severe heat! And it occurs.
60. You play actors (hypocrites)! You know how [intelligently] to discern and interpret and prove the looks of the earth and sky; but how is it that you do not know how to discern and interpret and apply the proof to this present time? (AMP)
61. Give me Galatians 1 verse 6 through 9 “I am surprised and astonished that you are so quickly turning renegade and deserting him who invited and called you by the grace (unmerited favour) of Christ (the Messiah) [and that you are transferring your allegiance] to a different [even an opposition] gospel.
62. Not that there is [or could be] any other [genuine gospel], but there are [obviously] some who are troubling and disturbing and bewildering you [with a different kind of teaching which they offer as a gospel] and want to pervert and distort the gospel of Christ (the Messiah) [into something which it absolutely is not]”. (AMP)
63. Give me King James, Galatians 1 verse 6-9 “I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed”.(KJV)
64. Titus 2 verse 11 through 12:“For the grace of God (His unmerited favour and blessing) has come forward (appeared) for the deliverance from sin and eternal salvation for all mankind.
65. It has trained us to reject and renounce all ungodliness (irreligion) and worldly (passionate) desires, to live discreet (temperate, self-controlled), upright, devout (spiritually whole) lives in this present world.”
66. Colossians 2 verse 2-9 “This is what I have asked of God for you: that you will be encouraged and knit together by strong ties of love, and that you will have the rich experience of knowing Christ with real certainty and clear understanding for God’s secret plan, now at last made known, is Christ himself…” God’s secret plan “…now at last made known…” Now at last made known “…is Christ himself…”Is what? Christ Himself.
67. “…In him lie hidden all the mighty…,” In Him lies what? All the hidden. Do we have Christ revealed in our midst? Yes sir! You see the secret which the world knew not at last has been made known to the Bride, to the elect. And that secret is Christ. That is what God has presented to the world. In Him lies everything.
68. “…In him lie hidden all the mighty untapped treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I am saying this because am afraid that someone may fool you through with smooth talk. For though I am far away from you my heart is with you, happy because you are getting along so well, happy because of your strong faith in Christ.
69. And now just as you trusted Christ to save you, trust him, too, for each day’s problems; live in vital union with him. Let your roots grow down into him and draw up nourishment from him.
70. See that you go on growing in the Lord, and become strong and vigorous in the truth you were taught.
71. Let your lives overflow with joy and thanksgiving for all he has done. Don’t let others spoil your faith and joy with their philosophies, their wrong and shallow answers built on men’s thoughts and ideas, instead of on what Christ has said. For in Christ there is all of you in a human body.” (LB)
72. “[for my concern is] that their hearts may be braced (comforted, cheered, and encouraged) as they are knit together in love, that they may come to have all the abounding wealth and blessings of assured conviction of understanding, and that they may become progressively more intimately acquainted… ”progressively more intimately acquainted “…with and may know more definitely and accurately and thoroughly that mystic secret of God…” that mystic secret of what? God [which is] Christ (the anointed one). (AMP). Which is what? Christ the Anointed one.
73. 1st Timothy 3 verse 16. Look at the people that call themselves apostles there. 1st Timothy 3 verse 16 there!
74. 1st Timothy 3 verse 16: “And great and important and weighty…”And great and important and weighty “…we confess, is the hidden truth…” Is what? The hidden truth! “(the mystic secret) of godliness…” The what? Mystic secret of Godliness “…He [God] was made visible in human flesh…” He God became Christ, human flesh! “…justified and vindicated in the [Holy] Spirit, was seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world [and] taken up to glory’’ (AMP). Continue from where you stopped in Colossians again.
75. “In him all the treasures of [divine] wisdom (comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God) and [all the riches of spiritual] knowledge and enlightenment are stored up and lie hidden.
76. I say this in order that no one may mislead and delude you by plausible and persuasive and attractive arguments and beguiling speech. For though I am away from you in body, yet I am with you in spirit, delighted at the sight of your [standing shoulder to shoulder in such] orderly array and the firmness and the solid front and steadfastness of your faith in Christ [that leaning of the entire human personality on Him in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom and goodness].
77. “As you have therefore received Christ, [even] Jesus the lord, [so] walk (regulate your lives and conduct yourselves)…”Walk, regulate your lives and conduct yourselves“…in union with and conformity to Him… ”Amen! Not minus, not plus
78. “…Have the roots [of your being] firmly and deeply planted [in him, fixed and founded in Him], being continually built up in Him… ”Being continually built up in Him “…becoming increasingly more confirmed and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and abounding and overflowing in it with thanksgiving.
79. See to it that no one carries you off as spoil or makes you yourselves captive by his so-called philosophy and intellectualism and vain deceit (idle fancies and plain nonsense), following human tradition (men’s ideas of the material rather than the spiritual world), just crude notions following the rudimentary and elemental teachings of the universe and disregarding [the teachings of] Christ (the messiah).
80. “For in Him the whole fullness of Deity (the Godhead)…” For in him, the whole fullness of Deity, the Godhead. “…for in Him the whole fullness of Deity (the Godhead)…” The holistic fullness of the Deity, the Godhead. “…for in Him the whole fullness of Deity (the Godhead) continues to dwell in bodily form. Continues to dwell “…in bodily form…” In bodily form, human form. [Giving complete expression of the divine nature]. Ehh! [Giving complete expression of the divine nature]. (AMP)
81. Giving complete expression of his divine nature! Is this not his bodily form? Is this not a complete expression of the divine nature of He that bears this attributes?
82. IF I MUST SAY ANY OTHER THING, THERE MUST BE A SEPARATION. OBEY MY ANNOUNCEMENT IMMEDIATELY TO ENABLE US GO. IF YOU KNOW YOU ARE INVOLVED IN THE ANNOUNCEMENT, PATHWAYS. BE FAST TO ENABLE US FINISH AND GO, IF YOU DELAY I MAY STOP AND GO AWAY. LEAVE YOUR BAGS IF YOU KNOW YOU ARE COMING BACK, IF YOU ARE NOT COMING BACK, CARRY YOUR BAGS.
83. IF YOU ARE AFRAID OF YOUR MONEY, CARRY YOUR BAGS. DON’T FORGET YOUR CHILDREN! NOBODY SHOULD CHANGE POSITION, STAY WHERE YOU ARE, STAY WHERE YOU WERE!
84. LET THERE BE NO JAMES WHO WAS GRANTED PARDON AND WHEN PRISONERS WERE GOING BACK TO THE CAR, JAMES FOLLOWED. 1990, JANUARY 1 TO DECEMBER 31ST 1997.
85. Apostles Ojiakor and Kelechi come forward. Get me the olive oil! (THE SON OF MAN STARTED ANOINTING SOME BRETHREN)
86. Where are your children? Okay, no problem, leave them, thank you! Close the bottle for me. The rest outside should come inside. Don’t change your positions, be fast! Apostle Ojiakor and Kelechi this way, be fast! If I close the door no other person will enter.
87. All these people that attended fellowship here today, the number I have presently sited right now. You embraced the bride of Christ ministry from 1998 January 1, true or false? True sir! From January 1998 till date, you are the people sitting down here, okay. Is it not almost five times the number? Yes sir! Okay.
88. Look at them very well, you know the people that were outside. This a big congregation already and by the time others will come in their turns, it will help me to believe the Almighty God more and more. That I am not making a mistake at all.
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BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE SINS ARE COVERED
I am running my race according to the rule. It is not compulsory that all of us must believe God in one day. The time the message came to you was the time you embraced it, is not true? You couldn’t have come in earlier than the time you heard the message.
2. If you were numbered among the people that heard it in the beginning, maybe you would have said no. The message you heard and believed was the message that was meant for you.
2. So you couldn’t have embraced this faith earlier than the time it became your own turn. And from 1998 till today, I believe there is no other voice you heard that attracted you than the voice of the Son of Man, true or false? Because I believe I have been in control of the Lord’s vineyard strictly from 1998.
3. But before 1998, there were discordant tones, there were many leaders, there were many voices. A good number of those voices are no longer here, those leaders are no longer here. And I believe also that the greatest vindication of omnipotence was displayed in your own day, the sign was given in the days of the people who started in the end time. The signs were given precisely 1996.
4. But the greatest vindication of omnipotence took place during your days. Do you believe in The Son of Man? Do you believe in The Son of Man? And you believe He is not deceiving you? Yes sir!
5. HEAR ME WELL. ALL OF YOU THAT ARE SITTING AND WATCHING ME NOW, I WILL ENCOURAGE YOU TO CONTINUE IN THE FAITH OF THE SON OF MAN. FOR SON OF MAN IS GOING TO ENTER ANY TIME FROM NOW INTO AN EVERLASTING COVENANT WITH ALL OF YOU THAT IDENTIFIED WITH THIS FAITH FROM 1998. NOT THE COVENANT I ENTERED INTO WITH THE ANCIENT MEN, WHICH THEY COULD NOT KEEP. NOT EVEN ONE OF THEM KEPT IT, BUT ELECTION HAS PURCHASED IT FOR THEM.
6. YOU ARE BETTER PLACED THAN THEM. THE ANOINTING IS THERE, I DID A HEAD COUNT AND IT IS INDELIBLE THERE FOR A REASON. BUT TO YOU REJOICE EXCEEDINGLY, I SAID TO YOU REJOICE EXCEEDINGLY. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IT SHOULD BE, BECAUSE WHEN SOMEBODY IS GIVEN SOMETHING HE DOES NOT DESERVE, HIS JOY KNOWS NO BOUNDS. THE CLOUD IS HERE!
7. ATTENTION! I HAVE SUFFERED A GREAT DEAL OF DISCOMFORT, DISTURBANCE IN THE HANDS OF THE ANCIENT MEN. UNTIL A TIME CAME WHERE I ALMOST DISCARDED ALL, BUT MY LOVE AND MERCY PROJECTED. SEVERAL TIMES, I VOWED TO BANISH THEM FROM MY PRESENCE, FOR NO PEOPLE GAVE ME TROUBLE MORE THAN THEM.
8. I AM HAPPY! I HAVE NEVER SUFFERED IN YOUR HANDS AND I BELIEVE I WILL NOT SUFFER. AMEN!!! LISTEN TO ME, PAY ATTENTION! BEFORE ME ARE TWO ELDERS WHO CAN TESTIFY TO THIS TRUTH. THEY HEARD IT FROM MY MOUTH, THAT WE SHOULD CONTINUE, THAT I AM SURE AND CERTAIN THAT GOD IS GOING TO CONSOLE ME BY GIVING ME A NEW SET OF PEOPLE, THAT WILL BELIEVE IN ME, AND WILL NOT TROUBLE ME, FOR AT LEAST I HAVE SUFFERED ENOUGH IN THE HAND OF THESE ANCIENT MEN AND WOMEN.
9. JUST LIKE SAINT PAUL HAD THE GREATEST TROUBLE IN THE HANDS OF THE JEWS HIS OWN COUNTRY MEN, THAN WITH THE GENTILES. SO IT IS WITH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, SO IT IS WITH MOSES, WITH SAMUEL, WITH ALL THE PROPHETS. THOSE THAT WERE REGARDED AS STRANGERS, BABES THAT WERE BORN IN THE WILDERNESS BECAME BENEFICIARIES.
10. BUT THE ANCIENT MEN AND WOMEN WHO CLAIM THEY KNEW ALL, TO A POINT THAT THEY COULD NOT MAKE ANY MOVE RATHER THEY BECAME FAULT FINDERS AND ACCUSERS OF THE BRETHREN, EVEN ACCUSERS OF GOD. HE NUMBERED ALL AND GAVE THEM A PLACE WHERE THEY BELONG TO.
11. AS THE SON OF MAN LIVETH, YOU ARE NOT STRANGERS, YOU ARE NOT FOREIGNERS, YOU ARE FELLOW CITIZENS IN THE HOUSE OF GOD AND YOU ARE BUILT UP. YOU ARE THE PURE BLOODED! THESE ARE THE PURE BLOODED PEOPLE, NOT CONTAMINATED WITH THE LAW, NO CONTAMINATION WITH THE LAW. FOR THEY CAME WHEN THE LAW HAS BEEN TAKEN CARE OF, AND GOD TOOK AWAY THEIR WEAKNESSES, PLACED IT UPON HIMSELF AND THE SON OF MAN HAS BECOME THEIR RIGHTEOUSNESS. WHAT A GLORIOUS MEETING I AM HAVING TODAY. LET IT BE NOISED ABROAD!
12. FROM NOW HENCEFORTH, LET NO MAN BELITTLE YOU OR MAKE YOU SECOND CLASS CITIZEN. YOU ARE THE PEOPLE THAT CAN SAY “IT IS NOT BY MY POWER, NOT BY MY MIGHT, BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD”.
13. BUT ALL OF THEM OUT THERE, THEY HAVE REASONS TO BOAST, THEY HAVE THEIR TESTIMONIES. HOW THEY WORKED IN THE WILDERNESS, HOW THEY CROSSED THE RED SEA, HOW THEY CROSSED CANAAN, HOW THEY CLIMBED THE MOUNTAIN, HOW THEY DID THIS AND THAT. SO THAT IN THE END, IT IS THEIR STRENGTH, IT IS THEIR POWER.
14. THINK IT NOT, THAT I HAVE COME TO SAVE SELF-RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE, NO! I HAVE COME TO SAVE PEOPLE LIKE YOU. AMEN! DOES IT MEAN I HAVE CAST THEM AWAY? NO SIR! THEY ARE IN MY PROGRAM. YOUR COMING IN MEANS THEIR RECONCILIATION.
15. LET THE PEOPLE OUTSIDE COME IN! THE CAMP OF MY PEOPLE MUST BE SEPARATED FROM THE CAMP OF THE UNGODLY. REMEMBER I WARNED YOU, DON’T EVER INTERPRET WHAT HAS TAKEN PLACE. IT IS GOING TO BE CONTINUOUS, UNTIL I COME TO THE END AND WHEN I COME TO THE END, YOU WILL KNOW WHERE YOU BELONG TO. OF COURSE YOU HAVE KNOWN WHERE YOU BELONG TO, WHETHER YOU ARE FOR ME OR AGAINST ME.
16. BUT I ASSURE YOU, THERE IS NOBODY WHOSE HEART IS RIGHT WITH GOD AND HIS FELLOW HUMAN BEING THAT WILL BE LEFT OUTSIDE. I KNEW FROM THE BEGINNING AND I PLEADED THAT THEY SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO STAY WITH ME, FOR WE HAVE MASTERED OURSELVES. WE HAVE BEEN TOGETHER FOR TOO LONG, WE HAVE MASTERED OUR WEAKNESSES AND OUR STRENGTH. I THINK I CAN MANAGE THEM, AMEN!
17. THE MOMENT I FINISH WITH MY LAST WORK IN THE BRIDE, I WILL ANNOUNCE THE BANQUET. AND THOSE THAT WILL BE THERE, THEY KNOW THAT THEY ARE THERE ALREADY.
18. My hope is built on nothing less, than Christ’s blood and righteousness; I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on my saviours name. Now He shall come with trumpet sound, Oh, may I then in Him be found; dressed in His righteousness alone, faultless to stand before thy throne.
19. Lord, lead me on and let me stand, by faith, on Heaven’s table land, a higher plane than I have found; Lord plant my feet on higher ground.
20. Grace, grace, God’s grace! Grace that will pardon and cleanse within. Grace, grace, God’s grace! Grace that is greater than all my sins.
21. Thank you, thank you Lord, thank you Lord for everything you have done (2x)
22. I am He that liveth and was dead, and behold I am alive for evermore, come on to me o ye nations and be saved, for I am He that liveth and was dead. Amen
23. BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE SINS ARE COVERED, WHOM THE LORD CANNOT IMPUTE SIN. IS IT THE PROMISE? IS IT SCRIPTURAL? BLESSED IS THE MAN WHO’S SINS ARE COVERED, WHOM THE LORD DOES NOT IMPUTE SIN. SIN IS IMPUTED.
24. IF I WILL TALK, IT WILL BE WHENEVER I AM THROUGH WITH MY LAST MISSION. BUT BE IT KNOWN TO YOU THAT YOUR CLOCK IS TINKLING AT THE DANGEROUS SIDE, FOR YOU HAVE ENJOYED THE PLEASURES ENOUGH, YOU HAVE ENJOYED THE PLEASURES ENOUGH.
25. THERE IS NOBODY HERE THAT HAS NOT CONVINCED THE HEATHENS AROUND HIM, THAT HE IS SERVING A LIVING GOD. THE CONFESSIONS OF YOUR HEATHEN RELATIONS HAVE NOW CHANGED FOR THE BETTER. EVEN, THEY NOW ENCOURAGE YOU TO SERVE THIS YOUR GOD MORE AND MORE.
26. Through what is happening around you, they now show interest even in telling you to invite your God. Those that thought you were fooled, The Son of Man is now their delight. He said it but they did not carry it out. If anything happens they will ask you, what did The Son of Man say?
27. Please if you hear your name, take note of it. I never knew it is not up to three o’clock. I went there, looked at the time. It is just about fourteen minutes after one. I said, what is happening? Since morning we came here. It then means God tampered with the time.
28. Amara m na Jehovah nwe oge, o ga eme ihe masiri ya na mgbe o kara aka. (2x)
29. I know all of you in the faith, I can call you by your names, even if you are one million. I know where I placed you. If I am looking for you, I know where to go.
30. I saw some brethren from Nsukka. Thank you, I love you and appreciate you. I don’t want to arm you, if I arm you, you will be highly destructive. I don’t want to arm you.
31. To God be the glory! The calabash doesn’t get drowned in the ocean because it is light. The rat does not eat something that belongs to somebody that is awake. Nsukka don’t be afraid! Nsukka don’t be afraid! I just decided to keep quiet. When I finish, I will declare that it is finished, but for now keep your fingers crossed.
32. The battle doesn’t belong to you. At least your real brethren have re-joined you. If there be any one that is on the way, it is the false brother.
33. But why do you harbour too many criminals? Criminals that are known to you. If I show you my handset and apologies coming from you, to eat and drink with anybody from Nsukka will be fearful. But nevertheless, fear not, fear not, fear not, fear not! All I know is this, if you can stand still, believe in the Son of Man, the Pharaoh that terrorised you last Sunday; sooner than you think will be seen no more.
34. It is expedient that one should die for many to be saved. So don’t think I am ignorant.
35. We must go up and get that city, from Onitsha to the ends of the world, for our enemies may be on our way to hinder, our God will give us victory. Move on to the righteous side, move on to the righteous side move on to the righteous side of God, hallelujah, Move on to the righteous side, move on to the righteous side, move on to the righteous side of God.
36. Apostle Ojiakor can you please come to the pulpit and bid us farewell.
APOSTLE ORJIAKOR ON THE PULPIT
1. Can we put our hands together! Put our hands together! To God be the glory. Our God is good and we give him the entire glory. It is His mercy, it is His love, and we have seen Him at work. Who has not felt the real touch of God today here? Everybody! Father we say to you be the glory, thank you.
2. Especially, what we heard in the morning. Faithfulness explained was read to us. It is for me to decide today. God said “For somebody to be faithful, it requires one thing; decision”. It requires decision, it requires commitment. And we have a message titled ‘Decision’, we equally have a message ‘Commitment’, you can go back to all of them. Another one says “Having received this ministry we faint not”.
3. Honestly, God has laboured and laboured and laboured and laboured and laboured. And He wants me to learn of Him, follow Him. And He is still labouring. Especially we ministers; to be committed, to be faithful to what is committed into our hands. He mentioned Pastors, mentioned all the ministers, all the offices.
4. It’s for us brethren, to see it that this ministry, I, Apostle Luke Ojiakor; the ministry is committed into my hand, and I therefore should not allow it to be blamed. You put your name there, that the ministry is committed into your hands. This ministry that is the only hope of mankind all over.
5. You know, honestly, who has ever known it. Look at Christians, nobody ever recognises Mohammed, nobody among them ever recognises Islam. But He who is the father of all has come down and the entire world is shaking, everywhere.
6. Like this morning, the printout from the website. UAE ranking high, either second or third, even Italy, Israel. Who is this person? But if you go to the Quran, you see Jesus Christ, you see Abraham, you see Mohammed, you see Ishmael, you see all, recognising Jesus Christ. The Christians don’t even recognise them, until He has come.
7. One woman in my office saw me holding one of the messages, having “Son of Man, the great Mahdi, the Islamic connection”. She looked at the one containing articles of the Islamic faith, volumes one and two. She said ‘Sir I will like to read it’. Recently my daughter gave her one. She went through the volume one and she is still holding volume two.
8. I am saying that, they don’t know what is happening. You and I here that know what is happening, as He has opened our eyes to acknowledge Him, open our eyes to know where we are placed, in heavenly places.
9. The message we heard this morning, about the white garment. Should we joke with that? It is time of placement, that you place yourself. You are given something you can never budget, there is no way any of us can purchase it, it is just simply grace. Look at the songs, all the numbers Almighty God was raising here, pointing to grace and grace alone, what He has done.
10. As He read He said ‘Look at it, the man that prepared the banquet was the one that gave them white garment’. He has given you white garment, He has given me white garment.
11. I remember sometime, there was a time He said that He could see many of us having our white garment, some are having their own hanging on their seats and when the entire hall was filled to the brim. He came to inspect, for there must be inspection. Only to discover that had not the white garment, He gave us everything clearly.
12. Now brethren, why don’t we acknowledge this and take what He has given to us. Simply obey, put it on, it is no longer my own life I should live.
13. To be faithful is to do everything at the command of the Lord, then we say ‘We have done at thy command oh Lord’. That is what it means to be faithful, nothing more. And you will decide that it must be that way, not having your own idea, not having my own idea, not even making any suggestion.
14. Once He has said it, simply take it; after all do you know this way? Have you gone through this way before? Do you know where paradise is? What do you know? What you know is what He has revealed to us. And He is the one helping us to pass through, helping us to understand, helping us to believe.
15. Whosoever comes to Him, He will in nowise cast away. But there is no way somebody can come to Him if He Himself does not draw the person to Himself, Yes! He said, my sheep hears my voice and they follow me, the voice of the stranger they will not hear and they will not follow and I give them eternal life. And my father who has given it to Me, He is greater than all, so nobody can ever snatch any of them from Me.
16. Then what is our problem again? There is no problem again we have, simply obey. “Nnam I want to go to Nsukka”. He will say Ojiakor sit down, I will reply ‘Yes sir’, simple! Not “Nnam I want to go to Nsukka”, He will say seat down and I will begin to give reason, “Sir, but you see, but you see”. What does He see? That is one thing that people come to enquire from God, to know the will of God, to know the mind of God. God will now reveal the thing and they begin to inject their own, to turn God to agree with them.
17. In short, for what we have seen today should challenge you, challenge me, right from the morning. Let me tell you, reading that ‘Faithfulness explained’, I went to ‘Commitment’, then I went to ‘Seven steps to realizing the promises of God’. There you have faithfulness at chapter three. I got there, I was going, I said ‘God’. Along the line He said, ‘If you have not been doing it, it is not late, today you can start up’. So why not start today? I said ‘God I am sorry, I must remain faithful’. Today everybody is claiming to be faithful.
18. Proverbs 20 verse 6 to 7. Everybody is claiming to be faithful but a faithful man, nobody sees. I remember in one of the messages, almighty God was here. Along the line He asked ‘Apostle Ojiakor are you faithful?’ I said no. ‘Apostle Kelechi are you faithful?’ he said no. He said, I will just use this two. But we will not continue that way, no. We must be faithful, for He Himself that has called you, that has called me, He is very much faithful.
19. To be faithful means to be dependable, to be reliable, to be trustworthy. So what else? Are you trustworthy, reliable? Or are you slippery? He said look at what we heard last Sunday. At a time He said ‘Apostle Kelechi, if you keep on shouting, hearts have been hardened’ I hope our hearts has now been softened? Before we knew it, He saw the manifestation here and there.
20. So, I am saying let us look into ourselves very well, He that is in our midst who has brought both moon and the star, uniting them. Muslims, Christians, Jews, the entire world, everybody rushing, believing The Son of Man. Listen, He said many will come from the east and the west, north and south, and rush into the kingdom of heaven, and you for whom it is made, will be out. Why don’t you say God forbid? Saying it not just with the mouth but in your heart and meaning it, going ahead.
21. For if we say we believe, we say amen to the message and we do not put it into practice, what does it mean? Let somebody read James chapter 1 verse 22 to 25, living bible.
22. (The son of man speaks) Nsukka brethren here see me after fellowship.
23. And remember, it is a message to obey, not just to listen to. If you don’t obey, you are only fooling yourself. For if a person just listens and does not obey, it is like looking at your face in a mirror but doing nothing to improve your appearance. You see yourself, walk away, and forget what you look like. But if you keep looking steadily into God’s perfect law-the law that sets you free–and if you do what it says and don’t forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it. (LB)
24. That is living bible. Get Amplified, read verse 25 only. Please pay attention.
25. But be doers of the Word [obey the message], and not merely listeners to it, betraying yourselves [into deception by reasoning contrary to the Truth]. For if anyone only listens to the Word without obeying it and being a doer of it, he is like a man who looks carefully at his [own] natural face in a mirror; For he thoughtfully observes himself, and then goes off and promptly forgets what he was like.
26. Verse 25, please pay attention. We had the whitest linen, the cleanest linen, the purest linen.
27. But he who looks carefully into the faultless law, the [law] of liberty, and is faithful to it and perseveres in looking into it, being not a heedless listener who forgets but an active doer [who obeys], he shall be blessed in his doing (his life of obedience). (AMP)
28. So brethren we say to God the glory. Let us be doers and not hearers of the word only, to God be the glory. Let’s bow our heads.
PRAYER
Precious Father, we are ever grateful. Thank you the way you moved today in the midst of your children, we are indeed elated, we are gladdened. Lord, our faith is more built upon you, consolidated, rooted, grounded, immovable, because you have made it so, I say to you be the glory Oh God.
Father as we have heard, cause us to do it Oh God, the memory of what you have done today, may it never get out of any of us Oh Lord. As we are going this afternoon, you brought us here safely; cause your blessings to go with us and lead us home to our different destinations safely. Lord, we say to you be the glory.
Thank you for the mighty and marvellous things you did in the midst of the bride even this week. Your salvation is unto the ends of the earth and so we say thank you Oh God. Lord, you are the Almighty, ever continue to protect your children wherever we find ourselves and always cause us to remain within the boundaries where your love will ever reach us; in all things we say to you be the glory.
Father we just pray that you uphold yourself in that badger skin, even the Son of Man whom you have made strong that we might serve you rightly at all times. You know the strength of your children, you know your own strength even in that badger skin, in everything we say to you be all the glory, through the name of Peter Christ we pray, Amen!