Preached On Sunday 21st July, 2019 At The Household of God, Onitsha By Apostle Peter Odoemena THE SON OF MAN
THE SELF-CONSCIOUS UNITY OF ALL REALITY THE UNREPENTANT ADVOCATE OF YOUTH EMPOWERMENT
Whomever that obeys My Messages out of fear of Hellfire or indictment has not obeyed at all but merely suppressing his or her feelings. Nobody’s obedience to the Messages is fulfilled until it is practiced as a result of personal conviction that my Messages are wholesome truths. There is always the propensity in the youth to experiment evil but this act has grievous and disastrous consequences and should be avoided by all if we must
transform our good dreams into realities. Consider what I have said and let the Almighty God give you perfect understanding. Evil is pleasurable to those that are destitute of truth and void of wisdom. Preserve your youth and achieve your dreams.
PRESERVE YOUR YOUTH AND ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS; [A Forum held with Youths in the Bride’s Ministry] on 17th September 2006; Pg. 39 vs. 14 – 16
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PRESERVE YOUR YOUTH AND ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS
We give God the glory, if we remember where we were coming from, where we are and what is left.
2. While we were coming this morning, my children reminded me of something and I laughed because today, being the first day of the week, even the devil knows that the Almighty God should be worshipped by all flesh, for God gave us two days: The Seventh day and the First day.
3. You are to make your choice between the seventh day and the first day. And on this first day of the week you have chosen to worship God, while we were coming, children born of parents like you and I;
4. Let me tell you. The devil hates every human being. You will not know that the devil hates you until you run into the hands of the Almighty God that created you and then you begin to enjoy the love of God. You will see that the love of God is unfathomable, immeasurable.
5. Certain things you were doing in time past when you knew not God, if you see people doing it now you feel like vomiting.
6. What happened along my street; you know my street. It is a busy street, anyway. I saw a group of young men with their motorcycles carrying their machetes, with bulalah [leather whip], with all weapons of destruction. And they gathered somewhere waiting for their prey.
7. One of my children reminded Me of what happened in time past.
8. I said, “Yes! Do you know why they are there? Somebody invited them for a backup. And these boys risk their lives from the remotest part of Nsugbe to the college not minding the heavy security.”
9. May be, they think today being Sunday. It could be a minor clash between two individuals. Why must you receive money to hang yourself? Has your life a substitute? They cannot remember how many that have perished even in that area.
10. I cannot forget 2015, when we got up one morning like that, only to see their corpses littered. And their friends were weeping. Many rushed into my house. I gave them protection as their father.
11. So immediately they saw Me, all of them gave way and started waving pretending all well. They were hiding their machetes inside their cloths.
12. I lowered my glass and they were all waving. Some were in fear because they never knew I could be there. I roll up, gave them a sign and continued.
13. And then I remember the sinful past, how all of us were used by the devil ignorantly. We were going to church quite alright. We were all going to schools and colleges, but we did not know the difference between good and bad.
14. We thought we were human beings. We never knew we were not human beings. I just want to tell you. It can be a morsel of bread. It can be ordinary word of the mouth which can be ignored.
15. What if, by the time we come back now, SARS will finish them because my street has only but one escape route. That route through which you will enter is the one you will take to go out. Once it is blocked at prime you are trapped.
16. That is why hoodlums do not operate that area. This is because once we give signal, everywhere is blocked, they are trapped.
17. And I was watching the ages. These boys were aged between 15 and 23 by my own assessment, for I know very many and all of them know me.
18. Why must you die? Now, all of us God singled out of that mess should remember that it was our habit in the time past. We were there.
19. There is nobody here who was not a criminal before he became a child of God. You were a sinner before you became a saint.
20. Bro IK Ezindu, true or false?[He answered, “True sir.”] Have you forgotten your experiences? You cannot forget them for you will use them to teach your children.
21. How many months you spent at Zone 9 because of bunkering. You were bunkering for people. Yet, you are poor. People using you to make money but when they arrested you nobody came to your rescue.
22. All you were supplying the fuel free of charge, where are they? But they were arming you to go and break the pipe.
23. You see one thing with the devil. The devil will push you into trouble and will stand by the side to mock you. But when the anointing comes, you can hardly know.
24. You see, if God has saved you from this sinful world begin to praise Him lavishly. Whenever I go to bed, My mind will go back. You know what I will be saying within me. What if I died that period, will I be what I am today?
25. Who has ever achieved success in the grave? Nobody. You know why I am saying this. I am the luckiest person on earth. I told you and you have all verified My report.
26. Can you imagine somebody who at a tender age was introduced to blood? And I became the bloodiest. At a tender age. Yes, because I know my age when I joined the army during the civil war.
27. At a time when I should be taking instructions from my parents at the age of 11 and 12 I was already a beast. A beast. You know what a beast is. Sleeping in the forest means nothing to me. Death was just like drinking water. No distance was long.
28. Tell Me to trek from that sector, [Umuenwerem sector] to Enugu, I know all the apian ways. And there was nothing called night. Nothing called day. I was not afraid of anything. Not even a lion. Is it a good life?
29. But it was a training. I cast my mind back and I remembered that there is not even one in the Bible that God used without passing through such rigorous training. Do you believe it?
30. For the sake of training God allowed Moses not only to suffer deprivation, but to became a murderer. He committed crime, God imprisoned him in the bush for 40 years. Nobody serve his interest. He became a vagabond. A fugitive. True or false?
31. If you check all that God used, He gave them training first. Do you know how many years God trained Joshua before He made him Commander General?
32. Do you know how God trained Samuel before Samuel could develop the heart to do something even King Saul could not do? Do you think it is easy to use machete to cut down a king into pieces, showing Saul example?
33. Check all you can lay hand on. How many years did God train David before David could cut down the giant Goliath and then use ordinary hand to kill a lion to save his flock?
34. From there David became a bloody man. Do you know how many years he shed their blood that made God to say, “Do not build a temple for Me, for your hands is bloody.”
35. I want to say, do you know how many people Saint Paul killed? You call him saint, but he was Saul of Tarsus. Do you know the heart God gave him which he used to imprison, to maim and to kill in the defence of religion? Religion that is full of emptiness.
36. I want you to see that children of God are known for one thing. God will allow them to undergo some training. You see all these boys, if Almighty God will arrest them tomorrow, they will be powerful instrument in the hand of God to turn this world upside down.
37. These are the people that will be ready to die because of their belief. Because nothing will frighten them again.
38. You cannot use imprisonment to frighten Me here. Tell Me what you will use [I mean] to intimidate Me because I have seen 99. 100 means nothing.
39. For that reason, I am now an instrument in the hand of God. I now know the truth. I am all out to avenge of the devil. That is why, once you are in Christ, look at the words God use to describe you.
40. You are a solder of Christ, recruited by Christ and for that reason you do not entangle yourself in the affairs of civilians.
41. A gallant solder has nothing to do with civilians, and you are trained to overcome the devil and all his agents because it takes courage. It takes vision. It takes [I mean] strength, both inner strength and physical strength.
42. If you are a seed of God and you are a Minister of the gospel, and you are weak physically, you are also weak spiritually.
43. Once you are strong in the spirit, you are strong physically. That is why nobody answers an old man while serving the LORD. The older you are, the stronger you become. That is why the Bible enjoins us to be strong in the LORD and in the power of His resurrection.
44. You do not preach the word of God with ordinary mouth. You preach it and demonstrate the power therein. Be ready to share your experiences with others, where you were and God came your way and then you weigh between the two extremes and made a better choice. Otherwise, you have no testimony. I sing with joy.
45. And if you watch what I am saying the Message of heaven is not for gentle people. True or false? Even when John the Baptist came and preached, watch the calibre of people that believe his message.
46. The Bible recorded it clearly in the book of John that when John the Baptist came and preached, the Pharisees, self-righteous Scribes and Sadducees did not believe him but it said prostitutes and notorious criminals believed him and confirmed that the message from him is truth.
47. Can you imagine, prostitutes and criminals confirming the truth, while Pharisees, reverends, bishops and archbishops did not know the truth. They disbelieved the truth.
48. When Jesus came, watch the calibre of people that received him. Watch the calibre of people that received Jesus Christ’s message. They were irate youth.
49. The Bible said that He was a friend of criminals and prostitutes, and mingled himself with people of suspicious character. Besides he was a drunkard and also a glutton.
50. If you are called a ring leader of the cult of the Nazarenes today, you know you will be afraid. I told you that nobody wants to answer the devil. Everybody is a man of God, man of God.
51. The Son of Man come and said, “I am the man of devil. If you have never seen the devil, look at me. I am the devil. Let Me see whether the argument can stop.”
From the beginning of creation, nobody has ever laboured to receive salvation from God. Noah who was declared righteous only believed God. And that was not of his own making, for he found grace in the sight of God. …… Abraham believing God was not of his own making. It was a gift from God. If God does not give a man a believing heart, he must reject all the counsels of God. Always remember that the truth men reject, has remained the truth that sets them free. Moses found grace in the sight of God, on the Wilderness. Even the people in the wilderness found grace in the sight of God. For their toils and the labour of their hands could not give them the Promised Land, but g
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BE READY TO ANSWER EVERY MAN THE HOPE THAT IS IN YOU
IF YOU ARE AFRAID OF ANSWERING THE DEVIL, YOU ARE NOT WORTHY OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
2. Jesus was not only call a devil but the chief of the devil. He was called Beelzebub. He was called a mad man. Somebody even came and said, “You are out of your senses. Now we know you are mad, for you are a man and maketh yourself God.”
3. But the criminals and prostitutes believed him and confirmed the truth. And that is why there could have been the worst insurrection in the land of the Jews, if not the presence of the Roman soldiers. Is it not in the history? You have it. Amen.
4. So if you are ashamed of the gospel of Christ which is the power of God unto salvation to them that believe, well, you are not worthy of the kingdom of heaven.
5. If you are afraid of losing your life, you are afraid of being misunderstood because of the gospel of Christ, you are not worthy of the kingdom of heaven.
6. Be ready to answer every man that would ask you what you believe and why you believe, the hope you have, and why you are sure and certain that you have found a better way, a better way and a living way.
7. Yes! This is because you must be proud of your colour, unless no change has taken place in your life. Amen
8. Let Me see. Do you know what Saint Paul told Timothy? If you read it in First Timothy chapter 1 verse 15 – 16. He was very very adamant there.
9. 1 Timothy1:15 – 16. Amplified Bible for clearer understanding. Any version is okay, but that one is clearer than all. If you do not have this testimony behind you, re-examine yourself. I say, re-examine yourself. This is a faithful saying worthy of all acceptance.
10. Living Bible. How true it is, and how I long that everyone should know it, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners–and I was the greatest of them all.
11. I, Paul, a lawyer, a learned fellow of repute, highly respected, who studied in the school of Gamaliel. He was not ashamed to tell the whole world his testimony of why he believed the power of salvation that is in the word of God, that Christ the messiah came to save sinners of which St. Paul has become one of them, who was considered to be the chiefest of all sinners.
12. How true it is, and how I long that everyone should know it, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners–and I was the greatest of them all. But God had mercy on me.
13. But God did what? …had mercy on me. You see! It is God’s grace. God will show mercy to whoever He wants to show mercy. Anybody he wants to destroy he will destroy. And we are here receiving the greatest mercy. That a sinner could be a saint.
14. But God had mercy on me so that Christ Jesus could use me as example to show everyone how patient he is, with even the worst sinners,…
15. How patient He is, even to the worst sinners, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
16. But God had mercy on me so that Christ Jesus could use me as example to show everyone how patient he is, with even, the worst sinners, so that others will realize that they, too, can have everlasting life. Amen.
17. They too, who were like him would not lose hope. If I could be saved, a notorious sinner, why are you dying there? Come out! He that saved Me is capable of also saving you.
18. He is waiting for you, for He had already said, “Whosoever that cometh unto Me, I will no wise cast away.” THE HEART OF GOD IS BROADER THAN YOUR PROBLEM.
19. SONG: [There is not a friend like the lowly Saviour. No, not one. No, not one. No friend like He that is meek and lowly. No not one. No not one. No sinner came that He will not take him. No not one. No not one.
20. My God knows all about my struggles. He will guide me till my day is done. There is not a friend like the lowly Saviour. No, not one. No, not one.]
21. PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST MEANS PREACHING YOUR EXPERIENCE, BECAUSE YOU MUST BE SUSTAINED BY YOUR EXPERIENCE.
22. If you cannot showcase yourself as a living example of a sinner who is now a saint not by your own making but by believing God; If you cannot stand and make it bold to say, it then means you are not saved.
23. Your salvation is questionable until you begin to testify the goodness of the Lord in your life, telling people what you were in time past. Stop painting the picture that you were an angel. You were no angel. Amen.
24. It is good to know the truth that God is patiently waiting for all those boys out there. You see why they call Me father. Because nobody accommodates them more than THE SON OF MAN and it is only in my house that they take refuge.
25. No matter the trouble, the moment I get home now, you see them rushing in, “Daddy we are loyal. Daddy you caught us red-handed. Daddy let us tell you the truth. We did not mean to do this.”
26. I will say, “Okay, please stop taking that risk.” You know I love all of you. God is waiting for your turn. You are the material God will use to turn this world upside down.
27. Watch the early Christians. They were accused of turning the world up-side-down by their doctrine and teaching. Ready-to-die, vibrant youth at their tender ages.
28. YOUTH IT IS YOUR TURN TO SHINE. IT IS YOUR TIME TO SHINE. YOU ARE COMING TO SPEARHEAD THIS LAST REVOLUTION. IT IS A REVOLUTION.
29. If you watch all messengers that came from God, they all came with revolutionary messages. Check all of them including Martin Luther, Wesley, Calvin. Check all of them they ushered in a revolution.
30. That is why this Faith, many are still watching. Some cannot place it anywhere. It is not Pentecostal. It is not Traditional. It is not Orthodox. And they are not Pagans. They are not Christians. They are not Muslims.
31. What are these people? We are paradox. The more you look, the less you see.
32. Then the question arises. “Who can tell Me the denomination the Almighty God belongs to? Do you know the name of that denomination? Any day you discover it come and tell Me.
33. Whether you be Muslim, be anything, as long as you are a human being, God created you. True or false?
34. So there is no other place you have your anchor except in your Creator, whether you like it or not.
35. That is why in every nation, in every place, WHOSOEVER, WHOSOEVER that feareth and honoureth the Lord, the same is made acceptable unto Him (Act 10:35). You become the beloved of the Lord. Finish.
36. No Jew, no Gentile, no Greek, no Barbarian. And He delights in saving those that have adjudged themselves as sinners. God does not save a righteous man. If you are waiting until your hands are clean, God does not want you.
37. I keep my hands clean. I do not do this, and I do not do that. God wants you to do it so that He will know what he will lay hands upon in order to save you.
38. WHO WILL APPRECIATE SALVATION? IT IS ONE THAT WAS DESTINED TO PERDITION, AND SOMEBODY CAME AND PULLS HIM OUT. HE APPRECIATES IT.
39. I do not do this. I do not do that. If you are given salvation, do you know what it means? You do not know the value.
40. Who appreciates freedom? It takes a prisoner to appreciates freedom. Is it true? Is it true? Who appreciate food? A hungry man without any hope. Who appreciates healing? Not an ordinary sick person, but one that is terribly sick, and there is no hope in sight. IF NOTHING FALLS AWAY, NOTHING WILL BE RESTORED.
41. But God is saying, “You that have been restored to mercy; You that have been reconciled to God, God is no longer imputing sin on you, showcase yourself. Use your life as example and bring others to the same experience.
42. This is because there are too many people out there who have lost every hope due to Pentecostal preaching. Some have been assigned hell when they are alive. I am telling you the truth. Some have even decided to tell them what God will ask them as question.
43. You remember that was what cause trouble. When I get there God will ask me. But what if I get there and God does not ask Me anything? Are you God that will ask Me question?
44. What if I reach there and the Almighty God will say, “Welcome, my son? No question.” Will you tell God that He has erred?
45. Whenever This Man appears on the scene, any woman, any family, any church, any group of people wherever He appears, [the Message] said, “Their problems are over. Your duty is, “Hear ye Him.””
46. If anybody stumbles into hell, he stumbled there because he has blatantly refused to hear him. Is it not the Message?
47. Even from the Ancient Book of Enoch, Seventh Generation, up to the Ancient Book of Gad the prophet, down to the scripture, your problem is over because The Justifier is here and He is everything. Amen.
48. Begin to rejoice exceedingly. Something is good because He says it is good. It is bad because He says it is bad. There is no condemnation to them that are in Him. Is there any condemnation?
49. Give Me that your amplified Bible there. A good reader. Romans chapter 8 you read from verse 1. I am coming to something.
50. Romans 8:1 THEREFORE, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong)…
51. What? There is now no condemnation. Oooh No! No condemnation, no adjudging oneself guilty for them who have already entered into Christ.
52. THEREFORE, [there is] now no condemnation (no adjudging guilty of wrong) for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live [and] walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit.
53. For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has freed me from the law of sin and of death.
54. For God has done what the Law could not do,…
55. The Lord has done what the law. [L.A.W.] could not do because it was weak.
56. For God has done what the Law could not do, [its power] being weakened by the flesh [the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit].
57. Sending His own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, [God] condemned sin in the flesh [subdued, overcame, deprived it of its power over all who accept that sacrifice],..
58. When you accept this sacrifice no more. That is why the Bible said “God nailed to the cross all the needs of sin which we could not obey, thereby making it impossible for the Devil to accuse us of sin.
59. Remember, saint Peter was talking to them in the Acts of the Apostles, “When you believe in Christ, you will be completely absolved, forgiven, set free, acquitted, discharged from all those sins which you could not have been absolved, pardoned, forgiven, set free, if you were to live your life under the laws of Moses. Halleluiah!
I keep on telling you as a Holy Church, a peculiar people I love, I have been trying My best to espouse you to One Husband in holiness and righteousness, telling you to follow Me as I follow Him daily. Follow Me because I am the example God is setting here before you. Then, My duty is to point you to the path of Holiness.
60. CALLING CHRIST IN THE TIME OF CRISIS; Preached on Sunday 15th August 1993; Pg. 86 vs. 39
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THIS IS OUR URIM THUMMIM
Let us look at 2 Corinthians chapter 5 from verse 17 through 19. And through 20 if possible. Amplified version of the Bible.
2. Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come!
3. But all things are from God, Who through Jesus Christ reconciled us to Himself [received us into favour, brought us into harmony with Himself] and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation [that by word and deed we might aim to bring others into harmony with Him].
4. By word and deed, we must aim to bringing others into harmony with Himself [Christ].
5. It was God [personally present] in Christ, reconciling and restoring the world to favour with Himself, not counting up and holding against [men] their trespasses [but cancelling them], and committing to us the message of reconciliation (of the restoration to favour).
6. So we are Christ’s ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us. We [as Christ’s personal representatives] beg you for His sake to lay hold of the divine favour [now offered you] and be reconciled to God.
7. For our sake He made Christ [virtually] to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become [endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of] the righteousness of God… Alleluia.
8. You see, when you know Scriptures, you will always be happy. The devil will not accuse you of sin anymore because you know your stand. Do not worry. If you go to the Message INDULGENCE, you will know what indulgence means.
9. Give Me that paper there that came from Mma-Agha [Evangelist Ernest Agada]. You are Christ’s Representatives. The same God reconciled you, He reconciled others and brought them into harmony with God.
10. Give it to me. I said the paper from Mma-Agha. Bro. Kelechi why not guide them well? Are you not the one that gave Me that note? I signed it. You collected it from Me. Why are you moping at me? You put it inside your pocket. Was it addressed to your office?
11. Give it to Me. They all belong to me. Do not tamper with My correspondences. Stamp and keep them there. To God be the glory
12. You see, The Resurrected Body is here. The Point of Reconciliation to God’s favour. In Me, you have the hope of eternal life. I was meditating on my experiences through life; and you check all that God ordained from their mother’s womb.
13. From time to time pause and crosscheck your experiences. Look at Hebrew chapter 5 verse 8 through 9. Any translation is okay.
14. Hebrews 5:8 – 9. Amplified version of the Bible.Although He was a Son, He learned [active, special] obedience through what he suffered.
15. And, [His completed experience] making Him perfectly [equipped], He became the Author and Source of eternal salvation to all those who give heed and obey Him. Amen.
16. Although he was a son, a son of a King, he lacked nothing. He condescended to men of low estate. He preferred to pass through suffering and was perfected through suffering.
17. His completed experience made him to be thoroughly equipped for the work of salvation. He because the author of eternal salvation unto those that will obey him. Amen.
18. You know my testimonies. I do not need to visit them. They are there for the whole world to crosscheck, to investigate and to ascertain the veracity, thereof. I give God the praise every day.
19. I got this note from a blind Brother. How I wish your likes of youths are here with Me always. I would not be suffering deprivation.
17th July, 2019.
My Lord,
My Creator,
My Mentor,
My Healer,
My Redeemer.
Sir,
I cannot thank you enough for all you have been doing for me. Today being 17th July 2019 marks 15 years since I became blind. I believe that you are the one doing everything. You have been sustaining me, my family and my Brethren. Your voice remains in my heart always. You feed me both spiritual and physically.
Thank you Lord.
Remain bless forever.
Evangelist Ernest Agada.
20. Amen. It is like saint Paul who was in prison because of the Gospel of Christ. While he was there in prison, he was encouraging Philippian Christians to rejoice always.
21. A man under affliction was telling people who were free, they were not bothering as he was telling them “Rejoice! Rejoice always!”
22. Look at a blind man. He is having the hope of eternal life, for the Word of God he stored in his heart before he became blind is still there. You see, a seed of God is a seed of God. A seed of God is a seed of God.
23. That is why I tell you, when you see people running to and fro close your mouth. Keep on praying for them if you love them until they perch finally. When they perch whatever that attracts their perching will tell you what has been informing their running around.
24. This is because a man does not settle down until he sees something that meets the yearnings of his soul. It is like marriage.
25. A man is not married until he marries his like of a woman who meets all his heart desires. Food or no food, Money or no money, he is always happy.
26. I do not want to touch on marriage, lest many will kill Me today. From the day I separated the difference between having a family and having a home, many have been a little sober.
27. YOU CAN HAVE A FAMILY WITHOUT HAVING A HOME. YOU CAN HAVE A HOUSE WITHOUT HAVING A HOME. AM I MAKING SENSE?
28. WHAT IS THE TROUBLE? PEOPLE ARE VERY EAGER TO HAVE FAMILIES. NOBODY IS EAGER TO HAVE A HOME. AND THAT IS WHY WE ARE HAVING TOO MANY TROUBLES EVEN WITH OUR CHILDREN.
29. Too many children that are enlightened today are ashamed of identifying with their families, talk less of home for they know they have no home but they have family in the sense that they have father, they have mother but what it takes to have a home is not there.
30. The mother and the father do not see eye to eye. No love is lost between the two, and it is affecting the development of the children. Now they have attained certain ages where they decipher between good and bad.
31. You know it is not easy for a child to come and condemn the parent in their faces. Moreso, when you are still under their control. It then means you are chasing them away. And they will be restive. They will be very very restive.
32. But when you give children a home, they will relax. So do not give your children a house. Give them a home where they will come in and feel comfortable because of improved relationship between you and their mother.
33. AND I HAVE TOLD YOU IN MY MESSAGES THAT THE GREATEST FAVOUR YOU CAN SHOW TO YOUR CHILDREN AS A SIGN THAT YOU REALLY LOVE AND APPRECIATE YOUR CHILDREN IS TO LOVE THEIR MOTHER.
34. And loving their mother means be ready to correct her whenever she errs, for love is corrective. Love does not means taking her to bed. Cooking better food.
35. Any love that is not corrective is not from God, for the bible said, Whosoever God loves, him He (God) corrects and chastises that he might be zealous and repent. [Revelation 3:19]
36. “If we are left without chastisement”, He said, “We are bastards.” [Hebrew 12:8] If you love Me correct me. Do not just accept Me anyhow. No! God does not like anyhow relationship.
37. IF YOU ARE NOT READY TO CHASTISE WITH HOT DISPLEASURE ACCORDING TO THE WORD, YOU ARE GOING TO RAISE A FAMILY NOT A HOME. YOU WILL BUILD A HOUSE AND NOT A HOME.
38. Many spend money to build a house, borrow money from bank to build a house but spend little or no time to build a home.
39. AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THIS. IT IS CHEAPER AND EASIER TO BUILD A HOUSE THAN TO BUILD A HOME. TO BUILD A HOME TAKES TIME. IT TAKES SPIRITUALITY TO BUILD A HOME. IT TAKES CARNALITY TO BUILD A HOUSE.
40. Everywhere is quite. Crosscheck what I am saying and may the good LORD give you perfect understanding.
41. IF YOUR HOME IS NOT SPIRITUAL, TRULY SPEAKING CHRIST IS NOT THERE. And for your home to be spiritual of course you know the ingredients that are necessary for an ideal home.
42. ONCE CHRIST IS NOT IN YOUR HOME CRISIS IS THERE. SO AT ANY POINT IN TIME IT IS EITHER CHRIST IS THERE OR CRISIS IS THERE.
43. So it is with an individual. Any day the spirit of Christ vacates from you, crises will set in. Confusion will set in. And nobody is deceived until he is confused. That is why Christ settles every confusion. TRUTH HAS NO SUBSTITUTE.
44. Dream on 13th July 2019. Pay attention to this dream of 13th July 2019. A blind fellow had this dream.
45. I saw the Son of Man on the pulpit at Jerusalem by 2:15am. He called two Apostles, two Pastors. Quarter past two in the morning.
46. He called two Apostles, two Pastors, two Bishops, two Evangelist, two Teachers and two Deacons but I could not recognize their faces.
47. He said “How many of you know where we are now?” There was no response.
48. He said again, “How many of you know that THE SON OF MAN is living in a borrowed time.” Extra time is extra time. Only He who is holding the time knows the very time.
49. 95% of you are mixed multitude. 3% of you are struggling to enter, but 2% of you are those I have chosen for myself, no matter the situation. Here the dream left me. Evangelist Ernest Agada. Household of God, Enugu.
50. 2% predestinated, chosen by election. God decided to impute righteousness on them, not because of any good thing or bad thing. Even if they like, let them kill everybody. They are holy.
51. Can that be possible? Yes! Is it Scripture? Yes! Have I not told you anybody killed by David died in vain? Anybody can be afraid of hell fire not David. Anybody can be afraid of shielding blood, not David. And the root and offspring of David is here.
52. My traditional ruler after reading one of my books came to Me and said, “Son of Man sir, I can see you causing trouble in Nigeria. Nobody reads your book without being fanatical. How do you control your members? For you are about to cause trouble o.”
53. In surprise, I asked, “His royal majesty, how many books have you read? Which one did you read?”
54. He said, “I have read almost all the ones you gave me. Even the most recent ones. The type of message you are dishing out can make people run mad o.”
55. I said, “You are not talking like a sensible king. I was looking forward to hearing that I am deceiving the world.”
56. He said, “No! The level of truth is what I am against. The world is not ready for this level of truth and that is why they will revolt.”
57. I said, “They will revolt against me?” He said, “No! They will revolt against government, and against everybody.” I said, “Yes. We revolt against evil.We revolt against injustice.” Is it not true?
58. But I said, “Sir, let Me tell you the truth. Those people who you are afraid of are on my side right now. They are all in my pocket. I answer their calls, but I refuse their invitation. Their calls are good calls but their invitations are invitations to die. Invitations of death. And I do not honour them anyhow. I honour them with my host of warriors so that whatever they are up to, I will instantly reply there.”
59. Do not forget the experience you had at Enugu-Ezike. It is still ringing bell till today. The most dreaded place in the whole Igbo land. A no-go-area. If I should use my own parlance I will call it KuminRukiki: A land you go and you will never return.
60. This morning somebody appealed to Me that he will be in the pulpit and I said he should direct his appeal to the Pastor and that’s our Brother IK Ezindu. Stand up there.
61. Bro Ike Ezindu! Have you been converted? Since when? I am thinking of removing you from your office as a Pastor, or even closing your Fellowship, for you are not pastoring by example.
62. And you want Me to come and place you in the pulpit to tell us the story you have read and not to present the life of the story. I said the life of your story is not evident in your family, in your personal life.
63. We do not want story tellers. Let Me go and tell them what I read. Not in the sacred pulpit. We exhibit what Christ has achieved in our lives.
64. I do not need to read the whole Scriptures. I might not even read Scriptures. My life experience is enough.
65. So, I have not found your work perfect. Why are you requesting for the place angels are afraid to go?
66. Remember there was one who was troubling Me over the pulpit one time. One John Ezumezu. The first time, we allowed him to be there and for over thirty minutes, he could not say anything. He was making his hands like this.
67. We were wondering. The Deacons saw that the man was dying, they went and brought him out. When he regained himself, we ask him, “John, what is happening?”
68. He said he did not know. He placed the Bible there and the pulpit started growing and that he was trying to climb, that something was enveloping him around the pulpit. You were there.
69. After some months, he appealed again. We gave him. It repeated. The third time, he nearly fainted.
70. So if you want to commit suicide come and sign it as a contract [an undertaking] from the table. Tell Me to field you there. I will field you there. If what is there will spare you, we will accept your report. May be you do not know that you are going to the UrimThummim.
71. That is our UrimThummim. The moment I am here He is here. Where every truth is verified. Of cause you know the truth. So you do not go there because you want to. No!
72. You will go there because he wants you to go there. And before He wants you to be there, He must have placed something in you which will build up the body unto edification. Sit down!
Now, the revealed Christ in our midst is our perfect example and He is saying that if we suffer with Him, we will reign with Him. He is our perfect example. He said that the suffering of this present time is nothing compared to the glory that we will receive when we shall leave this place. He that has this kind of hope can never be sad and he can never deny God. …. Thus, look at where I am pointing you to. It is not that I am pointing you to Myself or to any man. I am pointing you to the Word of Life, the revealed Christ in our day, the Anointed Word of God in our day; Emmanuel – God is with us in our day, who is our witness.
BE READY TO ANSWER EVERY MAN THE HOPE THAT IS IN YOU; preached on Sunday 15th January 1995 Pg. 94 vs. 94 & Pg. 115 vs. 51
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ARE YOU WALKING WITH CHRIST OR WALKING ALONE?
Let someone turn with Me to Hebrew chapter 8 and chapter 5 verse 8 through 9 amplified if you have it read it from there.
2. Although he was a son, he learned active special obedience through what he suffered.
3. Note the key words. ACTIVE and also SPECIAL OBEDIENCE. Through what he suffered, not what he enjoyed. PREACHING THE WORD OF GOD DEVOID OF SUFFERING IS HERESY.
4. And, His completed experience making Him perfectly [equipped], He became the Author and Source of eternal salvation to all those who give heed and obey Him.
5. When an apprentice suffers in the hands of his master and completes perfectly the period of apprenticeship, he gains sufficient experience.
6. He is well equipped with all the fundamentals to run his own business. When his master now settles him, he will not be afraid as to whether his servant will fall, for he has completed the period of apprenticeship which entails much suffering.
7. And his obedience to his master [complete obedience] has now made him to be well equipped.
8. What if, after some years, he decides to break away? The master may decide to give him a little amount anyhow instead of leaving him empty-handed. He will go and waste it and come back to start all over. Did you get the Message?
9. If you see yourself as an apprentice in the hand of God, get ready, arm yourself with this truth that you must suffer. The Bible said if we suffer with Him we shall also reign with Him. [2 Timothy 2:12]
10. And your completed period of apprenticeship with all these attendant troubles will make you to be like your master for a servant ought to be as perfect as the master. Is it not scripture? [Luke 6:40]
11. Do not take Me for a ride. No! I know where I am standing. I know when you are operating on your own. And I know when you are operating with Christ. ARE YOU WALKING WITH CHRIST OR WALKING ALONE? Amen.
12. Last week I received testimonies from many Local Assemblies but the one from Enugu attracted my attention where the Pastor was courageous enough to do the work of the Apostle who was negligent. And the Pastor did something. I approved it. I will equally approve more for him.
13. Yes. I have spoken to him. All you young Ministers be courageous and do the work. I said, “Be courageous and do the work.”
14. The only thing you owe the ancient Ministers is respect and that respect is conditional if they respect themselves.
15. The bush that abhor basket should not grow mushroom. If it dares grow mushroom, basket must enter therein.
16. I heard it before. That goes to show you are empty. I remember how I was. That was then. But the battle is raging. Why are you sitting down when the master is standing up? Why throwing in the towel when the battle is not yet won?
17. The referee is still in the field standing. You see the opposing team running helter-skelter. And then you fold your arms or go and sit on the bench. No! I say, No!
18. So, that which happen at Enugu and many were reacting somehow, I pleaded with the Brother God used to come and pass a night in Onitsha so that he would not have reason to be late.
19. And he is coming to the pulpit to handle the Sunday school the way he is being led, in a very brief way.
20. Youth eee! It is your time to shine. Your time to reign. Your time to rule. After all, in Nigeria they have recognized the virtues in the youth. Yes!
21. Emmanuel Macron is the president of France. How old was he when he won the election? Nigeria has now adopted it. We have now given the youth a party, NOT TOO YOUNG TO RUN.
22. So the youth can rule this nation. Let us see whether the old brigade, renegades who are constantly setting the hand of the clock back will give way for dynamism.
23. We want to see dynamic youths handling the Word of God as the prophet foretold. And then you will see the end-time revival in the Bride that will usher all of us into paradise; into eternity.
24. I am telling you that what I am putting together now is what will take us to paradise because they are not going to receive any nonsense from anybody by dint of what you claim to be. Just like bishop Nath. Your chieftaincy should be in your pocket as far as this new order is concerned.
25. THIS IS A NEW ORDER. Do you believe that? And I will tell you something there, where I read before. Look at that Hebrew chapter 5. I read from verse 8. Wait a little. I read 8 through 9. Read further from verse 10.
26. Being designated and recognized and saluted by God as High Priest after the order (with the rank) of Melchizedek.
27. Pay attention! Being designated and recognized. And also saluted by who? GOD. GOD SALUTED GOD
28. Let Me tell you. In the army after decorating a fellow soldier as instructed, the next thing is instant salute. You salute him. That is the rule.
29. I remember the day we were at Owerri to witness the exchange of sword. I could see the DPO (Divisional Police Officer) saluting Bro Collins. After decorating him, he saluted him. He, first of all, recognized him.
30. Being designated… He, first of all, designated. Who was designated? Christ. Christ the Messiah, the Anointed One, the Saviour who was born of human origin was designated in the same status with one who was born without genealogy;
31. Recognised as one occupying the office of that person who came without father, without mother, without lineage, and without genealogy. I pray that God will give you perfect understanding of the Scripture.
32. Being designated and recognized and saluted by God as High Priest after the order (with the rank) of Melchizedek.
33. With the rank of who? Melchizedek. The same Melchizedek was without parent. No lineage. No genealogy. He never died. He has no grave. He never ascended even into the heaven.
34. There is no record that he went to heaven. He did not die. He did not go to heaven. And nobody said he vanished.
35. But we saw one born of a woman, grew up in knowledge and stature, now designated to that office, recognized in that office, decorated in that office and saluted in that office.
36. Concerning this we have much to say which is hard to explain… We have much to say which is very hard to explain to the ignorant.
37. ….since you have become dull in your [spiritual] hearing…Or understanding
38. ….since you have become dull in your [spiritual] hearing and sluggish [even ] slothful in achieving spiritual insight].
39. For even though by this time you ought to be teaching others, you actually need someone to teach you over again the very principles of God’s word. You have come to need milk, not solid food. Amen.
40. Hebrews 5. I want Living Bible Translation. A good reader. If you have it, pass it on here. Read from verse 9. Let us get it clearer.
41. It was after he had proved himself perfect in this experience. Who prove himself perfect in this experience? Christ. Good.
42. Through the things he suffered; through his completed experience, he became the author of what? Eternal life. For whatever God does is eternal.
43. Then how can it be eternal? It is because Melchizedek is eternal. He is in the office of the Eternal One, designated to eternity, recognized as such, decorated as such, saluted as such. By salutation, it means commissioning.
44. The moment you salute an officer after decoration, you have commissioned him. Then, you have given him the staff of office. It means, “Carry on boy.”
45. Then, he picks his body guards immediately. You do not give him body guards. He picks. He knows those that will be loyal to him. He appoints them to be his body guards.
46. It was after he had proved himself perfect in this experience that Jesus became the Giver of eternal salvation to all those who obey him.
47. For remember that God has chosen him to be a High priest with the same rank as Melchizedek. Alleluia!
48. Chosen him to be in the same rank. It is not minus; not plus, whether you believe it or not. Your believing adds nothing. Your unbelief subtracts nothing.
49. For remember that God has chosen him to be a High priest with the same rank as Melchizedek.
50. 11There is much more I would like to say along these lines, but you don’t seem to listen, so it’s hard to make you understand.
51. It is hard to make you understand who He is. THE OFFICE HE OCCUPIES TELLS US WHO HE IS AND WHAT HIS MISSION IS ALL ABOUT.
52. How can we be talking about eternal life when the author of eternal life is not with us? You see! Christ in you, the hope of glory.
53. How can we be talking about the high priest Melchizedek when there is no one chosen, placed, designated, decorated, recognized and saluted in that office is not here? One that has completed experience. You see, the captain of your salvation was made perfect.
54. Is it scriptural? Otherwise, we will see the blind leading the blind.
55. THE HIGHEST FAVOUR GOD WILL GIVE YOU IN THIS LIFE IS TO BRING YOU FACE TO FACE WITH HIM. AND THEN GIVE YOU SPIRITUAL INSIGHT TO UNDERSTAND WHO YOU ARE, WHY YOU ARE WHAT YOU ARE AND WHAT YOUR DESTINY IS ALL ABOUT.
56. God has finished everything. That is why the moment you are in Him, people will be wondering where that type of boldness is coming from.
57. Because when you know who you are, you will do exploit. When Jesus conferred you with this authority, He said, “Fear not he that will destroy the flesh and stop there. But fear Him who has the power to destroy your flesh and torment your soul in hell fire where he will bring you back to life like I am here. [Matt. 10: 28, Luke 12:5]
58. You see! You know that is the reason why people do not accept My Message somewhere because they know that I died and come back. And it has become a wonder to many.
59. Some even wonder asking about my children. Some even ask questions, “How do you cope with this man as your father?” To my wife, “Are you sure you sleep in the bed with this man?” Pure and certain.
60. But when they come closer fully, they discover that He is the most amiable human being on earth.
61. I say, the friendliest human being you can have. THE BEST FRIEND TO HAVE IS THE LORD. THE BEST YOU MUST HAVE IS THE LORD.
62. We are talking about that Man, Melchizedek. The office where Christ is sitting. It is eternal. Then that throne is the throne of David, which is eternal. For whatever God does is eternal. Nothing can be added nor subtracted. [Ecclesiastes 3:14]
63. If you go to Saint John’s gospel chapter 13 from verse 1,“Christ, having loved His own that are in the world, He loved then till the end.
64. Read it in King James. Saint John gospel chapter 13 verse 1. That is where I quoted. Anybody can be wrong. I am not the one.
65. Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew his hour has come that he will depart out of this world unto the father, having loved his own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end. KJV
66. Having loved His own that are in the world, He loved them unto the end. Why? Whatever God does is eternal. Nothing can be added nor subtracted.
67. He cannot save you today and lose you tomorrow. But you have the right to forfeit your salvation. It is in your hand because pardon is not pardon unless it is accepted. True or false?
68. If I give you a gift, do I force it on you? You can even say, “Away with your gift. Thank you!” But if you know the value of gold, what do you do? You preserve it. Sit down brethren.
69. I am just giving you few nuggets as I invite our Brother, Lucky Ukasanya to the pulpit.