PREACHED BY THE SON OF MAN ON 17TH DECEMBER 2006 AT THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD ONITSHA
The Deity is no longer in heaven but in the midst of the Bride…
Anybody outside the kingdom of God (Bridal Faith) cannot see the hidden things of God. Even things that are not meant for human beings to know will be made known to
you.
We are part of the Elohim, without us, the Elohim is incomplete.
–Son of Man
WHO IS THIS MAN?
1. Who is this extraordinary man that has chosen to pull few to Himself and then transform them into something that no human brain can fathom?
2. Who is this man that walked on Earth unnoticed (only by a few) and yet He is the greatest Force that controls the universe?
3. Who is this man that has stimulated the weak and gave them hope by His Message and can also confidently pull down the mighty?
4. Who is this man that has destroyed the wisdom of the ancient and brought the modern knowledge to naught?
5. Who is this man that can lay down His life and yet pick it up again?
6. Who is this man that His Voice is quickly obeyed by nature? Once uttered, it will stir the ether and then metamorphose into life (existence).
7. Who is this man that gathered the rugged, the rascals, the unwanted brains, useless and hopeless beings together and then put life and hope into them?
8. Who is this man that the whole universe consciously or unconsciously proclaimed as a King of Kings?
9. Who is this man that can see beyond human reason?
10. Who is this man that acts opposite the wisdom of man and yet His stand beats all imagination?
11. Who is this man that gives unimaginable instructions and they are obeyed by His help?
12. Who is this man that is married with children and yet is proclaimed loud and clear as God?
13. Who is this man that can make and unmake?
14. Who is this man that some see as ordinary while others see Him as extraordinary?
15. Who is this man that His utterances have beaten the human reasoning hollow?
16. Who is this man that is an Apostle, a Deacon, an Evangelist, a Teacher, a Pastor, a Bishop and yet remain sane?
17. Who is this man that is a stumbling block to the world?
18. Who is this man that has faced the entire world single handedly and still remained alive?
He is no other man than the humble, humane, loving, caring, courageous, industrious, confidents all knowing Personality in our midst.
With His Message(s), He has made us insane to the world but to us, sane as sane should be.
Surely, He will paddle us to the port of anchor in grand style.
PREACHED BY THE SON OF MAN ON 17TH DECEMBER 2006 AT THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD ONITSHA
The Deity is no longer in heaven but in the midst of the Bride…
Anybody outside the kingdom of God (Bridal Faith) cannot see the hidden things of God. Even things that are not meant for human beings to know will be made known to
you.
We are part of the Elohim, without us, the Elohim is incomplete.
–Son of Man
WHO IS THIS MAN?
1. Who is this extraordinary man that has chosen to pull few to Himself and then transform them into something that no human brain can fathom?
2. Who is this man that walked on Earth unnoticed (only by a few) and yet He is the greatest Force that controls the universe?
3. Who is this man that has stimulated the weak and gave them hope by His Message and can also confidently pull down the mighty?
4. Who is this man that has destroyed the wisdom of the ancient and brought the modern knowledge to naught?
5. Who is this man that can lay down His life and yet pick it up again?
6. Who is this man that His Voice is quickly obeyed by nature? Once uttered, it will stir the ether and then metamorphose into life (existence).
7. Who is this man that gathered the rugged, the rascals, the unwanted brains, useless and hopeless beings together and then put life and hope into them?
8. Who is this man that the whole universe consciously or unconsciously proclaimed as a King of Kings?
9. Who is this man that can see beyond human reason?
10. Who is this man that acts opposite the wisdom of man and yet His stand beats all imagination?
11. Who is this man that gives unimaginable instructions and they are obeyed by His help?
12. Who is this man that is married with children and yet is proclaimed loud and clear as God?
13. Who is this man that can make and unmake?
14. Who is this man that some see as ordinary while others see Him as extraordinary?
15. Who is this man that His utterances have beaten the human reasoning hollow?
16. Who is this man that is an Apostle, a Deacon, an Evangelist, a Teacher, a Pastor, a Bishop and yet remain sane?
17. Who is this man that is a stumbling block to the world?
18. Who is this man that has faced the entire world single handedly and still remained alive?
He is no other man than the humble, humane, loving, caring, courageous, industrious, confidents all knowing Personality in our midst.
With His Message(s), He has made us insane to the world but to us, sane as sane should be.
Surely, He will paddle us to the port of anchor in grand style.
Sir, We will leave the final verdict to you and your unfathomable rivers of time…
I salute you …King of kings!
Deacon Okoh-Enugu Household of God…
A WORD FROM THE AUTHOR
You can do everything too much, but you can never worship God too much. Can you? I know I can do nothing better than worshiping God. If you think that you are above counsel, try foolishness.
At any point where the thought of the Son of Man fills your heart, let it be known to you that you are in the Presence of the Son of Man. Remember that the Son of Man watches over you. You are special people because you believed unbelievable things; things people find difficult to listen to, but to you, you simply say Amen to it. Most of the things people are afraid of do not exist but mere imaginary things.
Say whatever you want to say, it is your right. It is better for you to talk than to stay idle. I don’t know what you call happiness. When you are thinking that you are angry, it means you are happy in another way. No matter how you woke up, the day is what you make it. How do you make your family happy? It is by applying or converting every sad situation into a joyous situation. Regard everybody’s reaction as their right. And also see every reaction towards you as a reaction towards a king. If you think this is difficult it is because you have not tried it.
The secret of the Son of Man’s happiness is the power\ability to convert every situation to His favour believing that to be angry is foolishness but there is no foolishness in happiness. Every situation you find yourself is a test in testing your maturity. If you are in this Faith, you have no unfavourable condition. There must always be an occasion to prove what you believed. The greatest laboratory where you can prove what you believed is God bringing situations to test your belief. You have not been a failure or a disappointment until you lose courage.
The more you are enlightened the more it is been made impossible for somebody to deceive you; the ability of you turning enmity into friendship lies in you. Expect persecution from mediocre minds; their elementary spirits is to discourage you. The value of life is made-up of what life has achieved. It is not living million years that matters but what you made out of that life.
Don’t allow anything to threaten your life. If you have God, you are more than what human beings can estimate. Things will always happen to you according to your faith in the Son of Man. Brighter years lies ahead in the Bride of Christ Ministry. God is with us as long as we are with Him. If God be for us, who can be against us? Sometimes, God permits those things to happen so that He can prove His Power. If those things do not happen, we cannot see the Mighty Power of God. What is my joy? I am always happy because I am serving a living God.
I believe that the trial that comes today will come off as victory tomorrow. Think positively; one that is not thinking positively is suspicious of the environment he/she is living in. Let us learn to look at life from the positive angle. Man’s disappointment is not a failure before God. Hearing, practicing is our duty, but the glory goes to God. I really thank God that we are still marching on. I love you all; remain in your Sanctified Estate as we continue in Him. Remain blessed in Him eternally…
The Son of Man
(Apostle Peter Odoemena)
THE REVELATION OF LATENT POWERS
(VOLUME ONE)
Chapter One
THERE ARE GOOD REASONS WHY WE MUST WORSHIP GOD
Put away all gloominess around you and show God that you are alive. Put away all sorrows around you. Put all troubles behind you and allow the Love of God to radiate. At least be happier than the dead. You should be happier than those in the hospital. I don’t care how people celebrate this Christmas; anybody that is in the sick bed in the hospital is not celebrating this Christmas with joy.
2. If I had my way this morning, I would have applied “cane.” Nevertheless, there is no need over flogging the matter. Whether we like it or not, the “cane” must be applied, the wroth remains there.
3. If there should be any Local Assembly that should be on top it should be Onitsha. Let me tell you the truth about myself and the Almighty: I had already concluded agreement to cause sorrow in Onitsha.
4. That you have remained rejoicing today is the greatest thing that happened to you. I had been limping between two opinions as to who will be my choice; whether man or woman I don’t care, provided I cause sorrow here. But the year has not rolled away; we still have few days to go this year 2006. And next year is another year altogether.
5. There shouldn’t be any Local Assembly that should be happier than Onitsha. Or do you think that you don’t merit sorrow? Which Local Assembly has caused me sorrow more than Onitsha? If I should cause you sorrow at least in retaliation of one, would it be a crime? Or would you stand up and prove that you have not caused me sorrow?
6. When we gather, you don’t need to be reminded whether to worship God or not. We have good reasons why we must worship the Lord. For the Pastor to have come to the pulpit to begin to remind you of the goodness of the Lord, to me, it is un-called-for. That goes to show that we are ingrates.
7. Maybe, some of you are not happy because your husbands did not permit you and your children to go home. Or maybe because of the situation of things, the man could not provide all you expected from him; for he did not steal so that you will be happy. Why don’t you go and steal so that your husband would be happy?
8. If you want your husband to steal to make you happy, your husband would be happier if you steal to make him happy. This is the time everybody must face the Reality. This is the time everybody must face the Truth in its entirety. I told you that the time you are cutting your coat according to your size is over.
9. Now, you cut your coat according to the size of your cloth; and then you feel happier. When you over place yourself or misplace yourself, you cause yourself sadness. Place yourself where you belong immediately. Don’t look at your size, don’t look at your stature, and don’t look at your social stature. Don’t you know your capacity? Place yourself where you belong.
10. Place your family where they belong; and then stop misplacing yourself. Then you will be happy always. You might see the money in the hand of your husband, and you think that it is for Christmas, but it is for something better than Christmas.
11. We labour today so that we will rejoice tomorrow. A man is not measured by his present position, but by what he will be tomorrow. Whatever he will be tomorrow is determined by what he makes today. This is the time ignorant people will set their homes on fire all because of entertainment.
Change your attitudes towards Christmas
Brother Chizoba was in my house yesterday when we saw some people that loaded every kind of things in their houses including their cooking utensils. And our Brother screamed! He said, “Daddy, see these people, they are going as if they are running for war.” I said, “Of course, they are refuges running with their old pillow cases and old foams.” The only thing they could not carry was their beds.
2. Some carried even the chairs they have in their houses, over labouring themselves; in the next two weeks, you see them coming down again with the same old property, is it not madness? It is because you are mad. I am not mad, I am sensible, I know more than that.
3. Go to Upper Iweka; see how much they are charging them. Ask them what they are going home for, “nothing,” they will reply. Some have died all because of Christmas.
4. The other day I was just passing, I saw one young man lying dead at Police Station there. That is Central Police Station with a motorcycle by his side — an armed robber for Christmas, he lost his life there.
5. At Uga by Port Harcourt Road, two of them like that were set ablaze because they snatched a brand-new motorcycle. All for Christmas and luck ran against them. They were over powered by some men and they were all set ablaze for the sake of Christmas.
6. Every year human beings will be repeating the same old mistake. No change of habit, no change of attitude towards a ceremony like this. I denied My Word last week. Not that I denied it, I mean I forgot myself and entered the Main Market just to buy one item. When I got to William Street, I couldn’t see anywhere I could pass. I came back and took another way through Nortagge.
7. Finally, I saw myself at Bright Street. I went straight to that shop, purchase that thing, intending to go back to purchase under wears, I made a mistake. I never knew that people had already crowded my back. I couldn’t go to the shop, I couldn’t go back. So, I was lost. Within three minutes, heat was all over my body.
8. I began to imagine the kind of strength God gave women at that point in time to be frequenting Main Market. You know when it comes like this; women will possess extra ordinary powers. Because entertainment is involved, nobody will complain of weakness.
9. Everybody is strong, very strong to go. “Just give me the money, I will be there.” Even pregnant women, nobody complains because it is buying clothes, buying ornaments, buying perfumes, buying nonsenses. When I managed to come out without buying that thing, I said praise be to God.
11. Then My Mind went back to the particular year when we were newly married, there I lost my wife at Main Market, or she lost me. I never knew that we were in one place, I was moving about looking for her till I got tired. I found my way back to the yard. Flexed my muscles, it is a horrible thing. I thank God that I didn’t have interest in that Main Market.
12. Where is Silas? He has varnished completely. Maybe he has varnished because we said that women will flog him. On Wednesday he dogged, today he has dogged again.
14. Where is Sam Agu? — The only business man that is selling his business this time around. Well, he feels he is of age. But I believe that God is older than him. If because of business you refuse to worship God, write it down: All you will get within the period you absent yourself from Fellowship will all fly away. God will disarm you all to show you that He is the One that started the business for you. Without God you can do nothing.
15. Where is Bro. Shedrack? Any moment from now he will be back to tell us stories. The wife is outside because she is a habitual late-comer — very lazy woman.
16. If you want to go home for your Christmas celebration, it is fine. You can go today or tomorrow if you like. Nobody is stopping you. What will stop you will stop you. God will not stop you, what will stop you will stop you.
17. Do you know that among heathens, many of them have started hating Christmas? Many of them have started addressing the truth about this Hour. What a sensible family should be doing now is not lavishing the little they have accumulated.
18. What they should be doing now is carrying out proper review of their activities in the year. Muster their reasons together, so that they can roll into the New Year with lively expectations, because it is a very rough thing for one to live a plan-less life. This is the time for you to plan against tomorrow. It is not the time for you to lavish the little you have. Amen.
POINTS TO PIN DOWN
In the gathering of the Saints, you don’t need to be reminded whether to worship God or not. We have good reasons why we must worship the Lord.
When you over place yourself or misplace yourself, you cause yourself sadness. Place yourself where you belong.
We labour today so that we will rejoice tomorrow. A man is not measured by his present position, but by what he will be tomorrow.
What a sensible family should be doing now is not lavishing the little they have accumulated. What they should be doing now is carrying out proper review of their activities in the out-going year. Muster their reasons together, so that they can roll into the New Year with lively expectations.
Chapter Two
MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICE IN MARRIAGE
I am really very grateful to God today that Pastor Christian has presented to you his own wife which he has legally and customarily married. Pastor Christian, stand up and let us see her again. You bring her before us so that everyone can see both of you.
2. If you are not happy that your Pastor is married, it then means that you are wicked. What do you think that will give you joy more than this? If your Pastor’s marriage doesn’t gladdens you here, it then means that you have not been wishing him well. For a man cannot see true success without been married.
3. It is now we can look at him and say we have a Pastor. At least he has a “church” to “pastor” in his house. He has one to pastor— charity begins at home. For if he cannot pastor her, how can he pastor us? We will begin to see him from a different perspective.
4. Pastor Christian Dike, today marks a new beginning in your life; the beginning of a new era. All that the Messages have achieved in you; look at me, you can now take off; the sky is your limit. No obstacle. This is what marriage should look like. Are you getting what I am saying?
5. I don’t want a situation where a young man will come and present his grandmother as a wife. And tomorrow he will ask me to pray for waist pain, pray for this and that. When you have not lived at least ten years. I will not pray again.
6. This is marriage. This is marriage and they look like twins. You see, many of you misjudged Pastor Christian. You are right. In the same way, I misjudged him in the beginning but I took my time to understudy him. I came to the conclusion that he is a very happy Brother; very generous, very hospitable. But you have to come closer to him before you notice these qualities.
7. He is a motivator, never tired; always responding to duties. Wherever duty calls for, look for him there, he will be there. But you don’t know his problems unless I reveal them. If I don’t reveal his problems you won’t know. So, he is not the way you think he is.
8. I am saying that he is a husband indeed. I know that he is a husband. A man is not married until he has picked a wife that suits his heart. If you have not picked that one that suite your purpose, you are living with a woman. I say, you are living with a woman.
9. When they paid me a curtsyvisit, I was in my corridor watching, while they were leaving from a distance. They didn’t know that I was admiring them. Pastor Christian crossed the gutter and waited and his wife joined him. He reached for her hands immediately and pulled her by his side.
10. Together they continued. When they are about to cross Benjamin street, it was very late in the evening, they didn’t know that I was still there waiting. So, he was about to cross, he wanted to drag her, he noticed that he will be making a mistake, he then crossed and waited.
11. You see, he won’t run one way again, because there is somebody. It is now “slow and steady.” And slow and steady wins the race. Now, Pastor Christian is a man with responsibility. He is no longer useless. The time for uselessness is over. Because a man without responsibility is a useless fellow; so, there is a responsibility.
12. In other words, whatever that is left in you unchecked, the responsibility on your neck will help you to complement your efforts. So, the time for waste is over. You can now mean business with your work because there is a responsibility. So, I am the happiest fellow in this Fellowship.
13. Now, young men be careful. All that glitter is not gold. Where is Sam Kalu? As long as Sam kalu is not in the Fellowship, Sam Agu will not be in the Fellowship too. We won’t talk about them again. Their matter has been sealed. From the day the Elders summoned them, that was the end of the journey — no more!
14. Young men, be careful. No matter how a Minister praises a Sister, as long as she does not meet your requirement, say no to marriage. I say, say no to marriage.
15. No matter how friendly you might be with a Sister, if you will be lying in the same bed everyday, as long as she does not meet your requirement in marriage, say no to marriage. Nobody has ever corrected any mistake made in marriage.
16. Since the world began till today, nobody has ever corrected it. And you won’t be the first to attempt correction with success. If God doesn’t have the solution, who do you think can solve that problem?
17. A problem that is above God, who then will solve it? I have always told you to be careful while making your choice in marriage. I say, be very, very careful. You can be in a haste in everything but don’t be in a haste in making your choice of a wife.
18. All that glitter is not gold. Industrious is not a qualification for marriage. Her industrious life can even deny her of children. Amen.
POINTS TO PIN DOWN
If you are married, whatever that is left in you unchecked, the responsibility on your neck will help to complement your efforts. So, the time for waste is over. You can now mean business with your work because there is a responsibility.
Young men, be careful. No matter how a Minister praises a Sister, as long as she does not meet your requirement, say no to marriage.
All that glitter is not gold. Industrious is not a qualification for marriage. Her industrious life can even deny her of children.
Human race has to sources, one is God and the other is Satan.
The Two foundations of our existence lies in identifying the rock we are hewed from.
What will justify or condemn you is the message you have received.
-Son of Man
Chapter Three
BALANCED VIEW OF MAN’S AND WOMAN’S NATURE OF WORK
Medically speaking, women that labour much do not have children. You cannot eat your cake and have it because a woman is not a man. So, if your wife is a “jacky,” it is not a good report. Go round and see what I am telling you.
2. Women that take responsibility due to men hardly have children. Where they have, they can hardly go beyond two or three. Some even stop at one. That’s why in as much as I approve work for women, I disapprove over-work for women because idleness is not a good thing. I disapprove over-work.
3. No woman should over-work herself. There should be time for rest. There must be time for rest. Any man that avoids rest dies before his time. If you take credit in saying that you labour more than every other person, you take delight in denying yourself of rest, get ready, the money you have saved will be for your casket. And your husband will live to pick another woman also who will continue from where you stopped.
4. Are you doubting me? If you doubt me, look at Brother Amobi. See his wife too. She is continuing from where the late-one stopped. Brother Amobi is younger now than he was that time. Why? Because he picked a lady that is younger than the old one; so she renewed Brother Amobi while the laborious one is in the grave.
5. Women be careful. If you love money more than your life, you will die quick and the money will remain. Experience has taught me that women that love money too much do not stay long on Earth; because they feel more troubled than men.
6. A man can love money so much and manage himself but not a woman. What a woman should love is nothing but dressing. If you love dressing too much, no problem, it is not a crime, it is natural. But don’t love money too much that you begin to labour more than men so as to own a fantastic bank account. You will die quick and the account will be your husband’s bank account, which he will now use to marry another wife.
ALWAYS STRIKE A BALANCE IN EVERYTHING
It means you have indirectly helped your husband pick one that will be younger than you. Therefore, I advocate work for women, but disapprove over-work. While we are in this life, we should try as much as we can to “strike a balance” in life. That is what God entails life to be.
8. Just like I am talking to you now, you see the amount of air I am letting out of my mouth must equate with the amount of air I am inhaling, otherwise I will collapse. In mechanical activity, energy loss is equal to energy gain.
9. That’s why when I see you using hand fan to fan yourself so as to reduce the heat in your body, I laugh at you sometimes, why? It is because you are not reducing the heat, you are “striking a balance” between the hotness of your body and the air outside your body. You will only enjoy it if somebody is fanning you. While you are fanning yourself, the energy you are losing or the heat lost is equal to heat you are generating; because it is mechanical activity, so you have not gained anything. This is life.
10. When you labour so much, you will require the same amount of rest to “strike a balance.” If you don’t do that, your life is in danger. He that said you should sleep in the night made no mistake. If you look at the whole situation, God divided the day into two equal parts.
11. You can work for twelve hours and sleep for twelve hours depending on the way you plan your life. But where you said “no rest;” no problem. Get ready; you must break down in health. You must break down in health because you have over loaded yourself.
12. If not for economic crunch that is biting hard on everybody, nobody should take a load higher than he/she should. To women, by their fragile nature, they don’t need overload at all. They don’t need overload at all; because nature has already imposed a burden on them. And that burden is very hard to replenish. I say, it is very hard to replenish. That’s why they need good understanding.
THERE MUST BE A BALANCE OF NATURE
Once a woman gets to the age of adolescence, her life is in danger. Because the amount of blood she will be losing every month, if she does not recover the same amount of blood, she will become very fat. And then you will be admiring her weight thinking she is alive.
14. When bread goes sour, what happens? The size enlarges. When your soup goes sour, what happens? It fills the pot to the brim. I hope I am making sense. Sometimes, when you see somebody looking very fat you think that she is alive.
15. But you don’t know that the body is filled with what we call “plasma.” The red blood cells there or the Hemoglobin content might be zero. And she will be losing strength. You begin to wonder why such a heavy woman will be losing strength. Yes, she is on her way to mortuary.
16. I am trying to say that work is proper if well regulated, but over-work should be condemned in its entire ramification. Even to men, over-work should be condemned. That is why I hate anything overtime or overwork. If it should be done, it should not be regularly. It should be when situation calls for it.
17. The time you should use to rest, if you dodge it because of one thing or the other, you have adjusted nature and it must fire back. You will notice one thing in your life, any day you don’t have sufficient rest especially in the night, in the morning hours you become useless and weak.
18. Two: You will be hostile because you are restless. Your brain is not giving you rest. Your body is not giving you rest. In that condition, you will be completely hostile to yourself and to anybody that comes close to you because you didn’t have enough rest. You will lose concentration because from that time hence-forth concentration stops.
19. Whatever you lay hands on, you look very much confused. Why? You can never cheat nature and get away with it. There must be a balance in nature. If we can learn to agree with nature, we will prolong our days here on Earth, and will ever remain useful to ourselves.
20. If you take delight in telling people that you work from 6am to 6am or from 6pm to 6pm every day, to you it means nothing, you are accumulating your death in your blood stream. One day the engine will knock. I say the engine will knock one day. That’s why we try to plan our lives very well, plan our activities very well.
21. If you watch students that do not plan their studies very well, they can hardly make good results. Students that sleep in the lecture hall do not make good results. They may claim to have read all through the night, that is a lie.
22. Nobody can read throughout the night. The reason is because your brain is a “fixed factor;” it has a limited capacity beyond which it cannot assimilate anything. That’s why if you are reading or solving any problem, you will get to a point where you will be watching the letters just like that. You are awake but nothing is entering anymore.
23. Even to write, you cannot write, we call it “white reading.” You will only be glancing at the pictures. You will be praying for sleep to come and sleep will refuse to come. You are not sleeping and you are not reading.
24. You will remain there like that till morning. When you are going home, you will be going home weak, very much troubled; you have wasted your time. In the day when you should have made maximum use of the day, while the lecturer is there teaching, you are dosing because you cannot eat your cake and have it. There must be a balance of nature.
POINTS TO PIN DOWN
Women that love money too much do not stay long on Earth; because they feel more troubled than men.
God advocates work for woman, but disapproves over-work. While we are in this life, we should try as much as we can to “strike a balance” in life. That is what God entails life to be.
Any man that avoids rest dies before his time.
When you labour so much, you will require the same amount of rest to “strike a balance.” If you don’t do that, your life is in danger.
Students that do not plan their studies very well, they can hardly make good results. Students that sleep in the lecture hall do not make good results.
Nobody can read throughout the night. The reason is because your brain is a “fixed factor;” it has a limited capacity beyond which it cannot assimilate anything.
A human being is God’s mercy seat and the mercy seat cannot remain forever. Don’t ever make the Holy Spirit to eve regret coming in contact with you…
Many of you are still expecting Christ that will come.. The Kingdom of God is for a prepared people. Some receive the message with their lips, but their hearts rejects Me.
-Son of Man
Chapter Four
WORSHIP IS A MATTER OF CONVICTION
I really thank God on where I am now. Today is second to the last Sunday of the year 2006. I thank God the way this year is going to round off. 31st of this month will be precisely on a Sunday. And that will give me enough opportunity to address the entire Bride; as many as will be in Onitsha Fellowship next Sunday to hear my verdict. Please, let us say bye-bye to the year 2006. We are not saying bye-bye to the Son of Man, unless we will all agree to say bye-bye to him.
2. After all, it is not compulsory that everybody must worship the Supreme God. It is not compulsory. You have the right to decide the god you will worship. This is where people make mistake or fail. You have to decide the god you will worship.
3. I have the right to decide the god I will worship. Nobody has the right to impose any god on his fellow human being. Worship is a matter of conviction. If you are not convinced, you shouldn’t show any concern. You have to be convinced as an individual that you are not being deceived or forced to believe something that does not exist.
4. For me to worship any god, whoever that is introducing me to that god must be ready to convince me beyond reasonable doubt on the existence and the reality of that god. Where you cannot do that; shit men! Throw it away; I am not your convert, I am not following for following sake.
5. That’s why people are scrambling for our Publication, “Only Facts Are Convincing.” People are scrambling for it. I received calls here and there, people requesting for that Publication which was just an introductory part of “something” that is about to come.
6. I used it to test those that have been receiving my Messages to see whether any of them will phone me and call me Devil, because I scratched on not less than fifteen Messages there. I intelligently did it that way to test their responses. Even among you in this Faith, I tested you there. Many have not read it in-between the lines. I am here to speak about it.
7. If only facts are convincing, an intelligent fellow will begin to watch for the facts that will get him convinced. Now, if you are convinced that you are not being fooled in this Faith, that you are not making a mistake coming into this Faith all in the name of worshipping the Supreme God, why should you come to Fellowship late?
8. Why should somebody remind you of your responsibility? Don’t you know what your God demands? If you don’t know the demands of your God, you don’t know your God. You are fooling yourself. How can you serve the God you don’t know His demands? There is a price to pay. In everything in this life, there is a price to pay.
9. We thank God for all that are in the Fellowship. It is unfortunate that we will not be having our normal Sunday School Lesson. Nevertheless, we must praise God. Praising God means bringing a Minister who will give us the Tonic we need that will move us forward. Not one that will come to tell us stories, but one that will come and quickly give us the Food for the Hour before I will be in the pulpit.
10. I am allotting 30 minutes for that preacher. He will use these 30 minutes to exhort us. This year 2007 is my own year! I want to personalize this year 2007. I hope I am making sense? I want to personalize year 2007. 27th December this year, I will clock exactly 49 years.
11. So, 27th December marks My Jubilee. And life starts at fifty. Death also starts at fifty. Because the day life starts, that is the day death started also.
12. I believe God is behind my timetable. I have a timetable with all mankind. It is a Divine timetable; an unbroken timetable. We have to work towards it whether we like it or not.
13. So, next year is my own personal year. I must roll into it with joy which no man, no human being can take away from me. It is my year!
14. Who won’t be happy to clock 50 years? Maybe, it would go in the papers that time, for friends and well-wishers. It is not a crime.
POINTS TO PIN DOWN
If one should introduce me to worship any god, he that is introducing me to that god must be ready to convince me beyond reasonable doubt the Existence and the Reality of that god.
If only facts are convincing, an intelligent fellow will begin to watch for the facts that will get him convinced.
If you don’t know the demands of your God, you don’t know your God. You are fooling yourself. How can you serve the God you don’t know His demands? You have to know the demands of the God you worship.
Chapter Five
THE REALITY OF GOD
You see, we have been talking about God, God, God. Like I keep on revealing to you that there are too many religions in the world. You are tired of worshiping God. There is no need asking you further questions. And whatever that is called God, many of you are alien to Him. You are foreign to Him.
2. All these Ages or dispensations, as much as we can historically lay hand on. They all made honest attempt at least, to be acquainted with whoever that God is, but in these last days, the Almighty God Himself is trying to bring Himself into focus.
3. That which has been abstract, wants to become Real. He proposed it that way. He never for one day took council with any man or discussed it with any man. Not that He is doing it for the first time or the last time, it has been His manner.
4. For there have never come a dispensation without God coming out real. But the problem is this: He has not courageously named Himself. He has not for one day courageously step into His Office and stamp Authority there so as to attract direct interaction; that has been the problem all this while.
5. The religions in the world believe that God exists; that there is a Supreme Intelligence that controls the whole Universe. In science, scientist will always get to a point and they will stop and declare that this is the extent they can go. And whatever they have met there, they will inform that those things have been there. And there is no any other height any man can progress.
6. Then, who placed those things there? Let me just say something: From time to time, we hear stories of astronauts that claimed that they went to the moon and bombed the moon. Sometimes, they claim that the moon will never appear again. Till today, the moon is still there.
7. Nobody has ever ventured to the sun; for that reason, they believed that God exists in the light where no man can approach; because the intensity of the heat from the sun is enough to melt a human being into liquid. For that reason, that must be where God exists according to them; and with that in mind, coupled with their religious belief that God is a “consuming fire;” a “devastating fire.”
8. You see, the Bible even went further to use a burning bush to illustrate God speaking from a burning bush. “The Voice was heard from the burning fire;” that’s their own belief. Some went further to say that God was on Earth and His Voice was heard from above. When they could not comprehend God, they concluded that God is everywhere.
9. And some say if God is everywhere, then He is likened to air. You see, this is reasoning; human reason. Realistically speaking, is air found everywhere? I say realistically speaking; air can never be found everywhere.
10. In other words, if God is likened to air, wherever there is no air, there is no God there. I hope I am making sense? Please narrow yourself a little to the Son of Man. I hope you are getting what I am saying?
11. What is the Son of Man? Son of Man means nothing but a mortal man. One created and fashioned like you. I hope somebody is paying attention here? That’s a mortal man, but in Him is something Extraordinary. That is why He is an Extraordinary Being.
12. Brethren came to me from Nsukka. About three Elders and three women came to me over the outcome of their meeting. I was impressed that they came. They took the lead and they are still taking the lead even till this day. The writing is there. I told them clearly: “Feel free, have your peace. I am very grateful to God not because I am here, but because of one thing: He has espoused me to people like you. Go home and relax.
13. Let me tell you something about me here. I am not happier with the situation, you caused it. You have allowed me to kiss something I have been avoiding all this while. And the temptation is there to continue anyhow. You caused it. I have been avoiding it all these years. I have been avoiding it. I know it is there at my reach, but I have never allowed this to inform my decision.
14. But your negative attitude towards My Message prompted me in saving my family and myself from peril. And for that reason, you exposed me into something I have been avoiding. Well, you better go home, come back on 31st December 2006 and hear My Verdict.”
15. The Almighty will not slaughter me. If I say God will not slaughter me, who is the Almighty to begin with? If I am afraid God will slaughter me, which God will slaughter me?
16. If common Jesus will make the claim that he could lay down his life and take it again, I mean common Jesus. Who doesn’t know that Jesus is common to the Son of Man? A man without experience but He is being magnified by religion. Religion magnified his name.
17. Son of Man is not a religious Being. If I have been a religious Man, religion would have magnified this Ministry. I have come to divorce religion from the hearts of men and to institute Reality.
RELIGION PROTECTS WICKEDNESS
I told you from the on set that I am a Realist. If you should go out and people ask you who you are, tell them that you are a Realist. Is it not in tape? But how many have accepted that name—that you are not a Christian, that you are not a Moslem; that you are not a religious man, but a Realist?
19. The person may say my friend what are you trying to say? You say yes! There is nothing realistic in any religion in the world. There is nothing realistic. The reason why people imbibe the idea of religion is because it gives them protection even in their wickedness.
20. Religion protects wickedness. It aimed at refining human character but the outcome is wickedness. There is no religion that has any other product other than wickedness. Tell me that religion and I will show you the product. The products of religion are living with us, around us, about us.
SON OF MAN IS A PARADOX
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ou, you, you in this Faith, in time past, even right now, are still products of religion. That’s why you are having starchy-worship this day because there are troubles within you. Nobody in this Fellowship is free. Even seeing me in the pulpit, many have already fainted. Because they don’t know the way I will go.
22. What is the trouble with the Son of Man? He is an unpredictable Man. A Man whose ways you cannot understand. Unless He wants you to understand Him, you will never, never understand. How can you know His delights then? You cannot know His delights; and He has nothing that can be called His delight.
TWO THINGS THAT ARE PERMANENT
23. I look at you, I say oh God help me, for the way you behave, you think there is something in you that is permanent. There is nothing around you that suggests permanence. But God is trying to make something permanent; for God is the only thing that is permanent.
24. As long as God lives and I live, two things are permanent: Life and Death. I repeat: As long as God lives and I live, two things are permanent: Life and Death, and they are twins. They are born the same day. The day Life is born is the day Death is born. If you believe it say Amen.
25. Without God, nobody will fault religion. I am not talking about religion. There are too many friends of Jesus sitting down in this Fellowship — too many!
26. William Braham came; the Almighty God molded him as a Vessel He dwelt in. But he walked with the shadow. He is the only person that scratched the Deity, by making us to understand that Christ means nothing but the Anointed One, The very Messiah. I don’t want to talk about what He will be saving you from.
27. How many believe that God is indestructible? I say God is indestructible and Life is indestructible. Death is indestructible too. Then you are indestructible elements. This is where the “Concept of Life after Death” took off.
28. Of course you know I will scratch it. I will scratch the “Concept of Life after Death,” for the “Concept of Life after Death” was born out of an idea to propagate “continuity of life.” The same way, I will talk about the “Concept of Hell” and the supposed “heaven, paradise or place of eternal rest.”
LIVING ABOVE “HUMAN LEVEL”
When you talk of hell, it means the place of punishment of the criminal. When you talk of heaven, it means the place of rest which I call “progressive living;” which I will call “progressive consciousness.”
30. That’s why I quarrel with everyone that comes near me. And there is nothing you can do to change it because you are operating at “human level.” You have not tried to lift yourself to “super-conscious height” where “self” will stop.
31. What I am saying about this self, self, self, self, self? That’s why there are troubles, troubles, troubles. You are not upset and you will not be upset until you stop at where you are — that is human level.
32. Any day you are upset, you are still human. Any day you are distressed beyond your control, you are still “human.” Why do I shout on you? I shout on you because I think I have raised you to a certain level. But when I begin to see something different, I will either become dumb or violent. I say, I will either become dumb or violent, for violence is all that is needed that time to stop you.
33. I will teach you concerning the writers of the Bible. The consciousness they attained before they began to putting those things together. That is why you cannot throw the Bible away completely because it has a lot of good information to offer you. Understand what the Bible is all about. But as an article for the worshiping of God, I say no! And I remain saying no!!
THE WONDERS OF NATURE
Falsehood is as old as the world. I know you want to know the Reality of God. But generally, you believed that the whole world believe that there is Supreme God who placed the bar between the land and the sea. Hence, no matter the rate of over-flooding; River Niger can never cross the boundary God had already placed for it. It can rise above the land but it can never spill over.
35. Otherwise, River Niger would have extended to this place by now. Anywhere the flood extends to is a land that was reclaimed by human beings from the sea because water seek its own level.
36. The Bar Beach can never extend to Victoria Island unless Victoria Island has been a part of the bar beach that was reclaimed. And of course you know that the whole of the Victoria Island is bar beach. Who doesn’t know that?
37. The whole of Marokanis Bar Beach down to Obalande, that’s the boundary. So, any buildings within the whole of Eju Water Works are bar beach. You know some of you were infants. You were not born by the time we were ferried from Ikorodu into Idumota or Ido Park. You don’t just run to Lagos one-way.
38. Your trouble will begin from Marine in Onitsha. John Holt will ferry you across Asaba. From there you take off. Through Ile Ife and you stop at Ikorodu, that’s the end. You enter pontu, and pontu will take you across Ikorodu or you go through Egbe, all in the Ikorodu Local Government. Leave me alone, I am older than Nigeria.
WHY BLACKS CANNOT UNDERGO INVENTIONS
I will tell you why we cannot undertake inventions like the Whites. We can not invent anything. If there is anything we can invent, it is something within the lines of our religion. And that is inventing every kind of evil. Without religion, evil was not introduced.
40. There wouldn’t have been anything called sin or wickedness or murder, or manslaughter or every kind of thing; it is religion that introduced all. This is hard to believe. And no matter the line anyone takes, he has religious back-up.
41. We have to be very careful now than before. Introducing the Deity to mankind has never been an easy task. It requires a very big fight. Remember what it takes, it takes truth triumphing over falsehood. That has been the greatest battle ever fought in the history of mankind is the battle between truth and false, that is the greatest battle ever fought. Truth is trying to establish itself, false is trying to have its way.
42. Now, the greatest falsetto in the history of mankind remains religious falsettos; innuendo as laws, things that contains no truth at all. They are all aimed at subjecting man to a state of servitude. Amen.
POINTS TO PIN DOWN
v There is the Supreme Intelligence that controls the whole Universe.
v If you should go out and people ask you who you are, tell them that you are a Realist; that you are not a Christian, that you are not a Moslem; that you are not a religious man, but a Realist.
v Two things are permanent: Life and Death, and they are twins. They are born the same day. The day Life is born is the day Death is born.
v There is nothing around you that suggests permanence. But God is trying to make something permanent.
v We have to be very careful now than before. Introducing the Deity to mankind has never been an easy task. It requires a very big fight.
v Without religion, evil wouldn’t have been introduced. There wouldn’t have been anything called sin or wickedness or murder, or manslaughter or any kind of sin.
Chapter Six
CREATION – IS THE BIBLE ACCOUNT CORRECT?
Now, look into the Scriptures that is called Bible. It said that on the 6th day God created man. And after creating man, God rested on the 7th day. Hence the 7th day according to the Bible is called the day of rest. Let us stop there. How many human beings where created on the 6th day? The Bible said only man was created — a man.
2. As we progress in the Bible, you will hear another thing that one day, God moved about and said, “Lo, everything I created has companion except man.” And God began to think of how the man will be feeling lonely.
3. Then one day, not the 7th day, not the 8th day, many, many years after, many days after, God now realized that He made a mistake. Now, He wants to correct it. He said, “Well, I omitted something, a very serious omission.”
4. Then, He caused deep sleep to fall on the man. Out of his ribs, he took one and made the opposite man and presented the lady to the man. They were all naked, no sensation. And He then said, “Whatever you name her is what she will bear.” And the man said, “Ehee! The bone of my bone, the flesh of my flesh, she shall be called ‘woman.’” After many days or weeks.
5. Now, did God finish Creation on the 6th day? Are we sure that He is not busy creating more? Do you know how many He has created since then?
6. Did He invite any witness that day He created the woman? Who knows whether God is creating more and more today?
7. Now, we watch the nonsense they wrote there. After doing that, He felt He has corrected the mistake, He now said, “Man, you and this woman called your wife, go now and multiply and replenish the Earth. Fill the Earth with human beings.” So, it is only now that you remembered that a man is not enough, that there can never be reproduction without a woman.
8. So, human beings can now fill the Earth with one man and one woman. It is a story in a book called Bible. And He allotted nine months to a woman to carry pregnancy. And occasionally, a woman can give birth to twins or triplet. And those that were born were only Cain and Abel.
9. Now, tell me: How can one man and one woman, every one year, one person; you wait until the third year, one person; two in three years, two in three years, until the whole world including America, Russia, and the Jewish land is filled?
10. You see, how long will you stop believing this nonsense? They know the level of your development, that you will never developed beyond the monkeys as of that time. And they know what you needed as primitive as you were, so they gave you stories, moonlight stories and you delighted in them. More especially when an “oyibo man” was telling you those stories in the language you could not understand.
11. Even till today, do you know that people esteem a Whiteman higher than a Blackman? Let God veil Himself in a Whiteman now bring him down to Onitsha here, the whole world will be here because he is a Whiteman.
12. Is God a Whiteman? Is God a Blackman? God can assume any colour. People do not know that the colour of the skin is a matter of the pigment, coloration. That’s why you see a White woman delivering a Black child. A Black woman delivering albino, have you not seen it? It is a matter of the pigment. Amen.
POINTS TO PIN DOWN
v Even till today, people still esteem a Whiteman higher than a Blackman.
v Is God a Whiteman? Is God a Blackman? — God can assume any colour. People do not know that the colour of the skin is a matter of the pigment, coloration. That’s why you see a White woman delivering a Black child. A Black woman delivering albino.
This is the only faith that can sustain a man and make him perfect. When God is holding you, you are more than secured, but when you are holding God you may be tired of Him. No matter how the wind blows remain on your duty post.
God has narrowed eternal life through doctrine…
Some think that being a minister is bringing new message. Each time you know that you have no message avoid the pulpit; for he that is not building is scattering. Try to minister along with the Angel Messenger of the Church for you may weary down the gathering of the Saints and grieve out the Holy Spirit. Ministers take note!
-Son of Man
Chapter Seven
IS GOD OMNIPRESENT?
Let me lower what I want to say. Only Facts Are Convincing. Close your nostril wherever you are. All of you use your hands and close your nostrils tight. Hold it tight!! Don’t allow air to go in.
2. Okay, remove your hands. Did you notice anything? Is air real? That air supports life, is it real? Is it real, that if the nose had remained blocked and all other entrance, that the next thing would have been suffocation? Is it real? Is a story? At least you can prove it. That’s why we are moving away from all hypotheses.
3. A young man who was talking to me about his so-called Pentecostal Faith; was talking about Abraham and the rich man and things like that. I said, “My friend, I want an ideal situation, not a hypothetical situation. Forget about hypothetical Abraham and rich man, give me an ideal situation.”
4. If you have nothing to lay credence to what you are saying, better forget about it. The Son of Man has no hand there. The problem is that my people do not know me. If you can look into your life properly, you can trace it to its finality.
TRUTH IS REAL
If you can look into your life very well, let me give you the surest and commonest way: If all of you have been hearing from me all these years, from time to time, you discovered that they have been in consonance with things that have been perplexing your mind; you are traceable to the Son of Man.
6. But if the totality you have been hearing was sounding strange, I say forget about it. You are witnessing the advent of the Son of Man. I am saying that the essence of the Son of Man appearing is nothing but to confirm that which is Truth.
7. Whatever that is Truth is real. That’s why I don’t beg anybody to believe me. Your membership means nothing. You are not my convert until I know who you are. And who you are must register in me and register in you. You can trace yourself very well, you didn’t need Bro Joe to come and trace you, no! You can find your way.
8. A bush fowl that entered the bush doesn’t require a domestic fowl to come and guide it to its perfect rest. If the Truth you are hearing here is disturbing you, you are not a part of it, you are a stranger to it. And the more you try to adjust yourself, the worse your condition will become.
9. How can Truth adjust itself to Truth? Most of the things you had been hearing in this Faith are just confirming things that had been ringing bell in you, but for fear of been misjudged; you try to agree when you are not agreeing. All that belong to the Son of Man for whose cause the Son of Man was sent never agreed with any religious group.
10. But they romanced with them because there was no other. But they were holding that which they knew was Truth that registered in them. With their mouth they say what people are saying, but with their hearts the Truth still remains there.
11. That’s why, once the Son of Man appeared, whole heartedly they embraced it. And no devil, no temptation, no challenge will ever separate them. It is even easier to remove the eyes from the eye socket than to remove the Truth from their hearts.
12. That’s why God told us from the very beginning that Truth is Truth, that it has no other name, no matter who says it. No matter where it is found, it has no other name than Truth.
13. Let me tell you: To rig away religion from the hearts of men is the strongest battle that must be fought.
14. I knew about it, I was asked questions upon questions, upon questions, upon questions, upon questions. I knew it was not easy to make such declarations. But I vowed that I must declare! “Will they believe?” “Yes.” “Why?” “I have taught them.” But not everybody.
THE GIVER OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM
You want to know about the Supreme Deity? You cannot go far unless the Deity is with you. There can never be any new discovery without the Deity. The Supreme Intelligence that controls the whole Universe determines the level of invention any dispensation will reach.
16. So, He releases or permits that which is allotted to that dispensation, and it is for a purpose. Assuming we don’t have faster vehicles today, how do you think we can connect Abuja so easily? If we are to travel by canoe to Lagos, do you think that the world would develop?
17. Can we connect Russia and other parts of the world? What can you say about communication? — Electronic communication? From wire to wireless, from battery to solar. Who is that Person who introduced you with the Brain Net-work to tap the rich energy from the sun? Who stored that inexhaustible energy?
18. In no distant time, anything called Power Holding Electricity will be a thing of the past. You won’t talk of electric poles again. You will be talking about flash disk. You install your flash disk, you supply light within the neighbourhood without NEPA coming to help you or charging you a kobo, for God has given you the knowledge and has given you all things.
19. But our fathers folded their arms and expected God to come and help them. But before their eyes, expatriate came and become gods over them by supplying that which they needed, by delivering them from the bondage of primitive ideology. Primitive ideology is bondage.
YOU ARE STILL SLUMBERING
If you watch all these young men among us with very poor family orientation, they can never go beyond their primitive parents. Are you getting what I am saying? They can never go far in life. Even the steps they are taking now, they are short-sighted steps. I have not seen one with long-term steps. And that is what I am developing in some now.
21. That’s why when you look at them, the highest achievement is marriage. The next thing is: “Em! My wife has delivered a baby boy, a baby girl.” Everyday, new, new products are coming out.
22. And the new product is a new baby; a baby boy, a baby girl. The highest thing is to buy a car, he has arrived. If he builds a house, “Oh! Glory be to God, paradise!” Yet, you are still slumbering. I say you are still slumbering. Amen.
POINTS TO PIN DOWN
v If you can look into your life properly, you can trace it to its finality. If you look into your life very well, if all of you have been hearing from Son of Man all these years, from time to time, you discovered that they have been in consonance with things that have been perplexing your mind; you are traceable to the Son of Man.
v To rig away religion from the hearts of men is the strongest battle that must be fought.
v Our fathers folded their arms and expected God to come and help them. But before their eyes, expatriate came and become gods over them by supplying that which they needed, by delivering them from the bondage of primitive ideology. Primitive ideology is bondage. We have to grow above that. Remember, once history is forgotten, the mistake of the past will be repeated.
Sir, We will leave the final verdict to you and your unfathomable rivers of time…
I salute you …King of kings!
Deacon Okoh-Enugu Household of God…
A WORD FROM THE AUTHOR
You can do everything too much, but you can never worship God too much. Can you? I know I can do nothing better than worshiping God. If you think that you are above counsel, try foolishness.
At any point where the thought of the Son of Man fills your heart, let it be known to you that you are in the Presence of the Son of Man. Remember that the Son of Man watches over you. You are special people because you believed unbelievable things; things people find difficult to listen to, but to you, you simply say Amen to it. Most of the things people are afraid of do not exist but mere imaginary things.
Say whatever you want to say, it is your right. It is better for you to talk than to stay idle. I don’t know what you call happiness. When you are thinking that you are angry, it means you are happy in another way. No matter how you woke up, the day is what you make it. How do you make your family happy? It is by applying or converting every sad situation into a joyous situation. Regard everybody’s reaction as their right. And also see every reaction towards you as a reaction towards a king. If you think this is difficult it is because you have not tried it.
The secret of the Son of Man’s happiness is the power\ability to convert every situation to His favour believing that to be angry is foolishness but there is no foolishness in happiness. Every situation you find yourself is a test in testing your maturity. If you are in this Faith, you have no unfavourable condition. There must always be an occasion to prove what you believed. The greatest laboratory where you can prove what you believed is God bringing situations to test your belief. You have not been a failure or a disappointment until you lose courage.
The more you are enlightened the more it is been made impossible for somebody to deceive you; the ability of you turning enmity into friendship lies in you. Expect persecution from mediocre minds; their elementary spirits is to discourage you. The value of life is made-up of what life has achieved. It is not living million years that matters but what you made out of that life.
Don’t allow anything to threaten your life. If you have God, you are more than what human beings can estimate. Things will always happen to you according to your faith in the Son of Man. Brighter years lies ahead in the Bride of Christ Ministry. God is with us as long as we are with Him. If God be for us, who can be against us? Sometimes, God permits those things to happen so that He can prove His Power. If those things do not happen, we cannot see the Mighty Power of God. What is my joy? I am always happy because I am serving a living God.
I believe that the trial that comes today will come off as victory tomorrow. Think positively; one that is not thinking positively is suspicious of the environment he/she is living in. Let us learn to look at life from the positive angle. Man’s disappointment is not a failure before God. Hearing, practicing is our duty, but the glory goes to God. I really thank God that we are still marching on. I love you all; remain in your Sanctified Estate as we continue in Him. Remain blessed in Him eternally…
The Son of Man
(Apostle Peter Odoemena)
THE REVELATION OF LATENT POWERS
(VOLUME ONE)
Chapter One
THERE ARE GOOD REASONS WHY WE MUST WORSHIP GOD
Put away all gloominess around you and show God that you are alive. Put away all sorrows around you. Put all troubles behind you and allow the Love of God to radiate. At least be happier than the dead. You should be happier than those in the hospital. I don’t care how people celebrate this Christmas; anybody that is in the sick bed in the hospital is not celebrating this Christmas with joy.
2. If I had my way this morning, I would have applied “cane.” Nevertheless, there is no need over flogging the matter. Whether we like it or not, the “cane” must be applied, the wroth remains there.
3. If there should be any Local Assembly that should be on top it should be Onitsha. Let me tell you the truth about myself and the Almighty: I had already concluded agreement to cause sorrow in Onitsha.
4. That you have remained rejoicing today is the greatest thing that happened to you. I had been limping between two opinions as to who will be my choice; whether man or woman I don’t care, provided I cause sorrow here. But the year has not rolled away; we still have few days to go this year 2006. And next year is another year altogether.
5. There shouldn’t be any Local Assembly that should be happier than Onitsha. Or do you think that you don’t merit sorrow? Which Local Assembly has caused me sorrow more than Onitsha? If I should cause you sorrow at least in retaliation of one, would it be a crime? Or would you stand up and prove that you have not caused me sorrow?
6. When we gather, you don’t need to be reminded whether to worship God or not. We have good reasons why we must worship the Lord. For the Pastor to have come to the pulpit to begin to remind you of the goodness of the Lord, to me, it is un-called-for. That goes to show that we are ingrates.
7. Maybe, some of you are not happy because your husbands did not permit you and your children to go home. Or maybe because of the situation of things, the man could not provide all you expected from him; for he did not steal so that you will be happy. Why don’t you go and steal so that your husband would be happy?
8. If you want your husband to steal to make you happy, your husband would be happier if you steal to make him happy. This is the time everybody must face the Reality. This is the time everybody must face the Truth in its entirety. I told you that the time you are cutting your coat according to your size is over.
9. Now, you cut your coat according to the size of your cloth; and then you feel happier. When you over place yourself or misplace yourself, you cause yourself sadness. Place yourself where you belong immediately. Don’t look at your size, don’t look at your stature, and don’t look at your social stature. Don’t you know your capacity? Place yourself where you belong.
10. Place your family where they belong; and then stop misplacing yourself. Then you will be happy always. You might see the money in the hand of your husband, and you think that it is for Christmas, but it is for something better than Christmas.
11. We labour today so that we will rejoice tomorrow. A man is not measured by his present position, but by what he will be tomorrow. Whatever he will be tomorrow is determined by what he makes today. This is the time ignorant people will set their homes on fire all because of entertainment.
Change your attitudes towards Christmas
Brother Chizoba was in my house yesterday when we saw some people that loaded every kind of things in their houses including their cooking utensils. And our Brother screamed! He said, “Daddy, see these people, they are going as if they are running for war.” I said, “Of course, they are refuges running with their old pillow cases and old foams.” The only thing they could not carry was their beds.
2. Some carried even the chairs they have in their houses, over labouring themselves; in the next two weeks, you see them coming down again with the same old property, is it not madness? It is because you are mad. I am not mad, I am sensible, I know more than that.
3. Go to Upper Iweka; see how much they are charging them. Ask them what they are going home for, “nothing,” they will reply. Some have died all because of Christmas.
4. The other day I was just passing, I saw one young man lying dead at Police Station there. That is Central Police Station with a motorcycle by his side — an armed robber for Christmas, he lost his life there.
5. At Uga by Port Harcourt Road, two of them like that were set ablaze because they snatched a brand-new motorcycle. All for Christmas and luck ran against them. They were over powered by some men and they were all set ablaze for the sake of Christmas.
6. Every year human beings will be repeating the same old mistake. No change of habit, no change of attitude towards a ceremony like this. I denied My Word last week. Not that I denied it, I mean I forgot myself and entered the Main Market just to buy one item. When I got to William Street, I couldn’t see anywhere I could pass. I came back and took another way through Nortagge.
7. Finally, I saw myself at Bright Street. I went straight to that shop, purchase that thing, intending to go back to purchase under wears, I made a mistake. I never knew that people had already crowded my back. I couldn’t go to the shop, I couldn’t go back. So, I was lost. Within three minutes, heat was all over my body.
8. I began to imagine the kind of strength God gave women at that point in time to be frequenting Main Market. You know when it comes like this; women will possess extra ordinary powers. Because entertainment is involved, nobody will complain of weakness.
9. Everybody is strong, very strong to go. “Just give me the money, I will be there.” Even pregnant women, nobody complains because it is buying clothes, buying ornaments, buying perfumes, buying nonsenses. When I managed to come out without buying that thing, I said praise be to God.
11. Then My Mind went back to the particular year when we were newly married, there I lost my wife at Main Market, or she lost me. I never knew that we were in one place, I was moving about looking for her till I got tired. I found my way back to the yard. Flexed my muscles, it is a horrible thing. I thank God that I didn’t have interest in that Main Market.
12. Where is Silas? He has varnished completely. Maybe he has varnished because we said that women will flog him. On Wednesday he dogged, today he has dogged again.
14. Where is Sam Agu? — The only business man that is selling his business this time around. Well, he feels he is of age. But I believe that God is older than him. If because of business you refuse to worship God, write it down: All you will get within the period you absent yourself from Fellowship will all fly away. God will disarm you all to show you that He is the One that started the business for you. Without God you can do nothing.
15. Where is Bro. Shedrack? Any moment from now he will be back to tell us stories. The wife is outside because she is a habitual late-comer — very lazy woman.
16. If you want to go home for your Christmas celebration, it is fine. You can go today or tomorrow if you like. Nobody is stopping you. What will stop you will stop you. God will not stop you, what will stop you will stop you.
17. Do you know that among heathens, many of them have started hating Christmas? Many of them have started addressing the truth about this Hour. What a sensible family should be doing now is not lavishing the little they have accumulated.
18. What they should be doing now is carrying out proper review of their activities in the year. Muster their reasons together, so that they can roll into the New Year with lively expectations, because it is a very rough thing for one to live a plan-less life. This is the time for you to plan against tomorrow. It is not the time for you to lavish the little you have. Amen.
POINTS TO PIN DOWN
In the gathering of the Saints, you don’t need to be reminded whether to worship God or not. We have good reasons why we must worship the Lord.
When you over place yourself or misplace yourself, you cause yourself sadness. Place yourself where you belong.
We labour today so that we will rejoice tomorrow. A man is not measured by his present position, but by what he will be tomorrow.
What a sensible family should be doing now is not lavishing the little they have accumulated. What they should be doing now is carrying out proper review of their activities in the out-going year. Muster their reasons together, so that they can roll into the New Year with lively expectations.
Chapter Two
MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICE IN MARRIAGE
I am really very grateful to God today that Pastor Christian has presented to you his own wife which he has legally and customarily married. Pastor Christian, stand up and let us see her again. You bring her before us so that everyone can see both of you.
2. If you are not happy that your Pastor is married, it then means that you are wicked. What do you think that will give you joy more than this? If your Pastor’s marriage doesn’t gladdens you here, it then means that you have not been wishing him well. For a man cannot see true success without been married.
3. It is now we can look at him and say we have a Pastor. At least he has a “church” to “pastor” in his house. He has one to pastor— charity begins at home. For if he cannot pastor her, how can he pastor us? We will begin to see him from a different perspective.
4. Pastor Christian Dike, today marks a new beginning in your life; the beginning of a new era. All that the Messages have achieved in you; look at me, you can now take off; the sky is your limit. No obstacle. This is what marriage should look like. Are you getting what I am saying?
5. I don’t want a situation where a young man will come and present his grandmother as a wife. And tomorrow he will ask me to pray for waist pain, pray for this and that. When you have not lived at least ten years. I will not pray again.
6. This is marriage. This is marriage and they look like twins. You see, many of you misjudged Pastor Christian. You are right. In the same way, I misjudged him in the beginning but I took my time to understudy him. I came to the conclusion that he is a very happy Brother; very generous, very hospitable. But you have to come closer to him before you notice these qualities.
7. He is a motivator, never tired; always responding to duties. Wherever duty calls for, look for him there, he will be there. But you don’t know his problems unless I reveal them. If I don’t reveal his problems you won’t know. So, he is not the way you think he is.
8. I am saying that he is a husband indeed. I know that he is a husband. A man is not married until he has picked a wife that suits his heart. If you have not picked that one that suite your purpose, you are living with a woman. I say, you are living with a woman.
9. When they paid me a curtsyvisit, I was in my corridor watching, while they were leaving from a distance. They didn’t know that I was admiring them. Pastor Christian crossed the gutter and waited and his wife joined him. He reached for her hands immediately and pulled her by his side.
10. Together they continued. When they are about to cross Benjamin street, it was very late in the evening, they didn’t know that I was still there waiting. So, he was about to cross, he wanted to drag her, he noticed that he will be making a mistake, he then crossed and waited.
11. You see, he won’t run one way again, because there is somebody. It is now “slow and steady.” And slow and steady wins the race. Now, Pastor Christian is a man with responsibility. He is no longer useless. The time for uselessness is over. Because a man without responsibility is a useless fellow; so, there is a responsibility.
12. In other words, whatever that is left in you unchecked, the responsibility on your neck will help you to complement your efforts. So, the time for waste is over. You can now mean business with your work because there is a responsibility. So, I am the happiest fellow in this Fellowship.
13. Now, young men be careful. All that glitter is not gold. Where is Sam Kalu? As long as Sam kalu is not in the Fellowship, Sam Agu will not be in the Fellowship too. We won’t talk about them again. Their matter has been sealed. From the day the Elders summoned them, that was the end of the journey — no more!
14. Young men, be careful. No matter how a Minister praises a Sister, as long as she does not meet your requirement, say no to marriage. I say, say no to marriage.
15. No matter how friendly you might be with a Sister, if you will be lying in the same bed everyday, as long as she does not meet your requirement in marriage, say no to marriage. Nobody has ever corrected any mistake made in marriage.
16. Since the world began till today, nobody has ever corrected it. And you won’t be the first to attempt correction with success. If God doesn’t have the solution, who do you think can solve that problem?
17. A problem that is above God, who then will solve it? I have always told you to be careful while making your choice in marriage. I say, be very, very careful. You can be in a haste in everything but don’t be in a haste in making your choice of a wife.
18. All that glitter is not gold. Industrious is not a qualification for marriage. Her industrious life can even deny her of children. Amen.
POINTS TO PIN DOWN
If you are married, whatever that is left in you unchecked, the responsibility on your neck will help to complement your efforts. So, the time for waste is over. You can now mean business with your work because there is a responsibility.
Young men, be careful. No matter how a Minister praises a Sister, as long as she does not meet your requirement, say no to marriage.
All that glitter is not gold. Industrious is not a qualification for marriage. Her industrious life can even deny her of children.
Human race has to sources, one is God and the other is Satan.
The Two foundations of our existence lies in identifying the rock we are hewed from.
What will justify or condemn you is the message you have received.
-Son of Man
Chapter Three
BALANCED VIEW OF MAN’S AND WOMAN’S NATURE OF WORK
Medically speaking, women that labour much do not have children. You cannot eat your cake and have it because a woman is not a man. So, if your wife is a “jacky,” it is not a good report. Go round and see what I am telling you.
2. Women that take responsibility due to men hardly have children. Where they have, they can hardly go beyond two or three. Some even stop at one. That’s why in as much as I approve work for women, I disapprove over-work for women because idleness is not a good thing. I disapprove over-work.
3. No woman should over-work herself. There should be time for rest. There must be time for rest. Any man that avoids rest dies before his time. If you take credit in saying that you labour more than every other person, you take delight in denying yourself of rest, get ready, the money you have saved will be for your casket. And your husband will live to pick another woman also who will continue from where you stopped.
4. Are you doubting me? If you doubt me, look at Brother Amobi. See his wife too. She is continuing from where the late-one stopped. Brother Amobi is younger now than he was that time. Why? Because he picked a lady that is younger than the old one; so she renewed Brother Amobi while the laborious one is in the grave.
5. Women be careful. If you love money more than your life, you will die quick and the money will remain. Experience has taught me that women that love money too much do not stay long on Earth; because they feel more troubled than men.
6. A man can love money so much and manage himself but not a woman. What a woman should love is nothing but dressing. If you love dressing too much, no problem, it is not a crime, it is natural. But don’t love money too much that you begin to labour more than men so as to own a fantastic bank account. You will die quick and the account will be your husband’s bank account, which he will now use to marry another wife.
ALWAYS STRIKE A BALANCE IN EVERYTHING
It means you have indirectly helped your husband pick one that will be younger than you. Therefore, I advocate work for women, but disapprove over-work. While we are in this life, we should try as much as we can to “strike a balance” in life. That is what God entails life to be.
8. Just like I am talking to you now, you see the amount of air I am letting out of my mouth must equate with the amount of air I am inhaling, otherwise I will collapse. In mechanical activity, energy loss is equal to energy gain.
9. That’s why when I see you using hand fan to fan yourself so as to reduce the heat in your body, I laugh at you sometimes, why? It is because you are not reducing the heat, you are “striking a balance” between the hotness of your body and the air outside your body. You will only enjoy it if somebody is fanning you. While you are fanning yourself, the energy you are losing or the heat lost is equal to heat you are generating; because it is mechanical activity, so you have not gained anything. This is life.
10. When you labour so much, you will require the same amount of rest to “strike a balance.” If you don’t do that, your life is in danger. He that said you should sleep in the night made no mistake. If you look at the whole situation, God divided the day into two equal parts.
11. You can work for twelve hours and sleep for twelve hours depending on the way you plan your life. But where you said “no rest;” no problem. Get ready; you must break down in health. You must break down in health because you have over loaded yourself.
12. If not for economic crunch that is biting hard on everybody, nobody should take a load higher than he/she should. To women, by their fragile nature, they don’t need overload at all. They don’t need overload at all; because nature has already imposed a burden on them. And that burden is very hard to replenish. I say, it is very hard to replenish. That’s why they need good understanding.
THERE MUST BE A BALANCE OF NATURE
Once a woman gets to the age of adolescence, her life is in danger. Because the amount of blood she will be losing every month, if she does not recover the same amount of blood, she will become very fat. And then you will be admiring her weight thinking she is alive.
14. When bread goes sour, what happens? The size enlarges. When your soup goes sour, what happens? It fills the pot to the brim. I hope I am making sense. Sometimes, when you see somebody looking very fat you think that she is alive.
15. But you don’t know that the body is filled with what we call “plasma.” The red blood cells there or the Hemoglobin content might be zero. And she will be losing strength. You begin to wonder why such a heavy woman will be losing strength. Yes, she is on her way to mortuary.
16. I am trying to say that work is proper if well regulated, but over-work should be condemned in its entire ramification. Even to men, over-work should be condemned. That is why I hate anything overtime or overwork. If it should be done, it should not be regularly. It should be when situation calls for it.
17. The time you should use to rest, if you dodge it because of one thing or the other, you have adjusted nature and it must fire back. You will notice one thing in your life, any day you don’t have sufficient rest especially in the night, in the morning hours you become useless and weak.
18. Two: You will be hostile because you are restless. Your brain is not giving you rest. Your body is not giving you rest. In that condition, you will be completely hostile to yourself and to anybody that comes close to you because you didn’t have enough rest. You will lose concentration because from that time hence-forth concentration stops.
19. Whatever you lay hands on, you look very much confused. Why? You can never cheat nature and get away with it. There must be a balance in nature. If we can learn to agree with nature, we will prolong our days here on Earth, and will ever remain useful to ourselves.
20. If you take delight in telling people that you work from 6am to 6am or from 6pm to 6pm every day, to you it means nothing, you are accumulating your death in your blood stream. One day the engine will knock. I say the engine will knock one day. That’s why we try to plan our lives very well, plan our activities very well.
21. If you watch students that do not plan their studies very well, they can hardly make good results. Students that sleep in the lecture hall do not make good results. They may claim to have read all through the night, that is a lie.
22. Nobody can read throughout the night. The reason is because your brain is a “fixed factor;” it has a limited capacity beyond which it cannot assimilate anything. That’s why if you are reading or solving any problem, you will get to a point where you will be watching the letters just like that. You are awake but nothing is entering anymore.
23. Even to write, you cannot write, we call it “white reading.” You will only be glancing at the pictures. You will be praying for sleep to come and sleep will refuse to come. You are not sleeping and you are not reading.
24. You will remain there like that till morning. When you are going home, you will be going home weak, very much troubled; you have wasted your time. In the day when you should have made maximum use of the day, while the lecturer is there teaching, you are dosing because you cannot eat your cake and have it. There must be a balance of nature.
POINTS TO PIN DOWN
Women that love money too much do not stay long on Earth; because they feel more troubled than men.
God advocates work for woman, but disapproves over-work. While we are in this life, we should try as much as we can to “strike a balance” in life. That is what God entails life to be.
Any man that avoids rest dies before his time.
When you labour so much, you will require the same amount of rest to “strike a balance.” If you don’t do that, your life is in danger.
Students that do not plan their studies very well, they can hardly make good results. Students that sleep in the lecture hall do not make good results.
Nobody can read throughout the night. The reason is because your brain is a “fixed factor;” it has a limited capacity beyond which it cannot assimilate anything.
A human being is God’s mercy seat and the mercy seat cannot remain forever. Don’t ever make the Holy Spirit to eve regret coming in contact with you…
Many of you are still expecting Christ that will come.. The Kingdom of God is for a prepared people. Some receive the message with their lips, but their hearts rejects Me.
-Son of Man
Chapter Four
WORSHIP IS A MATTER OF CONVICTION
I really thank God on where I am now. Today is second to the last Sunday of the year 2006. I thank God the way this year is going to round off. 31st of this month will be precisely on a Sunday. And that will give me enough opportunity to address the entire Bride; as many as will be in Onitsha Fellowship next Sunday to hear my verdict. Please, let us say bye-bye to the year 2006. We are not saying bye-bye to the Son of Man, unless we will all agree to say bye-bye to him.
2. After all, it is not compulsory that everybody must worship the Supreme God. It is not compulsory. You have the right to decide the god you will worship. This is where people make mistake or fail. You have to decide the god you will worship.
3. I have the right to decide the god I will worship. Nobody has the right to impose any god on his fellow human being. Worship is a matter of conviction. If you are not convinced, you shouldn’t show any concern. You have to be convinced as an individual that you are not being deceived or forced to believe something that does not exist.
4. For me to worship any god, whoever that is introducing me to that god must be ready to convince me beyond reasonable doubt on the existence and the reality of that god. Where you cannot do that; shit men! Throw it away; I am not your convert, I am not following for following sake.
5. That’s why people are scrambling for our Publication, “Only Facts Are Convincing.” People are scrambling for it. I received calls here and there, people requesting for that Publication which was just an introductory part of “something” that is about to come.
6. I used it to test those that have been receiving my Messages to see whether any of them will phone me and call me Devil, because I scratched on not less than fifteen Messages there. I intelligently did it that way to test their responses. Even among you in this Faith, I tested you there. Many have not read it in-between the lines. I am here to speak about it.
7. If only facts are convincing, an intelligent fellow will begin to watch for the facts that will get him convinced. Now, if you are convinced that you are not being fooled in this Faith, that you are not making a mistake coming into this Faith all in the name of worshipping the Supreme God, why should you come to Fellowship late?
8. Why should somebody remind you of your responsibility? Don’t you know what your God demands? If you don’t know the demands of your God, you don’t know your God. You are fooling yourself. How can you serve the God you don’t know His demands? There is a price to pay. In everything in this life, there is a price to pay.
9. We thank God for all that are in the Fellowship. It is unfortunate that we will not be having our normal Sunday School Lesson. Nevertheless, we must praise God. Praising God means bringing a Minister who will give us the Tonic we need that will move us forward. Not one that will come to tell us stories, but one that will come and quickly give us the Food for the Hour before I will be in the pulpit.
10. I am allotting 30 minutes for that preacher. He will use these 30 minutes to exhort us. This year 2007 is my own year! I want to personalize this year 2007. I hope I am making sense? I want to personalize year 2007. 27th December this year, I will clock exactly 49 years.
11. So, 27th December marks My Jubilee. And life starts at fifty. Death also starts at fifty. Because the day life starts, that is the day death started also.
12. I believe God is behind my timetable. I have a timetable with all mankind. It is a Divine timetable; an unbroken timetable. We have to work towards it whether we like it or not.
13. So, next year is my own personal year. I must roll into it with joy which no man, no human being can take away from me. It is my year!
14. Who won’t be happy to clock 50 years? Maybe, it would go in the papers that time, for friends and well-wishers. It is not a crime.
POINTS TO PIN DOWN
If one should introduce me to worship any god, he that is introducing me to that god must be ready to convince me beyond reasonable doubt the Existence and the Reality of that god.
If only facts are convincing, an intelligent fellow will begin to watch for the facts that will get him convinced.
If you don’t know the demands of your God, you don’t know your God. You are fooling yourself. How can you serve the God you don’t know His demands? You have to know the demands of the God you worship.
Chapter Five
THE REALITY OF GOD
You see, we have been talking about God, God, God. Like I keep on revealing to you that there are too many religions in the world. You are tired of worshiping God. There is no need asking you further questions. And whatever that is called God, many of you are alien to Him. You are foreign to Him.
2. All these Ages or dispensations, as much as we can historically lay hand on. They all made honest attempt at least, to be acquainted with whoever that God is, but in these last days, the Almighty God Himself is trying to bring Himself into focus.
3. That which has been abstract, wants to become Real. He proposed it that way. He never for one day took council with any man or discussed it with any man. Not that He is doing it for the first time or the last time, it has been His manner.
4. For there have never come a dispensation without God coming out real. But the problem is this: He has not courageously named Himself. He has not for one day courageously step into His Office and stamp Authority there so as to attract direct interaction; that has been the problem all this while.
5. The religions in the world believe that God exists; that there is a Supreme Intelligence that controls the whole Universe. In science, scientist will always get to a point and they will stop and declare that this is the extent they can go. And whatever they have met there, they will inform that those things have been there. And there is no any other height any man can progress.
6. Then, who placed those things there? Let me just say something: From time to time, we hear stories of astronauts that claimed that they went to the moon and bombed the moon. Sometimes, they claim that the moon will never appear again. Till today, the moon is still there.
7. Nobody has ever ventured to the sun; for that reason, they believed that God exists in the light where no man can approach; because the intensity of the heat from the sun is enough to melt a human being into liquid. For that reason, that must be where God exists according to them; and with that in mind, coupled with their religious belief that God is a “consuming fire;” a “devastating fire.”
8. You see, the Bible even went further to use a burning bush to illustrate God speaking from a burning bush. “The Voice was heard from the burning fire;” that’s their own belief. Some went further to say that God was on Earth and His Voice was heard from above. When they could not comprehend God, they concluded that God is everywhere.
9. And some say if God is everywhere, then He is likened to air. You see, this is reasoning; human reason. Realistically speaking, is air found everywhere? I say realistically speaking; air can never be found everywhere.
10. In other words, if God is likened to air, wherever there is no air, there is no God there. I hope I am making sense? Please narrow yourself a little to the Son of Man. I hope you are getting what I am saying?
11. What is the Son of Man? Son of Man means nothing but a mortal man. One created and fashioned like you. I hope somebody is paying attention here? That’s a mortal man, but in Him is something Extraordinary. That is why He is an Extraordinary Being.
12. Brethren came to me from Nsukka. About three Elders and three women came to me over the outcome of their meeting. I was impressed that they came. They took the lead and they are still taking the lead even till this day. The writing is there. I told them clearly: “Feel free, have your peace. I am very grateful to God not because I am here, but because of one thing: He has espoused me to people like you. Go home and relax.
13. Let me tell you something about me here. I am not happier with the situation, you caused it. You have allowed me to kiss something I have been avoiding all this while. And the temptation is there to continue anyhow. You caused it. I have been avoiding it all these years. I have been avoiding it. I know it is there at my reach, but I have never allowed this to inform my decision.
14. But your negative attitude towards My Message prompted me in saving my family and myself from peril. And for that reason, you exposed me into something I have been avoiding. Well, you better go home, come back on 31st December 2006 and hear My Verdict.”
15. The Almighty will not slaughter me. If I say God will not slaughter me, who is the Almighty to begin with? If I am afraid God will slaughter me, which God will slaughter me?
16. If common Jesus will make the claim that he could lay down his life and take it again, I mean common Jesus. Who doesn’t know that Jesus is common to the Son of Man? A man without experience but He is being magnified by religion. Religion magnified his name.
17. Son of Man is not a religious Being. If I have been a religious Man, religion would have magnified this Ministry. I have come to divorce religion from the hearts of men and to institute Reality.
RELIGION PROTECTS WICKEDNESS
I told you from the on set that I am a Realist. If you should go out and people ask you who you are, tell them that you are a Realist. Is it not in tape? But how many have accepted that name—that you are not a Christian, that you are not a Moslem; that you are not a religious man, but a Realist?
19. The person may say my friend what are you trying to say? You say yes! There is nothing realistic in any religion in the world. There is nothing realistic. The reason why people imbibe the idea of religion is because it gives them protection even in their wickedness.
20. Religion protects wickedness. It aimed at refining human character but the outcome is wickedness. There is no religion that has any other product other than wickedness. Tell me that religion and I will show you the product. The products of religion are living with us, around us, about us.
SON OF MAN IS A PARADOX
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ou, you, you in this Faith, in time past, even right now, are still products of religion. That’s why you are having starchy-worship this day because there are troubles within you. Nobody in this Fellowship is free. Even seeing me in the pulpit, many have already fainted. Because they don’t know the way I will go.
22. What is the trouble with the Son of Man? He is an unpredictable Man. A Man whose ways you cannot understand. Unless He wants you to understand Him, you will never, never understand. How can you know His delights then? You cannot know His delights; and He has nothing that can be called His delight.
TWO THINGS THAT ARE PERMANENT
23. I look at you, I say oh God help me, for the way you behave, you think there is something in you that is permanent. There is nothing around you that suggests permanence. But God is trying to make something permanent; for God is the only thing that is permanent.
24. As long as God lives and I live, two things are permanent: Life and Death. I repeat: As long as God lives and I live, two things are permanent: Life and Death, and they are twins. They are born the same day. The day Life is born is the day Death is born. If you believe it say Amen.
25. Without God, nobody will fault religion. I am not talking about religion. There are too many friends of Jesus sitting down in this Fellowship — too many!
26. William Braham came; the Almighty God molded him as a Vessel He dwelt in. But he walked with the shadow. He is the only person that scratched the Deity, by making us to understand that Christ means nothing but the Anointed One, The very Messiah. I don’t want to talk about what He will be saving you from.
27. How many believe that God is indestructible? I say God is indestructible and Life is indestructible. Death is indestructible too. Then you are indestructible elements. This is where the “Concept of Life after Death” took off.
28. Of course you know I will scratch it. I will scratch the “Concept of Life after Death,” for the “Concept of Life after Death” was born out of an idea to propagate “continuity of life.” The same way, I will talk about the “Concept of Hell” and the supposed “heaven, paradise or place of eternal rest.”
LIVING ABOVE “HUMAN LEVEL”
When you talk of hell, it means the place of punishment of the criminal. When you talk of heaven, it means the place of rest which I call “progressive living;” which I will call “progressive consciousness.”
30. That’s why I quarrel with everyone that comes near me. And there is nothing you can do to change it because you are operating at “human level.” You have not tried to lift yourself to “super-conscious height” where “self” will stop.
31. What I am saying about this self, self, self, self, self? That’s why there are troubles, troubles, troubles. You are not upset and you will not be upset until you stop at where you are — that is human level.
32. Any day you are upset, you are still human. Any day you are distressed beyond your control, you are still “human.” Why do I shout on you? I shout on you because I think I have raised you to a certain level. But when I begin to see something different, I will either become dumb or violent. I say, I will either become dumb or violent, for violence is all that is needed that time to stop you.
33. I will teach you concerning the writers of the Bible. The consciousness they attained before they began to putting those things together. That is why you cannot throw the Bible away completely because it has a lot of good information to offer you. Understand what the Bible is all about. But as an article for the worshiping of God, I say no! And I remain saying no!!
THE WONDERS OF NATURE
Falsehood is as old as the world. I know you want to know the Reality of God. But generally, you believed that the whole world believe that there is Supreme God who placed the bar between the land and the sea. Hence, no matter the rate of over-flooding; River Niger can never cross the boundary God had already placed for it. It can rise above the land but it can never spill over.
35. Otherwise, River Niger would have extended to this place by now. Anywhere the flood extends to is a land that was reclaimed by human beings from the sea because water seek its own level.
36. The Bar Beach can never extend to Victoria Island unless Victoria Island has been a part of the bar beach that was reclaimed. And of course you know that the whole of the Victoria Island is bar beach. Who doesn’t know that?
37. The whole of Marokanis Bar Beach down to Obalande, that’s the boundary. So, any buildings within the whole of Eju Water Works are bar beach. You know some of you were infants. You were not born by the time we were ferried from Ikorodu into Idumota or Ido Park. You don’t just run to Lagos one-way.
38. Your trouble will begin from Marine in Onitsha. John Holt will ferry you across Asaba. From there you take off. Through Ile Ife and you stop at Ikorodu, that’s the end. You enter pontu, and pontu will take you across Ikorodu or you go through Egbe, all in the Ikorodu Local Government. Leave me alone, I am older than Nigeria.
WHY BLACKS CANNOT UNDERGO INVENTIONS
I will tell you why we cannot undertake inventions like the Whites. We can not invent anything. If there is anything we can invent, it is something within the lines of our religion. And that is inventing every kind of evil. Without religion, evil was not introduced.
40. There wouldn’t have been anything called sin or wickedness or murder, or manslaughter or every kind of thing; it is religion that introduced all. This is hard to believe. And no matter the line anyone takes, he has religious back-up.
41. We have to be very careful now than before. Introducing the Deity to mankind has never been an easy task. It requires a very big fight. Remember what it takes, it takes truth triumphing over falsehood. That has been the greatest battle ever fought in the history of mankind is the battle between truth and false, that is the greatest battle ever fought. Truth is trying to establish itself, false is trying to have its way.
42. Now, the greatest falsetto in the history of mankind remains religious falsettos; innuendo as laws, things that contains no truth at all. They are all aimed at subjecting man to a state of servitude. Amen.
POINTS TO PIN DOWN
v There is the Supreme Intelligence that controls the whole Universe.
v If you should go out and people ask you who you are, tell them that you are a Realist; that you are not a Christian, that you are not a Moslem; that you are not a religious man, but a Realist.
v Two things are permanent: Life and Death, and they are twins. They are born the same day. The day Life is born is the day Death is born.
v There is nothing around you that suggests permanence. But God is trying to make something permanent.
v We have to be very careful now than before. Introducing the Deity to mankind has never been an easy task. It requires a very big fight.
v Without religion, evil wouldn’t have been introduced. There wouldn’t have been anything called sin or wickedness or murder, or manslaughter or any kind of sin.
Chapter Six
CREATION – IS THE BIBLE ACCOUNT CORRECT?
Now, look into the Scriptures that is called Bible. It said that on the 6th day God created man. And after creating man, God rested on the 7th day. Hence the 7th day according to the Bible is called the day of rest. Let us stop there. How many human beings where created on the 6th day? The Bible said only man was created — a man.
2. As we progress in the Bible, you will hear another thing that one day, God moved about and said, “Lo, everything I created has companion except man.” And God began to think of how the man will be feeling lonely.
3. Then one day, not the 7th day, not the 8th day, many, many years after, many days after, God now realized that He made a mistake. Now, He wants to correct it. He said, “Well, I omitted something, a very serious omission.”
4. Then, He caused deep sleep to fall on the man. Out of his ribs, he took one and made the opposite man and presented the lady to the man. They were all naked, no sensation. And He then said, “Whatever you name her is what she will bear.” And the man said, “Ehee! The bone of my bone, the flesh of my flesh, she shall be called ‘woman.’” After many days or weeks.
5. Now, did God finish Creation on the 6th day? Are we sure that He is not busy creating more? Do you know how many He has created since then?
6. Did He invite any witness that day He created the woman? Who knows whether God is creating more and more today?
7. Now, we watch the nonsense they wrote there. After doing that, He felt He has corrected the mistake, He now said, “Man, you and this woman called your wife, go now and multiply and replenish the Earth. Fill the Earth with human beings.” So, it is only now that you remembered that a man is not enough, that there can never be reproduction without a woman.
8. So, human beings can now fill the Earth with one man and one woman. It is a story in a book called Bible. And He allotted nine months to a woman to carry pregnancy. And occasionally, a woman can give birth to twins or triplet. And those that were born were only Cain and Abel.
9. Now, tell me: How can one man and one woman, every one year, one person; you wait until the third year, one person; two in three years, two in three years, until the whole world including America, Russia, and the Jewish land is filled?
10. You see, how long will you stop believing this nonsense? They know the level of your development, that you will never developed beyond the monkeys as of that time. And they know what you needed as primitive as you were, so they gave you stories, moonlight stories and you delighted in them. More especially when an “oyibo man” was telling you those stories in the language you could not understand.
11. Even till today, do you know that people esteem a Whiteman higher than a Blackman? Let God veil Himself in a Whiteman now bring him down to Onitsha here, the whole world will be here because he is a Whiteman.
12. Is God a Whiteman? Is God a Blackman? God can assume any colour. People do not know that the colour of the skin is a matter of the pigment, coloration. That’s why you see a White woman delivering a Black child. A Black woman delivering albino, have you not seen it? It is a matter of the pigment. Amen.
POINTS TO PIN DOWN
v Even till today, people still esteem a Whiteman higher than a Blackman.
v Is God a Whiteman? Is God a Blackman? — God can assume any colour. People do not know that the colour of the skin is a matter of the pigment, coloration. That’s why you see a White woman delivering a Black child. A Black woman delivering albino.
This is the only faith that can sustain a man and make him perfect. When God is holding you, you are more than secured, but when you are holding God you may be tired of Him. No matter how the wind blows remain on your duty post.
God has narrowed eternal life through doctrine…
Some think that being a minister is bringing new message. Each time you know that you have no message avoid the pulpit; for he that is not building is scattering. Try to minister along with the Angel Messenger of the Church for you may weary down the gathering of the Saints and grieve out the Holy Spirit. Ministers take note!
-Son of Man
Chapter Seven
IS GOD OMNIPRESENT?
Let me lower what I want to say. Only Facts Are Convincing. Close your nostril wherever you are. All of you use your hands and close your nostrils tight. Hold it tight!! Don’t allow air to go in.
2. Okay, remove your hands. Did you notice anything? Is air real? That air supports life, is it real? Is it real, that if the nose had remained blocked and all other entrance, that the next thing would have been suffocation? Is it real? Is a story? At least you can prove it. That’s why we are moving away from all hypotheses.
3. A young man who was talking to me about his so-called Pentecostal Faith; was talking about Abraham and the rich man and things like that. I said, “My friend, I want an ideal situation, not a hypothetical situation. Forget about hypothetical Abraham and rich man, give me an ideal situation.”
4. If you have nothing to lay credence to what you are saying, better forget about it. The Son of Man has no hand there. The problem is that my people do not know me. If you can look into your life properly, you can trace it to its finality.
TRUTH IS REAL
If you can look into your life very well, let me give you the surest and commonest way: If all of you have been hearing from me all these years, from time to time, you discovered that they have been in consonance with things that have been perplexing your mind; you are traceable to the Son of Man.
6. But if the totality you have been hearing was sounding strange, I say forget about it. You are witnessing the advent of the Son of Man. I am saying that the essence of the Son of Man appearing is nothing but to confirm that which is Truth.
7. Whatever that is Truth is real. That’s why I don’t beg anybody to believe me. Your membership means nothing. You are not my convert until I know who you are. And who you are must register in me and register in you. You can trace yourself very well, you didn’t need Bro Joe to come and trace you, no! You can find your way.
8. A bush fowl that entered the bush doesn’t require a domestic fowl to come and guide it to its perfect rest. If the Truth you are hearing here is disturbing you, you are not a part of it, you are a stranger to it. And the more you try to adjust yourself, the worse your condition will become.
9. How can Truth adjust itself to Truth? Most of the things you had been hearing in this Faith are just confirming things that had been ringing bell in you, but for fear of been misjudged; you try to agree when you are not agreeing. All that belong to the Son of Man for whose cause the Son of Man was sent never agreed with any religious group.
10. But they romanced with them because there was no other. But they were holding that which they knew was Truth that registered in them. With their mouth they say what people are saying, but with their hearts the Truth still remains there.
11. That’s why, once the Son of Man appeared, whole heartedly they embraced it. And no devil, no temptation, no challenge will ever separate them. It is even easier to remove the eyes from the eye socket than to remove the Truth from their hearts.
12. That’s why God told us from the very beginning that Truth is Truth, that it has no other name, no matter who says it. No matter where it is found, it has no other name than Truth.
13. Let me tell you: To rig away religion from the hearts of men is the strongest battle that must be fought.
14. I knew about it, I was asked questions upon questions, upon questions, upon questions, upon questions. I knew it was not easy to make such declarations. But I vowed that I must declare! “Will they believe?” “Yes.” “Why?” “I have taught them.” But not everybody.
THE GIVER OF KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM
You want to know about the Supreme Deity? You cannot go far unless the Deity is with you. There can never be any new discovery without the Deity. The Supreme Intelligence that controls the whole Universe determines the level of invention any dispensation will reach.
16. So, He releases or permits that which is allotted to that dispensation, and it is for a purpose. Assuming we don’t have faster vehicles today, how do you think we can connect Abuja so easily? If we are to travel by canoe to Lagos, do you think that the world would develop?
17. Can we connect Russia and other parts of the world? What can you say about communication? — Electronic communication? From wire to wireless, from battery to solar. Who is that Person who introduced you with the Brain Net-work to tap the rich energy from the sun? Who stored that inexhaustible energy?
18. In no distant time, anything called Power Holding Electricity will be a thing of the past. You won’t talk of electric poles again. You will be talking about flash disk. You install your flash disk, you supply light within the neighbourhood without NEPA coming to help you or charging you a kobo, for God has given you the knowledge and has given you all things.
19. But our fathers folded their arms and expected God to come and help them. But before their eyes, expatriate came and become gods over them by supplying that which they needed, by delivering them from the bondage of primitive ideology. Primitive ideology is bondage.
YOU ARE STILL SLUMBERING
If you watch all these young men among us with very poor family orientation, they can never go beyond their primitive parents. Are you getting what I am saying? They can never go far in life. Even the steps they are taking now, they are short-sighted steps. I have not seen one with long-term steps. And that is what I am developing in some now.
21. That’s why when you look at them, the highest achievement is marriage. The next thing is: “Em! My wife has delivered a baby boy, a baby girl.” Everyday, new, new products are coming out.
22. And the new product is a new baby; a baby boy, a baby girl. The highest thing is to buy a car, he has arrived. If he builds a house, “Oh! Glory be to God, paradise!” Yet, you are still slumbering. I say you are still slumbering. Amen.
POINTS TO PIN DOWN
v If you can look into your life properly, you can trace it to its finality. If you look into your life very well, if all of you have been hearing from Son of Man all these years, from time to time, you discovered that they have been in consonance with things that have been perplexing your mind; you are traceable to the Son of Man.
v To rig away religion from the hearts of men is the strongest battle that must be fought.
v Our fathers folded their arms and expected God to come and help them. But before their eyes, expatriate came and become gods over them by supplying that which they needed, by delivering them from the bondage of primitive ideology. Primitive ideology is bondage. We have to grow above that. Remember, once history is forgotten, the mistake of the past will be repeated.