HARDEN NOT YOUR HEART

PREACHED BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA “THE SON OF MAN” AT THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD ONITSHA ON 18^TH SEPTEMBER, 1997.

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SPIRITUAL WORSHIP

1.          Glory be to God! I told you last Sunday that you can never judge me no matter how you try to drag me. I will maintain the same tempo…

2.          No matter how you try to force yourself, there are some here that will receive the wrath of God. Are you getting what I am saying? I have never seen a Luke-worm church like this church. You can do everything but only if the spirit will.

3.          If you are praising God, praise God in the spirit. Then, the spirit will move your action. Are you getting what I am saying? Deep calleth deep! When you respond to the voice of the Holy Spirit, by and by, your action will change.

4.          But when you come here, your mind is wondering from pillar to post; your mouth is opening and closing; watch, your clapping will not agree with your praises. Everything will begin to go zigzag to show that there is no concentration.

5.          What I am telling you is real truth. Are you getting what I am saying? Halleluiah! We thank God for giving us joy; otherwise many people will forget how to praise God.

6.          We have many, many testimonies to share today. Enugu testimony, whether they are here or not, we must hear the testimony. Last week, they withheld their testimonies for many reasons. All for our own good! So, brethren that went to Enugu get ready. They must hear your testimonies. Amen!

7.          The word of God has come to fulfillment. It gives me joy and strengthens my heart. I told you on Tuesday that some of you behave as if God doesn’t know what he is doing.

8.           They feel that there is no more time table given to us. That is why we sang a song that says, “The gentile days are numbered”, so that you will know that we are not the first people that heard this good news. Those who came before us knew that the gentile days are not forever but a fixed date.

9.          The gentile days may be over. God cannot allot eternity to the gentile so that you can come in any time you wake up. No! There is no scripture for that. Amen! We have heard different testimonies. God has been good to us in many ways. God speaks to us in diverse ways. Brother Amankem had a dream last night…

10.      God has been talking to us in dreams and visions yet we did not change. Then He started talking to us through words of wisdom as if to say we have not heard the word before. Well! We have to take it that way. We are gradually coming to the end of the journey.

11.       Do not be surprised to think that a great wind will blow tomorrow. It is this way we say it, gradually like that, it will continue to be said until one day, the end will come.

12.       Did you understand what I am saying? The people, who were adult during the civil war in Nigeria, did not know that the war would come to the stage of people running away from their communities to other neighbouring towns.

13.      Initially, they were anticipating that war could break out. Before they knew what was happening, war had entered their kitchens. The same way, as people predict about rainfall, it may appear as though it will not rain. But one day, it must eventually rain.

14.       Is anybody here with the ‘Last Trumpet’? Give it to me. Something took me to the Last Trumpet last night. Brethren, bear with me. It was last night that I discovered that I didn’t have a copy of the Last Trumpet that was bound.

15.      I said, “God have mercy on me”. When I was telling you to bind your own copies of the Last Trumpet, I didn’t know that what I bound was the ‘Hard Truth’. It was last night when I lifted my own copy to search what the prophet said concerning wisdom and what is happening, that I discovered that I had not bound my own. Amen!

16.      I want to give you a testimony. This testimony will centre on dreams. We got many dreams here. Some of these dreams are frightening; Some of them are very terrifying. We will do our best to see what we can do about the dreams. I don’t know whether there is any other way God can speak to us.

17.       I heard a little about good testimony from Abuja church yesterday on the telephone. This type of testimony lifts the spirit high. Those who have gone to Abuja Church know that Abuja Church gathers by 3:00pm every Tuesday and Thursday.

18.      So, it pleased the Lord to withhold the brethren from gathering as they were used to gather. So, when they gathered two hours later, they discovered that the church building had been demolished, the whole place levelled.

19.      They used their bulldozer to cut into pieces the pulpit and church chairs and put everything on fire. So, when the brethren saw the whole thing, they drew back.

20.      Those who saw the thing when it was happening, started testifying, telling our brethren to begin to praise God. They testified that those people who came to destroy the building were very mean. That they were armed with guns, machetes and dangerous weapons.

21.      Who knows the type of instruction given to them? What if the brethren were in the fellowship by the time they came, bearing in mind that that place is hidden and surrounded by thick bush. Even if all of them were killed there, nobody would have known about it.

22.      If not God’s intervention, we could have recorded not less than five casualties. Looking at where the church is at the valley of decision or valley of gutters, there is no type of accusation rendered against them you will not believe. If you are told that they do rituals, you will believe. If you are told that they drink blood, you will agree because the location betrayed it.

23.      I want to let you know that demolishing the building and setting everything on fire is a blind defeat. So, the pastor carried all of them to his house. Then when they reached the pastor’s house, the wife of the pastor discovered the gift in her and started giving them prophecy.

24.      The prophecy that went forth at Abuja! “That God has taken the much He wants to take in Abuja. One of these days, this building will be razed to the ground. You will now worship God in your homes.

25.      Brother Ndukwe, you that have been coming late every time, that time you will know who will help you.” So, it is in line with the message. We are not surprised.

26.       But we thank God who granted us the favour of a Pharaoh who gave us information ahead of time, that they were planning against us to the point that life could be lost.

27.      So, we really thank God that we never lost any soul. Amen! So, after hearing the whole thing, I started thanking God. Then I remembered the prophecy that went forth with regards to this month.

28.      “This tabernacle that is called by my name, very soon, shall be rendered desolate, not because of your transgressions”.

29.      Was that one pulled down because of our transgressions? It was pulled down so that God’s word would come to pass. If this place shall be rendered desolate not because of our transgressions, it then means, it is going to be a peaceful way for us to gather in our homes. And this will be for the last time.

30.      Maybe the Lord’s ministry will be in the homes. When brother will take off from his home, visit his sister, share his experiences with the sister and then know whether she can show some love.

31.      Practical demonstration of love is really in the home. Practical demonstration of love is not here. It is in the home. Love does not require preaching. In other words, preaching is not there.

32.       Law doesn’t know I am sorry or brother forgive me. Law doesn’t make any thing right for there is no love in law. So, there is nothing to make right. Brother Emma Ejinkeonye, you were having peace with us before you travelled to Lagos.

33.      We don’t know what you have been passing through since you left us. We have been advancing. The message has changed hand in your absence. So, may God help us. Our brother told me that he had a dream. Brother, come and share your dream.

34.      It was on Tuesday after service. I went home and was going over the message of law and grace. So, while I prayed, I lay down. A little while, I fell into a dream.

35.      In that dream, I saw a big bag which they carried into the hall. What was written on that bag was LOVE. I woke up and fell into a dream again. I saw the same bag. I was watching to see the bag open before the dream left me.

36.      Let me read this scripture, John 16:2.

37.      “They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service”

38.      Saints of God, this is the time and hour of darkness. Religious leaders today have allowed themselves to fulfill the prophecies of the Holy Scriptures unknowingly.

39.      They have allied themselves with the beast and the state. With one accord, they have made up their minds to persecute the Bride of Christ for the sake of the truth.

40.       But thank God, the bride had made herself ready to pay the price for the sake of Christ

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DREAMS AND TESTIMONIES

1            Bishop Okechukwu Paul; Come for your dream. If you put it in writing, give it to us. If you did not write, come and share your dream. DREAM: It looks like we gathered in the fellowship and the apostle was asking about the church.

2             He said that we were to make a journey to a certain place; that in that place everywhere was calm. There was no armed robber.

3            He said that, in that place, everything for material comfort was there. There was enough water and adequate light including security but there was only one route to that place. That route looked like it consisted of steps.

4             When we reached, I observed that the steps were so slippery that nobody could climb the steps, no matter your effort. Anybody that tried to climb, the shaking would be too much to hinder that person from trying again.

5            Many people went back after trying and failing. Then I was a far off watching. As they were trying, the loads they carried with them were falling off.

6             When nobody could succeed, I heard a voice like that of the apostle. He said that we should go to the right, that the man who was there was the only person that could see us through.

7             The only people that heard that voice were those who were there that time trying their best. So, they moved to the right and the man was helping them. But those who were afar off did not come closer to be helped.

8            Please, when you get home, read the Last Trumpet page 56 to 61. Anything you do not understand, consult me. God bless you all. Amen!

9             I had two dreams frightening me last night. I have shared it with some brethren that came to me early hours of the day. I know many must have heard it. 

10        So, the first dream was this. I was at the church in Jos ministering. While I was ministering, somebody came. They were many that came but one came inside the hall and handed a letter to me.

11        I opened the letter and saw that the letter-head was written Christian Association of Nigeria. The letter came from the office of the president. It was written in the letter that government had approved and given an order that no church should be found in any school premises anywhere, that all churches should be in non-government buildings.

12        We were given twenty-four hours to pack away from the school premises. When I finished reading the letter, the dream left me.

13        So, before the morning hours, I had another dream. That one was the one that troubled me much. In that dream, I saw myself standing here. And how I managed to stand here, I didn’t know.

14        I became surprised because as I stood here to look into a very deep valley, I saw many people there. But at my back was a plain ground where there was no hill.

15        Where I was standing, if I bent like this, I wouldn’t go inside the valley but front. If I looked down wards, my eyes would not see the bottom of the valley.

16         On top of the hill where I was standing, I was holding a very big rope. The rope looked like the one used to fetch water from the well. I folded it while holding it.

17         Looking down there, I saw many people being helpless because there was no way they could climb the pyramid. Then I started rolling down the rope until it touched the ground of the deep valley. As they held the rope tightly, marching their legs on the pyramid, I started pulling them out gradually.

18        Anybody that was rescued would go to my back. I had pulled out many but I could not say whether they were heathens or brethren. I could not identify them but they were human beings.

19        All I knew was that, as they were marching their legs on the pyramid, they were making it possible for me to pull them out safely. It came to a stage when they started scrambling for the rope. Many of them were still inside.

20        They all held the rope tightly without placing their legs on the pyramid. Their weight became too much that I could not pull them out any more.

21        As I was trying to pull them out, they were trying to pull me inside; when I noticed that if I continued to hold the rope, they would pull me inside. I removed my hand from the rope and all of them inside, landed on the ‘ground’. I looked inside the thing; there was no way I could get the rope again.

22        And there was no other rope available. I was in that condition when the dream left me. So, there is trouble now. The race has come to the end. It is now that I believed the driver that said that after climbing this hill that there would not be another hill to climb like this.

23         And it was that hill that we were climbing when I saw the place. He told me, “This is the place”. The dream left me.

24        This ministry is coming to an end. And the way it will end will take everybody by surprise. It is going to have a very sharp end.

25        It will end so abruptly that people will be confused. What I am telling you is truth. In other words, there is a mountain to cross.

26         There is an obstacle all of us must surmount. We have never seen a dream or vision where the whole church failed. Look at the dream from sister Nnamdi which is like this one. Her own dream said that the place was very slippery.

27        God told them to follow the right side. Those who heard and obeyed became victorious. In my own case, I was pulling out the people with a rope. At a stage, the people wanted to pull me inside. Common sense told me to remove my hand from the rope. Did you understand what we are saying?

28         Maybe you are the one holding the rope. You don’t want to place your leg on the sand (pyramid). You are not making any effort to survive.

29        The rope will not continue to pull till eternity. We will remove our hands from the rope and allow you to hold it alone so that all of us will not fall into the pit. Amen!

30        It was when I was interpreting the dream that I said, “Now, I know that Holy Ghost told us that when we throw in the Salvation Cup, that they must first of all swim to safety.

31        Anybody that holds it, we will pull the person out and begin to look for another person. Don’t go in to save a person from a very far distance from a safe land and put into the body”. Amen!

32        God will go to all length to help us know the hour we are in. This ministry we are rolling in is a delicate ministry. It is the most dangerous ministry.

33        By the time you will say you want to make it right with me, you are lost already. Try so that God will help you enter into the ministry. Pray earnestly for it is not easy. It is too far from what we have been enjoying all these years. May God help us!

34        I want to invite testimonies from Enugu now. How I wish I can remember those that went to Enugu so that they come and share their experiences.

35         Brother Okechukwu painter, I will start with you.

36         ” Praise the lord! Our journey to Enugu was a sweet one. Early in the morning, we gathered here and moved to Enugu. When we reached Enugu, we divided ourselves into groups and spread the gospel”.

37         God led us safety throughout the journey. Many preachers were in Enugu just like Onitsha. Too many preaching in Enugu had made them not to know which message to believe.

38        In my own area, I went with Brother Emma. We started preaching, distributing the Last Trumpet to them. Some believed what we were saying.

39        What I discovered was that Enugu needed gospel message. Real gospel message had not been preached in Enugu. Our message had not entered Enugu at all.

40         We actually went to spy Enugu so as to be familiar with Enugu. I told the brethren that we should start getting ready for Enugu. I told them that I was ready to go alone if they were not ready.

41        God bless you! This is our brother’s testimony that they went to spy Enugu. Any place where many preachers have preached their messages and you have not preached your own; when you are going last to preach your own message, get ready to answer many questions.

42        You will answer questions based on the preaching’s of others including Gray message, Eckanker, Jehovah Witness, End Time, Orthodox Catholic and that of general Pentecostal. So, anybody that is going for preaching should be well prepared.

43         Brother Chinedu, I think this is your first outing. God bless you! Let us hear your testimony. Brother Innocent, are you hear? Okay!

44        “We gathered for the journey that day. Devil tried to frustrate our effort that day but could not succeed. I was in the group of Brother Amankem. We met different types of people including pastors and lawyers. It was not easy to stand before such people without God’s guidance. We actually went to survey the environment…” 

45        That is the much I want from you. Brother Mike, you went to Enugu, come and give your testimony. Who are the people in your group? I went with Okechukwu painter.

46        The first day we went there, we preached a little and gave them our books and went away. The second day, we entertained questions from them.

47         I observed that we lacked leadership to the point that brother Amankem and brother Chinedu had disagreement between them. I believed that God would not be happy with us because we went there to criticize ourselves and find fault one with another.

48        Bro. Emma Ejinkeonye, come and give your testimony. Give detailed testimony – one to Enugu, two to Lagos.

49        “Concerning the trip to Enugu, God led us safely while going. When we reached there, there was a brother telling us about Ernest Obasi.

50         It is not now that Ernest left the faith. I learnt that he was telling the brother living with him at Enugu that all of us including the apostle had left the faith.

51         So, I started wondering why he should say such a thing­­. That apart, brother Okey and I started going to ESUT.

52        When we reached there, the brother whose wife died was the one that led us to ESUT. He told us that the man we met there was a brother. We didn’t know whether he was a brother or not.

53        As we started preaching there, people started gathering. Before we knew it, every place was filled with people. We heard that a man told our brother that he believed our message but did not believe that it is good that somebody should destroy his television.

54        He said that he believed that the TV should be turned off in case of any bad program instead of destroying it. So, we waited for that man on Sunday but he did not come.

55        It was when brother Umezulike carried us in his car to the park that we told him to disfellowship those brethren that were not serious. He started panicking saying, if those people should be excommunicated, should only two people be left to worship God? We said, “Yes, that is the way God wants it for He said that where two are gathered in His name that He is there in their midst.

56        If you start looking at people’s faces, you can never worship God”. That apart, there was a place we went to at Abakpa Nike just like brother Mike said.

57         In the night after the fellowship (night vigil), I called brother Amankem and told him that I was not happy the way bro Okey abandoned us. I said that if the apostle or bishop Okey had gone to Enugu with us, would he have abandoned us like that?

58        If something had happened to us, would he have accounted for us? I thought he would say that he was sorry but instead he was claiming to be right. Concerning leadership problem, what they said is true”

59        Okechukwu Ibe, let as hear your testimony.

60         “When we reached Enugu, in our own group; we met a widow, gave her the Last Trumpet and continued on our journey. We met a man who asked us a question”

61         “What should I do in order to get saved?”  We answered his question. He asked other questions which we answered also using the Hard Truth. We left when our time was up”

62        Is there any other person? Brother Amankem, conclude the testimony. 

63        “Praise the lord! Bro. Umezulike is actually the channel God chose to make his word come true.  When we came, our brother Umezulike had invited some judges and other people. As we were preaching, one man who had read our book, Hard Truth, asked us a question concerning tithe.

64        Then, I opened my mouth and started explaining to him. He asked another question, “Since you don’t pay tithe, how do you finance your ministry?” I opened scripture again explaining the whole thing to them. You know judges at times can be funny.

65        At intervals, they would be asking questions that are not relevant. He asked us another question, “Where is your church located here in Enugu?” I answered him that our church is in bro. Umezulike’s house.

66        He started laughing. So, we continued to answer their questions. Bro. Umezulike continued to lead us to their various houses, especially those he gave invitations who could not come to his house. We went to their houses preaching to them until our time expired that day”

67        God bless you! This is the long awaited testimony from Enugu. Glory be to God! It is not easy to write the bible. If David had used his hand to write the Psalms, David would have made some mistakes.

68        It is easy for those who will not like their names to be mentioned. David had no secret since the Holy Ghost was the one that wrote the bible.

69        We have heard their testimonies. We glorify God. The person that gave a striking testimony is Brother Mike, confirming that they were disputing among themselves. Brother Okechukwu Ibe, I wonder why you should trouble the evangelical team. 

70        Instead of preaching, you went there to quarrel. Brother Chinedu, I wonder what you saw in brother Amankem that stumbled you. Let us read the letter from Ernest Chukwubuikem before he was excommunicated.

71         Ernest Chukwubuikem, 28 Ezinifite street, Omoba phase 2, Onitsha, 31/8/1997.

72         Dear Apostle Peter, please sir, bear with me now because I have a few things to settle with my God. Since I heard that voice saying and the cause of the problems in my family, I decided to set myself aside with God and God alone until some matters are settled between me and God.

73        That was why I told brother Okey to take over the family altar but they started witnessing my absence proper when that voice came back two Sundays ago.

74         However, until the matters I said before are settled, I want to allow my brother to hold forth my family altar. Thanks. Ernest Chukwubuikem…” Amen!

75         The note you gave me the day we preached the message titled “Convicted by Your Conscience”, I believed; that was the message that finally excommunicated him.

76         This was so because before the message ending, we saw him up there. You see, we thank God for many, many things.

77         Before somebody leaves this place, the church must have washed her hand from him. We do not owe him but his conscience will tell him that he owes the church. He cannot say anything against the church. If he does that, it means fighting the finger that fed him.

78        If we should talk of those who made us wretched, he is one of them. When he came into this church, he was a burden to us.

79        He was requesting for money once or twice every week telling us that his wife was sick until I had to order him, “Enough is enough. Go and bring your wife back so that we can rest”. When he brought back his wife, the trouble was there.

80         We didn’t know his capacity because he was giving us the impression that all was well with him. Before money would be counted, he had already written a note requesting for money for food and transport until the report came to me.

81         So, he continued spending our money like that until I had to halt it. If we should keep on spending our money like that, it means we cannot buy anything. I cannot remember anything else from him if not exploitation, exploitation.

82         Even before he left us, he exploited many of our brethren. Glory be to God! We are waiting for him but I know he is not coming back. I know that, for nobody can abandon the faith and come back. Silvanus abandoned the faith in Jos, went to End Time.

83        Now, he is pleading day and night for restoration. The church said, “No”. It is easier for Weston to be reconciled than Silvanus to be restored.

84        For somebody that left the faith to go about blaspheming, saying things that are strange to us! So, if you went to Enugu and brother Okey told you something because I know it was brother Okey, because he was giving us the impression that he knew one person in Enugu, an engineer, one that could repair that machine he bought.

85         But at Opi, brother Okey said, “He is a liar” Brother Okey carried him to the man. During the negotiation, brother Okey used his money to pay.

86        He owed brother Okechukwu at Enugu. He passed the night with brother Okechukwu. So, if you told brother Okechukwu that there was one or two who used to preach better or more than Odoemena and those people had left the faith, Glory be to God.

87         I said, “Glory be to God.”   But the truth is that brother Odoemena met nobody on the scene. I said, “I met nobody on the scene.” Thank God we have witnesses. I met nobody on the scene.

88         I never coveted any man’s office or over threw anybody in his office.

89         Are you getting what I am saying? But I occupied a vacant office.

90        I am looking forward to seeing somebody that will preach more than me. All the while, we were saying no to brother Dan. Brother Dan Nwadike wanted us to go down from the pulpit to rest.

91        But we couldn’t see any sign. We could not see somebody coming to at least, help. So, for once we go down and rest, it will be suicidal. Are you getting what I am saying? We will go down as soon as there is somebody that is ready to take over.

92        You will not force us to go down when there is nobody that is ready to take over.

93         So, brothers, we are yet to see the one that will come out and all the elders will become relaxed in the spirit.

94        But what we see here is one that comes to the pulpit, you see elders with biros in their hands pointing out many places where he has erred. Are you getting what I am saying? If you are a good driver, you will never get relaxed in a vehicle until you get a good driver who can handle the steering very well.

95         But if he is a learner, he will be struggling with the steering. As an expert in steering, you will never sleep one bit when you are being driven by a learner until you get to your destination point. That is the trouble we have here.

96         We can hardly get somebody that will be called up here and the elders will be comfortably relaxed in the spirit. We will continue to be tensed up until he comes down from the pulpit. He may even cause trouble in the pulpit that will be difficult to uproot. Amen!

97         So, we are not waiting for the voice of a dead man. A dead man is a dead man. If you want to know what is happening, consult brethren that come close to the apostle.

98         I called brother Okechukwu yesterday. He told me, “It is now that we are facing real torment. There is nothing to eat now.

99         Everything has finished completely”. I said, “How do you think, if we get house for you, can you live on your own?” He said that even before his excommunication that they had adopted a system they were using to survive. He would bring money today; tomorrow it would be my turn, that they had been sharing the responsibility before then.

100     I said, so we have been harbouring this man as a heathen for too long”. If you cannot feed your brother because he is your brother, feed him because he is your in-law. Are getting what I am saying?

101     I cannot imagine how your in-law will come to your house and stay, then you open your mouth and ask him to bring money for feeding.

102    Even among the heathens, it is very difficult to mention that. You may have an in-law who may voluntarily provide money for feeding. But for you to open your mouth to tell him that this is the way he should be contributing for feeding, it is wrong, especially, when you call yourself a child of God.

103    So, we have been harbouring heathens for too long. Glory be to God! Look no man in the flesh! If you know this man, the way he asked people question,

104    “Somebody who sinned, why it that he cannot be brought back to the church is?” If you see the muscle he used while asking questions and the way he opened his eyes while asking questions, you cannot believe that he is the one we are testifying about. Let he that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he falls. Amen!

105     There is one scripture I read, after reading it, I remember people’s behavior. If you have Good News Bible, get Proverb chapter 12:9, Read it in Good News, read it also in the Living Bible.

106     “It is better to be an ordinary man working for a living than to play the part of a great man but go hungry” (GNB).

107     You see, instead of playing the role of a great man and dying of starvation and hunger, it is better I continue striving as a poor man getting the little I can to feed my family.

108     He printed complimentary cards, anybody he sees, he opens his bag, brings out the cards and gives to that person. “Limited, limited” everywhere! Deeper life cards, not minding what

109    I told him concerning that ‘limited’ with brother Ugoala. Yet, he goes everywhere to distribute complimentary cards. Is he still distributing it? Somebody printing LIMITED does not have even cool fifty naira note. No lie is of the truth.

110     This scripture should help you if you still have pride in you. Brother Goddy, this scripture, did you hear it? It is better to walk like an ordinary man working for a living than to make a hand like a huge man and die of starvation…

111    And the voice said, “We should sell it”. While the elders lingered, the voice roared again that it shouldn’t be so That it should be destroyed.

112    So, when we heard, “Destroy it,” it was that time that we hated him for carrying out the destruction. We brought out the Casio that he said was bought for eight thousand.

113    Brand new Casio key board! In other words, when the voice goes forth, God is the first to be involved. Are you getting what I am saying?

114     If you believe that God goes to church. Every instruction that goes forth in the church, God is involved. God must obey his word, otherwise nobody will obey.

115    The reason God is obedient to his word, well! You can’t have an excuse. After all, God has not obeyed. Amen! So, delay can be dangerous.

116     The opening message of this morning said, “Today, when you hear his voice, harden not your heart”. Today, that is the opening passage the preacher read from the bible. And from there, he started ministering. Along the line, I caught so many things.

117     Holy Ghost permitted him to speak to us randomly. He was not mindful of the topic he introduced. Holy Ghost decided to speak to us randomly, touching our problems.

118    And the discernment I received was very perfect discernment. That the church couldn’t praise God very well, was that many people were filled with fear. I equally noticed it. Myself, I was filled with fear.

119     This may sound strange. You see, when I stepped into the Holy sanctuary of the lord with a very high spirit, there is something I would feel or notice. Fear would grip me the first time. And in that mood, I can hardly rejoice as usual no matter how that spirit would move me.

120     How I wish the fear in the camp will be godly fear and not carnal fear. If there be sorrow somewhere, how I wish that sorrow will be godly sorrow. Amen! I opened my ears and I heard the opening remarks.

121     The opening remarks along the line beefed up and then what I got in the beginning was corrected in the middle. Because the opening statement said, “In this ministry we are preparing to enter.”

122     So, I shook my head. As I continued patiently following the message, the voice came back again, “That it is only foolish people that will wait for the day they will hear the announcement. But wise people should know from that day it was mentioned, it was that day that the ministry took off.” There, I relaxed my mind.

123     Some elders that met me yesterday can just bear witness that this was ‘word for word’ with our discussions especially, Bishop Nnachor and the pastor. And it was the message that has been going on in my family. Amen!

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 FAITH IS DEAD WITHOUT LOVE

1.          I am not preaching love. No! Love cannot be preached. There is no way any man can preach love. So, it is practical demonstration of love. Love is demonstrated. Love is not preached. I don’t know whether somebody is getting what I am saying?

2.          So, if anybody is expecting a ministry like I heard from the preaching, wait until the day he will come in and give us teaching or preaching on that. I said, “He has missed it already”. I told my family that in this present stage of the ministry, “All we have to do is to gather and then praise God and then go away. That is the only way we can demonstrate love to God before His presence.

3.          Talk of preaching love, no man has ever preached love before. Christ demonstrated love. He never preached love. Are you getting what I am saying? So, don’t even expect any day a preacher will come here with a whistle and say, “Pioom, let us go into the ministry”.

4.           I said, “It is a separate ministry because it is removed from the pyramid. And it forms altogether a complete pyramid. And I told you that love is not preached.

5.          Then something bridged the gap between virtue and the triangle. And the thing that bridged the gap is the Holy Spirit. So, Holy Spirit must fill the gap. If this gap is not filled, it may continue. Are you getting what I am saying?

6.          The moment you are seeing the Holy Spirit, then it is a continuity. You don’t need to jump now. You don’t need to climb. Are you getting what I am saying? It is just the same one way. But where nothing fills this gap, you will remain here. You will be battling here because there is no miracle you can make and go there without using this one.

7.          It is just like hanging block in the air, can it be there? You want to build a house, you carry block and you want to place it in the air, nothing supporting it, can it stay there? So, this thing must be there. How I wish you go back to the message titled “TOKEN”. If you can go back to the message titled Token, I said, “The token must be there”. If you have no token to present, count yourself off. So, for the past one month now, Holy Ghost has been shaking us gradually, trying to make us move. And I told you here that time was against us. Because time is against us, we cannot go back again so as to help your people to come up and be filled with the Holy Spirit. No way! There is no such chance again. No time remaining! Let me tell you something.

8.           When you are about to take examinations, usually, we have what we call syllabus for a student that is in the school. A time will come when you will look at the syllabus, you discover that you have not covered the syllabus and it remains about one week to take the exam. Will you go and take the exam? Yes all you have to do is to pick courage and face the exam squarely.

9.          Where we are now is where we cannot because of others allow the river to swallow us. So, we are no longer waiting. We are no longer waiting! If you watch this gap that is here, now everybody should listen to me clearly. Love cannot be preached.

10.      You see this gap that is here, many people cannot jump it. This is where we have what we call MASS DROP OUT. If you watch the testimonies following the brethren that went to Enugu, many things were there.

11.      The summary of it is that we can only see one or two that can boast of those virtues. But if you check the virtues, somebody has no Temperance and Patience. Somebody didn’t manifest Knowledge, somebody never showed Virtue. Somebody didn’t show Godliness. Nobody can see Kindness. Are you getting what I am saying?

12.      The attributes of the Holy Spirit were completely missing in ninety-nine percent of the people that went to Enugu. That is testing from God. I want to help you understand what I mean. I am not trying to go into another message yet. I am trying to help somebody. Remember the topic, No Second Chance. Don’t miss this opportunity. Latter days are numbered.

13.      I wrote fifty nuggets in my jotter to help me understand the scripture. I don’t know the way you recorded. Now, listen to me very well here. Something is destined to happen. If the apostles went with them, nobody would have experienced what happened.

14.      In other words, God went with them. The presence of the Apostle will make everybody suppress his feeling. So, when God will test you, I fear God. I fear God! Everybody is thinking that God may use sexual intercourse or telling lies to test but you don’t know where God is waiting for you.

15.      There is a place God is waiting for you. Any message you preach; God will use it to try you. When we preached the message, “Where there is no law, there is no sin,” our brother Okechukwu Ibe simplified the message to our own understanding.

16.      He told us that the message did not cancel the doctrines/teachings we received from the very beginning. And if you want to survive, all that we received from the very beginning, lay hands on them. So, I don’t want to preach a sermon but I want to live a sermon. Amen! I believe in following a man. I believe in leadership.

17.      And that leadership must be by example. So, all that went to Enugu were testifying that God did not go with them. Are you getting what I am saying? If bishop Okechukwu had gone with them, there would not have been any problem, for none of them would open his mouth. I thank God so much that the batch that went to Owerri was not here when we had this report on Thursday. They had already left. A new batch altogether, so that God will test them and by the time they will come back, we will know the type of testimonies they will come back with. But they are coming back with testimonies that are edifying.

18.      So, we thank God for what he is doing. I am not disappointed. I am not discouraged but God knows why we are hearing all these things. If we did not hear it this way, then all our preachings are wasted efforts. It is applicable to our sisters. The voice said that elders should help provide accommodations for our sisters so that they can be independent. That was what the voice said.

19.      Let us see whether Lot can manifest so that nobody will have excuse why she will go to hell. Then sisters heard the voice and became cool and calm. Anybody you looked at would look like somebody coming out from mortuary, with their hands on their jaws. Some were even answering calls from spirits. Nobody had deaf ear again. Even if you call that one mad person, she will say, “Yes ma”.

20.      If you call her idiot, she will answer, “Yes ma”. Nobody asks why. But to show that their problems are still with them; any opportunity you give to them to be on their own, that which is in them will be exposed showing that they are not happy. But in the presence of Daddy and Mummy, they will show that they are happy. But before the younger ones/infants, they will show that they are sad through their actions.

21.      If you are sad and wishing to die because of what was said, what if it says now that no accommodation will be provided for you. That we should no longer pay for your accommodation and that you should look for your own accommodation where you will live. That any place you want to worship God, go and stay there. Will you live in the field or with your carnal relation? Or will you run to a brother and live with him? You are free from today but talk of paying for the house, no more.

22.      Looking for a house, no more! If you start going to school in your bedroom, will your parents follow you to go there? Sister Grace, where you went to school, was it where your parents were living?

23.      Don’t you see that girls who go to school in the village do not go with their parents? It is a very dangerous thing for somebody to be a day student. It is a big burden for you to go to school from your parent’s house. When you live away from your parents, at least, you will know what the world looks like. Some students go to the village, hire a house, live there, pay their fees and manage their finances.

24.       Parents will not pay for their boarding school fees. They cook for themselves. Any little money they get during the weekend; they manage it for themselves. We have over pampered you. Over pampering kills and we will withdraw it from today.

25.      You will be shocked that I will give you seven days from today to go and look for your own houses and then pack away.  Go and live anywhere you want to live. It will no longer be the responsibility of the elders to look for your accommodations. You should look for your own accommodations. When you get them, you should go to your parents to collect money for the rents. It should be so.

26.       Let me ask you this question. Do you think we don’t have sense? We have sense but we prefer to be foolish so that we can keep moving forward. Brother Okechukwu, the day brother Martin paid for the bride price of Sister Ifeoma, did Akokwa people send the money to us? Brother Ebenezer, I hope you went with us. They were asking us questions because we trained her, fed her and trained her in the craft she learned. She lived with us and got married.

27.       Did the parents and her people ask any question about her welfare/training? All the money given during the bride price ceremony, did Akokwa people give any kobo to us? His brother was there yet no money was given to him. Do you think they don’t have sense?

28.      The day Sister Chiamaka was married; didn’t you see what happened in Ogbunike? Brother Ebenezer, you were among the group that went there. Did they have mercy for us?

29.      No! Are we not the people that fed her, trained her and she stayed with us and got married? You should better be careful. We have sense but we made ourselves foolish so that nobody will have a stumbling block. We know what their parents are dodging but when it comes to the time to talk, everybody will show that they are sensible.

30.      So, when you get a place where you will stay and worship God, you will go to your father and collect money for rent. We want to face spirituality. Love means facing spirituality. Love is nothing but truth. 

31.      This is the time we will know whether you have faith or not. Let me show you, Galatia 5:6. Let somebody read it. Whether you have faith or not, we will measure it now.

32.       “For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love” (KJV).

33.      Faith which worketh by love, though love quickeneth faith. Faith is dead without love. Love quickeneth faith. And love is truth.

34.      Love means facing the reality, not telling stories. Another translation! Read it there.

35.      “For when we are in union with Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor the lack of it makes any difference at all: what matters is the faith that works through love” (GNB). Good!

36.      So that your faith, we will now see it. I have faith in Christ, I have faith in God. I have faith in the word of God. The servant of God has given instruction. Now, let love move you. Let love move your faith.

37.      You see, there is what we call love which is not love. Brotherly kindness is not love. I said, “Brotherly kindness is not love?  Don’t go too far. It is after the brotherly kindness that you talk of Holy Spirit before you begin to talk of love. Amen! So, you sisters that have been weeping and weeping as if something strange happened.

38.      From now, you have to make your own efforts because if we impose one environment on you, you will use it to complain. We are no longer going to look for houses for you lest we will force you to live where you don’t want to live.

39.      Now, go and make your own choice of environment, then where you don’t have money to pay for it you can come to us. Love will now move us to do something. That is when you will know whether we love you or hate you. If after telling us your problem and we are in a position to help, we tell you bye, bye…

40.      If I get house at Nkpor now, somebody will reject it. She will tell me that she prefers to live at Woliwo. Another will say, “It is Omogba”. One will say, “If I am allowed to look for a house, nothing will make me to go to Nkpor, I prefer to live at G.R.A.”.

41.      So, you are now at liberty. Elders, stop looking for house. Sisters, begin to look for your accommodations. Then I will not give you that blank Cheque so that you will not abuse it. “Now, they asked us to look for our own accommodations, I will not look for a house anywhere.

42.      Let me stay where I am living. If I have not gotten a house, will I leave?” You have between today and next Sunday. Seven days! Seven days from now! We will give you good help.

43.      You know, when you say something that will help somebody, initially, it will be painful to the body. It will look like the person is going to die there but when you enter inside it; you will begin to see life. Are you getting what I am saying? So, the earlier you adjust the better for you.

44.      Brother Chime and Brother Christian, you are now overdue, we don’t need to talk of it again. You know, I am a father. I have seen many things in life. I saw a horrible situation in your family.

45.      Brother Okechukwu Paul, brethren living in your family are having the feeling that you are in trouble and you are having a feeling that they are in trouble. So, you will now part.

46.       Let us know where the problem is coming from. Are you getting what I am saying? So, when everybody is on his own, love will begin to come out.

47.       Love is more than visitation. Do you know that? Don’t take love to mean every morning, Brother God bless you, brother how are you, no

48.      Love is not like that. I will not preach love but I will say many things around love before I will come down from the pulpit. Something moved me into saying something like that.

49.      These brethren that went to Enugu, you didn’t represent this church well in the sight of God and in the sight of all men.

50.      There is a place you will be and do evil; people will have mouth to talk to you. You see, our brother has a very good record. When he heard that you were coming, he was liberal enough to receive all of you. Then when you got there, you started misbehaving before him.

51.      Our brother being a beginner in the faith; was the one telling you to control your temper? If it had happened at Abakpa, that would have been a different thing.

52.      You came to him with your troubles and continued to dispute among yourselves to the point that the man got offended and worried. He left the place, carried his bible and went upstairs because of you. Yet you continued with backbiting and disputing.

53.      There was not even a wise man among you that could say, “Brethren, let us bury this matter. It is very unfortunate, very, very unfortunate.

54.      But it happened that the word of God might come to pass. I didn’t know how it sounded before the person you were preaching to, that somebody walked away angrily while the preaching was going on. I will use this statement to express my view.

55.      “Let us not form bad habit for it is evil”. There is a statement one will make, it will mean insult.

56.      You see this issue of somebody saying, “If you like, go and tell the Son of man, go and tell the elders. Go and tell them. I do not fear anybody”. It is becoming too much. Maybe I will set another example again.

57.      The young man used that statement. I warned him. His pastor warned him. Because he was having thirty-eight thousand naira in his pocket!

58.       And the pastor could not boast of one naira. The second time, he used that statement; I had to call him here. I dropped the matter with the elders and warned him.

59.      The third time he used that language, he was excommunicated. I sent for him inside my house, three of them, I spoke with them. I pardoned them and asked them to go.

60.      The fourth time he used it, I did not pardon. The fourth time, I did not spare. The voice roared and said, “Now, I have seen your problem.

61.      You feel you know all things and because you are very rich; we cannot boast of one naira; you are having over fifty thousand naira. There is no problem.

62.       Now, the only way I will humble you down is to make you an object of ridicule in the whole of Opi.

63.      The people will see you and they will never believe it is the Emmanuel they used to know. For that reason, all you have been boasting of will devour your money. And you will go begging for food.

64.      The boy fell down. He thought the voice was for playing sake. While he was crying and crying, we entered our vehicle.

65.      He rushed forward and said, “Brother, pronounce blessing”. I said “NO”. From there, he left abandoning his bible and everything. So, he went back to Opi.

66.      Five days after the voice, armed robbers went to his shop carried everything including bench and pots, all the bags of rice, beans and groundnut, they looted all nothing was left.

67.      Three days after the incident, another gang of armed robbers struck in his yard; opened his own door, no other door was touched, took the last kobo and they nearly killed him.

68.      The testimony we got at Opi said, “From that day till now, there has never been robbery incident in Opi”. So, immediately we got to Opi, he came and knelt before me and said, “Brother I am now pushing barrow.

69.      I am living with our Pastor; he is now feeding me. Please Brother kindly bless me. I said, “Have you stopped stubbornness?” He said, “Yes”. I said, “What of rebellion?” He said, “Yes”. I said, “Okay, I will think about it”. He said, “Brother, God bless you”. Was he not the person that was inviting the son of man? He said, “Go and tell him”.

70.       Even it was the fourth and last one that provoked me so much for he said, “Even if the Son of man will come, if he does not say this I am saying, I will tell him to his face that he doesn’t know the message”.

71.      Then the Son of man came and did not say what he said. So, if you are fond of boasting and your boasting is not in Christ, please, change your mind.

72.      You see, reckless statement is dangerous. It is very provocative. “Go and tell pastor, go and tell Son of man, go and tell apostle and elders”.

73.      One day, you will use your mouth to kill yourself because you will not know the ear that will make use of it that time.

74.      Reckless statement is so bad that when it goes forth, it is not easy to be withdrawn. Amen! So, all those brethren that went to Opi, you can never go unpunished.

75.       You can never go unpunished! I heard the findings of the Elders yesterday evening. I wasn’t happy with them because I thought they would finish everything before 4:00pm.

76.       I had earlier told the pastor that I would be travelling to Enugu that same yesterday evening with Okechukwu Paul to go and uproot the mess. Even because of this nonsense, I phoned Enugu on Friday but I could not succeed in getting our brother.

77.       It troubled me so much. I followed the pastor, handled the matter, spoke with the elders to see whether I could have a feedback so as to live for Enugu at least 5:00pm.

78.      But unfortunately, they made matters worse for me. So, it was impossible for me to travel to Enugu last night. These things will be very hard for me. Are you getting what I am saying?

79.      When you live a life that betrays your message, to correct the congregation will be very difficult. To correct it is not easy. I believe in following a man.

80.      Saint Paul said, “Follow me as I follow Christ”. Do not follow my message only, follow my life style. Are you hearing what I am saying? After all, my life is not separated from my message.

81.      All these ‘bum-boys’ in the Church, better be careful. Brother Dan Nwadike said, “It is ancient message, give way”. I told you the other time that we had not seen sign of the people that would take over, the type of people that you would give a message to represent the Church among the brothers and become relaxed.

82.      The missionary trips I have enjoyed most, God being my witness, are the trips I made with Brother Ekedimma.

83.      Intelligent move! I was sharing the testimony with my family. I told them that there were some brethren who would go for a missionary trip with me, I would know really that I was with real human beings.

84.      Those who knew what the faith is all about, I went with a class of its own. I went with a class of real children of God.

85.      There is what you call class. I do not mean the type that came from Jos and dragged the pastor out of the meeting.

86.      I went there with a class just like the first we moved out and came back. I thought that you brothers will fulfil the scripture. The bible said,

87.       “I speak to young men because you are strong and you have overcome the evil one”.

88.      Real young men that are strong, their bodies need fierce war where we will send strike force, radical preachers.

89.       I thought you would go back to turn Enugu upside down. I didn’t know that you would go there to fight and devour one another. I didn’t know that you would go there to betray one another.

90.      A body that is divided against itself can it stand? I thought you were going to preach to the heathens.

91.      I didn’t know you were going to preach to yourselves. That goes to show that you are opportunists in the camp; There are opportunists.

92.      Somebody somewhere is trying to make himself something but has not seen the way. But something blocked his way. “If not this person, I will have my way anyhow.

93.      Do not pray that elderly people who know the beetle should all die otherwise you will eat it as food.

94.       We are the people that laboured, climbed the mountain. We know the height, breath and the depth of the pew. All that glitters is not gold.

95.      The people who are reckless can never make full proof of their ministry. Are you getting what I am saying?

96.       Do you know how many of you that went for the preaching? Only two of you stood out for the truth. Apart from Brother Okechukwu Painter and Brother Emma Ejinkeonye, the rest disgraced themselves.

97.      You put these two brothers to shame. I have not even sat down to listen to them. Brother Amankem left them and went to Amoji. I wonder how the battle front will look like.

98.      When you get to the war front and start pursuing women, won’t all of you be killed in the war front?

99.       He got there and lost the vision of his calling, lost the revelation of the message and trip.

100.  In other words, he could not control the people that were assigned to him. You are a captain. The group that should be loyal to you gave testimony against you.

101.   To show that you are crafty, when you came back and sat with me, you started sharing testimony. This bad side was not mentioned. Did you mention even one? For over one hour thirty minutes, he was telling me, “Ooh, brother, wonderful! Brother Umezulike carried me to this lawyer and the other lawyer and so on” Is it why we sent you there? He did not mention the matter that brought the trouble because he was involved.

102.  I circled something and immediately, I did not spare him when I heard about his encounter in Enugu, how brother Chinedu wanted to divert his attention.

103.  He told me that he wanted to ‘dig it out’ with brother Chinedu. The question now is this, after ‘digging it out’ with brother Chinedu, what did you ‘dig out’ at last?

104.  That you were in somebody’s house exchanging words with your brother to the extent that the person you came to his house got offended and asked you why you were disgracing yourselves.

105.  In short, they were just in a war of words. Brother Dan, if gold can rust, what will become of the iron? Are you getting what I am saying?

106.  If you read Numbers Chapter 14 from verse 1 to 3, somebody read it, King James’ version.

107.   “And all the congregation lifted up their voice and cried; and the people wept that night.

108.  And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would God we had died in this wilderness!

109.  And were for hath the LORD brought us unto this land, to fall by the sword, that our wives and our children should be a prey? Was it not better for us to return into Egypt? And they said one to another, Let us make a Captain, and let us return into Egypt?”  

110.  It is not there. Now, go to Chapter 16, from verse 1 through 3.

111.  “Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, son of Reuben, took men:

112.   And they rose up against Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown: And they gathered themselves against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them,

113.  Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are Holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD? And when Moses heard it.”  Stop there!

114.  Forget about what Moses did when he heard it. Can you imagine a situation where Korah gathered a rebellion for a while in the camp and proclaimed the whole of people of Israel holy? You see, the whole nation is holy.

115.  The whole people are holy. “Why do you come here to indict and rebuke us? Everybody here is holy…”

116.  If the people were Holy, the number one person must be Moses. The people that are now called holy were the members of those people who were murmuring against Moses. Korah was there. Korah saw the murmuring and everything. Now, Korah was declaring them holy.

117.  Brother Dan, I am talking to you directly. If there is a spirit that is in you, it is the spirit of chapter 16. If you must survive, plague is in the camp! Are you getting what I am saying? You do not know how the Lord will build your statement.

118.  Remember that Samuel was alive, very healthy and the people gang up and said, “Behold, you have become old, you cannot perform again.” God never said that Samuel was old.

119.   The people said that Samuel had become old and it is high time they took a king to themselves, watch what followed them. Samuel even knew. Samuel knew!

120.  The same Samuel continued prophesying before them. And when the King neglected the voice of that same old man, what followed? Let our elders not die, let our elders live.

121.  If I should take you into the scriptures this morning, many will marvel. Go and look into the scriptures, you see the children of Rehoboam. Rehoboam gathered young men, used them as his advisers.

122.  They advised him wrongly saying, “This is the turn for the young men to rule. Reho-Reho, your father ruled them with soft hand being an old man.

123.   As young men, we should rule them with stronger hand.” Then Rehoboam said to them, “It is my turn. Young men come.

124.  Do not mind these old-fathers. The Apostle is tired, the Bishop is tired. We are fed up with their ancient preaching. It is now our turn to revive the camp.

125.  ” Let me tell you, it is that same spirit that Satan used and injected it into many here and that is a rebellious spirit, “That the time of the old men has expired”. That it is now our turn.

126.  This is so because words are spirits. That is why we guide against reckless utterances. You want to come to the pulpit and you have no message, please come down.

127.   Anything coming from the pulpit, somebody somewhere will be attributing it to the Holy Ghost. It requires he that has the Holy Spirit to know the throne where the thing is coming from.

128.   All that is coming from the pulpit cannot be credited to the Holy Spirit. Somebody can be there and under false anointing, he will be making some utterances.

129.   I do not know whether you are catching what I am saying? This place is high place for dangerous Spirits. I am looking forward to seeing a young man…

130.  I know there are sincere ones here. God allowed these things to manifest in Enugu and in our various families, so as to enable us put our house in order.

131.   It happened that way so that brother Amankem will know that he is not an able pastor because he went and came back with casualties. The casualties were so great to remove him.

132.  He did not only kill the brethren he went with, he equally killed the people he visited. He killed the judge at Enugu.

133.  A situation where brother Okey that was in Enugu accompanied them to that place, reached there, started disputing with them to the point that our Brother Umezulike abandoned them there. 

134.  Such thing should not be mentioned among believers. God bless you all!                

SECTION 2

NO SECOND CHANCE BY

BISHOP OKEY PAUL

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SPIRITUAL HARMONY

1.          The first day he came to the pulpit, I looked at him and remembered Joe Imo, even his way of speaking English, I just saw Joe Imo. But when I mentioned Joe Imo, he did not know who Joe Imo was, I said, “Especially his intonation”. He speaks English like the way Joe Imo used to speak when we were at Ugwumba.

2.          Brother Okey didn’t come to represent him for bad; brother Okey came to represent him for good, but if he does not take his time, he will also fail. However, he does not know that he was behaving like somebody! Are you getting me? There could be a sister you will see here and you will remember another sister that was here some years ago.

3.          She may not resemble that sister in outlook or appearance but she may resemble her in character; I mean the sister may be here sitting down on the same bench with us, wearing a different garment, yet the same character.

4.           I am saying that we should not bring bad trace of what God flushed out before in our fathers. Our fathers troubled God so much that God in anger banished Abagana, they were all dear brethren in those days.

5.          Many young sisters and brothers, very dear! But they kept on troubling God to the point that the Bible said that there was no more remedy, God closed his eyes and banished them.

6.          Do not say because you have been restored to your positioned, that you can do anything now and God will keep quiet. You are not more important than those people God closed His eyes and excommunicated.

7.          Many have sat on this bench before us years ago and made sacrifices. I cannot forget the day Mama Ikebude entered into this faith; the moment Mama stepped in, the Holy Ghost through the Son of Man said, “Ooh, God is in the business of replacement”. Then the seat Mama Fanny was occupying, automatically, Mama Ikebude occupied it.

8.          Are you still holding tight with him? If Mama Fanny was wise, no matter how God had rebuked her and given her instruction, she would guide herself and remain humble. Halleluiah!

9.          Brethren, what am I saying? It is when you do not realize where you are that you become stubborn and rebellious and fail to take instruction.

10.      The moment you lose that sight, you become disorderly, you break the unity of the body and you break spiritual harmony.

11.      Imagine a situation those that went to Enugu came and gave us testimony on Thursday; on Saturday last week, I was in Pastor’s house with brother Stephen, I saw the Son of Man coming on his motorcycle. He said, “Brethren, I would have been in Enugu this morning” That was Saturday.  He said he would be going to Enugu that morning, that last night, he never slept”. He said that the brethren that went to Enugu were not doing any evangelism at all.

12.      He said that he never rested throughout the night. We started looking at him; He said that he got up to travel to Enugu and was reminded of the environmental sanitation.

13.      He said that there was no evangelism going on in Enugu. We were astonished; we looked at each other; by that time, the brethren that travelled to Enugu for evangelism were not yet back, they were still in Enugu.

14.      He said that he would have started at Abakpa, that no message was preached, and you should remember that it was at Abakpa that things got spoilt.

15.      He said; they would have met him at Abakpa, that he would have started preaching at Abakpa. We looked at each other again. So, on Monday when Brother Mike came to my shop, I told them what the Son of Man told us on Saturday.

16.      Brother Mike confirmed what the Son of Man said. He said, “Actually, there was no evangelism”, He said that all the expenses they made including transport fare, all were like money thrown inside the river.

17.      Can that chance given to them to participate in the first missionary trip come back again? That one chance has gone and will not come back again.

18.       If we should go to Enugu tomorrow, it will be another chance but not that first chance. That opportunity has been abused and messed up.

19.      How we ought to make use of every opportunity that comes to us, we must recognize that any time any good chance comes on our way, we must use it. It was like that day a brother was asked to join the brethren that travelled to Owerri, I didn’t know why the brother did not go to Owerri.

20.      It was a good opportunity that he was nominated to go, but the brethren waited and waited for him to come out, He could not come out before the brethren left.

21.      Do you think it is a light thing for somebody to be nominated for a missionary trip? The Holy Ghost that called you knows that there is a gap you will fill there. That day, I did not think that somebody filled your gap. If you were desperate, even this morning, you should have looked well to know where to meet them. After all, you knew the house of Brother Isaac, you knew No. 1 Ama J.K.

22.      Some of you that were born in the wilderness did not know what provoked God to anger in the beginning as a result of the iniquities of our fathers. The same thing is still provoking God till today.

23.      The day brother Dan was nominated to go to Owerri with us, when he came to Benjamin and found out that we had moved to Owerri, he knew the risk involved. So, he found his way to Owerri because it is not a light matter before God. If you are nominated to represent the church in anything and you could not go for one reason best known to you. Maybe you will expect the church to clap for you.

24.      I do not know what was your reason. Maybe you were sick; maybe you were dying. Even if you were sick, if you had believed that God would heal you, he would have healed you; you knew that very well.

25.      So, take warning on that; don’t behave that way again. After all, you were living at Nkpor, very close to me. If you had come down and told me, “Brother, I don’t want to go to Onitsha, tell the brethren that I am very sick,” it would have been better than to keep brethren waiting.

26.      Let me tell you! One of the early messages God gave us in this ministry was spiritual harmony, spiritual Harmony! Anything we are embarking on here without spiritual harmony, we are making no head way.

27.      ANY DAY OUR HEARTS BECOME POLLUTED AND WE BECOME DIVIDED SPIRITUALLY THEN THE DEVIL HAS SUCCEEDED AND THERE IS NO WAY WE CAN MAKE HEAVEN. I think that was what happened in Enugu.

28.      They broke spiritual harmony; there was no spiritual agreement in Enugu and then you thought it was a light matter.

29.      Jeremiah Chapter 7 verse 28.

30.      But thou shalt say unto them, this is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.” KJV

31.      These people that were referred to were the people of which we are their seed today.

32.      There is always a time when strange spirits come into the midst of the people of God, they will hear the message from God but will not obey it, yet they are the people of God. You have heard many times where God spoke to us as God and His people.

33.      The same way God called them, the same way God punished them any day they provoked Him. God was giving them chance over and over.

34.      If you read second Chronicles chapter 6, verse 16 down, the Bible said that God gave the same prophets to them who were warning them, managing them, admonishing them until there was no remedy to their sin.

35.      A situation where somebody’s sin has no remedy! So, when you are hearing messages, instructions and warnings from God; take it that your own chance has come, take it that it is your own chance to perform. When you are called to the pulpit to admonish us, take it that your own opportunity has come to cause people to believe God in your own day; then you preach and also manifest the life. If for one reason or the other you work contrary; you should tell people without argument that you are wrong, that sin is sin.

36.      A situation where somebody will do something that is wrong, he will wait to be begged before he will know that he did something wrong. It is a very dangerous spirit in the camp. A situation you will be wrong and somebody will tell you, “Brother you know this thing you did is wrong” and you know by our doctrine that you are wrong because the doctrine has revealed your character. Simply say, “Brother I am wrong, I know how this thing happened, pray for me.” Instead you start arguing, was it not what exposed Dan Chukwuemeka?

37.      Brother John the beloved went personally to tell him that he erred and that what he did was wrong. If he had agreed, there was no way any elder would have heard about it. And when he started arguing, the first voice that came out of his mouth was, “Go and tell the Son of Man.” This was the same voice that came out of the mouth of Brother Okechukwu Ibe, “Go to the pastor and apostle and report me.”  

38.      Check all that have made this statement, none was free from punishment because the Holy Ghost has spoken to you through the mouth of your brother, then that stubborn spirit pushed you to say, “Go and tell them”. Be very careful! Don’t use that statement, somebody would say, “Go and tell God about it. If you like, go and tell God.”

39.      However, when God will be told what you said, then God will speak on the matter. You will see your foolishness, so, we should not behave like these people brethren because our chance is narrow. Our chance is very slim; this is our chance.

40.         About fifty years ago, you were never called to represent Christ; this is now our own opportunity to represent Christ. If we miss it, what then do we give as a testimony? That is why, at a moment, I started meditating on what God is doing, I said, “God you are wonderful” because of the way He guides His people.

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ABUSE NOT THE GRACE OF GOD

1             God may hand down a message, before you know it He will come up with another one. Some days ago, we were battling with the message ‘Abuse not the Grace of God’ but now, we have come to the message ‘Love’. Look at the height we have just reached now. You see that this is a moving church; it is a moving church.

2            We were talking of the revelation of the hour, the Beginning and Ending of the Gentile dispensation before we went to the North, so, the church was rejoicing in that revival, then people held unto where there is no law, there is no sin, there we continued till we travelled out, coming back, we heard that some people had decided to abuse grace.

3            And then the spirit was very hot, before the grace of God was preached in 1997, the Holy Spirit had started bringing us back again telling us that we should not abuse the grace of God.

4            So, we continued, a little while, from the Almighty God again, the message came forth, “The Abuse of Brotherhood” changing the camp environment again. A little while now, He brought us back to love where we are heading to, can’t you see that we are going home?

5            I remember the voice that promised preaching Brotherhood at Amazu oil, go and play your tapes. The message ‘Brotherhood’ was promised in 1993. Go and play your tapes. That was why we believed that the highlights of this ministry were in those 1993 tapes because everything was moving stage by stage.

6            Predestination, adoption and all these things were promised there, including Tithe, yet some of them will stay two years, three years before you even hear them being handled.

7            Because they were all programmed, any stage we reached, that one would be revealed to us, in each of these messages, Holy Spirit environment would be created before handing them down.

8             It is like a pregnant woman who is about to deliver a baby, when the time comes for delivery, she will begin to develop sweet, sweet and loving attitudes, if she sees little children, she will lift them up and admire them because she is about to deliver, you see her getting loveable.

9            That is what the Holy Ghost is about to do, whatever that will cause us to grieve the spirit, He will remove them all, he will correct the errors so that the church will come to perfect harmony.

10        He will discipline every bad conduct so that there will be perfect harmony in the camp, and then the Holy Spirit will come back with this God’s own type of love.

11        Remember, when that love comes, that is our only chance of experiencing it; and then we must make good use of it. Halleluiah.

12        So, brethren, they behaved very wrongly in their day, and the bible is warning us not to take any road that is wrong. The bible said, “But thou shall say to them, this is a nation that obeyeth not the voice the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth”.

13        Truth is cut off from their mouth. Nobody wants to say the truth again. Anybody that is told the truth will get offended and will not want to hear the truth again.

14        That was why Jesus asked them a question, “Do you hate me because I have told you the truth?” That was why some of you misunderstood what the Holy Ghost said that you should look for a house where you should live. If you misunderstood it, you are guilty. What is bad about it? Is it not the truth? Instead of rejoicing!

15        Holy Ghost was speaking through our brother and he said, “It is not always that a female child is referred to as a grown up. Are you getting me? He said, “There is a time you can say that your child is a grown up;” there is a time you can say that your child is married, it is not all the time that people will ask you, “Who beget this child?”

16        There is a time to ask a woman, “Who beget this child? there is a time the question will change, “Who is marrying this girl?” It is not every day that they will ask you, “Who are your parents;” for thirty years, “who is the mother of this lady?” For forty years, “Who is the mother of this lady?” There is a time the question will change; nobody will ask again who the mother or the father is. They will be asking, “Who is marrying this lady?” I think this is the stage everybody should know who he/she is, knowing that we have only but one chance.

17        And this is that chance, we are in it already and must not abuse it. Halleluiah! The same Jeremiah chapter 32, I will read verse 33. What God condemned in the days of our fathers is the same thing He also condemned in our day.

18         “And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction.” KJV

19        God himself taught them, did they see any other God if not Jeremiah, Isaiah, or Ezekiel? there is nobody that feels happy when he bears a child that does not grow in knowledge and wisdom.

20        You have been trained and well furnished with the messages but when you are sent out to represent Christ, you mess yourself up.

21        There is nobody that will be happy to hear evil reports following a minister of God, a preacher of the gospel. What is God’s anger? He said, “Though I have taught them, but look at how they are behaving”. God was angry.

22        He didn’t start clapping hands for them, are you hearing me? God did not start clapping hand for them because he had taught them; that was why we are not happy concerning what happened in Enugu.

23        They were arguing and quarrelling over a matter in the presence of brother Umezulike in Enugu. Brother Umezulike listened and listened, carried his bag as a wise man and left them.

24        He became ashamed of them, he took his family in, while the brethren were devouring themselves because one man among them ignited the smoke that put them into confusion.

25        Without the gospel of Christ, will anybody call young boys like you to go and stay in the house of a judge? Even common sense teaches how to behave in the presence of such a personality. You made him to begin to see himself as one who has believed the faith of the infants.

26        Did God commit any evil by selecting you to represent Him in the house of a judge? If you are sent to evangelize, trouble! If you are called up to the pulpit, trouble! If you are asked to sit down, trouble! Yet you want the elders to give way for you. You want us to barb your hair like that of Edward, do you have the face of Edward? Are you getting me? It is not a laughing matter.

27        You want us to barb you like Edward, can you really behave like the man you want to pattern after in hair style without supervision? Then you know how to arrest situation so that there will be a spiritual harmony.

28        When we went to Kaduna, I started preaching but along the line I was halted by the Holy Ghost for our brother to talk, because of the little words he spoke, the man became interested in hearing him. So, when I discerned that, I relaxed in my chair. Did you hear any report that we were arguing or we came back home and I was offended?

29        Did you hear any report that I entered the vehicle and left the brethren there? sometimes, whether we are being killed or butchered, Holy Ghost remains the message that will be in our heart so that nobody will distribute the message.

30        Let me tell you! It is better you go somewhere on a personal visit, stay in a motor park and have sex with a woman without the bible with you yet you are a member of this Church; then you come back here to confess that you misbehaved yourself somewhere and ask us to forgive you than for you to mess yourself up when God sends you before many people to go and represent the church.

31        You did not see it as an opportunity God has given to you to represent us, then you want the angel to be happy? Then how can that person go home without incurring God’s wrath? I have never seen one.

32         Some of you think that I am the one being referred to, let me tell you! When Moses and Aaron were about to give way, people were looking forward to see the young ones that would succeed them. Don’t look at me or any of these ministers working with the Son of Man because one day, God may decide to take us home all at the same time.

33        You are the people he is talking to, you should rise up! If you are a wise man, we should see your action.

34        I will read scripture for you. Read I Peter 5, verse 5 and 6 only! Read Amplified version!

35        “Likewise, ye young, submit yourself unto the elder. Ye all of you be subject to one another.” Is that Amplified bible?

36        Therefore; humble yourself, demote, lower yourself” Demote yourself, use your hand and demote yourself, don’t see yourself as somebody.

37        It is not somebody that demoted you, already, you are on the ground, anybody on the ground cannot fall down again unless he dies, but the problem is that everybody wants to see himself as somebody. Let Christ make you somebody then you become somebody; don’t make yourself somebody.

38        Humble yourself, demote yourself!

39        “Demote, lower yourself in your own estimation.” Lower yourself in your own estimation, “Under the mighty hand of God, that in due time He may exalt you.” Under the mighty hand of God so that in due time He God himself, will exalt you! Continue!

40        “Casting the whole of your care, all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns once and for all on Him, for He cares for you affectionately, and cares about you watchfully” Amen!

41        You see, God is not happy! Take for instance, if God sends three brothers, common sense is there because I have already demoted myself, I am expecting instruction from him, I have already humbled myself, I have already lowered myself. He himself being a child of God also has already lowered himself expecting instruction. If the instruction comes out of my mouth, he will take it because he has already conditioned himself. If it comes out of his mouth, I will carry it out without having any biased mind. I won’t take it that he is insulting me. I won’t take it that he is gisting me; we will work in agreement, nothing to offend because we have spiritual harmony. We are one spirit; we are one body.

42        What is the essence of preaching a gospel to people telling them that we are only the true church having a perfect message, if we ourselves misrepresent that message? The bible said, “Let us go and bear His reproach outside the camp.” Instead, we turn the bible upside down, we now go out and do otherwise, are we going to write another bible?

43        When our Brother, Chimezie was sharing testimony with me, I gathered from him that this spirit manifested a little at Akumba but some did forbear.

44        This stage of the ministry is not where you are told to forbear your brother, how can I forbear my brother? What is the behavior he will manifest that will make me to forbear him? You shouldn’t behave in a way as to make me forbear you because one day I may not be able to forbear you.

45         We have but only one chance. Since we have only one chance, let us not miss it. A foolish man will miss his chance and turn around to blame God.

46        Some of you who are not faithful will want God to write another bible for you; seeing that this gospel should be entrusted in the hands of the faithful men, where are those faithful men? We are not happy that we misrepresented this message publicly and visibly, So, we have to be extremely careful.

47        Remove all the causes of offence so that the love of God can flow freely. When the pastor of the church comes up to the pulpit, he may address you on that matter; as for me, God is telling you this morning to adjust your mind and be very carefully.

48        Deuteronomy 21 verse 18, you see that God is not happy and there is a punishment for these stubbornness, rebellion and unruly behaviors in the camp. Read!

49        “If a man has a stubborn and rebellion son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:”

50        “Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;

51        And they shall say unto the elders of his city, this our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones that he dies; so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.” Amen!

52         In the city of Israel, the people who do evil practices so as to bring anger of God upon them; they normally join hands together against such people, they would bring them out in the city and stone them to death.

53        They would separate completely from such people; keep on being stubborn, one day, God, by and by, will trap you.

54        These sisters that do business, some of you have not fully believed our doctrines concerning Saturday market, what I am telling you is the truth, it is now touching your heart, you know yourselves.

55        Some of you have not really believed the doctrines of the Holy Ghost for your good concerning Saturday business.

56        Some of you behave like the Sabbatarians who do not see reasons they should rest on Saturday. So, be very careful!

57        Anything you lost for Christ’s sake is worth being lost because all these things are for our good.

58        This is your own chance, it is like the time we had daily fellowship. Assuming you murmured against it, did you know that there would be a time God Himself would help you on it.

59        Now, God has relaxed it and given you a little time. If you didn’t keep up to date that time, can you now bring it back? If you were not faithful when we were coming for daily fellowship, maybe you were among those complaining and complaining, now, God has halted it, can you now say, “If I had known that God would halt it, I would have obeyed with all my heart that time?” That is why anytime God gives a command or instruction, see it as a great opportunity for you to obey Him that time and use your whole heart to obey that time.

60        Holy Ghost was speaking to brother Amankem on Thursday, the voice said, “You must love God, you must continue to love God, then to Love one another will become simple.”

61        When you love God and love His commandment with all your heart, then to obey God’s word will become very easy. Do you think to love God is easy? God tested Abraham’s Love by telling him to use his beloved son Isaac to do sacrifice to Him. 

62        That is Love because there is no Love without sacrifice. Halleluiah! I am coming down brethren. Proverb chapter 1 verse 24!

63        Let me use this opportunity to talk about the danger of covetousness so that we learn something from what befell those that were excommunicated because of covetousness. It is now another lesson of its own. It is for me; it is for you.

64         God is drawing our attention to the scripture so that we will not destroy ourselves.

65        “Because I have called, and ye refuse; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded.”

66        If you read further, God said that many would turn around and that He would laugh at their calamity. God expects that when He is warning that we will see it as the opportunity to amend our ways and change. God may not warn you through the Son of Man. He can warn you through a small child.

67        He can use a brother or a sister but all the time we fix our eyes on the pastor, bishop or apostle. Your fellow brother may speak to you, when you go to the pastor he will say the same thing telling you, that it is true.

68        So, what am I saying? God is trying to point us back knowing that this chance we have is a great chance; this chance may not come tomorrow. If you see a brother in this church who is living a life contrary to our teachings, correct him and tell him that what he is doing is wrong.

69        If there is no God in him, he will flare up, but if there is God in him, he will behave like King David when Nathan warned him. I will close my message by saying that opportunity for us to represent Christ fully in this generation has come.

70        We will represent Christ very well so that what came to save us will help us. Let us rise to our feet as I invite the Son of Man to the pulpit.

71        God bless you church. It is not my desire to be here but something provoked me. Brother Dan, please come over this way with your children. I even told the pastor yesterday that it would be almost impossible for me to approach the pulpit today.

72        I want to steer clear from the pulpit and watch events unfold. If you are re-adjusting, you better re-adjust; we learn from the experience we passed through. I remember one experience that can never vanish from our memories.

73        There was a time the Holy Spirit commanded us to sell our television sets and use the money for something better for our families and even for the church. Some obeyed the voice immediately and quietly while some delayed; and while they were delaying, the Holy Ghost came back with the same matter and placed a blanket ban on selling of television.

74        The voice said, “From now hence forth, nobody should sell television set again rather they should be destroyed.” I don’t know whether somebody is following what I am saying? I am saying that delay can be dangerous.

75        God is a compassionate father. When God commanded that those who had television sets in their families should sell them because television is not a good property in the house of anybody that calls himself a child of God, they were also instructed to use the money realized from the sale of the television set to better their families or to use the money for any other thing they desired. Some people obeyed and sold their televisions, some people hardened their hearts, packed their own and put them under the beds. Some placed their own on the table thinking that God didn’t know what He was doing.

76        One day, the voice roared, “From now henceforth nobody should sell television set again, rather they should be destroyed.” That was the time some people started taking action. Amen!

77        It even affected us here as a body. That time, we were having a very nice piano.