FAITHFULNESS EXPLAINED

FAITHFULNESS EXPLAINED Preached on 31ST MAY, 2009 at The Household of God Onitsha by APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN © BRIDAL FAITH MINISTRY WORLD-WIDE

To be like God is to be faithful like God, to be straightforward like God. If God is reliable, you must be reliable. If He is dependable, you must be dependable. Whatever God is, is what you should be because you are a child of God. You have the Spirit of God in you. Thus, all the attributes of God must be made visible in your daily life. This is where poverty has emanated. Poverty is a sign of unfaithfulness. Your faithfulness must be visible before God and before man. —Son of man. SEVEN STEPS TO REALIZING THE PROMISES OF GOD. PG. 121 VS 47.

FELLOWSHIP AND COMMITMENT

Remain blessed Brethren. We give God the entire glory, honour, thanksgiving and praise for sustaining our lives all through these evil times. We will ever remain grateful to God for all we have been enjoying in His Presence. We have reasons why we must praise and worship Him.

Please, let it be known to all in the Bridal Faith that any Pastor in the Faith that is not keeping pace with this Faith must be benched. If by my honest assessment, a Pastor is found wanting in this Faith no matter the Local Assembly, that Pastor automatically must be benched. The time when we paraded Pastors that do not have the capacity even to run their families well is over.
Every Pastor must be prepared now to fulfill all that are stipulated in his office both spiritually and morally. Any Pastor that is found to be morally bankrupt, is not worthy to go by the title “pastor.” The time Pastor was seen as a title is over; the time it was seen as a mere office for recognition is over. We are now in the era where every minister will be prepared to prove and defend his Ministry in the Bride of Christ.
You are a minister, you cannot come and tell us that you have a Ministry or you are a minister orally like that, no, you have to make full proof of your Ministry, convince all of us and then defend it. That is why Saint Paul enjoined Timothy to strive at all times to make his calling and election stand sure. To Titus he said, “Strive to make full proof of your Ministry.”
I am not addressing Jerusalem alone. I am using this medium to address all other Local Assemblies that makeup this Bridal Faith in this part of the world.
I was discussing with my wife recently concerning Brethren, wonderful Brethren indeed. Wonderful in the sense that they made a great sacrifice coming down to the East to worship God, to learn of God because they have really believed that they are not being deceived.
I said, “This is one of the things I consider and then open my doors to receive them and make them feel very comfortable even before I will post them out to anywhere they will pass the night.
I consider the distance; I consider the troubles they normally go through. Imagine somebody who came down from Bayelsa State, the troubles it took him to be in Jerusalem. Imagine somebody who came from Lagos the troubles it took him to be in Jerusalem. It is not easy. Even those that traveled from the South East to worship with us in Jerusalem, it is not easy.
But from time to time, when we look around and we cannot see any of them, some of you appear to blaming them for one reason or the other. Put yourselves in their shoes, can you make it?
If God is stationed in Lagos, do you think you can volunteer to go to Lagos to hear from Him? What of those that came from the North and still, when they take all these troubles to come down to Jerusalem, Brethren can never extend their affection to them. Some of you avoid them; some of you cannot even extend your hand of fellowship to them. Some of you cannot be liberally minded even to stay with them for few minutes and have interaction with them.
Sometimes you regard them as beggars. What are they begging from you? Do you think they are coming down to Jerusalem because of your food and drink? The transport fare they paid alone, is it not enough to take good care of them? The transport fare they paid alone can make them feel comfortable in any hotel: eat and drink to their satisfaction.
Mere mentioning that you are a member of the Bridal Ministry cannot save you. Please take note of what I am saying. Merely embracing the Son of Man and His Ministry can never offer you the desired salvation. Merely sitting down in the fellowship worshiping with the saints of God can never offer you the desired salvation. The only thing I believe that can offer you that desired salvation is your attitudinal change.
You have to change your attitude towards God, towards one another, and towards the Ministry where you say you own your commitments.
There are too many of you that came into the Faith without having any commitment with this Ministry. If you are committed to this Ministry, your attitude will reflect it, everything around you must reflect your commitment to the Ministry.
But because you are not committed to the cause of Christ, to the cause of His Ministry, your attitude towards one another has become everything but good. Because you do not have personal commitment, individual commitment and revelation to the cause of Christ, to the Ministry that is committed into our hands your attitude towards God, towards the fellowship of the Saints, and towards your fellow Brethren within and without has become everything but good.
That is why when you begin to cry, you begin to shout expecting God’s blessings and I begin to wonder how God can shower you with His blessings in your naked unfaithfulness to the Ministry. How can God shower you with the desired blessings when you are manifesting unbelief?
There is intolerance among you. There is envy, there is jealousy, there are words of scandal, words of malice; words of discomfort emanating from your thoughts, your eyes are filled with hatred.
I begin to wonder whether you are really sincere even to whatever you may have called your covenant with God—that is if you have any. I have been meditating for sometime now concerning this Faith and the number of people that are likely to be saved in this Ministry—if at all somebody will be saved. I have been wondering whether the problem is with the Message or with the people that claimed to be the receivers of the Message.
I have scrutinized this Ministry, I have scrutinized all the Messages that proceeded out of my mouth backed up by the Holy Spirit, there is not even one that can be faulted. But there is something wrong in the recipients. The people that receive this Word do not manifest the Word; the level of hypocrisy in you is very, very high.
Why hypocrisy? It is better you leave us and then live your life the way you want than for you to come into the Faith without having rest even in the midst of God’s children.
If you are not having rest in this Faith, the truth is this: you are not a part of what is happening in this Faith. Look for that place where you can find that comfort.
Merely coming to fellowship, merely establishing a system of worship, a system of doing this and that can never give us the desired salvation from God; the desired blessing from God can never be attracted.
However, the only thing I know that will do the miracle is our change of attitude. The moment you change your mind for the better, your attitude will change for the better. You cannot change your mind and remain where you are, impossible! There must be a move either forward or backwards.
If you have no commitment to your family, it must reflect in the lifestyle of your family. A man that is not committed to the welfare of his family, that man is not even worthy to be called a husband. A wife that is not committed to the welfare of the family is not qualified to answer a wife. A child that is not committed to the welfare of his or her family is a bastard, he or she is not qualified to answer a son or a daughter in that family.
To what extent are you committed to your family? If this Family (the Bridal Faith) belongs to you, if you believe that God has only but one Family on Earth and you are a member of that highly cherished Family, highly valued Family, to what extent are you committed to the welfare of that Family?
I want to let all the Pastors in this Faith know that enormous responsibilities are vested on them to save these souls that are looking unto you for salvation but first, your own salvation must be guaranteed. If you are not saved you cannot offer salvation to others.

PAINT A PICTURE OF YOUR FAMILY

See all the Messages recently published, emphasis has been laid on the need for Pastors to feed the flock with the right food, to organize and administer the affairs of the flock in a manner that would be pleasing to God.

What is your target concerning your fellowship? What type of Brethren do you want to raise? What picture do you have in mind concerning the fellowship that is entrusted into your care? For every man must have a picture of what he wants his family to look like. A man that does not have such a vision concerning his family; somebody beating about the bush, for your family to be reckoned among good families you must have good pictures, good photograph of the type of family you want to present to the world.
If you have not painted a family picture before, it is not yet too late. Begin to paint one now, the type of family you would like to present to the society, you would like to present to God whether it is going to be a loose family, a reckless family, a disorganized family, a useless family filled with nonentities and hooligans, half-baked materials or you want to raise a formidable family, a family full of honour, full of integrity, full of respect, a family that will be a prime mover.
Whatever picture you are painting is what you must reproduce. But where you have no picture, you have nothing to reproduce, anything goes. The same thing is applicable to all the Pastors in this Faith. You must have a picture in your mind what you want your congregation to look like, but where you have nothing in mind, you have nothing to achieve; so it is in every day life.
A man without a picture of tomorrow has nothing to achieve. For you to achieve something you must paint a picture of the future and then begin to work towards it.
I was discussing with Brethren in my house recently and I discovered that many of them are just moving about without any lively program that can sustain life and I wonder what life means to that person who has just come out into the world attaining the age of adolescence without having any program for himself. I wonder whether that person is a human being at all.

THE NEED FOR COMMITMENT AND FAITHFULNESS

In the Message titled “Faithfulness,” I believe that God did not give it to us just for us to use it as mere cosmetic to oil our lips, I believe that God had already made us to understand that He is a faithful God. If He is not faithful, He cannot demand faithfulness from us.

Besides, in everything you do in this life, faithfulness is very, very essential. If you are not faithful to your commitment, to your academic works as a student, as a pupil, if you are not faithful to the instruction you received from your teachers, from your lecturers even at the university level, surely, you can never perform well.
Once you are faithful to whatsoever that is entrusted to your care, surely, the result will give you joy. The result can be published wide. But when somebody is unfaithful, expect no good result at all. If you are faithful to your marriage, you are committed to the success of your marriage; all that come to your house will glorify the Name of the Lord because of your family.
If you are unfaithful to your family, automatically, your family becomes a curse, the greatest abomination of all mankind. As many as will come into your family will regret even having been acquainted with you. They will even go out and say , “If this is all marriage entails, bye, bye to marriage.”
I will use our Brother Emmanuel Agu. Recently, when I saw him in the company of some Elders looking very much refreshed and happy in a mood he has never found himself even when he was living with a woman called a wife, his children also looking very good in appearance than they looked when they were having somebody around them called a mother, that goes show that the young man never enjoyed his family until now. He was merely dying in silence.
Too many of you are dying in silence both man and woman. What is the reason? If there is unfaithfulness in your family, it is either the husband is unfaithful to the commitment he said he has with his family or the woman is unfaithful to her commitment. Let Me tell you what I mean. If you do not know that there is a commitment know it now. Marital Conjugation is a commitment.
You saw a Sister and then solicited for her hand in marriage and she accepted or volunteered to live with you in marital relationship, a commitment has been entered into. That agreement is nothing but a commitment. You are now committed to one another, you are committed to the success of that conjugation otherwise it will turn out to be the greatest abomination of all mankind.
If you are committed to it actually, either party will be struggling to see the commitment succeed; to make the agreement succeed, nobody will walk contrary to that agreement. Everybody will be walking towards strengthening the tie that binds the two together. You are either walking towards strengthening the tie that binds you to your commitment or you are walking towards weakening it.
The tie can be weakened, it can be strengthened. That is what God is saying. Do we have any tie binding us with God? Our relationship with God is likened to a marital conjugation. The Almighty God is our Husband, do you believe that? If we are what we claimed to be, the Family of God, then God is our Leader, God is our Head, the very Christ is our Head and our Husbandman.
Remember, to Israel God Almighty was their Husband. Is it not true? When Israel became unfaithful to God by giving their allegiance to so-called gods, was God happy with them? When Israel could not strengthen their commitment with God, was He happy with them?
Do we have any commitment with God at all? If the answer is yes, how sincere are we to that commitment, how are we walking towards strengthening that commitment, that agreement or are we walking towards weakening it everyday? Unfaithfulness weakens love while faithfulness strengthens love.
As we remain faithful to God He will continue to multiply His love towards us. But as we continue to manifest naked unfaithfulness, surely, we may not be surprise when He will withdraw His love from us completely. Moreover, when God withdraws His love from His people, it is likened to a situation where a man withdraws his love from his wife.
If a man is forced to the wall to the point where he withdraws his love from his wife, definitely, noise making can never stop in that house, rioting can never stop in that house, every kind of evil will have its home in that house. Nobody will find rest in that house again—both the man and woman. Even the children born in that family will be left in a confused condition.
You see why we have to be sincere to what we say we believe. If we believe that God is our Maker, that God is our all and all, and He has given us His Word to obey and we know actually that whatsoever God will do in our midst is by our strict obedience to His Word, what will be our reasons for not being obedient to His Word?
In the Message titled “Examine your family Relationship,” it was written that there can never be peace in any family where the woman finds it very difficult to obey the words of her husband quickly and quietly.
Now, why not place God, Christ, the Almighty God as the Husbandman, for there can never be peace, for there can never be God’s blessing in a family, in a Local Assembly where the members find it very difficult to obey the Words of God quickly and quietly without grumbling, without murmuring, without giving it any undue personal interpretation.
We have to be very, very careful from now. If I am to say, I would rather say it without mincing words that the axe is now lying on the bottom of the tree. From now, any tree that does not produce good fruits will be hewed down so that the rest may thrive.

GOOD CHARACTER EXALTS AN INDIVIDUAL

I have searched all our Messages, you can hardly get a Message where God is not hammering on the presence of strangers, foreigners, mixed-multitudes, hypocrites in our midst. What is more, God has been saying that they (strangers) are greatly found among our ministers. This is the most touchy side of it. I am not surprise. God said partial obedience is no obedience.

Do you know that the worst example that annoyed God most is devilish examples that are being laid down by the ministers, for the congregation look up to the ministers.
The moment it is discovered that the ministers are not serious with what they are professing, the congregation can never be serious anymore. The seriousness by which the congregation embraces the Word of God is dictated by the seriousness of the ministers in implementing what they believe and preach in their personal lives.
I remember the word that I said in some of My Messages: “If you find it very difficult to obey as a minister, who do you want to obey then? Do you preach because you believe or you preach because that is what they say they believe? Having the head-knowledge of the Faith without a reflection of the Faith in your character is useless. That is why I hammer on academic attainment. I keep on telling my children that the driver of your academic attainment is your character.
Whatever might be the hardware (e.g printer) you have installed in your so-called computer, if there is no driver in that computer, the hardware (e.g printer) is useless. Academic excellence without good morals, or academic excellence with moral depravity leads to both moral and academic bankruptcy.
Acquire your PhD in any discipline when you are morally bankrupt, you will discover that it will lead you to nothing. You end it at nothing, you become an academic fool.
There are too many academic fools in the society. You can be a millionaire, you can be the biggest importer of goods in Nigeria, own everything you want to own, when you are morally bankrupt you are a wealthy fool—money miss road.
In other words, our character remains the driver that drives whatever might be our achievements in life. Whatever you think is your achievement, you need a driver and that driver remains your character. That is why when character is lost; your achievements are all completely lost. For that reason, if you are intelligent, blend your character with whatever might be your achievement in life and then you will never regret.
How faithful are we to what is committed into our hands as children of God? Do we have real interest in the affairs of our Family (God’s Household)? Do we show interest in things that can promote the good image of our Family?
Righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to any nation; that is the popular adage written in the Scriptures. Good character exalts an individual. Good character, good report exalts the reputation of every family but evil reports, bad conducts debase the reputation of any individual, debase the reputation of any family.
Moreover, once the problem starts from the head it flows down stream. The moment water gets contaminated at the source, it flows down stream. This is why there is wide spread of profligacy in our families: naked manifestation of rebellion, of hypocrisy in too many families. The heads of all our families are not dependable. I owe nobody any apology on this matter. You can prove Me wrong tomorrow but for today, it is impossible for you to prove Me wrong.
Ninety-nine percent of the heads of our families are not dependable, they are not reliable, they are unbelievers to the teachings of the Son of Man more especially on family matters, and the water spoils at the source and flows down stream. You will not know the havoc you are causing to yourself until your children will clock 10 and 15 years, and then they begin to manifest that which they emulated from you; it is that time you will realize that you have caused yourself great havoc.
Sin is entertainment; evil is entertainment to anybody that is not a child of God. Evil is a very nice entertainment to anybody that is destitute of truth. But every true seed of God can never play with evil. No intelligent fellow is given a choice to make and he chooses disaster.
It will take a fool to choose disaster and call it pleasure. Something you know that has disastrous consequences in your family, in your own individual life and you gain nothing from it, you harden yourself and then continue in it anyhow. Why? Simply because you have the power to do it.
After all, you are the king of the house; you are the queen of the house, who comes into your house to police you? What is more, at the end of the whole thing you will come down to fellowship to sit down as angels. I say no! Do not ever try it! Do not ever give us that impression unless you want to die prematurely.

GOD IS CALLING FOR TOTAL COMMITMENT

said in the beginning that membership of this place is not physical; it is purely spiritual. Membership of this Bridal Faith is not physical but purely spiritual. That is why you might be in our midst physically yet, spiritually you are not with us. Too many people are within this category: physically they are with us but spiritually they are not with us. Furthermore, anybody who is not in the Faith spiritually with us does not belong to us.

The same way, people make physical appearance in their family without any spiritual impact. You can make physical appearance in your family by claiming to be the head of the family. Simply because they see you everyday, occasionally you provide for their physical needs but spiritually speaking you have nothing to offer your family. Once somebody is spiritually barren, he is barren in all things. He can never be fruitful.
If you go to the book of Peter, when he was talking to his congregation, he told them, “If all these virtues be in you, they will make you to be fruitful and not to be a barren. You will not be found wanting in anything pertaining to life and godliness.”
You will be up-to-date. It is only there and then that you fulfill a very nice Scripture where God said that you have the unction, you have the spirit and you know all things. You do not have the need for anybody to come to buffet you about again; for the Spirit of God in you discerns between God and the Devil. The Spirit of God discerns between good and bad, the Spirit discerns between dishonest and rightful living. If you do not have that Spirit of God, everything is right in your sight.
Another spirit I have noticed that is killing many of you is the spirit of: “It does not matter. God has saved us. Nothing is wrong. I know I am saved.” For every evil character, there is a quote an evil fellow will use to back it up.
William Branham said, “Watch the evil man, watch the evil woman, he or she has a defense in every evil conduct.”
Evil men and evil women, if they do not quote William Branham’s Message, they know the Scriptures they will quote. If they do not quote that one, they know the Message of the Son of Man they will quote.
Watch all evil fellows among us—men and women alike—the quotes they will memorize are quotes that will cement them in unbelief. They can never memorize quotes that are challenging to them; quotes that will keep them away from error, keep them away from evil, but any quote that is credited to their wives, they will say Amen and have it.
Quotes credited to backup their excessive drinking like Brother Shedrach and he will say Amen. Any quote that is detrimental to the welfare of their families, they will always be quoting that one. If I should go the other way round, you will see somebody that will say, “Son of Man said that in the house of a king every kind of character is there; both good and bad, they are all children of the king.”
Then a foolish fellow will prefer to be that wicked and evil fellow in the house of a king who will always bring shame, dishonour, and disrepute to his parents.
A good child brings honour to the parents but a bad child brings humiliation, disappointment to the parents. A good child is always a blessing to the parents and receives blessing also from the parents, while a bad child is accursed. Even, the day a bad child is born is a cursed day. How many believe that the day a bad child is born in a family is a cursed day?
In the House of God there are objects of praise and there are objects of anger. Yes! But which one do you want to be? The Scriptures said that God has made us objects of praise. If God made an evil day for an evil man, why must you be that evil man for an evil day?

That was why I said that Judas Iscariot was stupid. If my master says that one of us must betray him, I do not need to begin to ask question like “is it I?” I will simply knee down and say, “God, may it never be me, even if it is anointing, let it never rest on me.” Amen.

FAITHFUL IS HE THAT HAS CALLED US

Presently, we have many Messages in the bookstand. But who will go for them? Only those that are thirsty, earnestly looking for the Word of God. Many can spend thousands of Naira even in Omagba drinking. There is a useless place they called “Point and Kill” where many of them always pass the night. They can go there, stay in one place and deposit one thousand five hundred Naira, but they can never purchase a Message that can impart sense into their being—a Message that can be reserved for their children yet to come. They have nothing they can leave as their legacy; they have nothing to offer to their children.

Do you know that in spite of all the publications we have made so far, it is regrettable to note that a good number of our so-called fathers in the Faith, heads of families have not found it convenient even to sit down with their children including their wives, using any of the Messages to exhort them? What I am telling you is truth.
The problem we are having is that their wives are defending illegalities and yet they are crying wolves, their husbands are covering illegalities. It is an illegal act in the sight of God for any family to omit family worship; family worship is endorsed by the Almighty God from the foundation of the world. But it is regrettable to say that it is completely absent in too many families in this Faith. Tell me, a family that cannot stay together, pray together, how can they move forward in this life?
Tell me where the man will have a forum where he can now address his children using his life’s experiences, sharing his experiences with everybody in the family? Tell me where he can now stay and interact maturely and in love with his family? I believe it is in the family altar that the man does honest assessment of the fruits of the Ministry in the lives of the members of the family.
It is in the family altar that children will even appreciate the love of their parents because family altar gives everybody an opportunity for personal expression. But how many will do that when the man cannot even hold any of the Messages and then tenaciously cling to that Message until he has read it, study it and understand the content. Some that purchase the Messages do not open them; they use them to decorate their houses while some have not even collected a copy since the inception of the publications.
There are some men in our midst, even ministers that have not collected one copy unless I give it to them as gift; not that they do not have the money, they spend more than that everyday. It is a shameful thing.
What is unfaithfulness, where then is the commitment to this great Family where you say you are a member? Where is your commitment to the Words of God which you claim to believe? Where is your commitment to raise your children up in the fear and admonition of the Lord?
Character modeling starts in the home, the same way character destruction starts in the home. You are either modeling the character of your children for a better tomorrow or you are leaving your children at the mercy of nature expecting disaster at the end. Yes! Why is it so? A child that is left to have his way must surely meet disaster. A child that is left unguided must surely meet disaster.
Most of the problems you are encountering in your life as an adult emanated from the very onset, it is an indication of your parents’ neglect; they never knew the importance of guiding you when you were too tender. Nobody chastised you, nobody advised you. They just allowed you and then handed you over to nature; and there is nothing you could do other than what you saw your people doing. By your people, I mean any group of people you found yourself.
Yes! I believe the Message that says that our characters are reflections of the people we surround ourselves with. You cannot surround yourself with sycophants and fools and then expect to manifest good conduct, can you? That is impossible!
What type of people do you surround yourself with? He that mingles with the wise must be wise but he that mingles with the foolish must be foolish. You mingle with lazy people, you must acquire laziness. You mingle with industrious people, people with very high principles and ideologies, surely, you must develop it by and by.
Watch students that mingle with industrious students–hardworking students–they do not play with their studies, they make it at the end. But watch those that mingle with foolish students that go to school to waste their parents’ money, waste the time they could have used for other better things, at the end they normally come out disappointed.
Thus, your lives are naked reflections of the people you surround yourself with. That is why if you are a seed of God and you still love keeping company with renegades, people that do not belong to this Faith, even people that ridicule this Faith, people that see this Faith as an abomination, there is no way the love of God can abide with you. Never, never.

YOU MUST GIVE ACCOUNT OF YOUR STEWARDSHIP

God warned us seriously as His dear children to be very careful that we do not mingle with scoffers, that we do not mingle with mockers; that we should refrain from them, refrain from associating with fools.

Who is a fool? A fool has already concluded in his heart that there is no God, that everything started on this Earth and will end here on Earth— that is a fool: “man die go, woman born another,” that is a fool. A fool will always harden himself in unbelief: “Nobody trained him, why should you bother me to come and train my children? If they want to be useful let them be useful. If they do not want to be useful let them be useless,” that is a fool.
Faithfulness. Faithful is He that has called us and we have to prove it to Him that we are faithful in all things. As stewards, stewards are people that are accountable to superior authority. If you are accountable to a superior authority, you are a steward and as a steward one thing is sure: one day you must be called up to give account of your stewardship. Whether we like it or not, we must give account of our stewardship to Almighty God either in this life or hereafter.
Let nobody ever fool you, judgment of God is sure and certain. If human beings here on Earth have rules they establish where they judge cases of illegalities of different magnitudes, and these human beings that established these thrones are created by Almighty God, how do you think that you can get away like that? If there is nothing like that, what is the essence of instructing you?
You are going to face judgment, judged by all you have been instructed by.
God has instructed you about television, he has told you the awful consequences, he has instructed you about drinking and every kind of life, there is no area of life He has never touched, on that day you will be shocked, you will be shocked that day.
I have told you time without number, if there be any instruction from God which you find difficult to obey, the moment somebody obeys it you have no excuse, that person automatically becomes a witness against you, he must testify against you whether you like it or not. There is no place to hide, hide under your bed; I do not know what to tell you.
Do you know that whoever that harbours television is as guilty as one that harbours pistol in his house? As long as God liveth, that person is a criminal, he hates himself and the society. A gadget the manufacturer regretted after manufacturing it; a particular newspaper carried the news of a private television station that was denied license and the owner is still running it secretly and that man specialized in looking up with foolish and useless women. I really do not know why women fall prey to all these nonsense. Anyway they must be ungodly women. The same way it requires an ungodly man to fall prey to that nonsense.
I believe I watch enough cinema everyday. This is what I believe. What I see on the high ways, in the market places, in schools and colleges, in my yard, they all form enough movie. I do not know if there is any movie that is as entertaining as the one your children display in your parlour, as the one your wife displays in her kitchen and everywhere.
You want to take interest in watching nude women, no problem. Don’t you take bath with your wife? Is their nudity different from the one your wife display in the bathroom and bedroom; you see stupidity in action.
Once you are faithful to God all these evils will vanish? How faithful are you to what is committed into your hands? Is there anything that is committed into your hands at all?
The Scriptures say, “Do not commit anything very meaningful into the hands of a fool for he knows that he is a fool; he is unfaithful, he does not know the value.” You do not know the value of where you are now.

TEMPLE ROBBERS

was listening to Reverend Adeboye of Redeemed Christian Church of Nigeria when he was ministering in the radio Nigeria recently. I said, “Praise be to God.” I listened to the man interpreting Matthew chapter six in his own way: the Lord’s Prayer, “Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven;” he drew the line there and began his interpretation.

Brethren, everything centered on materialism. Material acquisition became the interpretation of the Lord’s Prayer. I do not know how to talk to you. If there has ever been a notable criminal, he is number one. No wonder all politicians are now using him. Look at his statement. He said, “Wherever you are now watching this program going on, you will see the governor of our State dancing to this Christian songs.” It is very much fascinating; look at a governor dancing in his Church and it is being televised nationwide.
That is a campaign. Of course, governors now use Churches in their campaign. Islamic governors now build Churches for Pentecostals in the Northern states to show them their generosity.
In Bauchi State for example, the governor of Bauchi State used state money to build the Deeper Life temple that was pulled down during the crises, and on the day it was opened, he officiated with all the members of House of Assembly; all the Alhajis, they fellowshipped together calling themselves our Christian brethren and our Muslim brethren. The governor said, “Today marks a new era in the history of this state, for today, both the Muslims and the Pentecostal Christians have re-integrated socially and religiously.”
Integration is going right now. Of course you know that very well. You cannot separate or divorce politics from religion; they are all one. That is not our topic.

HOW FAITHFUL ARE YOU TO THE FAITH?

ur topic is Faithfulness. As long as we cannot accept that we are unfaithful, there is no remedy for us.

Check your life as a Sister, as a Brother, check your habits. As little children, are you faithful to your parents, how obedient are you to their instructions, how obedient are you? Do you obey your parents quickly and quietly without grumbling, without murmuring, without quarreling?
How faithful are you to the Faith that is preserving and protecting your life? Judge yourselves one by one for the Scriptures said, “If we judge ourselves we shall not be judged.”
I have told you time without number that there is no part of the world where there is absolute freedom and the Almighty God has never given human beings absolute freedom. In other words, you are free to do whatever you want to do and behave anyhow, no, no, no.
Freedom is enshrined in the United Nations charter; it was just there to regulate certain things but it is not total freedom. In your constitution in Nigeria, it gives you freedom of choice, it gives you freedom of expression, it gives you freedom of movement, it gives you freedom of association and other things like that, these are just nomenclatures. There are certain utterances you will make today and you will be arrested, detained and queried or even imprisoned.
There are certain places you dare not step your feet into. You try it, you will be arrested immediately. You dare not have any link with anything called secret cult yet it is an association; so it is in every family.
As parents, do you give your children freedom to do everything, you can’t. If God has given us total freedom, why using His Word to regulate our activities, for whatever God has approved for us is found in His Word, whatever God disapproved is also found in His Words.
Thus, the Word of God must be in you for you to be able to know what is pleasing and what is not pleasing to God, and that is the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God will always tell you that which is proper and that which is not proper. But where you do not have the Spirit of God, everything is fitting and proper in your sight. Even if you are corrected you must say something, you must quarrel and rebel.
Faithful is He that has called us, that is why He wants us to be faithful.
A Sister had a dream which we narrated sometime ago where she was directed to a shelf or library to collect her own personal file. Immediately she laid her hand on the file and opened it, what she saw was unfaithfulness and she shivered. Then while she was wondering, the same thing attacked Apostle Kelechi and Brother Amankem.
If they are wise and intelligent, they would not go about asking why. They should go on their knees for that was what Job said, “God, show me please wherein I have erred quietly. Humbly teach me and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.”
I believe that by now they must have solved the problem for if you do not solve that problem, nobody will solve it. God knows what He is doing.
I narrated a dream to a Brother; two dreams that resemble one another, dreamt by two different individuals at different times.
The Brother had a dream and he brought it to Me and then said, “Daddy, I want to say something. This dream my wife had, I also had that same dream many, many times. Even recently, I remember she had this same dream.”
I said, “Okay, I will not talk yet. I cannot talk on such matters. Whether it is a thought, whether it is something in the future, time will tell.”
There are too many things you might be doing thinking you are hurting God, but you do not know that you are hurting yourself. You think you are discrediting the Faith not knowing that you are discrediting yourself. A man that is discrediting his family indirectly is discrediting himself. A woman that is discrediting her family automatically discredits herself; so it is with the children.

WHAT ARE PEOPLE SAYING ABOUT YOUR BEHAVOUR?

Like I keep on telling the children, remember you are the image makers of your families. Whatever character you are manifesting will tell the world the type of family you come from. If your character is bad, it will be attributed to your family. If your character is good it will be attributed to your family.

Please narrow this down to the Bridal Ministry. If when you have interaction with people they begin to glorify the Name of the Lord because of you, it goes to show that your Faith has been approved, although they are quarreling with your doctrines, but they are in agreement with your life, with your character which is the most important thing. Nobody can live a life higher than his doctrine.
Check the testimonies following you wherever you go, what are people saying about your behaviour? I will use a test case in Enugu.
The Vice Chancellor of University of Nigeria, Nsukka, when he was in Bauchi as a lecturer in Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi (that was where Apostle Ojiakor did his youth service), Apostle Ojiakor come in contact with him. They were together in the Anglican Communion. They were together in EFAC. Of course, the V. C. Professor Chinedu Ebo is still a strong member of EFAC till today.
They were fellowshipping together with Rev. Dr. Ezeugwu of St. Christopher of Old Cemetery. To be precise, they knew themselves. When Brother Ojiakor decamped from Anglican Communion, he carried the Message back to the V. C. (as of that time he was the D.V.C. at ESUT), and the man called him a devil, called his Message devilish. The thing continued.
Eventually, that man became the Vice Chancellor of University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Then, as God could have it Brother Ojiakor was stronger in the Faith together with the family; all our publications he tendered to the man. Some of them, the man read with enthusiasm, some he did not even open because our Messages have something that can stumble somebody.
Take for example, the Message titled THE FOOLISHNESS OF GOD, the title has caused trouble more than the content.
Yes, God is always in the business of placing a stumbling block. It will take a seed of God, it will take a foolish man to read about the foolishness of God, but to a wise man of the world, “No, no, no. How can God be foolish? In short, this man is the naked Devil! What is his name calling God foolish? What makes God foolish?” I mean without opening, he will vow a vow never to go through it no matter the content.
As they continued together, Brother Ojiakor got employed and still holding unto this Faith. Interaction now started; from time to time the V. C. will proclaim, “Ojiakor, of a truth your life is challenging. But for me to accept this your doctrine, it will take Almighty God from Heaven.” The wife will say the same thing.
A little while, Sister Ojiakor had the opportunity of appearing before the man and he recognized her and said, “Mrs. Ojiakor, I used to call you sister, but you are no longer a sister. I do not know what you believe about Jesus and the Bible; but your life is challenging. I can see virtue but I hope it is not self-righteousness since you are not believing Jesus anymore.”
They continued and continued until it got to a point where the D.V.C. that time, Professor Peter Ebigbo proclaimed to his colleagues that if there should be one anybody can see and call a child of God, that they should see Ojiakor.
What is more, this is the person who had earlier on refused to read our Message but testified that our lives are the life of Christ, but our Message is the Message of the Devil. You see their assessment and I want to say that I would rather live like Christ and preach like the Devil. For what the world is looking for is Christ and my character is Christ, but the teaching that molded my character is Devilish according to them. But can the Devil’s teaching produce Christ character? You remain the judge.
The lives we live bear eloquent testimonies of what we believe. The life you are living is telling us that you are either one of us or you are not. You can be in the Faith but you do not obey our Messages. My life reveals what I believe. The same way, your life, your character reveals what you believe. There is no hard and fast rule on this matter, it is clear as the day.
Can I plant maize and reap tomato? If what is planted in Me is the Word of God and the Word of God is spirit and life, the life I am living is what is planted in Me.
Before we knew it, all his (Brother Ojiakor) enemies were under his footstool and today he has become the head of the University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus Clinic with authority to recruit anybody in all the areas that need personnel(s).
Not only that, single handedly he was given the authority to establish an ultramodern laboratory for the school which never existed before. A task he accomplished with credit. He not only accomplished it, he accounted for every kobo that was given to him for the assignment and then his opponents became strongly envious.
The V.C. decided to transfer all of them out and wrote a letter making our Brother the head, restoring to him all that are meant for the headship, including a driver and an official vehicle. What is more, twenty-four-hours security with a security booth constructed even at his gate.
While we are talking about that, the same woman who head the section where they compute results, the woman reported to the V.C. that our Sister Ojiakor was an anti-Christ, that she does not believe the Bible; that Sister Ojiakor blasphemes Jesus. The same woman with her hand and mouth recommended Sister Ojiakor as the only child of God in that department, that she is working without accepting bribe from anybody. That her presence has cleared arrears of results from 1999 till date.
Now, she has recommended that Sister Ojiakor should be transferred to the head of the laboratory department, that is, the laboratory science department, she is now going to be the head; the same person that blasphemed is the one that recommended our Sister simply because our Sister’s life is very much challenging.
You see why I keep on saying that in everything, your character remains the driver, driving you wherever you want to go. It is your characters that will earn you a reputable position, not your certificate. You may have that your certificate without character; nobody will give you position. Your character remains your driver and not your achievement. In other fields of endeavours, they are fine but what will push them along is your character.
Your character will grant you favour before the kings and rulers. Your character will give you favour before your enemies. Your character will give you favour before the heathens. Your character is number one; that is why once character is lost, all things are lost.
A man is poor not because he has no money but because he has no character. A poor man is not one without money but one without a reputable character, that is a poor man, that is a poor fellow.
If you believe that what God is saying is truth, you do not require any angel to begin to tell you to mould your character to be fitting in your belief. Begin to mould your character to be fitting to your belief.
How do you mould it? Surrender yourself to the Spoken Word, surrender yourself to all you have been hearing, be faithful, be obedient, be committed to the cause of Christ. If the Word of God cannot change your character, nothing in this life nor in the life to come will change your character. Amen.

MARRIAGE

If you want to know about marriage as God ordained it from the very beginning please, go to the Messages titled “Marriage the Oldest Institution Ordained by God,” volumes 1 and 2.

Remember we received the Voice. He said, “God will change everything in the Faith but will never change His doctrine on marriage.” Young men in this Faith, young ladies in this Faith, do you understand what I am saying? You have no right to discuss marriage with anybody until you know the meaning of marriage. If you have it in mind that one day you will marry or one day a man will marry you, you have no right whatsoever to discuss it even on your phone until you have known what marriage is all about.
It is because of the problems we have been encountering in some marriages that prompted Me to go back and then reproduce the ancient Messages, so that you can know the foundation of marriage before you go into it.
The Message titled “Family Menu” is meant for those that have already married. But for those that are yet to marry, you must get your copy of the Message titled “Marriage the Oldest Institution Ordained of God from the Very Beginning,” volumes 1 and 2.
Number two, you must get the copy of the Message titled “Marriage and Divorce,”
Whatever problems you are encountering in your families emanated from your inability to know the truth about marriage before you entered into it. That is why I say it without mincing words that ninety-nine percent of the marriages contracted from the year 1998 I preached the Message of Grace are “human associations;” they are not marriage. We are only trying to make them look like marriage, but ninety-nine percent of them were not contracted on real marriage foundation.
Every building has a foundation. Remember that the foundation of a building is covered and fortified before subsequent blocks are erected. As a result, at the completion of the building you will see a fanciful building but the foundation is hidden.
Any marriage that is subsisting in Godliness, surviving the odds and tides of life, you see husband and wife forging ahead with their children no matter the problem, go and examine it, the foundation is covered inside; it is standing on a solid foundation, unshakable and immovable. They knew about marriage, they were told the intricacies and they volunteered to come together to manifest A to Z.
If you have been hearing about marriage and troubles parents are having with their children and things like that, fine. They are not enough to sustain you. Go back to the foundational Messages and get your copies. Even if you sell your property to get a copy of each of the Messages, you will never regret it.
Once there is life, you can correct all those errors, correction is done by the living and not by the dead, how many believe that?
Brother Chime’s wedding tape will be in book form soon because God used it to talk to everybody; but he needs the Message titled “Marriage The Oldest Institution.” Although he was there when the Message was preached but the wife was not there.
If you begin to implement the truth which your wife was not there and had never heard about, your wife will call you a wicked man. However, any day she knows that truth, believes that truth, she will love you the more.
The same thing applies to some of you that married Sisters who came into this Faith before you and they knew more than you. You might be in this Faith from the very beginning or from the End-Time Message and your wife that embraced it with good heart will know better than you. But you that played hypocrisy will be hanging on the surface; for everything your wife says, you will be countering it claiming to have been with us from the very beginning, when you know nothing.
This is the only way I believe all of us will come to the uniformity of the Faith. That is why we are reproducing the ancient Messages.
I am not intending to take you back to the Law but all those relevant Messages are there for you, especially those that were not with us from the very beginning, for you to see how we took off; that God did not give us this Faith on a platter of gold. We really laboured for it. He saw our sincerity and then He blessed us.
From the very beginning we have never pretended to be anybody’s friends in this Faith, for you to give us money as a gift; never, never. We have to be honest, truthful to our cause and calling.
Of course, not all of us are called. There are too many people that were not called and it is manifesting in their characters.
If you are called, your eyes, your mind will be focused on your calling in Christ and not on any other thing. You might be friendly with everybody but when it comes to handling this truth, your eyes are red against everybody, for you know nothing but the truth, that the truth of God must continue in the hearts of His children. That is your target.
As a result, do not say I have known everything A to Z. You need Messages, go for them and collect them. Another Message you need to get is the Message titled “Get Rid of Dangerous Weapons from the Hands of Fools and the History of Christianity Globally.” Amen.

THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF CHURCHES

The Scripture says and I believe it that we are sons and daughters, we are children of the Most High God, but the rest of the world around us are under the power and control of the Devil. What you called Churches are cults. Remember it will take a criminal to call you a criminal.

Catch a criminal, what he will say is, “What of you, are you not a criminal?”
It is what is happening everywhere that makes people to conclude that wherever people gather and clap their hands and say they are worshiping God that they belong to the same category, you now begin to see why politics and the Church have fused together in everything
A self-acclaimed wizard and traditional medical doctor confessed in Saturday 30th May, 2009 Sun Newspaper that he gives pastors charms to perform miracles and pull crowd. The self-acclaimed wizard and traditional medicine practitioner disclosed new breed pastors seeking powers to perform miracles and enhance numerical strength of their Churches.
Chief Doctor Olari Ogudugudu Aqwoike told Saturday Sun Newspaper that he is in the business of solving people’s problems or helping them to achieve their heart desires. He also added that giving the men of God the power to make waves and pull crowd is just a part of what he does.
The Edo State born seer said that Churches have become business centers hence pastors are adopting various management styles and marketing strategies to attract worshippers. He added that he treats various cases including infertility in men and women, madness, poison, Ogbanje spirit as well as helping those who want to quit cigarette smoking.
A born Catholic, the young wizard was trained as a panel-beater; he was actually practicing panel-beating before he got the calling. He said, “While I was doing my work as a panel-beater, I was seeing visions for people, foretelling the future and usually everything I said happened. I went into full-time practice as a spiritualist and traditional medicine man. When I could no longer concentrate on my panel-beating job for instance, people come to me to repair their cars rather doing their jobs, I will resort to prophesying for them; that was what happened on the source of my powers.”
Ogudugudu further explained, “I got my powers from God and my mother because it is the job my mother has been doing all her life. As a result, I inherited the power from her. Thereafter, I started buying power from other sources. I acquired more powers from a lot of places such as in India and Nigeria my fatherland. In fact in this country called Nigeria, there are powers if you know your way.”
The seer who maintained that God is his master on the job said, “I just called God first before I start doing anything.” However, he declined to explain how he empowered his pastor clients, for what they do on the altars or Church premises to attract worshippers according to him would not be in the interest of his business. He said that it would destroy the confidence imposed on him by his clients.
He said that if he explains how these things are done or what pastors do in their Churches, when people come they will start searching everywhere when they come to service to see if their pastors are involved. “But there is no doubt about what I am saying,” he explained, “because there are all kinds and levels of power. If I were a pastor I would have done wonders and people will be rushing to my Church. I chose not to go into Church business because that is not what I am called to do.
He argued that he will not mention names of his customers saying that the mere fact that he disclosed the matter to the Sun Newspaper reporter will cause great agitation here and there.
The wizard said, “All I can say is that we prepare charms for some pastors to boost their business, to attract customers.” “Of course, there are different categories of charms, some are buried in the Church, some they use to bath, and they put some in their mouths when speaking. These charms work effectively. Even, some of the pastors use special handkerchief we prepared for them. With this preparation, they do extraordinary things and everyone is happy. I do not do these things for free. They pay me the agreed amount before I do the job for them, that is all,” the wizard explained.
On the difference between his kind of power and the power of God, he in turn said, “God is supreme and we are children of God, no power is greater than God. He gives power to whomsoever He likes. The most important thing is what you do with the power because death is the penalty for everyone, so God is supreme for He created the Heavens and the Earth and everything therein.”
The man went further to say, “I believe in Jesus Christ as the son of God.” The wizard said that people in his trade and their masters congregate (meet) in the spirit realm to hold meetings.
“Yes, we meet in the astral world. What we do there is not what to tell ordinary people just like that. Hence, anyone who wants to belong should come and eat and then belong. That is the truth. When you come we will tell you what it entails.”
He insisted that stories told in Nollywood movies regarding astonishing happenings are mere concoction or outright lies. He said that what they are doing in Nollywood is rubbish and arrant nonsense. “They can never show you the true picture of witches and wizards until you knock at the door and get inside,” the wizard said.
Ogudugudu said that he does not believe in the reality of Heaven and Hell. As far as he is concerned, once someone is dead that is the end, another generation continues. He advised Africans to believe in their culture and that they should stop deceiving themselves with these talks about Churches. That people commit all sorts of atrocities in the name of Church. People do all kinds of things and run into the Church claiming that they have repented.
The lord of money is now ruling the world. Everybody wants to ride expensive cars in the name of religion. People are committing all kinds of atrocities, and it shows we have lost our valued system. He went further to say that the decay of infrastructure and the under development of the country is as a result of monumental way of corruption, advising government to cultivate a lasting solution to the menace. The solution he suggested is that public office holders should be made to swear Ajilalar (the name of his god).
The wizard said, “It is because we give them Bible and Koran that they are stealing our common wealth with impunity knowing fully well that nothing will happen to them. If they are arrested, any of them taken to court will come out victorious and enjoy his loot. If they eat kola from Ajilalar, they will die if they steal our money. With Ajilalar no one will try that rubbish.”
He entreated that Nigeria’s biggest problem is leadership failure adding that as long as injustice and inequality continue, the country will continue to grope in darkness.
Now, how many believe that this man is speaking the truth? Are you surprised at what is happening everywhere? You remember some years ago when it happened at Enugu; there was a big Church there called “Redeemed” where the Police arrested the pastor and exhumed the corpse of an infant that was killed and buried in the Church premises, and his confessional statement to the newspaper reads thus, “The native doctor that made the concoction, we paid him actually and the man said when the body of the brutalized baby will be decaying, the number of maggots in the baby’s decaying body will be the number of people in that Church.”
I equally told you another true life story of a lady in my in-laws place in Nsugbe in Anambra State whose father was a real native doctor before he died. You might be hearing about “Ajana Nsugbe;” that is the man. The daughter attends Christ True Mission and one day she came home with concoction which she said she bought at the rate of N500 from their Bishop.
The idea was to tie the concoction on the bed so that witches and wizard will be scared. The father collected the concoction from her and began to query her: “You said you bought it from your Bishop, how much?” “N500,” the girl replied.
The father said, “But your Bishop collected it from me and he gave me only N1000 and I gave him a calabash of this powder. So, he is selling it to your members!”
The man quickly ran into his shrine and came back with the remnant. Then the lady angrily rushed back to the Church and told the members that what they collected at the rate of N500 was what her father gave to their Bishop.
A popular musician from that same area (Nsugbe) equally said that without the so-called Christians, all native doctors will die of starvation. Do you doubt it? That pastors patronize shrines, is it news in Nigeria again? That Churches are business centers, who first announced it, documented it and invited the attention of the government in a Message titled “The Hard Truth;” advocated that Churches should be taxed heavily for they were parading themselves as non-profit making organization?
Where then do they get the money which they use to ride all these big cars, buy airplane? Recently, we purchased a magazine where it was shamelessly displayed that the general overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of Nigeria purchased a private jet worth N4.6 billion; 28 sitter jet from euro engineer of America with every communication gadget well fitted.
Tell me where he got that money and he was announcing prosperity to his members that assembled at Lagos-Ibadan express way telling them that all of them will be landlords the coming year. By the time they will come to another meeting, many will be coming with their private jets in Jesus name and they were saying, “Amen, Amen.” All he said, his members echoed Amen.
Then finally he announced while I was listening to his program on radio; in short I was making a hell of a noise until my wife rushed, started interrupting me saying, “Daddy, the way you are shouting criminals, criminals, people will think robbers are in our house or that you are referring to our children. Please, lower your voice.”
I said, “No, this thing is getting too much! Can you imagine this man announcing the first hundred people that will come with one, one million, that they will be the first that will buy the jet?”
You see, I said, “No wonder crime can never cease in Nigeria again. Yes, because the preachers of Christianity, Jesus followers, their preachers have raised very high criminal tendencies in our youth and you know that no nation in Africa has ever produced over-ambitious youth more than Nigeria; youth with very high criminal propensities.”
Now, look at the type of preaching that is going on. Who can curb the wave of crime in Nigeria again when they give them the impression that what it takes to serve God is to ride jet without telling them how that money will come, without laying a foundation for wealth.
Any wealth without foundation is a devilish wealth. We are talking about job creation and the man is talking about miracle happening. There is no miracle that will happen except the miracle of job creation. The dignity of man must be restored through labour.
From the Garden of Eden, God ordained work for man. There is no where He said that manna will fall down from the sky, you labour and God will bless your every honest effort. See the type of preaching going on in the Churches, and people are rushing there! Do you know what he has used to hypnotize them? That is why they are sleeping in various shrines everywhere.
When the late secretary of Olumba Olumba made his revelation on how they were flying into Calabar, he mentioned CPM general overseer Ezekiel, he mentioned Kumuyi, he mentioned Idaoyi, he mentioned the general overseer of Winners Chapel, he mentioned many including late Benson Idahosa and they were angry at the man.
Note what the wizard said, “Divulging their names will make people not patronizing me again.” Even the much he had already said might jeopardize his business. You know it is truth; these are the people that will call us cultists. Before we open our mouths they will called us occultists.
Can you imagine a Roman Catholic calling us occults, is there any cult greater than Roman Catholic? Is there any group that has secret practice more than Roman Catholic?
You know thelaity (the followers of a religion who are not clergy) do not know what is happening among the clergy, and among the clergy there are too many ranks: the higher you go the more you sacrifice, yet they have the mouth to condemn innocent people like us, real sons and daughters of God without any form of defilement, no spot or wrinkle; people have divorced the Word from their programs.
I told you that if this Ministry is to make money, we would have been the richest. If God permitted us to use signs and wonders, miracles as a means of an advertisement there is no stadium that will accommodate people. Furthermore, I told you that if that is my ministry, I know one thing I will do and nobody will know anything called Church again except in this Faith only. One thing, for I know what they are looking for. I know what they are desiring, and I will give it to them. Everybody will rush into this Faith, but woe is Me if I should try it.
I have been ordained and sent to come and salvage the Elect of God in this dispensation, give them my Word: whoever that accepts my Word that is my ministry, finish. Go and seal all of them that are distressed, greatly perplexed by the level of atrocities that are on Earth, mark them one by one. Amen.

MODERN IDOLATRY

Reverend Adeboye of Redeemed Church of Nigeria said that God sent him. Watch the Scripture he was quoting to them, quoting Haggai, “Gold and silver belongeth unto me, you will not lack anything,” and foolish people will be listening to that nonsense. Anyway, it was predicted earlier.

Now, look at these excerpts and see whether it will agree with what I revealed in the previous chapters. I am using excerpts from the Message titled “Modern Idolatry.”
May God open your eyes to see the level of evil that is being committed in the world using the name Jesus, using Holy Ghost. I have told you that the Devil is no longer afraid of Jesus.
If the Name of God is Jesus in our day, everybody will go to Hell because the name has been greatly blasphemed: they call it in vain, they call it without respect, “Jeeesus” Jeeesus” “Jeeesus.”
Tell me, can you call your father by his first name? Any day you call your father by his first name, there will be no virtue in that name again, no respect for that name, no reverence, nothing!
“My Jesus did it for me”. Yes I like Jesus. Jesus is Devil, quote Me. Jesus is Devil, I cannot worship him. I have told you, do not kill Me but allow Jesus to kill me. It is not when you kill me you tell people that Jesus killed me. Allow Jesus to wait for me and kill me.
“Modern Idolatry,” the explosive and bitter truth. Examine what you worship: “Recently, a group of people met in Abuja under the aegis of the African Council of Religious Leaders. They were all leaders of alien religions; not even one leader of authentic Africa religion was represented in the Council and yet African spiritually is the mother of all the rather impotent alien variables and continued to dominate the African spiritual firmament despite centuries of persecution.
Christianity and Islam for instance were deliberately concocted or adopted from African sources to assist the White and Arab imperialists in their subjugation and enslavement of the masses of old world people. Followers were not allowed to think for themselves or challenge religious dogmas which Churches and Mosques claim were direct injunctions from God, their holy books. Their holy books were supposed to be sacrosanct.”
For example, God gave the Christian laws to Moses two thousand five hundred years on Mount Sinai in darkness of course to shut out the prying eyes and hog watch.
It was blasphemy to defile the Mosaic Law, the consequence is death. Every conquering religion claims superiority over those before it, and that life began with its advent. Without destroying what is on the ground, there is no space for the foreign religions to begin to breed and expand.
“African as a group has the most Westernized people on Earth by aliens ideas and religions. Foreign religion took away our human essence to reduce us to non-beings. Foreign religions insist that all African traditional and cultural attributes are evil, primitive, irrelevant and compelled Africans to discard their languages, native names, peculiar lifestyle and fashion.
To marry in the African way is evil and barbaric and our burial rites are ungodly and so on. Thus, right now we are thrown apart mentally and psychologically by religious conflict. We openly pretend to throw away our African traditions to aspire to the benefit of the imported constitutionally imposed alien religions; secretly we draw on our African traditions and spiritually to perform outlandish miracles in the name of our borrowed foreign religion.”
Secretly they draw from African tradition the powers and everything they use in doing their so-called miracles, signs and wonders openly. They pretended they have discarded all African traditions.
I want you to see the difference between where you are and where they are.
Pentecostalism is the largest goldmine in town. Pentecostalism, spiritual Churches, Holy Ghost fire, in the name of Jesus, “Father in the name of Jesus. I command in the name of Jesus: poverty will vanish, everything will vanish; the barren will conceive,” everywhere Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
Pentecostalism is another goldmine that can never be exhausted. Whoever that discovered Pentecostalism has discovered the greatest revenue yielding industry, greater than the oil industry. Oil can dry up one day but this one (Pentecostalism) can never dry up because as long as human beings appear on Earth, problems must surely appear. Even if Pentecostalism will be established in every kitchen, it will not be enough.

THE STATE OF THE NATION

Pentecostalism is the largest goldmine in town. It is largely as an American found of the second-half of the twentieth century in-build with the unique American spirit of unbridled Capitalism.”

You see the foundation of Pentecostalism is built upon the unbridled American spirit of Capitalism. It is just like Nigeria today. I remember while I was in Lagos I was called up to talk about Democracy in the Nigeria context. A speech I was to make on the spur of a moment, I glanced at the innumerable sea of indescribable faces, I estimated the crowd, I satisfied them according to their academic attainments and I believe that enormous responsibility was before me to make an impact.
I told them clearly that I will use the words of Jimmy Carter when he visited this nation during the early days of Obasanjo’s rule and that was in the year 1999.
He said, “My friend Olusegun Obasanjo. Sorry to say that Nigeria is not ripe for this democracy, for democracy cannot thrive in a country where the politicians are filled with high criminal propensity. Democracy can never thrive in a corrupt nation. Sorry to say that your nation is extremely corrupt.”
They put their hands together and all eyes were on Me. I continued, “Well, adopting a democratic system without educating the people to think democratically and act democratically is absolutely nonsense, for mere system cannot bring about the democracy dividend but attitudinal change.”
It is like computerizing an organization when the workers there are not computer literate; you just make the mockery of the gadget. Then I went further, “Finally, I want to proselyte here that Nigeria is adopting an American system of governance which is the most expensive worldwide. At a time when her economy cannot carry our parliamentary; I am saying in effect that the whole thing will crash for minority will hold the wealth of the nation and we will end it producing individuals that will be richer than our country.
“Rocky felly”will emerge and that is America. Our economy cannot carry capitalistic system of governance; on this note I rest my point.”
At the end of the day I never knew that people paid attention until they started milling around me but I thought I was sounding foolish. to me I thought I was sounding foolish.
That is part of the foolishness of God. Yes, you know it is arrant stupidity to address a people that cannot understand you because after addressing them, He asked them, “Understandeth thou this?” they replied, “Master, how can we understand?”
I have told you that fools have inundated our political terrain, fools have found themselves in the corridors of power, but intelligent and wise people can hardly be there.
Give Me this nation and I will tear it into five equal parts overnight, finish. Place everything back how God placed it from the very beginning with all the natural boundaries there. But nobody can do it because one man wants to control the economy of the whole nation.
You talk about Nigeria and I will say she is just a mere geographical description of a place, finish. There is no other thing that makes it Nigeria. By my own honest assessment about this nation, it is only existing as a mere geographical description of a people. No more, no less. But are we bound together by anything? The answer is no.
On the 10th anniversary of Democracy in Nigeria, they were jubilating. I bought a Newspaper, came home and called my wife by my side. I said, “No, this is rubbish! I do not know if anybody in his right mind can go to Warri Kingdom and begin to tell the people of Warri, the Niger Deltans that they are celebrating democracy at ten when the inhabitants of the area are being bombed by Nigerian soldiers, innocent souls were being killed.
Do you know that bullet has no eyes? Bomb does not have eyes. You drop the bomb and go your way, you shot the bullet and go your way, anybody can be a victim. How can you enjoy democracy in a country where there is no war yet some people are refugees –refugees in their own country?
Are they estranged from their own country, what is democracy day then? Is it not the government of the people by the people and for the people? Then, why are they not integrated in the system? Why can’t we be given opportunity, why can’t we be given equal level ground for all the players to act? But nobody can do that one. They are self-aggrandizement and extremely materialistic. This is what is happening to the Churches today also.

TEMPLE ROBBERS

The reason why they consult all oracles to attract almost all the entire world to their Churches, if it is possible, is no other thing than to milk their members. If anybody should tell you that they are making their money from their members, believe it, for there is no other source where they are making their money if not through their members.

How can you tell me that an ordinary senior lecturer in mathematics in the University of Nigeria, Lagos about ten years ago could come up owning the biggest private University in the world and then owning the biggest private Church in the world with the branches all over the world and now he is going by a jet which he purchased at the cost of N46 billion, and shamelessly parading it before the general public.
If Nigeria is sincere with what they are doing EFCC, should have arrested him on the spot.
I do not blame anybody. This is part of democratic system. Yes, if you are in a community or a nation where the end justifies the means, there is an unbridled tendency for materialism, everybody will try to make it even if he will die.
“The program calls on all over the African as the pastors expand their fleet of cars, jets, private estates and set up banks for their followers.”
They set up banks. There is one that is being set up now and it has been criticized even by their members. the Redeemed Christian Church of Nigeria Bank owned by somebody, Bishop Okonkwo from either Nnokwa/Nnewi. There he established microfinance and made it compulsory that all his members must have accounts in the microfinance bank and they are now protesting.
Anyway, I do not need to blame them. What can you say about their mother Church? Reverend Fathers are no longer accountable to the Pope, they are no longer accountable to the Bishops; they now run their private ministries, some now run prayer homes. The proceeds they get go to their accounts, some own microfinance banks, some of them now establish industries outside the Church.
There is one that is living at Nkpor. Reverend Fathers now hire flats and live, build estates and live. There is one that is reigning now. He is at Ogidi but he has estate at Nkpor after Borromeo. Gbuzue, that is the name. Even the late Reverend Doctor Father Ifeanyi Anozie of Uguta who was running Azumiri prayer center, who checks him? What can you say about Reverend Father Edeh who owns Universities and Polytechnics everywhere? What can you say about Reverend Father Raymond Arazu, secretary of Anambra State Traditional Medicine Association, what can you say about him? He hails from Ihembosi.
What can you say about the Chaplain of Federal College of Education Eha mufu, the young man from Ovoko who owns his own traditional medical center, who said armed robbers broke into his house and took away four million Naira which he realized from a trade fair? What can you say about Father Mbaka whose pure water is being sold everywhere, handkerchief and so on? What can you say about the one who was at Omagba, the man from Achina, Reverend Father Nwosu, now departed?
They are now making their money anyhow. No wonder if you listened to B.B.C. 9 o’clock news recently (10 o’clock Nigerian time), Reverend Fathers were expelled in Kenya for marrying wives and raising children. Then a letter was sent from the government of Kenya from Nairobi to Vatican City pleading with the Pope to grant them pardon and the letter reads thus: “His Most Holiness Sir, while we are appealing for their amnesty, we still wish to remind you that most of these your European religious demands run contrary to African habits.”
If you do not listen to world news, you will be left behind. Listen to news, read newspapers and periodicals. Keep yourself abreast of the time. Do not live behind your age so that when you will be making argument you will be making what we called “plausible argument,” you will be ready to convince your opponent(s) that you are not talking in the air, that you know what you are saying.

CULTS AND NOT HOUSE OF GOD

These are the people that have the gut, the audacity to proclaim the Son of Man devilish and occultic. Any way, I do not defend such lies because you add credibility to a lie while defending it, finish.

If I am ordained to defend lies, by now, government would have shown interest. I mean bulldoze all the so-called Churches, government would have shown interest in knowing their activities though they know and pretend that they don’t know. Can you see! In spite of the expository Chris Okotie wrote, in spite of the expository of the Benin young man called Chris Oyakyilome indicting the Synagogue of the Nations owner T. B. Joshua, yet our President hardened his heart and conferred T. B. Joshua with OON (Officer Of the Order of the Niger). Anyway, he knows what is happening there.
What can you say about the present President of Ghana? Immediately his victory was announced, he rushed to Nigeria with his deputy for thanksgiving in the Synagogue of the Nations and it was said that before the election that there was a romance between him and T.B Joshua.
Of course you know what they are going there to do. If the young man who came into our midst from Umuoji never disclosed his ordeal, now in search of salvation from whatever that was after him, he was directed to T.B. Joshua and he went there. Getting there, T.B. Joshua said, “Go back to the group called Little Mercy.” He himself (T.B. Joshua) was a member and still a member. T.B. Joshua said, “Go and pay your rite.”
If that man did not come into our midst and we saw him, if he did not make this exposure, people would think we are trying to run down their reputation. To begin with, why should I run down their reputation? Am I competing with anybody? This is the only Faith that is not competing with anybody. We are competing alone. That is why if you disturb our peace we send you out for we know that when we send you out, you are getting drown, for there is no safe ground outside this Faith.
I do not say it because I am involved. Believe it if you can, events must vindicate the Son of Man.

RULED BY MONEY

I handed down a Message to you sometime ago that you should never listen to those pseudo-psychological religious promises. The pastors knew very well that those promises are not truth, if they believe them to be truth, I mean the manifestation is the interpretation. If you need money and it will come by miracle, why collecting my own? If you know the prayer you will make for me and money will come, make it for yourself, then you can begin to give me money as a gift from your bounties; not when you are living from hand to mouth you want to collect the little I have in the name of Jesus.

In return you say you will pray a special prayer for me and the Lord will meet me at the point of my need. If you have no need, why collecting my own money? If the Lord meets you at the point of your need, is it a crime? A leader stays in front. Why not be number one so that you create faith in me?
This is why the Son of Man is labouring with His hands, working with His hands to earn a living so that all that will follow after Me will borrow a cue from Me, that there is no other way than restoring the dignity of man through labour.
“The sects are independent of one another, each controlled by a smart, articulate, well-educated businessman preacher.”
They are sects independent of one another. That is, in a building you can see three different Churches in one building. Some places it is five Churches. They know why they cannot come together. Whatever A is looking for is what B is vying for. Who is fooling who? Who is behind all these things? Very smart, well-dressed criminals in Jesus’ name; very smart, well-dressed, elegant, handsome, good looking, beautiful, because women are also in the race.
Sister Dan, women are in the race. How I wish your father has become that Overseer he wanted to be, by now you and your husband would have been occupying an estate.
Yes, now if you are not deaconess, you will be something, and your husband will be another one. This is true!
The brain behind the establishment of private Churches is nothing but money. The easiest way to making money where nobody will query you is by gathering people together; and they know that people are becoming intelligent now that is why they resort to magical means.
“The sects are independent of one another, each controlled by a smart, articulate, well-educated business man preacher; systematically placing the day light out of his crossly impoverish innocent faithful. The prophets, pastors or priests rely on witchcraft for their magic and pass this one as miracles even on television.”
Can you see it now? Does this agreed with what the wizard I mentioned earlier on revealed in the newspaper? Of a truth, we are sons and daughters of God; every other person around us is under the power and control of Satan.
Anywhere people magnify signs and wonders and miracles watch, it is a center for witches and wizards. Anywhere people magnify prosperity without a reasonable and viable means, note, it is another camp of witches and wizards. Are you surprise why all of them are cage of unclean birds? I am not surprise why people rush there; there is nobody who wants to make money that can stay with us.
Anybody whose ambition is to make money can never abide in our Faith. Watch all that have left us, why did they leave us? It is because of money. For instance, Silas Eze said that he came to Onitsha to make money. Okey Nwankpa left because of money. That is why any rich man he knows in the Faith, he will embrace him because of his money. James Agbom is not in our midst today because of money. All of them, check, it was money that made them to leave.
Charles Nwaobiara left us because he wants to go to American through GNLD money. Brother Mike Ugoala, thank your God. That your heathen friend Ifeanyi would have pulled you out of this Faith. People do not know when the Devil is tempting them using their conditions.
I told you that we are in Nigeria, any day you see Ifeanyi and wife in America under GNLD, know that God never called Me. Dissociate from him!
You said you have seen their photograph they have shown you this and that, that you are going to make it. I said, “Okay, go, Ifeanyi and family are still agboros.”
Immediately we asked Charles Nwaobiara to go that America is what is reigning through GNLD, he said, “Thank you.” I see him everyday with his bag along Court Road: “We are going for GNLD seminar.” Before we knew it, he was wearing one medal. He said, “This is number one, and number two medals.”
I said, “Number three will be America. If you dare go to America know that God never sent Me.” He said that I was placing a curse on him that I should wish him well. I said, “Anyway, you want me to wish you well when I knew it can never happen.”
I made it known to you my experience in my home town when I lost my uncle by death in an accident. Their Pentecostal pastor came and was telling us testimonies how he was going to Gabon and a woman got drown in the sea. They recovered the corpse and he prayed, then the woman came back to life. That they called him to alert him on the day of the burial that one of their members died, he prayed and the casket opened, then the person came out.
He mentioned far, far places. I said, “Praise be to God! how I wish this man will perform now, my uncle will come out, I will be his member worshipper in his Church.” But after the nonsense, before my very eyes they carried the corpse and buried it. The youth revolted immediately saying, “Why mentioning examples where we were not when there is one here. You have been telling us what you did in Enugu, in Owerrinta, in Duguma in Gborokri, in Bayelsa when a fresh corpse is before you. Do it here!”
There is no native doctor you will go to who will not first of all tell you how he performed wonders and everything to enable you have faith so that he can collect your money. This is the trick pastors are using: “I prayed and it rained twenty days. I said halt, and it halted.”
Looking at what I am saying, somebody might be thinking I am caging him or her, no! I am liberating you for if your desire is to make money it is not in our midst, so that you can go out. After this Message, do not come into our midst again because what you are coming to get from us is not why I am on the scene; your expectation from Me is what I cannot meet.
Brother Johnson do you understand me? You ran away from us because the Son of Man said this Faith will not produce millionaires like the world and you wanted to be a millionaire, for that reason you ran away.
The Son of Man is still saying it, I have not changed it: THIS FAITH CAN NEVER PRODUCE MILLIONAIRES LIKE THE WORLD. I will keep on saying it. For that reason, if you want to become millionaire like the world, after going through this Message, look for the man who makes charms for them or find out the pastors he has blessed already, maybe they will help.

CHURCHES PRACTICE OCCULTISM

Prophets rely on witchcraft for their magic and pass this on as miracles even on television, their greatest reserve for healing.”

The first activity of a Pentecostal Church pastor is to learn magic and witchcraft. All the big names are not ignorant of this. For instance, a leading Pentecostal pastor imported something from Ghana from one man. The Ghanaian government arrested him with a gadget. He would put the gadget in his pocket or on his hand; anybody he touches, the gadget would electrify the person and that is Holy Ghost. I have revealed it to you once, newspapers carried the report.
The second activity of the Pentecostals is to employ a standby witchdoctor who is more potent in the craft. Than he (the witchdoctor) is to continue to guide him, then he draws up brand new names like the “Mission Of God Incorporated” or the “Fire of The Mountain Mission,” or the “Angels of God Caravan,” etc.
Before building his Church premises, his witchdoctor must ritually bury any number of live cows from a dozen to a hundred depending on reason for the foundation of the building, the intention being that the thousands of maggots that would be attracted to the carcass of the dead animal will translate into the crowd of worshippers the new Church will attract; and they do translate into such crowd.
Can you see, great crimes are being committed in the name of God. Right now, even in conventional Churches, pastors take advantage of the spiritual nicety of their followers to intimidate and suppress them, they demand tithe, endless thanksgiving, special levies, percentage cost in contracts and salaries, which they claim to package by post, courier, fax or e-mail to God.
Recently we read a publication in the fellowship of the Saints how Chris Oyakyilome was dragged to Abuja High Court where a lady cashier dumped six million Naira she stole from Sheraton Hotel into Chris Oyakyilome’s account. Chris Oyakyilome acknowledged that the money was deposited into his account as a vow the lady made unto God, that immediately he dispatched it to God in Heaven, and they were asking about the address which he used to e-mail the money. He said that it is spiritual. That was why the Court placed him on bail, postpone the matter and he went to Court with seventeen lawyers and out of the seventeen, five Senior Advocates were among them.
The matter is still pending in the Court even till now. They transferred it from Abuja to Lagos. I have not heard it with my ears that one can e-mail money brought by members to God.
If you want to become rich now, one David Ogbueli who came to Onitsha proclaimed it. Onitsha settlers threw pure water at him that they have seen enough of that nonsense. How can you courier money to Heaven, you courier money expressly to God in Heaven and that Heaven turns out to be his bank account.
It was revealed recently in the magazine that Reverend Chris Oyakyilome has come up with his own new invention. He has invented his own Bible which he titled “Rhapsody of Realities Study Bible.” A copy is sold at the rate of five thousand five hundred Naira. Benin-born smart young man. According to him, he said he has been working on the Bible for the past seventeen years and he incurred a bill of sixteen billion Naira. That he started the work in Great Britain and then completed the printing in Malaysia—that it is a worldwide Bible.
You see, what can we say about all these things? What is more, tomorrow he will tell you it is a non-profit making organization. What was his occupation before? How many know that the young man was dismissed from the University of Nigeria, Lagos when he was in three hundred level as a Law student. How many know that he was a cultist? He was dismissed because of cultism and automatically he joined hands with T.B. Joshua in the Synagogue of the Nations or Synagogue of Satan; there, he learnt the act of magic, the act of witchcraft, the act of sorcerer, the act of divination and so on, until trouble ensued between the two because of the money which the late Ezego of Ihiala deposited.
You see, Ezego of Ihiala was a member of the Synagogue of Satan. Almost all rich Nigerians are there. There was a magazine we brought where all the names of great people all over the world that belong to all these international cults were listed. Almost all the presidents of all the countries in the world are there. Prominent musicians like Michael Jackson, they are all there. Even Barrack Obama of American is there. That is why nobody will attempt his life in the White House.
If you do not belong to that group, you dare not make noise in the international politics. Of course, you know it is applicable to Nigeria. There is a big organization, if you are there, what you will be having with your co-politicians is what we called “war of words.” Nobody will ever attempt a member’s life because they are in a blood agreement—never to tamper with the lives of their members. But they engage themselves in “war of words.”
This is why I hate anything Law. Of all the professions I know, it is only the Law profession where the proponent will die and he will face downwards with his black suit and the wig. What is more, the corpse will be carried to the Court for death sentence to be passed on the deceased, people will accuse the corpse, the deceased’s co-lawyers will accuse the corpse, a High Court judge will preside over the judgment with his red pen, red cap and at end of the whole thing he will sign the judgment against the deceased person. Condemn the deceased person to death, carry the pen, the judgment and everything into the casket with the corpse faced downwards.
Every other person will die and then face the sky, but if a lawyer dies he will face the ground, he who is faced downwards when he dies, tell Me, is it a good thing? Only those that do bad things like the saying goes that would face downwards.
If you are a lawyer, I am not ridiculing you.
Great crimes are being committed in the Name of God right now. Even in conventional Churches, pastors take advantage of the spiritual novelty of their followers to intimidate and suppress them. They demand tithe, thanksgiving, special levies, percentage cost in contracts and salaries endless, which they claim to package by post courier, fax or e-mail to God to grant the cheerful givers abundant blessing: “The giver never lacks,” they said.
The giver never lacks but the receiver will lack. There is the handkerchief or bottle holy water or blood of Jesus racket you will buy to wipe away your sins or pains or you give me forty percent of what you have and the Lord will multiply your fortune hundredfold. Preachers, swindlers, tools of criminal activities are being blessed by some people at a price, and Churches and Mosque have been known to serve as sanctuaries for society miscreants.
Why do we take interest in exposing all these things? The Lord whom we serve continually warned us from the very beginning that we should not join in unfruitful works of the enemy, rather we should expose them. He (God) went further to tell us that the only way to check evil is by exposing it.
We are exposing all these things so that you will be guided perfectly. Well, if peradventure tomorrow you might be tempted by the riches of the world to jump away from this Faith that you may know that where you are going is not a safe ground, that no place is as safe as where you are now.
If you know that what is troubling you cannot be found in our midst, better go where it is especially now you are still young because madness is better practised in the youth.
You want to catch the wind in your youthful stage, you cannot catch the wind in this Faith. Try somewhere else peradventure you may catch it or the wind may carry you.
Because of money, many travelled to South Africa and the way back they know not again. They wanted to make the money by all means and they sold off their property. Illegally, they migrated to South Africa because they thought they could get gold from the surface of the soil; they never knew that gold is never found on the surface, it is found right inside the soil; and for anybody to tap it he must do a lot of digging.
Thus, when they got there and refused to join hands with the miners in digging: they carried arms, then the government of South Africa equally carried arms and it became fire-for-fire. Who is the loser? Nigerians. Many are trying to come back but no way.
Some are trying to leave that country to other countries but no way. They are trapped and their parents have even forfeited them. They can only mention their names for mentioning sake but talk of including them in whatever the family is doing, no way. Any day they see them, they would take, if they do not see them, no more; no problem.
What I am saying is that a bird in hand is by far better than one million in the forest. The choice is yours to make: to abide in Christ or to leave Christ and then pitch tent anywhere you think is better. The choice is yours.
This is why the Message titled FAITHFULNESS came. God is in the business of liberating people. Instead of you to stay in the Faith and begin to cause problem, instead of you to stay in the Faith and begin to discourage others, instead of you to stay in the Faith and begin to manifest naked signs of unbelief, unfaithfulness to this Faith, please tell yourself the truth. Leave us.
From now I place it as a sign: if you do not leave us we shall leave you; if you do not leave this Faith, this Faith MUST surely leave you.
When this Faith leaves you, you will be an observer in our midst: the more you look the less you see; so it will continue until the day you will die.
On this note I say thank you and remain blessed in Him eternally.