INTERACTIVE SESSION WITH THE SON OF MAN [QUESTIONS & ANSWERS 2021 EDITION VOLUME 1 ON Sunday, 16th May 2021 THE VOICE FROM GOD’S STUDIO @ THE BRIDAL LODGE, NSUGBE ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA BY APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA THE SON OF MAN THE URIM AND THUMMIN TRANSCRIBED BY DECON DAVID MBAH MOUA STUDENTS’ FELLOWSHIP
3Seek the Lord [inquire for Him, inquire of Him, and require Him as the foremost necessity of your life], all you humble of the land who have acted in compliance with His revealed will and have kept His commandments; seek righteousness, seek humility [inquire for them, require them as vital]. It may be you will be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger.
Zephaniah 2:3 AMP
I am the God of the heavens and the earth. The Judge of all. The Judge of the living and the dead. And I am saying that I know you. I know your doings. I know your heart. I have not done you any hurt by healing your wounds.
– THE SON OF MAN –
ARE YOU FOLLOWING THE CLOUD OR THE CROWD VOL. 1; preached on Sunday 7th August, 2016; Pg. 97 vs. 51
INTRODUCTION
PRAYER
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ur dear Heavenly Father, we have come to You this very first day of the week to worship and adore You as our God, our Creator and Maker; our All and All, for in You O God, we live.
2. In You we live. In You, we freely exercise our being. Without You, we can do nothing. That we are still alive today is of Your own making. It is not by our effort.
3. We are not in any way better than those that died, or those that are there in the hospitals for one reason or the other, but You woke us from our beds healthier than we went to bed; stronger than ever that we may remain worshipping You with all our strength, with all our life and with all our being.
4. Thank you for creating this wonderful opportunity for us, O God to come together as a family to accord You, O King of Glory, this honour, thus respect and thus worship this day.
5. We pray that You accept our sacrifices of praise. Accept O God, our sacrifices of thanksgiving. Accept O King of Glory, even our mortal bodies which we have rendered to You as the only thing, holistically we can give.
6. Use us O God, in any way that will be pleasing to You, for we are the workmanship of Your hands; the Flock of Thy pasture. Cast us not away from Your presence.
7. Rather, O God, stretch forth Your healing hands. Heal us spiritually and physically. Restore and reconcile us unto Thyself. We believe O God that we are errant children. From time to time, we err both in the flesh and in the spirit, but Your love has always been projecting.
8. Your mercy and compassion has never, for one day, eluded us. So, in Your mercy and in Your compassion, reach out this morning to all Your children in every family, and in every place wherever they are located, for you know them all and they belong to You.
9. Father, reach all the four corners of the earth. Recover all of us to Your Most Holy Family this day. For Your Name’s sake, do not allow any to perish in exile.
10. Father, we commit into Your hands this day, this holy anointing in this Family and that of other families. Let Your eyes that runneth to and fro all over the earth oversee them and their activities.
11. Inspire all Your Ministers in every family to select the right Message for their families; for their flock. And give every soul that will listen to the Message an understanding heart and the willing heart to obey.
12. May we never, O God our Father, remain unyielding till eternity. No! For that will be disastrous. Help us to remain yielding to the truth and yielding to the yearning of Thy Spirit.
13. Father, may we never do anything contrary to Your Word. Help us to behave right so that we will have no query to answer when we get to that Gate on that glorious day.
14. We know we are there already waiting for the day it shall be declared open, letting people inside Paradise on that day O God, all that harkened to My Voice, believed in Me and obeyed.
15. Let there be no impediment on that day. As they file in O God in a single file, welcome them as friends, and not as enemies.
16. Erase completely from their hearts and from their lifestyles anything that runs contrary, Father to Your desire that is operative in us. Cancel and erase all of them completely.
17. We hand over to Your care, especially our extant families in Bonny, Lagos, Nsukka and Enugu respectively. Father, we pray that You be with them. Report them here this morning, every soul in this Family.
18. Father, I pray Thee, let Your mercy project. Let Your loving-kindness project and reach all of them.
19. Remember O LORD that they are the children of the Covenant. Do not for any reason O God, cancel the Covenant You entered into with THE SON OF MAN Who was with You from the creation of the world; and Who is given the Authority over all flesh – both animals and human beings and all creatures.
20. Hence, He has become the envy of all evil spirits. So it is with all His offspring. They have become the greatest enemy of the devil and his children.
21. Father Divine, I hand them over to Your care. Insulate them from diverse attacks spiritually and physically; diabolically and otherwise as You insulate us in this Family.
22. The same way, I pray that You insulate every Elect of God wherever they are located, especially those that have entered into an everlasting Covenant with You. A Covenant of life. A Covenant of Peace and not of death.
23. Father, exempt them completely from Your judgment. Remember Your promise to Your Ministers, that when You are judging them, You show compassion.
24. Show compassion to those that are still standing. Whatever might be their fault[s], help them to recognize all; and to strive to amend them.
25. All the voices we have heard concerning ourselves, throughout last weekend till this day, we have been meditating. Are there some we have forgotten? Remind us, so that we make amends without delay.
26. Father, we hand over everything we are going to do here into Your hands. Even this interactive session today, be the One in the pulpit to answer all our questions. Meet our souls’ demands.
27. Do not allow the devil to have anything to do, Father, with the gathering of Your people. Build a wall; a strong hedge around them. Make it impossible for the enemy to penetrate or to divert their hearts away from You.
28. May our loyalty towards You be unquestionable. This is our earnest request. And we believe You will do more than we have requested of You this day. For Your Name’s sake O LORD, we pray, Amen!!!
I am the Author of Life, HE that knows the secrets of the heart. The Beginning and the End. The Lord God Almighty. Believe it if you can……
– THE SON OF MAN –
CHRIST IS REVEALED IN HUMAN FORM, NOT TO THE WORLD, BUT TO THE TRUE ELECTS; preached on Thursday 26th August, 1999; Pg. 3
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THE SAVIOUR HAS RETURNED UPON A WHITE CLOUD
TO GOD BE THE GLORY; GREAT THINGS HE HAS DONE. You can be seated. Today is an extraordinary day in this our Studio; A Family of worship, a Family of righteousness and A Family of God.
2. EVERY FAMILY IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH MUST BE NAMED AFTER CHRIST. SO, IF CHRIST IS NOT THE HEAD OF YOUR FAMILY, THAT GOES TO SHOW THAT THE ALMIGHTY GOD, THE SAVIOUR OF THE WHOLE WORLD HAS BEEN DECREED OUT OF YOUR FAMILY. GOD IS NOT IN YOUR FAMILY.
3. AND WHERE THERE IS NO GOD, YOU KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN THERE? GODLY CHILDREN CAN NEVER COME OUT OF THAT FAMILY.
4. There is no way a godly human being can come out of that family unless it is a special grace like God gave it to Samuel in the days of Eli, who decided to discontinue worshipping God together with the children.
5. They challenged God’s authority and God proved His worth using him as example to other men of God that will come after him;
6. That they should take note of what happened in the past, and know how they can control their families in the fear of God so that there will be a remnant in their families who will live to tell the story of how they overcame.
7. We give God the praise. We give Him the glory. We give Him the honour because God has given us a wonderful privilege today. We return everything to Him because He is the One doing all and all.
8. Today is an interactive session. I promised it and I have received a handful of questionnaires from different people in different locations throughout the world.
9. Some sent their own in writing through the mailbox, while some sent directly through text messages. But no one called Me audibly.
10. Whether through text message or in writing, I have acknowledged all. And the LORD willing, I will handle all of them today.
11. But before then, I want us to listen to one interactive session I had with a Brother who found time to interview Me, and equally interviewed My wife some time ago.
12. I want us to know what the contents of that interaction is all about as I invite our younger Brother Chiemelie to come and read this interview.
13. [1] THE INTERVIEW WITH THE VINDICATED CHRIST, Apostle Peter Odoemena, THE VERY SON OF MAN conducted by Brother Ikechukwu Ofoegbu, an Opera News Creative Writer here on the 33rd Anniversary of THE SON OF MAN on the 26th of April, 2021.
14. [2] PRESS CONFERENCE / INTERVIEW WITH THE SELF-EXISTING ONE: Apostle Peter Odoemena, THE VERY SON OF MAN, conducted by Ikechukwu Ofoegbu, an Opera News Creative writer at the Bridal Lodge, Nsugbe; Nigeria on the occasion of the 65th Birthday of THE SON OF MAN on 27th December, 2020.
15. The above interactive sessions with the Elohim are documented in a Book form titled, INTERVIEW WITH THE VINDICATED CHRIST APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA, THE SON OF MAN.
16. We give God the whole Glory, honour and praise for this report of the interview. And I thank God that I was not alone that day. There were too many other Elders who were around Me.
17. And I never invited the interviewer, a pressman that writes for Opera News. He voluntarily came and took Me unawares, for he showed interest in what we were doing, and in this Family also.
18. Now, I have used it to open this interactive session. And I believe it is worthwhile, not knowing that too many questions I have received are contained in this interview also.
19. So by reading this interview report first, I believe I have answered almost half of the questions so far received bordering on family life, family relationship, the choosing of a wife and things like that.
20. So, anybody who is sincere to himself and to his conscience, will rethink after this report.
21. Remember I told you it is going to be an interactive session. And the questions are here with Me. Before I begin to answer the questions, I have also a short exhortation I want us to read.
22. I have not read it, but I am being led by the Spirit of Truth to read it alongside with this interview report.
23. So, our Brother will still come back. It is a small piece. This will be before I will come back and handle the questions.
24. It is a very nice report also. It is an encouraging text. We will give honour to whom honour is due, and worship the Almighty God Who alone rules the affairs of men. Let us listen to that excerpt.
25. LET US WORSHIP THE KING, APOSTLE PETER ODOEMENA, THE SON OF MAN by Bishop Fryde Okoh, Household of God, Enugu.
26. Let the sons and daughters of this generation hear this, “This is the God Who appears to man during the last days, but is hidden among men.
27. He resides among men through and real, like a burning sun and a flaming fire filled with power and brimming with authority.
28. There is not a single person or thing that shall not be judged by My Words, and not a single person or thing that shall not be purified through the burning of fire.
29. Eventually, all nations shall be blessed because of My works; and also smashed to pieces because of My works. [From the manuscript: THE SAVIOUR HAS RETURNED UPON A WHITE CLOUD] Amen!!! From Ancient manuscript.
30. IN GOD, THERE ARE MANY THINGS TO LEARN. YOU MUST APPLY WISDOM FOR YOU TO SURVIVE, FOR WHEN YOU FAIL TO APPLY WISDOM, YOU RUN INTO TROUBLE. Sure!!!
31. Take note! Write it down. You run into trouble with God and with yourself. In God, there are many things to learn from Him. There are many things to learn about Him.
32. If you want to learn, it requires wisdom. If you do not apply wisdom, you must run into trouble. In your honest attempt to study God and to learn of Him, it requires wisdom.
33. Proverbs 16:7. When a man is trying to please God, God makes even his worst enemies to be at peace with him. LB
34. Proverbs 8:33 – 36. [33]“Listen to my counsel—oh, don’t refuse it—and be wise. [34]Happy is the man who is so anxious to be with me that he watches for me daily at my gates, or waits for me outside my home!
35. [35]For whoever finds me finds life and wins approval from the Lord. [36]But the one who misses me has injured himself irreparably. Those who refuse me show that they love death.” LB
36. Put down that Scripture.
37. We cannot allow ourselves to be grossly deceived at this precarious hour by either self-deluded fanatics or charlatans who come to us in deceptive mood with dangerous seductive spirits.
38. There is no excuse any man can give why he should not worship this God in our midst.
39. We have been told by the Almighty God that in this pilgrim race, the idea is not to take part only, but to win.
40. Nobody can grow tired of worshipping God until the fellow starts appreciating worldly things. And then, worshipping God will become a disturbance. Sure!!!
41. This is what is prevalent in all the families right now, especially among the women folk and their children. And their fathers keep quiet over these things.
42. THAT WHICH IS GIVING YOU JOY TODAY OUTSIDE DOING THE WILL OF GOD MUST CAUSE YOU PERPETUAL SORROW IN THE END.
43. My earnest prayer is that the Almighty God should help me, the wanderer, who has been wandering from pillar to post, to trace my way back home.
44. Let God approve this my honest request.
45. WE HAVE TO BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL NOT TO TURN HIS SIMPLICITY INTO AN ABUSE.
46. Once you believe this Message, you must change your position, reorder your priorities, and have a new zeal and new approach to life.
47. You become sensitive to your environment, conscious of your being, responsive to your responsibilities, and then you will become a happy man. [BE DILIGENT TO PROTECT YOUR MINDSET; Page 129 verse 9]
48. Note! The three important things God told us that are needed to survive in this Bridal Movement are: [1] DEVELOP A TRUE HEART. [2] WORSHIP GOD IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH. [3] BELIEVE IN HIM, DOUBTING NOTHING. Sure!!! Three things!
49. Psalms 119:2 – 3. [2]Happy are all who search for God and always do his will, [3]rejecting compromise with evil and walking only in his paths. LB
50. Abraham never doubted God. He had full trust and confidence in Him….
51. We can actually see the total confidence Abraham exhibited towards God as displayed. No Pretenses. And he never shook in his belief. He never consulted anybody before accepting the instruction the Almighty God gave him wholeheartedly.
52. It is recorded in the Scriptures that he never complained or murmured. He took a step of faith and that singular action or courage endeared him to the Almighty God till eternity. That’s all!
What did we read from the first Message titled, SON OF MAN CONCLUDES THE NEWS? That God will not drop us, but we will drop ourselves. God will not forsake us, but we will forsake ourselves. God will not destroy us but we will destroy ourselves. God said He will not erase our names from the Book of Life, but we will erase our names from the Book of Life with our own hands.
– THE SON OF MAN –
TIME FOR FINAL SELECTION; Preached on Wednesday, 28th November 2012: Pg. 84 vs. 46
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THE WORD WILL EITHER JUSTIFY OR CONDEMN YOU
I hope you are happy with this interactive session. We have taken off with the INTERVIEW. And now, we have received words of exhortation, full of wisdom, with ancient manuscripts quoted therein, all to buttress one fact: THAT WE ARE HAVING DEALINGS WITH THE CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH IN HUMAN FORM, IN THESE LAST DAYS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SCRIPTURES AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROPHETS;
2. GOD VEILING HIMSELF IN A MAN, NOT COUNTING IT ROBBERY. THE ELOHIM STANDING ON TWO FEET IN THE LAST DAYS, HERE ON EARTH, IDENTIFYING WITH HUMAN BEINGS, SAVING SOME AND CONDEMNING SOME.
3. 5Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: 8and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. [Philippians 2:5-8 KJV]
4. 25For I know that my Redeemer and Vindicator lives, and at last He [the Last One] will stand upon the earth. [Job 19:25 AMP]
5. Whatever we are hearing from Him, if we believe and amend our ways, it will be for our salvation. It will be for our justification.
6. God, counting us not guilty of sin anymore; placing us in right standing with Himself. Thereby reassuring us of eternal life which he promised us that it really belongs to us, for God who made this promise to those who would believe in Him, cleave to Him and adhere to Him is the Almighty Who can never tell lies.
7. If He will tell lies, what will be His reason? Is God afraid of any human being? Is he afraid of human beings punishing Him? So, why should God deceive anybody? He has never, and will never tell a lie concerning His promises. So, with God all things are possible.
8. 17Accordingly God also, in His desire to show more convincingly and beyond doubt to those who were to inherit the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose and plan, intervened (mediated) with an oath.
9. 18This was so that, by two unchangeable things [His promise and His oath] in which it is impossible for God ever to prove false or deceive us, we who have fled [to Him] for refuge, might have mighty indwelling strength and strong encouragement to grasp and hold fast the hope appointed for us and set before [us].
10. 19[Now] we have this [hope] as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul [it cannot slip and it cannot break down under whoever steps out upon it–a hope] that reaches farther and enters into [the very certainty of the Presence] within the veil, [Hebrews 6:17 – 19 AMP]
11. [17]God also bound himself with an oath, so that those he promised to help would be perfectly sure and never need to wonder whether he might change his plans.
[18]He has given us both his promise and his oath, two things we can completely count on, for it is impossible for God to tell a lie. Now all those who flee to him to save them can take new courage when they hear such assurances from God; now they can know without doubt that he will give them the salvation he has promised them.
12. [19]This certain hope of being saved is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls, connecting us with God himself behind the sacred curtains of heaven, [Hebrews 6:17 – 19 LB]
13. Then to the other group of people that have disallowed Him and His Word; unyielding to His Word and His instructions, it is to their condemnation.
14. SO, WHILE THE MESSAGE GOES FORTH, IT JUSTIFYING SOME, AT THE SAME TIME, IT CONDEMNS SOME, FOR THE JUDGE IS HERE
15. He said, “If I speak to you and you say that you do not believe, I judge you not. BUT IN THE END, THE WORDS I HAVE SPOKEN TO YOU; THE WORDS WILL JUDGE YOU AND DECLARE YOU EITHER JUSTIFIED THROUGH OBEDIENCE OR CONDEMNED THROUGH DISOBEDIENCE.”
16. Disobedience to the instructions of God; to the will of God revealed to us is automatic condemnation, for the Bible said, “Whosoever that believeth not is condemned already.”
17. He that believeth on him is not condemned: BUT HE THAT BELIEVETH NOT IS CONDEMNED ALREADY, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. [John 3:18 KJV]
18. NOT THAT HE IS AWAITING CONDEMNATION. RATHER, HE IS AWAITING DESTRUCTION.
19. He is condemned. He is awaiting the punishment that will accompany condemnation.
20. The day somebody is condemned by the law court to die, either by firing squad or by hanging, may not be the day he will be executed.
21. The judgment was proclaimed. The judgment has declared the culprit condemned to death. The type of death is already stipulated, but the date he will die is unknown to him. Did you get the Message?
22. That is why you see too many moving corpses everywhere. The living dead. Those that have been condemned to death, waiting for the day of their final execution.
23. It shall be one day known unto the LORD. And it can never be overdue by a second, for the mouth of the LORD has promised. And so shall it be.
24. BUT IT SHALL BE ONE DAY WHICH SHALL BE KNOWN TO THE LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light. [Zechariah 14:7 KJV]
25. Even the angels that fell from their former estate, who have been reserved in everlasting chain are waiting for that same day when they shall be punished alongside with the heathens, who knew not God and who never believed God; Those that are backslidden in the hearts; hypocrite of all categories.
26. Some of them are still in our midst till today. Some have packed completely. So, they know themselves.
27. That which seduced them away from the truth is nothing but the devil and what he offers them. Temporary worldly pleasure.
28. There is no pleasure anybody is deriving from this present world and in its affairs that is eternal. Is there any? They can only last while the person lives.
29. Sometimes, they get terminated on the way while the person is still alive. Is it not true?
30. There are too many people that amassed devilish wealth, but while they remained alive, the wealth fizzled out. Then sorrows and pains; and sufferings of all magnitude befell them.
31. 16For all that is in the world–the lust of the flesh [craving for sensual gratification] and the lust of the eyes [greedy longings of the mind] and the pride of life [assurance in one’s own resources or in the stability of earthly things]–these do not come from the Father but are from the world [itself].
32. 17And the world passes away and disappears, and with it the forbidden cravings (the passionate desires, the lust) of it; but he who does the will of God and carries out His purposes in his life abides (remains) forever. [2 John 2:16 – 17 AMP]
33. So, whosoever that is basking on material pleasure; pleasures, the present world can offer is a blind fellow. The person is cheated by the devil.
34. That is why you must be careful in this last days when Satan has adorned the ways of evil in the eyes of all evil men and women in the world, making evil to appear very light.
35. And anybody that has given over his whole attention to worldly pleasure must feel discomforted listening to the Voice of God.
36. Whoever that feels disturbed whenever the message of life is being preached; or whenever he hears, “This is the time for Fellowship. Let us gather and hear what God will speak to us”, and the person is reluctant, the cares of this life and the pleasures of this world have already dominated the heart of that person.
37. And I want to tell you without any compromise that there are too many people in our families today that have been grossly consumed.
38. If they were in our midst when we were having collective gathering at the Government Technical College, and voices were roaring on them because they were not measuring up well, what can you say will be their behaviour now that they are on their own in their homes where nobody is visiting them? Nobody is asking about their welfare spiritually and this and that?
39. When they come to you, they can paint any picture, “Remain blessed Daddy! Remain blessed Brother! Remain blessed Sister!”
40. They can change their tones, giving the impression that they are with you. They are not. Many have died. And they died before we went to our various homes.
41. All that are dead, now that we are worshipping in our homes, died before we were sent home. In short, they were the reasons why God said we should go home.
42. And this was to enable God finish with His Elect. Every Elect of God is wide awake, spiritually and physically; and feels very very happy whenever he hears, “Let us go and worship God.”
43. He cherishes the Word of God more than his necessary food. He is never tired of doing good. He takes his delight in sharing the testimonies of the LORD’s goodness and mercy.
44. But if you watch all these people that have been consumed by the world, whenever they come near you, watch their testimonies.
45. They will come with stories of all events that are happening in the whole world. They will tell what is taking place in Anambra State and beyond.
46. They are story tellers. Their mouths are full of falsehood; lies! Let Me not say that they left, but the Faith abandoned them long long time ago. Those who were not keeping pace with the Faith as we progressed were left very much behind.
47. So, their strength could not carry them through. Why? They were the foreigners and strangers that mingled themselves with us, thinking that the journey will be a short one.
48. Then, when it lingered, they began to draw back, for from the beginning, they were not a part of us. is it not Scriptural?
49. They left us according to the Epistle of Saint John. They left us because from the beginning, they were not a part of us.
50. 19They went out from our number, but they did not [really] belong to us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us. But [they withdrew] that it might be plain that they all are not of us. [2 John 2:19 AMP]
51. If they were a part of us and desirous of Paradise; desirous of eternal life, they would have kept pace with the Message. They would have kept pace with the Faith.
While making decisions, great amount of courage is required so as to be able to stick to them. Therefore, the value of decision depends on the courage required to carry it out. ….– THE SON OF MAN –
DECISION; Preached on 3th December 2007; Pg. 5 Paragraph 1
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SOW TO YOURSELF IN RIGHTEOUSNESS
WATCH ALL SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF GOD. THEY ARE EVER CLAMOURING FOR HIGHER GROUNDS WHERE THERE WILL BE NO DOUBTS AND NO FEARS WILL ASSAIL.
2. But watch all those strangers. Anywhere they feel comfortable, that is where they will settle. Any Message that comforts them a little; that gives them little permission to join with the world, watch what will happen there. It becomes their Paradise.
3. Give them a permissive will, they will make it a permanent will. That is their life. They will hear “Go”, but they will never hear “Stop!”
4. Remember, if you are running when others are commanded to run, you are doing the right thing. You are keeping pace.
5. But if you are merely walking or marking time when others were running because they were commanded to run, they will run too far. But when they hear stop, they will stop.
6. And then you begin to run when those who obeyed had already stopped. You are disapproved and disqualified. That is what is happening right now.
7. Those who ran fast and kept pace with the Faith are rejoicing that they did not run in vain, for they have touched the red ribbon where the Umpire is standing. And they are lining behind the Umpire, Who is leading them now to open that Gate.
8. But watch those who could not keep pace with the Faith. They were reluctant. Some were doubting. Some could not even understand at all, and along the way, confusion set in.
9. Their desire for the world clashed with their desire for spiritual things. The desire for the world and worldly pleasures had an overwhelming influence over their desire for eternal life.
10. So, they now changed the Gospel of Christ to mean, “It is better for me to enjoy the world that I am in, than to wait for the world which I do not know whether I will be there or not.”
11. How long are you going to enjoy this one you are in? Are you sure you will enjoy it at all? You may enjoy it at the prime of your life. Are you sure you will enjoy it at your old age?
12. Are you sure that the evil of your youth will not pay you back at your old age? Are you sure that your unbelief at a time you should have believed God will not boomerang when you will be desiring for life?
13. Are you understanding what I am saying? An Igbo adage says that the thing which the mother hen indulged in, during the dry season bring about the loss of its chicks during the rainy season.
14. Another Igbo adage says that the firewood one accumulated for himself in the dry season remains what will keep him warm during the rainy season.
15. That which an individual, male or female commits at the prime of youth, awaits him or her at old age.
16. And the SON OF MAN says, “WHEREVER YOU ARE STANDING IN YOUR YOUTH DETERMINES WHERE YOU WILL SIT DOWN IN YOUR OLD AGE.”
17. So, the effect of unbelief; the effect of setting God aside, will be felt during old age.
18. That is why you should worship God in your youth when the strength is still there. Give your life to God. Live right. Maintain right standing with God and with your fellow human beings, for any seed a man is sowing in the morning, he must reap the fruit in the evening.
19. Morning is for sowing. Afternoon is for weeding. Evening for reaping. You must reap it, whether you like it or not.
20. If you sow to yourself in righteousness, you must reap it in mercy. But if you sow to yourself in wickedness, you must reap it in eternal punishment.
21. 12Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you. 13Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men. [Hosea 10:12 – 13 KJV]
22. Even if you enjoy throughout the number of years you will live here on earth, how long are you going to live? Do you compare it to eternity? How many have you seen that enjoyed earthly life; earthly pleasure from the day they were born till their old age? It is very rare. I say, very rare.
23. I know too many people that never thought that they would die because they amassed worldly wealth. And they became stubborn to a fault. They became proud and arrogant; disrespectful, dishonouring their fellow human beings and humiliating them.
24. They thought they will linger till eternity together with their wealth, but midway, their wealth fizzled out. Midway, the LORD allowed nature to act on them. Incurable sicknesses befell them. Incurable diseases.
25. They were still heading towards old age. Some of them were in their late 50’s and 60’s, and then became bedridden. I say, bedridden. Living dead. Alive, but better dead.
26. They found themselves in such horrible conditions where the wealth they amassed could not give them any help. They were regretting the years they wasted amassing wealth they will not enjoy. They regretted their unyielding spirits to the Spirit of truth.
27. They regretted their unyielding heart, obstinate and impenetrable heart they developed as a result of the pride of life.
28. There are people who are still proud because of their beauty. Some are proud because of their academic attainment. Some are proud because of their wealth.
29. Do they remember that death awaits them along the way? Do they remember that sickness is on its way?
30. You may enjoy your bed today, but tomorrow, you may be in another place where there may be no bed. A place where you may not see any pillow.
31. Anybody who is priding himself or herself about with these temporary material pleasures is blind. He is poor, miserable and wretched.
32. Even if your pride is based on your work, how long are you going to remain in that work? I do not care whether it your private enterprise or you are an employee. Remember that what goes up must surely come down.
33. Remember that your employer has the right of hiring and firing. There is nothing you can do for your employer that will make your employment to be permanent.
34. Even if they call you permanent secretary, how permanent is the position of the permanent secretary? Your appointment can be terminated anytime by your employer. You can be dismissed. Situation can make you to resign.
35. If you are a workman, there are certain conditions you find yourself and your health will never carry you through that work. And you will be depending on the good will of your fellow human beings.
36. What if you were wicked to them? What if you were not generous?
37. There are too many people that are wicked to themselves and to their families, but when they run into difficulties, they will have no other persons to look up to except members of the family who they never cared for and they never remembered.
38. So, be very careful. Do not allow what you are seeing in this world to delude your mind into saying that God does not exist.
39. There is God Who repays every man according as his work shall be, for any seed a man soweth, that He must reap.
40. The law of sowing and reaping does not know whether you go to church or not. The law of sowing and reaping does not know what you believe. It is a natural justice which every human being must meet.
41. That is why I believe the Scriptures. The Book of Proverb says, “A man’s cleverness; a man’s subtlety; a man’s display of high sense; a man’s display of craftiness; a man’s education; a man’s wealth and so on; not even one of them can help that person if God is against that person.”
42. Your riches won’t help you on Judgment Day; only righteousness counts then. [Proverbs 11:4 LB]
43. Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death. [Proverbs 11:4 NIV]
44. If God is against you, you are doomed. If you quarrel with your fellow human being, a fellow human being can help mediate, and then make peace between the two of you.
45. If nobody is coming, the Almighty God will come in. He knows how to pacify the situation, and make you friends once again.
46. But if you are quarrelling with God, who settles the quarrelling? If God is against you, who will mediate for you? Who will make the anger of the LORD that is kindled against you to be doused.
47. If God has spoken evil concerning you, who will cause Him to withdraw? If by your action and reaction, the LORD has vowed a vow against you, who on earth and in heaven can redeem you from the cruel hand of God?
48. You see why we must be very careful. That is why the Prophets even made it clear that He is the Almighty and that there is not even one that can rescue anybody from the hand of the Almighty, if He has decided to punish that person.
49. If God has decided to visit your iniquity, who can redeem you from that condition; from that calamity?
50. You can predict the way your fellow human being can punish you. Nobody can predict the extent God will punish him and his generations.
51. You can predict how long the punishment your parents can give you will last, but nobody can predict accurately how long God’s punishment will linger on the head of a disobedient fellow.
52. Can you imagine? This is the Almighty that visits the iniquities of the parents upon the children up to the 8th generation.
53. And you know what 8th generation is all about. Begin to count and know where your own is fitting. I said, “I AM THE LORD. I CHANGETH NOT.”
54. The only one that will escape is one that will embrace Christ and then create a new generation. This is because, once you are in Christ, you become a brand new individual within, for old things have passed away.
55. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. [2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV]
56. 17Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come! [2 Corinthians 5:17 AMP]
57. That old covenant of death which your parents made with idols by disobeying God will no longer have any effect on you.
58. That was how Jabez changed his own condition and created a new generation credited to Jabez and no longer his parents.
59. You see why we implore you as young men and young women; adults, never to be hypocrites. You can change your condition. You can change the history of your own generation. That is by believing God, and then acting right. You can change it.
60. If God had spoken evil against your family, and there comes one who refuses to walk in the ways of your people in your family that brought about that curse, that person is automatically excluded from the punishment, for the LORD had already decreed it that he will never punish the righteous in the midst of the wicked.
61. 9the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: [2 Peter 2:9 KJV]
62. He said, “Let it be an abomination unto me if I would not honour those that honour Me.”
63. 30Therefore the Lord God of Israel declares, ‘I did indeed say that your house and that of [Aaron] your father would walk [in priestly service] before Me forever.’ But now the Lord declares, ‘Far be it from Me—for those who honor Me I will honor, and those who despise Me will be insignificant and contemptible. [1 Samuel 2:30 AMP]
64. So, if you honour God, He will honour you. He will honour you with long life. He will honour you with peace. He will honour you with godly home and godly children. He will honour you with abundant blessings;
65. And finally usher you into Paradise where you will live with Him eternally together with the Saints and angels, which is what we are clamouring for.
He that is having dealings with us is God. Let Me announce it to you. On the day we were asked to come, the Voice said, “Come and see He that has been having dealings with you all these years.” When we came, we did not see Brother Odoemena. We saw God. So He that has been moving in our midst, having dealings with us all these years, is no other person but God. I am sure. I am certain about it. If you are not sure, well, go and pray. But I am sure. Doubly sure.
– THE SON OF MAN –
I CAN DO NOTHING OF MYSELF; Preached on Sunday 31st December 2000; Pg. 123 vs. 55 – 56
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THE GREATEST PUNISHMENT AWAITS THE HYPOCRITES
The essence of worshipping God in spirit and in truth is to enable us to escape from the impending punishment awaiting our families where we were born; where we were raised, for worshipping idols, for having their ways, instead of following God’s ways.
2. There is nobody who never experienced it as he was coming up in this life. That is why you cannot begin to worship God rightly until you pause and think, have a flashback of where you are coming from; and then, where you are today.
3. Assuming you continued to walk in the ways of your fathers, where would that have landed you, who will suffer the greatest penalty, which is the most painful?
4. It is the one that is espoused to this truth. He knows this truth. He heard about it. He practiced it hypocritically, and finally ended it in the Judgment Seat.
5. The punishment of that person will be the most grievous as documented in the holy Qur’an and in the holy Bible, even in Baha’i Faith, the Grail Message, the Eckankar, the Hare Krishna, the Hindu religion, the Shinto. All of them are contained thereof.
6. THE GREATEST PUNISHMENT AWAITS THE HYPOCRITES. THOSE THAT TASTED THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD, AND LATER DREW BACK, FOR MATERIAL THINGS AND FOR WORLDLY PLEASURE.
7. Ancient parchment said, “Supreme shame, supreme disappointment, supreme punishment, supreme disgrace awaits such people.”
8. Why we must be sincere to God and to ourselves, for whatever we are doing in this life has an eternal reward because we are having dealings with an eternal God.
9. Whatever God does is eternal. Nothing can be added nor subtracted from it.
10. So, you have to be very very cautious and very very careful. We have seen it from the ancient documents we read today.
11. While following God, it requires wisdom. Apply wisdom while understudying God and His ways, for His ways are too high and they passeth human understanding.
12. If you are not wise, you will stumble along the way. You will stumble.
13. THAT IS WHY, THE EASIEST WAY TO STUDY GOD AND TO PATTERN AFTER HIM LIES IN IMPLICIT OBEDIENCE TO EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF HIS MOUTH, SO THAT HE WILL NEVER RAISE ANY QUESTION FOR YOU TO ANSWER, HE WILL NEVER QUERY YOU.
14. Anybody who is living the life of obedience to every Word, whether it sinks well with you or not; do not stop to reason. Do not stop to analyze. Do not ask why it should be this way. Leave it the way He has said it.
15. God does not need a helper in implementing the Word. If the Word goes out, say “Amen! So be it LORD.” Leave it! He watches over it. You will see God perform that Word.
16. But the moment you begin to talk and begin to analyze or begin to reason or even begin to think of the possibility, then you are creating room for God to withdraw.
17. He will keep quiet and hear you fool yourself with your useless suggestions, for God does not listen to anybody’s suggestion. He does everything after the counsel of His own will.
18. 11In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, BEING PREDESTINATED ACCORDING TO THE PURPOSE OF HIM WHO WORKETH ALL THINGS AFTER THE COUNSEL OF HIS OWN WILL: 12that we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. [Ephesians 1:11 – 12 KJV]
19. He does that which He had already purposed in His heart concerning any matter or any individual. He does not confer with men; flesh and blood to tell Him what He will do and what He will not do.
20. Oftentimes, being a man 100%, He watches man’s reactions. That a man feels cheated, or sometimes feels disrespected or humiliated if he is not allowed to air his views or opinions on any matter.
21. For that reason, God will behave like our former head of state, Ibrahim Babangida, for which cause, they called him Maradona.
22. Throw it to the pubic because they want to talk. Everybody wants to be heard, “Since you want to be heard, I will hear you. You want to talk, talk.” But in action, I will do that which I had already purposed to do.
23. If it agrees with your line of thinking, praise God. It then means we are working in the same spirit, for if we have the same spirit, what I have in mind on any matter is what you must have in mind concerning that same matter.
24. We may present it in different forms, but you will discover that we are standing on one platform concerning that matter. You cannot see any discrepancy. No distortion!
25. But if the spirit has veered off the track, even you as an individual, you will notice it along the way.
26. Oftentimes, you may regret talking, and that if you had kept quiet, it would have been better, for where you were heading to will be where the whole thing will arrive.
27. But man by nature is impatient and often feels cheated if he is not given that opportunity to talk.
28. Let us be very careful and put a padlock upon our lips while understudying God, with a view to patterning after Him. That is wisdom.
29. He is our Masterpiece. That is why He came in human form, and He has told you clearly; and I say it every day, “Water takes the shape of its container. Air takes the shape of its container. Every liquid takes the shape of its container.”
30. When you say “Spirit”, “Spirit”, spirit is like air. You cannot see it, but you can see the actions of the air. Is it not true?
31. What is wind? Wind is air in motion. When you get a flat ball or a flat balloon, and then you want to inflate it, what do you use to inflate it? You pump in air.
32. If you want to know the weight of the air inside, what do you do? You first of all weigh the balloon. Before pumping it. After pumping it, you weigh it again. And whatever is the addition in the weight is the weight of the air inside the balloon. Is it not true?
33. I am teaching you something. I am teaching you wisdom. So air occupies space. Did you get the Message?
34. If you want to know the space that air is occupying, it is the circumference of that balloon. If you can measure it, and it gives you 400cm3, that is the space air has occupied there.
35. You weigh the empty balloon and weigh the balloon with air inside it, you subtract the original weight of the balloon from the weight of the balloon with air, and you will get the original weight of the air in the balloon. So, air has weight. Did you get the Message now?
36. So it is with every liquid. If you want to know the weight of the liquid, weigh the container before you pour the liquid inside. When you weigh the container, note the weight.
37. Then fill that container to the brim with the liquid and weigh it again. Whatever the additional weight is the weight of the liquid. Subtract the original weight from the second and you get the original weight of the content of that container. One way!
38. This is common arithmetic. Elementary so to say.
39. So it is with the shape. If you want to know the shape of the water, in a container, be it bottle or jerry can, fill it to the brim. The shape of the water is the shape of the container. Period!
40. If God is dwelling in Me, whether in spirit form or in liquid form, I am the container. Period!
41. From the beginning, right from Amazu Oil, He told us clearly, “I AM THE VISIBLE REPRESENTATION OF THE INVISIBLE GOD. IT IS TRUE I AM A MAN, I AM MARRIED AND I HAVE CHILDREN. I HAVE NOT COMMITTED ANY CRIME. THIS HAS BEEN HIS NATURE RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING. HE IS CALLED ELA-ELOHIM: ONE THAT DWELLS WITH HIS FAMILY.”
42. Right from 1990, I never minced words. And I told you, “I KNOW WHO I AM. IF I INTRODUCE MYSELF TO YOU, AND YOU SAY YOU DO NOT BELIEVE IN MY INTRODUCTION, YOU ARE FOOLISH. DO YOU KNOW ME MORE THAN I KNOW MYSELF?”
43. I have told you My Name. I have told you where I was born. I have told you everything about Me, but you say, “I do not believe your introduction.”
44. Okay! Why did you ask Me since you know Me more than I know Myself? Can you please humble yourself and tell Me who I am?
45. Since you know Me more than I know Myself, tell Me who I am or the person you think I am.
46. I have told you Who I am and also told you everything I am known for; My characteristics.
47. And before your eyes, all I told you I am, I manifested all. I have manifested both the physical and the metaphysical. I have also manifested both the natural and the supernatural. I have manifested all.
48. As a natural human being, can you not see all the natural attributes of a natural human being in Me? As a supernatural Being, can you not see the attributes of the supernatural being made manifest?
49. As a physical Being, can you not touch Me? Can you not feel Me? That is in the physical realm. In the metaphysical realm, can you not see? What is wrong with human beings?
50. I have manifested Myself as I told you I am. Then if you are in doubt, keep your doubt to yourself because I am not for you.
51. If My preaching sounds unclear to anybody, I say, “Do not bother yourself. I am not sent for you. I am not talking to you. You are paying attention to what I am telling those that belong to Me.”
52. 18For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness; but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God. [1 Corinthians 1:18 KJV]
53. If you do not belong to Me and I do not belong to you, can we understand ourselves? Can the two walk together except they agree?
54. There must be a disagreement where the two do not have the same spirit and the same mind. They are of different species. That is what I am saying.
55. So please, I have over-flogged this matter. Let Me go back to the interactive session.
56. I feel like reading all the questions into the tapes so that whoever that wrote them will know that I actually entertained all.
57. And that will also help all and sundry that are hearing Me to know whether the Messages THE SON OF MAN has been given us are questionable Messages or unquestionable Messages.
58. It will also help you to know the level of understanding of the Faith among some people.
59. Thank God I never called for their names. Neither did I call for their locations.