PREACHED ON FRIDAY, 25TH JUNE, 2021 BY PASTOR WISDOM ODOEMENA AT PASTOR WISDOM’S HOUSE ENUGU APPROVED & AUTHORIZED BY THE SON OF MAN TRANSCRIBED BY BRO LUCKY UKASANYA, ENUGU HOUSEHOLD OF GOD
24So everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts upon them [obeying them] will be like a sensible (prudent, practical, wise) man who built his house upon the rock. 25And the rain fell and the floods came and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. 26And everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not do them will be like a stupid (foolish) man who built his house upon the sand. 27And the rain fell and the floods came and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell–and great and complete was the fall of it.
Matthew 7:24 – 27 AMP
He went further to say, “He is holding salvation in His hands. If He wants, He will give you. If He does not want, He will not give you.” He said, “Let me tell you this secret, there are many sitting down here hearing us, they fellowship with us, they are in the Church but they are not in the Faith of the Son of Man. Only those that are in the faith of the Son of Man will get the salvation which the Son of Man offers.”
-THE SON OF MAN-
THE YEAR OF THE FAITHFUL Preached on 5th January, 2014
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YOU CAN BE IN THE CHURCH WITHOUT BEING IN CHRIST
We thank God for giving us the privilege to worship Him in spirit and in truth. I say that it is a great privilege that we have to be in the presence of God today to reverence Him, to thank Him for the wonderful thing He has done for us and also for ushering us into His presence.
2. It is not easy for one to make movements in the day and still come back. We are living at a time when if somebody tells you, ‘let him get something on the street, you pray for the person’. There is no single place you can go today that is safe.
3. Hence you can hear about parents that went to school run and they ended it in the hand of kidnappers. And that was the end.
4. Different stories are attached to different movement now. So, this is not the time we should play with the safety of our soul. When you see yourself going out and coming in, healthy and alive, kicking, it is a big reason for you to serve God.
5. We have a song that says, “In my heart, I have a reason to praise the Lord.” There must be a definite reason in you that if the reason is not there, regardless of what you are facing, there should be something that stairs up joy in you.
6. There is no human being that says what makes him happy.
7. Naturally, you can wake up and see yourself happy. But if you are not happy, it goes to show there is something wrong in you. God said, that if you want to be happy, the secret lies in making people around you happy.
8. It is when you are happy that you begin to recognize the goodness of God. You begin to recognize good things the Lord has done for you.
9. But when you are not happy, the devil will blind you and limit you to seeing the problems around you. And he will not tell you the truth by telling you how you contributed to those problems.
10. He will only tell you, “Look at what God did to you”. But he will blind you from seeing it from the angle of, “Look at how I contributed to what I am going through.” You will only be faced with problems upon problems.
11. Hence, if you should be asked the characteristics of a blessed fellow or someone who is blessed by God, he will tell you big house, big car, this and that. Because the world measures the goodness or blessings of God based of physical things that eyes can see.
12. Even the so called men of God have preached people into believing blessings of God to mean the level of wealth you have. The number of vehicles you have, the type of phone you use, your clothing and so on. Once those things are not in place, you see the person questioning God of denying him.
13. They equally measure how prosperous they are when they are doing evil. Though many are doing evil, not all are fortunate enough to prosper in their evil deeds. What is more, that you are not in prison does not make you a saint.
14. There are so many criminals. The day you are caught is the day your own is revealed. It does not stop the act of criminality to be found in the society.
15. So those who progress in iniquity, term it to mean grace of God in their life. To them, for the fact that they were not caught shows the grace of God.
16. Even in that iniquity, they can never see the hand of devil in it. If you tell them that this is the work of the devil, they will never believe because they have the belief that the evident of God’s blessing is money. That is the basic believe of a natural man.
17. Even if they spilt blood to get the money, they will still term it to be God’s blessing. That God has blessed him. Hence you see somebody saying, “I tap from your blessing. The God that did it for you will do it for me”.
18. But we that are children of God, we are not meant to see God that way or the blessings of God that way or tie the worship of God to what He has blessed us with. “Seeing that I do not have a car, I will not worship God like others. God, if you bless me with a car, I will worship you this way”. Many people are like that. “I will not use this little strength to start worshipping God now; it is only one meal that I took.”
19. They are tying it to what they are facing immediately. Hence, their worship to God goes down as the day goes bye.
20. Hence we see the person not fitting in into the present stage of the ministry. It is one thing for you to know the present stage of the ministry; it is another thing to fit into the present stage of the ministry. They are not the same thing.
21. You can be aware, you can have the head knowledge, you can know where the Faith is heading to but the things that are needed from he that belongs to the Faith, you do not have it.
22. Everybody can buy a car and drive but there are requirements from a fellow that has a car. If you are not tutored. You will think that it is just to go to a car stand and buy a car, not knowing that you have to know when your car tires expire so as not to fall into the hands of the road safety officers. Because expired tire can still look good in your eyes but the road safety will tell you that it has expired.
23. You must have fire extinguisher in your car. These are things that a driver ought to know. That is why it is said that ignorance of the law is not an excuse.
24. Remember I said something earlier that, you can know the present stage of the ministry without fitting into the present stage of the ministry. What is more, you see some parents telling their child that despite his claim of knowing how to drive, but he is not yet up to the age of driving. Just like me, at the age I learnt how to drive, I cannot have a license. At that age, if I am being caught on the highway, I can be arrested for not being matured both psychological and otherwise to drive a vehicle.
25. These are the things people do not know. They can be so inquisitive to have a car whereas what it takes to have a car is lacking in them.
26. Let us take this faith as a car. Though you may know how to move the car, control it, yet it is elementary knowledge. But the basic requirement, the physical evidences such as the license, the car particulars you do not have. Hence, you see him when asked to surrender his car particulars; he will be confused, not knowing where particulars are placed in the car.
27. Why? He is a novice. What should make him fit for driving is seriously lacking in him. This is the problem we are having at this present hour.
28. It is not how fast you are in the scriptures, it is not how fast you are with the ancient books that are coming out now, it is not how knowledgeable you are so as to grab it that counts but are you fitting into that message?
29. Are you sure that in your heart, in your soul, in your body that whatever that makes you a human being is in complete agreement with you are hearing? When these three things are not in agreement with it, there must be a fuss somewhere.
30. You will not know where that fuss is, but there is a level of war, a point of conflict, your outer self is conflicting with your inner self. But you do not know what that problem is, because your body, your soul, your heart, they are not in agreement.
31. Take for example, you walk into a House on the Rock church on Sunday, there is no way your physical self can be in agreement with it. No matter the money somebody promises you to go there, number one is that your conscience will even be querying your stay there. You can never control yourself; their practices will be irritating you. It can only take one that is out of the way of truth to comfortably go to any denomination ceremony and feel relaxed.
32. If you are still in this Faith and you feel relaxed staying in any religious gathering, you do not even know who God is to start with. Even a kid can never agree to be there. He or she will prefer staying outside. Not because you are there, not because somebody will see you, but because you have experienced it and it has become part and parcel of you.
33. Hence, in every hole, there is always a nut fitted for it. It must take the nut with the size of that hole to fit into it. For every opening there is a particular nut that is fitted for it. If you get one that is longer or shorter than that hole, it can never enter.
34. So the God that has created you, made it that you can only fit into this Faith. Hence, you hear God saying that where we are now, we cannot go beyond where we are now; That He has brought us to rapturable state.
35. So you trying to sit in that church, will hurt your soul. You will not withstand it because you have fitted into God’s plan. But when you have not fitted, you cannot experience what we are preaching. Because God said that we preach our experience.
36. In other words, while the message is going on, try to relate it to your daily life. It is upon that, that you will now echo Amen to it. It is upon that that you can accept it to be the truth. Why? Because you are now putting yourself inside that message so as to understand it.
37. I do not know whether we are understanding the message? So by putting yourself inside the message, there is no ground of going astray. It can only take false anointing from God, because I believe that the devil has no hand in the life of a child of God. If I should do it, God has a divine purpose for making that thing to happen.
38. If God should say that we are in our rapturable estate, it means that devil cannot come close to it. Can devil be translated? The answer is no. so, if the devil cannot be translated, at this point where I am now waiting for my translation, it means that I am operating with God and God alone. Halleluiah.
31What then shall we say to [all] this? If God is for us, who [can be] against us? [Who can be our foe, if God is on our side?] 32He who did not withhold or spare [even] His own Son but gave Him up for us all, will He not also with Him freely and graciously give us all [other] things? 33Who shall bring any charge against God’s Elect [when it is] God Who justifies [that is, Who puts us in right relation to Himself? Who shall come forward and accuse or impeach those whom God has chosen? Will God, Who acquits us?]
ROMANS 8:31 – 33 Amplified Version
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WHAT IS YOUR ANCHOR?
Are we getting the message? So when things happen, do not tell yourself that it is not possible. No. The point you are, there is nothing between you and the devil. You have come to the complete knowledge of who Christ is. That is why, the topic of my message is, “Anchor”.
2. There must be something you must cling your faith to, there must be something. An atheist has something he cling his faith to. Traditionalist has something he clings his faith to. Every human being believes that there must be something you must recline your faith to. It is natural.
3. Though you may say you do not believe in God, but once you see accident, everybody starts calling on God. This is the truth.
4. As we could see during the covid19 happened. We saw the whole world lamenting. Everybody thinks it will finally vanish, but we know that it is a prophetic event.
5. I am saying that He that said this and it came to pass; said the other, it came to pass, do you then think that this one that has been laughed into oblivion will not happen? Put your hands in the scriptures, it is not there.
6. If this thing is not true, why will people shed their blood? Why will people preach under the worst condition, why will people believe even unto their death? From dispensation to dispensation, until it came down to our own day, and you now want to tell me that it is not real. Nobody will believe it.
7. What is the essence of the bible? To buttress the matter, God now gave us the book of Enoch. This is to tell us that somebody was alive and went to paradise. To tell us that this thing I am telling you is real.
8. So this is what you need to anchor your faith on. Let somebody get the meaning of “ANCHOR” from his phone. I need different meaning of the word, ‘Anchor’.
9. ANCHOR meaning from Urban dictionary: A person or feeling one uses to keep his or herself grounded. Brethren can you see? A person or feeling one uses to keep his or herself grounded or in a calm state when things are not well.
10. So there is no need of an anchor when there is peace. Brethren, are you getting the message? There can never be need of an anchor where there is peace. Where there is peace, you have no need of anybody where you put your fate in.
11. That is why God told us that if I should bless you when the world is being blessed, that you will not notice it. You will easily claim that you are the one doing it yourself. But when I bless you contrary, when things are not going well, it then shows that it is the power of God.
12. Look at the meaning again, that it is a person or feeling. God said that revelation is a definite experience. The moment brother Lucky feels it, the moment Pastor Wisdom feels it, it will cause you to be rooted and grounded.
13. There is nothing, no event nor situation, that is even working contrary to you or contrary to whatever you are predicting that will ever change that revelation. Hallelujah.
14. Rewind it again. A person or feeling one uses to keep his or herself grounded in a calm state when things are not well. Amen.
15. I got another meaning that anchor can be a means of stability and support. The moment you get to that level, there is nothing heathens will say, there is nothing the world is saying, there is nothing your lecturer, your friend is saying, any human being is saying that is moving you. There is no event that will happen and you say, God, I am surprised.
16. Rather, you will see yourself saying, I know more than that. I am aware of this. Why? Because you have been stable in Christ. Because of your persistence stand in faith. It has made your faith to be grounded and rooted.
17. Another meaning: An anchor is also someone or something. An anchor is also what? Someone or something that gives support when needed. We are serving a living God. It said that it must be something or someone.
18. There is no minsing of words. It must be something. It must be supernatural evidence surrounding a human being. It must be a human being and things surrounding that human being. What I know is that it must be someone or something.
19. Any other meaning? A reliable or principal support, something that serves to hold. Brethren I have not started the message, but we are trying to dig in. I just want us to know, look at the first meaning.
20. There can never be an anchor where there is peace. It must be in troublous time. Why will this message come now?
21. You hear God often saying, “In times like this, you need an anchor, in times like this. you need an anchor, be very sure, be very sure your anchor holds and grip that solid rock. That rock is Christ, the Son of Man2x, be very sure, be very sure your anchor holds and grip that solid rock.”
22. Anchor your faith on the covenant God established with you. Do what? Hang in there! When you hear, hang in there, it is when your faith is about to fell, everything around you is proving to you that this thing will not happen.
23. It could be that you had an accident and killed somebody, the police arrested you and then charges you to court and you call Him, He tells you, “Bro Lucky, hang in there, I am coming. Because everything there has proved to you that you are going to jail. But you know that if Wizzy can come to that situation, mere seeing him will remove that fear of I am going to jail. No matter what the police is saying, you will hiss a sigh of relieve.
24. There must be something or someone. Amen.
25. A reliable or principal support, that is, a main-stay, something that stands to hold an object. Something that stands to hold not only an object but an individual firmly.
26. Another meaning: A person or thing that provides stability or confidence in an otherwise uncertain situation. A source of security or stability. I decided to leave this open while we are trying to digest this word called Anchor. I never attached any other word to it. Whatever you want to attach, you put it behind.
27. Anchor your faith, anchor your revelation, anchor your experience, whatever you say, the summary of everything is, anchor whatsoever that makes you a believer in Him.
28. Give me Hebrews chapter 6 verses 19. Let us buttress this fact that it must be a source of support and stability. The moment this revelation strikes you, you will have peace. You see yourself always smiling.
29. Living bible: “This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. Brethren you know the hope we are talking about. God said, “This”, to show you that it is a singular event. It is as singular as the word, “Anchor”. That’s all.
30. This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. It leads us through the curtains into God’s inner sanctuary. It breaks through. Whatever it is, it breaks through it into God’s inner sanctuary.
31. Amplified: “Now, we have this hope as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul. It cannot slip and it cannot breakdown.
32. When you have pinned your confidence in that person, for that situation to have occurred and the only person you have in mind is that person, do you think that that confidence will be in vain? It was until the Israelites became uncomfortable that a messiah came.
33. Brethren God said that if you follow God spiritually, you will definitely know when you will be translated. The hour and the day and brethren, we are seeing it with our eyes.
34. With the inspiration of this message, it gets to show that those of you expecting it to happen, are you passing through hard times? Has it become uncertain to you? Until it becomes so uncertain, so unbearable, you should not expect your translation.
35. Now, we have this hope as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul. It cannot slip and it cannot breakdown under whoever steps out upon it. A hope that reaches farther and enters into the very certainty of the presence within the veil. Brethren, can you see? Within the present veil.
36. Follow me to the second book of Esdras. I want us to know what that anchor is or where we are placing our anchor on.
37. Remember the clause that it must be what? Somebody or something. We are going to be revolving around this word.
38. The second book of Esdras chapter 3 verse 1: 35BE READY TO THE REWARD OF THE KINGDOM. Be what? Be ready and prepare yourself for the reward….FOR THE EVERLASTING LIGHT WILL SHINE UPON YOU FOREVERMORE. Amen!!!
39. There is no end. Brethren, this is where we should be anchoring our soul. When these books are coming out. Those people that it is giving joy, those people that it has given the awareness of who the Son of Man is, do not follow them.
40. We know where our joy is coming from. Our joy is coming from the fact that it is establishing our anchor on the present truth.
41. It is making our anchor to be deeply rooted so that regardless of any situation, God has espoused it to show you that; even in the days of Moses, days of David, days of Enoch, compare it favorably with what you are facing today, you will be sure and certain that you are not following cunningly devised fables. Amen.
42. 36FLEE THE SHADOW OF THIS WORLD,… FLEE! RUN AWAY FROM THE FANCIES OF THIS WORLD. THEY ARE MERE SHADOWS. THEY ARE MERE SHADOWS. FLEE FROM THE PHONIES. FUNNY FUNNY THINGS OF THIS WORLD. THEY ARE SHADOWS. THEY ARE NOT THE REALITY.
43. No matter how we make it to look. If you see how sweet relationship looks on Instagram, you will think that it will never have an end. This is truth.
44. You look at fashion, look at trends, look at styles. When we talk about trends, there are trends that are unknown to our parents. There are ways of doing things that if you do it in a normal way, for example, if you go to bank and eventually you see a girl half dressed, I mean with transparent dress, if it were during the time of our parents, a mother can accost her and talk to her and you see the girl covered with shamefacedness.
45. But now, try and confront any girl, she will give you the insult of your life. Even people around will take side with her, telling you to mind your business. It has become a normalized norm. it is now a trend, that even if you see it, you will take it as a normal thing. This is the truth.
46. They are trying to normalize wrong doing, thereby making it a way of life. God said that they are mere shadows. A shadow is not real. It is not eternal. A shadow can only appear in the dark using a ray of light.
47. Why does it not appear during the day? This is to show you that a shadow does not last. It is not a real image. You cannot use a shadow to describe somebody.
48. God said that they are mere shadows. ONE THAT HAS UNDERSTANDING DOES NOT PURSUE THE SHADOW. HE PURSUES THE REALITY. AND CHRIST IS THE REALITY. PARADISE IS THE REALITY. ETERNAL LIFE IS THE REALITY.
49. ANY OTHER THING IS JUST A MERE FUNFAIR. MERE FUNFAIR. MERE TEMPORARY ENTERTAINMENT, FOR THE JOYS OF THIS PRESENT WORLD MUST SURELY FIZZLE OUT, STRAIGHT AWAY, CREATING THE ROOM FOR THE REALITY, WHICH WILL ENDURE TO ALL ENTERNITIES. AND THAT IS WHAT YOU MUST GO FOR. Brethren, this is the kind of word you will anchor your faith on.
50. Something that is happening before you, do what? Anchor on it. You are sure. You are seeing it that it is true. God said that styles are changing. The style of hair you were barbing in the year 2002, you cannot barb it now. This is the truth. As at 2010, who knows about two step style of barbing, but today, clipper now comes with many steps to suit the current trend.
51. As the world goes on, the more it continues to revolve, and as it is revolving, so it is making people to disbelieve the power of God which says that this world will come to an end. This is the truth.
52. The more God is making you to be rooted, the more you are believing that it will come to an end. The same way to an unbeliever, God is making things to happen in a way that will make him to disbelieve the ending of the world.
53. Hence, you can see people driving 2022 car in 2021. “There are cars of 2030 and you want to tell me that this world will come to an end. Are you wiser than the white people (Inventors)?”
54. while many say this in their hearts, God is busy making you to believe that there is an eternal hope that awaits you. But to the unbelievers, God uses these things to make him believe that this world cannot come to an end. Note, it is that same God at work in you.
55. Brethren, have we seen where we can anchor our faith? Remember you must anchor it on somebody or something. Can we say that we do not know who we should anchor our faith on?
56. It has been established, confirmed, vindicated, what else can we say is remaining? Nothing than the crowning of our mortal bodies into immortality and he has told us that it is around the corner.
57. I am still establishing, showing us the words of prophecy where we can hear and also know that of a surety that nobody else will be in paradise apart from you and I.
58. God said that there is a level of certainty you will get as a seed of God, you will stand in boldness and say, “There is no paradise without me”.
59. If you have not come to that level of certainty in Christ, you are making a fair show of yourself. You are just making an advertisement of your faith which will take you to nowhere.
60. Page 92 verses 9: 37O RECEIVE THE GIFT THAT IS GIVEN TO YOU, AND BE GLAD, GIVING THANKS TO HIM WHO HAS LED YOU TO THE HEAVENLY KINGDOM.
61. 38ARISE UP AND STAND, BEHOLD THE NUMBER OF THOSE WHO ARE SEALED IN THE FEAST OF THE LORD; 39WHO HAVE DEPARTED FROM THE SHADOW OF THE WORLD, AND HAVE RECEIVED GLORIOUS GARMENTS OF THE LORD. Amen!!!
62. Verse 12: ANYBODY WHO IS PUTTING ON THE WORLD, CAN HE PUT ON THE WHITE GARMENT OF THE LORD. THE WORLD IS IN ENMITY WITH THE TRUTH.
“If we actually value His presence in our midst, we must reverence Him and hang our faith on Him. Our daily prayer should focus on that because man is very frail and he needs the support of Almighty God to be able to stand firmly on his conviction. Yes! To abide in the Bridal Ministry is based on one factor, and that is understanding and believing that this is a ministry of one man. He must be Obeyed, Relied upon, Trusted and our Faith must be anchored on His Words and Instructions.
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THE PURITY OF THE FAITH OF CHRIST VS THE FILTHINESS OF OUR MINDS Preached On 26 MAY 2021. Page 30vs52 53 & page 34:4
BY PASTOR ROTIMI AKINTAN
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BE VERY SURE THAT YOUR ANCHOR HOLDS FIRMLY
Page 94 verses 15: Begin to reason within yourself, “If THE SON OF MAN was not sent to us, who would have shown us the Way into this Kingdom? Brethren can you now see who you should anchor your faith on? It was not the bible that said it. This was from the dictionary.
2. Internet definition of the word, “Anchor”. And whether we like it or not, it must be at the time of uncertainty. In a time of distress, to confirm with the word He told us that it must be in a troublous times. Be very sure that your anchor holds.
3. Page 100 verses 28: 43AND IN THE MIDST OF THEM, THERE WAS A YOUNG MAN OF A HIGH STATURE,… What? AND IN THE MIDST OF THEM WAS A YOUNG MAN OF HIGH STATURE,… Sure!!!…TALLER THAN ALL THE REST, AND UPON EVERY ONE OF THEIR HEADS, HE SET CROWNS, AND WAS MORE EXALTED;…Sure!!! which I marveled at greatly.
4. 44So I asked the angel, and said, “Sir, what are these?” 45He answered and said to me, “THESE ARE THOSE WHO HAVE PUT OFF THE MORTAL CLOTHING,…
5. Brethren, can you see? This was Ezra saying it. In all the ages, they have been trying to know who we are. He said that upon their heads, he set crowns on each. He then asked, who are these people? They must be very privileged. Who are they? They are those who have put off the mortal clothing.
6. They have now been clothed with immortality. Do you know the age Esdras appeared? Is it not in consonance with the Book of Revelation?
7. Who are these coming from the East, West, North and South? He said, “These are those that have been redeemed from the earth, who are now clad with their White Garment;
8. Redeemed by the Blood of the Lamb.” The Redeemed coming from East and West, North and South, clothed with immortality.
9. Brethren, is this not a more sure word of prophecy? A surety, a guarantee that you and I are marked and destined for salvation.
10. He said, all those I have called, sanctified, blessed, vindicated, I have brought them into a garrison. Inside that garrison, you can shout, you can quarrel but you cannot leave the garrison because the garrison is greater than you. How then can the devil come to buffet your faith now?
11. Proverb 23 verse 18. Living Bible: “You will be rewarded for this. Your hope will not be disappointed. You will be rewarded for what? Anchoring your faith on the divine personality.
12. Verse 17: Do not envy sinners, but continue to fear the Lord. You will be rewarded for this. Your hope will not be disappointed.
13. Amplified: Let not your heart envy sinners but continue in the reverence and worshipful fear of the Lord all the day long. For surely there is an end, a future and a reward…
14. There is what? A later end. After the shadows, there is a later end and a what? A future and a reward. And your hope and your expectation shall not be cut off. This is where we are now. He that has said all these, He said that you should anchor your faith on this sure word. This Word that has been tested, tried, vindicated, anchor your soul there.
15. When you go to the ship, there is always an anchor and it must be something. No matter how big that ship is, no matter how the wave is, once that ship is on that anchor, nothing can ever carry it away.
16. If you follow God by revelation, you will actually know where God started pulling us. Hence He told us to lose the colt, get out from that devil’s strong hold. Come for there is a better sure anchor.
17. Look at where we read in Hebrew chapter 6, it said that whosoever that steps his feet on it, he cannot break, nothing can remove it. Not only for you and even to your generation. This alone can make a seed of God whether thunder is striking at night or fire is raining by the day, you will simply say, I know more than this.
18. Even if people cluster and are shouting of strange signs, you are not amazed because you know what you are waiting for. Nothing can ever take you by surprise.
19. This is the level where God wants us to be operating in. you do not call the Son of Man on phone and be telling Him, “My child is sick”. For He has given you the power. You do not need to tell Him that you are doing this, simply anchor.
20. Get me Psalm 112 verse 7. Amplified: He will not be moved forever. The uncompromisingly righteous. He that has put his confidence. He that has put his faith. He that is standing on that established Word of salvation. No matter what happens? He will not be moved.
21. The upright in right standing with God shall be in everlasting remembrance.
22. He shall not be afraid of evil tidings. His heart is firmly fixed. His heart is like a stone because he is firmly fixed on somebody or something.
23. God said, by this immutable things, infallible proves, convincing evidences, you will know of surety, not because your bible tells you so. But because you yourself have stepped on it. You are speaking out of revelation. You are now speaking out of experience which cannot be removed.
24. Everything can be removed from a human being but experiences can never be removed. Experience can never be transferred. That is why our salvation is tied to the experience or revelation you have about who God is.
25. Hence, God tells you that your revelation or that there is a way you will preach your God, you end up preaching out your revelation. It is not shared anyhow. When it is brought to you, do your best to accept, do your best to understand.
26. There is a message I promised us but, it is not this message. Look at the book I was considering. The second book of prophet Esdra and Golden nuggets volume 4 part 1. I have finished it.
27. I was trying to go over to part 2 today and God called and said we should consider the message, “Golden nugget. That was when I knew that I must hold unto this golden nugget and release this one, “Anchor”.
28. And we are seeing and testifying that God has really met us at the point of our needs.
29. Verse 7: He shall not be afraid of evil tidings. His heart is firmly fixed, trusting, leaning on and being confidence in the Lord.
30. Is it not somebody or something brethren? Is the Lord not somebody? Can’t you point at who the Lord is? Look at the first meaning the Apostle read, that it must be surely on somebody. This is not the bible that said it.
31. So naturally, nature believes in a savior. This is what it is trying to type. Naturally, once it comes to a time of uncertainty, there is always one who paves the way. Nigeria came to that point where they were asking who will be able to liberate Nigeria after much colonization?
32. It is always in a time of distress. That somebody with a strong mind is needed for absolute deliverance. I am trying to type it politically.
33. When it comes to exams, there must be a subject that you cannot do without. Once it comes to exam and that subject is involved, there is always a special preparation for that particular course. You will go as far as lifting it up in your prayers.
34. Why? Because you believe that you cannot make it alone. You need a divine assistance. You need an anchor. Hence, God can veil Himself as a lecturer, as a supervisor and assist you simply because you have anchored on Him.
35. When an anchor is placed on a boat, no matter the wave, you will be asked to enter. Use your eye of revelation to envisage what it looks like two million people crossing the red sea while the sea formed a wall. You can imagine how deep a sea is and they were descending. Your only anchor remains Moses. No matter what, for the fact that Moses is here, no need to fear.
36. There is no way God can allow you to fail, because you are His son. Once you have that confidence in God, brethren you can brag to anybody. Because you know where your bragging is coming from.
37. You know where you are drawing your strength from. You know who is supplying you all that you need to go through. When you are speaking, you are not speaking under your own unction but of He that created the heavens and earth. That is the point where the prophets of Baal respected Elijah. Elijah just made a statement which he anchored. “If I be a man of God,” that was all.
38. There was no prayer, there was no intercession, there was no speaking in tongue, there was no fasting, there was absolutely nothing.
39. To even make them doubt the more, he said, ‘soak this wood with water so that you will not have any point to doubt what will happen.’ Just a sentence. “If I be a man of God, and brethren, we saw the next thing that happened. It became a testimony to all generation.
40. For when God sends a man, He backs him up. Knowing that there must be unbelievers, He gives him enough prove to buttress to all that are willing to believe him that He is no other personality than God Himself.
41. Brethren, can we say that we have not seen those evidences? If it takes the book of Enoch or the legends of the Jews to point you to who your God is, right from the beginning you do not even believe in Him.
42. We are happy today because we had already started bragging with God with the little revelation we had. Look at most of us that were born into the Faith, we never saw anything. We grew up and saw that it was truth.
43. Apart from the vindication of the cloud in confirming the churches, we never saw pillar of cloud those days yet we are more grounded than the so called unbelievers that saw it. This is for you to know that you are not the one doing it.
A lot of things are coming to prove your Faith, to test your Faith in the Word which you said that you have believed. In other words, this is the time you will defend that which you said that you have believed. In addition, every man will defend his or her own belief. Anywhere you meet the trouble that is where you will start to say whatever you are going to say.
-THE SON OF MAN-
ECHOES OF TRIBULATION PREACHED ON 30TH OCTOBER 1996 Page 89vs7
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THE POINT OF OUR ANCHOR
He shall not be afraid of evil tidings. His heart is firmly fixed, trusting, leaning on and being confidence in the Lord. His heart is established and steady.
2. He will not be afraid while he waits to see his desire established upon His adversaries.
3. Living Bible: “Those who are righteous will be long remembered. They do not fear bad news. They confidently trust the Lord to care for them. They are confident and fearless and face their foes triumphantly.
4. Can you see the true qualities of one who has anchored his soul? God said we are not amazed by day or by night for we know the strategy of the devil, his antics, procedures, the veils which he uses; the tricks which he uses to becloud anyone whose heart is failing.
5. Brethren, the devil can only meet you when your heart is shaking. A heart that has been rooted, grounded and sealed, there is absolutely nothing that can remove such a heart, that can move such a heart or tempt him.
6. The devil cannot even near such a heart because he knows that the person will not give him a second chance.
7. Follow me to this same message. the second book of Esdras part 1, vol. 1. Page 116 verses 69: 22Thus infirmity was made permanent; and the law (also) in the heart of the people WITH THE MALIGNITY OF THE ROOT;…
8. Which means that if you destroy it, it will spring up again. It will be recurring. After praying and rejecting it, after a little while you will see it manifest again. It has become malignant.
9. Even after weeping and crying, the problem is still there. After going to church, the problem is still there. You rebuke and flog, it remains the same.
10. After sometime, there will be calmness as if it has resolved, but within a short while, it will start manifesting again. It is because the evil has become a malignant issue; infirmity that is made permanent in the individual.
11. Brethren is it not the same voice? You can see people praying, crying to God, why is this thing still in me? Why am I still doing this? why after I made this confession, that I will not go back to this, I still see myself bringing down Christ in my heart, speaking evil about children of God.
12. The worst thing that can happen to any fellow is to open his mouth or use his mouth to seal his or her condemnation.
13. If for a day in this Most Holy Faith, you had anything against the Son of Man or His children and you utter a word, brethren I am not saying this just for anything but you know this to be the truth. For He said that if you transgress against the son, it can be forgiven;
14. But now that He has revealed who He is. You know that you are having dealings with no less a personality than God Himself. He is no longer mentioning any God, no. This is the Almighty God Himself.
15. A single word of blasphemy spoken against Him marks your condemnation. This is where many families are going to miss paradise. And they still think they are in what God is doing.
16. It takes only Christ to forgive such a family or such a fellow if He wants. This is what you did before and you are now basking on the grace of God. Who is giving you that grace?
17. The grace you have talked down in your mouth? The grace you have blaspheme His name? The same fellow you have criticized, you are expecting grace from Him or another person?
18. This is where you hear God saying that many have been dropped and yet they do not know. Watch such a family, watch such individual that has been dropped and yet he or she is still moving about believing, doing this and that thinking that the mind of God can be changed.
19. I am not telling you not to continue with God. God said that you can continue, towards the end, that there MIGHT BE hope.
20. There was never a guarantee that He will save you. Is hope an anchor? “Pack the boat here anyhow, when the wave comes, it might be shaking”. But look at the other boat, once you place the anchor, you can go and do whatever you want to do. You will not even remember that you placed something there, why? Because you are sure that it is safe.
21. Look at what God said, that such a person will pray, fast, you see yourself repeating verbatim. Half of the people in the Faith have absolutely gone back to their vomit. When I say absolutely, I mean that they have soaked deeper in the world more than where they were when we were still going to GTC.
22. I am standing here confirming this to us. I say, almost half of the believers because we are not using the word brethren again.
23. Those that called themselves believers, the level of their acquaintance to the world while we were still having collective fellowship, I am saying that they have grown deeper now in the world than when we used to fellowship together.
24. You know why? When the Word of God which is sent to you through the messengers that are anointed by God, the anointed vessels inspired by God, when their teachings cannot have effect on you when we were together as a church. You know the world’s definition of church is not the same to us.
25. God said that correction is given to you in the church but change takes place at home where you are left to live on your own.
26. Imagine those while attending church and yet they still had a level of commitment with the devil and now there is no longer church rather they are now staying with somebody who they can question, judge his obedience, question his loyalty to God, somebody they can question every single thing about, how can the person be in charge of their souls and lead them to paradise?
27. Your vehicle spoiled on the way, you invited a mechanic, instead of calming down for him to do his work, you start commanding and questioning him, directing him on what to do, if he leaves you and go back, is he not justified? Since you know everything, fix it yourself.
28. When he God has been anointed and sent to you for your salvation and you start questioning him, question his teaching which you know is coming from God, how then do you think that such a fellow or his teaching can have a permanent effect on your life? Is it possible?
29. You see why I told you that half of the believers have gone deeper to worldly system. Hence they see no evil in whatever they are doing. They idolize the message to suit their evil convenience. They are among those who will tell you to do whatever that makes you happy. Before such an individual or group of people, nothing is evil.
30. If God wants to save you, the same Instagram that are destroying people, you will see your salvation in it.
31. God will use every means to bring a child of God into obedience to His Word. Look at what somebody posted today concerning, “Do what makes you happy of a thing. To them, there is no evil thing and there is no good thing.
32. Idealize your own good and your own evil. “Something can only be bad when you are hurting somebody, but so long as you are not hurting somebody in what you are doing, it is not bad”. Can you see where the world is now going to? This is the meaning people are giving to the Word of God.
33. Some will tell you, is it not because you saw me that you are finding fault with me? Once I severe contact with you and you do not see me again, would you have anything to talk about me? They forget that there is no place you go where the eyes of the Lord cannot see you.
34. Do you know why I am happy about this Faith? This is a Faith that is self-justifying. I say what? Self-justifying. Once you are behaving well, it is not the church that will tell you rather you yourself knows that your life is safe or at risk.
35. Even if everybody denies it, you as individual can never deny when your feet slips off from God. And God said that you should make haste while the sun shines. Because the time we are living in is God’s moment which can be terminated at any time.
36. If He can bring us back to the Word, pointing us back to ancient manuscripts that were not seen but under prophecy He told us that He will pull out truth from all religion. And nobody will have any excuse being destroyed. Brethren, is it not happening today?
37. The reason why I said that this Faith is self-justifying is that whether you are doing good or evil, you know.
38. So regardless of the fact that people see your physical attribute, these are what people see and these are what people judge but what happens in you, what happens in me, I can testify to the spirit of truth living in me whether that thing matches with the Word of God or not. True or false?
39. So that is the ground where God said that if you are going to heaven, you now and if you are going to hell, you know.
40. Remember where we stopped, that the person will pray, do all sort of things and still see himself being in that same situation. He has not made a shift.
41. It is there because you have refused the engrafted Word of God revealed in your day which is the grace of God for you. Is it not true?
42. THE GRACE OF GOD SIMPLY MEANS GOD REVEALING YOUR CONDITION BEFORE YOU. GRACE OF GOD IS AN EXPO. That you prayed for God’s favour before entering exam hall, getting there, the lecturer supervising you now came, pointing you that what you answered is wrong. Is it not grace?
43. You do not need to be following him about asking him where you erred, all you have to do is to go back and crosscheck what you have written so as to find out the right thing to do.
44. YOU HAVE SAID NO TO THE GRACE OF GOD THAT BRINGETH SALVATION, THAT HAS BEEN REVEALED TO ALL MEN, TEACHING US TO AVOID ALL GODLESSNESS, AND LIVE RIGHTLY AND RIGHTEOUSLY IN THIS PRESENT WORLD.
45. Then you begin to ask whether you are the only person involved or that behaves that way. Go ahead! On that day, you will realize that one who is drowning or is been ravaged by fire does not know that there is any other victim in the fire. He knows only but himself.
46. Follow me to page 140 verses 40. The LORD has weighed the whole world in the balance.
47. 37By measure, He has measured the times; and by number, He has numbered the times; and He does not move or stir them, until the said measure is fulfilled.'”
48. 38Then I answered and said, “O Lord who bears rule, even we all are full of impiety. 39And for our sake, it is peradventure that the floors of the righteous are not filled, because of the sins of those who dwell upon the earth.”
49. 40SO HE ANSWERED ME, AND SAID, “GO YOUR WAY TO A WOMAN WITH CHILD, AND ASK OF HER WHEN SHE HAS FULFILLED HER NINE MONTHS, IF HER WOMB MAY KEEP THE BIRTH ANY LONGER WITHIN HER.”
50. 41Then I said, “No, Lord, that she cannot.” And he said to me, “IN THE GRAVE, THE CHAMBERS OF SOULS ARE LIKE THE WOMB OF A WOMAN; 42For as a woman who travails makes haste to escape the necessity of the travail; even so do these places haste to deliver those things that are committed to them. Amen!
51. Verse 50 of the same message. Pay attention! 2 Ezra 5: 1NEVERTHELESS AS COMING THE TOKENS, BEHOLD, THE DAYS WILL COME, THAT THOSE WHO DWELL UPON EARTH WILL BE TAKEN IN A GREAT NUMBER, AND THE WAY OF TRUTH WILL BE HIDDEN, AND THE LAND WILL BE BARREN OF FAITH. Is it not what we are seeing today brethren?
52. That the whole earth will be taken in a great number and the way of truth will be hidden. Can you see truth on the land?
53. Who will believe that it is this place that everything is happening? That you will cross House of the Rock church, come inside the estate for you to be saved. Who will believe that?
54. If their eyes should open, this place will be flooded. This compound will not even contain them. When they are told that it is the house of two boys living down here that is the point of salvation for all living around here. How? They must question it.
55. To God be the Glory. It fulfilled to the letter. And it is still fulfilling till today.
Giving no room for offence in anything that this faith be not blamed or blasphemed in my hands. As ministers of God and children of God let us make sure that we are approved by God that we are diligently living the life of our faith.
UPHOLDING THE FAITH OF CHRIST (THE SON OF MAN) TILL THE END. PREACHED ON 29TH JUNE 2020. Page 56 vs49-50
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Get me 2nd Timothy chapter 2:19. Living Bible: “But God’s truth stands firm like a foundation stone with this inscription; ‘‘The Lord knows those who are His. And all who belong to the Lord must turn away from evil.
2. Rewind it. But God’s truth stands firm like a foundation stone… But Gods truth does what? …stands firm like a foundation stone with this inscription; And our song says, “The solid rock”.
3. That solid rock is it not the foundation stone? For every stone you will use in making the foundation of your house, it must be a solid stone. You must make it to be concrete enough. Because this is the foundation of your faith. I want to give us an example.
4. Look at what I call an anchor. When you are teaching a child how to walk, at that age, she is looking at you; she believes that you are higher than her, that she cannot do this until she gets to this height. That is what that child is imagining. Hence you are holding her.
5. But to help her, you get her a walker. That which she is imagining, she will be doing it with the help of the walker which stands to be her anchor.
6. The anchor shows her what walking seems like. Are you getting the message? That is why I said that an anchor is that which you connect your fate to while releasing your faith. After reading the meaning of anchor, I realized that anchor is that which you connect your fate to while releasing your faith.
7. There must be something or somebody. It must be an event, it must be an experience, it must be a situation, an occurrence, an individual who in him are compromising all of these experience.
8. It is either the man or the event. You cannot separate the event from the man. But one thing certain there is that it must be somebody.
9. I want us to see it that an anchor is that which we connect our fate to while releasing our faith. When you are trying to act on your faith, when you are trying to say that I believe in this God. When you hear heathens praying, you see them saying, I call on the god of so, so and so person.
10. No, when you talk about your God, you have many things to stand on. The God that did this, the God that did that, the God that I am serving in whom this and that, who has called, who has proclaimed and even put your name in the salvation book. What else do you need to doubt?
11. All evidences have been set. I told us on Sunday that there is an extent you will make argument with somebody, after much elaboration and explanation, you will say, “I hope that with this few words of mine, I have been able to convince and not confuse you that this is this”. This is where we are now.
12. What the Faith is all about has been made clear. The ancient manuscripts pointing us to the divine personality who we are already in before all these books came forth. Because we are made to understand that we are in this divine race by predestination.
13. Not because you chose or you wanted or because you liked it. If you are called to accept this truth, you will ignore it and go your way.
14. This is the truth. If the cost of discipleship is given to you, you will never accept this Faith. Look at the lawyer that met Jesus, after telling him what it will take him, he left.
15. When you weigh the things you are going to lose, when you weigh what the Faith will make you lose, how the Faith will make people look at you, you can never enter into Christ. You will never seek to enter into Christ. Because you are weighing on the physical attributes.
16. “So, I will have this again. All my friends will hate me.” There are many things that will make you not to anchor your faith. There are many situations that will show you of a truth not to anchor your faith.
17. Why are those situations coming up? Because God knows that even you as a person, that you are not His own. But to His own, the Word of God is very easy for them to understand.
18. But God’s truth stands firm like a foundation stone with this inscription; ‘‘The Lord knows those who are His. And all who belong to the Lord must turn away from evil.
19. Amplified: “But the firm foundation of led by God stands, sure and unshaking, bearing this seal, Bearing which seal brethren? Bearing this seal, “The Lord knows those who are his and let everyone who names himself by the name of the Lord give up all iniquity and stand aloof from it. Amen.
20. Give me Hebrews chapter 10 verses 38 through 39. Living Bible:
21. “And my righteous ones will live by faith, Brethren, you know where we are still revolving on. On the word, ‘Anchor’. And my righteous ones will live by faith, but I will take no pleasure in any one who turns away. But we are not like those who turn away to their own destruction. Brethren, let’s give a round of applause unto God.
22. You and I are not like those who do what? Turn away from God to their own destruction. We are the faithful ones whose souls will be saved. Amen.
23. We have a song that says, “I know who I am. I am walking in power, I’m walking in miracle and I live the life of favour”, Why? Because the scripture said that he that puts his confidence in Jehovah who created heavens and earth shall never be disappointed, dismayed or allow their faith in Him to be a misplaced one.
24. Amplified: “But the just shall live by faith. My righteous servants shall live by his conviction. By his what? Conviction. Brethren, conviction is it not experience? What anchors your faith, is it not experience? Is it not conviction? Is it not revelation? Amen.
25. But the just shall live by faith. My righteous servants shall live by his conviction, respecting man’s relationship to God. And divine things, and holy fervor born of faith and conjoined with it; And what? Conjoined with it. He must be conjoined.
26. Song: nothing between my soul and my saviour, so that his blessed face may be seen, nothing preventing the least of his favour, keep the way clear, let nothing between. You must be conjoined with him.
27. But the just shall live by faith. My righteous servants shall live by his conviction, respecting man’s relationship to God.
28. And divine things, and holy fervor born of faith and conjoined with it; and if he draws back and shrink in fear, Note: If he draws back and shrink in fear, he that anchors his soul, is he afraid of anything?
29. …and if he draws back and shrinks in fear, my soul has no delight or pleasure in him. God will not have any delight or pleasure in him.
30. Verse 39: But our ways is not that of those who draw back to eternal misery (perdition) and are utterly destroyed, but we are of those who believe {who cleave to and trust in and rely on God through Jesus Christ, the Messiah} and by faith preserve the soul. Amen.
31. Follow me to this message, Golden nugget volume 1, page 66 verse 8. God is not saving you because you have been in this Faith from the beginning.
32. Somebody who is in this Faith for the first time today and he is living the life of obedience born out of love is better than you who laid the foundation of this Faith in compliance. Am I making sense?
33. That is why whatever that is born out of love gives joy in implementation. Why not put your hands together. Whatever that is born out of love gives joy in implementation.
34. To implement something you have gladly chosen is very, very easy. That is why worshipping of God is made voluntary. Nobody is compelled to worship God.
35. God will never use any compelling force but, God uses persuasive words. Seeing the terror of God, we persuade all men.
36. God is not compelling us to obey Him but He is pleading with us so that we can see reasons why we should follow His way.
37. I really give God the praise for what He is doing in our midst, vindicating His Word, proving His faithfulness to all that are faithful. I
38. t shall be well with the faithful. I say, it shall be well with the faithful, but the unfaithful shall never see good days.
39. Begin to examine yourself in the light of what you have believed this evening. Begin to do what? Examine yourself in the light of what you have believed.
40. Remember that you do not comply with something you believe, you can only comply with something that is being forced on you, that you are afraid of being punished.
41. So let your obedience to this teaching, let your obedience, let your anchor, let it not be born out of fear, let it be born out of love. For with love, we will enter paradise.
42. It is the capstone, the conclusion of our obedience to God. God gave us the injunction; love your neighbor as you love yourself.
43. Forgive yourself. Do not dwell on the mistakes of today; do not dwell on the mistakes of even five minutes ago. Do not dwell on the mistake of yesterday, press on to the saving of your soul.
44. With the full remembrance and full dependence on He that has promised us immortality. For we are sure that he must bring His promise to fulfilment.
45. On this note, brethren, I say remain blessed in him eternally. And may your faith remain deep down, may your faith remain grounded. May our faith remain rooted. May it not be shaking. May it be persistent unto the saving of our soul. Thank you and remain blessed.
46. We know and believe that while we sleep, God will see us through. He that has given us the spirit to dwell on this message, “Anchor”; we believe that our soul has been anchored.
On this note, remain blessed once again.